when didn't really hurt anyone and it's over.

Who then observed and also nearly got run over while waiting for the cops.

Try slowing down and reading once or twice before you jump all over a thread with inaccurate information. Thanks.

Do you work at a Super 8?

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I had a power outage yesterday and was just packing up to move the office to a hotel room when it came back on.

but the woman in the article may have had some "Super-8-ing" wounds after being hit.

The only one who appears to have been trying to kill her was HER.

Technically, by attempting to stop someone from leaving, she could be up on some kind of charges herself.

Easiest solution would have been to just get the license plate, and stay out of the road.

Violence was initiated by the driver.

... should be fair game.

I know in Saudi Arabia the couple probably would have been put to death, but this is America.

Who was injured in this story?

this woman, who must have taken some time to figure out that this is what the couple were doing, called the police to try to stop them. As for YOUR question, had she minded her own business, not jumped in front of a moving car which was trying to avoid, no doubt thinking she was some lunatic, no one would have been hit at all. SHE is the reason she was hit and yes, there is something wrong with jumping in front of a moving a car.

Seems they were trying to avoid what looked like a raving lunatic jumping in front of their car.

There are several things that might be going on when you see a strange, angry female jumping in front of your car.

1) It could be an armed robber.

2) It could be someone so drunk they don't know what they are doing.

3) It could be a person trying to use your car to commit suicide.

4) It could be someone on drugs who is dangerous.

Just sticking with what is presented in the story, the woman is responsible for the accident. They tried to avoid her. But seeing a couple having sex appears to have caused her to lose all sense of reason, according to the story as of now. I am going to speculate about things that are not part of the report.

or she would not have been so much in a hurry to leave.

I would certainly not have tried to stand in the path of a car - and I would not have called the police on the couple. However, when you are operating a car, you can not risk hitting someone - even if they are blocking your egress. The woman was not physically threatening her.

Nothing says that she jumped into the path of a moving car.

The woman, who got hit, was incredibly stupid -- but, so was the woman driving the car. In a way, the woman she hit accomplished what she wanted - I assume that the entire town is likely to learn that the couple had sex in the car. The down side is that many may (and should) think her actions were strange.

So most likely she was hit by the side view mirror by deliberately getting too close to a moving vehicle.

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car gesticulating and yelling at them. If that happened to me I would definitely try to get out of there as fast as possible. And if the strange person then jumped in front of the car as it was moving, I would think I was being assaulted by a deranged, possibly armed individual, a drug addict or drunk, but definitely dangerous.

I don't think I would care much about the sex part since I view sex to be quite normal, even in cars. So it wouldn't occur to me to run out of SHAME. I would definitely flee a strange, seemingly deranged, screaming, gesticulating individual jumping in front of my car though.

Who would have thought we would be in agreement on something?



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However, there is something wrong with trying to keep good people confined to parking lot. That is fucking creepy behavior.

I hope the couple are not charged for her stupidity.

What a busybody. She wanted to stop them from having sex. They stopped and tried to leave. She should have been satisfied, but no, maybe she wanted a pat on the back from the police as they hauled away the couple?

Maybe she wanted obedience to her will from them?

Who knows, whatever it was but the continued stepping in front of a car trying to avoid running over her was crazy.

Such foolishness should never be rewarded. I hope the couple didn't get in trouble over the busybody not minding her own business.

that brings in all other kinds of quality-of-life issues.

eg, but we are not supposed to be spying on people 'just in case, maybe, they are engaging in prostitution'. At least I hope not. All we know from the story is that a couple was having sex in a car, something that has been going on since cars were invented, and for the most part, it isn't generally prostitution.

And I am of the opinion that prostitution should be legal anyhow. I prefer that the police not waste their time harassing people making love, even if it is a car.

Assuming you have a driveway, or other kind of private property, of course.

Point being, nobody has the right to trespass on other's private property.

I don't think the issue of the merits of legalizing prostitution is in play here; rather, it is, in fact, illegal to engage in prostitution in the state of Indiana.

Further, even if it wasn't prostitution, performing sex acts in view of anyone and everyone in a parking lot where you may have a room is behavior which will get you booted pronto. I hardly think the Four Seasons is going to be okay with it even if you are a guest of the hotel.

Granted it was late at night, but it's not something I'd want children exposed to.

There's a reason for the cliche "get a room".

I live in a rough part of town and I've had to chase people out of my driveway, but that's usually prostitution related.

story.

But in this case, the parking lot was a motel parking lot, not a private home. And there is no indication that there was prostitution involved. People will make love in cars, they always have. Personally I have never witnessed people making love in a car, other than, well, US lol, which doesn't mean I didn't pass by someone's car where they were engaged in sex, I just don't look into other people's windows or cars unless something draws my attention. And people kissing or fondling in a car in a public parking lot, a mall, a motel etc wouldn't be of much interest to me unless it looked like someone was in trouble.

Much as if someone were defecating in that same motel parking lot. As it too certainly wouldn't hurt anyone, we should simply simply shrug it off and, as you so eloquently stated "myob"

And of course, only the prudish nanny-staters would ever conceive of such an impracticable concept such as "a right place and a right time..."

Merely feeding the local wildlife with a nutritious, homemade loaf produced in nature's own artisan bakery.

While squatting, the rodent-cake maker perhaps contemplates what events in life might lead one to equate the act of making love to making a doody-bomb.

I hate to say she deserved it, but were they really hurting anything? If they were in a SUV I'm sure she probably couldn't see much anyways, and most likely it would be over in 2 minutes. Geez, really people need to just mind their own business.

The rest is in the details.

Whatever.

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and could make only the weakest effort at homicide. I'm sure they were hoping to destroy the one witness to their filthy behavior.

Ironically, their vigorous open-air sha-banging is the only thing that saved the woman's life.

she could have taken the license plate number. No need to endanger herself or anyone else by trying to detain someone in a moving vehicle.

Lucky for all concerned no one in this scenario produced a gun.

was another person altogether, one who kept stepping in front of the car. Two people, not one were outside the car. The one trying to play vice cop was not the manager.

was another person altogether, one who kept stepping in front of the car. Two people, not one were outside the car. The one trying to play vice cop was not the manager.

jumping in front of their car as they drove out of the parking lot, having had a little fun before doing so. They backed up away from her, according to the story and then moved forward assuming they had a clear way out. Instead this apparently, from their pov, crazy lunatic jumped in front of them again.

So what does attempted vehicular homicide have to do with this situation?

Looks more like attempted vehicular suicide to me.

But you don't have a right to intentionally run people over with your car.

Even if they are crazy and standing in front of it.

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Who was injured in any of this?

Yes, some people are idiots.

50% of the population is below average intelligence.

So what?

Idiots deserve to be run over by cars, is that it.

Hey, let's go beat up some stupid people.

deliberately running someone down and how it is relevant to THIS story. Where does it say the driver tried to run anyone down? It says the opposite, it says the apparently deranged individual jumped in front of a moving car, not once but twice. It may be a shock to you to learn that people should not jump in front of moving cars no matter how much sex offends them.

You would be Zimmerman with your belief you can detain anyone you please and they must comply

would be a more mellow place.

Reference: The World According to Garp (the book).

But if people are parked in a semi-secluded area and not being inappropriate about it, just let them have their business.

(It's in my contract.)

Personally, I tend to avoid any vehicle that has fogged-up windows. Or a bumper sticker that says "If this van's rockin', don't bother knockin'". And especially if it's next to a bumper sticker that says "This vehicle protected by Smith & Wesson".

But I also make it a point not to stand in front of, or behind, any moving vehicles.

All in all, I think there's a whole lot of dumb to be shared among all the participants in this little slice of life.

ON YOUR OWN PROPERTY.

What a difficult concept.

but we definitely have more chance of being seen in our driveway than in some secluded part of a park or parked behind a building or something.

No problems with that.

Or is it comprehension you have a problem with?

At that point, the female driver began screaming at the self-appointed crime stopper “and suddenly placed the SUV in reverse, nearly striking the manager before pulling forward and running into the victim on the driver’s side.”

The manager was behind the vehicle, the self appointed crime stopper was in the front of it...but when you fail to put the first part of the sentence "and suddenly placed the SUV in reverse, nearly striking the manager..." you tend to lose thwe context.

Reading is old fashioned.

provided that's all that was going on. Your speculating that something else must have been going confirms that even you agree that if the story is accurate, the informer had not logical reason for calling the cops.

Maybe they are in love?? That's all I can think of?



'OMG, someone is having sex in a car'.

The driver of the car initiated violence in attempting to use the car as a weapon.

I guess it is okay with you when protesters in Turkey are run over with vehicles because they won't get out of the street.

She was attempting to use the car as a vehicle in order to get away from the Church Lady.

detain you is NOT an "act of violence." If I am running away from you and you get in front of me, and I then accidentally knock you down, I have not "initiated an act of violence," even if you got hurt by being knocked down by my running body. Same with the car. The driver was not trying to hit the busybody Church Lady. The driver was trying NOY to hit her. That is not an act of violence. (It was an attempt to escape from a scary person who was trying to commit unlawful imprisonment.)

Can I go into the middle of Walmart and start masturbating?

You can have any kind of wild and crazy kinky sex you want... on your own property or with permission of the owner.

From the local news:

"...The woman called the police and the motel’s manager. While waiting for police to arrive, both she and the manager observed the SUV leave its parking spot and move toward an exit."

Sometimes when the stories are repeated, clarity gets lost.

http://www.indystar.com/article/20130604/NEWS02/306040010/IMPD-Woman-struck-by-vehicle-after-snitching-couple-having-public-sex?nclick_check=1

to keep them from leaving was not the manager!

Read this paragraph more carefully:

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She gets no sympathy from me.

and I am confident many DUers will attest to this.

If she was really that offended, sure, call the cops and give them the plate number but DON'T THROW YOURSELF IN FRONT OF THE FUCKING SUV, you moron!

She was definitely a potential Darwin Award candidate.

try to escape. If you interfere with that attempt you are at fault if you are injured.

You seem to have difficulty with this... You may not illegally detain other people.

descriptor "attempted murderer". Fuck iron, you need irony supplements in your multi-vitamin.

If it's "just sex", standing in front of a moving vehicle in an attempt to stop them is beyond moronic...If the manager is alleging rape, pederasty or hearing cries of "help!", then that is a different story...

It doesn't necessarily have to be pimp/whore/john related, without knowing more about the story...

She, as a civilian, has zero authority, moral or legal, to try to detain them. Zero...