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shekondar

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Originally posted by: TommyVercetti
Originally posted by: shekondar
Make a note of their license plate #, make, & model, then call cops & either report that you just saw them steal the car, or report that they're drinking and/or smoking pot while driving...

Does that have any consequences? What's the worst that is going to happen to them though, if nothing is found on them.
Nothing, but it really pisses them off. Plus, if they're total a-holes (it sounds like they are) they'll probably do something stupid, like try to outrun the cops.

Just make sure you don't call the cops from your cell phone - use a pay phone - you don't want to get busted for making a false report.
 

amnesiac

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I was at the In-N-Out near UCLA when these guys started being jackholes for no reason -- yelling and honking at me, etc.

So out stepped two of my friends - 1 350lb, 6'4" rugby player wearing a trenchcoat, and 1 300lb 6'4" big black brazilian who could probably palm someone's head like a basketball and lift them up like that.

Needless to say, the drunken fratboy queers in the offending vehicle made a hasty retreat.
 

M0oG0oGaiPan

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I would follow them to their house. Write down the address. Apply for license to own a gun. Wait the 2 weeks to pick up my gun. Take my gun and drive to adress I convienantly have written down. *CAP* *CAP* Vrrrooooom! :p

[Edit] Added in the smiley face so everyone knows I'm just kidding
 

iamme

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Originally posted by: amnesiac
I was at the In-N-Out near UCLA when these guys started being jackholes for no reason -- yelling and honking at me, etc.

So out stepped two of my friends - 1 350lb, 6'4" rugby player wearing a trenchcoat, and 1 300lb 6'4" big black brazilian who could probably palm someone's head like a basketball and lift them up like that.

Needless to say, the drunken fratboy queers in the offending vehicle made a hasty retreat.

sweet jeebus, walking around with those guys has to be a little empowering :D
 

RagingBITCH

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Sep 27, 2003
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Originally posted by: amnesiac
I was at the In-N-Out near UCLA when these guys started being jackholes for no reason -- yelling and honking at me, etc.

So out stepped two of my friends - 1 350lb, 6'4" rugby player wearing a trenchcoat, and 1 300lb 6'4" big black brazilian who could probably palm someone's head like a basketball and lift them up like that.

Needless to say, the drunken fratboy queers in the offending vehicle made a hasty retreat.

My friends are like that too. :)
 

alkemyst

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Feb 13, 2001
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Originally posted by: ivol07
Originally posted by: alkemyst
hehe YARRT (Yet another Road Rage Thread) heheh

I have sent at least 10 cars off roading. I have never started anything.

I constantly get behind someone slow and never get more than a car length away at the minimum...usually still two....if they don't move for my third light 'dip' (flash of headlights), I simply pass.

Now during this pass is when they figure they will 'get me' either accelerating, swerving at my car, or letting me pass then riding my rear and *trying* to cut me off.

The worst was a Escort GT with 4 guys in it coming home from down the turnpike one night around 2-3am (after driving 12 hours from Louisiana)....

I am in the left lane cruising about 75-80 and they come up behind me cruising....I get over in the right lane they pass and slow way down...everyone is looking at me as I now pass them.....they disappear behind me.

Then they return this time I am already in the right lane and they ride up on me, pass next to my door and get in front of me and brake.

For the next 15 mins it was cat and mouse....needless to say they eventually ended it by drifting away.

Why wouldn't you just pass them in the first place? If there is room for you to pass why do you try to make them move first? Just wondering...

Well I hate passing on the right is the first reason.....

In Europe you never ever pass on the right.

 

alkemyst

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Originally posted by: amnesiac
I was at the In-N-Out near UCLA when these guys started being jackholes for no reason -- yelling and honking at me, etc.

So out stepped two of my friends - 1 350lb, 6'4" rugby player wearing a trenchcoat, and 1 300lb 6'4" big black brazilian who could probably palm someone's head like a basketball and lift them up like that.

Needless to say, the drunken fratboy queers in the offending vehicle made a hasty retreat.

Yes to big hitting muthaz!
 

alkemyst

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Originally posted by: M0oG0oGaiPan
I would follow them to their house. Write down the address. Apply for license to own a gun. Wait the 2 weeks to pick up my gun. Take my gun and drive to adress I convienantly have written down. *CAP* *CAP* Vrrrooooom! :p

[Edit] Added in the smiley face so everyone knows I'm just kidding

I know you are joking, but I know a guy that took 10 from an AK47 point blank like that and still was able to return the favor to the 'wimp' that did that (it was over something stupid). Of course as the laws go, he is serving life. He was a little messed up after that incident, he could not talk or walk right...two hit him in the head...this goes to show it's hard to kill someone sometimes.

If you are going to CAP someone, empty the clip and reload and recap the situation. I say this in case I survive a 'hit'....I am el capitan del pinga el loco....or something like that I was told ;)
 

mugs

Lifer
Apr 29, 2003
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Originally posted by: alkemyst

Well I hate passing on the right is the first reason.....

In Europe you never ever pass on the right.

Not even in England? ;)
 

Fritzo

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I would have pressed the "Tire Spike" button on my dash, then the "Oil Slick" button as I sped away.

Of course, I had to pay extra for those options, so that's just me.
 

EricMartello

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Apr 17, 2003
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Ok, lots of interesting replies here. Now I will finish the story up with my reaction, so here goes...

[con't from FIRST post]

By this time, I was already upset, and seeing these two jackasses laugh at me just set me off. I now had to do SOMETHING, as I could just let someone nearly crash into me on purpose and let it go with a wink and a smile. As the driver was laughing at me, I grabbed some loose change I had laying around in my car. I told my girlfriend, who was in the passenger seat, to duck down. She did, and I flung a dime at him. The wind blew the dime off course, but I then pulled up so both cars were side-by-side; we were still at a red light. I took a quarter and hurled it as hard as I could. ** SMACK ** Hit him right on the side of the head as he was laughing. He immediately got all disoriented, like he didn't know what hit him. By now the light was green and we were driving away, I saw him throw the quarter out the window, which I thought was funny, because he could have kept it so he could call someone who cares later on. :p

Now this guy was out to prove that he was a tough guy, and after getting humiliated like that in front of his buddy, he had to try and top it. By now, I am laughing as I KNOW he cannot top getting quartered. He manages to get ahead of me after I get stuck behind some people turning left. At the next light, I stop right behind him...this time I am laughing. The guy and his buddy both get out of their car and start walking toward me. My girlfriend was a little scared, but I found it to be hilarious. The driver, who I quartered, did his best effort tough-guy routine. My window was rolled down half way, and he made a week attempt to smack or punch me. Of course, he missed. After realizing that he was pissing off about 40 other drivers who he was blocking (this is during rush hour, remember), he decided to retreat.

I drove by him and called him a pussy. I told him that he spent too much on his car (Subaru STI WRX) and that I could be him (Jetta 1.8T) in a race. I knew I couldn't, but I also knew that he would not turn me down. So we both turn and he floors his car. He gets ahead of me, just enough so I can have my girlfriend get his license plate. She writes it down and dials 911. At the next light, I tell him that he didn't beat me because he had "Four extra cylinders." and he was "Spraying." I've heard that so many times after smoking a ricer while driving my OTHER car (a Camaro SS), that it felt good to finally throw it back at them.

Now he was suddenly intent on racing me, so I told him to follow me and we'll race for money. I told my girlfriend to act scared and tell the cops that the guy won't stop following us, and that he flashed a gun. :) After driving SLOWLY down a busy street, the 911 dispatcher tells us that we need to stop so a cop can assist us. We pull up beside a gas station, and of course this other guy does too. Once again he steps out of the car and comes up to us. This time, he is not trying to act tough, he keeps asking me to race. I tell him that my wife is calling a flagger, who will hold the money and make sure the race is fair (tee-hee). After waiting a good 10 minutes (nice to know the cops waste no time responding well to "life-threatening" situations), a cop finally drives by. The guy finally figures out that we were on the phone with cops the whole time, and dashes into his car. He peels out of there, and the cop sees him do so and takes off after him, leaving my girlfriend and me alone. So we just drove off and went back home...I was still laughing about the ordeal, but my girlfriend was really upset. She eventually got over it, and from there, we concluded that this was a pretty interesting series of events, to say the least.

 

Ulfwald

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I would have pulled in front of them, pulled out my badge, and my 9mm, got behind my truck for cover and started yelling for HANDS!

Then have the driver exit the car, walk backwards to me with his hands showing. Cuff him, then tell the passenger the same thing.

Once that was done, I would take the keys from their car and drive off with them. :D
 

ivol07

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For some reason that was anticlimactic to me. I think because I had to wait so long.
 

Aharami

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Originally posted by: EricMartello
Ok, lots of interesting replies here. Now I will finish the story up with my reaction, so here goes...

[con't from FIRST post]

By this time, I was already upset, and seeing these two jackasses laugh at me just set me off. I now had to do SOMETHING, as I could just let someone nearly crash into me on purpose and let it go with a wink and a smile. As the driver was laughing at me, I grabbed some loose change I had laying around in my car. I told my girlfriend, who was in the passenger seat, to duck down. She did, and I flung a dime at him. The wind blew the dime off course, but I then pulled up so both cars were side-by-side; we were still at a red light. I took a quarter and hurled it as hard as I could. ** SMACK ** Hit him right on the side of the head as he was laughing. He immediately got all disoriented, like he didn't know what hit him. By now the light was green and we were driving away, I saw him throw the quarter out the window, which I thought was funny, because he could have kept it so he could call someone who cares later on. :p

Now this guy was out to prove that he was a tough guy, and after getting humiliated like that in front of his buddy, he had to try and top it. By now, I am laughing as I KNOW he cannot top getting quartered. He manages to get ahead of me after I get stuck behind some people turning left. At the next light, I stop right behind him...this time I am laughing. The guy and his buddy both get out of their car and start walking toward me. My girlfriend was a little scared, but I found it to be hilarious. The driver, who I quartered, did his best effort tough-guy routine. My window was rolled down half way, and he made a week attempt to smack or punch me. Of course, he missed. After realizing that he was pissing off about 40 other drivers who he was blocking (this is during rush hour, remember), he decided to retreat.

I drove by him and called him a pussy. I told him that he spent too much on his car (Subaru STI WRX) and that I could be him (Jetta 1.8T) in a race. I knew I couldn't, but I also knew that he would not turn me down. So we both turn and he floors his car. He gets ahead of me, just enough so I can have my girlfriend get his license plate. She writes it down and dials 911. At the next light, I tell him that he didn't beat me because he had "Four extra cylinders." and he was "Spraying." I've heard that so many times after smoking a ricer while driving my OTHER car (a Camaro SS), that it felt good to finally throw it back at them.

Now he was suddenly intent on racing me, so I told him to follow me and we'll race for money. I told my girlfriend to act scared and tell the cops that the guy won't stop following us, and that he flashed a gun. :) After driving SLOWLY down a busy street, the 911 dispatcher tells us that we need to stop so a cop can assist us. We pull up beside a gas station, and of course this other guy does too. Once again he steps out of the car and comes up to us. This time, he is not trying to act tough, he keeps asking me to race. I tell him that my wife is calling a flagger, who will hold the money and make sure the race is fair (tee-hee). After waiting a good 10 minutes (nice to know the cops waste no time responding well to "life-threatening" situations), a cop finally drives by. The guy finally figures out that we were on the phone with cops the whole time, and dashes into his car. He peels out of there, and the cop sees him do so and takes off after him, leaving my girlfriend and me alone. So we just drove off and went back home...I was still laughing about the ordeal, but my girlfriend was really upset. She eventually got over it, and from there, we concluded that this was a pretty interesting series of events, to say the least.

ok...what u did is by far the best out of all the replies. good job man!
 

alkemyst

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Feb 13, 2001
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Originally posted by: Aharami
Originally posted by: EricMartello
Ok, lots of interesting replies here. Now I will finish the story up with my reaction, so here goes...

[con't from FIRST post]

By this time, I was already upset, and seeing these two jackasses laugh at me just set me off. I now had to do SOMETHING, as I could just let someone nearly crash into me on purpose and let it go with a wink and a smile. As the driver was laughing at me, I grabbed some loose change I had laying around in my car. I told my girlfriend, who was in the passenger seat, to duck down. She did, and I flung a dime at him. The wind blew the dime off course, but I then pulled up so both cars were side-by-side; we were still at a red light. I took a quarter and hurled it as hard as I could. ** SMACK ** Hit him right on the side of the head as he was laughing. He immediately got all disoriented, like he didn't know what hit him. By now the light was green and we were driving away, I saw him throw the quarter out the window, which I thought was funny, because he could have kept it so he could call someone who cares later on. :p

Now this guy was out to prove that he was a tough guy, and after getting humiliated like that in front of his buddy, he had to try and top it. By now, I am laughing as I KNOW he cannot top getting quartered. He manages to get ahead of me after I get stuck behind some people turning left. At the next light, I stop right behind him...this time I am laughing. The guy and his buddy both get out of their car and start walking toward me. My girlfriend was a little scared, but I found it to be hilarious. The driver, who I quartered, did his best effort tough-guy routine. My window was rolled down half way, and he made a week attempt to smack or punch me. Of course, he missed. After realizing that he was pissing off about 40 other drivers who he was blocking (this is during rush hour, remember), he decided to retreat.

I drove by him and called him a pussy. I told him that he spent too much on his car (Subaru STI WRX) and that I could be him (Jetta 1.8T) in a race. I knew I couldn't, but I also knew that he would not turn me down. So we both turn and he floors his car. He gets ahead of me, just enough so I can have my girlfriend get his license plate. She writes it down and dials 911. At the next light, I tell him that he didn't beat me because he had "Four extra cylinders." and he was "Spraying." I've heard that so many times after smoking a ricer while driving my OTHER car (a Camaro SS), that it felt good to finally throw it back at them.

Now he was suddenly intent on racing me, so I told him to follow me and we'll race for money. I told my girlfriend to act scared and tell the cops that the guy won't stop following us, and that he flashed a gun. :) After driving SLOWLY down a busy street, the 911 dispatcher tells us that we need to stop so a cop can assist us. We pull up beside a gas station, and of course this other guy does too. Once again he steps out of the car and comes up to us. This time, he is not trying to act tough, he keeps asking me to race. I tell him that my wife is calling a flagger, who will hold the money and make sure the race is fair (tee-hee). After waiting a good 10 minutes (nice to know the cops waste no time responding well to "life-threatening" situations), a cop finally drives by. The guy finally figures out that we were on the phone with cops the whole time, and dashes into his car. He peels out of there, and the cop sees him do so and takes off after him, leaving my girlfriend and me alone. So we just drove off and went back home...I was still laughing about the ordeal, but my girlfriend was really upset. She eventually got over it, and from there, we concluded that this was a pretty interesting series of events, to say the least.

ok...what u did is by far the best out of all the replies. good job man!


Being in these situations I call b/s on this one. For one if most people got hit with a quarter and then were trying to punch you they would find a way to succeed. The whole race, flagger and all that police and whatever nonsense is hysterical if you believe it...what 911 operator is going to tell you to stop when someone is after you? They would tell you to 1) pull into a police station or 2) send someone ahead of you and stop you both.
 

StageLeft

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Yeah that's a nice yarn, and the quarter is definitely a good idea, but the whole cops and calling 911 and him being in an STI and your wife as a flagger and you saying he had a gun without giving the cops your number afterwards to press charges (or receive them for lying about the gun). It just doesn't totally mesh.