Funniest one I had was quite a few years ago now when I had a BMW 318Ti Compact. Great little hatchback that car. Anyway, I was being tailgated by some irritating guy in heavy traffic. I couldn't move over out of his way due to traffic on the inside lane and I was stuck behind a slower moving vehicle anyway, so tailgating me was a pretty pointless exercise in my opinion. Anyhoo - long & short of it, when the slow car in front of me moved over I just crept up to 70 and then stuck at that speed, steadily going past the rest of the traffic in the inside lane.
Chap behind me went nuts - flashing his lights, getting even closer to me and waving his arms about, all as we were coming up to a section of road I knew the traffic police usually kept an eye on from an over head bridge. Anyway, as the traffic cleared on the inside lane he instantly made a move to undertake me but I just clearly indicated and moved over. He then swerved about a bit and clogged it past me making rude signs and almost frothing at the mouth.
Plod were on the bridge & they had their speed gun out. He must have gotten up to about 90-100 before he also saw them, slammed on all the anchors and slowed down...too late though. I saw them move off the bridge as I was coming under it and they then passed me a few seconds later, blues & twos going full on
A short bit later I passed both them and the tailgater, pulled over on the hard shoulder while the cops read him the riot act, showing him the radar gun & his speed I expect. I swear the look I got from him as I pootled past was totally priceless
If he hadn't been driving like a total d1ck in the first place I would have picked up the pace a bit once I was clear and happily moved over as soon as I had the chance, but since he was just being "Mr Angry, get out of my way" I thought I'd make him stew a bit
Doubt whether he learned any lesson in the long run but it made me smile.
Cheers,
Mark
