“There’s something wrong with that boy.”
Mesh hat turned backwards, bronzed sunnies on deck, and his Diesel Ford F-2Whatever warmed up, Hartsville, Tennessee resident Dakota Kyle Cunningham seems to have had goal on his mind driving through the Spring Hill, TN peaceful protest earlier this week (June 2, 2020) and that was to troll them with his truck. Not only did Dakota roll coal over dozens of his fellow Tennesseans, the man got his friend to film it, uploaded it to Facebook later on in the day and has no qualms with nasty commenters leaving their .02.
Check out his video, embedded from his own profile, below. The person who linked me to this “story” also sent me a mirror of the video just in case the video below goes private.
The video’s quick, only a few seconds long but we see Dakota riling up the crowd with a few quick honks then flooring it, leaving in his wake thick black clouds of diesel smoke on dozens of peaceful protesters.
If that wasn’t bad enough, Dakota titles his video, “Decided to pull up to the Spring Hill Protest and voice my opinion! BLACK SMOKE MATTERS!”
According to this Reddit post on /r/ProRevenge, rolling coal means you…
…essentially tune your diesel engine to run extremely rich, so that when you put the pedal to the floor, it pours big clouds of black smoke into the sky. The effect is complete when your cloud of exhaust washes over one or more hapless pedestrians, leaving them choking on it and cursing your name.
While some serious truck owners run rich to make more power, most, like Dakota over here, do it to intentionally piss people off.
Rolling coal also releasesharmful diesel exhaust particulate into the air in a concentrated area that can affect respiratory pathways worsening asthma, allergies, bronchitis, and other breathing functions.
But according to Dakota, he rolled coal to “spark conversation.” No really, those were his exact words.
The Spring Hill Home Page reached out to Dakota and asked his side.
“The entire aspect is being taken out of context due to the description I created,” Cunningham wrote to the Home Page. “I was talking to friends in the group of [protesters] at the red light and you can clearly see in the video them cheering me on and clapping.”
“The original video was longer,” reads their response. “I trimmed it to spark conversation. With cops standing at every corner it was leaning towards a ‘f*** the police’ stand point. Good cops, bad cops… we need a CHANGE.”
I’m sorry but I’m not buying that.
No one’s buying that.
How does one only roll coal over his cheering friends and avoid rolling coal over strangers? And your title alone is a play on words, some kind of joke, on a serious movement involving hundreds of years of oppression on a disenfranchised group of people.
There is a time and place to roll coal like in a NASCAR parking lot, at your highschool reunion, behind the Publix on a slow evening, or in front of your house on the 4th of July. Rolling coal at a protest is not one of those places.
As mentioned, some commenters dropped idle threats, they’re taking matters to the police. I’m not sure how far that’ll go but I’d love to see you explain yourself, using your exact story, with a straight face to a police officer.
