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Spineshank

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Jun 8, 2001
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Once i was driving down 7th Street in Philly by the E Factory and some guy was riding my ass and honking. So i gave him the finger. I go to turn into the parking lot and he pulls up aside me and the guy is like 55 and starts yelling at me to come over there so he can kick my ass. I told him to get his old ass out of his car if he wanted to fight. He just drove away.
 

xanis

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Sep 11, 2005
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I have 2 stories about road rage.

One time I was with my parents going somewhere, I forget where. A guy in some car (a Caprice or something I think) cuts my dad off and narrowly avoids hitting him. My dad proceeds to honk his horn and flip the guy off. At the next red light when the guy is stopped in front of us, he gets out of his car. This guy was HUGE. He was at least 6' 5'' and all muscle. He comes up to the window and starts yelling at my dad, asking him what the fuck his problem was, if he wanted to start something, etcetera. Luckily my dad had the brains to be passive and just let the guy vent and leave.

Another time I was with my friend on my way to drop him off at his house. We're on a small road with a lot of traffic. On one side there's an entrance/exit for a very small restaurant/shopping center. There was a lot of traffic this day, and when there's that many cars, it's almost impossible to see the other traffic.The speed limit is 30. I'm doing about 25 because the traffic started moving on my side. All of a sudden, these two old ladies in an Impala or whatever it was decide not to look and pull out into oncoming traffic. I slammed on the breaks and narrowly avoided T-Boning them by about 2 inches, I kid you not. They just looked a me like I was crazy... and I looked at them with a look of anger and proceeded to yell "fuck you" out the window.
 

PingSpike

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Feb 25, 2004
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Wow, I thought I was bad with my endless obscenities...I think the worst I've ever done is some questionable passes, even during my crazier days.

The best personal story I got, was I was driving around with my friend during the summer one day and there was some dude with his car pulled up on the non-existent shoulder so I drove around him. My friend yells out the window "Thats not a parking spot asshole." I didn't think much of it, and drive down the road about a mile before I had to stop behind some traffic at a stop light.

I guess the dude jumped in his car and sped up near us (he stopped like 3 lanes away) and gets out of his car and starts walking towards us. My friend rolls up his window and yells "go! go! go!" Of course I'm in traffic and have nowhere to go. The light turns and traffic starts moving then the guy yells something I couldn't make out and that was it.

I have another that doesn't directly involve me. I was driving down suicide 7 and it was kind of a pain in the ass as usual. This volvo comes up on me from behind pretty fast, you know like how you see them coming and you panic a little because it doesn't look like they're going to stop? He passes me but of course there's just another line of cars in front of me anyway. Then I see this huge dode diesel truck come up behind me on my ass. Another (terrible, to tight to consider) opening comes in the oncoming lane and the guy guns it around me. I let off on the gas because it looked like it was potentially going to get ugly if I didn't give him some room.

The truck gets right up on the volvos ass and then the volvo pulls a dirty pass and the truck goes right with him. It was about then I realized that the volvo was being hunted by some crazy redneck with cock size issues.

My friend told me a guy he knew once stopped at a light and a guy came and started screaming at him through the window telling him to get out so he could fight him. I guess this guy my friend knew was pretty crazy and since the guy yelling at him was standing right next to the door of his car he just threw the door open really fast into his shins and it dropped the guy. He just drove off after that.

I don't understand the motorcycle guys kicking other people's cars...that seems like a bad idea, because its not like motorcycles ever win collisions with other vehicles. You should buy an f-450 diesel if you want to be that kind of driver I think.
 

Oceandevi

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Jan 20, 2006
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Originally posted by: Exterous
I was following this jackass in an old BMW. He kept slowing down and then speeding up - I was having a hard time keeping a safe distance. Then he slows to 20mph and flips me off! Needless to say I am tracking down his address and his time is limited

lol
 

amdhunter

Lifer
May 19, 2003
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Originally posted by: Oceandevi
Originally posted by: Exterous
I was following this jackass in an old BMW. He kept slowing down and then speeding up - I was having a hard time keeping a safe distance. Then he slows to 20mph and flips me off! Needless to say I am tracking down his address and his time is limited

lol

Actually, I found a way to track down some people in NYC.

You can do plate lookups for tickets on the NYC Finance page. What I do is, if I can get the plate down (and I have already done this) you can put their plate number in, and look at where they've gotten tickets.

Many times you can see a pattern at one address. At this point, you know where to find the @sshole, and you can do whatever you need to do to them at that point.

Gotta love the internet.
 

cyclistca

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Dec 5, 2000
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Originally posted by: FrozenCanadian
Originally posted by: Oceandevi
Oh I was talking about motorcycles. You bicycle people are strange.

I meant motorcycle. Bicycle people should stick to the sidewalk even if its Illegal here.

People like you should not have a license.

 

Captante

Lifer
Oct 20, 2003
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Originally posted by: Exterous
I was following this jackass in an old BMW. He kept slowing down and then speeding up - I was having a hard time keeping a safe distance. Then he slows to 20mph and flips me off! Needless to say I am tracking down his address and his time is limited



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