Favorite road rage story?

[N Florida Mike]

I do a lot of driving with my job in N.E Florida.I have had some of the most bizarre incidents while driving you can imagine.What's some of yours?

[Fishing Rhino]

I'm not sure this constitutes "road rage" but it's close enough.

This harkens back to my lobstering days. 

A particular, extremely large, close to four hundred pounds, fisherman returned to port after a three day offshore trip.  When he tried to start his car, the battery was dead.  He flew into a rage (must have been a tough trip) got out of his car, climbed onto the roof and jumped up and down until the entire roof was buckled in.

Someone came along with jumper cables.  Too late.  He had to cram himself, hunched up, into the car.  I'm not sure, but those of us who witnessed the display conjectured that the consumption of adult beverages might have played a role.

It didn't help that we broke into laughter at the sight of this huge fellow collapsing the roof of his vehicle, which seemed to feed his frenzy.

[Hurricane]

I can't stand rubber neckers..  Drives me insane..

[buzzed bait]

my mom was in a near death car accident when i was about 13 and was airlifted from franklin, nc to asheville, nc...  my dad was driving my brother and i over and was hauling....  a state trooper friend of ours had put out the word that we were headed to the hospital and not to pull him over so he was doing about 90 MPH the whole way there.  along the way a car was just puttering along in the left lane and then started taunting my dad as he would try to pass them in the right lane.  he managed to get beside them and they were laughing and gave him the middle finger, which usually sets my dad off anyways!  about that time he pulled out the S&W 357 with the 6 inch barrel and rolled down the window and didn't point it at the car, but up in the air.  

they locked down the brakes and went from about 55MPH to nearly 0MPH instantly!!!  we went on to the hospital!

[Netfish and Chill]

4 minutes ago, buzzed bait said:

about that time he pulled out the S&W 357 with the 6 inch barrel and rolled down the window and didn't point it at the car, but up in the air. 

Your dad sounds like a boss! Hahaha I just imagine him looking across at them, holding up a gun, and going:

~ Mr. Netfish and Chill 

[fishinfiend]

love to laugh at them to enrage them more. Also love to break check or speed up and pace another car to keep them blocked in. lol 

 

honestly one of my favorite things to do is irritate people with bad temper.

also love using break signal to deter them from trying to pass

[Senko lover]

5 hours ago, buzzed bait said:

my mom was in a near death car accident when i was about 13 and was airlifted from franklin, nc to asheville, nc...  my dad was driving my brother and i over and was hauling....  a state trooper friend of ours had put out the word that we were headed to the hospital and not to pull him over so he was doing about 90 MPH the whole way there.  along the way a car was just puttering along in the left lane and then started taunting my dad as he would try to pass them in the right lane.  he managed to get beside them and they were laughing and gave him the middle finger, which usually sets my dad off anyways!  about that time he pulled out the S&W 357 with the 6 inch barrel and rolled down the window and didn't point it at the car, but up in the air.  

they locked down the brakes and went from about 55MPH to nearly 0MPH instantly!!!  we went on to the hospital!

Oh crap!! ROFL. The one time you can get away with that.

[gr8outdoorz]

4 hours ago, fishinfiend said:

love to laugh at them to enrage them more. Also love to break check or speed up and pace another car to keep them blocked in. lol 

 

honestly one of my favorite things to do is irritate people with bad temper.

also love using break signal to deter them from trying to pass

I would not do that here in Memphis! We have had 3 road rage shootings in the last month. Unfortunately, people around here are quick to pull a gun.

[Jd_Phillips_Fishin]

10 hours ago, buzzed bait said:

 they locked down the brakes and went from about 55MPH to nearly 0MPH instantly!!!  we went on to the hospital!

I love it!

[KyAngler_1120]

I have seen the results of road rage one too many times in my profession. One of the more recent ones involved two OTR truck drivers who got got ticked at each other while driving over God really knows what. The instigator of the event was a Middle Eastern man and the other party was a white man from South Carolina. They ended up in one of our local truck stops and while the Middle Eastern man sat at  a booth the while man came up behind him and put a small .25acp pocket pistol under his chin and couldn't get the gun to fire (it was a cheap Jennings that turned out to have a malfunction). The case ended up being turned over to Federal authorities because they are taking it as a hate crime because of racial slurs were used during the assault.  

[papajoe222]

 This happened just last week on my way into Chicago.  I was doing somewhere between 70-75mph on the interstate where the speed limit is 55. An older van gets up on my bumper like I'm going to go faster because he's right on my butt. We're in the left lane passing everyone to our right and when he finally figures out I'm not going to move over he makes a quick change to the middle lane, gasses the old POS and about the time he gets past my front bumper he makes a quick cut back in front of me. Well, that's what he tried to do. He cut it too hard and shot across both the lane I was in and the shoulder. He sideswiped the concrete barrier and blew his left front tire.  The idiot is lucky he didn't kill himself.  Lucky for me, I anticipated he might cut me off and slowed a little just as he did this. I watched it all in my rear view mirror. Something tells me I could have been doing 80mph and he still would have tried it.  

[Redlinerobert]

Wow.  Try 90% of this in CA and you'd end up in jail. 

[N Florida Mike]

I've got many but this one is one of the strangest.I was coming home one night around 10 or so.No traffic.I'm in a mellow mood, had been to church.I get to the last light before my house.One car in front of me.Nobody else around.The light turns green.Car doesn't move.I wait.Seconds go by.Car doesn't move.I don't honk.Finally,he starts going very slowly across the intersection. We barely make it through the light.I'm finally getting fed up, so I accelerate and try to pass on the right.He immediately blocks me on the right.I try to pass on the left- he blocks me on the left.I'm getting ticked off.He cuts suddenly back right so I see my chance and floor it.Then he cuts hard left so he's completely sideways and Im about to slam into his door.I lock them up and lay on the horn.I see him sitting there staring straight ahead My headlights were right on his face.Then he slowly turns full left and goes past me in the other direction.Never makes eye contact or said a word.I'm  kind of shocked by the whole thing and couldn't speak.Then I decide to follow him,and maybe get his license number but he simply vanished in the few seconds it took me to turn around.Never have been able to figure it out.Drugs or alcohol related I reckon.

[Hurricane]

10 hours ago, N Florida Mike said:

I've got many but this one is one of the strangest.I was coming home one night around 10 or so.No traffic.I'm in a mellow mood, had been to church.I get to the last light before my house.One car in front of me.Nobody else around.The light turns green.Car doesn't move.I wait.Seconds go by.Car doesn't move.I don't honk.Finally,he starts going very slowly across the intersection. We barely make it through the light.I'm finally getting fed up, so I accelerate and try to pass on the right.He immediately blocks me on the right.I try to pass on the left- he blocks me on the left.I'm getting ticked off.He cuts suddenly back right so I see my chance and floor it.Then he cuts hard left so he's completely sideways and Im about to slam into his door.I lock them up and lay on the horn.I see him sitting there staring straight ahead My headlights were right on his face.Then he slowly turns full left and goes past me in the other direction.Never makes eye contact or said a word.I'm  kind of shocked by the whole thing and couldn't speak.Then I decide to follow him,and maybe get his license number but he simply vanished in the few seconds it took me to turn around.Never have been able to figure it out.Drugs or alcohol related I reckon.

Probably a drunk driver..  Crazy story. 

[BassinLou]

My story is pretty funny. I go to work pretty early in the morning. In this particular morning, I was relaxed listening to my audio book and I reach a red light. I'm behind a car, and another car is behind me. The light turns green, and the car behind me honks his horn. I don't think any thing of it, until the guy in the lead car swerves to his left and then proceeds to get behind me and starts honking his horn at me!! He thought I had honked at him... LOL!! Fortunately he swerved back to another lane a drove off all upset thinking I honked at him. SMH... thankgoodness nothing else  happened. People are very short tempered nowadays. 

[deaknh03]

When I was much younger I was out with a buddy after the bars closed, and we had stopped for a coffee. We were leaving the coffee place with our drinks and someone cut my buddy off..the chase was on. My buddy drove after him for like 5 mins, trying to get next to him, and finally he did, and when we were close enough my buddy took his hot coffee and whipped it at the guy...the thing was, my buddies window was rolled up and he ended up with the coffee all over himself. Lesson learned, and I'm pretty sure I ticked myself laughing.

[Redlinerobert]

Now that's funny. 

[Jd_Phillips_Fishin]

Man, people are crazy

[Catch 22]

No rage here but. 4 lane  divided road, I`m in right lane with a car in the left lane.So Mr toad gets right on my rear so I gently slow a little. The other car is slightly ahead  now so Mr Toad changes lane and tailgates him.So I speed up to get a little ahead of the left car and Mr Toad jumps in my lane again.I slow a little and MrToad changes to  the left again.I did that about 8 or 10 times to him lmao. Finally I slowed enough for  him to get by.The next light catches him a quarter mile ahead of me. I pulled up next to him and smiled. He knew he was had. The end.

I used to drive 53 miles one way to work and I saw some crazy stuff. One guy in a VW Rabbit actually drove  his hood under the rear of a semi flat bed by at least 2 feet to squeeze in front of me by about 2 feet. I didn`t see it developing till it was over.The guy was an engineer on the job I was working . After that I was always on the lookout for him..

I saw people drive on the grass medium strip to pass a couple times. My policy ==don`t mess with them

[Dan_the_fisher]

On March 31, 2016 at 10:26 AM, buzzed bait said:

my mom was in a near death car accident when i was about 13 and was airlifted from franklin, nc to asheville, nc...  my dad was driving my brother and i over and was hauling....  a state trooper friend of ours had put out the word that we were headed to the hospital and not to pull him over so he was doing about 90 MPH the whole way there.  along the way a car was just puttering along in the left lane and then started taunting my dad as he would try to pass them in the right lane.  he managed to get beside them and they were laughing and gave him the middle finger, which usually sets my dad off anyways!  about that time he pulled out the S&W 357 with the 6 inch barrel and rolled down the window and didn't point it at the car, but up in the air.  

they locked down the brakes and went from about 55MPH to nearly 0MPH instantly!!!  we went on to the hospital!

I live about halfway Inbetween Franklin and Asheville, and those guys sound like the typical drivers around here

[Buffdaddy54]

Early 1960's 64 maybe 65 my dad takes me to work with him one day. He worked for a glass company back then and his job was to go out and give estimates on jobs. So this day we are heading out on a job and we are driving through SE DC. he cuts a guy off by accident and the guy gets ticked. Guy catches up to us and cuts us off which almost causes an accident. Now my dads ticked, he guns it and catches up to the guy, reaches across me, rolls down the window and lets loose every cuss word know to man. I guess the guys takes offense so he pulls out a gun and points it at my dad and says something to the affect that if my dad doesn't shut the f__k up he will regret it.

Now  my dad was the kind of guy who did not scare easily,so,he proceeds to reach across me open the glove box and pull out his own gun. So here we are rolling through South East DC with my dad and this other guy pointing guns at each other. Needless to say as an elementary aged kid  in between two guys with guns I soiled my pants just alittle. After it's over my dad pulls off to the side of the road and says"if you ever tell your mother about this I will kick your as_ do you understand?" After that day I had a renewed sense of fear for my dad.

It took 20 years before I ever told my mother. She said "I knew about from over hearing your father talking to his friends one day, that's why you never went to work with your father again."

[MFBAB]

Guys, waving a gun in someones face is aggravated assault, AKA a felony.  I'm just saying.

Elements of Aggravated Assault

All states consider aggravated assault to be a felony offense, though some states consider it to be a “wobbler”—an offense that could be charged either as a misdemeanor or a felony depending on the circumstances. As its name implies, the charge of aggravated assault must be more than just scaring or threatening someone with physical harm. For example, spitting on someone is offensive contact, though it may not be physically harmful, as is pretending to punch someone. Both are examples of simple assault.

For aggravated assault, the typical elements are:

• An intent to create an apprehension in another person;
• An act that would likely result in the application of force with a deadly weapon or with some other means of force likely to cause serious bodily injury; and
• The present ability to cause the application of force that would cause serious bodily injury.

 

[Jrob78]

On 4/1/2016 at 0:37 AM, papajoe222 said:

 This happened just last week on my way into Chicago.  I was doing somewhere between 70-75mph on the interstate where the speed limit is 55. An older van gets up on my bumper like I'm going to go faster because he's right on my butt. We're in the left lane passing everyone to our right and when he finally figures out I'm not going to move over he makes a quick change to the middle lane, gasses the old POS and about the time he gets past my front bumper he makes a quick cut back in front of me. Well, that's what he tried to do. He cut it too hard and shot across both the lane I was in and the shoulder. He sideswiped the concrete barrier and blew his left front tire.  The idiot is lucky he didn't kill himself.  Lucky for me, I anticipated he might cut me off and slowed a little just as he did this. I watched it all in my rear view mirror. Something tells me I could have been doing 80mph and he still would have tried it.  

You're in the wrong on this one.  You don't get to set the speed for the left lane.  It's called the passing lane for a reason.

[papajoe222]

1 minute ago, Jrob78 said:

You're in the wrong on this one.  You don't get to set the speed for the left lane.  It's called the passing lane for a reason.

Read it again. I was passing everyone.

[Jrob78]

13 minutes ago, papajoe222 said:

Read it again. I was passing everyone.

Not everyone.   Obviously he overreacted and acted like an idiot but you should have let him pass.