Am I an A$$hole, or what ?

[SideShow Bob]

So,
* No wise a$$ comments from Bert please*

For the last 45 minutes or so I've been putting up with the idiots up the street go full bore down the street on one of those death machine rice rockets, turn around at the stop sign and come full bore back up the street.
Realize this is a residential street with children of all ages from toddlers to late teens.
Finally, I had enough & I went out and read them the riot act about being total idiots! to knock it off and to slow the f**k down.

Now the wife is upset and thinks that I should have minded my own business and not gone out and said anything.

What says the Peanut gallery ?

[Irving]

I've almost initiated a fist fight yelling at some douche speeding up and down the street. There is a line, and once someone crosses it, you're not an asshole. I'm with you. Tell your wife to grow a pair*.















*Don't really tell her that.

[Bailey Guns]

I was hoping your story would end with something like..."So I went outside and strung barbed wire neck-high across the street and told 'em they were pansies if they couldn't go any faster than that."

[Monky]

Funny I had a very similar talk this weekend with the local Harley assholes.


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

[Fentonite]

I've done, and will continue to do, the same. If you didn't string up a clothesline across the street, you were being kind.

[Ianski]

Hey buddy, safety comes first. If you got them to stop, you kept them safe as well as untold others that frequent the street. How much worse would you have felt if they had wrecked into a car and hurt someone else (or themselves, but from the sound of that... gene pool cleaner?) had you not said something. I had a similar situation recently and didn't say anything. Nothing came of it, but I've come to regret it sense.

[Ah Pook]

How much did this move to paradise cost?

If the riot act doesn't work, start calling the local constabulary. Cops love crotch rockets. BTDT. I hate calling cops for anything but I will not deal with assholes past the first "howdy, we are neighbors, not play nice" meeting.

[wctriumph]

You're good. When I lived in Garden Grove (not a really good area of it) there was three guys that were consistently drive their shitty little modified Hondas and Mazdas with loud exhausts down the street. I started yelling at them and even followed one down the street to his destination and read him the riot act. The guy that lived there got all up in my face about telling off his friend so I lit into him too as he had two kids the same age as mine and what kind of asshole he was to defend the jerk that would skid his car around the street in the "hood". Then there were four of them surrounding me and they were threatening to kick my ass.
Now there are several neighbors outside seeing what all the yelling was about and pretty soon I have like ten other guys coming in on my side and their wives are screaming at the dickhead drive to get out and stay out if he can't drive safely through the hood. One of the father guys started writing down the license numbers of all the cars parked at the guy's house.
i had yelled at these guys before but when the neighbors, that previously told me to back off from these gangster types, came out and stood up, the problem stopped, all these guys drove very nicely from then on and one even waved to me and smiled to show me he was being a responsible drive.

It is OK to speak up in these situations.

[gnihcraes]

I video taped a guy once doing this - in the school zone here at the house. He did turn around and made all kinds of threats, on video. I did call PD, and the officer asked why I was out video taping him?

I was actually video taping my property and house for insurance purposes, if something were to happen I need proof of what I owned and how it looked.

He didn't believe me. But couldn't say anything about it. (this is before video capable cell phones)

I like to go fast, but there are areas it's not appropriate. Yes, I've been that guy too in my younger days and today know it was stupid.

We've got an ongoing Nextdoor website thread going here in my area. Crotch Rockets flying up 6th ave on warm summer nights. I bet their hitting 150+. All the liberals are whining about the noise and think they are doing 75 or 80mph!!! OMG! Local PD isn't doing much because they know they can't catch em or chase them down. Amazing the stupidity in that thread.

[Gman]

I was hoping your story would end with something like..."So I went outside and strung barbed wire piano wire neck-high across the street and told 'em they were pansies if they couldn't go any faster than that."

...and a scene from Force 10 from Navarone went through my mind.