Road Rage
18 May 2006, 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Drunken Bungle *****
Ahh - now when you said "flashed at them" - I thought you meant......
18 May 2006, 04:16 PM
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Originally Posted by stew911
ooh blimey i see what you mean by that, oh no now everyone probably thinks that my bloke is some dirty old man in a raincoat
18 May 2006, 07:23 PM
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As much as the guy may have been a tosser and was in the wrong if your gonna make ****** signs at somebody from your car you,ve got to be prepared to back up your actions.Sitting inside your "safety bubble" attempting to take the moral high ground after you,ve spent the last few minutes goading the guy by calling him a ****** is just not cricket.
Not everyone is a knife weidling thug ready to kill by the roadside
.Next time excercise some control or at least have the bollocks to confront a situation you had a hand in creating .
Not everyone is a knife weidling thug ready to kill by the roadside
.Next time excercise some control or at least have the bollocks to confront a situation you had a hand in creating .
18 May 2006, 07:45 PM
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Didn't think this thread would still be at the top!
Pete - The whole point is that I behaved exactly as I would outside my "safety bubble", if I had been pushing a trolley round a supermarket and a guy pushed past me and then when i stopped him he told me he wanted to fight me and ripped his tie off I would have laughed and called him a ******, had he then continued to ask me for a fight I would have told him to behave himself and act his age. My point being that I behaved as I do in life.
I somehow doubt that he would have behaved the same way with a trolley though, I'd assume he behaved that way because he wanted to play the hero and bully someone in a smaller lesser car.
I agree though that my actions did not calm down the situation and perhaps weren't in line with the common sense shown by not jumping out the car but I'm not insane and you would really have to be to jump out onto a main road with traffic whizzing by at 50mph and confront someone.
Pete - The whole point is that I behaved exactly as I would outside my "safety bubble", if I had been pushing a trolley round a supermarket and a guy pushed past me and then when i stopped him he told me he wanted to fight me and ripped his tie off I would have laughed and called him a ******, had he then continued to ask me for a fight I would have told him to behave himself and act his age. My point being that I behaved as I do in life.
I somehow doubt that he would have behaved the same way with a trolley though, I'd assume he behaved that way because he wanted to play the hero and bully someone in a smaller lesser car.
I agree though that my actions did not calm down the situation and perhaps weren't in line with the common sense shown by not jumping out the car but I'm not insane and you would really have to be to jump out onto a main road with traffic whizzing by at 50mph and confront someone.
18 May 2006, 08:47 PM
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I had my first 'road rage' incident when I was 15. My 17yr old brother was driving me to school along a country road when a repmobile came the other way. Brother slowed to see what the guy would do and the other guy sped right past a passing point right up to our front bumper.
We were surprised to say the least when he started shouting for us to reverse. My Bro explained that the passing point behind him was closer and he replied something along the lines of 'seniority' and 'not some old banger'.
In the end he got out and grabbed my brother in a headlock.
He soon ran back to car in horror when I lept out of the car with one of those old fashioned crooklocks and chased him.
In the end we moved, by I have to say we were in the right, but we were young and you did have some respect for elders in the 80's.
I have never liked bullys and dont get intimidated easily. In fact have seen a few people turn and run away in 20years of driving.(and a couple that didn't).
Road rage has been around for a long time. It just never had a 'fluffy name', until recently.
We were surprised to say the least when he started shouting for us to reverse. My Bro explained that the passing point behind him was closer and he replied something along the lines of 'seniority' and 'not some old banger'.
In the end he got out and grabbed my brother in a headlock.
He soon ran back to car in horror when I lept out of the car with one of those old fashioned crooklocks and chased him.
In the end we moved, by I have to say we were in the right, but we were young and you did have some respect for elders in the 80's.
I have never liked bullys and dont get intimidated easily. In fact have seen a few people turn and run away in 20years of driving.(and a couple that didn't).
Road rage has been around for a long time. It just never had a 'fluffy name', until recently.
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