Back in the pre-CCW days, must have been about '95, I'd been married around a year, had already quit drinking (or this would have turned out different, I'm sure) and was heading home from a friends house. After 10:00 on a weeknight because I was working weird hours. Anyway, driving down in the DU area when this blue Taurus cuts me off out of nowhere. I honk at the SOB while narrowly missing him, and he decides to play with me. Slowing down, switching lanes, you know the routine.
After a couple blocks of this I slow down and pull over a bit hoping he'll get bored driving 10mph in the bike lane and just go away. Didn't work. He hits the brakes and I figure he wants to get out and fight, so I punch it and try to go around.
That didn't work either, he starts smashing into my Bonneville with the Taurus. This is a new one to me, I'd never seen a road rager that would damage his own car, so I figure now this guy has gone over the line. I'm also right beside him and can see that he's got several friends in the car with him. I figure now all the criteria have been met so I pull my 1911 from wherever it was legal for it to be at the timeand try to anticipate his next move.
His next move was apparently to listen to one of his buddies that had a better view of me and took off like a bat out of hell.
I pulled over at the police substation that was a block or so away and eventually got someone to listen (I had to find a pay phone and call it in, the chick behind the desk wouldn't do anything unless her dispatcher told her or something). The cop that finally arrived was a good guy, I sat in the passenger seat of his car while he tracked down the plate number I gave him. Kind of funny listening to the owner answering the phone all pissed off that someone's calling that late (nearing midnight by this time, I think). "Yeah that's my car, why? Whadda mean do I know where my car is? It's parked in my fu.... MY F'ING CAR IS GONE!!"
Joyriders, never caught them as far as I know. And the wife was pissed that I was out so late (pre-cell phone)





and try to anticipate his next move.
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