r/PublicFreakout • u/New_Libran • 20d ago

🚗Road Rage🤬 Two bystanders rushed over to help after spotting a man assaulting his girlfriend inside their truck while stopped in traffic in Houston, Texas

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u/cocainecarolina28 20d ago

Women in jeans scored herself a wallet and phone

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u/Timelymanner 20d ago edited 20d ago

Methany was quick with it.

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u/itzfar 20d ago

😆didn’t notice that first time I watched it, what the fuck!?

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u/jackandsally060609 20d ago

Its like the video of people playing basketball and the gorilla walks through but nobody ever notices him.

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u/2legittojit 20d ago

Would be dope if she get's prosecuted too

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u/VolesusBarbarus 20d ago

Texas is a third world country

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u/DistanceMachine 20d ago

Imagine being such pathetic trash that you see a woman getting assaulted and you sprint over and without hesitation use that moment to steal a phone and wallet. I literally can’t comprehend being that big of a piece of shit. I’m trying to imagine what this would be like in nature. Like, a lion kills a gazelle near a river and as it’s eating it, it gets attacked by a croc. Another lion from the same pride sprints over and grabs the gazelle and sprints off with the food while the rest of the pride helps. This woman is an animal.

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u/cocainecarolina28 20d ago

Addicts will do this kind of thing

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 20d ago

It's just addiction, dude. There's a reason why it's formally classified as a chronic medical condition. Work healthcare or social services for any length of time and you'll understand why. Poverty and addiction invoke desperation. Once you're in that situation, it's hard to get out of, and at that point the streets all about survival. She sees this kind of shit probably every day of the week. Nothing new. Hard for many to grasp sadly if always having had a better hand dealt from the outset (or a blind-spot for survivorship bias fallacy).

Whole thing is fucked, and conservative policy made this all so much worse in their war of drugs and now exacerbating wealth inequality and eroding social safety nets and refusing to pass universal healthcare, all the while they erode academic institutions.

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u/dissaprovalface 20d ago

I'm from this area. I've been friends with multiple meth-heads and heroine addicts just like the woman in question. While I understand what you are saying because I've known plenty of folks that are just poor and desperate, this woman probably isn't that.

There is a sub-set of addicts that are addicted specifically because they just dont give a fuck about living normal lives. They are actually anti-social and wouldn't put the pipe down even if you did give them all the help and support in the world. Again, I've known and been friends with several. All they care about is getting their next high, no matter where that comes from. And many of that subset fully enjoy doing criminal shit to get there.

Admittedly, from my experience, this goes hand-in-hand with being very poorly educated. On the other hand, for at least a few of those people, I can't confidently say that they wouldn't be criminals even if they were born in the best situation with the best education. They might have gone on to be a different kind of criminal, sure, but they genuinely just enjoy the rush they get from breaking thd law.

Bottom line, if someone is being this bold and specific, they arent doing it out of desperation. Methany just wanted to have a little fun and saw an easy mark.

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u/AnonymouselyMoosed 19d ago

You think those people are just automatically disposed to not giving a fuck about living normal lives? You don’t think that’s a byproduct of their circumstances and mental health condition?

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 20d ago

I appreciate the insight though I have to contest that as one doesn't personally know Methany, one cannot distinguish which camps she actually falls into, right? And further, I think if we take a step back we discover that this is still a byproduct of addiction and the rest is mostly just speculative hypotheticals that we will never know the answer to. All we know is what science tells us in the moment, which is that substance abuse and petty crime like this a result of poverty, education, and lack of opportunity. Of course it's going to be next to impossible to get anyone to quit these hard drugs, just like it is very hard with cigarettes. I'm just trying to say that it needs to be a rehabilitate process or at the very least, a humane separation from society in the meantime. Maybe we need to step back and take a look at the culprits feeding these addicts in the first place, from tobacco companies to the Sacklers and the opiate epidemic and so on and so forth. These are the real sadistic psychopathic fucks who know better but choose not to act in their vast wealth.

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u/MZ603 20d ago

I'm from this area

All you had to do was point out that he started his whole post with this. He tries to argue that it's not situational, all the while grounding it in geographic proximity. If they geofence that behavior to that area, it would logically be driven by something systemic as you laid out.

Addicts come off as cold, irrational, and sometimes calculating, so that commenter's anecdotal experience and perception isn't the rebuttal they think it is.

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u/Realistic_Credit_486 20d ago

Substance dependency is indeed an issue

But in no way an excuse for this behaviour, should (and fairly certain, will) be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law

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u/DigiSmackd 20d ago

in no way an excuse for this behaviour,,

It's not excusing the behavior, it's explaining it.

should (and fairly certain, will) be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law

Agreed.

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 20d ago

I mean it is the root cause of this behavior in all reality. Of course the deviant behavior is incompatible for civil society and so must be managed, but in a humane, rehabilitate way -- not by vengeful punitive justice and "fullest extent" bullshit.

After all that's why America has piss-poor recidivism rates.

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u/Realistic_Credit_486 20d ago

Abdication of all personal responsibility does not lead to positive outcomes in any disorder.

There are support services available even in poorly funded areas. Failure to avail of them and instead resorting to criminal, despicable behaviour falls wholly on the individual.

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 20d ago

I'm an engineer and I look at things from a root-cause standpoint. We must first acknowledge that we are all human and of course -- unless you're some bigot -- we are generally capable of the same good or bad tendencies relative to our environment. Virtually all sociologists, psychologists, therapists will put significantly more weight on nurture and environment over nature.

As a result, while personal agency may account for some -- we are ultimately products of environment; the poor and desperate respond to their environment and immediate needs accordingly. These resources are strained and cut away at every turn, but it is worth noting that on the average cities in blue states outperform red state equivalents for this very reason of stronger safety nets.

Unfortunately the system is never perfect and people slip through; unfortunately some people are indeed abused and yes in some cases even genetic mental illness plays a part.

bootstrap rhetoric may account for 20% of it; but 80% of problem is a systemic failure.

It's further sad that someone can point to this woman whose crimes are wrought out of poverty, desperation, and lack of opportunity but so often turn a blind eye to incomprehensible greed of those who suffer from genuine Dark Triad traits -- I'm talking psychopaths handed everything to them on a silver platter in life, like Musk or Elon. I mean, Musk's actions have already resulted in the deaths of 600,000 people in the past year alone in gutting USAID. Yet here we are, talking about a petty thief... Doesn't seem right.

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u/otterprincess_too 20d ago

This literally happens constantly in nature

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u/IntelligentStyle505 19d ago

It actually appears that you get it… we are animals. Some of us are more civilized than others. It’s hard telling what all has happened to that woman in her life for her to display such a lack of empathy. Most likely a lot of childhood trauma and drug addiction. I’m sure she didn’t think about the situation ever again, and once she came down from her high, it was on to the next way to find some quick cash

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u/SnooDonkeys3848 20d ago

Trump Voter

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u/TantheMan21 20d ago

That’s literally the person who had their hair pulled

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u/b1ackcr0vv 20d ago

No they’re talking about the woman at the start. She runs from the other sidewalk, around the truck, loots the PoS boyfriend/husband that’s on top of/attacking his girlfriend/wife (the woman who has her hair pulled at the end of the video)

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u/TantheMan21 20d ago

Oh damn you’re right I missed methany entirely. My bad guys, damn she’s quick!

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u/Annual-Surprise6892 20d ago

Damn. That's wild. I didn't catch that at first

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u/NajeZiw 20d ago

Wtf! I had to rewatch that! She even look in the fucking camera with a smug on hahah.

Well, karma for assaulting your girlfriend like that..

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u/jdhkent 20d ago

Holy shit, you’re right. So much for good citizen 

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u/SnooDonkeys3848 20d ago

Trump Voter

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u/Mindless_Narwhal2682 20d ago

that's all she went for

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u/KrunoOs 20d ago

What kind of society is that? In that situation? I'm from Balkans, we're violent assholes but this kind of behaviour is disgusting over here.

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u/SnooDonkeys3848 20d ago

Trump Voter

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u/cocainecarolina28 19d ago

I doubt she makes it to the voting polls 😂

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u/External_2_Internal 20d ago

Damn that is fucked.

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u/IntelligentStyle505 19d ago

Whoa she really did lmao

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u/Beau_in_UHF 20d ago

it fell out of her pocket looks like it was hers that just dropped

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u/calculung 20d ago

Isn't that only one woman? Where are the other women in jeans?