Frightening behaviour

I’ve always kind of known it, but last night frankly confirmed it. There are a lot of fucking idiots out there in the world. Alright, not exactly ground breaking news. But after what I saw last night, you’ll maybe think again.

It was a busy night at work, but it all went smoothly. I leave work, and I’m in the chicken shop getting some dinner. I order, and decide to wait outside where it’s a bit cooler. There are a few drunk people milling about, the odd lunatic, the odd “blatantly just pulled” couple. As I’m watching the world pass me, a car screams up the road. Not unusual for Southampton I think.

Except for when it reached the set of traffic lights, about 50 yards up the road. It screeches to a halt. I’m thinking it’s missed the red light. All of a sudden the passenger door flies open and a woman is thrown out of the car, onto the road. The car accelerates away, with part of her still in the car. The car disappears up the road, with only the screams of the woman to be heard.

I legged it up the road to find out what was going on, if she was alright, etc. She is, but in shock. Hyperventilating a bit. Fortunately the worst of her injuries was a cut finger and a few grazes up her arm.

I spent the next 4o minutes trying to talk to her, find out what I could, finding out if there was anyone I could call, and finally getting her in a taxi. The whole thing could have been a lot worse. There was a point at which I thought she was actually under the car when it drove off. It turns out it was the ex-boyfriend driving and doing the throwing, but I couldn’t establish why he’d done this.

Regardless. How much of a fuckwit do you need to be to throw a woman, hell anyone, out of a car into the middle of the road and then drive off, leaving them there, alone, in shock, at the mercy of busy city traffic at 3am?