The only thing that stops a evil is a good guy with a gun… or a while lot of luck.
That’s what happened not so long ago in the farm fields of Central Illinois, according to a report in the News-Gazette.
Three women were car-pooling to work on Interstate 57 up to Urbana, Illinois from roughly 80 miles south of town. They were in a Nissan Altima, driving along bright and early one morning when they, along with everyone else, passed by a Dodge Durango parked on the shoulder.
The driver of the Durango, Brian McStay, 54, took offense at something and fired up the Durango and came after the women in the Altima, catching up to them at a high rate of speed. Once on their bumper, his driving concerned the passengers enough that at least one called 9-1-1.
Of course, when seconds count, police are just minutes away.
The Altima settled between two semis in the driving lane, hoping Mr. McStay would drive on past them.
He didn’t, instead crashing his big Durango into the Altima, at which point the Altima driver lost control and crashed in the snowy ditch. The Durango ended up in the median, circled around, crossed both lanes of traffic and then drove into the ditch and willfully crashed into the Altima, and pushing the car into one of the three women standing outside of it, leaving her mildly injured. Luckily for the women, he then drove off.
When police finally arrived, they found him a mile down the road sometime later, slumped over the wheel and arrested him.
He was just acquitted by reason of insanity.
Sometimes bad things happen to good people.
Just another reason to consider getting your carry license and carrying your gun on a regular basis. While the court-appointed psychiatrist Dr. Jeckel (no kidding) opined that Mr. McStay was insane at the time, I have no doubt someone pointing a gun at him might have caused him to reconsider his potentially murderous actions, and I know that a couple of slugs in his face and/or upper chest would have ended his rampage pretty quickly.
Here’s a second road rage incident.
It’s a man blocked in by traffic, accosted by a hothead. The question is: Would it be better to be on the phone with 911 when all of this is happening or recording it on camera? There are arguments that can be made both ways.
Maybe it’s an argument for having a second phone in the car, perhaps a retired smart phone that can still record video?
Would you have drawn your gun?
How many punches could that window have taken before it broke?
I apologize in advance for sending you to World Star Hip Hop, but there’s good things to learn from the incident. Audio is NSFW.
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