Kaileen Kelly posted a “dealing with road rage” story to TikTok with a payback plan so perfect she got nearly 500,000 likes and more than 4,000 comments. But before you try to copy her strategy, know it won’t work in all 50 states.

Roundabout road rage

Ever been in a roundabout and realized you were about to miss your exit? Imagine there is a car to your right, nearly in your blind spot. The responsible choice would be to just take another trip around, get into the correct lane, and exit on your second try. But the driver of one truck didn’t take the responsible choice.

Kelly explains, “Chad in his giant raised black Ram truck decides that he can speed up ahead of me and cut me off. But instead of doing this, he actually starts ramming me into the side of the freeway entrance.”

The young woman, driving a 2009 Jetta, knew she wouldn’t survive a game of bumper cars with the truck. “I lay on my horn like, ‘Can this guy not see me?’ I’m laying on my horn, right? And all of a sudden, he comes to a dead stop on the freeway entrance. So I slam my brakes, panicking.”

At this point, Kelly realized she might be in danger of violent road rage backlash. She tried to see up into the tall truck. “I notice it’s not just Chad in the car. It’s Chad, Brad, and all their sorority b—–s.”

Luckily for Kelly, no one seemed ready to throw down. “They’re laughing, throwing up their middle fingers, waving their hands out the window as they’re dead stopped on the freeway entrance…I was able to notice that they all had open cases of alcohol in their hands.”

When they go low, we pick up the phone

Obviously, Kelly was shaken and upset by the dangerous driving. But she decided to seek a more mature solution. She says, “I am too old for road rage.” So what does she do? “I call the police. Naturally, as one should do if they notice people drinking while driving.”

She watched the truck continue onto the freeway, so she had plenty of juicy details for the dispatcher. She says the call went something like this: “We’re driving southwest on freeway, let’s say 388. It’s about to connect to the largest freeway in all of California. This d—–– is in a giant Ram truck that’s X color with X amount of other people in the car. And they all have open alcoholic beverages. And here’s the license plate.”

Is it illegal to drive in a car with open containers?

In most of the country, it is illegal to have any open containers of alcohol in your car. In Arkansas and West Virginia, a vehicle passenger can transport a container of alcohol with its factory seal broken, if they aren’t drinking. Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Missouri, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia take it a step further. In these states, your passenger can actually drink while you drive. In Mississippi, the driver can actually drink alcohol while operating a motor vehicle on a public roadway.

In all of the above states, it’s still illegal for a driver to have a BAC above 0.08%. And if Kelly had called in her road rage driving story in one of those states, the police might have still chosen to pull over the truck and check if the driver was drunk.

In Kelly’s case, justice was swift and decisive. “I followed right along behind them. And as the cop pulls them over, I get off the freeway, turn right and make a U-turn. And by the time I get to the light and make a U-turn, Brad, Chad, and all of their sorority b—— are arrested sitting on the curb as the cop is calling for backup. And you want to know what’s next to them? An entire line of open bottled alcoholic drinks.”

MotorBiscuit has reached out to @kaileensavannah for comment. You can see her tell the entire story herself in the video embedded below: