Reply #67: How do you react when someone uses a car aggressively towards you? [View All]

[ellisonz]

A couple weeks ago I was crossing in a marked walkway in a supermarket parking lot to the store entrance. A man in a SUV actually accelerated towards my mother and I before hitting the brakes. I was wearing a baseball hat and turned my head towards him in a wtf reaction without saying anything and he proceeds to start becoming agitated in his windows up tinted SUV at us. We proceeded to the curb and stood there watching him and the guy had the temerity to put down his window and try to say something about how we were in the wrong. I was pissed and the thought crossed my mind to walk up in lecture him on parking lot etiquette (I used to direct a lot of traffic). I was angry for about 15 minutes afterward in a store. A motor vehicle can cause major injury or kill - it is a weapon.

The driver was clearly using his vehicle in an intimidating manner and did not hesitate to use it as a weapon. The victim only pounded on the car 3 times because the guy was not going slowly and deliberately through the crowd and was already showing disregard for other peoples safety. Throw the book at him. Senseless.