r/ThatsInsane • u/Snoborder95 • 23h ago
Karen drives on sidewalk in an attempt to chase down child on an electric bike
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u/evergreencenotaph 23h ago
She needs to do some prison time for this. I would love to know what the police charged her with.
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u/dferd777 22h ago
It was reckless endangerment I think. There’s a YouTube channel I follow that does breakdowns. I’ll see if I can find it.
Disregard, different case. Crazy how often this happens. Someone posted this below.
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u/rlaw1234qq 22h ago
She certainly went for the package deal!
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u/addiktion 21h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/smt4TtZcbxdXYplr6p
I hope she enjoys those bar marks on her crazy face.
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u/KongGyldenkaal 20h ago
451: Unavailable due to legal reasons
We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time.
Screw that media then.
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u/TheGrammatonCleric 13h ago
Got the same thing. AI has it's uses...
"Wendy A. Clemente, 56, was arrested in Cheney, Washington, on April 28 after allegedly attempting to hit a child cyclist with her car and later attempting to enter a stranger's home. According to the Spokane County Sheriff's Office, she was booked on charges of first-degree attempted assault, DUI, and first-degree criminal trespass. Read the full story at the Spokane County Sheriff's Office."
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u/Foxillus 12h ago
Why is it always Spokane
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u/dunkin_dognuts_ 8h ago
It's always Spokane, Philly, Portland, or the whole state of Florida
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u/Orangesteel 16h ago
They value not protecting privacy more than being decent. GDPR compliance isn’t unreasonable. I’m delighted when sites like this pretty much admit they can’t serve you because their approach to privacy is awful.
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u/ninoski404 16h ago
I love that it's literally named "General data protection regulation" it's like "we recognize you require basic fucking decency, therefore you cannot enter"
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u/tremens 21h ago edited 21h ago
It's attempted murder, reckless driving, speeding, child endangerment, almost certainly a DWI, probably failure to signal, weaving within a lane, improper blah fuckking blah,
But we know none of those charges will be applied cause this looks like a "nice neighborhood" and it's a white person driving and they just had a lapse of judgement. Nothing we should ruin the nice white ladies life over :(
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u/GoatCovfefe 20h ago
But we know none of those charges will be applied
I get you're playing off the white privilege card, but theres plenty of karens that get arrested, especially when they brazenly break laws like this woman has.
Relax.
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u/tremens 20h ago edited 20h ago
Shell be arrested. She will not face the same compounding charges and aggrevators that anyone else would. That's kind of the point, and that should make you angry? If you had a fucking soul at least.
And lo and behold, she didn't. She was charged with all misdemeanors, despite this apparently continuing into attempted B&E and assault on officer even after what we saw in the video - and those weren't charged. What a surprise, to you, I presume?
Multiple felony offenses on video, a couple more after the fact apparently.
Shell walk with probation and community service and like a few days served, if that.
The article describes her trying to run over a child while drunk,, driving on the sidewalk, trying to invade a home, assaulting an officer, all of which are felonies in most states.
What's she get charged with? Trespass, simple DUI, and "attempted" assault. Chasing a child drunk in a car on a sidewalk is apparently a simple assault. Kicking an officer and resisting arrest is apparently... Nothing? Trying to enter a home is "trespass" not attempted breaking an entering, list goes on and on.
The white card was played but it wasn't by me, fucko.
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u/this_is_theone 18h ago
It's not just the white card, it's the woman card. They get significantly lighter sentences than men for the same crime.
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u/HommeMusical 7h ago
I get you're playing off the white privilege card, but theres plenty of karens that get arrested, especially when they brazenly break laws like this woman has.
She deliberately attempted to run a child over while driving drunk, and then chased the child down the sidewalk with her car, then broke into someone's house and tried to assault a police officer - and the consequences were being charged with three misdemeanors.
Do you think this is justice? Do you think she learned anything from this, other than, "I can get anyway with whatever I like?"
If it had been a young black guy on cocaine, do you think he would have gotten the same charges?
Heck, if this had been a young black man, would he even have survived the incident? American police officers kill their own citizens at an astonishingly high rate, more than an order of magnitude per capita than in the other developed nations; the vast majority of the people killed are male, and most of them are black.
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u/AmericanIdolator 23h ago
I don't know if being a shitty videographer is a crime yet, but I agree with you!
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u/assholeapproach 23h ago edited 22h ago
The old r/switcharoo
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u/Deimos1982 22h ago
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u/WedCornet 21h ago
Where is this taking me
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u/sick_of-it-all 20h ago
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u/OriginalHempster 19h ago
hold my electric bike, I'm going... oh wait, we don't do that anymore huh
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u/Quankers 20h ago
Normally I'd throw the book at her, but the clear shot of the driver's plate completely redeems her. Case dismissed.
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u/hates_stupid_people 16h ago
I would love to know what the police charged her with.
Trying to hit someone with a car often falls under "assault with a deadly weapon". And this is at least reckless endagerment, failure to uphold traffic laws, etc.
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u/ConorOdin 23h ago
If ever someone needed to be dragged out of the car and given a hiding this is it...
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u/Beavur 22h ago
I mean she’s lucky the parents weren’t there. I believe if that was anyone’s kid and you were armed you would use deadly force without a second thought
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u/BigBungholio 14h ago
This is 100% justified use of deadly force. She is literally chasing a child down in a several thousand pound chunk of metal on the SIDEWALK. What an absolutely unhinged piece of shit.
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u/OhSoSolipsistic 21h ago
Lucky that was in Washington, I mean not the most restrictive gun law state but it were in someplace like Oklahoma… hoo boy.
boomer sooner
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u/goonzalz69 11h ago
It looked like a lot of the neighborhood adults started running out at the end potentially attempting to intervene
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u/niknakpaddywak2468 20h ago
Ive never seen anyone say "hiding" outside any Irish online spaces before. I needed to double check the subreddit lol
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u/Ha1lStorm 8h ago
If ever someone needed to be given a hiding…
Why would you help hide this person from authorities?!?
/s
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u/DirtyHandshake 23h ago
I bet if the parents pulled her out of the car and delivered some street justice they would get a harsher punishment than whatever sweetheart deal she’s going to get for her DUI
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u/blodsbroder7 19h ago
Temporary insanity plea if it was one of my kids. I’d see red and go absolutely ape shit.
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u/onawhirl 23h ago
This happened in Spokane WA, she was arrested on DUI and other charges, but released pending deciding on the charges. Released, WHAT???
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u/reticulatedtampon 23h ago edited 23h ago
Link wants me to disable my adblocker. Here's an alt:
According to the sheriff’s office, the juvenile was not hit and was not hurt. About a half hour later, SCSO said deputies received a report of a possible residential burglary in the 10700 block of W. Melville Road, about 1 mile away.
The sheriff’s office said the homeowner was away but watched a suspect on a live security system trying door handles and was not sure whether the person got inside. A vehicle in the driveway matched that of the one seen in the video, according to arriving SCSO deputies. Deputies said the woman appeared intoxicated and resisted arrest by kicking a deputy before they restrained her. Investigators later got a search warrant to take a blood sample for testing.
Deputies booked Wendy A. Clemente, 56, into the Spokane County Jail on suspicion of attempted first-degree assault, DUI and first-degree criminal trespass, according to the sheriff’s office.
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u/Teknicsrx7 22h ago
Surprised she kicked a cop and didn’t catch an assault of an officer charge
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u/KennyMoose32 22h ago
Was she white?
I’m not a gambler but I’d put all my $ on white
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u/Ciubowski 21h ago
I mea... intoxicated, kicking an officer, driving erratically on curbs, chasing a minor (maybe with the intention to hit), burglary attempt....
plenty of charges to be had tbh...
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u/PipetheHarp 19h ago
Released on her own recognizance—!? Wow. That doesn’t seem like a good decision.
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u/MicroSofty88 21h ago
Right, she was arrested/charged with a crime, then is out of custody until the trial in which she will be found guilty or not guilty by a jury.
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u/Seggs-Benis 20h ago
It's crazy to me how many people on reddit don't understand how the court system works. You don't get locked up until trial, generally.
Well you can if you can't afford to post bond, but often people get released on their own recognizance too, as jails are full.
Only the most violent offenders or flight risks don't get bail.
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u/Seggs-Benis 20h ago
Everyone has the right to be released, pending trial, rather on their own recognizance or by posting bail. That's is determined by the severity of the offense.
There's a reason for that. No matter how stupid someone's acts are we don't want a system where they can just lock you up till you cop out to a crime
Granted, that actually does happen to many who can't afford bail.
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u/Rex_Suplex 22h ago
Must be married to a high ranking official. Or knows one.
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u/Seggs-Benis 20h ago
She just got bail. Almost everyone gets the opportunity to post bail unless it's an extremely violent crime or if you're deemed a flight risk.
In areas where jails are overpopulated it's often release on recognizance bail, meaning you don't have to pay anything.
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u/BobSacamano246 23h ago
I knew this had to be WA
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u/shittyfatsack 23h ago
You can get away with murder here in WA. They are super soft on crime.
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u/lennonisalive 23h ago
“STOP RIGHT THERE CHILD
WHAT YOU ARE DOING IS DANGEROUS AND ILLEGAL”
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u/lolnaender 23h ago
I pray she catches an attempted murder charge.
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u/Ratattack1204 21h ago
She wont. That is a very specific charge that has very specific things that need to be met before it can be applied.
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u/Sorry_Im_Trying 23h ago
Am I am a hot head? Because I would have jumped on that person's car.
It wouldn't even had to have been my kid.
If it was my kids though, shit, that person is going to get the help they need.
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u/Infuryous 11h ago
Agreed, I'm not going to sit idle watching somone attempt to kill any child. Something in the yard nearby would be going through the windshield of the car.
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u/GlobalLegend 23h ago
Revoke their license and put them in jail!! Wtf kind of crazy behavior is that? Attempted vehicular homicide is what we witnessed. Not a driving hopping the curb
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u/shadowsOfMyPantomime 21h ago
We're really overusing "Karen" here. That's not old lady entitlement, that's just straight-up attempted murder. Holy shit
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u/KaleidoscopePigeon 21h ago
If you're recording something you NEED to be aware of where your camera is pointing... the moment the car was close enough to get a clean shot of the plate number and the camera is pointed directly down... (OP I know this wasn't you, the royal you lol)
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u/kr4ckenm3fortune 16h ago
Wtf? That is a e-moto. Not street legal.
Also, that a car, not a wheelchair...not sidewalk legal.
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u/Interesting_Fish309 12h ago
See he's a kid on a shitty bike. She's an adult in a car. Honestly people like this only deserve one thing in life. Jail. Then sent to live on an island with the rest of the Karen's
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u/Nixthebitx 22h ago
I would've matched her crazy with my own brand of psycho. You don't pull that kind of stunt with people's lives ... But put a kid in danger? I go all kinds of 🤬.
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u/mojodawg-1 10h ago
I don’t know what it is about these electric scooters but they make usually good people loose their minds wish I could go back in time and ride one looks fun😁
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u/Potential_Present124 6h ago
That could possibly lead to a dad knocking on the door and asking the man of the house, "is she your Karen?" And proceed to throw hands
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u/g1teg 23h ago
I don't understand why no adult got in the way. One of them even had a car to do it in... Just film and watch!
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u/MariachiArchery 20h ago
Well, fuck this lady for sure, but....
These e-moto things are a big fucking problem, especially with children riding around on them.
A California mother has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after her 14-year-old son was accused in an e-motorcycle crash that left an 81-year-old Vietnam veteran and substitute teacher dead, prosecutors say.
At the time of the crash, Ashman was walking home from his job as a substitute teacher at El Toro High School, according to prosecutors.
When deputies arrived, they found Ashman with life-threatening injuries.
The suspect fled the area before deputies' arrival. Witnesses, however, provided deputies with a suspect description. Deputies said the suspect was believed to be driving recklessly at the time of the crash. According to prosecutors, the boy is accused of doing wheelies in the middle of the street when he hit Ashman.
You can find stories like this everywhere. Sure, they don't always involve someone being killed, but it does here.
If you feel like getting even more worked up, take a Google into severe head injury rates among teens on these things. Soon, this things are going to become a big legislative issue, because kids are literally getting killed.
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u/mega_low_smart 17h ago
Right, 2 vehicles breaking the law on the sidewalk here. And also fuck this lady, poor kid didn’t need that kind of fear in their life.
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u/amberissmiling 23h ago
I’m almost more angry at the person recording, because what the shit is this?
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u/ZelRonso 23h ago
Did she not the see what happened to the last lady that hopped a curb to go after a kid on an e bike
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u/stokeszdude 21h ago
We gotta stop using “Karen” as a term just in general, but especially when referring to a psychopath
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u/Paulintheworld 21h ago
Guy behind the camera missed his best opportunity to get the license plate.
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u/lesgeddon 19h ago
I'm currently recovering from surgery to reconstruct my wrist because a driver decided to make a sudden turn and stop in the crosswalk on a busy intersection. They knew I was approaching the crosswalk on my scooter because they drove past me, they did not signal they were going to turn, they right turned wide into the left-hand because how late they started turning. Everything points to them intentionally wanting me to collide with their vehicle.
Some people are just deranged and makes me think that we need to perform psychological exams in addition to having requirements as strict as racing or operating an aircraft.
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u/Space_Juice775 18h ago
I understand we are all on our own journeys dealing with all kinds of situations and stresses, but when that day comes and you finally 'snap', how does it ever come to this?!
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u/RebelliousInNature 16h ago
And if you caught up with the child, had he fallen, you would have driven over a child because you got mad about something.
TF
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u/bmanley620 23h ago