Mercedes: There Is No Substitute

Saw the Mercedes v. Dipshit Protester video. The guy and the woman (OWS protesters and soon to be hood ornaments) walk in front of the car and stop, face the driver and begin "communicating" to him both verbally and with wild gesticulations. (It looks like the guy [Hood Ornament #1], not the woman [Hood Ornament #2], was the instigator). Then the guy begins to slam his fists down on the hood of the car. The driver gooses the accelerator of the Merc (0-60 in 5.8 seconds!) and takes both HOs 1 and 2 for a short jaunt which resulted in minor leg and ankle injuries. What you can't tell from the video is what the guy was screaming, the mood of the surrounding crowd, what the fear level of the driver was and whether he intended to hit the gas as hard as he did or the rush of adrenalin (also not shown but inferred by me) affected his motor skills, as rushes of adrenaline are known to do. If I sound less than empathetic to the injured it's because I have little or no sympathy for people who act stupidly. If you're part of a protesting crowd and you decide to block the path of a vehicle and then begin beating on that vehicle while yelling inflammatory epithets (my assumption) then you should assume that the driver of the vehicle might become scared shitless that your friends will join you and just might want to get the fuck out of there before that happens. Had it been me, someone would have had a semi-permanent Subaru logo impressed somewhere on their being.