OMG I encountered a road rager last night

[CloudBee]

That is scary.

[aspentosh]

This sounds like the people I encounter on a weekly basis. People are batshit crazy and it scares me- especially when my DD is in the car.

[pugz]

yikes, I hope they got him. I honestly think people like that are unstable and should not be allowed to drive.

[peachdragon]

Holy shit. I would've pulled off the road and racked my pistol in case he decided to get out of his car and fuck with me in "person."

[mellymel]

Holy crap! I would have been so scared! Good job getting away from him and calling the cops. What a freak!

[tripleshot]

Wow! I can't believe people act like that. I hope the cops caught him.

[phunluvin82]

Whoa!! That sounds like more than typical, "Now I'm gonna ride your bumper for a min cuz I'm road-ragey" type behavior!

I really hope the police got him...kudos to you for getting his plate and calling it in.

If he was doing it to the next car as well, do you think it was road rage...or something more?

[iamali]

I probably would have called 911 and hoped an officer got there quickly.

[heygrey]

so scary.

i had this happen once. i called 911, put the lady on speaker and set the phone in my lap, kept talking to her until the police pulled him over.

[grk2012]

Asswipe. Something similar happened to us once, driving home from my parents' in the pitch dark. It was seriously scary.

[mrsjuleshs]

Sounds like some of the jackasses here. I hope the cops got him. He is gonna end up hurting or killing someone someday.

[phunluvin82]

May 17, 2012 14:09:33 GMT -5 @crackhabit said:

May 17, 2012 14:07:29 GMT -5 phunluvin82 said:

Whoa!! That sounds like more than typical, "Now I'm gonna ride your bumper for a min cuz I'm road-ragey" type behavior!

I really hope the police got him...kudos to you for getting his plate and calling it in.

If he was doing it to the next car as well, do you think it was road rage...or something more?

I don't think he was drunk. He maneuvered his car too well for that and it was deliberate. I do wonder if he wasn't trying to intentionally cause an accident with whoever he could hit. It was bizarre.

Yeah, I'm just wondering if it could be some type of shitty prank or dare...or some kind of initiation thing of some sort? Just sounds really weird!

[Doctorblue]

Something similar happened to me a few years after I had gotten my license. I was in the left lane and there was a convoy of semis in the right. I didn't speed up to pass them all as I'm sure I was at least doing the speed limit and as a young driver probably too scared to go over it. Guy in the truck behind me was riding my bumper. He whipped into a space between the semis, rode up the shoulder, whipped in front of the semi and then me, and slammed on his brakes, not a brake check but a full on stopping his car. I had to swerve to avoid hitting him and ended up in the median. He then sped off and I never got his license plate. I hope someone else got it because that was the kind of driving that kills people.

[everam01]

When I was a teen, I realized I was going down the wrong street so I turned around in someone's driveway. Since it was night, I turned off my headlights so they wouldn't shine into their windows.

A few minutes later, I realized someone was riding my ass. I sped up and they sped up as well. Then I slowed down and they got beside me (2 lanes here, guys, so they were on the wrong side of the road) and tried to edge me off the street. I slammed my brakes and so did they. At one point I was going too fast trying to get away and I almost wiped out on a curve.

I finally drove home (now I would never do that!) and blew on my horn until my dad came out of the house. The car went by and didn't go into the driveway, luckily.

The next day, a policeman came to my house! It turns out that the woman who owned the house I turned around in front of has a son who gets in trouble and she thought I was stalking him so she came after me!

[AAM2012]

May 17, 2012 14:09:33 GMT -5 @crackhabit said:

May 17, 2012 14:07:29 GMT -5 phunluvin82 said:

Whoa!! That sounds like more than typical, "Now I'm gonna ride your bumper for a min cuz I'm road-ragey" type behavior!

I really hope the police got him...kudos to you for getting his plate and calling it in.

If he was doing it to the next car as well, do you think it was road rage...or something more?

I don't think he was drunk. He maneuvered his car too well for that and it was deliberate. I do wonder if he wasn't trying to intentionally cause an accident with whoever he could hit. It was bizarre.

There are people who intentionally cause accidents for insurance money. I'm glad you were able to call 911 and you weren't hurt.

[M]

thats scary! I cant believe the crazy people in this world. Cant they just let it go and move on? Its ridiculous that people let themselves get so worked up over nothing .

We had a similar encounter once. I dont even know what we did to piss the guy off but we're about to pass him and he runs us off the road and does this a couple of times with his van. There was a lot of traffic so speeding up wasnt an option. We call SHP and helped/watched them pull the guy over.