Road-Rage Florida-Style - a Machete And a Mercedes

[gittyup]

Taken from Reuters - June 20, 2001 09:22 AM ET

Good grief. Why is this guy carrying around a machete anyway. :Q


HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (Reuters) - In a road rage tale with a cutting edge, a south Florida motorist is accused of slashing another man in the neck with a machete during an altercation on a highway.

The incident began when the driver of a Mercedes began arguing with a man in a sport utility vehicle while both drove in Hollywood early Monday morning, police said.

"They got a little testosterone built up. ... They were playing cat and mouse and one thing led to another," said police Lt. Tony Rode.

Both pulled over. The Mercedes driver, Paul Schloneger, took a machete from the trunk of his car. When Chris Pape, a passenger in the SUV, approached, Schloneger allegedly swiped him with the machete and cut a gash in his neck.

"It wasn't life threatening but it was very ugly," Rode said.

Pape was treated in hospital and is now resting at home with numerous stitches, he added. Police arrested Schloneger, 35, and charged him with aggravated assault.

Unusual though the incident was "I'd rather it was a machete than a gun," Rode added.

 

[littleprince]

i'll keep that in mind next time a mercedes cuts me off

 

[Linflas]

People are idiots when driving. On my commute home last night there was a guy in a company pickup truck that went nuts on me because I merged in front of him. Typical silliness, he gives me the bird, I respond in kind, he does it again, I respond. Normally life goes on but this moron starts pointing to the shoulder. I started laughing and pointed over there too. He then goes into the right lane and off onto the shoulder. Of course by this point I am so amused by this guy I am laughing out loud as I continue on my way without reducing speed. At this point he came back out into the right lane and stayed there. Perhaps he realized that he was driving his employers truck with the company name and phone number plastered all over it.

 

[WordSmith2000]

I saw a kid try to kill another kid with a machete. There was this kid standing on the median of the road after trying to throw a rock at the kid's car. The kid in the car had a machete and was holding it outside the window of the car, and was going to try to cut the kid in half with the machete. He never got the chance because he hit the median and slammed into the kid. The kid spun three times in the air before landing in the street. The kid in the car never even slowed down.

I had to testify against the kid with the machete at his trial. It was wild...

 

[Optimus]

WordSmith2000 - Did the machete kid get convicted?