
Los Angeles woman smashes another driver’s windshield with a hammer for driving too slowly
All of us have experienced road rage at some point. Maybe we’ve been pushed to the point of wanting to reach into the trunk, grab a hammer, and obliterate the offender’s windshield. But we’ve never actually done it, because, you know, it’s psychotic.
Well, that’s exactly what happened to Jennifer Gonzalez when she was driving her two teen daughters to the movie theaters on February 21. The incident started when she noticed an angry woman tailgating her in a white GMC SUV without license plates.
“She was like kind of tailgating me, but then I realized she wasn’t stopping at the stop sign. She was just going through them and that’s when she almost crashed twice,” she recounted for ABC7.
The rage-fueled woman tried to pass Gonzalez several times, and the family assumed she’d get around them and speed away. Then she got out and opened the trunk.
The woman grabbed a hammer from the trunk
“She swerved and blocked me with her car, and I was like, ‘Please don’t let it be a gun.’ That was my whole mindset at the time. Then I see her with the hammer, and I’m like, ‘Oh, Lord.'”
The crazed GMC driver then swung her hammer at Gonzalez’s windshield several times. Gonzalez’s daughter pulled out her cell phone and captured the terrifying moment.
She took the videos to the police, who she thinks aren’t taking this seriously—especially after being told to report it as vandalism since she wasn’t struck with the hammer.
“They said it was directed to the car, but I saw her as soon as she got out I knew. Like our eyes were looking at each other, like I knew she wanted to hurt me,” she said.
Viewers were angry for Gonzalez
Many commenters on the outlet’s YouTube channel were furious with how the police were handling the dangerous woman’s actions.
“So, road rage isn’t illegal in California as long as you don’t threaten a human,” they wrote. “Got it.”
Another said the hammer-wielding woman belongs behind bars.
“That lady needs to go to jail for endangerment,” their comment read. “Also for vandalism, driving a vehicle without license plates, and likely without insurance.”
Others questioned why Gonzalez didn’t try to get away, noting she could have gone in reverse and tried to drive away when she saw the hammer. Others said if it happened to a police car, it would be a different story.
“If the person did that to a police vehicle, the perp would have either been shot or booked on assault to an officer,” they wrote.