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Glad they caught the jogger, but you have to laugh at the "expert" that is interviewed. News at it's finest:
“What we’re clearly looking at here is an individual who believes he is more important and more valuable than somebody else,” Craig Jackson, a psychology professor who studies the relationship between work and crime, told “Good Morning Britain,” a popular television program. “He plays a game of chicken with this individual, and he’s clearly thinking, why should he move, it’s his pavement.”
Using words like "clearly" to describe his feeling of self-worth and "game of chicken"... really now? It wasn't a game of chicken he "clearly" deviated from his path to bump/push the woman who did nothing wrong other than walk near this man.
Just state the facts. The only thing clear is the jogger was the sole instigator responsible for someone almost losing their life.
Glad they caught the jogger, but you have to laugh at the "expert" that is interviewed. News at it's finest:
“What we’re clearly looking at here is an individual who believes he is more important and more valuable than somebody else,” Craig Jackson, a psychology professor who studies the relationship between work and crime, told “Good Morning Britain,” a popular television program. “He plays a game of chicken with this individual, and he’s clearly thinking, why should he move, it’s his pavement.”
Using words like "clearly" to describe his feeling of self-worth and "game of chicken"... really now? It wasn't a game of chicken he "clearly" deviated from his path to bump/push the woman who did nothing wrong other than walk near this man. Just state the facts. The only thing clear is the jogger was the sole instigator responsible for someone almost losing their life.
I agree, and the psychologist lost his credibility by stating certainties about someone he had never even assessed via interview/psychological testing.
I used to walk around a city lake on my lunch hour. The paths were wide and used by both walkers and joggers.
I always kept to the right; one time a jogger was coming toward me, straight down the middle of the otherwise empty path. Instead of moving to HIS right, he slammed into me hard enough to leave bruises. Then ran off.
Some of these self-centered runners think the world should just make way for them, and that's what I felt I saw in this guy's body language, like, "Get out of my way, you stupid walker, can't you see I'm running here?"
I wasn't a bit surprised by this. Once when I was walking on a path around one of the the lakes in Minneapolis, I was shoved angrily to the side by a runner who apparently thought I wasn't getting out of his way fast enough (and who also apparently thought I had eyes in the back of my head). Mind you, I was a middle aged female and he was a fit, at least physically, male in his prime. He didn't even break stride, he just grabbed my shoulders and spun me out of his way exactly like this guy on the video did.
Another time, I was merely subjected to a full-on screaming fit. Then there's the time when I was treated to a huge slug of bloody sputum landing square on the front of my jacket, as apparently runners are too important, and too busy accomplishing the critical mission of running, to be bothered to blow their snot into a tissue like normal human beings. Oh, and I was also tripped by a runner coming towards me with a dog on a leash that stretched all the way across the path.
Some of these self-centered runners think the world should just make way for them, and that's what I felt I saw in this guy's body language, like, "Get out of my way, you stupid walker, can't you see I'm running here?"
I wasn't a bit surprised by this. Once when I was walking on a path around one of the the lakes in Minneapolis, I was shoved angrily to the side by a runner who apparently thought I wasn't getting out of his way fast enough (and who also apparently thought I had eyes in the back of my head). Mind you, I was a middle aged female and he was a fit, at least physically, male in his prime. He didn't even break stride, he just grabbed my shoulders and spun me out of his way exactly like this guy on the video did.
Another time, I was merely subjected to a full-on screaming fit. Then there's the time when I was treated to a huge slug of bloody sputum landing square on the front of my jacket, as apparently runners are too important, and too busy accomplishing the critical mission of running, to be bothered to blow their snot into a tissue like normal human beings. Oh, and I was also tripped by a runner coming towards me with a dog on a leash that stretched all the way across the path.
So no, not surprised at all.
A small spray can of mace would really give those people a new perspective and appreciation for your equal rights to the pathway in question. Holding it in your hand would allow you to articulate the believable argument of, "Oh, I was carrying it to protect myself from overly aggressive dogs and the occasional rabid chipmunk, it just happened to go off when I was jostled by the Runner/Dog walker/street mime as I was taken by surprise, I am soooooo sorry!".
NOTE: A nice touch would be to extend a tissue as you recite your carefully rehearsed lines so the culprit can wipe the mace tears of repentance from their burning eyes.
Curiouser and curiouser, now, the "50 y.o." man arrested has morphed into a 41 y.o. U.S. 'millionaire', who allegedly has irrefutable proof that he was in the U.S. at the time of the incident.
Which begs the question, if this incident took place on May 5th. this year, (as has been stated), why has it been left until August to publicise it, and start looking for the jogger?
Curiouser and curiouser, now, the "50 y.o." man arrested has morphed into a 41 y.o. U.S. 'millionaire', who allegedly has irrefutable proof that he was in the U.S. at the time of the incident.
Which begs the question, if this incident took place on May 5th. this year, (as has been stated), why has it been left until August to publicise it, and start looking for the jogger?
Maybe it took that long to get the video. Some places are reluctant to release video for some reason.
This is an odd case, but there is a lot of anger in the world due to social media's hyped up mess that is sweeping the world like the plague. All for money of course. The more hype and extremism, the more anger.
They better have done their homework because if they ran this guy through the wringer and publicized his name age etc. and made public comments without getting the right guy.....he's going to rightfully sue the crap out of the tabloids, police etc. like Richard Jewel did.
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