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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Where I live theres a roadwhich isnt quite wide enough to have two official lanes, but everyone drives along it side by side. Just over the next junction, it merges into one.
Im in the left lane to go on, and this big fucking thing canes down the right side to undertake me (we drive on the other side here in Poland.) whilst I'm pulling out, and as the road narrows, he's run out of room and slides his brand new Ssang Yong against the rear wing of my 30-year old rustbucket diesel Merc.
He pulls over and comes at me, holding a massive 4-battery maglight as a weapon, so I get out all calmly and let him vent all his verbal abuse at me. "I'll take you to court, they'll throw the fucking book at you, you shouldnt be on the fucking road. rah rah rah," he's saying, oblivious to the concept that he caused the crash. I wait for him to catch his breath before calmly saying, in Polish; "I'm English and the law can't fucking touch me." This, and the fact that he was in the wrong, shut him up. The cunt gave me 200 quid in cash for the damage, which is what I paid for the car in the first place.
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Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 13 Oct 2006, 16:56,
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