Road Rage, Bad Driving

[Crawsh87]

not sure if this is offensive or discriminating to other drivers or individuals, but i hav to ask. Whats the worst driving or road rage scenario u hav had lately. cumin up to summer iv seen sum horrific drivin.

[R0d]

i can understand why people get so shitted off with others driving. I dunno if its road rage or not, but i was driving the other day and i was in the right lane and there was a commo station wagon in the other, we were pretty much side by side, and then this dumbass comes up hoon's like ricers do... pulls behind me so close i wondered if he was going to touch the back and then he jumps in the left lane goes up so close to the other guy, all the while i was slowing down as i wanted to get in the left lane, there was then the smallest gap between me and the station wagon so the ricer cuts infront of me narrowly missing me. I felt like pulling him over and tell him how to drive

[minux]

Last road rage incident i had i was threatened with assault charges.

Guy got out of his car at the lights, abused me because i was doing 5 km/h under the speed limit in the city. Continued to tell me how to drive. I got up out of my car, gave him 2 verbal warnings that if he didnt leave the vicinity i would ttake measures to make him move. Needless to say he wouldn't move. Amazing how a threat of a punch makes these imbociles shit themselves.

He rang the police, told them i had hit him repeated times. They rock up at my door, my GF shows them the video footage off the phone(she recorded the whole thing )

They left, quite often is ee this guy and he now keeps at least 50 metres of my rear.

[Shortstuff]

While doing the speed limit in a 70 zone the other day I had someone in a VS ute driving so close to me I thought they were going to touch my rear bumper. Where did it get her when she finally decided to overtake? One car in front so it was a total waste of time for her.

What is it with people tailgating like that though? It really shits me , especially when I have two very young children in the car with me most of the time.

[Sabbath']

Got my own revenge on a scooter rider the other day.

Scenario:

On Lakeside drive (the one that cuts through Albert Park) on my way to work, its a single lane, double line'd road with a speedlimit of 50km/h.

This total idiot on a scooter comes flying up on my RHS, passing other cars but staying withing the double lines. Being quite pissed off with riders doing this i proceeded to move the the far right of the lane as much as possible without crossing the line.

Making it impossible for him to pass, so he moves up to about 1 metre behind me and then sits there with the high beam on. Im thinking to myself "I have a regular genius on my hands here, a guy on a bike is trying to take somebody in a car on"

So we travel along for about 10 metres and the traffic starts to slow, i look in the rear vision mirror to check what he's doing, he's still there with the highbeam on, riding my ass, so i give the brakes a sudden but very violent tap, so the car looks like its slowing more suddenly than it is, i was looking in my rear vision mirror the whole time to see the reaction. Was priceless, the guy absolutely SHAT his pants, he's jerked the handlebars and put the brakes on and wobbled all over the road.

Seriously, if you drive a car, you dont mess with a truck because you're going to lose in any fight between motor vehicle and the amount of damage they can inflict on the other, therefore if you're a pedestrian or cyclist of any kind you dont take on a car because it is you who will come off worse.

Would of been a great way for him to start his day, running up my arse or falling off and being run over by the car behind me.

But, they make their bed so they must lie in it.


Oh, and dont talk to me about pushbike riders, i had to dish out $25 because i ran over a nail hammered into a piece of balsa wood left in my lane on Beach Road. Talking to a shop owner down there apparently it happens alot, and its the cyclists way of fighting back..they place these in the road to try and damage unsuspecting motorists tyres. Dont know if its a 100% true account, but it sounds plausible.

Happy Motoring

[Christina]

was driving the other day, heavy traffic.

2 really massive bearded guys get out of their car behind me, (ok, i'm a 17yo chick who is about 165cms and i am not built big, and i get scared of scary people lol).. anyway, i'm getting worried, thinking.. WTF!!

they walk behind my car... i had windows down, then they walk to the car next to me, phew, and start smashing on the bonnet and windows of this car screaming in some forgien language and abusing this poor indian man....

then halfway down the road, these two bitches swerve into my lane (about 1/2 metre clearance from me) after dodging through traffic which is still heavily backed up, i hit em with full beams for 2 seconds, they change lanes and get behind me, tail gate for 2kms, rev up the side of me, these two really massive chicks..? were they chicks or what? lol, in the back seat start abusing me waving their arms out the windows.....

ah huh.
ahhhh huh!!!!

[Christina]

oh yeah, shortstuff reminded me, this guy in an older model fairmont? i think, was FKKKKKKKNG like 5cms off my bumper the other day.

I put my hazzard lights on when people tailgate me, they usually change lanes, this guy did nothing but get closer.
He was so close to me I could see his damm ugly head in my mirrors.
it's a 70 zone which merges into a 60 on Anzac Bridge which goes into the city, i got into the 60 zone doing about 68kms, i swear if i broke and got down to 60, this guy would have slammed me bad.

I even started moving my arms out the window as if to tell him to back off, guy was insane, green p plater i think... or something which looked green on the windscreen.
I've been tailgated a fair bit, but this guy was bad!!

[sircruisealotVS]

i saw some classic road road the other week, i wasnt involved, but i was right next to it and i was laughin my ass off.
what happened was this little echo with two young chicks in it was trying to turn out from behind someone at a set of lights...i was in the right lane next to them and they were in the left, with another lane beside them for turning left down the side road.
they were trying (i think) to get out from behind the car infront of them and go down the far left lane to turn left at the side road, but typically they werent looking and pulled out right as this bloke in a old falcon ute (looked like his work ute) was coming along and he almost cleaned them up.
so he was swearing and yelling and screaming out of his window and these chicks just froze up.....so what did this bloke in the ute do? he reverses up about 2-3 metres (he was right at the side of their car almost touching) and then plants it! friggen rams the side of the echo and keeps the gas going after impact with his wheels spinnin....then he reverses again, same deal, rams into them a second time! it was classic funny to watch...
after the second ramming the lights went green and i had to drive away, so i dont know what happened after that...but he totally f*cked up the side of this chicks car, i dont think she'll be pulling into lanes without looking next time.

[1vngal]

I don't think I've ever copped road rage. I more dish it out...

But not to the point where I'm fully going off, jumping up and down on their roof... But I do yell at them, even though they can't hear me, give the extremely evil eye etc.

[Christina]

oh yeah, my brother went into the city the other night.
saturday night about 11pm, he said this whole gang started bashing each other outside town hall in the middle of the road, ha ha he was first at the lights just revving his motor and this guy (as my brother put it) "sh1t himself and ran from infront of the car"

ha ha, not road rage, but rage in general.

i saw this crazy guy start bashing an old man with a bat about 2 or so years ago, my dad and i were behind this car, absolutely crazy. i should keep my windows up, as i don't have power windows...

[jacko]

Bloody roundabouts, people up here dont know how to use them. Idiots driving through them like there not there, turning left from the right lane and vice versa, causing near-accidents, cutting lanes, etc etc. i've dished out a lot of road rage to the morons that do this.

[jules]

Oh, and dont talk to me about pushbike riders, i had to dish out $25 because i ran over a nail hammered into a piece of balsa wood left in my lane on Beach Road. Talking to a shop owner down there apparently it happens alot, and its the cyclists way of fighting back..they place these in the road to try and damage unsuspecting motorists tyres. Dont know if its a 100% true account, but it sounds plausible.

Happy Motoring

that's the most ridiculous story i've heard in a while. what's next, cyclists launching RPGs at car drivers?

i've got a more reasonable explanation - it fell off the back of some tradie's ute or a truck.

[minux]

i saw some classic road road the other week, i wasnt involved, but i was right next to it and i was laughin my ass off.
what happened was this little echo with two young chicks in it was trying to turn out from behind someone at a set of lights...i was in the right lane next to them and they were in the left, with another lane beside them for turning left down the side road.
they were trying (i think) to get out from behind the car infront of them and go down the far left lane to turn left at the side road, but typically they werent looking and pulled out right as this bloke in a old falcon ute (looked like his work ute) was coming along and he almost cleaned them up.
so he was swearing and yelling and screaming out of his window and these chicks just froze up.....so what did this bloke in the ute do? he reverses up about 2-3 metres (he was right at the side of their car almost touching) and then plants it! friggen rams the side of the echo and keeps the gas going after impact with his wheels spinnin....then he reverses again, same deal, rams into them a second time! it was classic funny to watch...
after the second ramming the lights went green and i had to drive away, so i dont know what happened after that...but he totally f*cked up the side of this chicks car, i dont think she'll be pulling into lanes without looking next time.

Not once did you mention how you thought you should of stopped or at least waited and offered assistance to the females.
That driver needs to be reported, he is the sort of ******** that causes road rage in the first place. Granted the girl pulled out, but you know what, everyone makes mistakes. What harm was done?

Most males i know what of tried to diffuse the situation, not just driven off pretending it never happened. Great to see how our community is going along.

[calais_304]

Road rage...whats that, is that when people go off at you then you produce a katana and they shit themselves
back in the ford days i had no respect for my car, so if you wanted to start shit you'd wanna hope like hell you hate your car as much as i did one bloke found out the hard way

LOL best one ever though was at BCF, packed as all hell im trying to find a park, finally find one and this asian bloke just as im turning in, just stops and stands their, calls out to his people who are in front of me to come and grab the park...well if you know me, you'd know that is the biggest insults you could do to me, so i keep driving, the asian stands his ground, he realises im not stopping so he moves to the side, and bump., i run over his foot, his missus then jumps in front of the car and yea she get's a tap to, then my mates jump out and it's all over.
NOT 1 person that was there had to disagree with what we did, many saw, many laughed.

[minux]

Road rage...whats that, is that when people go off at you then you produce a katana and they shit themselves

Then they produce a gun and shoot you dead. When will people learn that weapons are NEVER a good idea. I remember a few years back in the US where a road rage incident involved a plastic gun. The person who innocently merged into flowing traffic causing the male driver behind her to have to slow down a few mph lost her life when she had a heart attack and hit a pole because she thought someone was going to shoot her.

[calais_304]

Not once did you mention how you thought you should of stopped or at least waited and offered assistance to the females.
That driver needs to be reported, he is the sort of ******** that causes road rage in the first place. Granted the girl pulled out, but you know what, everyone makes mistakes. What harm was done?

Most males i know what of tried to diffuse the situation, not just driven off pretending it never happened. Great to see how our community is going along.

but minux at least she'll never do it again, she could have got her self killed her friend, and the person in the other car for her stupid action, im sorry but people pulling out not paying attention is no excuse for anything for god sake it's instinct to check your sholder and mirrors.
being rammed is a bit drastic though, i would have gone off my nut and be done with it.

[MikesVT]

I was beeped at once. The first day I got my car. I was doing a U-turn in a keep clear zone, so obviously I had to slow down, I had my blinker on, and the guy behind me holds down his horn.... diked haha

Apart from that I don't get any road rage... I do give it alot though. I'm pretty quick on my horn as well, which I'm trying to control... But I make alot of hand gestures and what not if I get cut off or tail gated

[calais_304]

Then they produce a gun and shoot you dead.

ah well shit happens, at least i'll die quick and relativly painless, and at least i've come up against someone that was willing to use it, most people will only ever scare you with it, never have the ball to pull that trigger.

[calais_304]

summer road rage due to southerners migrating

[jules]

i avoid road rage, i have more important things to worry about in my life. if someone gets really rowdy i just flip them the bird unless they're obviously bigger than i am

[Mr_Slim]

normally i dish out the road rage, generally people staying in the right lane of a freeway not overtaking, i give them the high-beams, then the horn, but nothing too bad.

this time however i was the recipient of the road rage. me, my mate, and a girl (back seat) driving through Blacktown (Rooty Hill to be exact for you Sydneysiders)

Saw the light green, and i sped up to get through. It went red, so i slowed down and stopped behind a Civic parked at the lights. There was 2 blokes in the Civic.

The driver of the Civic turns around, starts goin off, giving me the finger etc. nothing special. The lights go green and he's still goin off. I didn't have time for this, so i went to reverse and go around, but a cab pulled up behind me.

When i turned back, the 2 blokes in the Civic got out and came to my car. Before i got to lock the doors, the driver comes to me and opens the door. Now i'm a pretty big bloke (6"1) and i normally don't take shit. But this guy was big and bald and mean looking and he proceeded to grab me by the throat and headbutt me. The passenger of the Civic went to my passenger (my mate) who had his window down, and started punching him in the head. I copped another punch in the face, and then put my head down, while i kept copping it in the back of the head. The driver of the Civic (the bloke hitting me) then leant over the seat and yelled at the girl in the back who was screaming. He started slapping her saying he was gunna kill her.

The irony was that the car was still in Drive and by him hitting me i almost slipped on the accelorator and rammed his car by accident lol.

After my pummelling he took the keys from my ignition and drove off. The dumb cab behind me just drove off. Me and my mate (and a car that pulled up) got 5 out of the 6 digits on the #plate. The cops said that wasn't good enough. A few months later i met a mate who worked for the cops and he said they can track a car with 3 digits so they were BSing me.

Now i'm not going to stereotype, but they were Lebs, and in other road rage incidents i've seen (blokes getting out of cars and bashing others) they have been lebs too. But im not stereotyping.

[R0d]

hmm isnt is sad how everything almost turns to violence when its something so small. Me and my friend were walking home from school one day, walking along the road and we pick up a coke bottle and started kicking it like a football, and when a car would go pass we would hold it until it goes pass. Then this wanker in a xe falcon (a v8 with a hornet bonnet scoop) drives pass and we held the bottle and watch him pass. The guy then stops hops out and starts yelling at us saying we were trying to throw the bottle at the car. I was saying no mate and hes like you Fu(king little bastards and hops back in his car we then continue walking crossing the road to avoid him and he comes back the other way stops then moves again trying to run us over. Im thinking what the hell is this guys problem we jumped out the way and then he left us alone. He was also a Lebanese wanker

[jgupte]

The best defense I have found for tailgaiters is to slow down even more. The logic behind that is - since you must keep a safe distance between you and the car in front so that if he has to stop suddenly, you can too. So, if someone is too close behind you for the speed you are travelling at, slow down (slowly) to a speed which is appropiate to the distance between you. I think the spped of 5kmh is appropiate for 1/2 a meter. It also serves to annoy them more, and eventually they get the message or overtake you. But always do this with your windows locked. And if they try to stop you, or get out of their car at lights, just get the hell out of there, even if you have to ram their car or run them over!

[jules]

The dumb cab behind me just drove off.

my mate was a cabbie from india. a lot of cabbies are trying to earn their residency and don't want to get involved in anything that might affect their claim. they come from countries where staying out of it is the smart thing to do.

A few months later i met a mate who worked for the cops and he said they can track a car with 3 digits so they were BSing me.

that's because cops are lazy (or too busy to take on more cases, depends on your p.o.v).

[Mr_Slim]

The best defense I have found for tailgaiters is to slow down even more. The logic behind that is - since you must keep a safe distance between you and the car in front so that if he has to stop suddenly, you can too. So, if someone is too close behind you for the speed you are travelling at, slow down (slowly) to a speed which is appropiate to the distance between you. I think the spped of 5kmh is appropiate for 1/2 a meter. It also serves to annoy them more, and eventually they get the message or overtake you. But always do this with your windows locked. And if they try to stop you, or get out of their car at lights, just get the hell out of there, even if you have to ram their car or run them over!

agreed. i usually keep my right foot on accelorator and put my left foot on the brake, just let the tailgators know i won't stand for it. However one time this bloke just wouldn't give up, he kept tailgating me. eventually he got around me and then got held up in traffic and only ended up being the car in front of me. then we got to the toll gates (eastern distributor sydney nth bound) in the middle of the eTag line, he stopped, reversed back into my car. he stopped about 10cm in front of me, then floored it. he was in a VR. me knowing my Commodores knew that my manual VN would be faster, so i gunned it and went up the emergency lane to get in front of him, no way was i sitting behind this bastard. then at the next lights he pulled up along side. i just locked the doors (didn't make the same mistake as last time) he just started yelling at me, waving the finger etc. I looked at him and just started laughing hahaha