Have you ever actually *witnessed* an act of road rage?

[pclstyle]

Originally posted by: franksta
Two guys fighting in the street in front of our house. I'm not sure what incited the incident but it was rather funny to watch two grown men duke it out in the street. I called the police but the dispute was settled before they arrived.

musta been at least worth watching if there was actually an exchange of blows.

most fights i've witnessed have been one individual (or group of individuals) complete dominating their opponent. the average person, most likely, has never experienced a good solid blow to the head. the first time it happens, you're usually disabled as soon as it connects.

all our macho atot men out there, stifle your outcry. yes i know you can defend yourself and your loved ones. i myself have been in more than a few scraps, and trust myself enough to stand and fight, successfully - unless a weapon is drawn (or the guy is 6'7" 300 lbs). but the first time i got hit in the face- man, i learned to watch those fists quick after that.

 

[Mani]

Originally posted by: pclstyle
She flips me the bird, and gives me the grand old evil eye. Now, in typical fashion for myself, I look her right back, and i do the whole exaggerated spaz routine, eyes opened wide, shaking fists in the air, yelling "GWARARARARAR". Generally it either weirds people out enough to be like "okay fvck it not worth it", or they get ticked off more- but really, how do you respond to something like that?

lol

 

[Koing]

I saw this complete tosser of an M3 driver on the road today. He was moving from lane to lane to pass traffice. Fair enough when he has the gaps in traffic. BUT then he moves right in to the slow lane and of course there is a driver in the slow lane, going slow. Suprise suprise . The guy in front puts on his emergency lights to tell the M3 to back off a bit. M3 over takes when he has the chance and then puts his emergency lights on to give an up yours to the other driver. F0cking idiot M3 driver.

Slow drivers go in the slow lane, don't get p!ssed at tail gating them as it's the dam slow lane!

When I go in to the slow lane I don't care as I'm about to turn off at the next junction.

Koing

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: alimoalem
wtf is wrong with all yall backing off? someone pisses you off, you make them know it. i was driving from berkeley to oakland with my boy a few months ago and this dumb*ss is leanin back in his cadillac thinking he's a pimp n while in the traffic. i'm to his right with the front of my car about equal to where his front and back doors divide. the b*tch swerves into my lane not looking so he doesn't have to brake for the car ahead and i'm forced to pump my brakes (don't have abs) and had to turn so i was all the way in the right side of my lane. i progress with a 10 second honk (along with cursing of course) and i pull up next to the guy. when i get parallel to him, i stick half my body out my window and extend my arm with a fully extended middle finger (almost close enough to touch his car) and had my right hand on the horn. that's what you do.

Let us know what the bullet feels like.

I believe in standing up for myself... and when pushed into a corner, I most certainly will. But you have NO IDEA what that "pimp" in the Caddy is capable of. For all you know, there's a 12 guage under his seat.

 

[NaOH]

Originally posted by: d33pt

Originally posted by: AMDUALY

Originally posted by: jbourne77

Originally posted by: AMDUALY
My girl "friend" was driving and was cut off by this lady with a bunch of kids in a van. She then cut her off back and they had a little game going back and forth. When they reached a red light, the lady got out of her car and walked up to my friends car who rolled down the window for her. The lady then slapped my friend in the face and yelled at her for endangering her kids and walked back to her car. My friend was speechless.

That's another thing... if you stick a limb through my window, you lose it. Grab hold of it and floor it. Take that bitch for a ride.

If you did that and messed them up pretty bad, you could use self defense as a way out of assault charges right (or manslaughter if when you left go they roll under your tires)?

What do you mean? Their arm got tangled up in your seatbelt wihle you were just driving away trying not to get punched. That's all.

 

[pclstyle]

Originally posted by: jbourne77

Originally posted by: alimoalem
wtf is wrong with all yall backing off? someone pisses you off, you make them know it. i was driving from berkeley to oakland with my boy a few months ago and this dumb*ss is leanin back in his cadillac thinking he's a pimp n while in the traffic. i'm to his right with the front of my car about equal to where his front and back doors divide. the b*tch swerves into my lane not looking so he doesn't have to brake for the car ahead and i'm forced to pump my brakes (don't have abs) and had to turn so i was all the way in the right side of my lane. i progress with a 10 second honk (along with cursing of course) and i pull up next to the guy. when i get parallel to him, i stick half my body out my window and extend my arm with a fully extended middle finger (almost close enough to touch his car) and had my right hand on the horn. that's what you do.

Let us know what the bullet feels like.

I believe in standing up for myself... and when pushed into a corner, I most certainly will. But you have NO IDEA what that "pimp" in the Caddy is capable of. For all you know, there's a 12 guage under his seat.

qft.... oakland is no orange county either.

hell, why escalate? god knows that if i was the pimp and i had a .357 in the glove, i would have waved it in your face at that point. then you'd be the one flooring it through the light, sweating profusely. and i have a good deal of restraint. someone else could easily finish that wave with a bullet through the glass, happens all the time.

believe me, in a world where people kill others by mauling them with the axe they just picked up from home depot, or hitting them in the chest with a a bolt from the crossbow in the trunk, or take the TIME to beat them to death with an aluminum bat from their kid's little league bag.... it will happen.

 

[ahurtt]

Originally posted by: NTB

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: NTB

Originally posted by: luckysnafu
I was leaving a mall one day and some jerk in a truck decided he didn't want to wait in the left turn lane like he should have and went around everybody on the right. He turned while I was turning so I beeped at him. He game me the finger so I laid on the horn and gave him the finger back. I followed him to a red light and after we stopped he got out of his truck and came back to my car freakin pissed off. I had my windows down since it was my old car with no ac. He came up to my window and threatened to kill me. Said he would kill me if I did anything. I just sat there and let him vent. He got in his truck and took off. I was so freaked out I didn't even get his plate. I wish I would have since I could have called the cops on him. That's the best I have.

That reminds me...

I was driving home one day, after having a particularly *bad* day, and almost went nose-to-nose with this guy in a little old Dakota who pulled away from the curb without looking. Being in such a wonderful mood, I called the guy an asshole, but the windows were rolled up and the car was running and moving, so I didn't think anything about it. Certainly didn't think he heard me. Anyway, I proceeded down the street and pulled into my driveway about a block away. A minute or two later, he pulls up behind me, rolls his window down, and asked me if I just called him an asshole. I looked him in the eye, and said "no sir, I did not", and we proceeded to argue for a few minutes before he finally got fed up and drove off

Nate

I've always thought that if you're man enough to spout off at the mouth, you ought to be man enough to back up your words. To do any less is pussified.

like I said, I'd already had a bad day; I really didn't feel like fighting at the moment. Besides, what are you calling me a pussy for? I was just standing there in my front yard, perfectly *ready* to fight if he wanted to, but he never even opened his door to get out of the truck

Nate

"Being in such a wonderful mood, I called the guy an asshole," and then "he pulls up behind me, rolls his window down, and asked me if I just called him an asshole." and then 'I looked him in the eye, and said "no sir, I did not" '

You == Pussy

 

[PingSpike]

I saw a jeep wrangler and I believe an SUV on the interstate, the jeep in front and the SUV driving directly on his ass with his right blinker constantly on. Every time the SUV changed lanes the wranger immediate cut him off. I would have called the cops, but I don't own a cell.

 

[GTaudiophile]

I personally have not, but I guess I can share this story.

One of my dad's best friends is a fellow Citadel graduate. He's probably 5'5" but has numerous bench-press awards; he can bench like 400 lbs. or something insane like that. So, he's a stalky guy. He's also a farmer in the Santee, South Carolina area. You get the picture.

Anyway, he buys a nice convertible Corvette, probably early-90s variant. He's driving with his wife through some little red neck town in South Carolina when he pulls up to a red light across from some old banged-up house where white trash have congregated on the front porch. Out of the corner of his eye he notices one of the dudes eying his wife in the passenger seat. He glares down the dude in return. The white trash dude didn't take this too well so he walks off the porch and begins approaching the Corvette and eventually puts his hand on the car. The Corvette driver ain't gonna have any of this sh!t, so he reaches down and pulls out a 45 Magnum pistol, cocks it, and points it at the dude and says, "Get your fvcking hand off my car or you won't have a hand." The dude backs off back to the porch, and the Corvette drives off.

True story.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Originally posted by: alimoalem
wtf is wrong with all yall backing off? someone pisses you off, you make them know it. i was driving from berkeley to oakland with my boy a few months ago and this dumb*ss is leanin back in his cadillac thinking he's a pimp n while in the traffic. i'm to his right with the front of my car about equal to where his front and back doors divide. the b*tch swerves into my lane not looking so he doesn't have to brake for the car ahead and i'm forced to pump my brakes (don't have abs) and had to turn so i was all the way in the right side of my lane. i progress with a 10 second honk (along with cursing of course) and i pull up next to the guy. when i get parallel to him, i stick half my body out my window and extend my arm with a fully extended middle finger (almost close enough to touch his car) and had my right hand on the horn. that's what you do.

like a year ago i was in oakland and this fool was tail gating me in a jeep in the left most lane. we were going fast but i slowed down to like 80 in the 55 zone. he was right on me so i slowed down to 60. then i sped back up. he started tail gating again. this time i saw a cop in the 3rd lane so i figured i'll piss the jeep off and try getting him a ticket. i dropped to 50 real quickly so he'd be forced to slam on his brakes. i pulled to the 2nd lane when he was still going like 70 and he just went by me. right when he saw the cop he slammed his brakes so the bast*rd didn't get the ticket but he almost did.


anyway, you oguys gotta stop standing up for yourselves.

You're not standing up for yourself. You're just asking to get killed one way or another.

Wow, you gave him a super hardcore bird b/c your body was half way out of the car. What a dumbass. Yeah the guy who cut you off should get ticketed or something, no doubt about that, but you're not making yourself look any cooler by giving him a long honk and the bird.

 

[ai42]

A friend of mine in high school actually did a photography project to try to picture people's road rage. So for a week he would goto some overpasses over a busy highway here in Dallas during rush hour. And he would watch for a couple of hours for people being cut off etc and try to take the pictures. Anyway one day while doing this someone apparently called in the Police and said that there was somebody shooting people on the highway with a shotgun. So very promptly the Police showed up and told him to freeze. They gave him the Nth degree and interrogated him (even though it was quickly obvious that he had a camera with a zoom lense and not a gun). Anyway I wish I had copies of those photos because that is on the the funniest photo sets I've ever seen. Also not to mention he got lots of shots of those cops who showed up .

 

[Matilda]

I think i witness it everytime i get behind the wheel!!!

 

[The Batt?sai]

i witnessed an act of road rage. i was killed but brought back to life



jk

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
I personally have not, but I guess I can share this story.

One of my dad's best friends is a fellow Citadel graduate. He's probably 5'5" but has numerous bench-press awards; he can bench like 400 lbs. or something insane like that. So, he's a stalky guy. He's also a farmer in the Santee, South Carolina area. You get the picture.

Anyway, he buys a nice convertible Corvette, probably early-90s variant. He's driving with his wife through some little red neck town in South Carolina when he pulls up to a red light across from some old banged-up house where white trash have congregated on the front porch. Out of the corner of his eye he notices one of the dudes eying his wife in the passenger seat. He glares down the dude in return. The white trash dude didn't take this too well so he walks off the porch and begins approaching the Corvette and eventually puts his hand on the car. The Corvette driver ain't gonna have any of this sh!t, so he reaches down and pulls out a 45 Magnum pistol, cocks it, and points it at the dude and says, "Get your fvcking hand off my car or you won't have a hand." The dude backs off back to the porch, and the Corvette drives off.

True story.

NICE!

 

[JDrake]

some two fat black ladies fighting
only one had a car

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: Schfifty Five

Originally posted by: alimoalem
wtf is wrong with all yall backing off? someone pisses you off, you make them know it. i was driving from berkeley to oakland with my boy a few months ago and this dumb*ss is leanin back in his cadillac thinking he's a pimp n while in the traffic. i'm to his right with the front of my car about equal to where his front and back doors divide. the b*tch swerves into my lane not looking so he doesn't have to brake for the car ahead and i'm forced to pump my brakes (don't have abs) and had to turn so i was all the way in the right side of my lane. i progress with a 10 second honk (along with cursing of course) and i pull up next to the guy. when i get parallel to him, i stick half my body out my window and extend my arm with a fully extended middle finger (almost close enough to touch his car) and had my right hand on the horn. that's what you do.

like a year ago i was in oakland and this fool was tail gating me in a jeep in the left most lane. we were going fast but i slowed down to like 80 in the 55 zone. he was right on me so i slowed down to 60. then i sped back up. he started tail gating again. this time i saw a cop in the 3rd lane so i figured i'll piss the jeep off and try getting him a ticket. i dropped to 50 real quickly so he'd be forced to slam on his brakes. i pulled to the 2nd lane when he was still going like 70 and he just went by me. right when he saw the cop he slammed his brakes so the bast*rd didn't get the ticket but he almost did.


anyway, you oguys gotta stop standing up for yourselves.

You're not standing up for yourself. You're just asking to get killed one way or another.

Wow, you gave him a super hardcore bird b/c your body was half way out of the car. What a dumbass. Yeah the guy who cut you off should get ticketed or something, no doubt about that, but you're not making yourself look any cooler by giving him a long honk and the bird.

I agree... crawling half way out of your car to flip someone the bird is about as asshat-ish as it gets. It's stupid, suicidal, and only adding more to the problems we have on the road.

 

[TXHokie]

Was out late one night and I passed a guy on the right hand side since he was hogging the left lane. When we were stopped at a stop light, the guy pulled up from behind me, got out of his car and started banging on my window screaming expletives about kicking my a$$. I think he must've been drunk or something. I had my hands on the nunchaka under my seat and thought about getting out and giving him a good whoopin' but glad I decided not to. Could've gotten ugly. Green light and I was outta there.

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: JDrake
some two fat black ladies fighting
only one had a car

That's 100% more than I would have expected.

*rimshot*

 

[BatmanNate]

I had a guy try and swerve to force me off the road on the freeway, but he ended up losing control and hitting the barrier, shredding a tire, and doing a 720. Thankfully nobody else was hurt because of his stupidity.

 

[paulney]

A couple of years ago I exit 101 at University Ave going to meet my wife for lunch. As you exit 101, you stop at the light and wait for traffic over the bridge to pass. Gren light - I put the car in first and take off. At this point a huge beat-up van carrying carpets blows the red light honking, nearly clips my car and drives off. But then the next set of lights is just a block away, and as I pull up to it, I see this van in the left turn lane waiting for the light.

Some mexican dude is articulating and cursing at me, passing references to my mother and whatchamacallit. So, I tell him to shut up. The dude keeps on cursing through the window challenging me to get out and duke it out. So, I do. And he does as well. And we start exchanging punches in the middle of University Ave The guy thought I wouln't go in it since I wear glasses. But I can see perfectly without them as well, and so the guy receives a few nice punches to the stomach and his chin.

Then the light goes green, cars behind us honk. We get in our cars and part ways. As I drive along Uni, the adrenalin rush blows over, and my hands start to shake a little. I start parking in one of the available spots on the street when this Mustang pulls up, and two black dudes from EPA give me a thumbs up: 'yo, chill man!'

In retrospect, this was stupid, and I don't advise anyone to do it.

 

[Stuxnet]

Had an incident Saturday...

I was driving home on the freeway in the left lane doing about 75MPH - 80MPH. I'm passing traffic that's in the center lane. Up ahead (1/4 mile?) is a car pulled over on the shoulder. There's a little comotion up there so, to be safe, I decide I should get out of the lane. A quick glance shows that I have a window of opportunity to get over into the middle lane. As soon as I make this glance and signal, a GMC/Yukon/? floors it to close the gap (I had JUST PASSED this guy 5 seconds ago, and now all of a sudden he's doing 80 too?). I pull into the center lane. There was still room and he was just being a dickhead. I didn't do it to piss him off... I needed over and I had room to do it. Well, he lays on the horn and starts flailing his arms all over the place like I just ate his mother. I calmly flip him one in the rear view mirror and just laugh it off.

He flies over into the passing lane and pulls up beside me with his window down yelling all kids of crap, waving his arms, etc. He was probably 60 years old, +/- 5 years (I'm 28). I roll my window down, look him dead in the eye, and shout "how about you go f*** yourself!" as I give him the finger for a second time. Overboard? Yes... but wth did this guy expect? I know he perceives this situation as him being severely wronged, but for f*ck sakes get over it. Anyway, I took his bait hook line and sinker by yelling back at him. This sends him THROUGH THE ROOF. The guy starts having a full blown CONNIPTION. His hair is flying everywhere as he's flailing his arms and screaming and yelling and whatever (he never returned the bird, oddly enough). I start to chuckle at him a little and so he starts signaling me to pull over (ever notice how much people HATE it when you laugh at their pissedoff-ness?). This actually gets my attention because I start thinking about the possibilities. First and foremost, if a raging lunatic is demanding that you pull over, you can only assume it's because he wants to square off. In my road rage days I've "asked" a few people to pull over, and it was because I intended to break my foot off on their ass.

So, the possible outcomes I come up with are:

1. He knows something I don't. I.e, he has a gun. Why else would a fat 60 year old geezer be challenging a youthful stallion such as myself. End result: I get shot.
2. He's an idiot trying to prove to himself that he's not a fat 60 year old geezer. End result: I kick his ass and I go to jail for assault and/or road rage.

Neither outcome is appealing to me, especially since I really didn't hold any aggression toward this guy. I mean, I *did* think he was a jackass due to the fact that he intentionally manufactured this situation by his asshole driving and his asshole attitude, but I wasn't actually "pissed". Not that socking an old man is an admirable act, but it's tough to throw down with someone you aren't actually pissed off at. Dismayed by his idiocy I was. Mad, I was not. On top of that, the only reason someone who was obviously physically inferior to you would challenge you is either because a) they're incredibly stupid, or b) they're packing heat.

So, I flip him one more bird, he realizes I'm not going to pull over, he laughs a little (presumably at my unwillingness to pull over), and he takes off.

 

[Triumph]

May I make a suggestion? Instead of using the played out and overused middle finger, try giving people a thumbs up. Like, "Great job with your driving, your ability definitely deserves a thumbs up from me!"

The other, even better thing to do, is to blow them a kiss. This sends people into a rage. I love it.

 

[fitzov]

no but i drive really slow for tailgaters--that'll incite some rage

 

[PingSpike]

I was waiting at a red light the other day, it was a four lane road and I was in the far left. I tend to look in my rear view a lot, I just like to see whats going on behind me. There was a minivan with a taxi thing on it in the left lane behind me, and in the right, stopped despite there being no cars in front of him and a green right turn arrow up ahead was an old subaru wagon. Right as I looked I saw the guy in the subaru toss what looked like a bunch of old notebooks backwards at the windshield of the minivan/taxi and then speed off. The mini van guy held up his hands and wiggled his fingers as if to say "ooooo....scary".

I got kind of a kick out of it and wondered how the whole thing started.

 

[thirtythree]

When I was 14 or so, riding with my friend and my friend's father, he was cut off by an SUV. The passenger stuck his head out the window and started swearing at us (I assume--we couldn't hear, of course), and my friend's father raised his hand in apology. When we got to the intersection, the light was red, and two big guys got out of the SUV and started walking back towards us. My friend's father got out and was talking to them while they were yelling and threatening him. He went to the back of the car and got his FBI badge and (I think) handgun. He just held the badge up, and one of the big guys pulled the other guy back into the car. .......kdjldkj

EDIT: Oh, I think he wrote their license plate number down too, but I never heard anything more about it.