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Originally Posted by Dottore
You're making my point really. When was the last time anyone was shot in a road rage incident in the UK or Canada?
Jeff: As to reactions to flipping someone off—much of this can be cultural. If you try this in some macho culture like Greece (or the near east) for example—people will try run you off the road and do you harm. I had this happen to me once in Crete and once in the former Yugoslavia. The finger is a slur against pride and family, and you flip someone off and they will try to fuk with you.
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This was a redneck white boy like me, only in a pickup truck. I guess there are some cultural influences at work there as well, though. Same as if I were to flip off some black homie over in White Center in West Seattle, or down in the Hilltop neighborhood in Tacoma. I'm sure their reactions would be culturally driven as well.
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Originally Posted by Dottore
I also saw this happen here in Canada once when an unsuspecting young Canadian lad flipped off some obvious recent immigrants from the Levant. These guys pulled a u-turn in traffic with their Explorer and repeatedly rammed the poor kids car at a traffic light at one of the busiest intersection in Vancouver before taking off down a side street. I watched this all from a Starbucks.
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Ah yes, but I could have
shot them from my Starbuck's. God bless America.