SkippyX

I hope they are charged and receive a harsh enough punishment to make them reconsider the next time they have an opportunity to mess w/ someone who is simply minding his own business.

I can say, though, that after eleven years of working in the prison system and numerous interaction (as a victim or someone reporting a crime) w/ the police in Houston, I'm a bit.......cynical (I guess would be the word)......when it comes to any kind of justice in the world.

coldfeet

That would be smart, driver screams, covers his eyes, and jams foot down on accelerator thinking it's the brake? Around here, you'd probably get done for assault with weapon for doing that.

The OP did the right thing, and I hope the yahoos get the book thrown at them. Again, around here, they'd get drunk driving, underage drinking, and no-insurance. ( $2,500 fine and vehicle impounded for the last one. ) If the police felt they could get the charges to stick, they'd probably include assault with a deadly weapon.

Blinkie

I really appreciate the areas some of you live where police actually respond to things, especially on the road. Where I work, once a group of five men crowded around our front desk, threatening physical retaliation over some poor treatment from a manager. The dispatcher called back nearly a half hour after 911 was called, asking if we still needed police. That's the worst case scenario since I've been there, but the city's average call-to-dispatch time (time to dispatch an officer; not necessarily for someone to arrive on the scene) is over 5 minutes on average. And typically the officers who finally arrive rarely give half a rat's about the actual situation.

I was involved in a vehicular hit-and-run a few years ago. I took down the plate number, and they decided to pull over when they looked behind and saw me on the phone. They pulled over, claimed the police would never arrive, and left. An officer showed up, took the info, said he's "look into it." That's the last I heard. He wouldn't even give me a report number; said they'd call if anything turned up. It was just scuffed paint, so I dealt with my car's slight damage on my own.