Road rage

[Crackpot]

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?

[Sean]

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?

With dipshits like that I respond by waving and smiling sweetly. It bugs the shit out of them!

[Gob]

Let's just say I'm not very good at that sort of thing..

As Hen would readily attest.

[Jarlaxle]

I'd call 911 and report him as an agressive driver.

[Sue U]

At the next stop light, roll down your window and say, in a very concerned and sympathetic tone: "So sorry about your penis."

[Gob]

LOL!!!

[Crackpot]

My attitude of road rage has always been the driver who gets more upset loses.

[Gob]

I lose...

[Crackpot]

I only really lost once even though I got the upper hand.

Jackass in Vette was dogging it in the fast lane and refused to let me pass. This continued to do so to the point where I got so pissed that I decided that he was either going to let me pass or I was going to drive him into the median wall. He backed off. the moment i was clear of the bastard my back muscles started tensing one at a time till my back was completely fucked up. It was months before all that worked it's way out.

Edited because I was at the point that I said point too many times.


Point

[The Hen]

I'm with Sean. I just act as if I haven't a clue what they are going on about. They end up giving me the finger even harder. I continue to act like they are waving at me or a fired. They end up giving up thinking I am a moron. Sometimes, they get picked up by the police for being a tosser. I like those ones best.

And yes, Gob is shocking to be a passenger with. Mr Hypocrite, him.

[dales]

Drive stewed to the gills, then you won't give a flying fcuk!

[@meric@nwom@n]

I tend to avoid road rage since it can get you shot.

[Gilead]

I think guns should be a standard option in all cars. Furthermore whenever a person is a bad driver, it'd be your duty to put a hole in their car. Then the BMV could check cars before issuing license. If you have more than 10 bullet holes in your car, you are too much of an asshole to be allowed to drive anymore.

An added plus would be if you fataly wounded the bad driver. You've now made the roads a safer place for your family.

[Gob]

I like it!!!

Though the population of Aus would probably end up in the 100's if I were allowed to shoot bad drivers.

Or at least drivers I consider bad....

[Gilead]

Another bonus. Population control.

[Crackpot]

I tend to avoid road rage since it can get you shot.

That's the thought that was nagging the back of my mind while I antagonized the asshole.

[Sue U]

Word.

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.

http://www.allbusiness.com/legal/eviden ... 281-1.html

I always assume the enraged driver has a brain tumor, but yeah, psychosis works too.

[BoSoxGal]

Awful story, Sue.

Great avatar, though!

[dales]

Years ago the comic Gallahger (sp?) had a novel idea for bad drivers.

Everyone would be issued a dart gun that shoots darts with suction cups on the end.

See an offending driver?

Shoot him/her/it with your gov.-issued dart gun.

The darts would permenently affix themselves to the offending car.

Get five darts and get a ticket for being an @sshole!

[loCAtek]

When I was driving...

When a driver was being an asshole; I would mess with their minds and give them a thumbs up ...it makes them stop and think, 'Why am I getting a thumbs up, I was being an asshole wasn't I?' This calms them with confusion; or at least makes them slow down they're so puzzled.