What the hell? You are saying this 18st man left really fast? did his feet smoke as he ran?
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What the hell? You are saying this 18st man left really fast? did his feet smoke as he ran?
Guy was a lightweight tbh. I'm 20st and I'd have made you my biatch, whilst sat on your bonnet like a bhudda. 
Seriously though, having an epic rage because you couldn't see over a blind hill and there was a pedestrian in the road is just a fail. Weight doesn't come into it. Could've been a kid, an OAP, a woman with a buggy, a herd of flourescent sheep chasing a rainbow, anything. Drive with caution.
Having said that, I raged at an old lady in Tesco's car park the other day for entirely blocking a whole lane at a junction by parking in it and waiting for someone. Muppet
Seriously though, having an epic rage because you couldn't see over a blind hill and there was a pedestrian in the road is just a fail. Weight doesn't come into it. Could've been a kid, an OAP, a woman with a buggy, a herd of flourescent sheep chasing a rainbow, anything. Drive with caution.
Having said that, I raged at an old lady in Tesco's car park the other day for entirely blocking a whole lane at a junction by parking in it and waiting for someone. Muppet
I doubt self defence applies when you provoke the matter...
Using your horn is not provocation - it's designed to let other road users know you are there, and if a bus was about to drive in to the side of you using your horn is completely justified, and recommended. For the bus driver to then get out and start trying to pound your window in is extreme aggression, and it's not unreasonable to assume that if he manages to get through he will harm you. It is therefore reasonable to escape the situation and driving through/over them is fair game I'd say.
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Yeah, but mine's not muscle, it's fat. It's taken years to train to get to my level
Depends entirely on the situation. In the OPs case, it was clearly provocation. As for the matter of busses, it is advised to let busses have right of way when pulling out, so for anyone being an idiot and not doing so is provocation in my eyes.
Yeah, but mine's not muscle, it's fat. It's taken years to train to get to my level
Its taken me 32 years of KFC and MaccyDs to get my belly i'll have you know!
I'm not defending the OP at all.
While it is appropriate to give buses the right of way, it is not appropriate for them to take it. If the bus driver was literally about to crash in to the car it is completely acceptable to use the horn. The bus driver should be glad people would use the horn before letting him/her swing in to them and cause an accident. However, under no circumstances whatsoever, is it appropriate to punch someone's window in and strangle them. There is no reasonable argument on the basis of 'provocation' whatsoever. To even consider 'provocation' a defence in that situation is both hilarious and utterly deplorable.
Not really. You can't go having fights with people. Provocation is a defence that you can only use in extreme cases in murder situations, not when somebody has flipped you the bird or tooted their horn and you beat them up because of it. If you assault someone you are guilty of assault provocation or not.
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Has OP ran away, like the big man, after ocuk got out of its car to lay the smackdown?
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I do not pay my road tax on emmissions so what is your point? Car Tax or whatever you want to call it is supposed to be used to help our transport network. Although most of it ends up going to benefits.
If you as a Pedestrian think you have right of way on anything appart from crossings you are going to end up as roadkill.
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I hope you've also learned how to 'ram it' as well.
To be honest I'm with the OP on the start of this story:
He's driving up a bank and a bloke decides to dawdle in front of him so he sound his horn which is fair enough.
At that point when he gave the finger I would have just given him one back or pretended I was eating a burger.
The bit I don't get is he stops his car and can't catch a fat man even though he's 5 stone lighter.
OP should be ashamed of his unfitness.
I love these 'hard' men that cross roads even though they can see a car coming expecting you to slow down only to run like a girl when they realize you are not going to slow down for them.
Just like cyclists who think they own tarmac even though they do not pay road tax!
The OP reminds me of one time where I left my lights on in a main road. Came back in the morning needing a jump. My girlfriend parks her car on the road next to mine to give me a jump with her hazards on. Woman behind her starts thumping her horn and giving gestures. Yet when I approach her car to give her some lip you hear the loud clunk of the locks and a sheepish look.
Cyclists have the same, if not more of a right to be on the road as you. No such thing as road tax, it's called vehicle emissions duty or something like that and is ranked by the emissions caused by the vehicle. A bike causes none so why should they pay? As for insurance, I have that but it's not essential. It only cost around £50 and got it mainly encase my bike is stolen.
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Worst "I had a sexually aggressive moment with an obese man and didn't act on it" thread , ever.
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So you flashed at him, not flashed your lights but flashed at him,
Fat guy gives you the finger, you stop, unzip your fly drop your tweeds and flash him.
No wonder he ran, he had visions of the basement scene in pulp fiction and as you seem such an uber male your member must have shocked him, he probably thought you were an over hairy female
.Funny, I have been out numerous times and never had anyone come up for no reason and yelling at me at point blank range in my ear or yelling at me at all TBH.... Perhaps it isn't dmpoole that lives in a different World.
I'd like to hear how a couple of these "situations" came about.
You had me agreeing until you said that cyclists have more of a right to be on the road as vehicles... Under what reasoning do they have more right to be on the road?
Cyclists have an implicit right to use the road, as do pedestrians, horse riders, etc. Car drivers need a license.
Also, the general principle outlined in the highway code is that the more vulnerable the road user, the greater their right of way.
As far as I am aware, only pedestrians have a greater right of way than other road users (they have RoW as soon as they step onto the road) but cyclists certainly don't have a greater right to be on the road than other vehicles.