F-150 driver punches construction site flagger instead of waiting [Video]
It’s frustrating to wait for traffic at a construction site. Let’s say you live near a site, it can be infuriating to have to wait for oncoming traffic to pass anywhere you want to go anywhere. But that’s just life. A New York State resident named William Stanley–who may be this weekend’s worst citizen–decided not to wait. He decided to fight the construction worker’s flagger instead.
Stanley was driving his white Ford F-150 when he arrive at a construction site. The flagger held up his “stop” sign because traffic was still driving along the one-lane road in the other direction. But I guess traffic laws are for losers. Stanley sped past the flagger, and slammed on the brakes in the middle of the construction site.
Construction site flagger William Barbour laughed, “You know, he couldn’t wait that few minutes.”
Ignoring a construction site flagger is a bad idea
Stanley didn’t get far past the flagger. A silver Honda crossover and blue Bronco Sport were both driving towards Stanley. Because, you know, traffic was driving along the one lane road in the other direction. That’s why Barbour had helpfully been holding up a “stop sign.” With nowhere for Stanley to go, he swerved back into the construction site and slammed his brakes.
This would have been a great time for Stanley to back up and apologize for being a complete jerk. That’s not what he did. Barbour explained, Stanley “Comes running right towards me. I have the sign out saying ‘stop, I have traffic coming.” But Stanley didn’t care that Barbour was just doing his job. He got in the man’s face and started shouting. Then he hit the construction worker’s helmet with his hand. Barbour punched Stanley while other construction workers ran to back him up.
Stanley obviously wasn’t interested in a real fight. He ran to his truck and drove away. Stanley’s since been charged with reckless endangerment, reckless driving, harassment, operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license, and failure to obey a flag person. You can see a bystander’s cellphone video of the incident embedded below:
