An elderly Michigan homeowner cursed out a selfish driver who told him he was “about to die” after a heated exchange ignited when she chose to drive up on his lawn to avoid a flooded street.
The frustrated homeowner, an older man diagnosed with Parkinson’s, was standing in his yard when he noticed a woman drive her SUV onto his Dearborn, Mich., property on Sept. 3 as stormwater inundated the residential road, according to FOX 2 Detroit.
The woman, identified only as Lacie, drove along the sidewalk and through the man’s neighbors’ lawns onto his during a wicked late-summer storm that threatened tornadoes and torrential downpour to the region, according to Ring doorbell camera video obtained by the outlet.
The man shouted for Lacie to get back onto the road, smacked the car’s side window before Lacie stopped the car and tried to get out.
“Telling her no and she kept coming. She almost hit me,” he told the outlet.
Lacie appeared to have driven along the sidewalk to get around the lake that had formed on the road before parking in front of the home, partially on the homeowner’s grass.
“Get off my lawn, F–k you,” the older man yelled at Lacie, who had rolled down her window.
“You’re about to die,” the driver said as curse words continued to spill out of both their mouths.
The man was worried the car would damage his sprinkler system.
He blamed his overreaction on his health that hinders his motor skills.
“I have Parkinson’s disease,” the homeowner told the outlet. “When I get upset, I start shaking, hard to concentrate and communicating with people. I get agitated easily, and it’s all part of the disease, and her driving down the sidewalk like that did not help the situation.
“Because she threatened me and I wanted to get it on record that someone had driven across my property in case I had to file some sort of claim.
Lacie’s tires left ruts in the man’s lawn, but no other damage to his property.
The homeowner tried to dispel online belief that his anger was not racist but was him trying to protect his property.
“I know a lot of the comments on Instagram were racial, and I did not appreciate that,” he said. “Had nothing to do with race.
“It was just two people at the moment who had a misunderstanding. I have no ill will toward this person. I forgive her. No damage was done to my property other than the rut in the grass and that can be fixed,” he added.
Lacie admitted that she told the man he was “about to die” but claimed it was taken out of context and was a warning to him to be careful because of his advanced age.
“Never once threatened his life,” she told FOX 2. “I said that because he said much more than the ‘C-word’ he said he said.
“We were yelling over each other and every time he stopped yelling, those words ‘you’re about to die’ came out. It was not nice at all,” she said. “However, what I meant, you need to calm down, you’re about to die as in you’re old in your age.”
Lacie welcomed a more civil meeting with the man because of his age and health.
“Honestly, he’s elderly, so I would give him that grace,” she said.
Social media users called out Lacie for being in the wrong and using other people’s lawns as a roadway because of a flood.
“Not his fault…. people are rude AF,” one person wrote.
“THAT WOMAN SHOULD HAVE NEVER DRIVEN UP IN THE YARD LIKE THAT!! What the heck is the matter with her?! YOU DO NOT DO THAT! How would she like it if someone did that to her lawn?!” another said.
“Dont you dare apologize! This driver should be glad it was not me dealing with them,” a third said.
