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Anubis

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Originally posted by: Arkaign
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
I threw a cup of coffee into a friend's car once. He pulled up next to me and had his window down. I've also thrown a chicken filet on his windshield before while we were at a stop light next to each other. This was done out of friendship though.

I'd rip your arms off if you did that to me...friend. ;)

He's not your friend, guy!

He's not your guy, buddy!!
 

buck

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Originally posted by: sirjonk
you can grab people by their colarbones?

This dude ripped off a bumper and smashed the car with it, so its pretty safe to assume that this motherfarker can do just about anything.

I am so happy I read this thread, reminds me why I try to keep my cool when people do farked up things.
 

KeithTalent

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I usually just give 'em the ole' stink eye and shake my head in their general direction. I'm not really one to get all worked up about people being moronic.

KT
 

ConstipatedVigilante

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Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
not sure if i can top that myself, as I've never been in a confrontation that involved damaging another person's property, let alone doing any bodily harm. I've done plenty of threats, yelling, mock moves to destroy property and what not (almost on a weekly basis).

My friend takes the cake though. Someone cut him off pretty badly while he was driving with the flow. He was quick to get angry, so he chased him just to give him a finger. Well, the two people in the car weren't too happy. Well, after exchanging tons of choice words and threats of hitting each other's cars at 100 mph, my friend lost is, and pulled out his glock.

He cut them off, slammed on the brakes to a complete stop. He got out of the car with the gun drawn. He shot the tires out and pointed the gun at the driver and gave them some choice words. After disabling the car further, he took off, leaving the car he just shot disabled in the middle of a LA freeway.

This is why I can never get myself to buy a gun. I just don't trust myself because I am a completely different person once I get pissed. I hate it.

Wow. That's a perfect candidate for having one's FID taken away. I'm surprised those people didn't take his plates down and file a report on assault.
 

hanoverphist

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Originally posted by: Baked
I just yell at the noob drivers w/ my windows up, sometimes. I'm totally over the rolling down your windows and flipping people off thing. That's so immature.

There was a story around here a couple weeks ago about this dude w/ 2 young children in the backseats having a road rage thing w/ some thugs in another car. Go shot and killed drive-by style on the effing freeway. What a dumbass...

yup, having kids in the car guarantees that i wont react much at all when the idiot brigade comes and visits.

i did have a guy try to cut in front of me at a construction merge one time. he came up behind very slowly, but i was already about a foot off the bumper in front of me. he nudged over until he actually hit my leg with a bumper. i had already warned him, kicked his door and knocked on his window. i was on my way to work and had my tools in a pouch on my waist, so i wrapped the lanyard of my crescent wrench around my hand and swung it into his windshield. the whole time this was going on his girlfriend was yelling at him to stop and tugging on his arm. he tried to get out of his car, but by this time i was next to his door and i warned him to stay inside. he didnt see the 9mm on my side when he started this, and i really didnt want to pull it. he stayed inside and pulled into the const site off the road and i kept going. never heard from police on that one, thought for sure either he or a witness would report it.
 

hanoverphist

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Originally posted by: KeithTalent
I usually just give 'em the ole' stink eye and shake my head in their general direction. I'm not really one to get all worked up about people being moronic.

KT

some chick shot up someone elses car on US60 (wow, lots of stuff happens there for me) a few years back because someone gave her dirty looks. flashed the gun the first time, shot at the the second. lots of gun play stories here in az.
 

skyking

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In my younger days, there were a few times when the anger got the best of me. I've been remarkably calm for the last 15 years or so. I'll even smile and wave when somebody does me wrong and later looks over, expecting the stinkeye. it fvcks with their head:D
Here's one for those of you with kids:
My cousin's little 3 year old girl would play car when my aunt babysat her. She'd be sitting in some improvised car, making steering motions and occaisionally looking over to one side or the other and clearly saying "idiot". It cracked us up bigtime.
 

Saint Nick

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I get really pissed at people cutting me off in traffic here in town. Sometimes I want to just take my car and smash the living daylights out of theirs. I never do of course.

Also, whenever I play a FPS game I get really ultra pissed when I keep getting killed over, and over, and over. At that point I'll be swearing and yelling.
 

KeithTalent

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Originally posted by: hanoverphist
Originally posted by: KeithTalent
I usually just give 'em the ole' stink eye and shake my head in their general direction. I'm not really one to get all worked up about people being moronic.

KT

some chick shot up someone elses car on US60 (wow, lots of stuff happens there for me) a few years back because someone gave her dirty looks. flashed the gun the first time, shot at the the second. lots of gun play stories here in az.

Good lord. I'm so happy I live where I do.

KT
 

lokiju

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When I used to smoke I wasn't looking and flicked my butt out the window right into the guys car next to me while on the highway.

Luckily he was to busy panicking trying to get the burning hot amber off his lap to be bothered with chasing me down :p

I felt bad about that though.

The one time I got really pissed was when I was trying to get over and put my blinker on, on the highway and this douche speeds up to block me like a lot of douche bags do for some reason, so I just gunned it and went in front of him anyway.

Well he lost it and was riding my ass, swerving back and forth like he was going to do something about it.

An opening came up on my left side so the a-hole zips over there and then gets right next to me and swerves at me and is all flicking me off.

I'm driving a full size company van at the time (no markings though) so I'm not bothered by his threats but what does bother me is I notice that his little son is sitting in the passenger seat.

This set me off for some reason, just seeing a parent be so reckless with their kid in the car with them, its one thing if he wants to be like that on his own but I guess I just drew the line at him having his kid with him.

So I basically kept next to him and rolled down my window and yelled at him something stupid like "way to set a good example to your kid there dipshit!" or something like that. He looked madder than ever after that but I didn't give a shit, I got behind him and tailed him for awhile and got back next to block him from being able to get around anyone, I must have had a pissed off look in my eyes or something though cause he stopped after a little while.

 

Rage187

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I had an incident last night.


2 lane highway about 7pm. It was 45 and the guy was going 25 the whole way with no one in front of him. I'm tailgating for 10 minutes until finally he stops right in the middle of the road. I slam on my brakes and see his door open. Out pops a little person(dwarf) and he starts walking back to my car. At this point I feel really bad as I shouldn't have been tailgating. I roll down my window and 2 feet from my car he starts yelling "I'M NOT HAPPY!" and I was like "Well which one are you?"
 

Arkaign

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Originally posted by: spittledip
I'm a Massachusetts (Masshole) driver driving in NC. I have road rage every day.

Does North Carolina piss you off somehow? I used to live there. Wasn't bad, but damn those summers were hot, and I'm from Texas!
 

BlackTigers

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With my windows rolled up with the radio going, I curse and scream at every idiot driver on the road.
 

BudAshes

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Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
not sure if i can top that myself, as I've never been in a confrontation that involved damaging another person's property, let alone doing any bodily harm. I've done plenty of threats, yelling, mock moves to destroy property and what not (almost on a weekly basis).

My friend takes the cake though. Someone cut him off pretty badly while he was driving with the flow. He was quick to get angry, so he chased him just to give him a finger. Well, the two people in the car weren't too happy. Well, after exchanging tons of choice words and threats of hitting each other's cars at 100 mph, my friend lost is, and pulled out his glock.

He cut them off, slammed on the brakes to a complete stop. He got out of the car with the gun drawn. He shot the tires out and pointed the gun at the driver and gave them some choice words. After disabling the car further, he took off, leaving the car he just shot disabled in the middle of a LA freeway.

This is why I can never get myself to buy a gun. I just don't trust myself because I am a completely different person once I get pissed. I hate it.

This sounds remarkably fake.
 

GiggleGirl

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Originally posted by: KeithTalent
I usually just give 'em the ole' stink eye and shake my head in their general direction. I'm not really one to get all worked up about people being moronic.

KT

could you please properly demonstrate this in a photo of yourself as i love to view everyones version of the stink eye or "the hairy eyeball" as my aunt would say... i have a 4 year old nephew who has a FANTASTIC version of this.... :)
 

GiggleGirl

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Originally posted by: spittledip
I'm a Massachusetts (Masshole) driver driving in NC. I have road rage every day.

ahhhh yessss, massholes unite!!! seriously though, dont you find that since youre from mass you feel like no one else on the face of the damn planet knows how to frickin drive?!?! I DO!


and to top it off, im now a florida transplant and HATE what we call "snowbirds"... all you northern bastards coming down here and fucking up our roads! go home!
 

KeithTalent

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Originally posted by: GiggleGirl
Originally posted by: KeithTalent
I usually just give 'em the ole' stink eye and shake my head in their general direction. I'm not really one to get all worked up about people being moronic.

KT

could you please properly demonstrate this in a photo of yourself as i love to view everyones version of the stink eye or "the hairy eyeball" as my aunt would say... i have a 4 year old nephew who has a FANTASTIC version of this.... :)

Well picture this: http://www.insuremeblog.com/af...mages/mr-stink-eye.jpg but on a slightly younger and a tad better looking guy.

KT
 

paulxcook

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Originally posted by: Miklebud/Anubis
Originally posted by: Arkaign
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
I threw a cup of coffee into a friend's car once. He pulled up next to me and had his window down. I've also thrown a chicken filet on his windshield before while we were at a stop light next to each other. This was done out of friendship though.

I'd rip your arms off if you did that to me...friend. ;)

He's not your friend, guy!

He's not your guy, buddy!

He's not your buddy, friend!
 

Arkaign

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Originally posted by: paulxcook
Originally posted by: Miklebud/Anubis
Originally posted by: Arkaign
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
I threw a cup of coffee into a friend's car once. He pulled up next to me and had his window down. I've also thrown a chicken filet on his windshield before while we were at a stop light next to each other. This was done out of friendship though.

I'd rip your arms off if you did that to me...friend. ;)

He's not your friend, guy!

He's not your guy, buddy!

He's not your buddy, friend!

He's not your friend, guy!
 

Rage187

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Originally posted by: Arkaign
Originally posted by: paulxcook
Originally posted by: Miklebud/Anubis
Originally posted by: Arkaign
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
I threw a cup of coffee into a friend's car once. He pulled up next to me and had his window down. I've also thrown a chicken filet on his windshield before while we were at a stop light next to each other. This was done out of friendship though.

I'd rip your arms off if you did that to me...friend. ;)

He's not your friend, guy!

He's not your guy, buddy!

He's not your buddy, friend!

He's not your friend, guy!

He's not your guy, pal!