Got Shot at today

[frog1520]

Glad you're OK.

When someone is driving like an absolute t***, you don't know what they've done or what they're getting away from. Even if they bang into your motor, its not always worth giving chase. It goes against the grain I know and its not easy, but if you value your life, its the right thing to do!

 

[Thmsshaun]

!!!!!!!!

Glad your OK!

 

[RJIF]

F*K*N*L mate! im glad your ok

 

[marc777]

Just read this. Can't beleive what UK's coming to.

Last week at traffic lights in central London, I'm there, window down, music playing enjoying the day. Smart car (of all things) pulls up beside me and both guys in the car start mouthing off and trying to start trouble! Calling me all sorts and starting to get out!

Damn. ! I was on my way to a business meeting. I don't need this.

Jealous? High? Whatever, I just let them go when the lights turned green. Ruined my day.

Its SO easy to get drawn into something that can have disastrous consequences.

Glad your safe Marcus.

Marc

 

[fuzzer]

jeepers creepers dude , glad your alright.

and people think im silly for wanting an E Guard ...

 

[Shude]

It can't have been a handgun, they've been banned remember!

 

[SG CL500]

glad you're ok fella - what is the UK coming to???

That said, membership of this forum is appearing to become more and more dangerous at the moment.

 

[Satch]

It can't have been a handgun, they've been banned remember!

Something Must Be Done. So must be nearly be time for another huge raft of ineffective legislation that only hits the law abiding then.

Glad you are ok but this sort of thing seems to be happening more and more. Curiously a lot of it never get reported.

 

[Shude]

Something Must Be Done. So must be nearly be time for another huge raft of ineffective legislation that only hits the law abiding then.

Glad you are ok but this sort of thing seems to be happening more and more. Curiously a lot of it never get reported.

Perhaps it was a disgruntled winter olympic hopeful who was training from the window of a moving subaru... now that marksmen have to train abroad due to it being illegal in the UK. Sickening!

 

[richard]

Mercs these days come with so many options on the options list... The one that's missing:

Mercedes Shotgun

Shame you didnt have the "armoured plated version" (E/S class "guard") - then you could have chased him down the road whilst he was shooting at you (probably with a huge grin on your face)

Richard

(ps, of course, Very Glad that you are OK!)

 

[chriswt]

A very short time after you made that call did a fleet of Armed responce cars fly past you? The police normally pull out all the stops to catch armed robbers and I would have thought that the whole of Hertfordshire would have been crawling with BMW's, Omegas and Choppers shortly after your call.

 

[Vips]

Marcos,

Sorry to hear of your ordeal, Just grateful that your are ok. Hope you get over the shock quickly.

Bloody hell, just reading your story makes my blood boil, just knowing that there are lawless scums out there with no care for fellow humans.

 

[SilverSaloon]

jesus, pleased your ok.

hope they caught the b@stards and they are now locked up for a very long time, but some how i doubt it

 

[glojo]

That's the trouble Graham, I've been in many sticky situations but the red mist descended and all logical thinking went out of the window. It kind of scared me that to think my temper could have quite easily got me shot. Maybe something like this will calm me down a bit.

Hi Marcos,
Please forgive me for being blunt, but NO!!!..........

I mean this in the nicest possible way and say it as a friend. What on earth did you think you were going to do when you drew alongside this car. "Excuse me sir, but in my opinion your driving leaves a lot to be desired!!!"

Or were you going to side swipe him with your beautiful E-class? Thank goodness your SBC brakes didn't let you down

Hopefully the Police will at the very least write you an official letter of thanks, as it sounds like you managed to locate these armed and very dangerous criminals.

As grown ups we try to teach our children self control and mould them either in our image or perhaps be even better. We should never loose control and allow this so called red mist to appear. It is really immaturity and needs to be kept in check. I am so pleased that this terrible incident had a happy ending and well done for getting the registration number and of course informing the Police.

Do we congratulate the Police for catching these criminals?

Apologies if I have offended you,

John the sensitive

Edit: I think I was to OTT Sorry

 

[SportsCoupeRich]

Hi Marcos,
Please forgive me for being blunt, but GROW UP..........

I mean this in the nicest possible way and say it as a friend. What on earth did you think you were going to do when you drew alongside this car. "Excuse me sir, but in my opinion your driving leaves a lot to be desired!!!"

Or were you going to side swipe him with your beautiful E-class? Thank goodness your SBC brakes didn't let you down

Hopefully the Police will at the very least write you an official letter of thanks, as it sounds like you managed to locate these armed and very dangerous criminals.

As grown ups we try to teach our children self control and mould them either in our image or perhaps be even better. We should never loose control and allow this so called red mist to appear. It is really immaturity and needs to be kept in check. I am so pleased that this terrible incident had a happy ending and well done for getting the registration number and of course informing the Police.

Do we congratulate the Police for catching these criminals?

Apologies if I have offended you,

John the sensitive

John, Marcos will not be the last to be irked at someones driving and - at the risk of being crass - he is one of many who every day wish to tell people that their behaviour was appalling. Whislt I personally wouldnt chase someone in my car I would tell a waiter his service was appalling, a shop assistant or someone that was rude to me. Yes the ability to walk away is noble, but so is the pride to not make little of offensive behaviour. Marcos was very nearly tragically unlucky but the same could happen if you caught one of these people in their day job.

At the risk of being offensive, would everyone here remain tight lipped if a delivery man dropped a vase etc - the people who rob banks are probably not so different from some of the less scrupulous tradesmen who may also decide that if you dont like their shoddy job they can threaten you with a hammer.

IMHO Marcos sounds like he had a lapse of momentary judgement that is pretty understandable, It is not a case of grow up...its a case of accept that the world is pretty dangerous now and its almost a case of act like a timid child instead of a grown up....shame

Glad you are Ok Marcos , if a little rattled.

John, your very sensitive!

Rich the scrupulous tradesman (not)

 

[DieselE]

It can't have been a handgun, they've been banned remember!

That just means they're no longer available for olympic pistol shooters, target shooters etc.

Marcos is extremely lucky that most criminals in the real world are terrible shots, otherwise the incident could have had a tragic outcome.

 

[SportsCoupeRich]

also i have to disagree that the red mist is always a sign of immaturity and weakness - it is very often a sign of caring and passion.....a shame we dont take a legal lesson from the french.

 

[glojo]

also i have to disagree that the red mist is always a sign of immaturity and weakness - it is very often a sign of caring and passion.....a shame we dont take a legal lesson from the french.

I might have been a 'little' OTT with my remarks but they are meant in the nicest of ways. Of course we would object to the various everyday examples that have been offered , but I still respectfully ask what were Marcos intentions when he chased this car? Forget all the mundane examples and let us stick to this one issue. The car was at the very least being driven in an extremely reckless and dangerous manner??? If you are going to keep up with this vehicle and indeed drive faster...He had to catch back up to it, what type of driving is being displayed by the persuing driver.

If this car is bouncing off stationary objects, will the driver show respect to Marcos or his vehicle?

Is it a masculine thing to do??? Or is it reckless?

Did Marcos good lady wife congratulate him or bend his ear?

Of couse there is a place for the so called have a go hero, but I personally do not think this was one such occassion, but it does sound like Marcos helped locate some very dangerous criminals and hopefully this will be recognised?

John the OVER sensitive

 

[SportsCoupeRich]

agreed - but we are not yet in a society where our first thought is they may have a gun (though who knows how far off it is!!!) so I assume that Marco followed and caught up (as traffic was reached) not out of masculinity ( i have been asked what i was doing by pretty women as much as ugly men ) or recklessness but out of passion and a sense of wrongdoing. its a pretty basic instinct in most of us

in society where wrongdoers often go unpunished the only collective sense of retribution that we get is giving people a piece of mind. Its pretty interesting really.

500 yrs ago wrongdoers were nearly always punsihed (in say, a village society) as it was difficult to get away. Society offended, punishment handed out, society bonds as the 'collective reasoning (Durkheim or Kant) is restored.

today - lots of wrongdoings, poor resources, easy to 'dissapear', weak collective consicence....all this makes for moments such as Marcos'. We feel that the retribution must come from our own tongues. The the collective is restored as the story is passed on. Bottom line - the people may still of got away, but in our little sheltered worlds we got our revenge by a telling off.

100 years from now? Too dangerous to seek collective retribution from a telling off so do we have a over-judicial big brother state or a Lockian world of chaos.....

I'm certainly not getiing cyrogenically frozen to find out!

Rich the I SHOULD BE DOING MY DAY JOB RATHER THAN RECITING MY DEGREE!!!! !!!!

 

[nickg]

I hope nickg doesnt see this thread.......

He`s already seen enough :http://mbclub.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=23555