Re: Road Rage WWUD?
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 9:26 am
I had that happen to me almost 30 years ago. I was heading home from a poker game about 75 miles from home and came through a small town about 3:00am...driving a bright yellow 77 Vette...noticed a couple of cars in a parking lot with some kids standing around...got about a mile out of town and saw headlights coming up behind me very fast. The vehicle ran right up on my bumper then backed off several times...figured it was a couple of the boys trying to get me to race. I waited until the next time they ran up to me and jerked it over to the shoulder and braked hard knowing they wouldn't be able to stop as fast. The car shot past me...it was Sheriff's dept. patrol car from that county...I honked as he slid by, and he immediately hit his lights and floored it, then turned off on the next cutoff we came to...lol.RoadRunnerTR21 wrote:I believe the reason for so much road rage is that there are so many angry people with anger management issues.
Avoidance is the best course of action. However, I would use my vehicle as a weapon before I would use whatever I am carrying at the time. That move would be my last resort. A little over a year ago I was driving home late at night on a 2 lane highway (I live in the sticks of east Texas). I see a vehicle approaching at a very high rate of speed from behind me. This guy pulls right up to my bumper and just sits there. I couldn't even make out the hood of his car. I thought about brake checking him but decided to just leave it on cruise control at 55 MPH and let him make the first move. We stayed like this for over a mile. All of a sudden, he slams on his brakes, dives to the right and performs a 180 degree turn. It was then when I saw that it was a local LEO and we were getting close to the city limit. He had many opportunities to turn around before he did but I think he was just checking to see if I would flinch.
