A heartless Los Angeles man was caught smiling after allegedly cutting off an elderly woman waiting for her son during mass evacuations.
Director Nate Clark confronted the unknown man in a video he posted to Instagram on Saturday, asking for the public’s help in finding him.
“Here’s the guy who just cut off the little old lady,” Clark said as his camera zoomed in on a man driving a Chevy Silverado on a residential road.
“But the cops clocked your Silverado and they’re not letting you in,” he warns as the Silverado driver pulls up next to him and starts grinning.
“Good luck,” Clark tells the man, wishing him a “great day.”
“You’re having a great day,” Clark shoots back, before asking the man his name.
The driver then appears to ridicule the director, who informs him that he has 35,000 YouTube followers.
“Hey, whatever man, good job,” the driver says before defending his actions. “You’ve never cut anyone off in LA?” I was there.’
An unknown man reportedly cut off an elderly woman and her son during mass evacuations in Los Angeles County
The incident occurred as residents waited in line for four hours to return to their homes in the Palisades fire zone
“I certainly didn’t do that in the middle of a pandemic and a fire,” Clark shoots back.
Still, the man continues to defend himself, saying he was at a stoplight before Clark cuts him off.
“You know how it works,” the director replies. ‘Are you really that stupid? Are you really that stupid? I don’t believe it.
“I think you’re just rich and an asshole,” Clark says as the video stops.
He explained in the caption that the incident occurred as residents waited in line for four hours to return to their homes in the Palisades fire zone.
“So I hope someone knows this guy,” Clark wrote. “He just tried to cut off an old lady and her adult son…as she was out of her car looking for her son when he wandered away.
“This experience has shown me the best and the worst of humanity,” the director said of the mass evacuations amid the deadly wildfires that continue to spread through Los Angeles County.
“This man thinks his pain is worth more than everyone else’s. Where did he learn that?
“Take care of each other, we all have to do better for each other,” the director concluded.
Wildfires in California destroyed 12,300 homes and other structures on Sunday
A firefighter inspects a building destroyed by the Palisades Fire in Malibu
A view of the Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates that was destroyed by the Palisades Fire
The line cutter’s brazen act came as 180,000 people were forced to evacuate the city of Angels, including in the star-studded areas of Brentwood and Mandeville Canyon.
Those evacuation orders left a standoff on Sunset Boulevard, with one woman in distress ABC 7 tell how she was stuck in stop-and-go traffic for two hours when she tried to get to a fire station to donate supplies for firefighters.
“When I first got here, there was something visible, a little patch of blue sky, and it has unfolded into absolutely ugly,” she told the publication.
The Good Samaritan added that while stopped on the road, she offered a place to stay to a woman in the car in front of her who had been forced to leave her home.
‘It’s a shame that something like this is necessary to bring everyone together. Hopefully this will continue after this,” she told the publication.
Firefighters search for hot spots in a house that burned down as a result of the Palisades Fire, along the Pacific Coast Highway
Search and rescue crews are working in the area of devastation in the aftermath of the Eaton fire
Fast-moving fires continued to rip through the wealthy conclave on Sunday
But the fast-moving fires continued to rip through the wealthy conclave on Sunday, having already claimed at least 16 lives and wiped out an estimated 40,300 hectares of land, 12,300 homes and other structures.
As of Sunday evening, the Palisades Fire extended to more than 23,000 acres and the Eaton Fire scorched more than 14,000 acres.
The Hurst Fire in the city of Los Angeles was about 76 percent contained, but the National Weather Service warned that wind gusts of up to 50 to 65 miles per hour could cause explosive fire growth on Monday.