road rage

[mmatl16]

so i just wanted to tell everyone about something that happened to me a little while ago.

I was on my way home from a 12 hour shift at work and there's a road I have to drive down everyday to get home. well a couple of times that I had driven down the road it was infested with little humans. so I downshift and slow down to about 12 cause im not really trying to hit any little kids. anyways one time this guy comes sprinting out of his house yelling " slow down ". so i just stop and say " guy i was only driving 12 mph and i wasn't speeding in the slightest bit." " I heard you come speeding around the corner!" " no you heard me downshifting so i could slow down so i didnt hit the kids that shouldnt be playing in the street " so anyways he says something under his breath and i drive off. About 4 days later im on the same street and the same guy is standing outside his house and when i drive by he yells " what you wanna do about it today *****?" I just keep driving but I decided that im getting tired of some guy yelling at me for something im not doing, especially when his kids shouldnt even be in the middle of the street. so i decided to go back there. well i parked down the street and walked back. i see the guy on his porch and he's like are you the guy thats been speeding down this street in the blue nissan all revving ur motor and im a fat fuk, blah blah blah. anyways i said ya i do drive the nissan but im not speeding down the street or reving my motor (this was in my sohc ka before my rb swap). i i say look i dont want to be yelled at when i drive down the street i have a right to drive down any street i want. he says... look its not me that has the problem its my neighbor... i say... ok well lets talk to him. (keep in mind i was completely calm) so he goes and gets his neighbor and he comes out and says the same crap and i say the same crap but i also say look i came here to settle this i dont deserve this. then the second guy snaps and yells " o you came here to settle this! "...and takes a huge swing at me. (i think i forgot to tell you both these guys were dads in there late 30's and both were about 6'3, 240 lb's and im not a big guy im like 5'11, 165lbs) so i duck from the guys swing and when i do he grabs me and starts running with me and my arms tucked against my body. im kind of running/stumbling backwards until i trip on a curb and the guy lands on top of me. he then still has both my arms pinned with his body weight and begins to hit me. the guy hits me like 5 times and then kind of realizes what he did and jumps up going " dude i dont want any trouble with you " so i jump up kind of dazed, i mean i just got hit hard a number of times and im trying to find my car keys so i can go. i find them on the ground like 10 feet to my right. i pick them up and when i look up the first guy go's " o you want a piece of me now?! " and does the same thing except he only got like 2 shots off before i started to get a grip and throw some back. so he jumps off me and i get up casually still semi dizzy. i then say you guys know im gonna call the cops right as im walking back to my car...they say something like...you swung on us first. so i call the cops and they come over and i tell them my story and this has been bout 30 min since so im starting to get some marks...knot on my forehead, black eye, scratches, etc. then the cop goes and talks to the guys there neighbors etc and come back and tells me that if i wanna press charges were all going to go to jail because the neighbors are saying i went there with a ton of people and I was flashing weapons. so im trying to explain that wouldnt make sense, and hes not believing me. im just getting this look like ya im a cop who would rather be harrassing someone about modified exhaust. so i give up and tell him to leave.

anyways i just wanted to say be careful. if someone does something to you that was unjustified, just take care of it without cops cause there not going to help kids with imports.

and dont worry i havent let it go. they will definetely get there's.

[HashiriyaS14]

That's retarded.

Flashing weapons, ton of people, wtf...

I get harassed about that sometimes (speeding when I'm really just going slow at high rpms). People with only automatics just don't seem to understand how a transmission works.

Yeah, it'd be hard for you to do much now that you've brought in the cops.

If you do anything to their houses/cars, I'm sure that same cop will come back to talk to you about it. Otherwise I'd say just cause as much property damage as humanly possible.......

[mmatl16]

ya i agree that prob the same cop would come talk to me...nothing has happened to them yet but ive got a lot of marbles and paintball guns

[rousie13]

Next time you drive through make sure you have a couple friends with you(prefererably strong and big). Then if one of them says the same thing to you as you drive by, stop and pay them a visit. If you seriously aren't speeding, you don't deserve that. I'd beg one of those little fuc*ers in the street.

[D1SR240]

Dude thats total bs, i would press charges and get a lawyer or something, because those ***holes had no reason to hit you at all, especially mulitple times. I wouldn't paintball their house with marbles however, I think that's gonna just cause more problems.

[tractorcrusher]

Pretty interesting story, but wtf does this have to do with Road Rage???

If somebody yelled something at me every day while I drove by, I sure as hell wouldn't park my car and walk up to him to try and settle anything (unless of course my intent was to beat the crap out of him, which I wouldn't do in his neighborhood). I mean, the guy's obviously crazy, you can't expect to use your debate skills to calm him down.

EDIT: Like said above, I'd get a lawyer and try and press charges. Shooting marbles with a paintball gun?? Hope they're .68 caliber! (precision ball bearings would work though) Would be almost as illegal as shooting at a house with an M16 though, and who wants attempted manslaughter anyway?
Modified by tractorcrusher at 11:22 AM 12/29/2004

[mmatl16]

im not gonna shoot the house with marbles...its pointless. but what goes around comes around. and the reason i got out of my car was cause i was tired of getting yelled at and 97 percent of people are sh*t talkers so i wasnt expecting to get attacked. i thought about the lawyer thing but it just wasnt cost effective.

[mmatl16]

Pretty interesting story, but wtf does this have to do with Road Rage???

i was on the road and he was enraged

[jacob360]

Don't say what you're going to do on an Internet forum, just do it.

Cops around here are way different.

I was coming back to work after grabbing some food at Taco Bell. I passed an Explorer on the left right before two lanes merged into one. Plenty of room, nowhere near hitting them. They honk their horn and flip me off (I see it in my rearview), so I give them the finger back. I park in front of my work, they pull up behind me, and a big guy, 6'+, all tatted up jumps out and runs up to my car. I rolled up the windows and locked the doors. He starts yelling at me about how I almost killed his kids, blah blah blah, I tried to explain to him that I passed him safely and didn't even come close to hitting him, but of course he wasn't listening to reason. He tells me he's going to shoot me, cut my eyes out, etc., and finishes up by saying, "now I know where you work"

I'd been in somewhat similar road rage situations before, but never where someone knew anything about me. Something in his eyes was different than everyone else too, and I took him seriously. All the other times I let it go, but this time I called the cops.

Cop came out, took the license number I gave him, found out he was on parole, and told me that even if they didn't use this incident, he'd find a reason to violate his parole and lock him up. Here's the craziest part: the cop gave me the guy's address. I think that might have been his way of saying, "he might know where you work, but now you know where he lives."

[mmatl16]

ya the cop talked to just wasnt wanting to listen to anything i had to say. cops in sacramento tend to not really care about what the kids need. they only help impound are cars for legal intake.

[D1SR240]

If you get a laywer and sue his *** for $$$ then it will be cost effective

[HashiriyaS14]

Here's the craziest part: the cop gave me the guy's address. I think that might have been his way of saying, "he might know where you work, but now you know where he lives."

That's AWESOME.

[tractorcrusher]

and the reason i got out of my car was cause i was tired of getting yelled at and 97 percent of people are sh*t talkers so i wasnt expecting to get attacked.

Yes, but unfortunately you don't know which percentage that person falls in. The other 3 percent could be gun-wielding maniacs.

[mmatl16]

i know we never know who will do what but im sure most of you guys would have done the same thing

[tractorcrusher]

i know we never know who will do what but im sure most of you guys would have done the same thing

Yeah, I can dig it, I'm not trying to lecture you... Its so much easier to think things through when you're not in the situation. Hell, I'm the kind of person who would try and do something to. (and I've had my share of road rage)

I guess my point of posting advice is for those that may encounter a similar situation in the future. Hope it doesn't happen though.

[L336]

i know we never know who will do what but im sure most of you guys would have done the same thing

I don't know about this one. I'm not exactly the biggest person on the block and I certainly don't want to get my *** kicked and then my mom to take away my car. I'd probably resort to more subtle forms of revenge, which I can't think of right now.

L336

[biggie]

Sometimes I like being huge, hardly no one would pick a fight with me(not since 5th grade). But I'm pretty mellow anyway. Plus me getting out of a 240 makes me look bigger anyway (if that's possible).

Definately don't think I would have stopped to argue this matter either. Until it had escalated in some way more than yelling at me.

[Florida240sx]

I get people all the time pissed at me for no reason. Guess something about me and my car I don't even have any modifications to it. Only thign I got is rims and system. I've ha dpeople chase me before only until I realise they are chasing me and then well...you know how fast our cars can take turns to other cars. Like just he other day. My friend is beside me at the light reving his engine. Both of us take off slow. Was going 60 in a 45 already. And this RODEO is on my *** I mean i bet you couldn't put a paper between us. There is about 10 car lengths between me and my friedn so plenty of room to get over. I even drive on the median so the ***** will pass me after about 10 seconds the idiot goes to pass me and then when he's beside swerves into my lane (I'm still driving on the median). So then I'm almost sideswipped. I lock up my brakes they hit the gas and then turn. Little things like this make driving a P.I.T.A

[squeefoo]

Get pictures of what happened to your face. Get a copy of the incident report, you may be able to sign a complaint directly to the DA since the cops only recommend charges to the DA.

Call the DA's office!

You must do this yourself and do it today.If you can think of ANYONE who may have seen this get their name for the DA. If you find witnesses that are neighbors,don't worry, they might be sick of these guys too; Since they act like a-holes to strangers and lie to the cops about it.

Assault and Battery, Obstruction of justice?, False swearing?

EDIT: If there were all those people with you; did the neighbors provide the police with the same and accurate descriptions of your "accomplices"? if that wasn't looked into ... And no injuries to the "innocent homeowners" after running off a gang with weapons? These are seriously lousy cops.
Modified by squeefoo at 1:59 PM 12/29/2004

[tractorcrusher]

Plus me getting out of a 240 makes me look bigger anyway (if that's possible).

I hear that, being 6'5" and getting out of my tiny coupe surprises people. The coupe fits me perfectly though, I usually don't even have the seat all of the way back (unless I'm swangin' and bangin', lol)

[mmatl16]

its too late now to do anything i thought i would just share. i do have pictures though

[Twinchy]

when did it happen ?

[mmatl16]

bout 2 and a half months ago

[tractorcrusher]

definately not too late then

[squeefoo]

I thought "a little while ago" meant this morning. You're screwed if you let it go this long.

[Gold Digger]

I had a situation similar to this when I was in highschool. I had an 85 chevy caprice classic with dual exhaust and glasspacks, with no cats, and when I used to cruise down the street of my small friggan town, I would have the auto trans in 2nd cause I was young and thought it was cool. Well, this old guy that lived down the street from my parents house came over to my girlfriends who lived across the street from me and started saying I was always racing down the street, and that there are little kids around...well, the only little kids around were my 7 year old brother and my girlfriends 4 and 5 year old brother and sister respectively. So, I try to reason with this guy, and he balls up his fist like he gonna hit me. This guy is in his 60's and is threating to hit me. WTF! So, my girlfriend asks him to leave, which thankfully he does, and all is well...or so I thought.The next day as I am driving off to work, I go by his house and he is standing there in his drive way with a wrist rocket...slingshot for those who dont know what that is...and proceeds to shoot out my rear passenger door window with a shot bearing...I stop the car, and he pelts my car again, pitting a 6" dent into my front fender...I leave and go to a friends house not to far away and call the cops.The county sherrif himself...I said I live in small town...shows up, sees the damage to my car, and goes to this guys house. He is arrested for criminal damage to private property and at his court date, he pleads not guilty for reason of protecting the neighborhood....PROTECTING THE NEIGHBORHOOD! Thankfully I had a witness who was standing outside her house when all this happened. He gets a $500 fine, and is orderd to pay restitution for damages to the car, and an aditional $500 to my mother, who actually owned my car.Every time I drove past his house, we would be sitting on his porch watching me and giving me a dirty look...revenge...priceless...

[mmatl16]

glad to see you got some justice out of it. thats good to hear

[nismofly]

carry a camcorder in the car, i always have mine with me, just in case i decide to do something fun and i want it, but also because i had dreams about a situation like this when i had a situation at school where someone really didnt like me, and i wanted to have proof and not retaliate