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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Ah go on then.I'll tell my tale.
Cycling along at the end of the working day, and stopped at a red traffic light. Some kind of car (I'm crap with cars, soz) pulled up next to me filled with 17 / 18 years olded youth. They seemed fine, and when "racing" me away from me when the light changed, I forgive their youthful indiscretion.
HOWEVER when I pulled up next to them at the next set of lights in the same situation, the little ginger runt in the passenger seat decided to gob on me... I wasn't having that.
Getting away from a mad cyclist swinging his D lock (I am normally quite calm and forgiving, but that really really riled me) is quite simple in a car... but when your car comes up to the end of a traffic queue, you're in trouble.
They ended up driving the wrong side of the road towards an oncoming lorry to escape down a side road to the right. Bad form.
I went home armed with incident times and his plate, and rang the police to see if they did anything illegal and if they could give them a ticking off.
Was quite happy to be told it was assault and dangerous driving. Caught on CCTV, the driver got 5 points and the passenger got a caution for assault. HA!
And I seen them in my local a month or so later and got them chucked out for being under age. I'm such a petty rule abiding cunt.
(, Tue 17 Oct 2006, 11:04, Reply)
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