The Road Rage Pipe Guy is Back

What this episode is about

Nathaniel Ratac, notorious for his road rage incident in California where he wielded a pipe against other drivers, has faced an unexpected turn of events, now found injured and in a wheelchair in a Hawaiian jail. This update highlights the consequences of his aggressive behavior that terrorized many, offering a cautionary tale about road rage.

Key takeaways

• Nathaniel Ratac: proof that karma doesn't skip town; angry drivers get their comeuppance in unexpected ways.
• From road rage to wheelchair: when your reign of terror leads to a humbling reality check.
• In California, he terrorized women and children; in Hawaii, he found a new audience for his antics.
• Five years for violent outbursts, but one year served? Must be nice to have a fast-track parole plan.
• Nathaniel's saga is a cautionary tale: avoid roids and rage; they might just roll you into a jail cell.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Nathaniel Ratac (Host)

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: Nathaniel Ratac, California, Hawaii
2. 5:00 – 10:00: Hawaii, California, Tesla, Inc., New York City, New York
3. 10:00 – 15:00: New York City, New York, CVS, Dwayne Reed, Japan
4. 15:00 – 20:00: New York City, New York, Hawaii, CVS
5. 20:00 – 21:57: Hawaii, Dwayne Reed

Notable quotes from "The Road Rage Pipe Guy is Back"

• Prison in California? Well, let me set it up. This is an interesting one. So, two years ago, a clip went viral where this guy's driving down the highway in California, and he…

  about California · at 1:02

• Me. That's the guy that punched my grandma. And it really became a news story, a thing. And once it did, there was a Tik Tocker that has 5 million subscribers or something…

  about TikTok · at 2:36

• Anyway and so the five million Tik Tok following along with it just becoming a very viral story. They figured out who it was. Nathaniel Ratamak. He was pulled over and arrested…

  about Nathaniel Ratac · at 5:09

• Himself and his Tesla. That can't be cheap to move a vehicle to Hawaii. But he moves himself and his Tesla to Hawaii and pretty much picks up right where he left off. The new…

  about Hawaii · at 6:21

• I'll see a news story here in New York City where it's like man punches woman on the subway platform breaking her jaw and then it's like the man that punched her has 70 arrests for doing the same.

  about New York City, New York · at 9:24

• Here couple weeks ago and we were taking the subway and we were talking about how in Japan the whole culture is like what's best for the society. what you what's important to you comes way second to what is important to society. So.

  about Japan · at 11:13

• Idiots. It's it's a hard question to answer. like the shoplifting one. There's a restaurant on my street that I go to all the time and the manager I become friends with and we were talking and about the shoplifting thing and I was.

  about Dwayne Reed · at 15:22

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Nathaniel Ratac — Person · Primary referenced subject (alleged road-rage offender) · 2 mentions · first at 0:05
  He is the central figure in the narrated story: a viral California road-rage incident involving a pipe, subsequent arrest/conviction, early release, relocation to Hawaii, and a later jail assault.

Companies & orgs

• Tesla, Inc. — Company · Business focus · 1 mention · first at 6:25
  Mentioned in the context of Nathaniel Ratac's vehicle, indicating his financial status and lifestyle.
  Himself and his Tesla. That can't be cheap to move a vehicle to Hawaii. But he moves himself and his Tesla to Hawaii and pretty much picks up right where he left off. The new…
• CVS — Company · Business focus · 2 mentions · first at 10:11
  Mentioned as a frequent target of shoplifting in New York City.
  Possible? Shoplifting is like a unbelievably bad problem here in New York City since COVID. Everything in like the Dwayne Reed or CVS, the chainies, every single thing has to…
• Dwayne Reed — Company · Business focus · 2 mentions · first at 10:11
  Mentioned as a store affected by shoplifting in New York City.
• TikTok — Company · Referenced company · 1 mention · first at 5:09
  Mentioned as a platform where a viral story about Nathaniel Ratac was shared.

Places & events

• California — Place · Setting · 3 mentions · first at 0:15
  Primary location where Nathaniel Ratac's initial crimes occurred.
• Hawaii — Place · Setting · 6 mentions · first at 0:28
  Location where Nathaniel Ratac was beaten in jail after moving there from California.
• New York City, New York — Place · Setting · 5 mentions · first at 9:24
  Mentioned in discussions about crime and societal issues in urban areas.
• Japan — Place · Referenced location · 1 mention · first at 11:03
  Discussed in contrast to American societal norms and crime management.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:05 You ever wonder what happened to old Nathaniel Ratac from two years ago? The angry little roided out road rager with a pipe that was terrorizing mostly women and children on the highways of California. Well, there's a hell of an update to this one. Old Radamac just caught a thorough ass beating in a jail in Hawaii. Look at this guy. Here we have Nathaniel Ratac beaten to a pulp sitting in a wheelchair covered in his own blood. Looks like his eye maybe got knocked crossed. Could just be the camera angle, but this is what happens if you terrorize people for years with a pipe.

0:54 This is where you end up. And if you're thinking, what? How did he end up in a jail in Hawaii? Wasn't he supposed to be doing five years in prison in California? Well, let me set it up. This is an interesting one. So, two years ago, a clip went viral where this guy's driving down the highway in California, and he sees this gray Tesla driving like a psycho, obviously enraged at another car, driving around, zipping, and as the car that he's enraged at tries to take the exit, he pulls off in a little shoulder median thing, gets out of his car with the pipe, runs more scampers, I would say scampers. s around his car with the pipe and tries to hit the car that he was enraged at. The guy that was like, "Oh my god, this is crazy." That was filming, then drives by. Nathaniel, in the middle of his rage, sees the guy that was filming as he drives by becomes more enraged, gets back in his car, and is now in a pursuit

2:00 with the guy that was filming him. He eventually gets in front of the guy filming, stops. The guy filming stops and is still filming. Nathaniel gets out of his car and is like, "What? You want some of this?" He's wearing a mask. I got a pipe. Hits the guy's car with a pipe a couple times and then gets back in his car and drives away. As you can imagine, that clip goes viral because it's totally insane. And as it goes viral, many other people started coming out saying, "Hey, that's the guy that threw a Gatorade at my head. That's the guy that screamed at me. That's the guy that punched my grandma." And it really became a news story, a thing. And once it did, there was a Tik Tocker that has 5 million subscribers or something crazy. And so he put it out to his subscribers and said, "We need to find this guy. Who is it?" And while that's all happening, another story came out. Probably my favorite part of the whole story, which

3:00 there was like an older woman with her either younger daughter or granddaughter. And they're in a parking lot, either a restaurant parking lot or as a parking lot by a restaurant. And somehow they enraged Nathaniel. He gets very angry and he either I think this is the one there's too many to remember but he either threw a Gatorade at the old lady's head or just was screaming at him or punched their car or he did something and a valet worker at the restaurant nearby heard the commotion comes out and was like, "Hey, what the hell? You're screaming at an old lady. You punched her daughter. What are you doing?"

3:37 And then Nathaniel squares up with the valet worker. But the best part is the valet worker could fight. So they square up. They start going at it. The valet worker throws a beautiful straight right hand right down the pipe. Stuns Nathaniel. And you can see him after like looking in his rearview mirror like I think it probably cut him. And I was thinking that's a good that would have be a good story for or a good character the the valet worker like say the movie starts where he was trying to be a professional boxer or he's trying to be a professional MMA fighter and he got all the way he was a good amateur.

4:19 Everybody thought he had promise and then once he got into the pros though he was struggling and he and he started losing and the fire and the determination to train went out and he thought his life was over and he was depressed and things were not going well for him. And so he gets a job at a restaurant as a valet worker and he doesn't know what to do. And on the first day on the job he hears commotion. What is that? and he turns the corn and he sees little angry Nathaniel Radome and he gives him a little taste of his own medicine and then from there he becomes valet man superhero parks cars during the day but when he's needed he's there this summer something like that but anyway and so the five million Tik Tok following along with it just becoming a very viral story. They figured out who it was. Nathaniel Ratamak. He was pulled over and arrested with I think it was $30,000 cash if I remember right and

5:26 some steroids. So, he's either taking steroids, which would explain the anger. It's like, "Dude, you're in your late 30s. Why are you so angry? Life seems to be going all right. You got a Tesla. That's not cheap. What is the matter with you? What's wrong with you? Why are you so angry at women? You got to ask yourself that, pal. You're you're it's really uh sad to look at you and to think about your situation. And so anyway, he gets so he either does the steroids or he sells them. But anyway, he gets arrested. He gets charged and convicted and sentenced to five years in prison for the whole thing. He does less than one year. And then apparently he got out, moved himself and his Tesla. That can't be cheap to move a vehicle to Hawaii. But he moves himself and his Tesla to Hawaii and pretty much picks up right where he left off. The new clip is again an older woman and I think her younger daughter or granddaughter kind of his

6:40 mo in a car in Hawaii. He did something to enrage Nathaniel. Nathaniel gets out of his car, comes in, punches one of them through the window, either like the father or the brother did an interview and was like, "Why was this person led out of of prison in California? If he has repeated violent incidents with women and children over and over and over again, why was he let out just after a year if he was sentenced to five years? because now my mom or whoever whatever relation it was to him, my mom got punched in the face or my you know and then so he goes to the jail in Ma in uh Hawaii and that's where the story that's where we're at now where now he took a thorough ass beating and it's hard not to look at him sitting there all lumped up covered in his own blood looking sad in the bleak, dystopian, concrete hell aesthetic of a jail and not just think, "What did you expect?" Nathaniel, this is where an angry man with a pipe

7:56 that terrorizes women and children ends up. This is it. This is the picture. You are where exactly where you're supposed to be. This was predictable. And it begs the question, how do the judges and the DAs struggle so much on who should be jammed up and kept in prison for a while and who should not be jammed up. It seems like it wouldn't be that hard if someone makes a mistake, especially a young person, and it's not malicious and there's no violence and no victims and it seems like something that just, you know what, a little bit of growing up and a little perspective, this probably won't happen again. Then you don't jam them up. Maybe you get them the help they need with addiction. Maybe you give them some community service for some perspective something. But if someone is violent over and over and over again and they obviously have anger problems and they target women and children over and over

9:12 again, that seems like a no-brainer. Like, all right, yeah, we got to I guess this in this instance it would be the parole board, but just doesn't seem that hard to me. I'll see a news story here in New York City where it's like man punches woman on the subway platform breaking her jaw and then it's like the man that punched her has 70 arrests for doing the same thing. It's like that that would be one that we should jam up. I think he's you know why is he out there? The poor lady's probably going to have jaw pain or headaches or something for the rest of her life. And she didn't deserve that. It was an very predictable that this guy was going to do it again.

10:04 How is it possible? Shoplifting is like a unbelievably bad problem here in New York City since COVID. Everything in like the Dwayne Reed or CVS, the chainies, every single thing has to be locked up. And you'll see the news story where like someone gets caught shoplifting and they're like, "This is the hundth time they've been arrested for shoplifting." It's like, "Okay, if it's a single mother who's hungry, who's stealing a loaf of bread or a a pair of warm gloves in the winter, then okay, let's not jam her up. Let's just give her the warm gloves." But if it's obviously a professional shoplifter and all they do is go from CVS to CVS to Walgreens and steal laundry detergent over and over again and they've been caught 80 times now. We need a little bit of a sentence. We need something, right? Why is it Why is it so hard? My sister, she has lived or she lived in Japan for the last couple years

11:08 because her husband was stationed there with the Navy and they came here couple weeks ago and we were taking the subway and we were talking about how in Japan the whole culture is like what's best for the society. what you what's important to you comes way second to what is important to society. So everybody has good manners and there's no one going nuts on the train and everybody waits in line patiently. And here in America the culture is pursue your own personal happiness like a sociopath and don't worry about anything else. So, it's almost like opposite cultures and people, the interesting part to me is people are for the most part kind of miserable in both, right? Like in Japan, there's a very high suicide rate. Fertility rate has tanked through the floor to the point where they don't know what the hell they're going to do. And here in America, it's kind of the same thing.

12:19 It's like the whole Whatever anxiety or bad feeling that you have can be solved if you just buy this now. Buy this and all of your problems will go away. In theory, you would think, all right, like the freedom in America to pursue your own personal happiness above all else. That would be great. Well, it ends up it's it's all right, but it's kind of a hell because humans need to be feel like they're a part of something bigger than their own sociopathic pursuit of happiness, it turns out. And so it leads a lot of people to feel feel totally miserable and alone here in America. And so it's like all right so then you would think in Japan with everybody is a part of something bigger than your pursuit of own personal happiness. It's this what's best for the society. It's not your own but everybody's and so they are a part of something bigger than their their own pursuit of their happiness but they're also miserable

13:27 there too. So, it's like, all right, now what? You know what I was also thinking? And I don't know, my sister didn't quite know the answer, but so here in New York City, you know, it's there's a lot of just people that are crazy and it's like, what do you do with those people? So, they're on the train platform and they're screaming and they're pushing people and they're extremely dirty and that you could tell they're in need of medical attention and they have poop in their pants and they're yelling the n-word and punching people and they go to jail for a little bit, but then it like I moved here more than 10 years ago and it's the same people, right? You see the same dude on the same platform.

14:15 screaming the same thing that I did 10 years ago. And in Japan, my sister was saying they don't there there isn't that on the the train platform. It's clean. There's no pee. There's no trash. Everybody has good manners. And so I was thinking, where is that person in Japan? What they do with them? And I think part of part of it is it's just like a different culture, but they still it's a huge city. There has to be some people that have mental problems. So, where do they put those people in Japan? Do they put them in a mental institution? Do they lock them away? Because it doesn't feel like they quite know what to do with those people here in New York.

15:00 They we let a few people ruin it for a lot for everybody else. But it's like, do you put them away forever? Does it warrant that? Is it worth the money that it takes to take care of them? And it's like I don't know the answer. I'm not saying that like I have it all figured out and the people that run New York City are idiots. It's it's a hard question to answer. like the shoplifting one. There's a restaurant on my street that I go to all the time and the manager I become friends with and we were talking and about the shoplifting thing and I was saying like why not just once it gets to a certain point you just you keep them you like they have to serve significant time. There has to be a deterrent or something. and he kind of made a good point when it's like shoplifting is a tough one because it's so expensive to look look after someone in jail or prison that all right they steal some laundry

16:04 detergent a bunch of times it's like all right we're that's it for you we're putting you in jail we're putting you in prison well then it's a staggering bill that the taxpayers have to foot year after year to feed and water them in prison. And then it's like, all right, well, they were just stealing laundry detergent from CVS. Maybe maybe we just let them out. You know, it's a tricky it's a very tricky question to ask. But it doesn't with Nathaniel Ratamak that those seem like a no-brainer. Violent, malicious, bizarly angry happens over and over and over again. And it wasn't just one time. He was having the worst day ever. He had a terrible drive home. Nothing since then, nothing before then. He has many charges. Elder abuse before this all happened.

17:04 I just don't understand how the DAs and the judges and I guess now the parole boards get so tripped up with like the violent reoccurring malicious type cases. It seems like a no-brainer that it's like, oh, he got five years. Let's at least do 50% at the minimum where we're going to let this guy out. It's just been a couple months. you think anything changed? He's just going to pull out the pipe, get in the Tesla, and start all over again, which is exactly what he did. And so now he's in Hawaii. He's all lumped up. I would guess he would still be on parole. And then I think he's probably now looking at some serious time. An interesting story about the shoplifterss. So I finally saw a news story that explained why how the whole situation works. So what they do is they know what gets the money. And so they go in to the the chainies, which there's one in every neighborhood.

18:12 There's so many of those on the East Coast, it's unimaginable. So they go from one CVS to the other to the other. And then there was a fence that they could sell the goods. Get this. In the diamond district in New York City. So they go to 42nd Street. There's a pawn shop above one of the jewelry shops. So you go into the sketchy second floor in the diamond district and there he would buy the stolen merchandise from thearmacies. It's like how much did this how much stolen merchandise did this guy have? You wouldn't believe it. He started selling it on eBay first. did so good selling it on eBay that he rented out a warehouse in Queens that was filled, the shelves were stocked totally full of stolen merchandise from CVS. So much so that he was planning to open what looked like a mom and pop pharmacy. So, he's going to have the plants and the homey lighting. And hey, it's just a mom and pop pharmacy run by

19:18 a cute older couple. And he was going to stock the shelves totally with the merchandise from his warehouse that he would that he bought from his pawn shop in the Diamond District. So, it's one thing to stock the shelves of a fake mom and pop pharmacy one time, but think how much merchandise you would have to be buying in from the shoplifterss in order to keep the the shelves stocked over and over again and not have it start out. All right, look at this. It looks great. The the shelves are stocked, but then after a week or two, the the shelves look barren. It looks sad. It looks like they're not receiving any deliveries.

20:03 The fact that he had enough stuff to fill a warehouse and then enough that the eBay business was going so great that I'm gonna open a brick and mortar fake mom and pop shop is wild and really shows you how bad the problem is. With the baby, I'm going to the Dwayne Reed in my neighborhood almost every day, every other day. So, I've gotten to know the people that work there pretty well. Really nice. Everybody that works there is really nice. And I was asking them about it. I was like, I've lived here for 10 years, and when I first moved here this wasn't this wasn't how it was. Nothing was locked up. Now, every single thing is you have to go in, someone has to essentially follow you around. now an employee, you're like, "Yep, I got to get deodorant and laundry detergent and uh baby Tylenol and would you mind just following me around?" Or if not, you have to go and you have to hit the button and it's like assistance needed

21:07 in the laundry detergent aisle. Assistance needed in the laundry detergent aisle. And there's a baby crying and someone is stealing something over here and it's going, "Attendance needed in the laundry detergent aisle." And it just it feels terrible in there. The lighting and the music and everything. And they said if they wasn't locked up in like a day or two, there'd be nothing in there. It's crazy. So anyway, we'll see what Nathaniel Ratameck gets with this new charge in Hawaii. I would guess he's going to be doing some time, but I'm going to cut it off there. I love you all. See you next time. Why? Sting Y.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "The Road Rage Pipe Guy is Back"?

Nathaniel Ratac (Host).

What is "The Road Rage Pipe Guy is Back" about?

Nathaniel Ratac, notorious for his road rage incident in California where he wielded a pipe against other drivers, has faced an unexpected turn of events, now found injured and in a wheelchair in a Hawaiian jail. This update highlights the consequences of his aggressive behavior that terrorized many, offering a cautionary tale about road rage.

What is mentioned in this TRUE CRIME Loser episode?

9 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Nathaniel Ratac, California, Hawaii, Tesla, Inc., New York City, New York, CVS. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "The Road Rage Pipe Guy is Back"?

The episode runs 22 min; the transcript is about 3,393 words in 22 timestamped sections.

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