Tailgating moron!!
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This has just happened and I'm a bit hopped up so forgive the slightly breathless prose.
I'm coming home along the dual carraigeway, it's raining, dark and stop start traffic. The car behind, a Cherokee Jeep I later discover, is so close to me it's indecent. Now I know we have to get used to idiots doing this but this really was dangerous, it looked like his headlights were inside the bloody car! After a while I switched into the other lane to be rid of him but he accelerates across and sits right back on my arse. Another half a mile and I change lanes again, so does he, still 6 inches behind me. One touch of the brakes unexpectedly and there's going to be a collision.
I'm getting effed off with this now. I go around the roundabout and head up towards where I live and he comes along too. It's single lane now and he's just inches off my rear. I just thought "enough of this bullshit!" so going up the hill I just let the car naturally slow down until I stop. I put on the handbrake, turn off the engine and get out. You could barely put a fag packet between us. I go up to his window. He's about my age (early forties), crop, tattoo's, a bit pitbull looking with a woman in the passenger seat. His window is open and he instantly starts slagging me off:
"WHAT'S YOUR F**KING PROBLEM W***ER!! CAN'T YOU F**KING DRIVE YOUR F**KING CAR!!!"
Now I need to point out that I'm pretty slight and not at all aggressive but I've just had enough of this tw*t! I notice straight away that even though he's got all the mouth he's actually leaning away from the window, he thinks I'm going to bang him, and to my complete surprise he's right! I'm thinking "Come on d*ckhead just a couple of inches this way!". Anyway, I realise that would be a pretty stupid thing to do then I have a sudden thought, his engine is still running and he's probably in gear so he could still shunt me, so I lean in (he backs away even more!!!) and turn of the ignition and pull out his bunch of keys!!! Then I turn around and throw them as hard as I can into the churchyard opposite!!" It's pitch dark and p*ssing down and I just walk back to my car and drive off! Him and his missus are both screaming at me and I'm grinning like an idiot!
Mate that was a real buzz!
If only life could be like this everyday!!!
br d
I'm coming home along the dual carraigeway, it's raining, dark and stop start traffic. The car behind, a Cherokee Jeep I later discover, is so close to me it's indecent. Now I know we have to get used to idiots doing this but this really was dangerous, it looked like his headlights were inside the bloody car! After a while I switched into the other lane to be rid of him but he accelerates across and sits right back on my arse. Another half a mile and I change lanes again, so does he, still 6 inches behind me. One touch of the brakes unexpectedly and there's going to be a collision.
I'm getting effed off with this now. I go around the roundabout and head up towards where I live and he comes along too. It's single lane now and he's just inches off my rear. I just thought "enough of this bullshit!" so going up the hill I just let the car naturally slow down until I stop. I put on the handbrake, turn off the engine and get out. You could barely put a fag packet between us. I go up to his window. He's about my age (early forties), crop, tattoo's, a bit pitbull looking with a woman in the passenger seat. His window is open and he instantly starts slagging me off:
"WHAT'S YOUR F**KING PROBLEM W***ER!! CAN'T YOU F**KING DRIVE YOUR F**KING CAR!!!"
Now I need to point out that I'm pretty slight and not at all aggressive but I've just had enough of this tw*t! I notice straight away that even though he's got all the mouth he's actually leaning away from the window, he thinks I'm going to bang him, and to my complete surprise he's right! I'm thinking "Come on d*ckhead just a couple of inches this way!". Anyway, I realise that would be a pretty stupid thing to do then I have a sudden thought, his engine is still running and he's probably in gear so he could still shunt me, so I lean in (he backs away even more!!!) and turn of the ignition and pull out his bunch of keys!!! Then I turn around and throw them as hard as I can into the churchyard opposite!!" It's pitch dark and p*ssing down and I just walk back to my car and drive off! Him and his missus are both screaming at me and I'm grinning like an idiot!
Mate that was a real buzz!
If only life could be like this everyday!!!
br d
i get this (not the following bit i just put my foot down) but round town etc and i just put my indicator on and slowly pull to a stop at the side of the road and wait till he overtakes then pull straight back out he then no's he's a tit and every one else does works a treat and never comes to blow's 
or even word's 
as yet anyway
nearly forgot when he goes past give him the what the hell's wrong with your life boy sort it out look, you no the one
or even word's as yet anyway nearly forgot when he goes past give him the what the hell's wrong with your life boy sort it out look, you no the one
Edited by lynchygt3 on Thursday 5th October 20:57
I do exactly the same. Too close, indicate, stop, let them past and straight out again - they then know they've been annoying - I've also twice had people apologise on those coincidental occasions when they've ended up having the exact same destination as me.
Nevertheless, must have been satisfying!
Nevertheless, must have been satisfying!
ing tailgater dent nearly every panel on my Integrale once when we stopped at traffic lights. The Porker seems to attract more of them. 
Someone did that to me all the way from Milton Keynes on the M1 to Luton and I was in my VW Golf!! After trying to get out of the driver's way in every lane many times, I did a stupid thing by just crawling to a complete standstill in the first lane...she crapped it and sped off. ( yes it was a she)
When sufficiently angered and threatened, it's amazing what we can be provoked to do. Something that we would never even ordinarily contemplate doing, we end up doing in an instant.
The person in the right can often come out worse off.
After imagining the consequences of what could have happened from my stupid reaction, I promised myself that I would keep anger and driving seperate. Still trying in the 997. Hard.
You see i always find the best "brake test" is the one where you just hit the brake pedal enough (with your left foot) for the brake lights to come on, having already changed down and held your speed with the right foot.
That way, because they are SO close, as soon as they see the brake lights they don't have time to wait for the retardation they simply have to slam anchors - at the same time you are actually accelerating away from them (but still with your brake lights on).
Have to agree, while i'd love to have done what you did the potential for serious problems is great so i think the best way to dispatch these idiots is to let them past or to put your foot down and disappear. It's so rare that this kind of driver is in anything that could keep up with a 911 (or similar) anyway...
That way, because they are SO close, as soon as they see the brake lights they don't have time to wait for the retardation they simply have to slam anchors - at the same time you are actually accelerating away from them (but still with your brake lights on).
Have to agree, while i'd love to have done what you did the potential for serious problems is great so i think the best way to dispatch these idiots is to let them past or to put your foot down and disappear. It's so rare that this kind of driver is in anything that could keep up with a 911 (or similar) anyway...
verysideways said:
You see i always find the best "brake test" is the one where you just hit the brake pedal enough (with your left foot) for the brake lights to come on, having already changed down and held your speed with the right foot.
Yep, providing there's nothing tailgating them, I brush the brake pedal with my left foot, just enough for the brake light to come on.
The ones that just don't get it, or if I've got my kids in the back, I pull over to let them past.
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