Anyone here ever been involved in a Road Rage incidient?

[onza]

If both parties started in a car, and then one of the members got out of the car and approached the other member. I would consider that a threatening situation.

 

[mammador]

I had just left my house for work today when this ole dude pulls out in front of me, I lay on the horn, but yet he continues to pursue onto the main stretch and never even looks in my direction. Fortunately, I'm not going very fast and am able to get my vehicle to stop so there is no accident. (Here's where I screw up) I chase after him tailgating until I'm finally able to pass and then stop my vehicle in front of his. Like a fool, I get out and go to the drivers door and start yelling about how he couldn't see me, etc. Things are really starting to escalate and the next thing I know he has a gun out encouraging me to take action on him. After seeing the gun I finally decide it's not worth it (but believe it or not at the time I had to think about it)

After having a few minutes to cool off I realize the stupid mistake I made and I could have very easily been shot. It's strange though how this all happened in a flash and I'm not even known to have anger issues.

Just wondering have any of you guys/gals had any road rage lately?

The basic fact the guy is old would deter me. Both for ethical reasons (I'm in my prime and not old) and that should he call the police, it wouldn't look good in a courtroom for the judge and/or jury to hear a younger man beat down an older man.

Even still, I don't get road rage. Yes, roads must have rules, but not everybody follows rules. People also may not follow them for valid reasons. For all you know, the guy's wife or child may be sick and it's weighing on his mind.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Not really road rage, but a funny story. About 10 years ago my friend who lived in SF was cruising around with another friend in his convertible Z3 and these two teenage homophobe idiots pull up next to them at a stoplight and start yelling obscenities at them for no reason. My friend, who'd just gotten through the drive-thru at Jack in the Box, threw his full Dr. Pepper in through their passenger window and it explodes as it hits the punk that was doing most of the talking and zooms off before they can do anything about it.

LOL that's awesome. Your friends were lucky they weren't caught. I remember reading an article about some woman throwing a drink like in your story and she was charged with assaulting with a deadly weapon or something and was sentenced to a couple years in jail.

 

[olds]

The basic fact the guy is old would deter me. B....

When I was about 19, I had major surgery on my left knee. I rode my 10 speed everywhere, in 10th gear to strengthen the knee. I got hit by a car turning into a driveway in front of me. As I was flying through the air I was planning on how I was going to murder the person if I survived the flight. I was cut up but OK. I ran over the the car with the full intention of pulling the driver through the window and kicking their ass. It was an old man, about 90. I let it slide.

 

[chimaxi83]

And people wonder why all I care about is overwhelming horsepower...

Heated wireless singing dancing rotating flashing cup holders don't mean shit when this kind of pissing contest behavior goes down. The final word is who pwns who when everyone is flooring it. It's usually the person who loses and gets embarrassed and is unable to do anything about it that begins to road rage.

I don't play these ridiculous games. Posture dominance toward me, and it's two seconds on the throttle and your ass is going going gone

I love being able to do 60 to 120 back to 60 in the blink of an eye before anyone has time to look up and notice. It's the road raging sore loser doing 80, 90, 100, 105, 106.....107.....108.....109................ who has to stay in it for 5 minutes to catch up that's going to get seen and pulled over. :biggrin:

 

[NetWareHead]

I dont remember the exact details but I think it involved 2 lanes converging into one and the driver who was forced to fall in line behind me didn't appreciate it. He gave me the finger and as luck would have it, both of us were stopped at a red light at the next intersection; him behind me still.

He again gives me the finger and starts shouting out the window. I gave him the finger back and thats when he opens his door. I keep a bat in the car. Without exiting my vehicle, I pull it out and let the tip hang out the window so he can see it. I keep my eye on him as he reverses direction and gets back in his car. Light turns green...

 

[Slammy1]

When I was about 19, I had major surgery on my left knee. I rode my 10 speed everywhere, in 10th gear to strengthen the knee. I got hit by a car turning into a driveway in front of me. As I was flying through the air I was planning on how I was going to murder the person if I survived the flight. I was cut up but OK. I ran over the the car with the full intention of pulling the driver through the window and kicking their ass. It was an old man, about 90. I let it slide.

I was on a sidewalk, in front of a school xing, stopped on my bike some old guy runs a stop sign, jumps on the sidewalk to hit me. I was yelling at him he started shaking and I had to calm him down by talking nicely. I was hurt.

 

[Majcric]

The basic fact the guy is old would deter me. Both for ethical reasons (I'm in my prime and not old) and that should he call the police, it wouldn't look good in a courtroom for the judge and/or jury to hear a younger man beat down an older man.

Even still, I don't get road rage. Yes, roads must have rules, but not everybody follows rules. People also may not follow them for valid reasons. For all you know, the guy's wife or child may be sick and it's weighing on his mind.

My intentions were not to beat this man down at all, but rather let him know or get him to acknowledge what he had just done. (I thinking of my own safety as well others ie kids playing in the street, etc) There is no doubt what I done was wrong but the man went out of his way to try and get me to hit him so he could use his weapon. This is beside the point but I didn't know anything about his age until after I had approached the vehicle.

He was very incoherent, and his behavior behind the wheel being equivalent to a drunk driver literally. Just curious, but would you feel any differently had this been a drunk driver?

 

[Ns1]

See - other than a baseball bat that is VERY little difference from the OP story. A lot of people are bashing the old guy saying they should take away his CCL. Other than taking the gun out, how is that any different of a scenario?

Old man felt threatened - showed he will defend himself if he feels it is necessary, you walk away. Bleh, maybe I'm alone on this one...

agreed. old man in OP acted appropriately.

 

[njdevilsfan87]

I'm too passive a driver here. I don't drive slow, but I do with the intent to use a little of my brakes as possible. And to those I see driving aggressively cutting each other off during rush hour, making risky lane changes, and etc, I just kick back and relax, being glad I'm not that person stressed about whatever. In fact, driving is the time of my day where I just turn everything off, and relax.

 

[Slammy1]

My intentions were not to beat this man down at all, but rather let him know or get him to acknowledge what he had just done. (I thinking of my own safety as well others ie kids playing in the street, etc) There is no doubt what I done was wrong but the man went out of his way to try and get me to hit him so he could use his weapon. This is beside the point but I didn't know anything about his age until after I had approached the vehicle.

He was very incoherent, and his behavior behind the wheel being equivalent to a drunk driver literally. Just curious, but would you feel any differently had this been a drunk driver?

I had the same issue with the guy in my story. I was telling him that there were kids in the school crossing not 5 minutes before, and that it was time to stop driving. Every year with the weather change my leg stiffens, and the bike I was riding fell apart but I let the guy go because I felt bad. I was pumped on adrenaline and endorphins, didn't know I was hurt as bad as I was. I wonder, too, if I'll be driving longer than I should. Grey Dawn.

 

[xanis]

Nothing too crazy. Recently I was out in the next town over picking up some food and was trying to make a left onto the main strip. It's a pretty "crowded" road; there's street parking on both sides where some semis usually park to unload for the local supermarket/convenience stores and there's usually a fair amount of traffic. Basically, not a lot of traffic openings and poor visibility. I was waiting to make the left and a guy kept honking at me to floor it and squeeze myself into a gap, which wasn't happening. I took both hands off the wheel and flipped him the double-bird out of my sunroof, then proceeded to wait and make the turn at approximately 5mph when the coast was finally clear. He lays on his horn, floors it to the right, and almost hits a parked car trying to speed around me. Good times.

 

[Raduque]

I have a couple of stories.

First one was probably 5ish years ago, I was driving home in my black truck (f150 Supercab 6.5' bed) and I needed to get onto the frontage road, which is a right-hand turn. The street I was on, the three lanes as you approach the freeway were, from left to right, Left turn under the overpass, straight/left turn, right-turn only. Traffic was pretty heavy, and there were some teenagers in an older Taurus that was playing the old "close the gap, open the gap" game to try and keep me from merging. Every time I put on my blinker and tried moving over, they'd close the gap by about a foot. So as we got closer to the light, I HAD to take that turn, or get stuck going straight or turning left and looping back around. Well, as soon as they opened the gap, I simply shoved my truck into the spot. I had about 4-6" of clearence on either end (Sorry guy in front of me!) They got all pissy and went into the center lane to yell obscenities at me. I gave them the finger, told them to go fuck themselves, rolled up my windows and made my turn. That truck was 14'4" from the tow hooks in front to the trailer ball out back. Give me 14'5" and I'll take it. Fucking kids playing games.

An other time that comes to mind, and God bless that day I forgot to bring my firearm with me, a major asshole ran me off the road, quite literally. On a 4-lane street with a left turn lane, I'm in the right hand lane, and a jackass in a quad cab diesel dodge ram dually with stacks pulling a 40-ft flatbed gooseneck trailer is in the left hand lane. Another jackass stops in front of him to turn left, STILL IN THE TRAFFIC LANE. The dodge slows down, and suddenly without warning and without looking, slams on the gas and moves into my lane. I'm about half-way past his trailer when this happens and we're all going about 40mph. I slam on my brakes, lay on my horn and go full lock to the right, jump the curb and barely miss taking out the speed limit sign. He never heard my horn because his exhaust was so loud, the sound it literally smothered every other sound around him. I'm calling him every name in the god damned book, and I pull up next to him at the light. He still has his windows up and is pointed not looking in my direction, even when I start throwing pennies at him. He may not have paid attention, but he knew exactly what he did after the fact and he clearly wasn't sorry.

fleshconsumed's story also reminds me of another time in my black truck, there was a traffic jam at a popular restaurant that I used to eat breakfast at almost every day. I was backed into a spot that had one of those parking lot stoppers, then a curb with a small grassy median behind it, and an empty parking lot behind that. A cute-ish young woman in a small car, like a Corolla or something, was waiting for me to exit my spot so she could park there, but there were too many cars entering the parking lot and movement had stalled because every spot was full. Cars were lined up behind her out into the street almost, I couldn't move forward, and she couldn't move backward. So, I did what any guy would do: I put it in 4wd low, put it in reverse, gave the girl a little wave and blew her a kiss, then drove backwards over the obstacles. She was clearly not used to seeing such behavior, because when she realized what I was doing, her eyes lit up with a child-like glee, she got this huge grin on her face and started laughing, and she waved at me as I pulled away and exited the neighboring parking lot.

 

[Tweak155]

Plenty of people drive faster than me without incident. When nobody is provoking anything I'm actually a calm and conservative driver and will ALWAYS yield to people who ask and I always obey a rule of first come first served in yielding right of way. There is a difference between people who are just clueless and driving fast vs people who deliberately target people and have something to prove with their cute little acts of intimidation and dominance. If you drive you know the difference, quit feigning ignorance.

Example. Burying their lights in your bumper when you are doing 10 over in the right lane and three other lanes are open. Then they swerve out and try to fly by at WOT and then don't even take the next several turns or exits. Lo and behold its a slammed BMW or Mustang or G37 or something. Yeah he's just in a hurry, that's it

I'm not feigning ignorance. I'd also never do 10 over in the right lane unless I happen to be exiting and for some reason was speeding to begin with (probably not since I was a teenager). You clearly have aggression issues.

Additionally, people burying their lights in my bumper does not bother me. Get a mirror with an auto dimmer if this is an issue for you. I can't say it's happened more than twice in my driving career, at least intentionally.

If this is a common occurence for you, consider yourself as the possible problem. I drive in the Detroit / Detroit metro area so it's not like I have it easy.

 

[exdeath]

I'm not feigning ignorance. I'd also never do 10 over in the right lane unless I happen to be exiting and for some reason was speeding to begin with (probably not since I was a teenager). You clearly have aggression issues.

Additionally, people burying their lights in my bumper does not bother me. Get a mirror with an auto dimmer if this is an issue for you. I can't say it's happened more than twice in my driving career, at least intentionally.

If this is a common occurence for you, consider yourself as the possible problem. I drive in the Detroit / Detroit metro area so it's not like I have it easy.

Its Tucson honestly. I've been to other cities around the country and don't encounter anywhere near the number of douchebag drivers as I do here. People here are just aggressive and like to compensate for their shitty life by dominating others in their cars when they think they can get away with it. Even Phoenix 125 miles North of here isn't bad.

 

[feralkid]

I'm not even known to have anger issues

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