A man accused of stealing a Tesla and driving it through a crowded Pacific Beach boardwalk hit a 25-year-old woman, who was later hospitalized with injuries not considered life-threatening. What happened next turned the incident into one of the most-watched viral moments of the week.
Bystander footage shows the driver being chased on foot and pinned to the ground by people who saw the crash and refused to let him walk away. One of them, Ashua, filmed the pursuit while repeatedly asking,“Where you going, homie?”The driver reportedly told the group he“lost his mind”and asked not to go to jail. The detail driving the internet wild: his shirt read“[Expletive] Around and Find Out.”One commenter dubbed it“the shirt of irony.”
Commenters are split. Many are calling the pursuers heroes. Others point out that chasing a suspect through a boardwalk packed with families created a second round of danger. Either way, the story has people debating citizen’s arrests, boardwalk safety, and whether this guy should have just stayed home. What would you have done if you were there?
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