I was running today and the ahole purposely drove on the side of the road where I was running. I flipped him off, which probably wasnt such a smart idea. What should I do in these types of situations? Anyone else experience this?
I was running today and the ahole purposely drove on the side of the road where I was running. I flipped him off, which probably wasnt such a smart idea. What should I do in these types of situations? Anyone else experience this?
If he didn't circle back at least once after your flip off, most likely, he was just nodding off.
I saw the b astard smiling.
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Seriously, even if he only wanted to scare you, he would have come back.
I've never had this happen. Mostly because I don't run in the damn road.
Manhattan Runner wrote:
I've never had this happen. Mostly because I don't run in the damn road.
Didnt know it was possible to run in the road. Thanks for your input, you smart cookie.
Lots of time.
1. ignore them
2. make it a habit of occasionally noting the make or model of cars and their license plate numbers coming at you. This could save your life.
3. relax, shake it off and run. Karmically most of these
jerks get what's coming to them.
4. If you feel a person/driver has tried to run you off the
road. Get a police report, don't call 911. If you have the
license number of the car/truck. You can file a complaint
with the states motor vehicles department. Just
search for form.
"Request for Driver Re-Examination"
Under driver behavior - check the box. "Acts violent or aggressive when driving" and check "other actions" write you were almost run off the road. Then write
the color of the car and the license number. The dmv will keep your contact information confidential.
Finally say goodbye- to aggressive drivers.
Yeah, the person who tried to run me over was Merga...Imane Merga. That dude didn't show any respect.
Get a police report and the incident documented. It could save your life or at least if you go missing, they may have a suspect. It happened to me in the most ugly and disgusting way about 7 yrs ago in Wasilla, Alaska. I was out late afternoon doing hill repeats ON THE SIDEWALK mind you not bothering a soul and minding my business. My "crime" training in my Russian team jacket. Yes, I was training with the Russian team at the time when school was out and my coach happens to be a former national team member. So effing what!? Obviously his methods were working if I was winning most of the races in Alaska over close to a ten year span til I took leave to come back to my side of the pond for a while.I was also the Russian bilingual teacher at the time at the local HS (where our village idiot Sarah Palin graduated from). So this b!tch in a white pickup starts screaming racist obscenities at me as I'm heading up the hill. It's January and she rolled her window down just to shout. This was entirely unprovoked. So I get to the top of the hill gave her the finger and told her to get a life and fecker off. If not for the possibility of losing my teaching license for assault and battery,I'd have grabbed the ignorant blonde by her ugly ponytail and beat her to a bloody pulp. She did not know me from Adam just some dumba$$ redneck in her early 20s. I scratched the lisense plate # in the snow where I was keeping count on my hill repeats because, yes I was going to report her a$$. About an hour(yea I was just about finishing up my long hill session) later the b!tch came back and did it again and tried to run me of fthe SIDEWALK while ranting!
After I got home, I did call the cops because I wanted it on record. We had had plenty of other nasty hate crimes like a hole teenagers driving around shooting paintball guns at Natives just because they were Native. My own students had also been victimized from time to time too. I did tell my principal the next day, again because I wanted it on record if smthg happened to me. He said he'd have been so pissed he'd have beaten the witch to the bloody pulp I so wanted to! Hate crimes suck and I shouldn't have to be bothered to worry every time I go out and run.
I turned the incident into a teachable moment and after some of my students shared their stories about similar unprovoked hate incidents; I wrote a letter to the editor. My job was to teach immigrant kids English and most of the kids on my caseload were from Russian speaking countries. I can't tell you how much support I got from the parents of those kids after the letter was printed. I just said lesson to be learned is that your silence is your approval. If you do nothing about the problem, it will not go away and may get worse.
Did I quit wearing the jacket? You bet your a$$ I didn't.
I you are the obvious target of a moron behind the wheel, report it guys.
As I said, the crazy or intoxicated or mean or racist always come back. It is vital as Baltic Babe says to be aware they are out there. Once you decide you have run into one, you have to do everything in your power to protect yourself. They are nothing like the guy who cuts you off and you slam his hood and he complains.
You must not confront them. You must get off the road/sidewalk and run to safety far away from where they can drive. You must report them as soon as possible. If you won't do it for yourself, do it for the next guy/girl they go after...