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G_j

(40,367 posts)
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 01:10 PM Jul 2020

Guy driving around town yelling at people

Downtown Asheville NC., Standing out in front of our building, when this dude drives by and yells at a group of masked tourists that they don’t need to wear masks. He then drives around the block and yells the same thing at us. We yelled at him that he was wrong and just shut up. He came back again, yelling something about a hoax. Told him we live here and please get the fuck out of our neighborhood.
Crazy..

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Guy driving around town yelling at people (Original Post) G_j Jul 2020 OP
Dam TEB Jul 2020 #1
The loser OD'd on Kool-Aid. lpbk2713 Jul 2020 #2
Fun fact! cab67 Jul 2020 #18
If this were Texas he would probably shoot at you, too. flying_wahini Jul 2020 #3
If it were Trump Ohiogal Jul 2020 #4
Is this person employed by Dreampuff Jul 2020 #5
Employed by the virus? soothsayer Jul 2020 #9
My daughter lives in Asheville. MoonchildCA Jul 2020 #6
They are so much louder than we are cyclonefence Jul 2020 #7
Not just Trump, but the entire wingnut echo chamber JHB Jul 2020 #10
yeah G_j Jul 2020 #13
That would be disturbing my peace. KY_EnviroGuy Jul 2020 #8
Throw eggs at his car. shockey80 Jul 2020 #11
I'm convinced someone acted like.... idziak4ever1234 Jul 2020 #12
Your subject line tells the story of Donnie Dipshit's term beautifully maxrandb Jul 2020 #14
Whistling Past the Graveyard. MineralMan Jul 2020 #15
Did anyone get pictures or video? Mariana Jul 2020 #16
And all this because why? ScratchCat Jul 2020 #17
just was at the post office in Horse Shoe, near Hendersonville. NRaleighLiberal Jul 2020 #19
It's getting stupid. Grokenstein Jul 2020 #20
st petersburg fl here onethatcares Jul 2020 #21
:) Nice to hear. Jon Meacham said the Enlightenment, Hortensis Jul 2020 #23
Was it his sister that got ... GeorgeGist Jul 2020 #22

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)
7. They are so much louder than we are
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 01:24 PM
Jul 2020

because they are echoing what Trump is saying, that they feel like their views represent everyone else's views, too. They don't understand that they are the whackos. At any other time in our history, they would not have had the guts to behave like this in public. I'm glad people are yelling back at them, but I worry that the nutjobs are going to start shooting, believing that they represent the will of the people.

I have neighbors who proudly display Trump signs, yet I worry about putting a Biden bumper sticker on my car for fear of retaliation. Who told them they could be as loud and crude as they want to be, and we have to behave nicely and tolerate their shenanigans with a smile? I'm tired of being the polite one.

JHB

(37,161 posts)
10. Not just Trump, but the entire wingnut echo chamber
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 01:31 PM
Jul 2020

This kind of behavior has been steadily ratcheting up since when Trump was building to-be-bankrupted casinos in Atlantic City. Each new level of self-righteous outrage becomes the starting point for the next.

G_j

(40,367 posts)
13. yeah
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 01:51 PM
Jul 2020

it crossed my mind afterward that I live in the south and he was the sort that might well have a gun.

Though I actually think he was under the delusion that he was helping people. A Good Samaritan..

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,492 posts)
8. That would be disturbing my peace.
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 01:25 PM
Jul 2020

I live with a neighborhood full of them..........

Solution: North Carolina BBQ sandwich and a Cheerwine!

Alternate solution: Basket of fried catfish at the nearest fish camp.

idziak4ever1234

(1,257 posts)
12. I'm convinced someone acted like....
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 01:33 PM
Jul 2020

They were going to hit me with their truck intentionally because I had on a mask.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
15. Whistling Past the Graveyard.
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 02:09 PM
Jul 2020

Those idiots are scared to death, and are trying to mask their fear with bravado.

Morons!

ScratchCat

(1,990 posts)
17. And all this because why?
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 02:18 PM
Jul 2020

Because one single individual called it a "hoax". One single person. That's where we are folks - millions of people willing to pretend a virus isn't real because they can't admit they threw a racial hissy-fit and voted for a con man.

I don't know that we make it past this.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,015 posts)
19. just was at the post office in Horse Shoe, near Hendersonville.
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 03:58 PM
Jul 2020

Line of 5 mask wearers appropriately distanced. Older woman, unmasked, barged in and cut to the front of the line. I told her we were in line, distanced. She started yelling at me saying it was a hoax. I asked her about the 130K plus families who lost loved ones. She screamed they are calling all deaths COVID. Others started to support me. She left in a huff. Wow. My first experience with that ..

Grokenstein

(5,725 posts)
20. It's getting stupid.
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 04:25 PM
Jul 2020

Masks are mandatory at work now. Still had six (!!) confrontations with no-maskers yesterday. Two complied, one performed a clown act ( "Oooo, don't want you to catch the flooooo!" ) and walked away, fourth wanted to fight. Me: "Where's your mask?" Him: "In my pocket--where it belongs!!" Me: "Can you put it on, please?" Him (now maddogging me): "No!!" ( The lead showed up and hustled me to another work area. ) The last two I just walked away from and avoided.

I told a supervisor that this isn't a meat-packing plant in a red state; I won't be herded into a death trap just because these clowns are insecure about their genitals and management is too spineless to enforce.

onethatcares

(16,172 posts)
21. st petersburg fl here
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 05:28 PM
Jul 2020

had a t storm and a leak in the roof. roofer showed up and rang the door buzzard (ha), I was masked up and as soon as he saw me the said, "I'll be right back" went to his truck and put a mask on, came back and apologized for not having his on initially.

btw, it was a service call on an almost 2 year old shingle roof. No charge to take care of it.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
23. :) Nice to hear. Jon Meacham said the Enlightenment,
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 08:05 PM
Jul 2020

science, and decency are all on the ballot this election, which people like the very sincere fool in the OP show is all too true.

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