What's wrong with some people

FatJackSprat

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This morning I'm driving on a four lane road. I'm in the left lane with a school bus on the right and about one to two car lengths ahead of me. As I am closing the gap between me and the bus this beaten up old jalopy zips up on my right and comes dangerously close to the bus, just so it can get in front of me. I laid on the horn and flipped the guy off.

Two seconds later we are at a T in the road. He goes straight and so do I, because I live about three blocks in that direction and have to go that way.

The guy in the hoopty stops right at the corner when he crosses the street. I stopped beside him and started to say something like 'you need to watch it buddy.'

I had hardly started to speak before this crusty, disgusting waste of skin jumps out of his car with a pipe in his hand yelling "c'mon out here! I got sumthin to show ya!"

What the hell?! Are people really willing to seriously injure someone else and also to risk jail time just because they got the finger? If I make a mistake driving and someone gives me the finger I just take it, this guy was driving like a tool on purpose and got mad at me for letting him know.

Not only that, what makes a guy think he's so 'tough' by threatening an unarmed person with a weapon?

I can at least be happy knowing his future holds many sad nights because he won't have $0.75 to buy that beer to make his hands stop shaking. Followed someday by the crowning acheivement of being named "unidentified, toothless corpse found under local bridge." :D

Eff him and his multicolored hoopty lou!
 

dighn

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road rage? sounds like an ahole too

what's with people trying to get in front of you? does it pain them that much to have one to two car length in front of you? wtf.
 

Encryptic

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Originally posted by: FatJackSprat


What the hell?! Are people really willing to seriously injure someone else and also to risk jail time just because they got the finger? If I make a mistake driving and someone gives me the finger I just take it, this guy was driving like a tool on purpose and got mad at me for letting him know.

It's called road rage. People are fvcking idiots when it comes to driving (myself included), and this guy is no exception.
 

DrPizza

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Should have gotten the license plate number....
I believe the crime is "menacing" when someone threatens you with a weapon....
Plus, I'm sure the police would be happy to tack on a few extra tickets.... reckless driving, etc. Especially since in a lot of areas, they're cracking down on the road rage drivers.

Next time, keep a better lookout in the rearview mirror... when someone speeds up to do that, you have two choices.... Slow down to give the a$$hole a lot of extra room, or, speed up just slightly, blocking his chance to pass on the right.
 

Kevin

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Get out of the car next time, he'll probably sh-t himself and drive away. I keep a baseball bat in my trunk for people like that. I also keep a glove and baseball just incase I want to play...

Edit: People like that just want to feel superior. If you call him on it, he'll realize he has a tiny weiner and you won the measuring game. Although there are a lot of loonies out there, this works maybe 85-90% of the time...
 

MrYogi

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Originally posted by: Encryptic

It's called road rage. People are fvcking idiots when it comes to driving (myself included), and this guy is no exception.

Yes. People become insane when driving on the road. Some people risk going to the prison for minor things like these.
 

MrYogi

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Originally posted by: Kevin
Get out of the car next time, he'll probably sh-t himself and drive away. I keep a baseball bat in my trunk for people like that. I also keep a glove and baseball just incase I want to play...

Not true. The other person might be a dumb fluck and hit you with pipe. You won't be alive to see this man go to the trial and then to the prison. :D

 

notfred

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Yesterday I was in the parking lot at the mall, driving behind some jackass in an accord who was going 3mph (yes, seriously, not an exaggeration). So, I went to go around him (I crossed over the dividing line in the road, but it was in a parking lot and no one was coming) and as I started to pass him, apparently he was offended and floored his accord (although I was already pretty much past him by then) to try and keep me from overtaknig him. I gave it a touch more gas and pulled back in front of him, but he's still a jackass.
 

SCSIfreek

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Last night, while I was driving on a 3 lane highway (speed limit was at 65mph), me being on the left lane I was driving at 70mph-75mph suddenly a red vette pulls infront of me driving going at 60mph coming from the middle lane. so I following him closely with at least 15 feet behind him. Asshat brakes whenever he had a chance and will not change back into the middle lane. after a while, cars behind me starts to pile up so I decide to pass him by changing towards the middle lane going at 80mph. As I was passing him, he decided to speed up to 90mph just to not let me pass him. hmmm...... I thought to myself, what the hell I'll just let him be the asshat he wanted to. So I stayed on the middle lane at 65mph, another ten minutes had passed and I saw a red vette parked on the side followed by a Cop car. OWNED!!!!!! :D that made my day.


--Scsi
 

CPA

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Originally posted by: SCSIfreek
Last night, while I was driving on a 3 lane highway (speed limit was at 65mph), me being on the left lane I was driving at 70mph-75mph suddenly a red vette pulls infront of me driving going at 60mph coming from the middle lane. so I following him closely with at least 15 feet behind him. Asshat brakes whenever he had a chance and will not change back into the middle lane. after a while, cars behind me starts to pile up so I decide to pass him by changing towards the middle lane going at 80mph. As I was passing him, he decided to speed up to 90mph just to not let me pass him. hmmm...... I thought to myself, what the hell I'll just let him be the asshat he wanted to. So I stayed on the middle lane at 65mph, another ten minutes had passed and I saw a red vette parked on the side followed by a Cop car. OWNED!!!!!! :D that made my day.


--Scsi

that's when you pull over on the other side of the road and laugh at the guy as the cop is writing him a ticket.

 

FatJackSprat

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Originally posted by: dighn
road rage? sounds like an ahole too

what's with people trying to get in front of you? does it pain them that much to have one to two car length in front of you? wtf.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with people being in front of me, it was the risk he imposed on myself and the school bus to do so that made me react to him.

I was going 45 in a 25 zone (no excuse, but it's one of those places where everyone does) and there was a stop light about 5 seconds away. He could have waited.

I should also make it clear that I stopped to say something to him because he was stopped in a place where no one ever has a reason to park their car. He was obviously waiting to follow me and I wanted to see what was up while we were still around other people, I also didn't want him to see where I lived.
 

Savarak

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but now on the off chance he reads ATOT, he now knows you live 3 blocks away in that direction