Have you seen really bad road rage?

[Shell Beau]

A couple of weeks ago, here in Jackson, MS, a guy got shot for switching lanes in front of another van. He died, but his girlfriend, the passenger, didn't. I don't think the guy/gal has been found yet. What instances have you seen that have scared you?

[kick-ass-bob]

1. Nope. That only happens in Mississippi.

:hide:

:D

[Shell Beau]

4. And North Carolina!!

:P

[kick-ass-bob]

11. Actually, I honked at someone when they cut me off (SUV, of course)

And he proceeded to follow me - I could see him yelling. I pulled in a parking lot, and stepped out of the car (in half of my karate gi, with my bo in hand - he slowed down, took a look, and drove off.

A bo, if someone doesn't know:



I normally don't do that kind of thing, but I was not in a pleasant mood that evening.

[Shell Beau]

14. I did the same thing, honked at a guy for

cutting me off coming out of a parking lot and onto Frontage Rd. b/c he almost hit me when he did it. When I honked, he slammed on his brakes causing me to hit him. He jumped out of the car and thankfully he was so little that I could have tooke him! :o But there were people all around and some men from an oil changing place walked over there and told him he better watch what he was saying to me. I told the dude I was going to call the cops b/c he was in the wrong even though I hit him from behind (that is what happens when people slam on their brakes) and he jumped in the car and took off. Later on that month, I was in the mall and he worked in one of the stores (go figure) and he apologized. He later got arrested for check fraud. What comes around, goes around!!!!

[barb162]

38. LOL

[pitohui]

21. and los angeles!

a few yrs back they had several reports of road rage killers there

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. I once flipped off some idiot who cut in front of me...

with about two inches to spare and no signal; he got BEHIND me and followed me for twenty miles. It was extremely unnerving; this madman gesticulating and obviously screaming (I could see him in the rearview mirror), apparently determined to track me down to wherever I was going...I'm a lot more careful about that sort of thing these days.

[Shell Beau]

6. Yeah, you have to be careful now a days!!

[gollygee]

3. I saw one at a mall

this rednecky guy in a pickup truck was screaming at this lady who apparently took "his" parking space and threatened to "off" her. It freaked me out enough that I called 911 on the cell phone. It was really scary, like the guy completely had lost control.

[Patiod]

5. Saw two cars chasing one another on the Atlantic City Exprswy

Naturally, about 2 minutes later, came upon an ugly wreck, involving at least one of the cars.

Once I passed this obviously crazy middle-aged woman (hair in sloppy ponytail high on head, bopping up and down violently in her seat to music). She had slowed to a crawl at an intersection with her turn signal on, and I went around her to make the light. She didn't actually turn, but continued on, then chased me. I drove around back roads until I lost her, then made the mistake of stopping at my dry cleaners. She must have seen my car, because I saw her truck turn into the dry cleaners. I ran out without paying, and got in my car and out of there, as she ran screaming after me. She got my name from the dry cleaners, and started calling my house, cursing at me and threatening me. Fortunately, I live on an old farm complex, and the apartment units aren't labeled, so she couldn't track down exactly where I lived. Scary.

[Shell Beau]

7. I saw the same thing a few months ago.

IT appeared to be some race and the wreck happened right in front of our car. The Explorer flipped on the interstate and hit the wall (which right below the wall about 100 ft. is the Pearl River). A girl got thrown out and was lying right beside our car. It was horrific. I called 911. But right before the wreck, I called them idiots b/c of how they were driving.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

8. Had it happen to me

This guy was trying to make a left turn where left turns were illegal, and for a good reason. It was a traffic heavy road with 2 lanes on each side, and trying to make a left at that point really backs things up. So I start beeping at him, because I can't go anywhere with him just sitting there for what would be forever if he kept trying to make that turn. The guy actually gets out of his car and starts walking over to me yelling that he can make that turn if he wants to. Now, I'm a big guy, so when I told him that he'd better get back into his fucking car before I got out of mine, he listened.

[Patiod]

10. One of the advantages to being a big guy!

My S.O. is one of those people who people don't tend to mess with. He's not a bully, and only uses his size for good, not for evil - but it makes life easier all around.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

13. Sounds like me.

I don't pick fights, but I certainly stop a bunch of them pre-emptively with my presence. :D

[bertha katzenengel]

9. woman in a mini-van following me through DC - down Constitution

and around the National Mall, where the top speed limit is 35 MPH. Little traffic, middle of a work day. I was going a max of 40 MPH, and stopping for every yellow light. The streets parallel to the mall are one-lane, one-way. She tailgated, then she'd back off and then hit the gas and almost hit me, and all the time she was honking her horn and gesturing. When we got out onto a regular road, she got as close as she could before passing me, and almost hit me when she pulled in front of me, flipping me off the whole time. I could hear her honking as she drove off.

Weird. I was shaking.

[LaurenG]

12. The worst thing I have ever seen

was in Denver getting of of I76. A man who had his own lane to get off on decided to take my lane and then slam on his brakes in front of me. It happened so quickly that no one in the car could figure out what the problem was. The guy just sat there for about 30 seconds flipping me off while holding up traffic. My parents (who were visiting) were in the car and my dad tried to get out of the car and get the tire iron out of the trunk in case the crazy guy got out. Anyway the guy would go about a block and them slam his brakes on over and over again. He finally got to his street and that was the last of it but if was scary.

[bleedingheart]

15. Yes in Michigan

we were following my bro-in-law home from a lake that we had visited. Since we didn't know where we were going we were sticking together...

This car in front of my BIL kept driving erratically and my BIL wasn't too smart either...I called the cops when the jerk nearly tried to kill my husband, me and the kids by getting in front of us and slamming on the brakes...

Cars aren't toys. They are tools, and if people misuse them I think they should lose the right to drive.

[Wcross]

16. I see it a lot.

I don't react if someone "cuts me off" or does something stupid, I have become accustomed to it.
I did have an incident last week. I was going down a country road with no lines on it. I came upon a pickup truck going about 15mph. I stayed behind him (at least two car lengths) while we sloooowly made our way around some curves. He then hit his brakes like he was stopping. I know the road and knew it was safe to pass him. I indicated my intention and passed. I was back up to a normal speed 45mph and he got right on my ass and did the flashing lights thing. I ignored it and went on my way. I can not for the life of me think of anything I did wrong.
I know it isn't a widely accepted practice here on D.U. but I legally carry a handgun. If he had forced me off the road or had followed me home with the intention of beating me up or teaching me a lesson I would have defended myself. As far as I'm concerned any physical attack upon my person is reason to fear for my life. I am not taking a beating because someone else is having a bad day.

[anarch]

17. as a pedestrian

My girlfriend and I were walking in a crosswalk, in a part of dc where the pedestrians surely outnumber the cars, a 25 MPH zone, and some jackass comes barreling down the street, going at least 50 MPH, almost hits us, then slams on the brakes, makes a U-turn, and speeds back towards us to almost hit us again, then jumps out of his car (thankfully with no weapon) and starts yelling at us for getting in his way. In the crosswalk, with the right of way, mind you.

:wtf:

He drove off when I called the cops.

Nobody got hurt, except for me getting subsequently yelled at by the girlfriend for not kicking his ass, which hurt my feelings. Hey, I'm a fuckin' pacifist, dammit!

Anyway, yeah, a lot of people are twice as crazy when they get behind the wheel. It's sad.

[Wcross]

18. My favorite incident- Christmas at the mall!

It was Christmas eve and the line of cars waiting to exit was HUGE! I was about a quarter mile from the exit and noticed this poor woman who was trying to merge into the line. Nobody would let her in the line. As soon as I got to her I motioned for her to go ahead and got a friendly wave. This idiot woman behind me layed on her horn and started flipping me off and yelling at me out her window. The line wasn't moving so I got out, walked up to her car and asked her if there was some sort of problem? She was extremely embarrassed when she realized she wasn't "anonymous" in her vehicle. I wished her a merry Christmas and got back in my car and eventually got out of the mall lot.

[Patiod]

42. Good for you

Anonymity makes people ruder.

I was late for a board meeting for my Church. I get behind this old clunker that's doing like, 35 MPH in a 40 zone. I started to tailgate, and was just about to flash my lights when I though "Jeez, I hope that's not someone else heading to the same meeting", and I backed off.

Thank God I did - it was our Clerk (minister), who greeted me a lot more warmly than if I had been the jerk who was tailing him, flashing my lights!

[pitohui]

19. a guy pointed a gun at me

but i'm pretty sure it was his redneck idea of flirting, he didn't seem enraged, and i was a passenger not the driver so i've always put that one in the displaced sexual display category

the worst i witnessed that i know was rage was i witnessed an auto accident where one man then jumped out of the car w. a crowbar and started screaming at the other driver to get out of the car and take his beating, he didn't, wisely i should think! that was before cell phone days or i would have called the cops, as it was, being a female abt half the maniac's size, i just drove the hell out of there

still wonder if it worked out okay

[flvegan]

20. Asshole in a pickup, driving 15 mph under the speed limit

so, I passed him, legally in the other lane. I didn't flip him off or say anything. I pull into my destination about a mile down the road. I'm getting my backpack together (I just left the gym), shutting the car off. Next thing, the guy rolls up, blocking my car in, puts his window down and starts screaming at me about how he's going to kick my ass "for tearing past him like that" blah blah blah.

He drove away when I got out of the car. I wonder why?

[Shell Beau]

22. I just don't understand that kind of anger. I think we

all get angry at times on the road, but to actually follow someone and wait on them.... :shrug:

[Wcross]

23. You've experienced that too?

I have had a couple of people flash their lights after I have passed them legally. I never understood why they should get upset if another car passes them.

[justabob]

27. I have never been followed but

One time driving on the highway(3 lanes each way and 65 mph limit) I passed a person who was going 45 or so. He sped up, got in front of me and slammed on his brakes. I changed lanes and passed again. He sped up, got in front and slammed on the brakes again. ... repeat ad nauseum. I finally said fuck this shit, changed lanes and floored it. Thankfully I had MUCH more car than he did so I got away, though I realize driving 100 mph on an urban highway isn't wise... I figured it was safer than putting up with the shit this guy was pulling.

[JVS]

24. Not so bad, but a funny story

I was 17 driving to an intersection and signalling left and there was a car stopped at the stop sign in front of me
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| <- her car (at stop sign)
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| <- me
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I had no stop sign so I started my turn, she pulled into the street at the same time as me and was next to me. I sped up so we wouldn't be sharing the lane and shot the bird at the driver. This is when I realized that it was a neighbor and as I went up the street towards home, I noticed that she was driving after me rather than going the way toward her house. As I approached the house I noticed that mom's car was gone and dad was mowing the front lawn. I though "I don't need this shit" and kept driving past the house as my father watched me. I went and hung out somewhere for 40 minutes and then came back. Dad started yelling at me and refused to believe my story and mom yelled at him for believing the neighbors story over mine. A while later I was at a party with the neighbor's kid and I told him how his mom tried to get me in hot water despite her driving when I had the right of way. He said "yeah, she can be a fucking bitch like that."

[LaurenG]

25. Oh sh**

Figures - it would be a neighbor. lol

[JVS]

26. I was more careful with my bird flippery after that

Although I stand by my flipping her off, because if you pull a move like that you deserve the proper gesture.

[HEyHEY]

28. A guy attacked my car at a drive through once

Cause my drunk friend asked him to turn down his stereo

[JVS]

29. That was me!

[HEyHEY]

30. You drive a 78 camero?

[JVS]

33. yeah, I'm cool like that

[Rabrrrrrr]

31. Wouldn't really bad road rage result in no injuries? And really GOOD road

rage result in death and dismemberment?

I've always wondered why we use the word bad that way - "he had a bad accident" should mean that he had an accident, but nothing happened; that it was a pretty piss poor excuse for an accident.

Or the old skit from Monty Python:

"In fact, he shot himself"

"Badly, sir?"

"No, very well" (lifting up leg from the corpse).

[Shell Beau]

34. Hehehe! You have a point. Sadly for this man, it was a

really "good" case then. Shot right in the head from the van behind. And it will be hard to find the person who did it. They had a white van with the last three letters/numbers of the tag as the description.

[texas1928]

32. Best Road Rage ever.

http://www.snopes.com/autos/audio/jackbox.mp3


Listen to it, it is hilarious.

[djeseru]

35. A guy ran a stop sign and turned out in front of me...

...not even looking if traffic was coming - so I honked at him. He then began to slam on his brakes repeatedly trying to get me to hit him, at the same time screaming obsenities at me. Then he tries to get me to go around him by coming to a complete stop in the middle of the road, but there was no way I was going to do that. So, he makes a u-turn around me. I start going again and come up to a 4-way stop and by then he had worked up so much speed his brakes would not respond when he needed them, so he slammed right into the back of my car. He then gets out screaming that I should have known his brakes were bad, they needed repairs. (wha!?) The 2 witnesses that saw the whole incident called the county sherriff.

According to the nice deputy I talked to at the scene, this guy was well known to the police and sherriff's departments locally for having an "anger management" issues. And because of hitting me, they guy lost his insurance.

Another friend I went to college with had her car shot up because of a real asshole she was dating - he flipped off someone on the highway who obviously had a gun and wasn't real appreciative of the gesture. Luckily, neither of them got hurt.

[kwassa]

36. Road rage with Mike Tyson ....

I wasn't in this accident, but I drive down this road in heavy traffic every work day, and it could have easily been me.

Midcounty Highway, Montogmery County. One car at a low speed rearends another car, the second car rearends a Mercedes being driven by Mike Tyson, with his wife in the car. Mike gets out, and proceeds to beat up the other two drivers.

Mike gets thrown in jail for 30 days. This is the tipping point for Mike, at which point his whole career comes apart, down to his wife divorcing him.

I've been in my own scary road rage incidents, and I've been chased down by lunatics, so I don't give anyone the finger anymore. There was one here recently in Maryland where one driver shot and killed another.

If you want to drive someone else crazy, ignore them and pretend they don't exist.

[JVS]

37. If you hit my car, I'll eat your children and stomp your testicles!

[barb162]

39. Yeah and I think it's getting worse by the year

People cutting each other off, honking their horns if the person in front doesn't move fast enough or tailgating for the same reason.

[tsakshaug]

40. best one for me

I was in the left turn lane, and had the arrow, a person coming the other way did a no stop right on red. He honked and yelled and all that and started to follow me closely. I lived about a block from the intersection.
Before this I was officiating a track meet and still had my starters gun in its holster on my belt, had stopped at the lumber yard for some 3' 2x4. Not to mention I am about 6' 4" and in good shape.
I pull into my driveway and see him pull in behind be. I calmly get out of my car, pick up a 2x4, pat my gun----he was out of there quickly

[Wcross]

45. Not good.....

What if he had a real gun? That could have triggered a confrontation that would have ended badly.

[nini]

41. I had a girl cut me off and got pissed when I flipped her off

It was one of those really close things that was uncalled for. She then slowed down, hit the brakes all that fun stuff. Every time I tried to get around her, she'd get in front of me again.

She starts motioning for me to pull over so she can kick my ass I guess. I was pissed off enough to do it (I know I was being as stupid as her at this piont), so she pulls over, I pull up behind her. She gets out of her car - all 5 feet of her - cussing her head off at me. I get out - all 5'10" of me with one of those steering wheel locking clubs in my hand. She hopped back in her car and took off. I'm sure her mother and little daughter who were in the car with her were proud of her.

I KNOW I shouldn't have pulled over, but it was worth seeing the look on her face to see I was about a foot taller than her and could have easily handled her with one hand - Stupid bitch.

[Patiod]

43. That has happened to me twice

Once in a crowded trashy bar, I must have bumped into or stepped on some short little South Philly girl. She turned around, threatening to fight me until she realized that her head was about at belly-button level. She just looked straight up in the air, estimated my size, and kept walking.

Another time I was at a Buffett concert, one too many Margeuritas to the wind. Some people were walking right in front of us, and they accidentally got in the way of me doing "Fins" and got stepped on. When the one girl turned around to start a fight, she caught my S.O.'s eye, and saw him shake his head (as in "probably not a smart move"), and she scowled and went on her way. Naturally I didn't notice any of this, and had to be told about on the way home.

Thank God girls don't have "beer balls" -- my S.O. has had tiny little fellows start fighting him just because he is big. Girls generally know when to cut their losses.

[nini]

44. Being tall definitely has its advantages

:-)


I've NEVER been in any kind of fight and wouldn't know what to do if I was.. but they don't know that :evilgrin: