Assuming that it’s real, of course. It’s maybe not real. But if it is real, then you should never do this and there is nothing in this post to indicate otherwise. Again, you should never, ever interrupt a Manhattan auto dudebro ‘photoshoot’* – one that’s blocking midday traffic – by taking out a bat and smashing a windshield.
NEVER.
https://twitter.com/coby_persin/status/803034363306704896
Moe Lane
PS: Interestingly, the guy was able to drive away. The cabs made a hole for him, and he went and took it. I hope that the cabbies didn’t think that the fellow was justified, because you should never, ever do things like that…
*Apparently there were no permits.
This is what happens when you FIND a STRANGER in the ALPS!!!!!!!
Huh.
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I’m sure there was enough camera coverage to get a plate, but I’m *not* sure the cops would be assed to actually look into it.
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Not for a couple dudebros who couldn’t be assed to pull a permit.
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Mew
As somebody noted in what turned out to be a hysterical collection of responses on Twitter, what that guy was doing wasn’t so much a ‘photoshoot’ as it was a ‘$200 parking violation.’
What douchebags. I’m completely unable to find any sympathy for them.
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Even though I must wag my finger and declare vigilante justice to be naughty, I’m pretty sure it had a much greater impact on these tools than a traffic citation.
I concur. If you’re going to go after a douchemobile illegally parked like that, you should hit it repeatedly, not just once.
Lots of speculation in the tweet responses that it was staged. I’m inclined to agree because batman took only one swing to the windshield. That’s probably the easiest and cheapest part of the car to fix. A real angry person would have whomped on the body of the car.
Meanwhile this reminds me of the time on the Central Park drive I saw a car nearly hit a cyclist who caught up at the next light. Dude was wearing his bike lock chain around his neck and under one arm. In one graceful swoop he removed it and swung it on the car’s rear window and smashed it to pieces.
It’s very plausible, but the cabs DID let the dude get away.
Heh. Friend had a story of a bike messenger who did the same thing .. only to a co-workers’ *head* for stepping into the path of the cyclist.
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Didn’t kill him, but ended his career … and I’m not sure they ever caught up with the cyclist.
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I’m not getting a “staged” feel … it seems more like the batman (honestly surprised Moe didn’t go there) knows just how hard he can hit the jerks and get away with it.
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Body damage, they’d hunt him down for damages. (and the cabbies probably wouldn’t have let batman drive off) Assaulting either of the “male models”? The batman would be serving time.
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Cracking the windshield? That’s gonna cost ’em a little more than the parking ticket they should have gotten, or a little less than the permit they should have pulled.
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Perhaps, next time, they’ll think twice before “guerrilla modeling”.
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Mew