Road Rage

[Great-Kazoo]

His lane was at a complete stop, my lane was just starting to speed up and he took the short distance between my bumper and the bumper in front of me as his room to get in and cut me off. There was a bunch of traffic and I nearly got rearended.
He was following me and every chance he got he pulled up and threw crap at the doors of my car.
Why would he try to apologize after following me for 3-4 miles yelling his head off and throwing shit at my car?
I "tested" my brakes when I had to use them to avoid hitting him.

Any other questions?

Edit: Spelling

With that much time *CSP or 911 would, or should, have been your choice. Road rage is a Felony, which i've been told they take almost as serious as meth bust. being in a vehicle gave you a "Fligth" option. Had you engaged the threat you would be facing charges. This may or may not have happened to someone very close to me at one time, with multiple LE's responding, rather fast.

[buckeye4rnr]

With that much time *CSP or 911 would, or should, have been your choice. Road rage is a Felony, which i've been told they take almost as serious as meth bust. being in a vehicle gave you a "Fligth" option. Had you engaged the threat you would be facing charges. This may or may not have happened to someone very close to me at one time, with multiple LE's responding, rather fast.

Can you go into a little detail on this situation that, for the sake of argument, never happened to a friend?

Now for my situation: Would've called but couldn't reach the phone. In the same situation but unable to reach the phone and unable to get away(I was obviously able to get away so no need to draw) would you have drawn?

[Bailey Guns]

I'm just saying you probably need to be careful about what you say and how you say it. Or not. I don't really care. But your story as told in the OP raises a lot of questions for me.

It'll be an entirely different feeling answering these kinds of questions in front of a jury in a potential criminal or civil trial.

[buckeye4rnr]

I'm just saying you probably need to be careful about what you say and how you say it. Or not. I don't really care. But your story as told in the OP raises a lot of questions for me.

It'll be an entirely different feeling answering these kinds of questions in front of a jury in a potential criminal or civil trial.

I'm not a fantastic story teller so you've got me there and without a picture or standing at the scene it's not easy to describe. With the OP I was really hoping to get more stories of similar situations and what people here had done or would do if faced with that. Nothing happened and I was able to get away without it escalating further so I didn't want a bunch of text clouding the OP.

[Monky]

I love when people get all road raged..


Sent by a free-range electronic weasel, with no sense of personal space.

[ChunkyMonkey]

Not worth your time or telling the story of. Leave them be and move on.

[SA Friday]

All you guys suck at driving and just need to get off of my roads!

[HoneyBadger]

Most of those chinese car and bike crashes were people just not looking where the hell they were going!

Always gotta watch out for other people... especially with people texting while driving or other stuff like putting on makeup, etc.

[davsel]

Reminds me of this from years ago:
CAUTION EXPLICIT LANGUAGE



Some people need shootin.
Wonder what ever became of this citizen.

[Sawin]

Reminds me of this from years ago:
CAUTION EXPLICIT LANGUAGE



Some people need shootin.
Wonder what ever became of this citizen.

Yikes. So in the situation portrayed in that video, would you shoot? If so, what kinds of arguments would be against or justifying the shoot?

FWIW, I don't think I would shoot as much as I may want to... I would not have necessarily been in fear for my life unless he tried to enter the vehicle or pull me or my family out of it... so would that be justifiable due to property damage but no threat of egregious bodily injury or death? I'd have to say no.

Now if I had to stop moving and he pulled on the door handle, I'd definitely shoot that d-bag with a smile on my face, but before then it's just a case of vandalism, which isn't legal justification for shooting AFAIK.