Road Rage

[Texas Star]

I just saw a segment on the news about road rage. Said that most drivers have been guilty of it.

Have you? Were you a victim of an incident?

I'll tell later about incidents in which I and my son (separate occasions) were approached by furious drivers, who had no cause to leave their vehicles. One danged nearly hit my son's vehicle. Weapons were involved, but thank God, not used.

 

[Doug627]

Yes, I have experienced road rage. Not proud of it but I admit I have experienced it.

 

[HoleCarder]

I once flipped off a family of four after I saw them driving a car displaying a Cleveland Browns bumper sticker and flag.

I'm not proud of my actions, but I'm confident my rage was justified.

 

[vytoland]

we see crazies and nascar wanna b's everyday on the road.....back off and give em a WIDE berth.....

 

[RobertJ.]

Yes, I have experienced road rage. Not proud of it but I admit I have experienced it.

Same here. Thankfully, those moments are fewer and fewer.

I've figured out how to help myself through it, both for my sake and the sake of the other drivers. I look for bad drivers, I keep my distance if possible, and always let them go first.

I taught behind-the-wheel driver ed. at our high school for a year. I learned two things: 1. I don't have what it takes to let 15 year-olds drive me around! and 2. It taught me to be a better driver.

 

[Old TexMex]

No, I wasn't a victim. And I'm not going to be.

I had a fool scream at me last month, he then turned around and began to pursue me. My passenger dialled 911 and passed the phone to me. I informed that I had a road rage situation, gave a discription of my and the ragers vehicle. "We're on our way" was the PD response, and in less than three minutes (!) a unit was behind the offender, and I went on my way.
His wife or girlfriend was with him, so I'm sure he paid a very high price for his moment of testosterone.

I have to add, his day turned out a lot better for him than it might have....

 

[bountyhunter]

I just saw a segment on the news about road rage. Said that most drivers have been guilty of it.

Were you a victim of an incident?

Yes, some idiot in a pickup decided he could extend his manhood by blocking the fast (left) lane of I-5 straddling a very slow moving truck in the right lane south of Stockton. There was a long line backed up behind me I hit the lights and he slowed down even more. After the lanes opened up to three (and he could no longer block the road) I tried to pass he intentionally ran me off the road into the center divider. He kept zig zgging in front of me and slowed to about two miles an hour on the freeway. I lost him by taking an exit and driving many miles out of my way. People in California do things like that because they know law abiding citizens are unarmed and cant do anything. If I had been driving a rental car I would have spun him with a PIT maneuver and left him upside down. "Gee officer, I was driving along in the left lane and he swerved into my lane......" But I didn't see it worth ruining my car over.

 

[Sconnie]

Yes, I have experienced road rage. Not proud of it but I admit I have experienced it.

Same here. Thankfully, those moments are fewer and fewer.

Amen. Yea I saw the segment on the news tonight too. Just like so many things these days the impression is the instances of it or anything bad is going up according to the commentary.

I think the advent of cell phones for calling the police from the road started the increase, not in instances but rather in reporting. And now the news media gets video and they love video. There are more drivers out there these days so the likelihood has gone up but all of those video clips are going to make you think it is much more prevalent than it really is.

But I could be wrong...

 

[pittpa]

Not since I've been carrying. But I'm in the Burgh. We let each other go. I get mad when I wave a guy on, and he waves me on. There we are going nowhere. That story said men are in 3x more incidents than women. ONLY 3X?

 

[Speedo2]

It's becoming more frequent around here and in most other places that I drive in, it seems. When carrying it's good to remember that we give up our right to be azzhats in those situations. Later, in order to relax my blood pressure, I find it good to remember that famous quote about "...forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us". It helps. -S2

 

[jimbo728]

A friend and I watched a reckless driver almost t bone 2 cars and then
nearly nail 2 teens on a cross walk.
He became aware of us watching, swung around along side us and produced a crowbar. We took off and he got behind us.
We turned to avoid being followed home only to have him follow.
We stopped, watched,as he looked as though he was going to get out
when he realized our phones and a weapon were ready.
It ended there except for his Police questioning and being straightened
out about his reckless driving and his threatening actions.
The Police were great!
Jim

 

[Donn]

Guilty as charged back in the day. As I've gotten older, especially since I started carrying, my fuse has gotten extremely long. Rarely use the horn any more.

 

[Skeet 028]

One time back in the day..scenario..wife and kids and I had been to Ocean City Md..6 young'un in a convertible bumped us at a light..not hard..I let it go..happened again.so I got out held up traffic and checked the car... no damage...but they gave me a ration of Crapo... and pulled around me and left...15-20 mins there they were again... and did the same... so I got out went back to the car and shut the car off..ripped out the keys and threw 'em in the marsh..turned around and there was a BIG black guy standing behind me..he said I thought ya might need some help... I thanked him shook hands and left. Yeah it was a stupid thing to do and was glad for the help. Called the police from a ways down the road and reported what I had done... They had multiple reports on the jerks and said thanks..They had found 'em on the side of the road... and for me to have a good day. Even then I kinda realized I had been very lucky

 

[old bear]

I can internal road rage on a regular basis, but I've finally learned to keep to myself. I've only been the Victim of road rage once. Traveling at 3 MPH ABOVE posted speed limit, in slow lane, some fool kept tailgating me. I slowed down and waved him around me several times, but the fool would not pass me. I finally slowed way down, as he passed honked horn and signaled he thought I was number 1. Chump.

 

[chaparrito]

I enjoy elevating the blood pressure of morons through the simple act of driving the posted speed limit. I do it all the time.

Another great way to anger these fools is to signal well ahead and slow down before turning from a main road onto a side road with a slower speed limit. Apparently these days you're supposed to turn from a 35mph road onto a 25mph road without braking at all. When did they change that rule?

 

[pharmer]

One time almost 40 years ago I was in a "parallel parking" spot. A guy left a spot for me to merge into traffic so I went. Guy goes nuts, honking and gesturing. I turn off into a neighborhood, guy follows. Goes on until I get out on Rt 46. I stop for a red light and the guy runs up, pounds on my driver' window then jumps on the hood of my big Buick "lead sled." Light goes green and I punch it, get up to about 35mph and lock up the brakes. Guy takes off like an F18 off a carrier deck. Didn't stop to see what happened and went about my day. Joe

 

[Tom S.]

You can't drive in Detroit without experiencing it both ways.

 

[hoosierone]

Too many instances to recall over the years. My policy is to try to get away from them if possible. My car goes 0 to 60 in 6 seconds, has decent tires and brakes. All, IMO important.

 

[allthumbs]

Another guilty , and was very disappointed in myself. I was taking the family to a beach (wife and 7 kids) in Wisconsin and it was 90 degrees out and our van had no A/C . I was fine until we arrived at the beach which was gated and I pull in and 1 car is in front of me checking in or trying to get in and a car pulls up behind me and hadn't even stopped rolling yet and hit his horn , I ignored it , then about 5 seconds later does it again , I ignored it , after doing this about 10 times he lays on the horn so I get out and said there is a car in front of me I can't move , he flipped me off , well , I walked up to his drivers side window and he couldn't roll it up fast enough , I just lost it and started punching the window until he put the trans in "R" and beat cheeks out of there. I was so ashamed to see the horror on my family's face , I've calmed down a lot since then.

 

[Rpg]

A few years ago, I was filling the car when a guy pulled off a busy street, parked near me and approched me screaming i'd cut his girlfrend off.

They weren't in the same car so girlfriend was talking to boyfriend via cell. Boyfriend hadn't seen what gf described, so was guessing about the offender.

I told bf that I had no idea what he was talking about.

He left.

I don't know whether he figured out I had a M38 in my pocket.

I never took my hand out of my pocket.