FLORIDA MAN CLINGS TO HOOD OF BIG RIG TRUCK Hangs on for Dear Life

[UpInArms]

https://www.tmz.com/2020/08/01/florida-man-hangs-on-hood-semi-truck-big-rick-highway/

Florida man strikes again -- only this time, he's in action hero mode, which looks way more terrifying in real life than it does on the big screen.

This insanity went down Saturday in the Sunshine State somewhere along I-95 -- where a big rig was cruising down the highway at a pretty fast clip with a HUMAN BEING stuck on its hood outside ... clinging on for dear life.

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WTF?

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This horrified me ... the laughter of the videographer is theirs, not mine

[Beaverhausen]

1. That trucker was trying to kill him

I don’t think this is really so funny. What am I missing?

Editing to add even with the full explanation that trucker was trying to get him loose and would have likely run him over.

[UpInArms]

2. Here is the rest of the story

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[3Hotdogs]

6. Agree. Truck driver has a CB (probably) and a cell phone.

--- and regarding the wankers in the car with the video camera. Turn off the video and call 911 and maybe save the guy's life.

[2naSalit]

13. Yeah, no shit!

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WTF? He should have stopped immediately! And with a fucking set! Jeebus! He needs to get a charge or two as well. Anything other than bringing the truck to a full stop is unacceptable.

[Drunken Irishman]

25. If someone jumped on my hood and started smacking at the window, I wouldn't stop.

I would start driving, swerving around, hoping to toss 'em off.

[2naSalit]

32. Only if you want to

to fight manslaughter charges. Both of them were stupid.

[Drunken Irishman]

33. At that point, it's fight or flight.

I don't know what he's capable of doing or what he may or may not have.

There was an exact video similar to this of a black family who were being terrorized by a white guy, yelling that they had stolen this lady's car. He jumped on their hood and kept smacking at the window. I would absolutely NOT say, "pull over and hope the cops get there before he breaks into the car..."

If someone jumps on my window and starts attacking, the last thing I would want to do is stop.

Here's the video I am talking about BTW:

[NurseJackie]

58. Here's some info on this video. Terrifying.

A man who appeared in a viral video of a father and his children facing an angry group of people near the Spokane Valley Walmart is sharing his side of the story.

Lawton Miller said he was leaving the Walmart on Sprague on Friday afternoon when he heard someone yelling.

"She said, 'he's trying to steal my car!' So I got out, walked over there and opened the door," Miller said. "I said 'hey, this lady said you're stealing her car.'"

The Spokane County Sheriff's Office said the woman believed the driver had stolen her car, but it wasn't true.

The driver, Lee Allen, slammed the door on Miller's arm when he tried to open it. Allen told KHQ that he wasn't stealing the car and was terrified for himself and his two children in the car with him.

"I knew I was going to keep my kids protected no matter what," Allen said. "If all else fails, I could just step on that gas pedal and shoot out like a rocket somewhere, but at the same time I didn't want to hurt anybody."

Miller said he was planning to back off and let Allen leave until the situation changed again.

"This kid jumps on the car. What do I do now? I've got to get this kid off the car," Miller said. "I don't know if this guy knows it who's driving this car, (but) if this kid falls off and he runs over and kills that kid, he's going to prison for murder. He's no good to his family anymore."

Miller said that's why he decided to start chasing the car on his motorcycle. He said he blared his horn, flashed his lights and pulled up alongside Allen to try and stop him so the man on the hood could get off. Miller said he didn't set out to scare Allen or his family, and said he has children and grandchildren himself.

"I don't harm kids. I raised a daughter. I am a family man," Miller said. "I'm not no big bad biker. I'm grandpa with a bike, and I've got pictures with me and my grandsons on the bike."

Miller said he's been threatened online since the video was posted. He says he's not worried for himself, but he is worried for his family. He said he wants Allen and his family to know he's sorry.

"I've got to stay away from my family all together because I'm afraid somebody else might take it in their own hands and do something to my family," Miller said. "This video comes out and she says 'dad I love you but I don't want to know you now.'"

Spokane County Sheriff's Office deputies said they don't expect Miller to be charged with anything related to the incident.

They are still looking for the man who threw his bike at the car in the video.

[Polybius]

64. So now we have to stop when nuts jump on top of our vehicles?

If he stopped, he might still cling on. If the driver gets out, he might get killed. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.

[Drahthaardogs]

61. That truck driver was probably scared for his life

Your driving your truck and some guy in his underwear jumps on your hood and pounds on the windshield.

I'm assuming the worst and I'm not stopping until I am surrounded by the patrol

[Polybius]

63. He jumped on the truck by his own will

I guess pulling over was an option, but I guess not surrendering to an intruder in your house is an option too. He lived by the sword.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. The article states that the cops pulled the truck over.

Don't know how the man got stuck on the hood, or what happened to him after the truck stopped.

WEIRD.

[UpInArms]

5. Have updated the post with more of the story

And resolution...

I do believe the world has gone mad, dear Peggy

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. Thanks for the update, my dear UpInArms. And I'm afraid you're right about the world. n/t

[3Hotdogs]

7. He got took to hospital for evaluation.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. OK, good, and thank you! n/t

[Boxerfan]

4. CHARGE THE TRUCK DRIVER WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER

Sorry caps lock was on but I'm leaving it-what the actual fuck.
He was trying hard to kill the man. Mental illness or not the driver is the bad guy.

[3Hotdogs]

8. Yeah, you pull off the road.

[PTWB]

14. I'm not sure.

If some maniac jumped on the hood of my truck and tried getting in my windshield I may just drive on down the street trying to shake him. He is already attacking me - how does stopping the truck make me safer? He could easily pull a gun and shoot me dead.

It didn’t look like the truck driver was trying to hurt this guy. He wasn’t driving really fast - just fast enough to try to shake the guy loose.

[Boxerfan]

18. Really?

He would have killed him-highway speeds with traffic. You really think he had a gun?
I don't see the same as you I guess.

[Polybius]

65. If he was killed he'd have no one to blame but himself

If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned.

[MarcA]

22. Agreed. Enough of this nonsense about people in vehicles

not being able to protect themselves. From what his passenger said and the video
showed, there is no evidence that the attacker would have simply gotten off of the
truck and left. Most people would probably agree, DU on the otherhand.

[sdfernando]

23. Sorry but NO

Even at extremely slow speed, if the guy fell off and went under a wheel he would be dead. The only correct action is to pull over and stop and the use your CB or phone to call for help.

[2naSalit]

35. That's the ONLY appropriate response in a commercial vehicle.

He has a set of fucking trailers behind him and he's playing crack the whip with them. He could have hurt far more people than the guy in the hood.

It's not so hard to get someone off the step if he tried to get in the door. The windshield is pretty hard to break from that angle. Just fucking stupid.

[chia]

29. Agree with you

[Tree-Hugger]

10. Several things wrong

The truck driver is actively trying to kill this guy.

The people filming think that a human on a tractor trailer hood on the highway is hilarious. The passenger asks, "should we call 911" to which the driver replies, "no, this is too funny." That is horrid. Zero compassion or concern......they just care about getting a viral video. They should be charged as well.

[PTWB]

15. The maniac jumped on the hood and tried to attack the driver through the windshield.

The driver had every reason to be frightened.

[we can do it]

24. Just like scared cops kill unarmed black men. BULLSHIT

[Renew Deal]

40. What would you have done in this case?

[we can do it]

41. Pulled over. Kept windows up.

[Renew Deal]

42. And then what?

Once he's done punching through the window?

[we can do it]

44. 😂😂😂

[Renew Deal]

45. Exactly

[we can do it]

47. 😂😂😂

[chia]

28. The driver doesn't look frightened at all. He looks like he's enjoying himself.

[2naSalit]

36. The guy was going to break the windshild?

With his bare hands?

[MrsCoffee]

56. Look at the video. The windshield is already shattered like crazy.

I’d be afraid he could do it, but then I’m afraid of everything.

[2naSalit]

57. Wow, they sure do use cheap glass these days!

I hadn't seen that angle/image. Still... to drive like that on an open roadway, at that speed with something that large and a set of doubles.

Kind of looks like a solicitation gone wrong. How did this guy end up in his underwear on this hood of a semi? So many questions.


Elsewhere I suggested what I might do in that situation but in reality, never could have happened quite like this... I never let anyone else in my vehicle, never pulled more than one trailer at a time... I don't know.

Everything's different from what we are used to so

[MrsCoffee]

60. I can't even begin to understand what is happening there.

2020 is apparently the year I become a hermit.

[2naSalit]

62. Makes me glad I retired from the road

back in the last century. I became a hermit long ago so I don't mind isolating a bit.

[maxrandb]

17. That is an explanation of how we ended up with Donnie Dipshit

I'm sorry to say that I'm not sure the folks in the car represent a majority of Americans.

I'm trying really hard to be the Shepherd, but I think the "inherent goodness" of man is, and maybe always has been, a myth.

[Blecht]

52. Seinfeld charges (NT)

[Polybius]

66. You can't charge people for laughing at something that's obviously not funny

Depending on the state, you can't force someone to call the police for help either if you see an emergency. With that being said, of course they were morons who should have called the police.

[3Hotdogs]

11. I wonder if ABF still wants this guy as a driver.

[2naSalit]

16. He'll be unemployed soon.

and probably reprimanded by the union... I think they are a union shop.

[A HERETIC I AM]

49. Yes they are.

https://teamster.org/divisions/freight-dvision/

So that driver is my Union Brother.

There has to be more that we are not seeing to make this driver do that. He may have stopped already and tried to get the guy off his hood. I would wager he already called 911, probably more than once.

I do think at the very least he'll get a week at home to think about it. If he was truly in fear for his life, he might have a defense.

I'm frankly not sure what I would do if it was me. I have a tire thumper but I don't always carry it with me (I'm in a different truck every time I drive and I carry too much crap already). If I had it with me ...well...then what? Stop the truck on the side of the freeway and start whacking the guy with it?

I certainly don't think jerking the steering wheel back and forth, trying to throw him off was a good idea at all, but who knows? Maybe the guy on the hood was threatening to kill him.

I have to touch wood, I suppose. After 30 years of doing this shit, and over 2 million miles now, I've never had anything close to this happen to me.

[2naSalit]

54. I had a plan for crap like that...

I was an independent during the strikes, you need a W-a-a-a-yback machine for that, but I have had to remove an individual from the outside of my vehicle, though they were trying to get in the door to get at me. Always keep the right side door locked, btw.

The guy didn't seem to have a weapon on him so he was highly unlikely to get through the windshield. Might break the hood and the wipers but he's not going through the glass. If he got down and tried to get in the door, then the gloves are off. Best way is to just open the door with great force and knock him off to the side, at that point, driving on is a good idea... if you knock them off to the side, you can avoid hitting them. It will take long enough for him to get up, assuming it's someone who's running on adrenaline might bounce right back, you can gain enough speed to avoid their getting back on the vehicle. At best, they get knocked to the side of the rig and it knocks the wind out of them and you drive to some place nearby to report it. I retired before cell phones were available.

What happened in the video was stupid, with a set of trailers! They're hard enough to keep going all in one direction on a good day. SMH

[hunter]

59. When I was young I did a lot of warehouse work, mostly loading and unloading trucks.

This was back before everything was put on pallets and wrapped in plastic.

I also moved furniture.

Sex workers were ubiquitous and some were exactly the sort who might have jumped on a moving truck if a driver stiffed them or got rough.

I don't know what's happening in the video but it sure looks to me as if the driver is most at fault here.

This would probably be a good training video for truck drivers. Maybe it is.

[Arkansas Granny]

19. It looked like the trucker tried to dislodge the man by swerving, which

would have probably caused serious injuries if not death. Why didn't he pull over and call 911 at the start?

[LisaL]

50. Well, if somebody jumped on the hood of my car, I sure might be too scared to stop.

[hunter]

20. Am I the only one who sees a truck driver who took off without paying?

[Tink41]

27. My first thought!

Truck stop lot lizard

[Luciferous]

39. Nope I thought that too!

[2naSalit]

55. Well, now that you mention it...

The does seem to be in his panties and socks. Oh dear. Wonder how far back up the road was the truck stop or rest area. This was Florida after all.

[LiberalArkie]

21. You do know that the freight line is "Arkansas Best Freight" based in Arkansas.

So probably normal.

[2naSalit]

37. Well...

That's not what we call them out on the open road. Trust me, you don't want to know what it was.

[Sneederbunk]

26. Not a good idea jumping on a truck.

The truck driver may be as crazy as you are.

[NightWatcher]

30. Finally, some normalcy around here.

[lame54]

31. And I thought the murder hornets were big

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

34. I'm completely appalled at the person filming.

That's not even remotely funny. And the truck driver is swerving in an extremely unsafe manner. I'm surprised he didn't cause some kind of accident.

[2naSalit]

38. +1

[Quixote1818]

67. Not to mention the girl asked if they should call police and he said "Hell no, this is way too good"

Guy has no concern for human life and just wanted a show.

[chowder66]

43. The people in the car should have called the cops for the truckers sake.

And the sake of other drivers.

[Skittles]

46. ? why not for the man on the outside of the truck?

certainly a mental health issue

[chowder66]

48. They didn't want to do it for him because they were having too much fun laughing

but they also didn't want to do it for other drivers or the trucker.

[BusyBeingBest]

51. Driver should be charged, have license taken away. He compounded a dangerous situation

by continuing to drive and by trying to dislodge the dude on the hood. Swerving, creating a distraction on the road, and actively trying to harm someone. Guy on the hood is clearly not right in the head. People filming are fucking psychopaths, along with the truck driver.

[milestogo]

53. The guy on the hood is the least crazy person in this video.