Some funny "stories" here. What makes me laugh is the fact that most of the times people have come at you, is following verbal abuse from you in the first place. Which is also classed as "road rage" Im not condoning what has happened here but there are a lot of nutters out there, if you press their buttons they will have you.

Im not a small lad by any means, and yes if it comes down to it i can defend myself. BUT i find the most effective and amusing way of dealing with stroppy people is to SMILE at them. Not in a stupid way just a friendly one, it will instantlu confuse most "yobs" and they will normally be to embarrased/confused to do anything else but to drive off.

Remember you drive expensive cars that stand out, you may win the street "battle" but when your scoob/car gets torched/keyed/acid/etc you will in my eyes have lost the "war"

Again just my 2p



Cookie

 

I don't hate all BMW drivers. Just those in stupid pointless X5's on the school run. Wouldn't say no to an M3...

 

Am i the only one on here that actually likes the X5?

 

No, i love the 4.8i S in black with a nice set of 22" wheels.

 

Thats pimping dude!!

 

I have to tell you all this, still cant really beleive it happened.
Was in B&Q on Saturday afternoon getting skimming bead for the house, and got back out to the car, got the door opened, steering lock off, seats down, boot open and I had a look to see if anyone was about so I wouldnt hit them when trying to put the stuff in the car. No one close, but a guy and girl walking in my general direction. So got the stuff in and headed towards the car door when said guy and girl got about level with the car.
This is where it all gets a bit nuts (bear in mind 2 oclock, Saturday afternoon in a busy B&Q car park)
The guy shouts out to me, "Are you looking at my girl?"
Im that amazed by this that I ask what?
He says you were fuc king looking at my girl.
Mow im gobsmacked, i look at (as he calls her) his girl, and she is an ugly mess, so I look back at him, and sort of laugh and say no.
But this isnt enough for this prat, he then proceeds to ask if im startin?
Hmmm, now ive had enough, so I kindly remind him that its 2 oclock on a saturday afternoon, in B&Q car park, and ask WTF is he on?
So this prompts him with, You are starting.
Now thats it, my disklok is on the seat, so it gets lifted and I really hold back from just wacking him with it, and tell him to get the fu ck away from me before i smash his face all over the carpark. And after all his hard talk, he did.
I still cant beleive the guy, his girlfriend wasnt even good looking, you would of needed a torch to walk round her incase it was dark when you were coming back!!

 

i know this isnt an english class but can you please please please use some full stops and commas? I ran out of breath twice

 

Cookstar..... you got it right there..... smile

Had an old Astra van sitting in the over taking lane on the A24 southbound past Horsham (for those who know it) The driver of said van would not pull over.

I followed him at a sensible distance for over 2 miles resisting the urge to undertake. Each time someone got too close to the back of me, I pulled over, they passed and then undertook the van.

Needless to say I got fed up in the end and undertook. A few miles down the road I'm indicating to turn right (at a roundabout) so approach the roundabout in the right hand lane. I'm about about 150 yards away at this point.

The van driver then screams past me on the left, pulls in front and brakes. He's wagging his finger at me out the window, which got my blood boiling. He then pulls into the left hand lane (traffic is now down to a crawl) and I pull up alongside him.

He's a big f**ker and looked rather mean. Anyway..... he's shaking his head and calling me a w**ker.

I looked across at him, put my left thumb up and smiled. This guy didn't know what to do. Traffic moves on a few car lengths and we're next to each other again. I give him the same treatment and nod my head this time as well.... and he's just looking at me with a blank stare.

Smiling worked for me in this incident, but would probably annoy some people.


J.

 

lol im not english, my comma and stop is not what comes to mind first when writing something like this

im 35 now, and the incident happend whe i was 28 or 29 i think, havent come across similar situations maybe because im getting older who knows,
but i do agree not to use weapons and/or violence at all, in the case where he attacked me, i was kinda trapped in the situation and had no choice other then to defend myself (marshall arts training comming in handy there)

i have when i was younger experienced other situations, but inviting ppl to step out their cars to explain themselves and their abusive behavior often sees them drive away in a hurry for some reason, all in the mouth type if you like

hope the commas are set right *lol*

cheers

Reggie

 

Had an incident last weekend, I pulled in to a shell (palmers green) for a bit of optimax. It was pretty busy, there was a Mondeo sat in the middle of two pumps, i've pulled in a little behind him as the pump to the left cleared i've pulled in to it (he would have needed to reverse a bit to get in to it). I popped the cap and got out as I did this Man Mountain got of the Mondeo, and starting screaming at me ' You F*cker, i was ere before you, get in your f*cking car and move out the way NOW'

I said I was really sorry and of course i would move out of the way for him, I then proceeded to the pump and started filling up, this guy went ape, he was screaming and shouting at me he was going to do this and that. I just said look mate if you're going to hit me do it, i can do with the cash, if you're not i'd get to the pump before that other car takes it. I got a load more abuse but only while he was running back to his car.

 

Yes I know I didn't help things by 'gesturing' at them. But I only did this after they tried to run me off the road. Trust me, I won't be doing it in future!! Want to cut me up? fine go ahead!!!

 

LOL ...should of 'doused' the ****!!!

 

I've had a couple of incidents which I must say that post the incident I was ashamed of how I reacted.

1 incident was funny though:

Travelling north bound on the A34 and coming off at Chievely (M4) I overtook a lorry and moved onto the slip road, there was acres of room but he gave me a good flash of his lights so I rolled down the window and gave him 20 seconds of middle finger ()

At the roundabout at the M4, he pulled up to my left, so I looked over to him, he looked pretty p**sed. So I started pointed at him and laughing all the while doing a chimp impression, the fat f**k was getting more and more mad and kept motioning to get out of his cab, to which I laughed more and more.

I've got my mate at work doing it now, we call it chimping

 

HAHAHA ^.^ love it great .

 

I agree with Mr Lewis ( never thought I'd type that) if you carry a so called equaliser in the car for such needed moments think of your own limits ,how far are you prepared to go ,what are you prepared to do ,having it then used against you is not clever is it now !, a street brawl is messy brutal ,very quick and very very unpredictable ( ex doorman ) and as for the Martial Arts very few work in real life situations ,and taking them from Dojo to street is a completely different story and you don't get two chances ,

one of the worst form of aggression I've seen stems from embarrassment ,i.e. pulled out didn't see the other car embarrassment factor follows, but then other driver starts the abuse and then the rage takes over , yep we have all had incidents we can recall ,which most could and should be have been avoided I come from Peckham Rye (and no jokes heard'em all 3 wheeler etc) and the aggression in South London compared to the peace of the South Coast is astonishing , but talk is easy behind a keyboard I would do this ,that or whatever ,always leave an escape option as a large torch is useless against a knife ,firearm ,but however far you think you could go you have personal limits , others out there do not have the same limits , I'm no coward and I am certainly not small 16 stone 6ft plus, but I always leave options and consider these ,taking on someone over a car incident has lead to the M25 murder ,numerous stabbings etc , so being big and brave and having a go back is not always wise or worth it in the long run .

 

Re-Chimping
very big and not to bright , wonder how you would react to the truck smashing your pride and joy at the roadside ,but you keep doing that and sooner or later it will end in tears on your behalf ,so far you've been lucky but I know of 5 to 6 truck drivers that would have taken that an awful lot further , and as you can contact the DVLA regarding a traffic incident the DVLA will with the right answers reveal your name and address, but please ignore me ,I'm an old git and you keep chimping but its only a matter of time !!!!

 

totally agree m8, especially when there are others to consider. ie- wife and 2 kids, lifes to short.the bigger man and all that.

Lee

 

Coming back from Alton Towers in my 306 TURBO Diesel and I noticed the slip road coming up fast, indicated and pulled across white lines. Ok my bad and I waited for the car behind to pull up along side and I lifted my hands up and said sorry.
**** me that wasn't good enough hes started shouting, your nearly ****ing killed me, now he didnt even need to brake.. I have four lads in the car with me, but still I said I'm sorry.
He then gets out and comes round to my drivers side, to which I thought **** and locked the door he then starts shouting at me to get out, so obviously I shouted back NO, he trys my door shouts some more and goes back to his CITY cleaning van.
Gave me a bit of a fright

 

<< They're all loopy...
Coming home from work tonight on M2 London bound passing Sittingbourne jcn. when a twonk in a VW Passat comes straight off the slip lane, out to lane 2 and right up my ar$e.
Now, if you don't know the jcn. i'll fill you in. (I don't mean hit you...)
To join the M2 from this jcn. you come round a sharp left bend going uphill so you often get stuck behind lorries/slow people not prepared for the drain of power and don't join the M2 at speed. Therefore everyone already on M2 who does know the jcn. moves out to lane 2 of m/way to let them join lane 1.
Which is pretty fu&$in' nice of us all really!
Now you get the picture, lane 2 (and it's only a 2 lane motorway before you think 'Errrm lane 3?') is pretty busy just here so flying off slip road 'pedal to metal stylee' gets you nowhere, cos it's full people slowing down to let you out anyway!
He has no idea of how the motorway is flowing or how i was driving prior to the jcn. But because he's in the bigger car (sadly i was in wifeys C3) i should get out of his way...
...Boll0k5 to that matey, anyway i can't pull in, it's full of people who were in lane 1 prior to him joining moving back there. I however was in lane 2 for miles overtaking all the time i add. 1/8th mile later and he's so close now that all i can see is half a bonnet, windscreen, and fat, **** bald geezer leaning to his left trying to look through my car and ahead, back off bitch???
I hate this too, as mentioned well by others, it's just too dangerous to even try to think of a legitimate excuse to tailgate.
A quick check ahead and i got nowhere to pull in for ages, lane 1 is chocca.
So i slam on the anchors. He looks like he's shat a brick through his nose 'cos i didn't come off the brakes for a second or two, none of this brake light on lark, i lost about 30 mph in 20 yards! Him, all over the lane trying desperately not to ram me (Cha' ching $$$ 'ooh whiplash officer' $$$), the car in lane was clear of him, i checked first, or hit central reservation.
Desired affect achieved, him 50 yards back and stayin' put. When lane one clears i pull in and let him overtake. Flicking the bird at him, whilst receiving verbal from the ugly moon monkey ****! Him now up Volvo estate bottom by ooh 1/2 a yard, IDIOT!!!
And get this, he turns off at next jcn. (Gillingham i think) where he has to cut in on someone who now flicks him the finger and full beams 'cos he's stuck in lane two. What a dick... And of course we continue the verbal to each other too as i sail past him, well driving like that got you really really far didn't little man...
Lexx heh heh ha ha ha
ps sorry this was a bit long...

 

Another person provoking (sp) a road rage incident, yes tailgating is dangerous, but not as dangerous as slamming your brakes on in front of him.

Remember there are thousands of idiots driving around with no/inadequate insurance, i wouldnt want one of them slamming up the back of me.

Not impressive at all

 

how little you know

forget the bow bollox on the street just one kick in your windpipe and you'd drop like a sack of **** people look funny writhing around on the floor trying to breathe after that

 

just a shame when you get sent down for using unreasonable force though.

Not having a dig before ya start, just thought if you had had training you had some responsibility to not use it on the street.

Remember them making a big thing of it when i did Karate a few years back.

 

Have noticed this phenomenon too since I bought the scoob last week - have become VERY courteous when driving which seems to annoy them even more!

will find an answer soon!

andrew

 

i know what you mean but i don't take chances with people these days so many people carry weapons so i aim to put them down first for my own saftey as i'm only a short *** anyway

never kicked no one in the windpipe just making a point to PS Lewis who belives all these martial arts are a waste of time....

i normally aim for a good kick in the bollox then a knee in the face as they go down gives me ample time to bugger off

 

Ahh the pub move


Yes quite effective (so ive heard )

 

it never fails no matter how tall someone is they come down to my height after a kick there

 

When we were travelling up a motorway once (can't remember which) we had an incident. The motorway widened into 4 lanes (from 3) of which 2 left the motorway, so you ended up with a load of lorries changing lanes. A lorry (safely) pulled infront of us, so we pulled into the outside lane to go around him, doing about 75 or 80 mph. Then, some **** in a vauxhall zafira comes steaming up behind us doing well over 100, stamps on the brakes and proceeds to flash and honk at us. We continued at our steady 75mph (cruise control in Volvo) until we passed the 3 lorries ahead and then pulled in. The zafira overtakes, sticking his middle finger up, and we just wave, as if to thank him, secretly thinking 'W*NK*R!

Adam

 

I had a 'moment' in my Evo VI earlier this year in Kingston Upon Thames. I'm not sure if you know it but by the university book-shop there is a set of lights that stay red for a long time, the road leads onto the one-way system.

Anyway, 4pm, friday afternoon, bright and sunny I am waiting at the lights. My doors are locked and window is down a couple of inches, just minding my own business.

I've always been a bit paranoid having had Impreza's and so on, so I notice a chav-like-guy walking up the side of my car from behind and a 'girl' on the pavement next to me. This guy peers in at me and says 'you ain't got 30p have ya, mate?' to which I reply 'No, I'm sorry, I haven't' whilst winding the window up.

The next thing I knew this guy was f'ing and blinding and standing in front of the car shouting 'f*cking **** car mate, blah, expletive, blah'. At one point I thought he was going to kick the lights in so I had it in gear ready to run the tosser over.

Anyway, he eventually went with his chav-girlfriend who I am not sure knew what to make of what he did.

I think this country is just so f*cked up at the moment :|

Matt

 

Seems to be a lot of people who react to violence with violence. Hmmm.

I would rather be called a big girls blouse and run away like I did rather than have any kind of confrontation.

Pride is nothing in a hospital bed...............

 

It really does take a bigger man to say something like this.


Cookie