This is in my county (as I hang my head in shame). And then the driver was so intelligent, that he posted the video on YouTube.

https://www.autoblog.com/2020/...-through-windshield/

It's the Wild West out there, nowhere more so than in the Sunshine State, where Central Florida's WESH 2 news reports that a man fired several shots through his own windshield after he says the driver of another car pointed a gun at him. Dashcam footage captured the incident, which took place on Florida's Highway 417 in Orange County.

The driver, Marco Mazzetta, posted the footage to YouTube (naturally), and it shows him squeezing off several shots at a Nissan 370Z, all while traveling at 93 mph. According to Mazzetta, the Nissan was being driven aggressively and it bumped Mazzetta's truck when he tapped the brakes. Then it passed him, and the driver pointed a gun at him out the window. That's when Mazzetta opened fire.

"I know this video doesn't capture my smartest moments," Mazzetta wrote in a text to WESH 2, then adds, "but I hope any idiot criminal with a gun watching thinks twice before loading, brandishing & aiming their firearm at someone over a traffic infraction."

The unusual, um, tactic of shooting through one's own windshield last came up a couple of years ago when a Las Vegas police officer fired through the windshield of his cruiser at murder suspects in an SUV he was pursuing, with a Florida deputy doing the same thing a few months later. It's a move that seemed to carry a lot of inherent danger when a law enforcement officer was doing it — much less when it's done by a participant in a road rage incident — though the Vegas officer's superior shrugged it off at the time as allowable under department policy.

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I know this video doesn't capture my smartest moments

Give FL man a couple of points for recognizing his own stupidity.

Just one of the reasons I dont care if I never return to Florida.

Hometown or not

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Originally posted by OttoSig:
Just one of the reasons I dont care if I never return to Florida.

Hometown or not

C'mon, man.

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Originally posted by RichardC:
C'mon, man.

Congratulations. That's the last straw.

As of right now, I don't want to see this phrase ever again in this forum. You guys have drilled that shit 50,000 feet into the ground.

Use this story as the learning experience it is. I've tried to drill into my son's head, if someone is acting the fool in traffic, let them around you and let them go on. Do 'not' mess with them (i.e. no brake taps or horn blowing, and certainly no war of words). Stupid people are not just indigenous to Florida, they flourish almost everywhere. But one thing is certain, they're dangerous no matter where they live.

And this moron is likely headed to jail when all is said and done.

His passenger’s reaction is priceless.

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Originally posted by Beanhead:
His passenger’s reaction is priceless.

WHAT ?!?!?!?!?!

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Originally posted by Rightwire:

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Originally posted by Beanhead:
His passenger’s reaction is priceless.

WHAT ?!?!?!?!?!

That person is also now deaf for the foreseeable future.

I was thinking about this incident this morning. I would love to be listening in when he calls his insurance company. In Florida, by state law, if you have motor vehicle insurance, windshield replacement it covered 100% by insurance.

"Hello, Jake from State Farm, how may I help you"

"Yeah, I need a new windshield. I shot 3 bullets from my gun through it at another driver."

Jake, "Ummmm, hold for a supervisor please."

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all while traveling at 93 mph

total idiot. I guess his fight or flight instinct got is a bit messed up along the way.

hope he sees the inside of a jail cell before he kills some bystander.

Sees the car coming up behind him and trying to pass, so he brake checks them and shoots at them. Then he has the nerve to say they were aggressive.

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Originally posted by Perception:
Sees the car coming up behind him and trying to pass, so he brake checks them and shoots at them. Then he has the nerve to say they were aggressive.

This right here. Seriously, if someone wants to drive fast, let them.

I hate it when people are self designated lane monitors. The assholes that decide they are doing the speed limit, and damn you, if you think you’ll speed on their watch.
I call them shitbricks. Some asshole that shitbricks the lanes and doesn’t allow you to pass.

That "trick" doesn't even work on TV ...

he is exactly the kind of gun-owner who gives the rest of us 'a bad name'

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Even if you happen to be justified in shooting through a windshield, understand that it's extremely difficult to accurately hit anything further than your front bumper or so with a handgun round, due to the bullet being severely deflected by the windshield.

Firing from inside the car through the front windshield causes the round to be deflected upwards significantly. Even with bonded duty rounds, when I've had the chance to test it at the range with actual live fire through a vehicle, the rise is about a foot by the time the bullet passes the front bumper. Basically, on a cardboard target positioned at the front bumper, you have to aim for the navel/pelvis to get center mass hits. Much further than the front bumper, and you're shooting over their head.

(The reverse is true when firing through a windshield from outside a vehicle, with the bullet being deflected significantly downward.)

So even if you're both stationary, and your cars are so close that your front bumper is touching his rear bumper, hitting the driver of a vehicle in front of you isn't very likely.

Toss in greater distance between both cars, the movement of both cars, vibration/bumps, additional intermediate barriers like rear glass and seats, wind deflection from highway speeds, etc., and hitting the other driver is totally unrealistic short of pure one-in-a-million luck.

In the list of options in a road rage incident shooting at a vehicle through windshield has to be, or should be, at the bottom of the list.

Granted, if someone is on the hood with a weapon, probably justified. I can't think of any other time.

I also seem to recall that a few LEO have done this in what was literally a rolling gunfight and all suffered hearing damage.

Shooter has a terrible flinch also.....

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Even if you happen to be justified in shooting through a windshield, understand that it's extremely difficult to accurately hit anything further than your front bumper or so with a handgun round, due to the bullet being severely deflected by the windshield.

Firing from inside the car through the front windshield causes the round to be deflected upwards significantly. Even with bonded duty rounds, when I've had the chance to test it at the range with actual live fire through a vehicle, the rise is about a foot by the time the bullet passes the front bumper. Basically, on a cardboard target positioned at the front bumper, you have to aim for the navel/pelvis to get center mass hits. Much further than the front bumper, and you're shooting over their head.

(The reverse is true when firing through a windshield from outside a vehicle, with the bullet being deflected significantly downward.)

So even if you're both stationary, and your cars are so close that your front bumper is touching his rear bumper, hitting the driver of a vehicle in front of you isn't very likely.

Toss in greater distance between both cars, the movement of both cars, vibration/bumps, additional intermediate barriers like rear glass and seats, wind deflection from highway speeds, etc., and hitting the other driver is totally unrealistic short of pure one-in-a-million luck.

Good info. I wondered about this after seeing this video some time ago.

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Originally posted by radioman:

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all while traveling at 93 mph

total idiot. I guess his fight or flight instinct got is a bit messed up along the way.

hope he sees the inside of a jail cell before he kills some bystander.

Why should he go to jail? The other car's driver was clearly pointing a gun at him, as seen in his front camera view.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...ver-flashed-gun.html