Road Rage

[Darkman]

Man there are some real wankers on the road. Just experience a bit of midnight road race on the motorway. Nearly had some action too.
Was on my way home with my wife after we celebrated Tasman’s b-day at a restaurant in Courtnet Place. Just got passed the Korokoro lights, about 500m or so when I came up behind a car. Put the indicator on, and proceeded to pass it at about 100-105km/h(slow pass I admit). As I was about half way passed the car another car came racing up my cars rear end and sat about a meter behind me.I just thought that it was just another boy racer in a hurry. I carried on with my speed until save to move in front of the passed car when the faster guy just cut into the left lane preventing me from moving to the left. Now I was thinking “what an arse”. He then passed me, cut in right in front of me and hit the brakes hard to slow me down to about 60 and sped off. Now I am MAD. A kilometer or so later we came up to the the Maungarki lights and it was red. I pulled up next to the car in the left lane. I expected to see a young boy racer behind the wheel and instead it was a 40 something year old male and a 20something Asian chick next to him.
I opened my window and said “what the fark are you doing buddy? You can’t just do that”

Guy:”Fark off!!! you should stop driving in the right lane like a farking old fart”

Me: (mad as hell)“ fark you” and gave him the finger.

He then removed his safety belt. I quickly unbuckled myself and opened the door only to hear the sound of screaming tires as he sped off.

Now this could have turned real nasty. I don’t really think when get mad and if he had gotten out it would have been all on. Now that I am home and calmed down I am trying to think of what I could have, should have done.
Should I have just shut up and let the guy bully me on the road or do you think it was fair of me to tell him off?

[cynna]

what u did was fair enough. but in situations like that you have to be prepared to expect the worse.... there a lot of idiots out there with nothing to lose

was good that his friend saw how much of a wimp he was tho

[Brian d marge]

I know how you feel. but on the grand scale of things ??? he a dick .... thats it ,,....there are many more out there ! ....just pull over or do what ever it takes to be safe
turn the music up . and carry on ....

more to life than worrying about arseholes ,,, we have enough trouble with the one we pay to look after us

Stephen

[Drum]

I don't know what the right thing to do was, but you did what I would've done.

Damn the short fuse! Damn it to hell!

1000 posts!

[Hillbilly]

That sort of driving is comman place on Aussie Freeways. Coming home tonight from work, I pass a car at 125 km/hr (speed limit is 110) on the 3 lanne F3 freeway from Sydney to Newcastle. Get passed on the outside slow be a lane Mercedes and behind me is some v8 Commodore. I move back into the centre lane and get passes by the comodore which was easily doing 160+ trying to beat the Merc.

The outside lanes a best avoided as they have really long onramps that encourage drivers to put the foot down. It's common to be doing 140 when entering the freeway. The strange thing is, riders are far more restrained. Nobody is in a hurry the way cagers are.

That's so common to see that king of driving behaviour, that it doesn't bother me. The freeways are like being in the Daytona or Bathurst 500. BTW, the flow of the traffic is 120 - 130 km/hr. Anyone doing the speed limit is "slow".

[Trudes]

Good on you Darkman, glad it didn't come to any violence though. The guy obviously has a really small dick and has to prove to his bit of fluff that he really is a man; and a twat.

[elle-f]

Bet that woman was thinking "What the HELL have i picked up here?"!

[RantyDave]

He then removed his safety belt. I quickly unbuckled myself and opened the door only to hear the sound of screaming tires as he sped off.
Screaming tyres presumably to mask the rather nastier noise eminating from his trousers.

Nice work, man. Shitter you had to go through it at all, obviously, but a big improvement on just sitting there and fuming about it.

Dave

[Clockwork]

OK, I'm not condoning this arseholes aggressive behaviour and attempted retaliation but...
like most of us in the vally I drive/ride this road daily and I must admit to frequently being a very pissed off driver/rider waiting for someone to complete (or in some cases even attempt) a passing manoeuvre while occupying the passing lane of that road. Are you 100% sure that you didn't intentionally provoke him ...just a little bit... by consciously holding your speed down and delaying pulling back into the left lane as long as possible?

[Grahameeboy]

I would just have blown him a kiss..................seriously is works a treat...........

[Kendog]

Never get out of the car

[Grahameeboy]

Never get out of the car

That too...trouble is that if you get out all aggressive like you have no idea what the other guy is like, could have a knife, could be a black belt in origarmi or whatever......not worth it.

The other guy is expecting a reaction....don't give it

[Lissa]

I agree with Nigel.... I wouldnt get out of the car. It could have turned pretty nasty had the guy had balls or he could have had a weapon of some sort, you hear about it all the time. He was prob showing off to his mail order bride... what a dork.

[Darkman]

OK, I'm not condoning this arseholes aggressive behaviour and attempted retaliation but...
like most of us in the vally I drive/ride this road daily and I must admit to frequently being a very pissed off driver/rider waiting for someone to complete (or in some cases even attempt) a passing manoeuvre while occupying the passing lane of that road. Are you 100% sure that you didn't intentionally provoke him ...just a little bit... by consciously holding your speed down and delaying pulling back into the left lane as long as possible?

Sure..I could have accelerated, or even cut right infront of the other driver, but i chose to do what i always do. I was doing speed limit and he was doing about 130 when he came up behind me, so no matter what i did he had to slow down.So by not speeding up i could understand that he might have got a little anoid, but cutting in infront of us ,hitting the breaks and putting us in what easily could have been an accident , is not on.

[trumpy]

I know how you feel. but on the grand scale of things ??? he a dick .... thats it ,,....there are many more out there ! ....just pull over or do what ever it takes to be safe
turn the music up . and carry on ....

more to life than worrying about arseholes ,,, we have enough trouble with the one we pay to look after us

Stephen

Exactly what he says.
You only have one life, no point in risking it because someone else wants to be a dick...

[Skyryder]

The lesson learned here is the question you asked. You know the answer the next time something like this happens.

Skyryder

[slimjim]

sound's more of a tosser than worth the hassel, pity you didn't get the chance to piss on his windscreen, or ask him if that's his daughter beside him, ............ o well right it off as one of those things......

[Pex Adams]

Darkman: Make Love, not war...

Next time blow them a kiss:love: :love: :love:

[Macktheknife]

*555 is your friend at these times, just call the cops and report his driving behaviour, then follow him until they arrive. It works a treat, no point in putting yourself in danger.

[Darkman]

Next time blow them a kiss:love: :love: :love:

hell yeah..that would have really scared him.And if he had gotten out after that..well that would have scared me.

Yeah..should have just called the cops or ignored the bugger. I sometimes just get so mad i don't think. The poor guy was most probably paying by the hour thats why he was getting anoid!

[Colapop]

Must be something about that stretch of road! I just got back from my mates place in Maungaraki. On the way out there some fucking Indian idiot in a Holden was tailgating a little Polo or something. I pulled into the left lane to avoid him and the car in front of me just sat there. He was laughing and giving the (Indian) women in the front car the fingers. So what if he knew them? He was swerving all over the lane and making other vehicles take evasive action. Coming into Petone (heading north past Bowland) instead of following the line of the road he decided that driving straight would be easier and nearly drove into the side of me! The Korokoro lights were red so I wound down my window and yelled "What the fuck is your issue retard?" So he gives me the fingers. I take my belt off and start to open my door (not seeing the lights turn green) and he takes off. As we take off I see him weaving in and out of traffic ahead of us. I thought I'm not playing that fucking retard game. I don't give a fuck whether he has friends or whatever the fuck his fucking issue was but in heavy traffic being a fucking retard is not on. Given the opportunity I would taken his keys off him and let him sort out explaining to the cops why someone did that to him. Gaaaahhhhh!!! FUCK!

[RantyDave]

Unbelievable, there must be something in the air. Coming back over the Takas this arvo, in the cage, with my daughter in the back, I met a man who didn't know how to use a passing lane. He was under the impression that you only had to get alongside the car you were attempting to pass and not fully in front of it before pulling back in. There was much pounding of horns and giving of fingers before I realised that being in the cage, phoning the pigs was now a realistic option.

Didn't see him pulled over by the side of the road, unfortunately. Also unfortunately I actually felt guilty for grassing his sorry arse to the filth. Still do, actually. The police may need to work on their PR. Or I may need to work on my lousy attitude ... one of the two.

Dave

[McJim]

I agree with Nigel.... I wouldnt get out of the car. It could have turned pretty nasty had the guy had balls or he could have had a weapon of some sort, you hear about it all the time. He was prob showing off to his mail order bride... what a dork.

Trick is to make sure you are always the one with the weapon - make sure you have a good excuse for the aftermath though.

"I was coming home from baseball practice...didn't realise one of the japesters at the club had put a 9" nail through my bat officer"

"I always carry my tyre iron in the car....didn't realise it had been worn to a such sharp edge, must've been dragged along the road without my knowledge."

I must confess that when I'm overtaking and someone is fast approaching from behind I tend to speed up to 125kph max and finish my maneouvre ASAP to avoid confrontation at all. I personally take exception to people in the left hand lane not actualy overtaking or overtaking gradually - perhaps because not overtaking but being in the left lane is illegal in the UK. I usually feel naughty for overtaking on someone's right - again because it's illegal in the UK.

I'm consitently fascinated by the Kiwi motorway phenomenon of the rolling road block. 3 drivers previously unknown to each other all traveling at 95kph side by side along SH1 for kilometers on end....on a nearly empty motorway.....why?

[NordieBoy]

I personally take exception to people in the left hand lane not actualy overtaking or overtaking gradually - perhaps because not overtaking but being in the left lane is illegal in the UK. I usually feel naughty for overtaking on someone's right - again because it's illegal in the UK.

Left lane?

[Edbear]

Given the opportunity I would taken his keys off him



Now, you probably could! Me, on the other hand...:bye:

[BarBender]

I'm consitently fascinated by the Kiwi motorway phenomenon of the rolling road block. 3 drivers previously unknown to each other all traveling at 95kph side by side along SH1 for kilometers on end....on a nearly empty motorway.....why?

We're sheep. Baaaaaaaaa

[Clivoris]

Sounds well judged Darkman. He didn't hang around and you made your point.

[BarBender]

Now this could have turned real nasty. I don’t really think when get mad and if he had gotten out it would have been all on. Now that I am home and calmed down I am trying to think of what I could have, should have done.
Should I have just shut up and let the guy bully me on the road or do you think it was fair of me to tell him off?

Bummer - Puts a damper on the night when that sort of stuff happens. Main thing is that you are your partner are OK.

One particular personal situation comes to mind when my wife and I were returning home after a night at the pics and I was just getting out of the car to bench press some poor sods head off his shoulders...when my wife turns to me and quietly but firmly says " Dont give in to the dark force Luke...Put your light saber away and get back into the farken spaceship...NOW!! I did. :shutup:

My brother is big unit. He's 6'3" and weighs 155kgs. He's also world ranked powerlifter and looks farken ridiculous on his Z750. :shit:
He's been involved in several potential road rage situations in his life. I say potential because he has always just ignored them and just kept driving or riding. I asked him one time why it doesnt bother him...and he said "Aint no point having this strong body on the outside if it aint strong in the inside as well."

[Edbear]

...when my wife turns to me and quietly but firmly says " Dont give in to the dark force Luke...Put your light saber away and get back into the farken spaceship...NOW!! I did. :shutup:

My brother is big unit. He's 6'3" and weighs 155kgs. He's also world ranked powerlifter and looks farken ridiculous on his Z750. :shit:
He's been involved in several potential road rage situations in his life. I say potential because he has always just ignored them and just kept driving or riding. I asked him one time why it doesnt bother him...and he said "Aint no point having this strong body on the outside if it aint strong in the inside as well."



Now, Yer wife and yer brother are obviously sane and sensible people! I like their thinking! Can I quote your brother?

Had an incident about 30 years ago, my wife, then my gf, leaned across and honked the horn at a Valiant that had almost stopped in the middle of the road. The rather large PI chap driving it took offence and chased us in our Hillman Super Minx auto - not a good gettaway car by the way... Eventually I knew I'd have to stop as I couldn't lose him. As I got out to face him and his equally large mate, my wife handed me the baby. Of course he wasn't going to bash me while I was holding the baby and I talked him down. We parted friends, sort of.:sunny:

Ever since then, it's been a standing joke whenever we encounter a slow driver. Though "baby's" 31 now and a bit big to pick up. Mind you, he's built, too, so I can just hide behind him...:yes:

[scumdog]

I have the Badge of Death - it makes strong men tremble.
No need for thrown spark plugs, flailing chains etc.

All they need to see is the skull-mask getting pulled off and a NZP i.d. badge on front of them.:yes:

I have the resources behind me to cost lot of money for the offending driver, and if I'm having a good day their licence has gone the way of the kokako!!

Fuck with me and you will pay, and pay and pay....

And yes, I HAVE been drinking waipiro.

[BarBender]

... and a NZP i.d. badge on front of them.:yes:
Fuck with me and you will pay....


Bro - got any spare ones lying around?

[heyjoe]

Darkman,
Yep there are some dickheads out there. We see them on our bikes frequently don't we?

Don't know what I would have done in that situation and I probably couldn't say til it happened. In my line of work I am faced with the potential for violence in the workplace all the time. After a physical confrontation there is always a time to reflect, analyse and consider strategy for next time to keep safe.

Only suggestion I would say for your scenario is note his rego number and call *555 and also tell the world (like putting it on here) what his dangerous/bad idiotic driving is like.

[scumdog]

Bro - got any spare ones lying around?

Sorry shag, you'll have to do like me - visit Porirua for 5 months and you'll win one of those fine badges!!

[Lorax]

Don't react. I actually feel sorry for those people. Just think to yourself "That guy must have a pretty shit life if he is that simple minded and mean".

But yeah, I would've been pissed off to the max too though!

[scumdog]

Don't react. I actually feel sorry for those people. Just think to yourself "That guy must have a pretty shit life if he is that simple minded and mean".

But yeah, I would've been pissed off to the max too though!

Trouble is that they are so dumb-arsed that they don't realise they HAVE a pretty shitty life!!:yes:
They think that is how EVERYBODY lives! Fuckin fuck-wits!!

[NighthawkNZ]

Shit fuck....sheeeit fuck

[Lorax]

Trouble is that they are so dumb-arsed that they don't realise they HAVE a pretty shitty life!!

Correct you are. It's still better than getting angry, for me anyways (still get angry though!!!). Like of people steal shit, I get anrgy then remember that my life is actually pretty sweet compared to those pieces of shit.

[avgas]

Just keep ya mouth shut.
Those guys end up road side crosses in the end

[scumdog]

Just keep ya mouth shut.
Those guys end up road side crosses in the end

I wish they all had to make their crosses first BEFORE they bit the dust!!

[avgas]

I wish they all had to make their crosses first BEFORE they bit the dust!!

Then we would save on the 'slow down' posters, and that means unspent budget.

[Flatcap]

I expected to see a young boy racer behind the wheel and instead it was a 40 something year old male and a 20something Asian chick next to him.


You didn't ask him what catalog he got his wife out of, then?

[idleidolidyll]

Many years ago a bunch of us rode from Auckland to Christchurch (BEARs Sound of Thunder) via the Wanganui Boxing Day races.

I was snotted by an old lady in a car doing a right turn from the gravel on the left of the road without indicating. I tore my achilles and totalled my bike.

The others rode back without me and with my wife on the back of a mates bike.

On their way back, before Kaikoura, they were deliberately blocked by a guy in a car with his wife and children. Every time they tried to pass, he moved over to block them. Eventually they did pass and one of the riders kicked off his wing mirror in the move. The bikes roared off and forgot the tosser in the tin top.

Not long after though they had slowed down to cruise and the same guy finally caught up to them, apparently he was on a real mission. He passed them on a bridge and just as he reached the end of the bridge, he deliberately swerved to the left clipping two of the riders and forcing 2 others to make a panic stop. One of the riders fell off and did some damage to body and bike.

The tin topper took off.

After they picked themselves up, the guys and gals rode into Kaikoura and went straight to the cops to lay a complaint. However, the tin topper was a local and had rushed in first complaing thta he was attacked by a bunch of 'bikies'.
The cops didn't want to listen though. They told the bike riders to fuck off or they would be arrested.

One of the guys has got the guys reg number though and through contacts had found out the drivers name, address and phone number.

For several years afterward, that guy received anonymous phone calls in the early hours of the morning from phone boxes all around the country. He lived in fear for all thos3e years that the bike riders were going to 'get him'.

They never did though, those folk are not violent, they were just pissed off at the lies and the cops one eyed defence of the local.

The lesson? Nobody wins when road rage takes over

[Lorax]

The lesson? Nobody wins when road rage takes over

Well said! Here Here.

[kro]

I was on the dishing out end of some "road rage" 4 days ago, so I'm one of the bad guys.
I was on my mountain bike, signalling to turn into a sidestreet, and some stupid shite coming from the opposite direction, who was supposed to give way to me, did not give way, and pulled clean in front of me, mid turn, and thru some miracle I was able to brake the bike hard, with it "lowsiding" under.

I shouted some abuse at him, and suddenly his van screeched to a halt, and I rode up to his window, and the fun started. The arrogant old wanker stated, and I quote "i don't have to give way to you, you're not a real vehicle, and you bikers are all same anyway". This unbelievable bullshit went on for 5 mins, and I had gathered a bit of an audience by this time, including two other riders who had turned into the same road, and sat there chuckling away as I read this old twat the riot act. In the end I presented him with the option of apologising to me, or I would phone his number plate in right then and there. I got my apology.

[Edbear]

I was on the dishing out end of some "road rage" 4 days ago, so I'm one of the bad guys..




Oh, you bad, bad man! LOL!!!

[kro]

I'm thutch a bad-ath !!!

[Colapop]

What do ya do? Get out of the car or off ya bike and start an 'incident' or roll over and take one up the arse?

I don't expect than everyone on the road is a perfect and I am by no means the best rider/driver on the road. The one thing I do expect while I'm riding or driving is that people don't do things that deliberately outmy family or my life at risk. %90 of the time if someone wants to be a dickhead, I'll back off and let them drive off into the distance noting their plate number. I don't give a fuck - if somebody's being an idiot then I'll call it in.

If I can't call it in or something happens to force my hand, I'll deal with it immediately - with whatever force is required.

[imdying]

Get his rego number and surprise him with a baseball bat when he leaves for work some morning. Then, when he gets out of hospital, do it again so he remembers what the first beating was for.

[kro]

Get his rego number and surprise him with a baseball bat when he leaves for work some morning. Then, when he gets out of hospital, do it again so he remembers what the first beating was for.


Dude, that's funny, I nearly spat my ginger slice all over the monitor.

[mikey]

im a real shit AN INCONSIDERATE DRIVER AND ANYONE THAT GOES FASTER THAN EM IS A NUT AN anyone that goes slower is in my fukn way

get bull bars put on the REV4

[Pixie]

I'm consitently fascinated by the Kiwi motorway phenomenon of the rolling road block. 3 drivers previously unknown to each other all traveling at 95kph side by side along SH1 for kilometers on end....on a nearly empty motorway.....why?

It's cause by shrivelled genitalia,due to eating pavlova

[imdying]

Dude, that's funny, I nearly spat my ginger slice all over the monitor.

It's all in good humour eh :second:

[black magic]

What a tosser!!!!! He was just trying to be cool but really just made a total ass of himself. Mate we all would of done the same thing.
Keep it real bro....