chopper --- not that i,m comparing you to a "violent idiot with a small d1ck" --as your name suggest otherwise, but its a nice thought when one of these pr1cks get there comuppance, nice one

I'm trying to avoid a thread highjack here but would like to pass on a story about a UK nutter driver.
Some years ago, on a visit to the UK, I was travelling from my parents house (rural location) into the nearest town to do some shopping.
I was driving some nondescript hire car rubbish (so should have been fairly inoffensive). While still within a 60MPH limit, a Transit minibus emerged from a side road to my right and forced me to brake very violently to avoid a collision.
Giving the driver the benefit of the doubt (he could have missed me on his exit from his 'give-way') I passed around his now stationary van and without gesticulating or shouting my displeasure, continued.
I proceeded at a reasonable clip to the outskirts of the town I planned to do my shopping in.
I slowed into a 40MPH area and then noticed Mr. Minibus was literally inches from my rear end :cuckoo:
I continued, observing his intimate relations with the rear of my car and slowed again as I entered a 30 zone. I was getting pretty worried at this stage because he was really, really close.
Next thing he overtakes, swerves to his left and basically forces me to stop or crash into the kerb. :(
Now I'm stopped and thinking WTF!! I see through his passenger side window that the 'nutter' is a huge guy, bodybuilder type, in a vest. :(
He immediately jumps out of his van and 'runs' around the rear of it on his way to 'ask me the time of day'.
Now the rest of this story happened in a flash but....I noticed (surprising what you notice when your life is threatened) that there was enough space for me to proceed between the pavement and the front of his van.
It was summer, my window was partially open, he was approaching in a not too friendly way, I selected first gear and made my cowardly escape through the gap but not before I shouted, and I'm still not sure why, 'See you monkey boy!' :D
Not embarrassed to say I drove straight back to Mum's (via a fast by-pass) for coffee, cake and some comforting words. :D
Take care out there :thumb:
P.S. I would have shot the rhino if I'd had a (my) gun. Honestly!!!!

lmfaro the rhino probably just sat there laughing afterwards, i no i would. 'monkey boy' :lol:

Hello Dave, you got stuck in that traffic last night then, I went home via the A38 and managed to avoid the worst of it.

Tailgaters :mad: Hate them. This guy sounds like a complete idiot. Even if he had of overtaken you cleanly he would have had to pull up again straight away because of the traffic. We all hate being sat behind 'really' slow cars when there is plently of open road ahead, but in traffic everyone is stuck with it.

As a thought though, makes you wonder what he would have said to you if you had pulled over ...... :cuckoo:

quality. something non-aggresive like that and almost like friendly banter will have completely messed with his head. well done :thumb:

That was the key phrase in your post. ;) :D

Strange thing is, it was dark blue not white :D

Ah, another advocate of the blow kisses approach :thumb:

I've not broken any noses I must confess, even though *keyboard warrior mode on* I am fecking huge and could kill an ordinary man with a mere glance!* ;)

In all seriousness though, I was in the car once as a passenger of a mate of mine, who happened to be 6'6 (and well built). For no apparent reason, whilst we were stationary in traffic, this bloke runs up to the drivers side window and starts screaming that he'd been cut up by us and how he's gonna beat the ****e out of my mate.

The chap in question couldn't have been much more than 5'9 and about 11 stone.

My mate got out of the car and as soon as the irate fella saw what he'd bitten off, well, you've never seen someone run back to their car quicker. What was he driving, a C180 Merc. :lol1:

How do I know this? Well, my mate calmly followed him back to the car (he was stuck in the same queue as us) to have a quiet word, only to see him make a very abrupt U turn and drive off the other way. I would have done the same had I been in his shoes to be honest! :D

My mate got back in the car and just said: I don't blame him for being so angry, when you've paid a premium for driving something that slow, everything seems to be cutting you up! :D

:D Thanks. I don't think his head needed any more 'messing' with. Bloody scary. I can only assume 'roid rage'.

I find that a safer way to give the tailgater the message is to put your rear fogs on - that way you are not slowing or braking risking him hitting you but still they think you are braking and slow down - that's usually enough - a few stares in the mirrors help too lol

There will always be one nutter out there tho eventually. Can't see what his problem was if you were in traffic tho.

I have to admit I do abhor tailgaters and when I see ppl do it on the motorway I change into the lane behind them till they have "forced" their victim out the way then I kind of do the same thing to them :p

I know it's bad and I try not to do it now but they just seem to think they are the big man and everyone should move - so it's nice to get them to move for me whilst I pop and bang my way away from them :) Even more satisfying to then pull in and slow down to cruising speed again as they rush off again.

The thing is they can really scare or intimidate a woman driver or nervous driver who can then be erratic in their driving due to the pressure. And not all cars can just pull away quickly to get past others then move back into the inside lane to let these tw@ts past as you would know if you have to use a 1.2 or 1.4 car now and then. grrr....

quote of the week -

Bodybuilders are usually cr4p at fighting anyway...
Fought a few big blokes in kickboxing tournaments and they are all way too slow. Does hurt when they get you though.

Would you credit it,

i,m on the way home last night when i get an emergency call from the wife,

she's gone into labour. :eek2:


So i enter make progress mode.. ;)

now i admit the traffic was heavy due to the M5 incident, but progress

could be made :)

Well sort of, i had Mr Magoo in front insisting on keeping all the animals in

the world alive my keeping his emissions to 0 %, and his bank balance in

the black by not exceding the speed limit, 10% allowance or not.

Trouble is he had outside lane syndrome, you know , plenty of space on the
inside lanes, but the magnets in the nearside kerb repelled his car from

pulling in.

Not wishing to alarm the old chap by flashing my headlights, (very

confrontational btw), i eased the merc forward so he could see my intent.

(BTW carbon ceramic puppies in the merc, stop on a sixpence)

So what does Mr Magoo do? stamps his foot on his brakes, near on causing
a domino effect as people ran into the back of me.

Now i know undertaking is frowned upon in the UK, but when you have a

mobile roadblock in front, and madam screaming like a banshee from the

Harmon Kardman, you have to do what needs must.

Clear road on the inside, 2.5 ltr supercharged german efficiancy, a doddle :)

Oh no!, Mr Magoo goes into green cross mode, and thinks he,s now been

Deputised by some local county mounty, and has the authority to stop all

traffic from passing, and enters mobile roadblock road.

So he,s straddled 2 lanes, and turned the free flowing traffic into a

potential traffic jam.

Unfortunately Mr Magoo, failed to see the bend approaching, and was going

to either have an accident or cause one.

Now the choice was very simple. Die at the hands of Magoo, Go deaf from

the banshee screams of labour, or overtake.

I choose overtake!

Problem one solved, then its home or to the hospital..

however Mr Magoo has now decided that his trusty steed, is equipped with

a Ferrari engine and comes hurtling up behind me, at a rate of knots that no

end of inertia will stop should some one brake.

I in the interests of safety, (putting aside my cherished ones screams of

pain), i pull in to a safe space to let Mr Magoo go by.


What does he do he only slows down and does it again!

thankfully my exit approached, and i was able to continue my journey home


Mr Merc driver :) :D:D

To be fair to Mr Merc, In my experience, the real culprits for tailgating as of late has been VW group cars, esp those in Diesel Golfs!

I'd go so far as to say they may be the new white van of the motorway! :D

i got tailed gated by a van the other day, very strange experience. for all of 1 second until he dissapeared into the distance.

it all sounds to me that the tailgater was looking for a reaction to tailgaiting you by you lighting the rear brake lights was enought to want to confront you.
iam glad i wasnt anywhere near on a motorbike!!!

My god I'm reading these replies and thinking what has happened to scoobynet, everyone is sounding like some southern shandy drinking sh***er (appart from Chop) .
Where has the old spirit of getting out of the motor and settling things fist to fist gone?
Sorry about that, I think I'd better go for a lie down now.:D

I have been on the recieving end of tailgaters once to often and now I resort to folding my rear view mirror down completely, as I can't cope with tailgaters.

If I do see one behind me I completely ignore them and drive as I would normally so I can never be blamed for aggravating any situation.

I must admit I would like to launch an RPG at the tw**s instead though.

I've changed my mind. Rather than fitting a flashing blue light to my car (to scare the offenders), I'd now rather have some James Bond style gadgets fitted. Smoke screen, oil slick etc :thumb:

Fist to fist these days usually ends up with someone lying on the ground with a knife stuck in them. Not worth it just because someone upset you :Suspiciou
My own personal response to tailgaiters is to decellerate very slowly until they either give up or pull off some impossible overtaking manouvre and become someone elses problem.

I tried the old dab of the brakes once on the M40 and the numpty behind me reacted by locking up at 70mph. The thought of causing carnage behind me has put me off ever since :eek:

retractable 3' spike appearing from the number plate? That should be fairly easy to rig up with some basic hydraulics? ;)

Think this explains an awful lot actually ..

less often the wayward yuf and the demented geriatric

and even rarer the complete psycho



that said there are drivers who just are bad/inconsiderate in staying too close - my bro in law included ....

theres a road around my way that is notorious for boy racers, its a bit like a rally stage, a nice twisty road with woodland on one side and a massive drop onto huge jagged rocks and certain death on the other. Unfortunately one or two have gone off, anyway the road has a 25mph limit but is very tempting for all young drivers to put there foot down (myself included I have been there..) anyway a few nights ago I picked up a tailgater heading towards this road, some young kiddy in a focus. anyhow I had my dog in the back so not in the mood for booting it, the car in front was going 30mph which usually I would have followed at a safe distance but not this night, he just wouldn't give up so I let the car in front pull away and drove the two miles or whatever at 19mph .... just to annoy him a bit .... well within rights that was almost the speed limit LOL

:notworthy

I personally think its perfectly ok to tailgate the t##sers that do 60 in the fast lane on a duel carriageway. Infact they deserve to be rammed off the road and set on fire . These particular peeps really p!ss me off as they won't move over to allow you to do the speed limit even though there is a clear lane . But disagree with tailgating in general as it is pointless especially when in traffic and residential areas . And agree with the main culprates being vw golf diesels as i'm always getting pushed along by them regardless what speed i'm doing.

I normally just blow a kiss at people who drive like idiots around me. I have in the past, and I know its bad, I was being tailgated by an (no surprise ) Audi in lane 3 whilst I was over taking some traffic in lane 2.
When we got past the road was clear so I moved into lane 1 and everytime the car tried to go past I put a bit of boost on and then slowed down. It was stupid but the minute I saw traffic I just slowed down and let him go.

The problem with any kind of tailgaters is that in the event of an accident, especially on a busy road they will not be the ones who get there car pushed into other traffic.

Anyways.... Sorry to hear about your run in with the small minded, company car, wife at home hates him, disappointed with how life turned out, all friends are idiots, finds him self looking at the male parts when he watches porn, desperate to prove to the world how macho his is, merc driving tailgater.

I had a tailgater on the A38 coming into Plymouth. I was overtaking cars whilst also being behind another car in the outside lane, no dramas there. All of a sudden the heavens opened so I let a bit distance get between me and the car infront but still cruising at a decent speed. I looked in my rear view mirror to see a set of lights trying to climb into my boot.

I was still overtaking so wasn't just hanging on cause I am too cool for school, anyhoo, thought I'll tap my brakes and sure enough off he shot only to have him stuck on me again with his lights tapping me on the shoulder "asking" me to move out of his more important way.

As it happens my turning was coming up so I slotted into a space to allow my clingon to pass......Fecking Black SCOOBY!!!

I thought about chasing him - full of great ideas in these moments - what changed my mind was the speed in which they shot off, would've handed me my arse on a plate and I would've been fecked off at using fuel lol.

Bloody Scooby drivers!!!! :Suspiciou :thumb:

Just a lever inside the car that releases a few of these should do the trick ...

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Steve

Thats where flamer kits come into action.....resulting in


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I feckin' hate tailgaters, I used to live in Plymouth and had a few 'incidents' there over the years but then I moved to Brisbane.....feck me! The place is full of tailgaters! The Aussies are generally really nice, easy-going people but, put them behind the wheel of a vehicle and they go nuts.

One morning I was driving up the Gateway motorway in a procession of traffic (as usual) doing 80 km/h with a 2 second gap in front of me and going up a slight incline. The Linfox truck behind me took exception to me not attaching myself to the car infront and got within a metre of my rear bumper.

I took his rego number from the truck and the trailer and e-mailed a big letter of complaint to the company explaining that I didn't think the driver had a right to put my life in danger for no good reason.

They didn't even reply.:brickwall

It's no surprise that so many people get killed by trucks here in Brisbane every year. :cuckoo: