60-year-old man fatally shot in road-rage incident on Interstate 5 near Tacoma

but I just blow at them if it's really bad. If it's the normal shit, you just let it go and roll. No one should lose their life over a stupid ass traffic incident.

they chase you down LIKE IT WAS YOUR FAULT!!! i tell you it's CRAZY out there

kept going as I getting off the freeway wasn't something they wanted to do.

Don't blow your horn; don't give people the finger; assume everybody is armed and crazy.

He taught me a number of things. Don't tailgate. Always be courteous, giving the other driver the right-of-way (whether it is his/her turn or not) won't cost you more than a few seconds. And always, always assume the the other driver is going to do something really stupid or rude and know what you are going to do when it happens.

That's my idea of driving like I'm invisible.

Guns everywhere here in PA.

I can't think of a place that's not saturated.

By design.

"I don't want this person to be a part of my life."
And it usually helps. Sometimes I'm still frustrated.
Holding back the finger, etc is the tough part. But that is what can set it off.
Just not worth it. Nobody ever wins.

Think of them as trash

I wonder how much more "courageous" people with guns are, making this type of ending more likely(?) They're not afraid to get into with someone b/c they have their little friend with them.

I do believe it makes people take more risk in confrontations.

There's not enough information to assign blame for initiating the incident, and I have no idea what the traffic conditions were (probably bumper-to-bumper) but they both stopped and left their vehicles to escalate it.

Always have and out.

mile behind me.

They would hit the accelerator and swerve to get ahead of cars to catch up to me, I would change lanes to try and stay in the same lane so that they couldn't gain on me.

Eventually they pulled up next to me in a large SUV with heavily tinted windows and was aggressively swerving into my lane.

I held up my phone as if I were taking a movie on my phone. I went back to capture their license plate.

They dropped back and I could see young 20 year old guys screaming at me and making menacing gestures.

I kept my phone up in a position where it could clearly record their faces. I could see the people in the SUV discussing my actions.

They quieted down and took the next exit off the freeway.

Someday I am really going to have to figure out how to use the movie camera function on my phone.

I live in Texas, and this state thinks it’s just great for everyone to open carry and always have a gun in the car in case you need to shoot someone! It’s insane, but road rage is a serious problem here, and motocyclists are often the most vulnerable. A couple of years ago, a man near Houston thought a cyclist had cut him off so he chased him down and caused the cyclist to crash, killing him. I have lived and driven in the largest cities in New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts—and the drivers here are the worst I have ever experienced. Every time I go out, I go into defensive mode and assume that every driver around me is going to do something stupid. And they do but I rarely use my horn. You never know when a nut will just stop and try to shoot you! One of the worst offenses here is running red lights—not just when they’re changing but also when they have changed and the cars in the other direction are already moving into an intersection. Just nuts!

really freaks them out. Very fun.

But other reports indicate when traffic came to a stop, the man pulled along side of the motorcyclist and exited his vehicle. Likely he was the aggressor and possibly she could not avoid the encounter.

Hopefully traffic cameras and witnesses can help determine if it was self defense or homicide.

Now she'll be a poster child for self-defense shootings. You must be chuffed.

But I will always side with the victim of an assault. I don't believe anyone should have to take a beating for the good of society.

Then again if it is not self defense I am more than willing to support full prosecution and punishment.


Learned a new word today, thanks.

Then I will be quite chuffed (thanks for the new word) when she is hopefully released without charge. We shall learn soon enough as the investigation unfolds.

where I live and the town it happened in is NOT Tacoma it is in Milton

when the two rednecks went after the peaceful longhaired hippies on their motorcycles. Americans love their guns!

Let those who want to get around you do so. Ignore their middle finger gestures, and do not have any verbal exchange. Ignore them. Motorcyclists are of a different 'breed'. It's a dangerous mode of transportation.

They ride machines that are fast, have quick acceleration, are noisy, and highly manueverable. Plus they often split lanes, that pisses people off, even where it is legal. The cyclist may have done something, may have done nothing.

...and not the age of the woman that shot him.

What's so special about being 60? I guess there was a time long ago when I thought of 60-year olds as helpless, and frail. But now that I'm in my fifties, I know better.

I suppose I could see them (at least for now) putting the guy's age in the headline if he was 90.

I have people living near me nearly 100!!!!! And they get around and work in their yards like in their 50's or less.

She is 23.

Maybe 4 guns, one in each of their hands? Maybe 6 guns? One in each hand and another tucked in their belt? Or maybe 8 guns? Maybe more? How many more guns needed to prevent this? A hundred guns? We really need to prevent this, and I’ve been told that more guns will prevent senseless gun violence, so please please someone, anyone!

Go ahead make my day, tell me that more guns would have prevented this, and I’ll tell you to go fuck yourself. So sick of this shit. Sick of the bullshit arguments.

the story says that they were wrestling on the ground when he was shot. He may have instigated the entire affair...may have knocked her off her bike....make have been punching her in the face....she may have shot him in self defense.
We need to know more.

* I can't read the story because it's blocked.