Other Redditors think the dashcam owner was equally as idiotic, being impatient and illegally turning in front of the alleged distracted driver. You decide.
Plymouth commuter and Redditor /u/HateBeingStover shared controversial dashcam footage from earlier at the end of February (Feb 28, 2025) to the /r/IdiotsInCars subreddit showing an alleged distracted driver on their phone not going when their light turned green resort to road rage, getting out of their truck to confront the dashcam owner.
Check out the footage and Reddit thread embedded below.
Guy playing on phone at light goes nuts when he’s called out for it [OC]
byu/HateBeingStover inIdiotsInCars
The incident happened in the 100 block of Samoset St as drivers turn into the Myles Standish Plaza (location on Google Maps linked here.)
As the dashcam footage shows, OP rolls up to and stops at the aforementioned turn light.
In front of him is a driver in a white Nissan Frontier.
They get the light to turn but the driver in front doesn’t move for at least three seconds.
OP gives a courtesy honk at the distracted driver in front, allegedly on their phone.
In what OP interpreted as getting brake-checked twice, the truck in front responds by stopping two times in quick succession.
The brake checker later claims he did what he did because OP was “honking like an idiot.”
Fed up with waiting, OP (illegally) swings around the driver and turns in front of the brake-checker.
The rear dashcam shows OP being followed by the distracted driver who, after OP parks, gets out of his truck to confront him.
OP gets out to meet him face to face, at which point the distracted driver backs up to his truck to get out of there.
OP says he saw an unlocked phone on Snapchat still on the driver’s bench seat and pointed it out to him, something that the other driver didn’t seem to like.
“His phone was right in the driver’s seat, unlocked. You can see me pointing that out to him right after I called him out for sitting on his phone at the light. That’s when he went nuts. My honk was a short “let’s go it’s green.” If I have to honk again, they’re getting full blast. Felt pretty in control considering dude was about to fight me lol”
While the majority sided with OP, agreeing that it’s a pet peeve of theirs how other drivers lose their s*** knowing they’re in the wrong, many called out OP’s reaction as not only illegal but going over the top for the situation.
“Nah, that was hella dangerous of you to pass like that, even if you were right that he wasn’t paying attention. Keep your cool; I struggle with it as well,” /u/lotsofmissingpeanuts replied.
“Always better to wait a few extra seconds, hell, even miss a light, rather than do something dangerous and break the rules of the road,” /u/Joyaboi concurred.
“If you look, you can see that the driver in front actually started to release the brakes before the first honk. They likely thought that the honk could indicate a hazard ahead, so they stopped. The repeated and aggressive honking to come probably made them confused or nervous,” /u/Large-Mode-3244 pointed out.
While I do side with those who pointed out OP’s impatience, it’s easy for me to say so thousands of miles away behind a keyboard.
I assume a good percentage of drivers would’ve reacted similarly.
Regardless of who was more wrong in this situation, ratcheting up a situation and resorting to, quite frankly, road rage to “get back” at other drivers is rarely, if not ever, the correct response.
It’s a practice we need to be reminded of constantly, if not daily, behind the wheel.
And yes, stay off your phone behind the wheel.
Your attention should be 100 percent on the task at hand, driving.
