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It's the Wild West out there, nowhere more so than in the Sunshine State, where Central Florida's WESH 2 news reports that a man fired several shots through his own windshield after he says the driver of another car pointed a gun at him. Dashcam footage captured the incident, which took place on Florida's Highway 417 in Orange County.
The driver, Marco Mazzetta, posted the footage to YouTube (naturally), and it shows him squeezing off several shots at a Nissan 370Z, all while traveling at 93 mph. According to Mazzetta, the Nissan was being driven aggressively and it bumped Mazzetta's truck when he tapped the brakes. Then it passed him, and the driver pointed a gun at him out the window. That's when Mazzetta opened fire.
"I know this video doesn't capture my smartest moments," Mazzetta wrote in a text to WESH 2, then adds, "but I hope any idiot criminal with a gun watching thinks twice before loading, brandishing & aiming their firearm at someone over a traffic infraction." .........(more)
https://www.autoblog.com/2020/09/29/florida-driver-fires-gun-through-windshield/
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)bottomofthehill
(8,329 posts)You have to charge this guy with reckless discharge of a firearm.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)ExciteBike66
(2,340 posts)but every criminal starts off as a law-abiding person...
RainCaster
(10,869 posts)He wanted to fling his poo while driving. Not the smartest thing, but that's part for the course.
brush
(53,771 posts)He shot several shots through his own windshield on a public highway.
WTF?
ExciteBike66
(2,340 posts)Would love to see the front-facing camera video, doubt that the other driver was pointing a gun back at the following car...
Anyway, at the very least a gun-nut has to pay for a new windshield. Normally they face no consequences at all down here...
PTWB
(4,131 posts)The video clip is in the OPs post.
The shooter here is an idiot but I doubt he will be prosecuted. The other driver hit his vehicle, passed him, pulled a handgun and pointed it at him. I dont see a jury in Florida convicting this guy of anything.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)IDIOT
The other driver hit his vehicle, passed him, pulled a gun on him and pointed it at him. I think it is a stretch to say the shooter was looking for a reason to use it when the other guy drew first.
It would have been smarter to attempt to disengage rather than start blasting through his windshield ... but Id put better than even odds that the guy who drew first would have matched speeds with the shooter if he had tried to slow down or stop.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Should have regardless
Not worth it
But he had a gun and looked for a reason to use it and endangered anyone around him
Aristus
(66,325 posts)onethatcares
(16,166 posts)I hope his insurance rates go sky high, they take away his guns, and safe lite does not pay him $400.00 for his windshield replacement.
LudwigPastorius
(9,137 posts)Oh, Florida man...will you ever learn?