Road RageLast week I had to stop a guy attacking another one in the middle of the road - one had run the lights whilst on the phone and the other had objected. I actually had to take the attacker's car keys out of their car and tell him he wasn't getting them back till he calmed down.
Looking back on it, I was lucky I was feeling all parental and in control or the situation could have panned out very differently.
Have you lost it on the roads, or have you been on the recieving end of some nutter?
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chthonic, Thu 12 Oct 2006, 21:31)
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Moving TargetA while back, a friend of mine and I were on the freeway coming back from the Renaissance fair. Some asswipe was riding my ass, I was doing 75mph in the left lane, well over the speed limit. Great. So this jerk in a full size Ford F150 is quite literally about to push my little Mitsubishi forward, just so he can go even faster. :/
Well, I move over into the centre lane as soon as I could, and this guy slows down, starts yelling curses at me, and then cuts behind me. Then he gets over in the RIGHT hand lane, starts screaming more, and my friend notices he's pulling out a gun. :/ Gotta love the Second Amendment. Anyway, my friend screams his brother is a cop, so don't fuck with us, this guy's wife is yelling at him to put the gun away, and they've got their kid in the backseat of the truck, and he's terrified.
The real gem? This fuckwit was dumb enough to do this in his company's truck with the logo CLEARLY MARKED. :/
I missed my exit trying to get away from this guy, pull into a gas station, and Ramone, my friend, calls the cops and we file a police report with the information we collected. And when I pulled over, there was a HUGE crash that blocked all the lanes on the freeway--I got off it just as the jam began, and so this impatient fool was stuck in this mess and surely even more pissed off than he was before.
Fast forward several months:
My friend's brother goes to Mr. Fuckwit's place of employment to serve this complaint that we filed against him. Turns out said place of employment was just within the jurisdiction of the fine city of Glendale, so Ramone's brother could take care of it. Fuckwit was the VP of the company, and was dumb enough to give Ramone's brother (the Officer), and his uncle who's a retired FBI agent, shit. Fuckwit throws a swing at Uncle, Uncle slams fuckwit against the wall and in addition to charges of aggravated assault, road rage, endangerment, and reckless driving, he now has Assaulting a Federal Officer to his list. So then Fuckwit starts swearing at my friend's brother, and gets assaulting a cop and resisting arrest added to the now fairly extensive list.
Fuckwit starts screaming at Ramone's brother, saying that it wasn't his truck, the cops can't prove shit, etc. So Officer whips out his cellphone and calls the precinct where the original complaint was filed for the information he needs. He goes out to the motor pool, and Voila! There's the truck, and the fifth in the lot no less, so Fuckwit gets cuffed and hauled off downtown.
After Fuckwit was out in the patrol car, Ramone's brother asked if anyone else had any complaints to file against him. EVERYONE in that office came forward with some sort of assault or threat charge against this guy. Evidently he not only beat his wife and kids, he terrorised everyone around him and threatened to kill anyone who got in his way, and since this guy was obviously off his psychotropics, everyone believed him.
Fuckwit is now serving a fairly long sentence as a guest of Arizona taxpayers on multiple charges, and gets out sometime in 2009. This incident happened March of '99, so...hopefully this jackass will screw up again and maybe get shot next time around instead of just winding up in jail. :/ I hope to God he won't take anyone else down with him.
(, Fri 13 Oct 2006, 8:46, Reply)
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