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I know we all get irritated on the road because of rudeness and poor driving skills of those around us. We have a case here before the county attorny's office makes ya think about counting to ten before reacting. A guy in his thirties was driving down a six lane two way street when an inattentive man in his mid seventies cut him off right before the redlight that turned red in time to make them come to a stop. Words were exchanged, tempers got heated and the elder gentleman got out of the car to confront (bad idea). He was carrying a shiny object in his hand. The younger gentleman got out quickly and punched him hard enough to knock him to the ground and he hit his head hard enough to knock him out. He never regained conscienceness and died in a comma a few days later in a coma. Now the county prosecuters are trying to mount a case of manslaughter becuase the shiny obect was a pair of silver pens the older gentleman was holding. Hhhmmmmm.........wouldn't have been better to just flip each other off? Maybe. I get mad too but I have learned from others mistakes that I have to bite my tongue and stand back and watch the accident from behind because I know they're gonna cause one. I even removed my pistols from the vehicles because of the implications that I could face if anything goes wrong.

[QUOTE=Corvette64]Wednesday afternoon (3/4/2007) on my way home from work I was southbound on this same highway driving in the right lane when a black Chrysler Aspen SUV exactly like this one passed me. I had my cruise set at 75 mph and this thing came around me like I was standing still. I looked over as it went by and noticed the driver- a woman- was dialing or texting a cell phone. Coincidence?

Wow, no, I think you saw an accident that was about to happen. The sad part (besides the really sad part about the baby) is that this lady will probably sue the police for chasing her and making her go so fast.......and win.


Don

Don, I believe that you are probably right if that happened in many states, but I believe that in Texas they might not be so understanding. She ought to be put away for a long time.

Here is a rant from our Australian Cousins, this phenomena is worldwide




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I'd like to say a big, special thanks to a MORON. Anyone want to join?
kas83ydags (317 ) View Listings | Report 09-01-07 07:50 EST
I'd like to say a big, special thanks to a moron who helped to ruin my day. I was driving from my house to Morisset to meet my girlfriend on the train.

I entered the highway at the Toronto exit, right beside you, Ms Moron in a Mazda RX8, while you were chatting on you mobile phone, doing 100k's in the right hand lane.

I patiently sat at 100k's behind a 4WD Toyota, thinking you would accelerate by, so I could do the same.

Eventually, you accelerated enough to let me pull in behind you. Then you slowed to 100 again. Must be hard maintaining a constant speed in a new sports vehicle with cruise hey.

For the next 5 km's you speed up, until you were level with a car, then slowed to whatever speed they were doing. You totally ignored the fact that there was a left hand lane, as well as the string of traffic you were holding up by sitting in the right hand lane.

Oh, and when your in the RIGHT HAND LANE, doing 100 in a 110 ZONE and some one flashes their lights, its a polite way of saying GET THE FRIDGE OUT OF MY WAY.

I followed you all the way to Morisset, you doing your best to keep me and a gang of others behind you. Luckily, a considerate motorist saw what you were doing and pulled onto the shoulder, so cars could drive past you. Thanks for that, Mr Porsche Boxter, you have to allow for morons everywhere. I might say, that Ms RX8 drove side by side with him for around 8km's. The Porsche changed speeds from 90-120ish k's so you werent beside him, but you didnt get it, did you?

Anyway, it was my time to exit the highway, with you in your car still in the right lane, holding everyone up, but, just remember, you have vanity plates!! Makes them very easy for people to remember and to report you to the Police. Which is what I did. The nice copper said he'd give you a call and tell you to wake up to yourself.

You are one of the most inconsiderate idiots I have met. One person totally ruined a trip on the highway, which I should have been able to set cruise, drive on and off the highway in about 15 mins. Instead, I get a headache, take longer to get there and put me in a foul mood.

My whinge is over, but feel free to tell the story of your own moron who spoilt your day.

Storey number 2 (censored)


I will swap you for the class act that i met between Tamworth and Armidale.
Now this is a piece of work.
Mr ea wagon with QLD no. plates was doing his best to gain a country mile. When we 1st saw him he was about to pull out infront of a land cruiser [1st heart stopping moment] he didn't have the smooth driving ability of a late model commodore ie go up a hill at the same speed,so he was easily out paced by me and mr silver vt who i was travelling behind.but not tailgating,[50m]+
[at a safe pace]we were doing on average just under 110.
whenst coming into uralla we slow to a pace that was antisipating the 60 zone when i look out the rear view and hear comes >>DI**HEAD<< doing 120+ crosses double yellows in front of a oncoming car and realizes where the frig he is and brakes hard to slide in behind the silver holden very close to raming him only to do a u-turn in front of me in town.

QLD drivers in chit-box cars are always the ones that i am faced with when it comes to the "what the hell is this moron doing ,trying to kill someone experience".
NEVER FAILS.

B.L.A.T. [brake late and turn] RACING.

Talk about being under the influence of lowndsey

Originally Posted by NTFDAY

Don, I believe that you are probably right if that happened in many states, but I believe that in Texas they might not be so understanding. She ought to be put away for a long time.

Yeah you might be right, Texas is a little tough I understand.

Ron White the comedian (from Texas) says "most States are abolishing the death penalty..........my State is putting in an express lane."


Don

Yeah she would probably win that one too. That is crazy that you got to see something like that. Here in the city of Charlotte you aren't allowed to chase either. A few months ago a guy tried to run from us (the cops) but we first got behind him in the cop car and followed and noticed that he was going in circles trying to lose us taking side streets with no stop signs and then a stop sign street came up and the guy went through it. On came the lights and he gassed it and tried to lose us. He turned the lights off and went through a intersection almost hit someone and a car sitting there in the intersection and then almost went through a front yard and into a house. We couldn't chase him anymore and he got away. Well he got caught a week later. People are starting to realize around here though that cops can't chase so they try to get away and a lot of times they do (for a while). Maybe that lady will learn a lesson, as harsh as it sounds and how bad it is that the baby died, maybe it will teach her a lesson and so will prison.

Just watched a news piece on this tragedy today. This lady is off of her rocker. She was going over 110 mph with the baby in the car, trying to get away from the police. Even when she crashed they had to subdue her as she was combative.

There are some really looney people out there, and their population seems to be increasing every day.

Don

I dont envy the boys in blues job at all,these people are nuts nowadays.
I do like the fact they have given alot of the officers the new pistol tasers,Shock em good ... They really need to install the engine disabling devices on the new cars...as much as my civil liberties can stand to even say that ,...but its got to be addressed in some manner...

[QUOTE=Itoldyouso]

Originally Posted by Corvette64

Wednesday afternoon (3/4/2007) on my way home from work I was southbound on this same highway driving in the right lane when a black Chrysler Aspen SUV exactly like this one passed me. I had my cruise set at 75 mph and this thing came around me like I was standing still. I looked over as it went by and noticed the driver- a woman- was dialing or texting a cell phone. Coincidence?

Wow, no, I think you saw an accident that was about to happen. The sad part (besides the really sad part about the baby) is that this lady will probably sue the police for chasing her and making her go so fast.......and win.


Don

Doubt that will happen in Texas. They do one of two things with their criminals:

1. Lock them up, lose the Key
2. Throw them out of the state, sometimes they send them to Washington!!!!!

Out here we got Road Construction in every direction. The double and Dbbl Dbbl yellow lines mean Nothing anymore. If you wait and not cross them like I do, better look in the mirror because some idiot is always over them to get up to the light or around the traffic. Traffic fines doubled ? The police should be independently wealthy by now.

Somebody toss him a roll of TP.

I had a guy riding my rear bumper of my 69 el Camino, he was in a MG with the top down. We got stopped at a red light, he was yelling and flipping me the bird. My el had a full bed liner with no tailgate cut out. It had about 8 inchs of rain water still left over from the nights rain. I lowered my air baggs and floored it when the light turned green, looked back to see a wave of water go over his windshield...............LOL he didn't follow me

Originally Posted by BradC

I had a guy riding my rear bumper of my 69 el Camino, he was in a MG with the top down. We got stopped at a red light, he was yelling and flipping me the bird. My el had a full bed liner with no tailgate cut out. It had about 8 inchs of rain water still left over from the nights rain. I lowered my air baggs and floored it when the light turned green, looked back to see a wave of water go over his windshield...............LOL he didn't follow me

Now that theres funny I don't care who ya are

Road Rage is nothing new, even before it was called that. I recall a time (about 40 years ago.....scary to admit it) when I was driving my Sunbeam Tiger through Toronto in rather heavy traffic on the 401. For those of you who don't know this car, it was a small British sports car with a small-block Ford V8) The highway was multi-laned, probably 3 or 4 lanes in each direction at that time.
I was driving in the left lane, passing a string of cars and trucks, and as I pulled along side a semi, he suddenly began to move over into my lane, squeezing me up against the guard-rails. I layed on the horn, assuming he had probably not seen me, but he kept moving over (even though trucks were not allowed in the far left lane.) Then, I looked up into his rear-view mirror and could see him watching me and roaring with laughter. The SOB thought this was funny! Only good brakes and a narrow car kept me from kissing the railing. I saw red!
Some very aggressive passing on the right put me back in the left lane ahead of him. As we approached a long incline, I started slowing down. Since the right lanes were still packed, he was forced to slow down, blasting his horn. I kept a close eye on him to make sure he didn't ram me while I slowed to about 10 mph. (This was before we got blessed with the metric system. )
Then I waved at him and opened the little car up. When I topped the hill at well over 100 mph he was still wallowing throught the gears at the base of the incline. It felt really good but that was when I was young and impetuous....I doubt I would do the same today......but then, you never know.