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If I Could Just Have Your Attention for a Moment... No? OK

There aren't that many situations where you can be both right and wrong at the same time, but traffic sure is one of them. The line between doing the right thing and turning into a douchebag moralist is so thin, it's very easy to jump from one side to another in a matter of seconds.
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That's precisely what this motorcycle rider does. As he pulls behind a Toyota FJ Cruiser that's stopped at a traffic light, he notices something might be off. He sees there's plenty of room in front of the vehicle, so he goes to check with the driver. Unsurprisingly, the lady behind the wheel is deeply entrenched into her smartphone. She doesn't appear to be texting, but she's definitely not paying attention to what's around her either.

As the biker pulls alongside her, she suddenly becomes aware of the vastness of space in front of her and creeps forward. However, she pays absolutely zero attention to the motorcyclist as if she hadn't even noticed him. At this point, I must admit I would have considered her to be a dangerous driver and moved as far away as possible.

Not this guy. He pulls to her left just in time to see her take out her phone again and continue where she had previously left off. He knocks her window, but not in an aggressive manner - just enough to catch her attention. Or so you'd think. She continues to ignore him and soon enough, the lights turn green. This is where the motorcycle rider jumps over that thin imaginary line we were talking about earlier and deliberately starts driving in front of her very slowly.

That finally seems to work, but because this woman has absolutely no idea the biker had been watching her for the past half a minute, she just thinks he's an idiot who is harassing her for no reason. So she jumps over that line (actually, she was already on the wrong side of it) and undertakes him while also narrowly cutting him off.

Not one to give up, the biker catches up with the FJ Cruiser and confronts the driver. This is where he jumps back over on the good side of the line telling her he's got everything on camera and inviting her to go to the police - all in a surprisingly calm tone considering what she had just done. She then gives the worst reply possible that goes to confirm she's a huge ignorant: "Don't you have something better to do?"

But as lousy as that question is, it gives the motorcyclist the opportunity to give a very good reply: "No! That's dangerous to my life, that's dangerous to other people's lives. This is the best thing I can do right now." Judging by how she takes off, we doubt she was headed to the police, so it all probably ended on that. The woman gets away with just a little Internet humiliation and she lives to drive and text (or whatever it was she was doing) another day.

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"Boy meets car, boy loves car, boy gets journalism degree and starts job writing and editing at a car magazine" - 5/5. (Vlad Mitrache if he was a movie)
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