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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South KoreaI'll share two fairly different stories from the mean streets of Seoul.
1) A friend of mine was visiting while on leave from military duty in Afghanistan. He was crossing the street at an intersection with other people while the walk light permitted. A car rolled through the crosswalk, then hit him knocking him onto the windshield and throwing him to the road. The driver got out and started yelling at him in Korean. Not knowing Korean or what else to do, my friend got up and started kicking the door of the car. He was wearing steel-toed boots and was working off the rage of cleaning up after the Americans in Afghanistan. After some kicking, he realised he was in a foreign country and ran.
2) I was on my POS scooter in Itaewon, the sleazy foreigner district in downtown Seoul. It accumulates a large number of disgruntled English teachers who hate being here and hate Korean people. I often see them shouting abuse at the Koreans who do wander into this area, for literally no reason.
I pulled up at an intersection for a red light. A guy crossing the road toward me screamed in my ear from about a meter away. I guess he thought I was Korean. I turned to him and said "What the hell was that?"
He said "Get off the sidewalk!"
I looked at the streetlight and looked at the road we were on and told him "Get off the road."
He seemed to have a friend nearby so I did a right turn and got out of there. Being on a scooter is a prone position for a fight, but I wish I had the chance on this chump.
(, Fri 13 Oct 2006, 8:49, Reply)
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