the road rage...

[JROD©™®]

i've cooled off quite a bit...but take a gander at this...i posted about it earlier at my first home...stupid drivers (http://www.mys10.com/forum/Posts.asp?TopicID=8&DiscussID=42265)...

most at mys10 know i got road rage...pretty bad...i get pissed real quick when someone acts stupid in their car and endangers me or my dime...if i have a passenger i go ballistic...not very smart but i'm trying to control it...

am i crazy to rethink the situation imagining myself punching him in the throat then bashing his head through all the windows on his car...

i know i can't be the only one...who else??

[blazen]

yeah you should get a taser most people deserve it. but yeah i got alittle road rage but i'm not that bad

[Krazny]

I have my 5.56 security system.
I fear no Road Rager.
Or Zombie Paratroopers for that matter.

[StarStruckS10]

I'm kinda bad with road rage. I'm always yellin at people..flyin past them..I should chill. But I'm always yelling at old people! They cause more wrecks than anyone cuz they go so slow and they don't watch for anyone else but themselves and pull out in front of you goin 2mph when your doin like 30. People over 65 need re-tested.:irked_125

[blazen]

wow thats cool you dont like old people either. sometimes they just piss me off. ever try walkin around a supermarket and there in front of you going real slow then u try to pass them but then they move over alittle and u almost walk into them god i hate that

[JROD©™®]

i mean to the elderly as well...just because their old they think they can get away with little things like cuttin me in line at Randalls just cause they have 1 item, hell no you old mother fcker...i'll break your hips and step on your neck...but yeah i got this rage thing under control...

[Matt 4.3 TBI]

I focking hate stupid drivers. I loved driving when I lived in OH, but ever since I've been in TX someone finds a way to piss me off every time I have to leave the house. Let's see what I can get in my list.

In the last 7 days i've seen:
Failure to signal
Incorrect signal
Ignore stop sign
Ignore traffic signal (red light)
Try turn left into me as I'm going through a green light
Parking DIRECTLY across the street from another car (both in no-parking zones) on a 2-lane road. Effectively stops all traffic except bikes.
Stop in the middle of the road to talk to pedestrians
Driving in my lane towards me (they were trying to cut someone off from the left turn-only lane)
I won't even get into speeding...I cruise around 80 and I still get passed by everyone.

Damn, I don't even want to try to think of any more. I still feel you should have to 'qualify' for a license in your vehicle. In OH we have a manueverability test for your first license that proves you can actually drive your car, not just the driver's ed test car. I think we should have to do that every few years. I wouldn't mind it, I've been driving my Blazer for about 8 years now, it would be a breeze.

My bro-in-law had a run in with what we prefer to call 'road buddies' at WalMart last summer. We were walking across the crosswalk into the store and this guy in an F250 comes driving by and instead of stopping just drives up onto the sidewalk around us. Jamie slaps the back of his bed and the guy screeches to a halt and comes running in the store after us. He gets in Jamie's face (which is hard to do since he's 6'2") screaming about 'you want to touch my truck? Huh? Come do it again!" The whole time he's clutching a peach in his hand, then he waves it in his face and says "I'll feed you my fist and this peach!". We still laugh about that. I like to imagine he had a .45, hunting knife, a 2x4 with a big nail in it and this peach laying on his passenger seat, and he grabbed that.

[blazen]

hey i live near boston which has been voted in the past the country's worst drivers you just gotta lean to fight your way through. its every man (women is dunkin dimes case) for them selfs.
wow you had test in your own car and stuff. all i had to do was drive around the block and back up in a straight line to get my license. i had a friend that told the officer giveing the test that he couldnt paralell park after he got asked to and he still passed

[bvr775]

the residental street in front of my house(30 mph speed limit) is used as a short cut to get from hyw 73 to pure atlantic hwy. when i first moved in here we had a problem with allot of people going 50-up at in the morning, at lunch, and from 3-6pm down the road.. unluckly Hp zachary won the all the plant constuction contracts around here and laid 90% of our workforce off so we don't have all the work traffic anymore(except for a week or 2 every 3 months so our employment rate looks good on paper)

anyway back to the subject at hand. There is a crazy old man down the street that would roll out a fire hose filled with sand. Hitting it at 30 would destroy your alignment. I saw someone hit it fullout and it bent his frame and blew out most of the front end. that car left on a wrecker. the old man is a vet so he really is crazy(as far as the goverment knows) and can get away with things like that. I've also him trhow bricks across the road when someone was coming down the road.

[stepside2k1s10]

That reminds me of this old lady in a big-ass buick tailgating me in madison last week, she was seriously about a foot and a half from my back bumper. I gave her a little brake test, that shook her up pretty good. It was funny b/c she blew past me and gave me the WTF look, I just returned the look and she sped off.

[Krazny]

I must admit I have caused alot of road rage.
This is the best one I can share.
Damn statuate of limitations. . . .



We used to have a problem with people cutting across my grandfolks yard, cause it was on a curve, and they'd (The snow plows) cut the corner when plowing snow in the winter. So, I got my hands on a a couple of boxes of 3.5 in nails, put them thru a 3/4 in strip of plywood and buried 'em in the yard along the road. Got a couple of cars, and people stopped cutting thru the yard. But after the next snow, the snowplows bent 'em over so they stopped working, so we got some big assed rocks (At least 900 lbs each. Had to use a crane to move 'em) and put them along the road where the nail boards were.

Night after we put 'em in place, they got 3 feet of snow. At around 5 am the next day, we hear this godawful crash. One of the Highway Departments brand new plows had hit one of the biggest rocks (1200+ lbs) at 40 mph. It moved the rock 30 feet. Totaled the plow, and the hydralics, and did a bunch of damage to the truck. But the Highway department quit plowing the road thru his yard after that.
I have never seen a madder trucker since that day.

[Supercharged-ZQ8]

i've cooled off quite a bit...but take a gander at this...i posted about it earlier at my first home...stupid drivers (http://www.mys10.com/forum/Posts.asp?TopicID=8&DiscussID=42265)...

most at mys10 know i got road rage...pretty bad...i get pissed real quick when someone acts stupid in their car and endangers me or my dime...if i have a passenger i go ballistic...not very smart but i'm trying to control it...

am i crazy to rethink the situation imagining myself punching him in the throat then bashing his head through all the windows on his car...

i know i can't be the only one...who else??
You stated he was opening the door "like he was really going to do something?" I may have a serious case of road rage, or it may be my general "take no **** from anyone" attitude, but at that point I would gotten my skinny ass out immediately and helped him to the asphalt. . . Er, I mean, helped him out of his car. I've got a bad habit of doing that.

I live in a small suburb -- mostly older folks. But occasionally a couple little punks come flying through the neighborhood (a 25 mph zone) at around 50 or so. I've got three children that know not to play in the front yard, but there's always that ONE time that something drastic could happen. Well, I'm out cutting the grass -- at the edge of the road -- and this little ****head comes speeding down the road (going further into the neighborhood) and misses me by about a foot. At that point I shut the mower off, walked over to my truck, got in and started it, and put it in reverse and waited (because I knew the little ******* would be coming back through). I waited a couple minutes and, sure enough, he comes flying down the street again with another of his little ******* buddies. I was ready and was out of my driveway and after his ass like stink on ****. I did NOT speed through the neighborhood (there's a stop light at the entrance that seems like it is ALWAYS red -- so i knew I'd catch up with him). Sure enough, the light was red and the punk was waiting at it (he was going straight) -- I pulled up behind him, but the light turned green and he shoots off like his little Honduh had something (which it didn't). So, I took off after him. He tried to out accelerate me down this country road that leads up to my neighborhood. Sorry, but I don't think there is a Honduh (car, that is) made that can manage to get away from my truck.

Well, this country road is about two miles long and is relatively deserted (just fields and ditches along it), with a stop sign at the far end. He gets to the stop sign and needs to wait for oncoming traffic (he was trying to turn left). He's looking in his rear-view mirror holding his hands up giving me a WTF gesture. I put my parking brake on and got out of my truck. At this point he's opening his door, and getting out while throwing his hands up in the same WTF gesture. I stalked up to him, punched him square in his little punk-ass jaw, put his arm in a hammer-lock and threw him on his own hood. I told him that if he EVER came flying through my neighborhood again that I'd do worse next time -- and that if by some odd chance he hit one of my kids (or one of the neighborhood kids in general) that I'd put a bullet in his skull. He pissed himself and could only jabber "Sorry man! Sorry! I'll never do it again! Sorry! . . ." Little **** head. Haven't seen him flying through here since. I'm guessing he learned his lesson.

Sorry, but I'm not into the whole gesture thing -- forget ACTING tough. . . Either put up or shut up, because I'm the type that will nail someone right in the mouth while they're going through the motions.

Me? Road rage? Nah -- I just can't stand people that have no sense of decency or common sense. 50 mph through a suburban neighborhood! Save that **** for the freeways or, preferably, the track.

[JROD©™®]

well here is the thing...i'm a thinker...i stopped traffic in order to give him the look, but as he was getting out...i looked around and saw everyone looking...so i just drove off. people could have called the cops...someone else could have intervened...all a mess that i don't want to deal with. now twice...that i've been cut off and the roads are emtpy....i follow them...to their homes...their jobs wherever. the most recent event where i got out of my truck is because a ford ranger gave me the double bird...for i swear NO REASON...i cornered him in a hospital parking lot...he got out somehow...not through any road though...

[Supercharged-ZQ8]

It's not old folks that get on my nerves -- they have just forgotten what they're doing in a lot of cases and are playing it safe by going slow. No big deal -- go around them if someone's in THAT big of a hurry.

It's the teenage *******s that think they're invincible and their cars handle like exotic sports cars. Old people cruise through my neighborhood going about 10 mph. It can be a little irritating if you're behind them, but I'd rather they do 10 than 50+. It's the teenagers (no offense to the young folks here that DO obey the traffic laws) that come flying through here. One of my neighbors lost their 6 year old girl because some dumb ass teenager was going 60 mph and lost control, ran into the yard and ran over her ON THE PORCH where she was playing (the porch is a good 40 feet off the road). No need for that kind of ****. It's morons like them that need to be castrated (so they won't breed anymore stupid people) and thrown in jail until they realize what they do to other people's lives (or deaths, as the case may be).

Call me odd, but I can tolerate old people going slow -- I'm in no rush to get anywhere. In my Cavalier it's rare if I get over 65-70 mph -- I just don't feel the need to go fast. I'd rather get where I'm going in one piece than get there fast. With my truck, I'll do 80ish on the FREEWAY, but nothing reckless of dangerous to other drivers. If I kill myself, fine -- I'm willing to accept that. But it's other people that usually get injured with some of the morons on the roads these days.

[bigblackone]

I guess as we get older we generally have more compassion for others ... remember someday you are going to be old too ... well ... some of you may be old someday.

Unless someone is breaking the law ( and getting in their face might not be the best way to resolve it ) there is really no reason to be upset with them. I've always found that making them deal with the police will have a much longer lasting impression than chasing them down and flipping them off.

[bvr775]

the older you get the smarter you get.
You lean the physical pain only lasts a couple of days so the lesson may be lost on the more stuben idiot on the road. There are much more painfull ways to get even with someone than beating them senseless.
A dent in a nice car can leave a lasting impresion on someone as it may take away from the more important things in life(money, image, and money). Fof those with less than perfect vehicles a slightly more aggresive approch may be nessisary. I sugest going for the coolent system. the radator is one of more acssesible weak points from the outside of a vehicle. Why a simple 1 foot long peise of rebar can a be as devistating to a radiator as a fist to a fase. the lower coolent hoses are also very assesible and a small slice will give you oppent plenty of time to think his actions on the side of the road.