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Post by slacker 🐨 on Mar 29, 2024 20:58:39 GMT -5
My daughter (no pics) was driving to work...right lane of a 4 lane divided road, speed limit 45. A pickup next to her, with zero previous interaction, starts changing lanes into her. She blares horn while drifting into the shoulder. He came all the way over and flips her the bird out the window while she's slowing down and pulling back into the road.
So, semi that was behind and witnessed it all pulls alongside the pickup and blasts his horn. Pickup driver flips him off, guns it, cuts off the truck and starts harassing semi. Pickup was so busy harassing the semi he didn't notice traffic stopped in front of him or the cop nearby. Pickup rear ends car, semi takes next turn into parking lot, presumably to be a witness for the wreck.
Pickup driver...meet Karma!
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Post by Taildragger on Mar 29, 2024 21:49:28 GMT -5
Classic...
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Post by gato on Mar 30, 2024 6:32:33 GMT -5
It can be instructive, watching a road rage incident unfold. An innocent mistake (oops .. didn't see you when I changed lanes), taken personally by the "victim-driver", leads to tit-for-tat aggression, neither participant willing to let it go. The anonymity of the drivers, each wrapped in their metal cocoons, only adds to the increasingly poor decision making. Would these two escalate the situation so dramatically, if they were face to face ... say, in a grocery store with a minor shopping cart collision as the catalyst?
On the road, the initial aggressor might be a jerk ... or then again, he might be an ordinary person who's having a really bad morning, and being cut off in a lane change was the last straw.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Mar 30, 2024 8:52:54 GMT -5
Too bad for the car that got rear ended. Did your daughter stop too? That could've been a tough call, you never know if this idiot would've come out shooting. I recall many years ago a road raging idiot hauling a camper along the Trans Canada highway up in Ontario. Passing people on dangerous curves in pretty tough terrain, swerving into people. A short while later we got into a full stop of cars and people looking down a hillside. Vehicle and camper at the bottom looking like a plane crash wreckage.
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Post by kfay on Mar 30, 2024 8:53:26 GMT -5
It had been snowing hard all morning and work shut down at noon. There was only one lane passable on the county road heading home when a jacked up 4wd truck came barreling up behind me flashing his lights and blowing the horn. I really couldn't move over so he tried to pass me on the shoulder while flipping me the bird. When he was getting off the shoulder to pull back in front of me he fishtailed, tipped on his side and slid down the swale off the shoulder. All I saw in my rear view mirror was four wheels spinning. Yea, Karma, she's A bitch!
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Post by slacker 🐨 on Apr 1, 2024 11:44:03 GMT -5
Too bad for the car that got rear ended. Did your daughter stop too? That could've been a tough call, you never know if this idiot would've come out shooting. I recall many years ago a road raging idiot hauling a camper along the Trans Canada highway up in Ontario. Passing people on dangerous curves in pretty tough terrain, swerving into people. A short while later we got into a full stop of cars and people looking down a hillside. Vehicle and camper at the bottom looking like a plane crash wreckage. She was on her way to work, so she did not stop. |
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Post by LTB on Apr 2, 2024 17:00:53 GMT -5
What a childish person! Some people just shouldn’t be on the road. Glad your daughter is ok Slacker.
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