The PIT nearly shakes a motorist by his throat

[The PIT]

Dumb motorist gets annoyed with me for passing him on the left when he's standing still. He then catches up drives along side in the slow moving queue trying to veer into the side of me. In the end he decides he doesn't want to argue with oncoming traffic and drops behind me to close and nudges me.
Luckily there was no damage. The guy was a coward shitting himself while I explained what the law was and that next time he drove like that I'd knock his head off.

Dickheads.

He didn't bleat as much as the other guy who I did shake by the neck.

[ALBPM]

Oh why hold back. let em have it!!!! Arrrrr

[The PIT]

Too near the cop shop. I think I made my point anyway. I'm also crap at fighting but it doesn't stop me standing up for myself.

[KvHagedorn]

For these occasions you need a wristband that says "(local) sanitarium" and an alka-seltzer tablet. Before you accost the guy, put on the wrist band and pop the tablet into your mouth.. believe me, you won't HAVE to know how to fight.

[The PIT]

I need a rocket launcher. Blow the bastard up and do everyone else a favour.
Dickheads like him is probably one of the reasons why everyone just joins the line of stationary cars while the other lane is empty. They don't want to fight with dick splashes.

[Gurm]

So Julie and I were on a trip from PA to Boston, scouting for houses/apartments, and we (unfortunately) get behind this guy. Now he will NOT get out of the way. There's nobody in front of him, he's in the left lane (USA here), but he will NOT move.

Now we're in the Bimmer, didn't have Logan, and were NOT in the mood to go slow. This guy was doing like 55 in a 65 zone, in the left lane on a two lane road. So I flash him.

He won't move.

I flash him AGAIN.

He won't move.

So I wait. I'm not tailgating - I know better. I just wait.

We get to a spot where there's nobody on the RIGHT, so I pull over and make to pass...

He SWERVES violently into the right lane. I brake and get back over.

He SWERVES violently into the left lane.

He spent the next few minutes trying desperately to stay in front of me.

Now, I'm getting pretty ticked with him. This is the sort of ****ole that caused the first outbreaks of road rage, I'm thinking. So I fall back...

I let a few cars get between us. Other people get pissed off with him. Finally enough cars back up that there's a slow line of people passing him on the right, and he can't swerve over, so I get in line... and pass him.

As I'm passing him, he realizes that it's me... and literally turns red in the face and starts screaming. So I get past him, and like everyone else, pull into the left lane and accelerate.

Only with ME, he takes it personally and starts chasing me.

In his Honda.

Chasing my BMW.

...

I'm pausing for dramatic effect here.

Anyway, he did a surprisingly good job. He nearly killed himself a half dozen times over the next 15 minutes following me.

I admit I was ****ing with him. I mean, c'mon. Who wouldn't?

He stayed behind me, weaving in and out of cars, leaning on his horn, screaming obscenities, and giving me unpleasant hand gestures. Julie is trying REALLY hard not to laugh, and finally says we should lose him before he gets out a weapon.

Around that time, my Valentine One indicates sporadic KA-band busts. Hmm... looks like a speed trap to me. Ok, I decide this'll be fun... and speed up. He stays hot on my tail, beeping and swearing.

Mind you, I still have NO idea why this guy is angry. I mean, high-beaming someone to ask them to move is pretty commonplace. Road courtesy and all.

Julie asks me why I'm speeding up with a cop ahead, and I smile and around that time, pull over suddenly into the right lane between two cars.

The guy zooms past, and I get out behind him. Now he thinks he's got me at last.

He starts slowing down and speeding up, and weaving. I set the cruise control at 55 (the speed limit by now) and wait.

Sure enough, we come around the next corner and there's a cruiser. Now, this cop has been pinging people all day, not getting anyone. It's hot, he's cranky... and around the corner comes two cars - one with a nice couple going EXACTLY the speed limit, and the other with a beeping, swearing, swerving, speeding-up-and-slowing-down freak holding a cup of coffee in one hand and a cigarette in the other.

Guess which one of us he pulled over?

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Prologue: I think... THINK, mind you because I'm not certain... that I saw him again the next weekend. But not only did we have the Volvo and Logan that time, I might have been WANTING to see him, around that same area, so bad that I was looking for any shitty little green honda.

Gpar_

[KvHagedorn]

Some mad tinkerer needs to develop a life-sized battlebot extension to flip cars over when their drivers insist upon hogging the road like this.

[The PIT]

You know Gurm it's lovely when that happens.


Driving in town Cop car criusing at the speed limit. which means I'm out to nick someone. Dickheads pulls out overtakes him on come blue lights red faced dickhead pulls over and spends no doubt several very long minutes trying to explain why he's thick and why he deserves the points on his license. I like it becuase I can speed off again.

Another dickhead in a small ford truck. I can see him a long way off driving very erratically. Looking at him you would think he's doing 120 mph as he weaving across the road to get round corners etc.
Doing 60mph I catch him up in minutes so he's doing between 30 40 mph. Suddenly he vears onto the otherside the road oblivous to a oncoming car. No sign of moving the other driver is dying of fright. I sound my horn the truck driver looks in his mirror swings hard over to the left slams on his brakes and starts swearing at me for preventing a deadly accident.

[Greebe]

Twas comming home late one night from work when some punk kid almost hit the rear end of our car pulling out onto the main drag through town. Then insisted he was going to act like a jackass and run me off the road... I pulled upto the front door of several businesses hoping someone would call the police. As soon as I do this he'd take off. Few minutes of not seeing him and I'd leave only for it to start again. Finally I pulled into a gas station, entered and called the police (attendent wouldn't) While on the phone an officer pulled in. Immediately flagged him over and told my story. The kid (punk redneck wanna be) insisted I was the problem... ie that perverbial He said she said caca. So the officer decided not to listen and instead ran our plates/DL... I was in the clear, perfect record. The kid on the otherhand was arrested for driving on a suspended license on a previous drunkin road rage incident. Doh!

[Byock]

HAHAHA! That is great!

[KvHagedorn]

TP, you seem to have a disproportionately large number of these motorway madmen in your life... what's your secret?

[The PIT]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
TP, you seem to have a disproportionately large number of these motorway madmen in your life... what's your secret?

Perhaps I drive properly and don't tag on the end of stainonary traffic when theres a perfectly usable lane.
The truth is driving is getting worse over here. People are impatiant ignornant of correct road usage. I've only been driving the last couple of weeks due to a back problem that doesn't like me walking too far. Hopefully now thats going to be okay from next week.
When I'm walking I see these dickheads two or three times a week and it's quite amusing to watch. As it always is, when you're not involved. Nearly always at the same bit of road.
A work collegue got verbally abused and chased becuase he tried warn someone that his lights were off. Today another collegue saw someone get pulled out of car in a road rage incident.
Two be honest one road rage dickhead a month isn't bad.

[agallag]

Gurm, sounds a lot like what happened to me a few months ago, except I didn't get the satisfaction of watching my "friend" get pulled over. No fair!

[The PIT]

The old advice was pull over and let the dickhead disappear. This did use to work but not anymore.
The police advice is pull over where theres los of people who can watch you can get beaten to pulp.
My advise is stay in front at least if they hit you in the rear there insurance pays if they got any. Hopefully you maybe able to fool the dickhead as they're normally not very smart by suddenly turning off after a slight faint just before. If you know a nearby police station make for it. Otherwise have a large instrument nearby for defense purposes only.

[Gurm]

I prefer the "my car can LOSE your car" concept... since someone with a really nice car isn't gonna get crazy with road rage. It's always the idiots in the Honda Civic or the Ford Escort.

Gpar_