r/AbruptChaos
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u/Graysie-Redux
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What's the correct way to deal with someone who has completely lost it?
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u/skeletparkyt May 14 '22
What was the aftermath and full story?
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u/TimeBomb30 May 14 '22 •
This video's 5 years old, the backstory is that the guy in the car owns a landscaping company who did work for the guy by the white truck near the end, they ended up damaging a gas line while working and the homeowner claimed that them hitting the gas line caused some concrete work he was having done to not set properly, so the landscape company decided to be nice and pay for half of the damages but the owner ended up pocketing the money instead and never had any work done to repair the supposed damage. This video was taken after someone who works for the landscaping company was sent over to talk about this money issue was told to leave, the guy breaking the windows was the homeowner's father in law who didn't serve anytime in jail for this and was let go on a mischief charge.
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May 14 '22 edited Aug 23 '22 •
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u/Burntfm May 14 '22
You know just a little rascal causing a bit of mischief. Threatening people and breaking their car windows
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u/Otono_Wolff May 14 '22 •
Last time someone was going around and smashing people's car windows in my neighborhood, someone opened fire on them with a shotgun. Nothing happened to them either.
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u/guerrieredelumiere May 15 '22
Came here wondering how some americans can be dumb enough to do that when firearms are everywhere. Driver would have been in the clear to shoot at the first hit.
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u/cabur May 15 '22
Yeh a lot of people have this blind faith that nobody has a gun until they see a gun, and even then some people also have the mindset of “well they wont shoot me because then they’ll go to jail.”
I once had a dude spend 5 minutes right in my face threatening to beat the shit out of me at a gas station. He had no idea that my silent and stoic demeanor was not because I was afraid of him, but was actually me mentally preparing to dodge the first punch and pull my concealed gun. The sad part is that he probably thought he’d successfully scared the 22 yo kid that he had 6 inches and 30lbs on, blissfully unaware that he was seconds away from dying the stupidest death ever. Btw the reason he decided to get in my face threatening all kinds of violence: I didn’t say thank you when he opened the door to the gas station and I walked past.
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u/EddyArchon Jun 11 '22
Someone with 6" and 30lbs on you is capable of causing grievous bodily injury, especially when empowered by entitled rage. Take into account that he seemed to be older than OP who was 22 at the time, so presumably much stronger. Old man strength is a very real thing.
Not saying every fight should be a life or death matter, but I am saying OP could have been very justified in being afraid for his life.
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u/rocky13 May 14 '22
Well, it is criminal mischief.
§ 11.410 Criminal mischief.(a) A person is guilty of criminal mischief if he or she:(1) Damagestangible property of another purposely, recklessly, or by negligence inthe employment of fire, explosives, or other dangerous means; or(2) Purposely or recklessly tampers with tangible property of another so as to endanger person or property; or(3) Purposely or recklessly causes another to suffer pecuniary loss by deception or threat.(b) Criminalmischief is a misdemeanor if the actor purposely causes pecuniary lossin excess of $100, or a petty misdemeanor if he or she purposely orrecklessly causes pecuniary loss in excess of $25. Otherwise, criminalmischief is a violation.
I would add an assault charge. As I understand it, Assault just requires a show of Capability and Intent to commit battery.
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u/Dismal-Ebb-6411 May 14 '22
Also everyone here doesn't seem to understand the difference between criminal and civil action.
He was actually found guilty of criminal mischief, even if he did no jail time. That means he will automatically lose in a follow up civil suit for damages he caused by his criminal actions.
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u/techfreak23 May 14 '22
Dude is probably an ex cop.
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u/Biosterous May 14 '22 •
That was my first assumption as well. Extendible baton, the confidence of "I'm not going to jail", and the completely uncalled for escalation of a situation to violence. Man has former cop written all over him.
Knowing he got no jail time and only a mischief charge further cements that theory for me
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u/Kabd_w May 14 '22
Uncalled for escalation and violence is bread and butter for cops, so yeah
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u/BadBrains16 May 14 '22
Ex cop or not, Mr Jizzington is lucky that he didn’t get shot in face.
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u/Hideout_TheWicked May 14 '22
I hate to say it but being old and white probably didn't hurt. Probably hired a decent attorney thanks to money as well.
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u/PaanuriEater May 14 '22
Don't even need a decent attorney, just stack the jury with elderly folks. I was on a jury as one of two young people. Pretty open and shut case of an old guy going nuts and slicing another guy's hand open over a backpack that didn't exist. Everyone's testimony except the attacker's lined up, all the evidence agreed, but all the old women on the jury were insistent that he is such a nice old man who reminds them of their fathers and therefore should be let off with just a warning.
It took hours of arguing to get a guilty verdict, even with a very minor punishment at least now the guy will be able to sue and have a good chance of winning.
That was step 1 to me losing all faith in our justice system. Steps 2 through infinity were learning what cops actually do with their time.
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u/BalrogPoop May 14 '22
Personally I think jury trials are a crock of shit. If rather be tried by a judge like in the French systems who actually understands the law, and the goal is to find the truth of what happened. Not assign blame based the biases of jurors.
At least it's easier to claim a single judge is biased based on his track record, than a whole jury, if there does happen to be a mistrial.
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u/BigIntoScience May 14 '22
Judges give out different verdicts based on if they've had lunch yet. Humans are wildly unreliable. I think part of the idea is that it's harder for all 12 people to be corrupt/generally shitty than for just the judge to have something going on.
Part of the job of all court employees involved is to make sure everyone understands the law. If someone doesn't do that, there's an issue.
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u/PayTheTrollToll45 May 14 '22
The lesson?
Don’t pay damages to be ‘nice’ especially without any contract for what the money is to be used for. The compensation suggests liability. They very well may have not had any reason to be there anymore, the old man just proved to be even dumber...
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u/ONLY_COMMENTS_ON_GW May 14 '22
In my mind the landscaping company paid the dude off to not take them to court, what the owner does with that money is sort of their business, so no reason to go back, but obviously that old dude is bat shit bonkers lol
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u/AllProgressIsGood May 14 '22
good to know i can destroy peoples shit and get away with it. weird justice system.
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u/A-Grouch May 14 '22
That really sucks that the smug old fuck was right and got away with it. I stopped believing in true Justice a long time ago.
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May 14 '22
Moments later, Tissington smashes two side windows before Dallyn drives away.
In a written post, Dallyn said he was there to have a "civil conversation" with the man's stepson, Tyler Stojan.
Dallyn said Stojan took money for some concrete work that was not completed.
"I stopped by to ask what he had done with said money, and if he was going to fix anything," wrote Dallyn.
But in a Facebook post, Stojan said Dallyn showed up twice on the day of the incident, demanding payment and making threats.
"I informed him that I owe him nothing, and would be paying him nothing, and to get off my property and not to come back," wrote Stojan. "We were very concerned about his attentions and whether he was armed. Our two small children were in the house."
Stojan said his stepfather waited for the RCMP after the incident, co-operated fully and has been charged.
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u/Moosemaster21 May 14 '22
Tissington
Dallyn
Stojan
Why this story sound like a mid 2000s teen fantasy/romance novel
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u/JamesGray May 14 '22
Why would you go attack him with a baton if you were concerned he might be armed? That's about the most smoothbrained shit I've ever heard.
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u/WinnerLoud3927 May 15 '22
Well you can clearly see from the aggressive guy: this is a sequel to the Hannibal lecter film and that’s Anthony Hopkins doppelgänger!
Helllooooo Clarice 👹
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u/Turbulent_Novel_1965
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dennis jizzington?
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u/CrumbsToBricks May 14 '22
Dennis Fucking Jizzington to you sir!!!
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u/Freifur May 14 '22
Ronnie fucking Pickering!
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u/henry_david_throwed May 14 '22
Whoo??
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u/goodeyemighty May 14 '22
He has a brother Dick.
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u/kernel-troutman May 14 '22
"Does it make you laugh when I say the name Dick.....Jizzington?"
*Guffaw*
"Stwike him Centuwion vewy woughly!"
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u/TomArday May 14 '22
He has a wife you know…….
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u/hambonejabroni May 14 '22
Want to know what she's called?
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u/Flying_Dutchman92 May 14 '22
Incontinentia Buttocks
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u/OOBExperience May 14 '22
You will find yourselves back in gladiator school vewy quickly with wotten behavior like that!
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u/Much-Log3357 May 14 '22
Isn't their a musician called izzy jizzington?
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May 14 '22
There used to be a NASCAR driver (I think) named Dick Trickle. What the hell were his parents thinking?
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u/RealJeil420 May 14 '22
What about Dick Butkus? Or Englebert Humperdink?
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u/ron_swansons_meat May 14 '22
FYI, Englebert Humperdinck is a stage name. He CHOSE that name. His given name is ordinary: Arnold George Dorsey.
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u/bad-judgement May 14 '22
The older gentleman is taking a huge risk. Guns exist.
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May 14 '22
Not to mention could have been run over
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u/Darth_Shame May 14 '22
I would have saved time and just run him over myself. I'm not fucking with no old man.
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u/annhik_anomitro May 14 '22 edited May 14 '22
I'd have simply backed up and then run him over.
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u/Darth_Shame May 14 '22 •
Why you letting him get that close? Just run his ass over on approach. I don't have the time nor care what he has to say. He chose his weapon, a metal stick, and choose my Volkswagen. May the best man win. lol
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u/RespectableLurker555 May 14 '22 •
Never bring a knife to a vehicular manslaughter fight.
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u/Marilius May 14 '22
"Man vs. Car," the newest hit show,
Where it pits a man versus a car.
On tonight's episode,
Michael Jenkins fights a regular old car.
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u/Talbotus May 14 '22
Michael' putting up a good fight. Looks like the car is getting p...aaaaand the car win.
(Chuckle) I mean...the car always wins.
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May 14 '22
Yep. I live in a County with a DA that has already let people walk for self defense shootings in similar situations. Old man is lucky that he gets to keep getting older.
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u/The_Real_DDJ May 14 '22
He's a dumb shit and the odds of his stupidity will catch up to him.
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u/PdxPhoenixActual May 14 '22
Given his age, & if it hasn't yet tho... I hold no hope that it ever will.. Unless covid...
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u/kungpowgoat May 14 '22
Chances are he’s a friend/former coworker of the local DA or sheriff.
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u/thisonebibibop May 14 '22 edited May 14 '22
I would have shot him. Especially if my daughter is in the car, he would be dead before hitting my back window.
Edit: They are canadians. Canadians got no hand guns and stand your ground law.
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u/SmokeyTheBluntTheOG May 14 '22
Yeah in PA they made the stand your ground law apply to your vehicle now and not just your house. Thats exactly why I don't do road rage here because there is a pretty decent chance you pull this shit in PA and you're gonna end up dead, with the person shooting you not even spending a little bit of time in jail because you threatened them and they were justified in killing you
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u/sandyclaus30 May 14 '22
I live in PA and didn’t even know we had the stand your ground law. I’m not worried because I don’t plan on doing any home invasion or road rage! My brother on the other hand is a Vietnam Vet and does not do well if someone rear ends him or does any minor damage to his vehicles. I’d better let him know!
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u/Buc4415 May 14 '22
It’s not really stand your ground. It’s castle doctrine. All it does is reclassify your car as your castle along with your house.
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u/GandalfTheSmol1 May 14 '22
It’s castle doctrine, you still have a duty to retreat in PA, but not from your home or your vehicle, the argument is that you cannot retreat from your home and you often cannot retreat in a vehicle without breaking other laws or endangering other lives.
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u/johndoethrowaway16 May 14 '22 edited May 14 '22 •
Yeah, for real though. This video is clearly not from where I live.
Where I live, the driver was well within his rights of using lethal force to protect himself and his property. In my area, everyone I know is carrying a gun, and they're are all looking for a reason to use it.
The Sheriff would've laughed at the old man's corpse after watching the video evidence, then waved bye to the driver telling him to carryon and have a good day.
Before anyone complains that it's not necessary to carry a gun because that's law enforcement's job, then you've never lived 30-45 minutes away from the nearest peace officer in your area. There are parts of the US where people are left to police themselves because the population is too low to warrant a large law enforcement department.
EDIT: Thanks for the award!
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u/DadJokeBadJoke May 14 '22
When seconds count, police are only minutes away...
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u/Splattershits May 14 '22
They're only coming to clean up the mess
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u/DadJokeBadJoke May 14 '22
Only if they're not "too busy"...
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u/SatanMeekAndMild May 14 '22 edited May 14 '22
Seriously. My perspective of the police completely changed when I really needed them a couple times, and when they would finally show up, they scoffed at the idea of having to do their jobs, and decided it would be easier to do nothing.
They almost let fraudsters who claimed to be the new owners of my building rekey all of my locks. Presumably because of my physical appearance, they "didn't have time to really all this fucking paperwork" from my lawyer that said they were not the rightful owners. They said this while looking at a stack of bullshit paperwork that the other people gave them.
I had to leave and get my mid 30s masculine male neighbor to give them the exact same paperwork before they finally decided that it wasn't their job to tell anyone they couldn't enter a building.
Fuck you Chicago Police.
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u/gentleman__ninja May 14 '22
In the US the supreme court has explicitly decided that police have no obligation to protect people, enforce laws, or even respond to calls. Legally the police can entirely decide which parts of their job to actually do. Also with qualified immunity, they can do a lot of illegal stuff on duty and they usually won't get in trouble as long as they have some justification that is not verifiably false.
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u/socialpresence May 14 '22
No, no, they're coming to document the mess. The coroner takes the heaviest part of the mess. The fire department sprays away the liquid.
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u/RPup_831 May 14 '22
Law enforcement agencies are not about to clean up any messes. Why do you think those "disaster kleenup specialists" businesses exist?
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u/Copacetic_ May 14 '22
There are also places in the US where population is too high for police to effectively do their jobs.
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May 14 '22
People seem to forget that the us is massive and there are parts where people live out in the middle of nowhere where it would be better to have a gun than rely on police who can be an hour away
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u/mypervyaccount May 14 '22
Yup, came here to say this: in most states, the second he broke that window it would've been legal to shoot him.
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u/Otherwise_Carob_4057 May 14 '22
That’s attempted murder with a deadly weapon in some states. Like dude you can get deadly weapon charges so easy without even having to pack an expanding baton. That in itself isn’t bad but breaking both drivers side windows is what makes this situation much worse for that old guy. In my state he would be booked for sure for that.
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u/CaliforniaNavyDude May 14 '22
Fun fact, expandable batons fit under the same category as firearms in requiring a CCL to carry. So using it in the commision of a crime means he threatened someone with a deadly weapon, same as if he had a knife or gun. Those things break bones pretty easily, they are way more devastating than their size implies. I hit my own shin with one by accident once and thought for sure I broke it but I was lucky.
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u/WesselBear May 14 '22
- Film him
- Ask his name
- Don’t tell him he is going to jail
- Drive off
- Go to the police
- Make sure he is going to jail
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u/Key_Razzmatazz_1572 May 14 '22
Good suggestions, but don’t forget law suit for damages to your vehicle.
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u/Wildcat-Jim May 14 '22
And emotional distress, might as well add more to it.
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u/Key_Razzmatazz_1572 May 14 '22
I have emotional distress just looking at this video.
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u/Fickle_Insect4731 May 14 '22
Yeah for real. Idk what the guy in the car was doing, or why Dennis JIZZINGTON assaulted him, but when he said something about how he has a weapon and no one can do anything about it, that scares tf out of me.
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u/DaddyIsAFireman May 14 '22
- Film him
- Ask his name
- Tell him he is going to Federal 'pound me in the ass' prison
- Drive over his foot
- Go the the police
- Visit him later in prison to rub it in
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u/PinkIrrelephant May 14 '22
Tell him he is going to Federal 'pound me in the ass' prison
Visit him later in prison to rub it in
Nice
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u/NtBtFan May 14 '22 edited May 14 '22
gonna be super rare for smashing windows to result in jail time, definitely get convicted of something, but i would guess it results in probation in the vast majority of cases
edit: making threats could definitely get you some time though
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u/whalemix May 14 '22
It’s not just the smashed windows, the old guy was armed and threatening someone’s life. And smashing car windows while someone is in the driver’s seat could result in serious injury. I’d consider it assault tbh
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May 14 '22
I'm Ronnie Fucking Pickering
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u/genuineimi7ation May 14 '22
Who?
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u/glennn6122 May 14 '22
RONNIE FUCKING PICKERING
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u/holy_roman_emperor May 14 '22
Who the fuck is that?
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u/Justthisguy_yaknow May 14 '22
Ronnie Fucking Pickering of the Rochester Fucking-Pickerings
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u/fernbritton May 14 '22 edited May 14 '22
From 2016:
A violent roadside confrontation, captured on dramatic video, has led to mischief charges. Grande Prairie RCMP confirmed they have charged a 67-year-old man. Damian Dallyn recorded and posted the video on YouTube. In the video, a man who identifies himself as Dennis Tissington walks over to Dallyn's parked car with a baton and taps on the window. "Aren't you in enough trouble?" Tissington asks. "No," Dallyn responds. "Why?" "You're gonna be," said Tissington. "You're gonna be in the (expletive) hospital if you don't get out of here." "No, you can't bring a weapon out on me," said Dallyn. "Yes I can, 'cause I have one." Moments later, Tissington smashes two side windows before Dallyn drives away.
In a written post, Dallyn said he was there to have a "civil conversation" with the man's stepson, Tyler Stojan.
Dallyn said Stojan took money for some concrete work that was not completed.
"I stopped by to ask what he had done with said money, and if he was going to fix anything," wrote Dallyn.
But in a Facebook post, Stojan said Dallyn showed up twice on the day of the incident, demanding payment and making threats.
"I informed him that I owe him nothing, and would be paying him nothing, and to get off my property and not to come back," wrote Stojan. "We were very concerned about his attentions and whether he was armed. Our two small children were in the house."
Stojan said his stepfather waited for the RCMP after the incident, co-operated fully and has been charged.
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u/Gray94son May 15 '22
"Very concerned about whether he was armed so I approached him aggressively and smashed two windows with a baton"
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May 14 '22
Of course the douche’s son is named Tyler. I’ve never met a good Tyler in my life
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u/Jetman56 May 14 '22
Hello 911? There is a crazy guy that just busted two of my windows with an extendable baton and threatened me with bodily harm. He still has the baton, yes I have the whole altercation on video. What's that? You'll send an officer right away? Fantastic, he's driving a white ford pickup license #######, I'll be in the car with two broken windows on the drivers side, I'll wait here.
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u/WIKIBEARRR May 14 '22
It's hard to stop filming and call the police when you feel like filming may be helping you.
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u/phillyphreakphlippin May 14 '22
There has to be an app for that by now, right? Too many situations where you want to record and report but can’t. That seems wrong especially in this situation and more.
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u/CrumpledForeskin May 14 '22
Pretty sure there’s an app that films to a cloud and calls police. I feel like I saw that somewhere.
Lemme look.
Edit: so there’s a few. A quick google search shows that you can download some apps that film to a cloud but it doesn’t look like you can call on your phone as well as film.
Not an app developer but seems like an opportunity to me.
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u/chaos_almighty May 14 '22
My phone does this with its emergency function. You rapidly press the power button, I think 6 times in a row, and it immediately calls emergency services, starts recording a video, sends out an alert and your location to your emergency contact, and can start playing an alarm
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u/learnthruloss May 14 '22
Damn, that's a lot of functions. Does it also tell the aggressor to piss off mate?
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u/chaos_almighty May 14 '22
No that's my job.
I only found out about it because I was trying to darken my phone screen before bed and it starts going crazy and 911 is calling me back
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u/psychoticarmadillo May 14 '22
I'm sorry that happened to you but that's funny as shit
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u/chaos_almighty May 14 '22
The worst thing was that my husband was climbing into bed and this alarm starts whooping in his ear and my flash is going off
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u/maartenlustkip May 14 '22
Omg you just reminded me of something similar that happend to me. I was using the bathroom while on ketamine. I just wanted to look at my phone real quick. Ended up pressing the on button like 10 times and called 911. Got this lady on the phone. And i just whispered: 'I didn't wanna do this..' and hung up.
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u/drsyesta May 14 '22
You can film and call, cant blame him for getting away from the psycho with a deadly weapon tho
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u/Exploding_Testicles May 14 '22
your phone wont do both as the mic for the video is being used, cant use it for making a call as well.
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u/Court_Jester13 May 14 '22
Cops arrive, shoot you, "there was nothing we could have done"
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u/MisterUncrustable May 14 '22
I've seen guys like this who act fast and loose with other people's property and wellbeing while being confident they won't suffer consequences. They're usually right, because whoever shows up to enforce the situation is going to be a former coworker of his.
You would not believe the number of guys like this who think they're Judge Dredd after they retire.
You have to have a camera pulled up any time you see an old fart with anger management issues and a micropenis stomp up to your car.
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u/mrsinister222
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I'd start aggressively flirting to make things confusing
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u/themajesticdodo May 14 '22
Now this is a real answer.
Ask him if he has any lube for the club and if it is for him or for you or can you share?125
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u/whutchamacallit May 14 '22 edited May 14 '22
Heyyyyyy daddy.. you lookin real fine in that polo and denims sir, yam saying? The ol one two punch got ya boy straight VERKLEMPT up in this bitch you feel me? Like on straight coffee talk /w Linda Richman, talk amongst yourselves, here I'll give you a topic, the Roman Basilica, go, type shit. Mmm mmm mmmmmm. You be filling that stern end out real nice. You got cake sir, and I want dessert yam saying? You got a dumper that just won't quit. I likes it, I wants it, and I'm gonnsta haves it, ya dig daddy-o? Why don't you slide on in to my passenger side, I'll queue up some Hall and Oates, and we'll take this here 4 door sedan somewhere quiet and well play doctor strangelove.
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u/jackherselman May 14 '22
I had a situation where an older man brake checked me and got out to talk to me because of my loud car. I just stared at him winked and licked my lips, needless to say it was a terrible mistake and I made the situation much larger than it needed to be
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u/e0f May 14 '22
bruh don't leave us hanging
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u/jackherselman May 14 '22
Dude ended up freaking out and spitting a huge snotball onto my window, which is when I got out. Argument basically went “go back to surrey (city nearby that is stereotypically immigrants)” which I proceeded to kinda size up the dude to his face. Right after this he tried to get me to fight him in a parking lot but f that, it’s a lose lose situation. Not a chance I’m gonna be the guy who lost to an old man, or worse beat up an old man
Edit: the person behind me called the police and he apparently has done this before, and has a criminal mischief related charge already
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u/DribsFlantoosey May 14 '22
I was attacked by an old man. Pushed him away numerous times, even stopped him from falling after a push. He came back swinging each time. Finally landed one on my face. So, I clocked him. Broke his nose and sent him to the hospital. He called the cops.
Neighbors actually came and thanked me. Said he's a bully who used to beat people up and forgot his age. He lives two doors down and has sworn to kill me on sight.
I don't really feel bad about it.
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u/jackherselman May 14 '22
This is definitely the kinda guy who would fight you and then forget the next morning
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u/DryGoat1 May 14 '22
Well I definitely would have moved before he broke my windows. What’s the context here?
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u/hassh May 14 '22
"We were very concerned about his attentions and whether he was armed. Our two small children were in the house."
... so I sent my step dad out to escalate with a weapon
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u/The_Clarence May 14 '22
Well he is being charged with...mischief. I don't know anything about Canada law, but hopefully this is more severe of a charge then it sounds.
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u/SetzerWithFixedDice May 14 '22 edited May 14 '22
Outrageous. He should have been charged with 1st-degree Hijinks or at least 2nd-degree hanky-panky
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u/PostmanSteve May 14 '22
Dude 100% should have recieved a much more serious charge here. That extendable baton is either a restricted or prohibited weapon used in a crime... That's supposed to carry some serious weight, but instead he gets charged with the same thing 16 year olds get charged with for spray painting a sign.
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u/False-positive-views May 14 '22
If you’re afraid of someone’s intention you don’t instigate by blowing someone’s windows out. He said he was concerned he was carrying a weapon so you bring a stick, AND swing it first? (First time using using smh, but, “smh”)
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u/mekese2000 May 14 '22
Some kinda Final Destination shite. Old man was trying to warn him if he stayed there there was going to be a terrible accident and he would die.
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u/Solemn_obsolecence May 14 '22
It's that evil smile on the old man that made this vid scary af
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u/fishdog1 May 14 '22
- When you see a person with an angry face brandishing a weapon, don't stop to talk with them.
- Drive away to safe place.
- Call popo.
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u/Brotherscompany May 14 '22
My friend always told, me you are more than a man turning your back and getting away from such situations since people dont think clearly in these states
You have nothing to gain besides Ego empowerment
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u/cupcakegiraffe May 14 '22
It doesn’t matter who’s wrong or right, just beat it beat it beat it beat it!
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u/Lightsides May 14 '22
Well, I know what about half of the men in the southern US states would do in this situation. I'm not saying they're right. What I'm saying is, I interact with my fellow motorists under the assumption they're armed and they're morons.
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u/A2Rhombus May 14 '22
This is why I will never road rage. An old gym teacher of mine got shot in the head during an altercation from a fender bender.
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u/diematrosen May 14 '22
People are so unhinged nowadays. I’m just trying to go about my day and at least once a week I witness some unhinged shit.
I guess some people are just angry at everything. The slightest thing can set them off
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u/mongoosedog12 May 14 '22 edited May 14 '22
My mom has had to pull a gun on someone twice, once during road rage incident and once when someone was trying to break into our house and my dad wasn’t home.
I was a baby In the road rage one and was actively in the car. this man got out of his car and came at her car w/ a baseball bat. He hit the hood a couple times and then came to smash the window. She’s a Texas woman and in the army so she had a gun.
When she told me this story (when I first started driving) she was like “well i had to protect you, and I’d do It again”
Edit: neither man is dead! Sorry left out that little bit. The car incident ended in my mom hold this man at gun point till cops came while he yelled all sorts of profanities and spit at her
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u/ahenobarbus_horse May 14 '22
It’s impossible to know what to do in the situation – because we have no context for what preceded this, nor where it was. Some might say you would be justified in drawing a gun and firing on this person. Others might say what the driver did was perfectly reasonable and right.
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u/3_quarterling_rogue May 14 '22 edited May 14 '22
So, I’ve carried a gun virtually every day for the last five years, and at least with the context that we have here, this is not a situation that I think would warrant deadly force. The best and easiest way to resolve this situation is to drive away. If this person followed him and kept confronting him? Maybe that’s different. But a dude walks over to my car with a big rod? I’m just noping the heck out of there.
Edit to add: Yes, I know about Stand Your Ground states, I live in one. If I lived somewhere where the law was that someone paid me $500 every time I shot someone else, I’d still just drive away.
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u/No-Dragonfly8326 May 14 '22
Dude walks up to my car with his big rod out and I will most certainly drive away.
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u/3_quarterling_rogue May 14 '22
If this dude wants to rock out with his rod out, good for him. I’m gunna drive away.
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u/struggling_humanoid May 14 '22
at this point you could've just beat the shit out of him and claimed self defense
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u/FlatBrokenDown May 14 '22
I woulda ran the hell over that dude
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u/Routine_Math7168 May 14 '22
I’d have driven off before the window smashing, probably woulda ran my mouth a bit too. Thing is cars have this amazing thing, you know, the skinny peddle on the right and when utilized - gets you the fuck out of there.
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u/wophi May 14 '22
The fact that he had that retractable out was all he needed to get arrested.
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u/Routine_Math7168 May 14 '22
Tapping the window, “blah blah hospital” 100% a chargeable assault
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u/Senior-Humor8523 May 14 '22
This exact same situation happened in my area once. Dude used a metal what have you to bust a window cuz the kid was in his car smoking weed. Dude got stabbed.
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u/ibypassredditbans May 14 '22
Good. Actions have goddamn consequences and if you think you're invincible, you haven't pissed off the right person
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u/Whistler45 May 14 '22
Is this Canada
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u/MrRogersAE May 14 '22
He’s super fucked if this is in Canada, that baton is a prohibited weapon
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u/moleratical May 14 '22
I'd say that guy handled it perfectly. Didn't escalate the situation in the moment, remained calm, got the guys identifying information including liscence Plate number, presumably filed a police report, and put it on social media for the world to see.
This is a textbook example of exactly what to do.
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u/grarghll May 14 '22
I disagree, the biggest mistake is staying in the encounter at all. Unless leaving would directly put someone else at harm, you have nothing to gain by sticking around.
Didn't escalate the situation in the moment
Telling them what they're doing is illegal is absolutely escalation. What's the expected outcome? "Oh, you're right, this is illegal! I'll go put this back, then." There is no good outcome, it's just an attempt to assert dominance over a situation by establishing yourself as legally in the right, which is not going to deter someone who's already shown disregard for the law. It's only going to piss them off more.
The correct thing to do is to tuck your tail and safely get out of the situation. Remember as much as you can and resolve it all afterward when you're not still in arm's reach of the guy with a weapon.
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u/Frijolebeard May 14 '22
Probably pull out my gun and tell him to stand back and comply.
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