but fisticuffs wouldn't have solved anything, the guy probably didn't even realise he'd hit the one he was dragging behind, and it doesn't seem to me that anything else was hit either, after all, he was maneuvering about trying to get around the passat

shit happens and while i would have been fuming if it was my motor, flailing fists didn't really do much other than to highlight both mens inability to throw, or indeed land, a punch