Road Rage

[aap1966]

Multi lane highway, speed limit 100 km/Hr (approx 60mph). I was in the inside lane , doing about 110 (70 mph), which was as fast as you could get away with (heavily "radared" stretch of highway). Outside lane fairly congested. Guy came up behind me at about 120km/hr and sat right on my tail. I didn't change speed, but pulled into the outside lane as soon as possible (about 60 sec) to let him past, then pulled back into the inside lane.
At this point he leant his entire body from the waist up out of his window, facing backwards!!, to hurl abuse at me into the 70 mph slipstream.

I pulled back thinking "I wonder how many times he's going to roll?", but, to my amazement, he managed to keep it on the road.


But it's OK, the organ recipients don't care what sort of tosser the donor was.

[Rikao4]

Steve/Mas..I would be the first to say drive away,walk away..ignore it /them..
sometimes you can't...

Rika

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Rikao4

Steve/Mas..I would be the first to say drive away,walk away..ignore it /them..
sometimes you can't...

Rika

I didn't take you for a nut. Just havin' some fun.

[Rikao4]

well lets keep everyone thinking most of us are nuts..
getting crowded with the folks who want to bring ''were I come from to Texas'
my advice ..go back, or become Texan.

Rika

[David]

I have many, here's my latest.

I always drive 10 over the speed limit. This requires changing lanes a bit to get around the slow pokes, especially the ones in the left lane.

Last week after finally getting around this lady after a couple miles on her bumper in the left lane, I hear a police siren?!?!

She pulls up next to me and waves her finger at me. She's not in a police car, but she has a siren?!?!?

Today I see her again. The cars in front of her pull away from the light and get up to speed in a reasonable manner. She, on the other hand, puts along and barely gets up to speed.

When I finally get around her, I toot my horn to let her know it's me again

So what does she do? She goes about 20-30 over the speed limit to keep catching up to me because she can't work the traffic. I can't wait to find out who she is and why she has a siren. Hopefully she calls the real cops on me

[arerrac]

Had some jerk blow cut me off trying to take an exit he clearly missed. Drove onto and over the shoulder just missing me, kicking up all sorts of rocks and crap. I flash my high beams letting him know, Hay, there are others here on the road too.

This pushes his button. He break checks me, pull over waiving for me to stop and all that nonsense. I casually give him the finger. Well this does it and he's on my tail and pissed. I promptly drove to the San Carlos Police Dept. Parked my car and had this yahoo chase me into their sergeants desk. He's yelling and threating me and then realizes where he is. In a police station now full of officers.

Short story, they take both stories and let me go. I follow up a week later. Guy was locked up for a 1)failure to appear 2) outstanding warrant and to top it all off, 3) a DUI for while he was raging me.

If you have someone yahoo following you, 1) don't flip them off and 2) drive to the police station if you do.

[Zeke]

I used to be the raging guy. I quit.

There is another thread or 3 about road rage. On one I told of having a gun pulled on me and I told him to shoot. Called his bluff, but nowadays.....

On another, I told of pulling a guy over that drenched me in dip in an intersection while I was riding a M/C. When I got up to the car I think I was looking at a small version of Hulk Hogan.

"Yes sir, quite alright. I'll dry off just fine."

But the best one is about 10 years ago while I was driving home in a lot of traffic on the 405 with a 12" hunting knife clenched in my teeth. One look at me and they all moved to the side. Nice trip home.

As I said, I quit. Meds do good.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by 125shifter

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Last week after finally getting around this lady after a couple miles on her bumper in the left lane, I hear a police siren?!?!

She pulls up next to me and waves her finger at me. She's not in a police car, but she has a siren?!?!?

I had a landscaping truck full of Hispanics towing a trailer full of lawn mowers blip a siren at me one day while they were waiting to pull out.

[Bill Douglas]

Ummm. Thankfully I haven't seen this guy again.

I was driving through a town area when out of the corner of my eye I saw a car in the next lane swerve towards me. I managed to swerve out of the way then drove up next to him and mouthed f* you to him. He was a really big Coconut and went nuts in the car shouting and waving his arms around, and trying to sideswipe me. I took off, then he caught me up in some traffic and pointed to pull over and we would sort it out. As soon as he walked up to the drivers window to talk or punch me I blasted him in the face at close range with the fire extiguisher. He was staggering around on the road with cars driving around him while screaming with his hands over his face. I whacked him over the head with the blunt end of the extiguisher and drove off why he was rolling around on the road.

[David]

Rather than flip people off these days, I give them the peace sign. That just really confuses them

[bell]

THAT'S assault brother............

[Paul K]

Two stories, one ended well the other didn't.

Back when I was broke, I was driving on I-84 in my '86 Subaru wagon, passing a semi which was doing about 65, so I was probably doing 70. Which is about all an '86 Subaru wagon with 300k on the clock can do. Anyhow, I look in my rearview mirror, and all I can see is grill. I mean this guy was probably within 4' of me. So I stomped on the brakes. Big red dodge pickup swerves all over, then come back on my a$$ again. by this time I am past the semi so I move right to let him pass. Guy (a red head, should have known) pulls up alongside me and starts pointing at himself, then me, like he wants me to kick his ass. I respond with 'You were following too close'. Then he tries to sideswipe me, and continues with the pointing, arm waving, etc. By this time I'm ignoring him, no eye contact whatsoever. Guy realizes that I'm not going to bite and stomps on it.

I passed him a couple of miles later- pulled over by the cops. I tooted and waved as I passed him...

Same '86 Subaru, icy secondary road in a blizzard in February. I come up behind a silver Dodge pickup who is going really slow. I'm in 4wd with studs on, he has bald tires and is all over the road. Fair enough, I back off and wait until we have a long straight, then I start to pass the guy. I get alongside and he starts moving into my lane. Bigtime. I lbeep the horn, figuring he hasn't seen me, and he flips me off. So I stop in front of him, get out and go see what his problem is.

Guy was freakin crazy, started yelling about how he'd leave me dead in the roadway, despite his Dad trying to calm him down. Got right in my face and I figured I'd better leave before I never got to tell the story. Guess I lost that one.

I guess the moral is that you never know how crazy the other driver is until it's too late.

FWIW, I now pack pepper spray and a handgun.

Hope I never need either.

Paul.

[Brian 162]

Originally Posted by 125shifter

Rather than flip people off these days, I give them the peace sign. That just really confuses them

My work vehicle is a large 5 ton truck with my companies logo with truck# etc.
So I'm pretty much under the microscope anyway.

If someone gives me the finger or yells at me I just blow them a kiss.

They don't know what to do after that.

[Bill Douglas]

I saw it as self defence

[Oh Haha]

I guess I'll add one story of many ove the years. (I was pretty foolish when I was younger.)


I had just finished washing my Camaro(bite me ) when this dude in a 454 SS Chevy pickup backs up to my car and peels out, kicking stones and gravel up. Mind you, I had done absolutely nothing to this clown.

I waited until he pulls out and then flip him off. I was at the light waiting to turn left when he comes back, parks his truck in the road, comes to my ds window and asks me why I flipped him off. I explained my position and then I saw stars. I never even had a chance to get out.

Fast forward a couple of weeks after sharing my story with the other car guys I hang with. Seems the guy is the son of a local cop and thinks he can do whatever he wants. I grow more angry as the weels pass and think of all of the dastardly deeds I could do to his truck/house, etc.

I never did anything, thank goodness but I was sure thinking about it.

One day a friend and I are at a gas station and he pulls in. We lock stares and move toward each other. I casually put my hand in my pocket and his arms went up like I was going to rob him. WTF?!!!!

He says" Hey man, we need to stop this before someone gets hurt". I agreed and asked him why he had thrown the gravel on my car. He told me that a friend of his told him that I siad I could beat his Chevy truck. WOW, I didn't know this cat before the car wash incident.

We ended up shaking hands and going on our way. I was still kind of stunned as to why he was nice all of a sudden. I thought maybe a gorrilla was behind me.

I later found out that he told folks that I had a gun. Pfft. Never even shot or owned one. I would have to believe that being a PO's son ol' Dad had taught him a few tricks of spotting a potential gun carrier.


As the years went by, he was in the paper more and more for breaking the law. I think he finally went to jail for DUI or something like that.

[rattlsnak]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

I think all that has been pretty much covered... maybe you haven't read the whole thread.

Most here are in favor of moving over if you can.

Most here think it's asking for trouble to charge down a ramp and expect people in the right lane to move over.

They may not be able to.

Or they may not be able to do so without cutting someone off.

I won't cut somebody off to my left just to make a space for a hard charger coming down the ramp who thinks it's all about him.

Or her... happens with the ladies, too.

Ever heard of simply slowing down a little and letting the guy merge in front of you?

[Oh Haha]

I still get irritated by other drivers but I TRY to just let it go. I drive alot for my job and see alot of idiots. If I reacted to all of them I would never get anything done.


I stress that I do try to let it go but somedays I let them know my displeasure with their actions.

In regards to the freeway and entrance ramps: I will always try to move to the lane away from the ramp so that the person getting on can merge knowing that I am not going to challange them. I usually run in the furthest right lane on a 3-4 lane freeway as the clowns like to run fast in the passing lane. I tend to fly under the radar. Cops generally don't pay much attention to the car in the "slow" lane.
I did the flash to pass in the BMW the other night to a guy who was running 10 mile UNDER the limit on a 2 lane road. Cars were piling up behind us so I looked for a clear shot and gave it heck. Problem is the BMW is an automatic. I hammered the brake pedal thinking it was the clutch as I had been in the 911 the day before for several hours and earlier the same day. DOH!!!!!!!! My wife thought I lost my mind. Fortunately for me, the guy that was behind us just a moment before had turned into a driveway.

As I looked back the guy had no clue as cars were trying to pass him and he was just toodling along, left arm on the wheel,gangster lean going on.(BTW_He appeared to be a middle aged guy, not some old fart that didn't have a clue he was holding up other people.)

[rammstein]

One day this jerk in an F150 cut me off and then flipped me off. At the next light I stabbed him and pooped on his hood. He didn't look so cool then! LOLZ!

[billwagnon]

This is like the best Texan haiku ever.

oh, yes I was serious..this is Texas..
wifes and dogs

in my neck of the hood..
jury..he needed killin

love this place

[speedracing944]

not much of a road rage episode but anyways when I was 10 years younger I was on my motorcycle and stopped at my local small town gas station. I bought a quart of oil to put into my crankcase since I just did the oil change and it was a quart low. There was a nice red Mustang GT parked next to me. I added the oil to the crankcase but forgot to reinstall the cover. I started my bike and blipped the throttle and was about to swing my leg over when someone said I left my cover off. I shut the bike down and reinstalled the cover. I then jumped on my bike and was ridding home. About 4 blocks away a red Mustang GT come screaming up behind me with 4 kids hanging out the window saying they are going to kick my @$$. I had no clue why and didn't want to find out so I tap danced on the shift lever a couple clicks and twisted my right wrist. They started to fade quickly in my mirrors at that point. After making a couple turns I thought I lost them so I went back through town and spotted 2 of my friends walking past the same gas station I was just at. I was right in the middle of telling them my story when guess who pulls up? Yup! the red Mustang GT loaded with redneck kids. They jump out and start saying they are going to kick my but because of what I did to their car. I guess after I added the quart of oil and started my bike the gears spun a fine mist of oil into the air and right onto his car and in the interior. :O I had no idea that happened so I apologized and gave him $5 for a car wash. He was happy after that.

What I learned?

A Mustang GT is no match for a bike

Speedy