Jackass runs me across two lanes and flips me off

[Chrono]

Should've beat the @#$@$ out of him.

 

[Glavinsolo]

Originally posted by: TGS

Originally posted by: Yossarian
You're a tool. Unless your life is in danger there's no excuse for that kind of behavior on the road. Slamming on your brakes, forcing someone to stop, and getting out of your car? WTF. You're unstable. That's borderline criminal behavior. You will either kill someone or be killed yourself if you keep it up.

So nearly running someone into a concrete barrier on a freeway is not threatening your life now? You people and your pacificas need to stay off the road, before you hurt others. Or perhaps you can just run into a concrete barrier and tell us if you felt your life was in danger from doing so. Better yet you can do it to someone else, then tailgate them if they don't pull over and tell them their behavior is borderline criminal for being upset over your driving... I'm fairly certain that will go over well.

Don't forget to have someone video tape it for google videos.

I pay a good amount for auto insurance so it makes sense that I have a cheesy $300 video camera in my car just for this reason. Also instead of engaging in the same behavior, anonymous tips to #DUI or *DUI should be suffice.

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: TGS

Originally posted by: Yossarian
You're a tool. Unless your life is in danger there's no excuse for that kind of behavior on the road. Slamming on your brakes, forcing someone to stop, and getting out of your car? WTF. You're unstable. That's borderline criminal behavior. You will either kill someone or be killed yourself if you keep it up.

So nearly running someone into a concrete barrier on a freeway is not threatening your life now? You people and your pacificas need to stay off the road, before you hurt others. Or perhaps you can just run into a concrete barrier and tell us if you felt your life was in danger from doing so. Better yet you can do it to someone else, then tailgate them if they don't pull over and tell them their behavior is borderline criminal for being upset over your driving... I'm fairly certain that will go over well.

Don't forget to have someone video tape it for google videos.

How about slowing down so you don't run into a concrete barrier. Not that hard.

 

[Mark R]

Wow.

Is anyone else seriously concerned by the OP's actions? Deliberately slamming the brakes on in an attempt to cause an accident, deliberately trying to ram another vehicle off the road?

All this could have been avoided, if instead of antagonising the other driver by sounding his horn - he had just slowed down to get out of the way. Safer for everyone, less risk of having to perform an emergency manoeuvre, less stressful for himself and for the other driver. You have to remember that if another driver is acting erratically, then a sudden shock could only make matters worse. Defensive driving isn't just a way of stopping you from causing accidents - it's a way of stopping others from causing accidents.

This guy needs professional help, and should absolutely not be driving. If I had his personal details, i'd be forwarding them to the Raleigh DMV.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: Mark R
Wow.

Is anyone else seriously concerned by the OP's actions? Deliberately slamming the brakes on in an attempt to cause an accident, deliberately trying to ram another vehicle off the road?

This guy needs professional help, and should absolutely not be driving. If I had his personal details, i'd be forwarding them to the Raleigh DMV.

You tailgate someone, expect them to do a brake-check.

 

[Mark R]

Originally posted by: BigJ

You tailgate someone, expect them to do a brake-check.

True - if you tailgate someone, you have to be prepared in case they perform an emergency manoeuvre, including an emergency stop.

However, it would be grossly negligent for a driver to perform a brake-check if there is someone behind them (at any reasonable distance).

 

[myusername]

Originally posted by: Mark R

Originally posted by: BigJ

You tailgate someone, expect them to do a brake-check.

True - if you tailgate someone, you have to be prepared in case they perform an emergency manoeuvre, including an emergency stop.

However, it would be grossly negligent and highly illegal for a driver to perform a brake-check if there is someone behind them (at any reasonable distance).

fixed.

 

[jlbenedict]

Originally posted by: Yossarian
You're a tool. Unless your life is in danger there's no excuse for that kind of behavior on the road. Slamming on your brakes, forcing someone to stop, and getting out of your car? WTF. You're unstable. That's borderline criminal behavior. You will either kill someone or be killed yourself if you keep it up.

:thumbsup:

 

[Vegitto]

jbourne77, you're the man!

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: Mark R
All this could have been avoided, if instead of antagonising the other driver by sounding his horn - he had just slowed down to get out of the way.

Wow. Why do you even have a horn, huh? It's to wake people up who aren't paying attention. I wasn't trying to antagnonize him (reading comprehension FTW). He was running me across a 3 lane freeway! In case you didn't notice, he forced me out of two lanes before I even did anything. Then he flipped me off. I did not even respond to that (didn't flip him off back, either). It wasn't until the whole "I'm gonna hunt ya down like a dog" act that I responded.

Antagonize him? PUH-LEEEEASE!

But then you say I should have just slammed on the breaks. Note this was heavy traffic. You critisize me for checking him after he's been tailgating me and playing chicken (which I had not taken part in, mind you), yet I'm just supposed to just slam on my breaks in the fast lane?

:roll:

 

[skace]

Just remember that little retard probably did the same thing to at least a dozen or so other people besides yourself and all those people would be happy to hear his karma finally caught up to him.

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: skace
Just remember that little retard probably did the same thing to at least a dozen or so other people besides yourself and all those people would be happy to hear his karma finally caught up to him.

I don't know... apparently the fact that I was breathing that day was antagonizing that poor motorist. When we stopped I should have politely apologized for not clearing the 3 lanes of road for his personal use.

:laugh:

 

[altonb1]

Originally posted by: fitzov
you receive my dickhead of the day award

 

[Aquila76]

Originally posted by: jbourne77

Originally posted by: Mark R
All this could have been avoided, if instead of antagonising the other driver by sounding his horn - he had just slowed down to get out of the way.

Wow. Why do you even have a horn, huh? It's to wake people up who aren't paying attention. I wasn't trying to antagnonize him (reading comprehension FTW). He was running me across a 3 lane freeway! In case you didn't notice, he forced me out of two lanes before I even did anything. Then he flipped me off. I did not even respond to that (didn't flip him off back, either). It wasn't until the whole "I'm gonna hunt ya down like a dog" act that I responded.

Antagonize him? PUH-LEEEEASE!

But then you say I should have just slammed on the breaks. Note this was heavy traffic. You critisize me for checking him after he's been tailgating me and playing chicken (which I had not taken part in, mind you), yet I'm just supposed to just slam on my breaks in the fast lane?

:roll:

LOL.. I can only reason that Mark R is one of those drivers that refuses to go above 40 when merging onto a highway because he thinks he's being safe. Granted, I avoid confrontations where I can see them about to happen (like when I saw the thermos go out the window I gave the 2nd guy a LOT of swerving room); but what happened to you was out of nowhere and 100% the other guy's asshattery.
That guy's lucky you had someplace to go to avoid him the first couple times that he would have crashed into you if traffic was heavier. He likely would've lost his and/or his girlfriend's LIFE when he overcorrected to get back in his lane and flipped his useless self. Hmm, death vs. being scared sh1tless ... he got off EASY.

 

[TuxDave]

🙂 I completely enjoyed that story. Honking him when he wasn't paying attention was completely appropriate for the situation. As for the final road rage thing, well. That's something that I always wish I could do but never gave it a try in real life. :thumbsup:

 

[sygyzy]

When you guys are being tailgated and you slam on the brakes, aren't you afraid the guy will just rear end you? And this is mostly directed to people who have decently nice cars, not people who "want" to get hit.

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: Aquila76
That guy's lucky you had someplace to go to avoid him the first couple times that he would have crashed into you if traffic was heavier. He likely would've lost his and/or his girlfriend's LIFE when he overcorrected to get back in his lane and flipped his useless self. Hmm, death vs. being scared sh1tless ... he got off EASY.

You have no idea how true that is. I don't know if I can paint a good picture, but it happened where 2 lanes on the right are entering the freeway and merging to the 3 existing lanes on the left. The 2 merging lanes actually continue straight ahead to get onto another freeway up ahead on the right, so you have cars merging from EVERYWHERE in a very short amount of time, and they're doing it at 70+ MPH. I was on the inside lane of the 2, and he was on the outside (which is incredibly stupid if you're not planning to continue on them to the other freeway). Anyway, as I merge onto the freeway, he just starts darting over (no turn signal, nothing). Several cars had to initially dodge him (cars that were both getting into these 2 merge lanes and cars that were exiting it).

So hitting your brakes at any point in all of this mayhem is tantamount to pileup suicide. It only makes the guy's stupidity that more pronounced. There were 5 or 6 cars (myself included) that, had they not been paying close attention, there would have been a major accident. If I hadn't had room to get to the lanes to the left as quickly as I did, there would have been BIG problems.

So anyway, I honk the horn. He gets his attention back on the road and stabilizes himself in his lane (you should have seen his Pacifica "rock" when he did this). He realizes he's been honked at and loses it. Then he jumps behind me. He continues like this for about a mile. Then the a space opens in the next lane. I signal and move over so the twat can pass. He opts to jump behind me and "rear up" on me again. We go another couple miles while I debate my options. The far right lane at this point is desserted, so I move over and drive a cool 60MPH so he naturally passes (we were doing about 70MPH in the middle). Then he jumps behind me again and is swerving behind me. He'll back off, then rear up on me. Back off, rear up.

That's when I reacted.

 

[Svnla]

Newsflash, nerds on sorrymobiles showing their "manhood". Details at 10.

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: Svnla
Newsflash, nerds on sorrymobiles showing their "manhood". Details at 10.

Damn... I didn't even THINK of flashing my penis at him.

*noted for next time

 

[RKS]

I think the OP handled the situation as well as could be expected. He got out of his way as many times as he could. :thumbsup:

I would have opted for a few pennies out of the sunroof/window to discourage the tailgaiting. It scares the crap out of the offender but does not cause life-threatening damage.

 

[Glavinsolo]

Originally posted by: RKS
I think the OP handled the situation as well as could be expected. He got out of his way as many times as he could. :thumbsup:

I would have opted for a few pennies out of the sunroof/window to discourage the tailgaiting. It scares the crap out of the offender but does not cause life-threatening damage.

I usually clean my windshield if a tailgater is too close. Everyone is sue happy in these parts and pennies out my sunroof would be around $100,000 lawsuit I'm sure.

 

[BW86]

hahaha 😀 good job.

 

[RKS]

Originally posted by: Glavinsolo

Originally posted by: RKS
I think the OP handled the situation as well as could be expected. He got out of his way as many times as he could. :thumbsup:

I would have opted for a few pennies out of the sunroof/window to discourage the tailgaiting. It scares the crap out of the offender but does not cause life-threatening damage.

I usually clean my windshield if a tailgater is too close. Everyone is sue happy in these parts and pennies out my sunroof would be around $100,000 lawsuit I'm sure.

Or tiny pebbles, you know a lot of gravel gets thrown from the road especially if you are too close...

 

[Aquila76]

HA HA HA HA !! I had missed in the OP that it was a Pacifica. That thing's about as intimidating as a PT Cruiser or Hello Kitty! :laugh:

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: myusername

Originally posted by: Mark R

Originally posted by: BigJ

You tailgate someone, expect them to do a brake-check.

True - if you tailgate someone, you have to be prepared in case they perform an emergency manoeuvre, including an emergency stop.

However, it would be grossly negligent and highly illegal for a driver to perform a brake-check if there is someone behind them (at any reasonable distance).

fixed.

I could've sworn that tailgaiting was both highly illegal and extremely dangerous. :roll: