I am ashamed to say that I had road rage today.

[Magic_Salad0892]

I'd have my hand on the gun, but I would fire until I saw a gun.

A dude getting out of the car though... that's suspicious.

[SteyrAUG]

Actually its kind of the same. Its road rage. Chasing someone PERIOD is a good way to get shot.

If someone was chasing me until the point I had to stop, then exited his vehicle and was coming towards me, damn straight I would be ready.

If they are going to the extent of chasing me to begin with then who knows what they would do. I know what I would do it that situation, and I wouldnt take chances

Not to discount what you are saying and with the understanding that Grants reply has some merit, but if "I" am following you then you know damn well what you did because it takes a lot for "ME" to get so fed up with you that I interrupt my "important shit to do" list to make sure you know you are an asshole.

Also if you have done something significant enough to require me to get out of my car and confront you, then you have also done enough for me to involve law enforcement who is going to meet me wherever
"we" finally end up. I don't need to get out of my car to make sure you know you are an asshole.

By the way when I say "you" I don't mean "you" specifically, I'm sure you drive just fine.

And just so people don't think I'm Captain Road Rage, I don't think I have actually followed anyone home or anything like that. I have rolled up next to people at a red light to let them know they are in fact an inconsiderate asshole, but even that takes a lot of really bad driving for me to do it.

[Jay Cunningham]

I usually just spray them with the hose.

No seriously - didn't you hold a guy at gun point a few years back because he walked on your lawn? Didn't you post about it on ARFcom?

My sincere apologies if it wasn't you.

[BCmJUnKie]

I hear ya man. If it was me in particular then I would totally expect an ass woopin lol.

I said from the beginning, just be CAREFUL. Drive safe. There is no need to "Follow" anyone in the first place.

I know first hand. About 5 years ago I was driving down Fiske Blvd. in Rockledge Fla. I was driving with my best friend (Cowboy, a 57lb Pit) in the left lane. A car just in front to my right, decides he doesnt need to use a signal as he WHIPS over to my lane

I braked hard and my dog lost his balance and his head slammed into the windshield...shattering the middle of the right side. I was LIVID

I yanked the wheel to the right and got up next to what appeared to be a bunch of "Goth" kids with patchy facial hair and black homo accesories around their wrists accompanied by scars from "cutting" themselves most likely due to fathers hating them for how they dress or music whatever.

I get next to him and explain "WHAT THE **** ARE YOU DOING!" You just cut me off!!" Pull over so I can get your information etc. He tells me to "**** myself" Oh...Okay. Then he turns off into a neighborhood. I follow.

Through this neighborhood all over the place speeding and chasing, I finally caught a break when he was trapped behind a stopped motorhome and he turned around, I didnt have enough room so I put it in reverse an floored it, slammed on the brakes and cut the wheel, I didnt have enough momentum to swing it around so Im stopped sideways in the middle of the street.

I get out of my truck and RUN towards his car, just before I get to his car he tries opening his door and I use ALL of my momentum to slam it closed, I reach in grab his keys and hold them, Oh I forgot, I was on the phone with dispatch the whole time, the lady yelling at me to not follow. I left the phone in my truck when I exited.

The kids were SHITTING in their pants when I reached the door, about 30 seconds later Cops came SCREECHING to a stop.

I almost went to jail, the cop told me "If anyone is going to jail its you"

It was a wakup call. I used to be horrible about traffic. I guarantee the kid will pay attention when he drives now.

[BCmJUnKie]

If I saw ME running up to that car the way I did....I would have shot me. It would probably have been justified too

[JSantoro]

I've gone so far as to have gotten out of my truck while in line at a freakin' Starbucks drive-thru to yell at the so-emo-his-grass-cuts-itself angstry idiot teenager behind me, who had decided to lean on his horn to express his impatience with life in general in spite of the fact that I clearly had no way to move.

I hate it when folks use their car horns for anything besides emergencies or a quick "hey, heads-up, doofus" tap at stop lights. Like, Blues Brothers/Illinois Nazis kinda hate, and I was not having a good day to begin with either (hence the reason I was at Starbucks, to procure a tasty treat so I could eat away my mental anguish; no, it didn't work).

Big smile on my face, yelling things like "Whatsamatta, I thought you were attempting to establish a dialogue with me!" at his closed window. Poor Ichabod-Crane-looking candy-ass was practically in his passenger seat...

After which, I was struck with the more sensible realization of just how stupid that was.

Not the act itself (I heat emos; screw that guy), but that I didn't really think to take a look at what sort of fool I was gonna check. Utterly failed to execute the first "O" in my OODA loop, in that instance; lots of bad nastyness can come down as a result of not thinking somethng like that through, since not every assclown driver or car-horn = everyday comms device moron is automatically gonna be an emo.

I thought that gunpoint/lawn thing was an article somebody put up within the last year...

EDIT: BCm and I are getting vehicularly pissed off by the same sort of people....

[CoryCop25]

Last year a guy decided to go the speed limit -10 gust after a curve in the highway. I slowed down as much as I could but got too close for the meathead's likings. He break checked me twice. The first time I actually thought he was having trouble in front of him. The second time, I could see the entire undercarriage of his vehicle. Shortly after, we were stopped at a light. I ignored him completely. I put my right turn signal on to turn and when he saw that, so did he. The guy made the right and pulled over to "chat". I pulled next to him and he started screaming at me. I exited my vehicle (bad idea now that I think about it) and literally made the guy cry.
After my 2 minute rant, he followed me to my station. He saw that I was a police officer and called the state police and told them that I had ran him off the road and "scared him". Needless to say, he left out the part about break checking and such.
It didn't go well for me in the Chief's office the next day but he heard my side of the story and I didn't get reprimanded.

[GermanSynergy]

A few months ago LittleLebowski & myself were on the way to USTC from NOVA, and while we were driving thru a particularly.......upscale urban area we were given verbal greetings and salutations from a carload of Beverly Hills type individuals.

They were all driving aggressively, but we didn't wish to be drawn into any sort of confrontation, so I just disengaged and let them hoot/holler/carry on down the street.

Not very macho or manly, but there's my "road rage" tale of wonder.

[BCmJUnKie]

I've gone so far as to have gotten out of my truck while in line at a freakin' Starbucks drive-thru to yell at the so-emo-his-grass-cuts-itself angstry idiot teenager behind me, who had decided to lean on his horn to express his impatience with life in general
EDIT: BCm and I are getting vehicularly pissed off by the same sort of people....

Ya man I used to be really bad. as I get older I have calmed down alot. A friend and I were talking the other day about how his wife broke her horn, I was like "What? I cant even remember the last time I USED my horn haha.

Another time coming from A1A in cocoa beach waiting in the turn lane, a orange mustang full of teenage girls were next to another car of teenage girls talking and laughing, talking so much that they didnt even ACKNOWLEDGE the light turning green.

So when FINALLY they start to move, (driving) they are STILL having their stupid ass conversation, oblivious to their obligation to traffic behind them, after about 200 yards or so the speed limit changes (35 to 55) and they are still going slow and talking, I gun it and get on her ass to let her know there ARE other people with an agenda.

With my headlights shining into the rear window, I can see the dumb girls turn around, look at me, then turn to the other car an talking "Oh he cant move! lets block him in so he cant go around! but lets slow down too!" When this happened, the top of my steering wheel started to bend down along with the sound of cracking plastic.

I held it in, about a mile later, I whipped into the shoulder on the right and got next to the stupid cunts. They werent laughing now as I called them things I would be ashamed of if my mother heard me.

As I gunned it past them, I deployed my Boss's brand new ice cold mountain dew he had been waiting for for over 30 minutes out the window.

It made contact with the bumper of the orange mustang and exploded into a beautiful and instantly self gratifying flower of liquid mixed with ice and plastic.

When I got to the house, it was worth getting bitched out because taco bell "Forgot" his drink

[jklaughrey]

Not so much road rage but, road anger.Up here in the PNW, mostly where I am. We have a common occurrence of opposing vehicles stopping so they can chat. Most times they know each other and this usually only happens on the more rural roads. But it has happened on main roadways and even the state highway system. At first upon moving here from L.A., I did a WTF and was angry, but now I accept the fact that if they aren't causing issue then fine. Now when I pull up behind I will give a quick honk so they know of my presence and they will move on or pull around to let me pass. Only once has someone gave me the social finger that I had to exit my vehicle, address him while presenting my tin. He very quickly apologized and expedited his leaving the area.