Bizzare experiences with road rage

Cracker on the way home.

On a dual carriageway, overtook a Focus that was doing 40 (it's a 60 limit, signposted at 60 not National like some people think :p) and he proceeded to flash me.

Bemused, I use my rear fogs to flash him, so he flashes me twice. So I flash three times. We got to like ten before he dissapeared behind the crest of a hill the road is built on.

Oddball :p
 
I came off the roundabout and it went into two lanes , this van driver was going rather slowly so i overtook in the right hand lane. ( Overtaking here is safe to do so ) .As we got to the next roundabout and traffic , he overtook just about missing oncoming cars and two bollards.

I beeped at him for dangerous driving, thus he stuck his head out the window and gave the gesture i'm going to cut your throat. At that point i wasn't sure what to do , but i then came up with a plan.

The road again goes into two just before the roundabout , i drove past him called him a w***er and he went into crazy mode. He dived from the left hand lane into the right behind me !. Just after the roundabout the road becomes a large one lane and onto the motorway.

I slowed right down and he was tailgaiting me , swearing big time. So i waved , smiled and booted it , he was so upset that he couldn't catch up with me.

The next junction i pulled off , went over the bridge got out the car. Waited for the van driver and waved , his face was utter shock. Not only was he probably gutted he couldn't get to me , the next junction was Miles away !.

All this agro just because i overtook him :rolleyes: :D. Maybe i shouldn't have wound him up so much but he started the pathetic crusade and all for a wasted journey!
 
Had a guy and his chav son 'givin it large' and calling me 'ignorant innit' not so long back, all because I was turning right across traffic into a petrol station and didn't let him out; there was another lane to my left with a line of vehicles and this guy was in the bus stop to the left of that, attempting to push his way over three lanes in order to get to the same petrol station.
He followed me in to the pumps and when his brat wound down the window they both proceeded to give me a mouthful.

When I got out of the car and took a photo of his number plate, the bloke shut his mouth and went to pay for his fuel.

In hindsight, I should have driven my two and a quarter tonne landrover all over his poxy italian piece of tinfoil, or at the very least left a tow-ball shaped hole in his bonnet and radiator. Ah well.

I have a special treat for people who deliberately tailgate me- If I cannot see their bonnet or windscreen over my spare wheel they qualify - depending on the situation, I'll either jab the brakes on for a second, aaah the fear on their faces as they get too close to my shiny grill wrecker of a tow-ball :D or if it's in a residential zone I'll see how slow I have to go before they back off :p so far the winner holds the record for a little under 15mph.

As far as hand gestures go I usually only respond to hand signals with what I call the 'yap-yap'. This is the movement you would make with your fingers and thumb if you were making a sock puppet talk. Works well out of the window, or from inside the car; succinctly dismissive.
 
People doing 40 on NSL roads drive me nuts, I usually just wack it in 3rd, let the Zetec kick in and blast past them, once I did this to an old codger and he pulled along side me at the next set of lights and called me a wreckless, stupid little ****er. I just asked him what the limit was down that road and he said 40 so I told him it was 60 now learn how to read roadsigns you stupid old fart then I went off into the distance leaving him in my trail. That sure learned him :cool:
 
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I remember late at night on a fairly wide NSL road, i overtook a citroen C1 who were doing 40 in a 60 despite it being well lit, long and a clear night, when they decided to go mental and start flashing and beeping their horn at me....I'd had a really bad day so i just stopped dead in the middle of the road (probably about 300 yards ahead of them now) planning to give them an earful on the speed limit of the road there (it was like 1am, no reason in hell not to be doing 60 there) and the car behind me stopped too about 50 yards behind and did a 3 point turn and drove off the other way, could see as they turned it was an old couple. Must've scared the **** out of them :s lol
 
On Sunday, nipping down the A19/A168 towards the A1M. Where the roads join, there is a lovely left-hand bend and it's great fun in the MX5. Some chav in his 1.7CDTi Corsa the right hand lane so I hang back sufficiently to let him complete his overtake and pull in. Which he doesn't for a while. Eventually, he sees me and dawdles over to the left and as I pass he's shouting and swearing. I do what I find the best response in this situation - blow them a kiss or two :D
 
Brilliant stories, like jumpys.

I have had a few people flash their lights at me, I either put hand up to say thanks or flash the hazards , drives them mad and so satisfying.

If you really want to wind people up laugh in their face , just make sure you have an escape route.
 
Me and two friends signaled someone (who turned out to be a lunatic) to get off the phone and had an interesting response.

At first, we got the finger back and so we reciprocated. Then on a single-lane 40mph road the aforementioned lunatic accelerated onto the hatched off inside lane and started shouting out the window and swearing until he reached the point where he decided to shove his arm out of the window to open our car door and continue his ranting and raving.

Once he was bored of that he decided to follow us for at least 10 miles presumably waiting for us to get out of the car.

A bit extreme for being told to get off your mobile phone but it provided some good laughs for weeks to come.
 
The only road rage I ever experienced was when I was a pedestrian a few years back when I was 16.

I was out going to get a kebab with a few mates one night and was a little drunk, when I see a silver brand new civic (common as mud here in swindon) driving down the road with no lights on so me in my drunkeness thinks I should tell him to put his lights on.

So I shouted "TURN YOUR LIGHTS ON" as it passed. The car then skidded to a halt up the road and reversed back down the road and stopped beside me.

I then saw there were two guys in the front and two girls in the back. The PASSENGER in the front seat then gets out of the car and squares up to me asking "wha' the **** iz ur problem m8?". Me having never been in a fight of any sort was absolutely bricking it so I just stayed silent.

Eventually one of the girls sterotypically shouted from the car "LEAV 'IM KYLE 'ES NO' WORTH IT" and so with that he spat in my face, got back in the car and they wheel spinned off into the distance. Still with no lights on.

And that's how I learnt to keep my mouth shut.
 
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"slinky" said:
The only road rage I ever experienced was when I was a pedestrian a few years back when I was 16.

I was out going to get a kebab with a few mates one night and was a little drunk, when I see a silver brand new civic (common as mud here in swindon) driving down the road with no lights on so me in my drunkeness thinks I should tell him to put his lights on.

So I shouted "TURN YOUR LIGHTS ON" as it passed. The car then skidded to a halt up the road and reversed back down the road and stopped beside me.

I then saw there were two guys in the front and two girls in the back. The PASSENGER in the front seat then gets out of the car and squares up to me asking "wha' the **** iz ur problem m8?". Me having never been in a fight of any sort was absolutely bricking it so I just stayed silent.

Eventually one of the girls sterotypically shouted from the car "LEAV 'IM KYLE 'ES NO' WORTH IT" and so with that he spat in my face, got back in the car and they wheel spinned off into the distance. Still with no lights on.

And that's how I learned to keep my mouth shut.
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Owned.

Should have been more alpha, knee'd him in the ******** and legged it. ;)
 
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How about a little gratitude? Just shows what you get for trying to do someone a favour. If the guy was too stupid to remember to put his lights on then he deserved having the rozzers pull him over for a chat.

I know what you mean about the intimidation thing though. When I was 17, 2 friends and I were driving home from bury st edmunds one afternoon and some moron in a golf GTI badly cut me up overtaking on a blind bend, we gave him the traditional wrist action gesture for being a dangerous fool and nearly running us off the road. He only went and stopped across the road, got out, ran to the side of my car opened the door, yelled a load of abuse, then belted me one round the side of the head. He then legged it back to his car and burned off.
The three of us were so shocked that none of us thought to get his number plate.
I'm sure to this day that had I been alone, that townie **** with his 'no neck', gold chain and tattoos, would have put me in hospital.

Still live and learn... lock those doors folks.
 
Would be fine if only my car had central locking and the locking mechanism wasn't broken from the inside on the drivers side :p

Must fix that on monday.
 
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