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A 34-year-old man was killed after a road rage confrontation in Long Beach that saw the 22-year-old driver of the other vehicle strike the victim with his Nissan Altima and continue driving right over him before fleeing the scene. Evan Potts was arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter after onlookers say he panicked when the driver of a '78 canary yellow Porsche got out of his car and began yelling at Potts after the two had been in an ongoing confrontation behind their respective wheels for over a mile. Nassau County Police spokesman Kevin Smith said, "We believe he extended his arms and said something to him. We believe it was a profanity. We don't know the exact phrase that was used, but at that time the driver stepped on the gas, struck him, might have dragged him for a short period of time." A witness described it, "He went right over him like he was a cat in the road...I heard his head rattling in the undercarriage." Potts claims that he was trying to get away fro the driver for five minutes and had been attempting to call 911.
Long Beach Man Fatally Run Over in Road Rage Clash
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Automobile culture encourages violence and aggression.
I was sucked into it for a while. It's a strong sign of immaturity. All of the tailgating and cutting people off, and the anger that comes from it, it's pointless selfishness.
So does being in a relationship.
Speaking for yourself.
Or just ask your parents.
Especially those cool car ads. Zoom Zoom Zoom.
Well, that's what happens when you try to be a tough guy...
Wait, he purposely runs over the man and it's only manslaughter?
It's because the police know that his lawyer will argue that the color yellow makes people have feelings of anger. Therefore he is only partly to blame.
I don't see any mention in either linked article of what the exact charge may be, and it's unlikely it's been filed yet. But if you're implying it should be murder, that would be a difficult conviction. Instead of proving what he did under a manslaughter charge, they'd have to prove he did it in "depraved indifference to human life."
Given that the guy had been chasing and threatening him while he tried to avoid eventual victim, it'd be hard to establish that his motivation was "depraved indifference."
It says so right in the post above: "Evan Potts was arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter." I assumed Billy Parker was using information that he didn't or couldn't link to.
canaries got talons, and they be all sharp. but they aint got no beak to speak of...
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I hope he is sentenced to more than anger management classes.
Douche + Douche = "Long Beach Man Fatally Run Over in Road Rage Clash"
Simple as it is, feeding road rage by retorting, using finger language, yelling, even just looking back or staring just intensifies the absurd anger whose origin nearly always lies in incompleted ego in one way or another. As I understand the facts, both protaganists here fed the anger and both, very confused, blind souls lost all sense of proportion.
I hope this results is some deciding to understand their emotions better, avoiding this trap, but irrational rage will always be with us, to mankind's bitter end.
Very well said Lazurm.
I could smoke all the trees in the world, and meditate forever. Suppressing my ego is my ultimate goal in life.
But shit, I get behind the wheel long enough and my blood will inevitably start to boil.
And for all those who like to take sides - y'all have no idea what the circumstances were. The Porsche guy could've done something worthy of the other guy getting out of his car, or he could've been victimized by the decedent the whole time. We don't know.
Class warfare, vehicle-style. I bet that Porsche driver thought he was the shizznit, now he's roadkill.
It's a 1978 911. Depending on some details that aren't visible (like which engine it has) and condition, you could buy one for around 10 grand, or up to maybe 30 to 35.
There's a good chance he didn't pay more for it than the other guy did for the 2008 Altima.
"Nissan Excitement"
Aw snap. Owning a Porsche doesn't make you indestructible? Wonder if he shouted "you know who I am?" like all these pseudo tough guys and wannabe hot shots. Splat.
The Nassau County Police spokesman followed up by saying 'snoochie boochies'.
Anybody who drives a '78 canary yellow Porsche you can just tell is going to be an obnoxious person. In his arrogance he thought he could act like a rich-boy dickhead by trying to bully the other driver by pounding on his car's hood and hurling expletives at him. The response was a rubber tire to his fat heat. Guess he won't be trying that stupid trick again. Let this be a lesson to all obnoxious, arrogant Porsche drivers who think common road courtesy doesn't apply to them. I support the right of anybody to cull the herd and run over these road-hog assholes.
Hi Snickerdoodle,
Your conclusions say more about you than they do about yellow Porsche owners. You are projecting your complex feelings about many things onto Porsche drivers. Of course you don't know anything, factually, about the world of '78 canary yellow Porsche people but, even if we grant your outrageous notion, that they are all obnoxious people, well, they have a right to be of lower consciousness, just as you have a right to be sweeping in your stereotypes which (by the way) some may deem to be an equally obnoxious simplicity.
I think it better and more accurate to call a spade a spade and simply admit that you can't stomach certain types of people, whether your view of them is based on preconceived notions or not. And, worse, you support the violent extinction of their type, conveniently ignoring the fact that their behavior and limitations are quite human, as are yours. You may be surprised to find out that both the type of person you disdain and your attitude about them stem from the same inner source: ego, worry over a sense of self unimportance, a defensive stance when you perceive that others do not deem you worthy, etc.
Don't you realize that this way of looking at things is the problem, not merely obnoxious Porshe owners and their ilk, whatever that is? This kind of reality of yours is the origin of many of the behavioral problems we witness on our local news stations.
The news story paints a slightly different picture, with the Porsche driver pounding on the guys hood after following him and getting out his car TWICE. Sounds like a real jackass....who paid with his life.
Let us not be so quick to judge. What if the Porsche guy was one of those fake tan (orange) roided out guido types? What if this this 'guido guy' was from NJ!? That would be like a triple bonus score..!