Carragher has put himself in the public eye through his role on Sky. The reward is huge salary the cost is he has to act with due regard for his public position. As I said before he just has to keep his window up, look straight ahead and there is no story.
And the father only has to not harrass someone in public (and on a road, no less) and there is not story. Carragher did not start this episode, he responded poorly, but the confrontation did not originate with his actions - whether he is in the public eye or not is irrelevant, he still has the right to not be harrass when going about his business in public. Otherwise anyone who works in a public-facing capacity would fall under your logic - that if it is ok to harrass Carragher because he has seen on television, it is ok for a customer I have served at work to harrass me if he sees me out on the street.
Is the other driver blameless, hell no but it’s Carragher who is in the public eye. He has let himself down and badly. Spitting at someone is a cheap and hideous thing to do.
We're going to have to agree to disagree over whether spitting under provocation is worse than dangerous driving and harrassing someone in public for no reason but for fun.
I deal with the public everyday in retail. I have times where I want to call a customer out over bad manners towards me, but I have to keep remembering the mantra, customer is always right. Getting into argument with a customer never has a happy outcome.
The customer is not always right. And it's this attitude that breeds bad customer behaviour. My managers have always supported me in the very rare occasions when I see fit to confront rude or aggressive customers. And on the other side of the issue, I'm not going to abuse and harangue people at their work as if I have that 'privilege'. The people who do that are arseholes, and deserve what they get if staff bite back.
The problem for Carragher is he is always “on duty” in a work capacity due to the public nature of his work.
Bullshit, he's on duty when he's at work performing his duties. Is he on duty when he's home having a dump? Or when he's shagging his missus?