“Flipping someone off is a threat?” one user asked. The pedestrian posted the video to the r/PublicFreakout subreddit, where many were astounded at the driver’s rage. Man freaks out after I flip him off for almost running me and my dog over in the cross walk. “Your dog doesn’t like you,” the man appears to say, though his words are muffled as he closes the car window, before driving off. “You’re shaking like a leaf.” The pedestrian then claims that he plans to post the video on Bellingham Living, a private Facebook group for those who live in the area. “Threaten? Are you threatened by free speech, sir?” asks the pedestrian. The driver claims this is another threat. “OK, well then I flipped you off for no reason, for my First Amendment right, so go fuck yourself,” the pedestrian responds. When the pedestrian says that he flipped him off because the driver didn’t stop for him and his dog, the driver claims they weren’t there and continuously denies it. The two begin to argue, while the driver continues to claim that the pedestrian threatened him. “I have a video of you saying you’re going to get out and kick my ass,” the pedestrian responds. “Hey, dude, why’d you threaten me out there?” he says. The pedestrian tells him to do it.Īfter the driver parks, he rolls down his window and holds up his phone as if he’s recording. I’m gonna kick your ass up here,” the driver says in the video before pulling into a parking lot down the street. “Pretend to take a photo because you’re a big p*ssy. He alleged the driver pulled an illegal U-turn just to approach him, after which he started recording. The pedestrian claimed in another comment that the driver wasn’t headed in the same direction as he was. “I think an expressive hand motion is warranted.” “My dog was almost killed,” the pedestrian, under the username gradyjellyneck, said in a comment on the post. The now-viral incident, recorded by the pedestrian, occurred in Washington State and was posted to Reddit by the pedestrian on Monday. The pedestrian said he and his dog were trying to cross the crosswalk at the time and that the driver failed to yield to them, almost hitting them. After a pedestrian flipped off a driver who allegedly almost hit him and his dog, the driver threatened to beat him up and tried to claim he was the one who was threatened.
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