Camaro Driver Speeds Down Neighborhood Street Without Looking, So One Man Comes Up With A Plan That Scares The Driver So Much He Never Drives Again
by Jayne Elliott
Imagine living on a quiet residential street where children play outside.
It sounds idealistic, but that vision quickly changes when a careless driver speeds down the street without looking.
What if a child got hurt?
In today’s story, one man lived on a street like this, and his granddaughter who lived across the street would like to cross the street by herself to visit him.
He worried about her safety due to the driver who liked to speed down the street.
That’s when he came up with a plan to get that driver off the road.
Let’s see what he did.
Never driving again…
This was about 20 years ago, give or take.
My uncle lived in a residential neighborhood with many kids.
The speed limit was 25 mph on his road.
His daughter, son in law, and granddaughter (Coco let’s call her) lived across the street.
The granddaughter was around 4 at the time, and would randomly wander across the street to see her grandpa and go to his house.
(Yes, my cousin was not a good mom.
The first of many signs being that she let her pre-k aged daughter just walk off on her own.
Lucky, Coco was a good child and only went straight to my uncle’s house or this could be an awful missing child story.)
This sounds dangerous.
Sadly, some people think it’s okay to speed in residential neighborhoods, even when there might be children playing.
This one crazy speeder in a new decked out Camaro came flying through the neighborhood every day around 50-60/mph.
Drove my uncle crazy.
Screaming at him to slow down didn’t deter him, “children at play” signs didn’t deter him, calling cops did nothing.
Someone could get hurt.
Cars parked curbside on this street, and kids lived all around here, anything could happen.
A kid could dart out between parked cars into the street chasing a ball that got away.
Someone could get hurt very easily.
Even worse, (well worse in my family at least) Coco could be walking over to see my uncle and this guy, at this speed, wouldn’t be able to stop in time.
Uncle really thought this through.
So my uncle thought about it for a while on how to get this guy to slow down.
My uncle is normally an “act now, think about it later” type, so I’m impressed he plotted something rather than just throwing a hammer and breaking out the windshield.
But my uncle wanted to make sure this guy really got the message that he didn’t need to be anywhere so fast that he endangered lives.
Endangering lives, yeah, that’s the idea.
All the uncle needed was a baby carriage and a doll.
You see, uncle had an old covered baby carriage from when Coco was an infant.
She used it to play with her dolls.
This Camaro Guy has a pretty predictable schedule, so my uncle took the carriage with a doll in it outside and hid in front of his car, parked at the curb where he knew Camaro Guy couldn’t see him.
(According to schedule, Camaro Guy would be coming the opposite direction, so he would be seeing the rear of my uncle’s car from his vantage, my uncle was in front.)
They pretended the doll was a baby.
Uncle heard the Camaro coming, waited a moment as he neared, and pushed the carriage into the road.
For added dramatic effect, my cousin was nearby and screamed “The baby, catch the carriage!”
Camaro Guy had no time to react, and plowed into the carriage, sending the doll flying.
Uncle and cousin ran for the doll, like it was a baby, freaking out, and looked at the driver.
He got out of there, fast!
The jerk didn’t stop!
But you could tell he freaked, uncle said he turned pale and turned at the nearest corner, 1 house down (and off his normal route) to get out of there.
Well, reason stands that the guy must have figured out he didn’t off a baby in a hit and run, because that would be in the news.
But we never know for sure.
Camaro Guy was scared to drive.
What we do know is that guy NEVER came through the neighborhood again, at any speed, and he was spotted a number of times at local public bus stops, waiting on the bus.
I was in that area about 5 years ago with my uncle, and he pointed out someone on the bus bench waiting and started laughing, telling me it was the Camaro Guy, waiting for a bus again.
As I said before, this happened around 20 years ago, and we saw him 5 years ago.
I guess that scared him out of driving for life.
I think he got the message.
He probably thought he offed the baby. I doubt he’ll ever drive again.
I’m glad nobody actually got hurt.
Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.
Here’s another similar story.
There might’ve been another reason the Camaro driver stopped driving.
This reader thinks the guy deserved the revenge.
This is a tragic story.
This person’s uncle didn’t think it through as well.
The glass company got revenge on themselves!
The roads are much safer without him on them.
What a nightmare for everyone involved.
If you liked that post, check out this post about a woman who tracked down a contractor who tried to vanish without a trace.
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