road rage at 12:45am
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From: Bethlehem PA
Originally Posted by RiceBurninVTEC
he cut me off and i kept my speed... i came up on him pretty fast but i slowed down in time to leave about a 3 car length cushion between us.
apparently he didnt think i was giving him enough room. and then i guess he got behind me to 'give me a taste of my own medicine' even tho i was a good distance behind him and then when he felt that he 'got me back' or 'taught me a lesson' he turned around and made the turn he missed by trying to piss me off.
apparently he didnt think i was giving him enough room. and then i guess he got behind me to 'give me a taste of my own medicine' even tho i was a good distance behind him and then when he felt that he 'got me back' or 'taught me a lesson' he turned around and made the turn he missed by trying to piss me off.
lol.........dont you wish you could see the other persons facial expression in a situation like this.
Your driving at your own pace in peace and then have some idiot behind probably cursing you out etc.....
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I'm sure it'll happen to you again. It's happened to me twice in the past few years, where in my opinion, the other driver was at fault. I never honk my horn and give the finger until after the other person has. That's when i'm ready to kick somebodys ass. 
I read an article in the paper the other day, where somebody got shot and killed over a road rage incident. Not to mention, i actually saw a fight on side of the road the other day, obviously over road rage.
I read an article in the paper the other day, where somebody got shot and killed over a road rage incident. Not to mention, i actually saw a fight on side of the road the other day, obviously over road rage.
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The problem is that tailgating in one form or another has become the accepted means of communication between drivers. So everyone tailgates in one form or another, and yet everyone when they get tailgated takes offense. If people understood that a quick flash or two of the highbeams was a request to pass, such requests could be made without any unsafe following distances followed by brake checks.
What I think is particularly stupid is when I'm going plenty fast on a highway (let's say 85 in a 65 zone) and I come up on a car in front of me that's going like 75-80 in the left lane. The car in front of me doesn't speed up and slowly makes their pass of several slower cars in the right lane. Then some imbecile comes up behind me, obviously sees the slow-moving car in front of me since it's not exactly very hard for someone in a regular-sized car to see over a Miata with its top lowered, and proceeds to tailgate me as if that'll get the person in front of me to speed up. I give a brake check and a shift into reverse with a foot on the clutch, which will occasionally get the tailgater to back off. Once the blockage clears though I speed back up to 85 or whatever and leave the tailgater behind me. With any luck they realize the car in front of me was blocking the way, but most likely they probably thought I just took a long time to bend to their will expressed with tailgating.
So folks, the next time you have the urge to tailgate someone, maintain a safe following distance and flash your brights instead. Spread the good word!
What I think is particularly stupid is when I'm going plenty fast on a highway (let's say 85 in a 65 zone) and I come up on a car in front of me that's going like 75-80 in the left lane. The car in front of me doesn't speed up and slowly makes their pass of several slower cars in the right lane. Then some imbecile comes up behind me, obviously sees the slow-moving car in front of me since it's not exactly very hard for someone in a regular-sized car to see over a Miata with its top lowered, and proceeds to tailgate me as if that'll get the person in front of me to speed up. I give a brake check and a shift into reverse with a foot on the clutch, which will occasionally get the tailgater to back off. Once the blockage clears though I speed back up to 85 or whatever and leave the tailgater behind me. With any luck they realize the car in front of me was blocking the way, but most likely they probably thought I just took a long time to bend to their will expressed with tailgating.
So folks, the next time you have the urge to tailgate someone, maintain a safe following distance and flash your brights instead. Spread the good word!
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From: Sacramelto, home after 10 years in Texas
Sorry Mike, that just plain does not work in the USA, because the average person has total disregard for everyone else on the road. I have never had someone get over when I flashed them. I never tailgate, unless it is on purpose after I have been cut off, or someone has done something else dangerous to me. Nobody here has lane discipline, most Americans would have their licenses revoked after a week driving in Germany.
Guy got a closed head injury and died a few days after a Kings game following an altercation in the parking lot concerning getting out of the lot last week. The police are not pressing charges as they say it was a "consensual fight" which seems a little insane to me. So if someone attacks me, if I fight back they can kill me and get off, that just seems wrong.
Guy got a closed head injury and died a few days after a Kings game following an altercation in the parking lot concerning getting out of the lot last week. The police are not pressing charges as they say it was a "consensual fight" which seems a little insane to me. So if someone attacks me, if I fight back they can kill me and get off, that just seems wrong.