Thought I was in trouble yesterday

[CE230]

On my way to lunch yesterday I was stuck in slow moving traffic on the A420 when an idiot in the nearside lane cut me up nearly taking the front end off. I tooted the horn to indicate my displeasure so he deliberately slowed and stared at me in his rear view mirror so I imperiously waved him forward out of the way. The driver got out of his car and started towards me so I got out and told him to get back in his car and go on his way only using more earthy language . His attitude was very aggressive so I grabbed my Stop Lock and and beckoned him toward me but he just took one look and hurried into his car and screeched off down the road. Shame as I was in the mood after being stuck in endless roadworks for most of the journey.
I hit the detour button on the satnav after this and ended up in the Hampshire lanes using the front spoiler as a mud plough on single track roads.

 

[crockers]

You were lucky.....if he had come at you and you used that -- you may have ended up in one of Her Majestys hotels...

 

[verytalldave]

..............or even worse.........he could have been a marshal arts expert, taken your StopLock and put it where the sun don't shine..........

 

[Howard]

Or a ninja ...

Or Agent Smith from the Matrix ...

Or Darth Vader ....

etc etc etc ...

 

[crockers]

or a nutter.................

 

[ringway]

When I first read this ealier I started thinking of Kenneth Noye and similar cases.

Dangerous game to play me thinks.

I never get involved in this type of thing even though I could swat a lot of people with ease.

I'm not a softie, but I adopt the policy of: He who runs away, lives to run away another day

 

[ShinyF1]

Kenneth Noye - someone told me recently he and Mr Eccles Cake go back a long way together, and that KN was instrumental in the acquisition of a certain motorsport brand name for him....

....allegedly

 

[Stratman]

Terry Lovell's 2004 biography of a certain Suffolk motor racing entrepreneur is highly recommended if you want to find out how he effectively took over F1. Even if you're not that interested in F1 it's still a compelling read.

 

[del320]

The driver got out of his car and started towards me so...

The trick is to get to him as he is getting out - then slam the door on his leg...

 

[st4]

I had a very similar incident and the guy blocked me from merging in near the cones. I horned and flashed him, and he got out of the his can and said "problem". I didn't get out my car, as 2 tons of MB are a better wepon than 12st of me....

 

[wemorgan]

Common courtesies that we hopefully show whilst walking on the high street, seem to vanish as soon as we open the car door. I wonder why?

 

[ringway]

Common courtesies that we hopefully show whilst walking on the high street, seem to vanish as soon as we open the car door. I wonder why?

Because people feel protected in their cars.

Could this sort of behaviour spread to perhaps the supermarket?

Dashing around and cutting up other shoppers approaching the reduced items section...

BBC Five Live Travel... "At Sainsbury's the westbound section of the fresh produce isle is closed due to an overturned shopper and a five trolley pile-up... Emergency services are on the scene but due to the vegetable oil spillage shoppers are advised to divert via the baked beans section

You can see it now, people V-Signing and shouting T*sser because someone didn't indicate when emerging from the shampoo section

Getting behind the wheel of a car changes our behaviour for the worse sometimes.

Why not just relax?

 

[Beetnik]

Dangereous game.

A few years ago a Hummer came, in the wrong lane, past a long queue of traffic and tried to cut in front of me. I wasn't having any of it and he got in behind me. A couple of hundred metres down the road he came up at the side of me wound his window down, spat at me and told me in no uncertain terms what he was going to do to me. Big, shaven head, dripping in gold - I kid you not. I didn't rise to the occassion but drove off but I was so shaken I took his number just in case.

A few days later I recounted the incident to a friend, one of her majesty's finest. I still had the number so he looked it up.

Told me he couldn't access all the details on his file as it was 'locked down' by the serious crimes squad but he could tell me that one of the offences against him in the past was attempted murder and, if I ever saw him again, I'd be best steering well clear.

 

[ringway]

Dangereous game.

A few years ago a Hummer came, in the wrong lane, past a long queue of traffic and tried to cut in front of me. I wasn't having any of it and he got in behind me. A couple of hundred metres down the road he came up at the side of me wound his window down, spat at me and told me in no uncertain terms what he was going to do to me. Big, shaven head, dripping in gold - I kid you not. I didn't rise to the occassion but drove off but I was so shaken I took his number just in case.

A few days later I recounted the incident to a friend, one of her majesty's finest. I still had the number so he looked it up.

Told me he couldn't access all the details on his file as it was 'locked down' by the serious crimes squad but he could tell me that one of the offences against him in the past was attempted murder and, if I ever saw him again, I'd be best steering well clear.

Case Rested Then

 

[stevesey]

Common courtesies that we hopefully show whilst walking on the high street, seem to vanish as soon as we open the car door. I wonder why?

Being a man my approach to shopping is: in, find what I want, pay, out, next shop... and I walk briskly between shops, squeezing through gaps, changing lanes etc. Never been the subject of pavement rage though - odd isn't it that nipping through a small gap to make progress as a pedestrian doesn't seem to cause anyone a problem, do what equates to similar (in fact probably less so) in 2 tons of steel and different standards apply.