This Driver Madly Ramming The Car In Front Is Bizarrely Compelling To Watch

What on earth do you suppose is going on here, then? This video starts after a crash in Huntingdon Park, California. It looks like some kind of beige anonymobile has crashed into the back of a white sedan (saloon) in front of it on the road. Body panels are bent, an airbag has fired, there’s a crowd filming it… but the guy in the beige-gold car just wants to keep on punishing that white car as if he just found it in bed with his wife.

It’s like he’s trying to force the white car forwards, but we have no clue why. One moment the madman driver has a gear engaged and is attempting to ram the car in front forwards; the next moment he seems to have completely lost his mind, sitting there twirling the steering wheel in neutral with the revs at the redline. Then he spends some time with the engine idling, shouting at the top of his lungs and bouncing around in his seat.

Finally, he slams it into reverse, backs up a way, then drives full-tilt into the back of the white sedan again before slipping past with further contact and driving off, his twisted car steaming from radiator damage. With such a massive crowd all filming him he was never going to get away with it, and CBS reports that he was arrested later that day.

So, what do we think? Clearly the guy is mentally unwell, or else was high on drugs at the time. Maybe this is just what happens when you’ve been stuck in the same traffic jam every day for just about long enough to give you a mental breakdown, like it did for Michael Douglas’ character in the awesome movie Falling Down. We’re mainly glad that no one seems to have been seriously hurt.