Plan B Forum

Crackpot wrote:So I'm out running errands and I'm making a left hand turn into the middle lane of a five lane road to merge into traffic. I quickly check my mirrors and blindspot before merging into traffic. Apparently I missed something because I hear a horn (a little longer than needed) and sure enough there's a car coming up along/behind me. I swerve back in to the middle lane as I notice that this guy held the lane tight even though the next lane is open. It doesn't matter mea culpa.

Time passes and I eventually come up along side this guy he honks his horn at me. Yeah I had a suspicion this was that guy. I ignore him. Dipshit then cuts me off. I give him the bird. He flips it back. I give him the knuckle shuffle. He flips the bird again. I respond in kind.

During this time I'm thinking it probably isn't wise to antagonize this asshole but I can't resist. Especially since I can tell it's getting under his skin. (I'm sure you've noticed that I love antagonizing assholes especially when it's over something that I really don't care/not going to get worked up about)

I turn into my next destination asshole goes on his way.

What would have you done different/what have you done in similar circumstances?

@meric@nwom@n wrote:I tend to avoid road rage since it can get you shot.

Philadelphia man held for trial in road-rage shooting
By Joseph A. Slobodzian The Philadelphia Inquirer
Publication: Philadelphia Inquirer (Pennsylvania)
Date: Wednesday, September 16 2009

Sep. 16--It began in South Jersey with high beams approaching at high speed in the rearview mirror.

It ended in South Philadelphia after a five-mile angry, obscenity-fueled vehicular duel, with Thomas Timko slumped against the wheel with a head wound, his 8-year-old daughter frantic in the backseat.

As for former Marine Christian Squillaciotti, he was speeding home with no memory of what he did, his wife screaming hysterically next to him.

The description was Squillaciotti's, given to Philadelphia police detectives eight days after the Oct. 5 incident. It was the centerpiece of yesterday's preliminary hearing in which Squillaciotti, 34, was ordered held for trial by a Municipal Court judge.

Squillaciotti is accused of pulling along the passenger side of Timko's 2001 Toyota Highlander SUV, moments after the two vehicles had entered the Schuylkill Expressway from the Walt Whitman Bridge and as they were nearing the Passyunk Avenue exit.

Police say Squillaciotti fired four shots at the SUV, shattering the rear passenger window, and one shot hit Timko in the head.

In his statement, read by Detective Eric Johnson, Squillaciotti -- who has a history of mental illness and posttraumatic stress disorder -- said he had a psychotic episode after the stressful confrontation with Timko.

Squillaciotti told the detective that it was as if a third person had joined him and his wife, Chastity, in the cab of his Ford F-150 pickup.

"I just remember a voice saying 'Kill him, kill the [expletive],' " Squillaciotti told him, Johnson testified.

"I honestly don't remember why I pulled the trigger," Squillaciotti said, referring to the new .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol he said he had bought himself for his birthday.