Ian
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I've chilled a lot recently. Generally laugh now and not like the little chuckle type, the proper full on carlolz.
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Ash_EP3
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Another example of driver aggression 
I remember watching a program once on how we change our attitudes as soon as we sit in a car... we wouldn't behave like that if walking in a street but as soon as we are in a vehicle it's like our metal shell...
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Hammer
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I know you shouldn't and I know it sounds as if I'm acting the e-hardman but I would 100% without a shadow of doubt smacked the cunt without even thinking no matter who he was or how big or aggressive he was. You can't run about screaming in folks faces for no reason.
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alan-g-w
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quote:
Originally posted by Ash_EP3
Another example of driver aggression
I remember watching a program once on how we change our attitudes as soon as we sit in a car... we wouldn't behave like that if walking in a street but as soon as we are in a vehicle it's like our metal shell...
But if you're walking down the street and someone 'cuts you up' (ie - walks in front of you) there's absolutely no chance that it could have ended in disaster. But if you're driving a car it's a whole different ball game, that same person being so absent minded to cut you up could have spun you into the central reservation, a ditch or another car.
I'd say it's not so much that we feel safer in out cars so we act however we like - I think it's to do with feeling more vulnerable and that all it takes is one idiot doing one thing wrong to fuck shit up.
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Neo
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Funny you say about even when walking, when we go into colchester town, the amount of fucktards that won't get out your way is rediculous, and you get the groups of kids that think its funny to try and force people into the road by walking shoulder to shoulder. I've had people litterally walk into me before because they thought i'd move into the imaginary gap by the wall.
Even kicked one guy off his bike when he clipped my gf riding past her on the pavement, no attempt to slow down or move, instead straight through a gap.
People are generally cunts, and there is nothing that will stop that. On Saturday, and guy in a Golf (Reg LEW 1X) pulls up to a roundabout on my right, not indicating so I assume going straight across, instead he starts pulling towards me. I nail it, he then follows me for about 2 miles down the road, making pull over gestures, fingers etc. Turns out the lad is in the gf's school year and a complete tool, I make a few choice turns to a quiet road however he cottons on and dissapears. Will be keeping an eye out for him...
[Edited on 31-01-2011 by Neo]
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3CorsaMeal
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i drove at someone in a 4x4 the other day without stopping and they had to swerve out my way and beep me with the horn, i saw the panic in their face as i think they assumed i would slow down and get out their way due to them having the bigger car 
i felt like i had won and now employ this technique quite a lot.
if you can't beat them, join them, i only have a £150 escort to lose 
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Terry12
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quote:
Originally posted by 3CorsaMeal
i drove at someone in a 4x4 the other day without stopping and they had to swerve out my way and beep me with the horn, i saw the panic in their face as i think they assumed i would slow down and get out their way due to them having the bigger car
i felt like i had won and now employ this technique quite a lot.
if you can't beat them, join them, i only have a £150 escort to lose
I employ this tactic when driving the wagons at work
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MatthewR
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I think the fact you have a bright orange focus wont help, he probably thinks your a car geek (most of which r dweebs) shudda whacked him mate!!!
[Edited on 31-01-2011 by MatthewR]
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Ojc
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Should have gone bare mad blod
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alan-g-w
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I was coming down a single lane country road once and stopped to let a car past in a lay by. Once I got going I noticed there was a Merc S class coming my way. My choices at this point were to reverse a couple of metres back to the lay by I had just stopped in, their options were to stop in a lay by that was about the same distance in front of them, so much easier for them to stop.
I don't know if they thought I was going so slow that I was reversing but the bastard didn't bother their arse stopping. I went full steam ahead and I was met in the middle with this stuck up cow demanding that I reverse. I just wagged my finger at her and pointed for her to reverse. She was getting dead annoyed that this 17 yr old boy in a mk3 astra knew the rules of the road better than her and was getting quite irate. So I took the keys out the ignition, placed them on the dashboard in plain view of her and wound my chair back shrugging. I swear she started foaming at the mouth and she completed the worst piece of reversing I've ever seen, well worth it though.
[Edited on 31-01-2011 by alan-g-w]
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Brett
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quote:
Originally posted by MatthewR
I think the fact you have a bright orange focus wont help, he probably thinks your a car geek (most of which r dweebs) shudda whacked him mate!!!
Don't think he has the focus now, he's got a puma. I said something similar on the previous page then realised
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MatthewR
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O lol
well a puma is even worse, he probably thought he was a shirt lifter
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Brett
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Like steve you mean?
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Sam
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Not quite road rage but more petrol station rage, here's my story (it's a bit of a long one, bare with me)...
This was an incident that happened last year, I was driving my wife's old car at the time (Micra, current shape). The petrol station in question has 4 "lanes" with two pumps for each lane and there was a big rusty shitheap of a van (owned by some local window glazing company) in front of me which was queueing in between lanes 3 and 4, obviously wanting to drive to whichever slot became available first.
Now I was waiting about a minute or so with the rear end of my car sticking out into the road because of white van man in front of me who was also blocking access to lanes 1 and 2 because of the way his van was positioned (it's a small petrol station).
The pump closest to the kiosk in lane 3 became available, and the car in lane 2 furthest away from the kiosk was going leaving. Fuckface in the van was chatting to his mate sitting next to him completely oblivious of the fact that I'm sticking out in the road because of him and also the fact that the pump in lane 2 was clear so I decided to squeeze past him (literally, only had a few cms of space either side) and go to pump 3 (closest to the kiosk).
This manoeuvre was fine in my car because it was so small, and I had assumed that he'd go to pump 2 as his fuel cap was on that side of the van.
Obviously pissed off with what I just did, he decided to semi-floor it towards the back of my car (I actually stepped back as I thought he was going to ram me!) - he stopped within inches of my car but unfortunately in the process destroying the front bumper and nearside front wing of a BRAND NEW Range Rover that was parked behind me (he was still putting petrol in his car)!
He came out of his van and starting ranting and shouting at me, then his mate came out and looked at the RR and pulled this face to the driver -  - and told the driver what he just did (how he got out of the van and not notice or even see/hear what he just did was beyond me). Driver shouts at me "this was your fault" - I was like "Err I wasn't the one that drove into this car!" to which he replies "but you caused it" - WTF!
The guy in the RR wasn't pissed off at me because he saw all of this and he assumed the same thing as me (that this van would go to lane 2) so I gave him my name and number in case his insurance company needed to contact me.
The van driver goes to the owner of the RR "I know a bodyshop that can fix this for you, I don't want to go through insurance"...
[Edited on 31-01-2011 by Sam]
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Ben G
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yeah i've got a mega dirty puma, looks like a shed at the minute so maybe he thought i was a pikey or something
in a way i'm glad i have this car because in this instance, i think he would've ended up scratching my car up if it was nice looking
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Ben G
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quote:
Originally posted by MatthewR
O lol
well a puma is even worse, he probably thought he was a shirt lifter
had the bird in the car.
belive me, don't mess with scottish girls. he soon realised that when she got up in his face as she was pissed off and wanted to go shopping
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Ben G
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sam that is mental. how do these people say ''sane'' for long enough to pass a driving test?
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Sam
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He didn't look "all there" TBH
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jmepamplin
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Ben i assume this was the sort of dual carriage way that runs past TGis/KFC towards Tesco?
It's happened to me alot people cant decide what fooking lane to be in, then just swerve over without indicating. I have no problem letting them in, just it would stop me shitting my pants abit and avoid a close call.
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Originally posted by Lawrah
use the charm offensive..people dont know how to deal with that.
Ahh i totally do this now. Even if it's not my mistake to cause an issue, i always wave and smile, blow kisses etc while they are going mad. I just cba to get into bother over nothing. The last time i tooted my horn when a van so almost ripped off my front bumper, he got out and proceeded to boot the shit out of my driver window because my doors were locked
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Gareth F
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They normally get back in their car when i get out to return any abuse.
Waiting to pull into a busy one way system which was blocked due to train gates being down for 15 minutes!. Yellow hash box at the junction which is empty and cars waiting the other side... gates go up and traffic starts to flow so i check they havnt driven forward into the box and i drive into said box and joined the flow of the traffic (nothing wrong at all)
All of a sudden the first car has booted it straight at me then slammed the horn down at me. Pointless as the traffic was only doing 5 miles an hour. So i check the rear veiw mirror to find the husband/ partner/ cock giving me the wankers sign so i automatically gave him the middle finger to which he started giving me a "your all mouth" sign. At this point the gates had gone down again and the traffic stopped.
So i turned ignition off, got out the car and walked towards him, his attitude changed dramatically at this point. so i knelt down by his window and calmly said along the lines of "what the fuck do you think your doing, you refuse to let one person out of a busy road after waiting 15 minutes? then start giving me abuse. Then asked him to step out of the car, which he refused to so i simply said wind your fucking neck in"
Two blokes in a van cheered as they had obviously seen what happened which made me laugh. Im not a cunt but i dont take abuse lightly.
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3CorsaMeal
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should of thrown a spark plug at him imho
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Gareth F
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All i had to hand was Cds, deodorant, McDonalds napkins and a three cell mag light
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Ben G
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quote:
Originally posted by jmepamplin
Ben i assume this was the sort of dual carriage way that runs past TGis/KFC towards Tesco?
It's happened to me alot people cant decide what fooking lane to be in, then just swerve over without indicating. I have no problem letting them in, just it would stop me shitting my pants abit and avoid a close call.
that roundabout was jam packed so i cut through the retail park and it was the small one where pizza hut/mcdonalds is.
he was in the left lane going towards the bigger roundabout you have said about and i was in the right lane going round to tesco.
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nathy_87
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I must admit I've got a very short temper when driving, few people have cut me up and i've tooted and given them the finger which turns into a full on arguemtn
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JordyCarter
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Haha what a fool that guy is. At least you have a better car mate
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