Favorite road rage story?

[GetJigginWithIt]

All the gun play stories are not that smart. Seems no one has respect for what a weapon can actually do. Maybe when you have rounds cracking over your head you will understand it is no game when it comes to firearms. Once a bullet leaves there is no calling it back and when you miss who's knows what is behind the intended target. If you decide to wave a weapon at someone you may not like the response.  Be prepared to receive the same in return. If you want to point a weapon at someone then join the military and get in contact. Maybe then you can respect what a round does to flesh and what can happen once a gunfight commences. 

[Sam]

I have averaged between 40,000 and 50,000 miles a year for the past 35 years on Virginia highways and byways and have never had a road rage encounter.

If I see a jack### on the road I let him or her go or I speed up to get away from them.

What bothers me is that there are so many drivers out there that do not know what is meant by flashing your headlights at them to tell them it is OK to come on over after they pass you. Or the drivers who stay in the bumper lane and not move over to allow the vehicles entering the roadway in the acceleration lane to get into the bumper lane or merge into traffic.

Another pet peeve is a driver who does not understand that the entrance ramps are actually called acceleration lanes so you can get your speed up to merge into traffic safely. This is where you have to be very careful if one of these types of drivers is ahead of you.

Yes, some drivers tick me off but I just take it in stride and let them go.

What I love best about a poor driver is seeing where the cops are on the road ahead via my WAZE program on my cell phone and then watching the dummies get pulled over for speeding as they don't use WAZE and get nailed right and left.

[Choporoz]

On 3/31/2016 at 0:51 PM, 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

 

On 4/1/2016 at 1:37 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.  

 

On 4/3/2016 at 8:52 PM, Catch 22 said:

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

I'm with @Jrob78  to a large degree....the speed limit vigilantes are not noble..and sometimes more dangerous than those they target

[Crappiebasser]

On May 15, 2016 at 1:29 AM, papajoe222 said:

Read it again. I was passing everyone.

Sounds like you were blocking traffic to me. Some states have 'slow poke' laws for just this situation. Slower traffic should always keep right regardless of speed.

[N Florida Mike]

On 5/15/2016 at 8:19 PM, Buffdaddy54 said:

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."

My word.

[Jd_Phillips_Fishin]

On 5/18/2016 at 3:32 PM, Crappiebasser said:

Sounds like you were blocking traffic to me. Some states have 'slow poke' laws for just this situation. Slower traffic should always keep right regardless of speed.

How is 20 MPH over the speed limit blocking traffic?

[Oregon Native]

Favorite would not be the right word for this topic....sad would be closer.  Don't even like to remember all the times people have shown such poor judgement in their abilities to handle themselves while driving.

[Crappiebasser]

14 hours ago, Carolina Bassin said:

How is 20 MPH over the speed limit blocking traffic?

Because there was traffic attempting to go faster but he was blocking it. Because he's going 20 mph over he earns the pace car slot to stop people from going 21 mph over?

[MassYak85]

When I was younger I was riding in the passenger seat of my dad's van. We were in the middle lane of the highway and this one guy thought the speed limit did not apply to him so he comes right up behind us, and after a few seconds of tailgating switches to the left lane and probably reached well over 100mph and started wizzing by everyone. Guess who's car we saw on it's side up against a rock cliff a mile up the road? Didn't look like anyone was seriously injured as we drove by the crash thankfully but I'd say that will teach the driver a valuable lesson. 

[MikeJames]

I drive around NOVA and DC every day and they give road rage a whole new meaning but one of my favorite happened on my way home from Quantico on leave. As I'm headed down Rt 50W I'm coming up on the small town of Middleburg when I see 2 Fire Trucks and an 2 Ambulance coming out of a gravel roadway with lights on. The car in front of me stops to let them pull out, as he should. The guy behind me starts going crazy beeping his horn and yelling, waving his arms.  I guess he was more important then Paramedics trying to do their jobs. I just ignore the guy but notice the driver in front of me watching in his side mirror when the psychopath behind me throws his car in park, gets out and starts walking up to my truck screaming and yelling. I was driving a Dodge Ram at the time and I guess he didn't see the on duty police officer in front of me because when the cop opened his door and started to step out the guy did an about face real quick lol. The cop ended up pulling over to get behind the guy and pulled him over but I don't know what happened from there.