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Has anyone here come across some crazy behaviour involving a large extent of road rage? I'm sure there must be a few here at least.

I was on my way home, traveling via a certain High Street just now that shall not be named on my motorcycle and came across an interesting situation. Nothing amazing, but it did amuse me.

I overtook this big muscular bloke in his huge black truck and I had a nice clear road in front of me, always a good thing. The truck driver is clearly one of those people you don't want to mess with, because one of the sole reasons for him getting this particular vehicle is to intimidate other road users so he can muscle his way through traffic more quickly.

Anyway, with him behind me, I continued along and was suddenly cut up by this gentleman in his BMW. Not unusual, nevermind. But then he just sat there... inspecting his fingernails, his vehicle stopped. A wide clear road in front of him. At this point I have about 15 vehicles waiting behind me. And for no obvious reason he continues to sit there.

This behaviour is in no way normal, so I decide it's in my best interest not to overtake, who knows what his next move will be?

Supirse, suprise, the guy in the truck behind goes beserk and starts hitting his horn like he would a punching bag. And so do other vehicles. I decided to join in after a while as, well.... why not? It was something to do.

Eventually the man in the BMW decides to accelerate to a generous 5 mph, then pulls over into a bus stop and parks the car, maybe he was getting a headache.
The guy in the truck pulls alongside him, continues to hit the horn, wound the window down, starts screaming at BMW man, and quite possibly the truck guy's muscles started to twitch and turn green, although perhaps that was my imagination. I saw the truck door open, heard more screaming and car horns and... as fascinated as I was, as to what would happen next... I decided to leave.

I can only imagine the next minute consisted of a,
"HULK MAD, HULK KILL!" and he tore the door off the nice BMW and started killing people with it.



I'm sure people have better stories than this, so please tell us all.

This post has been edited by fatman on 6th February 2007 19:47

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'Let that be a lesson to all oppressive vegetable sellers.'

Well, my story certainly doesn't beat out the Hulk smashing everything in sight, but day before yesterday I pulled up to a stop light to see that the car next to me had just been bumped by the car behind him. The man in front, and his passenger, get out and start screaming (mind you, we're talking about maybe a 5 mph incident here) at the other driver. Then, they opened up his door and told him to come out and "talk" to them. The light changed and I had several cars behind me, so I left but I imagine it didn't end with a tea party

When I was 21 I actually got into a fist fight with the redneck behind the wheel of a rust bucket Ford that would not stop tailgating me. It was stupid, and I could have been hurt or killed.

In your story, Fatman, you did the right thing. When I'm on my motorcycle, the very last thing I want to do is annoy the cagers around me. You kept your cool, played it safe, and made it where you were going. I'm always happy to hear of another 2-wheeled brother doing well.

This post has been edited by Hamedo on 6th February 2007 18:29

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~Pacifist Badge, 1978

Well I'm not driving yet, but I did see one woman screaming at a taxi while her car was being driven away, and she had the door fully open and was half out of it! Quite funny.

Then a taxi did a full 180 on the main road and nearly ran me over as I was crossing. He wound his window down and yelled something so I went for a universal: "Fuck oaf!"

In hindsight, taxi drivers are all arseholes, the end.

This post has been edited by sweetdude on 6th February 2007 19:32

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Scepticism, that dry rot of the intellect, had not left one entire idea in his mind.

Me on the Starcraft.

I haven't seen any memorable "Road Rage" incidents recently.

So I'll give a story from a month ago, where I got pissed off at somebody.

honestly I don't get Mad, I get Even.

So this is more of a sticking it to 'em scenarios

School gets out, and because I overslept I did not get the parking space I wanted to, and the class that i had last that day was waaay on the other side of campus by the other parking lot.

after I get in my car I go to pull out (forward) the space in front was empty, the spaces to the left and right were empty.

I'm moving in because there is an opening in the conga line out of there.
When all the sudden, Some bitch(#1) in a little black car gases and Dives her car right in front of mine and slams on the brakes. I drive a 96 Silverado with a Vortec(Spelling?) V8 engine. If I had been the average teen, I would have Tboned her.

But because of her stupidity Neither one of us gets in the line, I don't even know why she thought she could make it But she had succeeded in screwing me over.
I see she's a mom so I decide to turn up my music and wait.

Within the minute I realize i can scoot over to the next parking spot and get back in front of the moronic bitch, however an AZN mom in a PoS mini van decides to cut me off too, I saw her while she was waiting in the line on the other side see me start baxcking up, switch into drive and she jumps in front of me to. At this time a third bitch (another mom) decides "this kid is so Screwed I'll screw him over too" and drives in and blocks me on the right, I am completely boxed in and the will get in line 4th behind all the bitches, and the bitch in the black car keeps missing opportunities to get in line.

20 minutes later Bitch 2 gets in line, then bitch 1 and lastly Bitch #3

The whole while I contemplated how stupid these women must be to think picking up their kids in a student parking lot. They all were just asking to be hit.

I keep my cool get up through the line I get up to turn left and I looked to my right and guess who is sitting there with the windows down Bitch #1 and her little black car. again she is missing opportunities to turn, there are No cars coming.

To sum what's about to happen, she deserved a lesson.

And I pull off a maneuver only an overpowered car can accomplish. I stomped on the gas and my car began to peel out like crazy, black smoke and everything. I start to slide out onto the street, still peeling out, after the car gets positioned to where my window is facing her car (i had rolled my window down) I see she is coughing on my dust and as she looks up and opens her eyes I give her the bird, and a second later my car stopped peeling out and i sped off, Midly victorious.



This post has been edited by Cloud_Strife510 on 7th February 2007 01:40

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"Have you ever seen a baby do that before?"

Quote (fatman @ 6th February 2007 13:06)

Who let Gabe out?


While I just got my license, I haven't actually seen road rage IN MY CAR. I do, however have a pretty bad story.



One time, I was walking back from the Mall, and I hit an intersection between two pretty busy streets. They hit -||- like that. The one "street" is actually closer to a mini highway. Anyhow. I'm waiting to cross the left - going towards the top of my post, because then I have to cross the || to get home, and the button is over there.

It was night, and near rush hour, and a whole bunch of people were lined up waiting to turn right, so they're right in front of me. This one REALLY pissed off guy is smashing on his horn, and nearly collides with this guys bumper. He had just missed the light, and was stuck there. So he settles down, but he's still scowling.

Then I smell gas.

I look underneath the guys SUV and see that gasoline is POURING out onto the street. It was BAD.

I sort of backed up 10 feet.

Eventually the light turned green and he drives off, leaving a big trail. The asshole guy behind him sees what happened and when he turns, tries a burnout on the gas trail to ignite it. It didn't catch from that, and I don't think it ever did, because I never heard about a car exploding on the news.


So, the road rager got his in the end.

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It's an illusion, and you're in-between.
Don't you be tarot-fied,
It's just alot of nothing, so what can it mean?
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Sins exist only for people who are on the Way or approaching the Way

Holy crap CS510, get some counciling or something xD That's a very well illustrated plan of road-rage during about 10 mins in a school parking lot, I'm impressed.


Well, other than getting the finger a few times, I've never seen any real road rage. Plus I've never been really offended by another car; I've had my share of stupid people but it's been limited to tailgating and going 5 mph under the speed limit.

Quote (fatman @ 6th February 2007 12:06)

I was on my way home, traveling via a certain High Street just now that shall not be named on my motorcycle and came across an interesting situation. Nothing amazing, but it did amuse me.

I overtook this big muscular bloke in his huge black truck and I had a nice clear road in front of me, always a good thing. The truck driver is clearly one of those people you don't want to mess with, because one of the sole reasons for him getting this particular vehicle is to intimidate other road users so he can muscle his way through traffic more quickly.

Anyway, with him behind me, I continued along and was suddenly cut up by this gentleman in his BMW. Not unusual, nevermind. But then he just sat there... inspecting his fingernails, his vehicle stopped. A wide clear road in front of him. At this point I have about 15 vehicles waiting behind me. And for no obvious reason he continues to sit there.

This behaviour is in no way normal, so I decide it's in my best interest not to overtake, who knows what his next move will be?

Supirse, suprise, the guy in the truck behind goes beserk and starts hitting his horn like he would a punching bag. And so do other vehicles. I decided to join in after a while as, well.... why not? It was something to do.

Eventually the man in the BMW decides to accelerate to a generous 5 mph, then pulls over into a bus stop and parks the car, maybe he was getting a headache.
The guy in the truck pulls alongside him, continues to hit the horn, wound the window down, starts screaming at BMW man, and quite possibly the truck guy's muscles started to twitch and turn green, although perhaps that was my imagination. I saw the truck door open, heard more screaming and car horns and...  as fascinated as I was, as to what would happen next... I decided to leave.

I can only imagine the next minute consisted of a,
"HULK MAD, HULK KILL!" and he tore the door off the nice BMW and started killing people with it.



I'm sure people have better stories than this, so please tell us all.

This actually made me laugh quite a bit!!

You will find me quite often pounding my stearing wheel because I'm fighitng Atlanta traffic and find everyone and everything to be stupid!

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You tell me.