Years ago when I worked 2nd shift and got out around 1AM, I witnessed what I can only say was a very unusual road incident. 1AM traffic is very light, but I found myself looking out my rearview mirror as much as looking forward because of the cookoo clocks driving home from the bars etc. Anyway, this car pulls into the breakdown lane and a woman and man who both looked to be in their 40's get out of the car and start to duke it it out! She got in a couple of good shots too. Wierd.

 

Funny stories. They can be really scary predicaments we can get into - by our fault or not. What do have is the power to choose how we react to the actions of others.

What comes around goes around. I've seen many times where tailgaters do so much to get around me - even when I yield, move out of the way and let them pass - I still end up passing them up anyway - because someone else wasn't as nice.

I'm hardly the aggressor - but I'm thankful that the S can get me out of some hairy situations when I need to.

Be careful out there!

 

yeah but he shouldn't have to worry he was running for his life, it was the guy who was tailgating him and being a freak who caused the incident. If he hadn't done what he did he would have never chased the guy down.

 

When I was in college in Boston, a friend of mine was driving through Cambridge one evening leaving the gym to come back to school when he was stopped at a red light. He was driving a convertible Mustang Cobra, so this dude out of nowhere pulls a knife on him and tries to steal his car, he began to yank him out of the car.

Here is where the story gets interesting...my buddy had put a whole load of money into his car and he was into steroids at the time, one huge mother fu#$er. So this dude starts to pull him out of the car when he says...oh hell no....and proceeds to start putting up a fight. The dude managed to catch his arm ever so slightly with the knife, but by this point he was out of his car and they were fighting standing up. Once they were toe to toe this guy was probably wishing he had never tried this, my friend knocked him out cold and left him in the middle of the street and drove off.

I admit, pretty stupid to gamble with your life over a car, but I was so happy when I heard that ending. Serves that thief right.

 

Pretty stupid to leave him in the street! If that was me that knocked him out the dude would've been in my trunk on my way to the police station via the roughest twisties around

 

I pulled into a Shell station in La Crescenta after work. There were two pumps on the pump island on my left, one in front all grades of gas and one in back diesel only. I stop at the front pump and get out to put gas in my car. A guy is on the other side of the rear pump, facing in the other direction, putting diesel in his truck. A woman pulls behind me in a humungous Ford Excursion, lays on her horn, and starts yelling "Pull forward, pull forward!" I tell her "My car doesn't run very well on diesel," but she's talking on her cellphone and doesn't hear me. The guy putting diesel in his truck is laughing his ass off. I start pumping gas in my car and the woman starts calling me every obscenity in the book. Then, in a fit of anger, she puts it in reverse and floors it without looking in her rear view mirror. She backs violently out into traffic and gets centerpunched by a truck. The guy pumping diesel in his truck high fives me and the whole gas station gives her a standing ovation. Then she jumps out of her excursion and starts yelling at the guy who hit her in the middle of the street. The guy at the diesel pump and I wait for the police to tell them what happened.

 

I'm driving northbound on the Pasadena Freeway just north of downtown LA with two other people in my wife's Acura MDX. I see this idiot in my rear view mirror in a beat up POS old car, a real grungy looking character, weaving in and out of traffic, cutting people off. He pulls up on my right (I'm in the left lane) and cuts me off. I lay on my horn. He turns around, looks at me, and flips me off -- just as the road bends to the right. He loses control of his car, his rear end comes around, and he goes up and over the center divider. The catch fence does its job and flings him backward, about eight feet off the ground, across all lanes of traffic and into a concrete wall on the other side of the freeway -- hard. All lanes of traffic avoid hitting him, he's alive and moving around in his absolutely totaled car, and I drive on.

 

dayam.. picked the wrong guy to f* with

i bet he'll never do that again

 

BUMP!

 

I only have one decent tailgate story. Usually I go with traffic.

I was on my way up to Montreal, Canada via I-87 up NY state in my CRX with my uncle in his prelude. We were traveling at a decent speed ~75mph when this luxury sedan, I think Mercedes or Lexus. Honks to have us move out of his way. As my uncle and I move to the travel lane this car pulls on us hard. Had to be going 100+. Well as we get over the crest of the hill there was a cop. Must of been nice getting that ticket. Funny thing is that there was no traffic and we were already traveling pretty fast but I guess this city slicker was in a bigger hurry for that traffic ticket