Today I encountered someone with some serious road rage how do you handle it

John Utah wrote:

Angry Willy wrote:

Joking aside, do your best to avoid a confrontation. Take a pic of the plates, and call 911.

Some people are crazy, jacked up on meth, spice, etc. or just plain looking for trouble.

Stay in your vehicle, drive evasively and if you can drive to a police station, highway patrol office, or similar.

Unless something has actually happened (either an actual collision or an actual fight or perhaps brandishing of a firearm) the police will do absolutely nothing if you call it in. They can’t really do anything. Waste of time. Just move on with life.

Wrong. If you call in a plate, model and color of the car etc, and say you believe they are intoxicated, police will respond unless you live in a total backwater. Maybe especially if you live in a backwater.

Keep going wrote:

Unless you're law enforcement on duty, or it's a Steven Seagal movie. He might have a gun,and you won't. You don't know his mind. You also could find yourself in trouble, for participating in road rage. It's not like your fighting in a bar, your behind a wheel of a car, and can kill others.

*you’re

You did the right thing. I have been in situations like this and have a serious temper. I can recall a time in 2006 when my brother in law and myself were in his car. The situation escalated very fast until we hit a red light and the driver got out of his car and approached us and it turned into a very serious altercation. Luckily he threw the first punch and was much older then me so I easily handled the situation and bloodied him up pretty good. The police did arrive and luckily a few witnesses were on hand that backed up my story that he was the perpetrator. Best advice is to avoid those situations at all costs it is a crazy world we live in and you never know who is challenging you which could be very deadly.

Keep going wrote:

Unless you're law enforcement on duty, or it's a Steven Seagal movie. He might have a gun,and you won't. You don't know his mind. You also could find yourself in trouble, for participating in road rage. It's not like your fighting in a bar, your behind a wheel of a car, and can kill others.

Or law enforcement period. I work in plain clothes. Both on and off-duty I've run into plenty of big men with even bigger mouths who suddenly are suddenly left tongue tied and trying to spit out excuses for their behavior when I show them my ID and tell them to stay put for a patrol unit. Gotta be careful these days. You never know who you are screwing with.

John Utah wrote:

raging manifesto wrote:

1. There are some nuts on the road... just steer clear.

2. However, I'd guess half to three-quarters of road rage is incited by the "victim" doing something utterly stupid.

Do NOT do any of the following and your chances of being road raged by some nut will go down substantially.

Go well under the speed limit

Go slow in the left lane

Tailgate

Run stop signs/lights

Weave like a maniac

Decide to exit from the fast lane 100 feet prior to the ramp

Remain half in the travel lane while using a center turn lane (Grrrrrrr!)

Fail to turn right on red when legal and safe to do so

Delay others while trying an impossible left across traffic from a side road

Make improper u-turn while blocking travel lane

Gridlock an intersection

Thanks,

Everyone

Road rager outing himself

Oblivious, self absorbed, "victim" outing his douche bag driving skills.

raging manifesto wrote:

1. There are some nuts on the road... just steer clear.

2. However, I'd guess half to three-quarters of road rage is incited by the "victim" doing something utterly stupid.

Do NOT do any of the following and your chances of being road raged by some nut will go down substantially.

Go well under the speed limit

Go slow in the left lane

Tailgate

Run stop signs/lights

Weave like a maniac

Decide to exit from the fast lane 100 feet prior to the ramp

Remain half in the travel lane while using a center turn lane (Grrrrrrr!)

Fail to turn right on red when legal and safe to do so

Delay others while trying an impossible left across traffic from a side road

Make improper u-turn while blocking travel lane

Gridlock an intersection

Thanks,

Everyone

Yes, this is stuff they don't teach you in driver's ed but assume you know if you have common sense. I would add-

Giving right of way for wrong of way drivers. Do not stop on a green. Do not go from 60 to 0 to let a guy cut in front of you. When it's your turn to go on a 4 way stop, go. I maintain a safe follow distance, but I've almost been rear ended because of people like this.

I think the general theme here is to get out of the way of other drivers. You don't have to like how they're driving, just get out of their way.

DSB15 wrote:

What would you do wrote:

Today, as I was going to work, the driver of the truck behind me, started blowing his horn. He then flew past me, only to slow down to a crawl on the interstate, daring me to challenge him. I could not see the people to well, as their windows were tinted. So I played it safe and got off at the next exit. The passenger rolled down the window, and basically called me a puss*. How would you handle this?

You had an ideal situation to read his license plate and can it in. That's what your cell phone (the greatest crime fighting tool in history) is for.

More people die driving with phones than by road rage.

you stick your thumb up their butthole

You obviously did something to make him mad. Read the book, "How to be normal and not cause problems"

what i would do wrote:

you stick your thumb up their butthole

thats hot

What would you do wrote:

Today, as I was going to work, the driver of the truck behind me, started blowing his horn. He then flew past me, only to slow down to a crawl on the interstate, daring me to challenge him. I could not see the people to well, as their windows were tinted. So I played it safe and got off at the next exit. The passenger rolled down the window, and basically called me a puss*. How would you handle this?

Pit maneuver for sure

Problem solved

I did nothing. On a scale of 1 to 10, I might have been a 1, in trying to get over, but following me into the interstate and for 6 miles, and slowing to a crawl and daring me to engage with him, was way over the top. He is either crazy, or on drugs, or the guy from the movie Falling Down.

You never know when encountering some people, if he just lost a major deal or or his world is falling apart and the one small thing you did, sent him over the edge.