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Redneck Road Rage / Instant Karma [video]
YouTube.com ^ | 3-26-2014 | Florida Driver

Posted on 03/28/2014 7:22:34 AM PDT by servo1969

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To: Mopp4
If I’m in the left lane doing 10mph over the limit and that’s still not fast enough for you - then TS.

You would be breaking the law in CO, and a lot of other states.

We got tired of sanctimonious drivers like you, and passed laws.

41 posted on 03/28/2014 8:03:57 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Over production, one of the top 5 worries for the American Farmer every year.)
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To: Slump Tester; All
ST, I'm not picking on you personally ...

I'll still say I would be plenty pissed off

And there's the problem right there: drivers who get pissed off.

Anger and driving mix badly. If you find that other drivers are causing you to feel anger ... check your attitude, or surrender your license. You can't control the behavior of idiots. You can control your own behavior. You can control your reaction to idiots.

42 posted on 03/28/2014 8:04:12 AM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: servo1969

What a pompoius idiot. I travel about 40,000 miles a year and I hate these idiots who think the left lane belongs to them.

I urge states to enforce their left lane for passing laws. If they did, this crap wouldn’t happen.

The truck driver was an ass too. But this chick is a douche who deserves to be rear ended.

When I am on my mc behind these people they get a wide berth.


43 posted on 03/28/2014 8:05:49 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
This (bleep) is at fault.

For being a left-lane bandit, maybe, but the moron in control of the pedals and wheel in the pickup is 100% responsible for his final situation.

44 posted on 03/28/2014 8:05:55 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: hoosierham

Well, I would say you need to calm down, because you’re making a lot of assumptions here that are way off base.

I drive about five miles over the speed limit. We have no interstate highways in this area, so that means I routinely do about 60 in our 55 mph zones, and I usually stay in the right lane where I belong.

But if I have to pass, I want to lay on the accelerator and DO it. I don’t want to be trapped in a long line of traffic, or stuck next to a rolling semi because you think you have to right to hog the left lane and teach patience to everyone else.

It is a fact that there are jerks who drive too slow and jerks who drive like maniacs. Even though it’s sometimes hard to get into the left lane to make a left turn, it’s just a fact that the left lane IS for passers and faster drivers. So if you have to get over there, have that turn signal on to let others know you’re turning....but you MUST speed up. If you get over there and drive slowly, you’re breaking the law.


45 posted on 03/28/2014 8:06:53 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Did you bother to notice the speed of the trucks in the right lane?

She was passing them.

Looked like everyone but the truck that lost it knew not to drive fast on that road when it’s wet.

Years ago I-45 north of Houston was the same way.

If you tried to do anything over 55 in the rain you would probably loose it.

People that drove it all the time knew it and kept it 55 and under when wet.


46 posted on 03/28/2014 8:06:53 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Mopp4

“The Left Lane is for passing or turning only” applies to any multiple-lane highway not just for Interstates.


47 posted on 03/28/2014 8:07:16 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Responsibility2nd

See my response #46


48 posted on 03/28/2014 8:08:41 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: dfwgator
“The Left Lane is for passing or turning only” applies to any multiple-lane highway not just for Interstates.

In her short video, there is a truck to her right, and she also states she's going to be turning left.

That being said, if this whole thing occurred over several minutes, then she had plenty of time to get out of the way of the dipwad. However, she is in no way responsible for the outcome of the last actions of the dipwad.

49 posted on 03/28/2014 8:10:31 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: servo1969

50 posted on 03/28/2014 8:11:42 AM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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To: servo1969

Wow. Such disdain for the filmer from a lot of angry FR drivers. If I know my route and know I need to make a turn in a few miles I will drive in whichever lane I want that makes sense. It is not my responsibility to weave in and out of traffic for the convenience of someone behind me, especially when I know I have to turn soon. If you have to wait a precious 30 extra seconds too bad. Especially when it’s raining. The truck guy was a reckless driver, tried to brake check her, and could have really hurt somebody. Even IF the filmer was going slow purposely, which she wasn’t as demonstrated by her passing cars and driving at 60, she was not endangering anyone. And before you point out she was holding a camera make sure to bash everyone who was holding a camera in the car when they find cops doing something illegal or stupid.


51 posted on 03/28/2014 8:13:17 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: IMR 4350

What other traffic did you see on that road? She sat beside the flatbed in the left lane, not passing, for how long? She was occupying the left lane, made a habit of it and made a habit of recording it. She deliberately provoked this.


52 posted on 03/28/2014 8:14:31 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: servo1969

Everyone in a rush gets caught behind a slower driver sometimes. It happens to all of us. The truck driver could’ve just passed in the right lane and left it at that.

But, no, instead, he decided to pull in the right lane, then speed by, then slow down, then speed up again just to flip the driver the bird. And then he sped up to pass her and lost control of his truck (which supports her claim that the roads were wet and slippery).

He so deserved what he got. I laughed at the end of the video myself.

I have a story myself: Once I was driving the speed limit (25 mph) on a lonely road that we locals knew was notorious for speed traps - I was issued a ticket there myself once. One day, a driver behind me was tailgating. Then the driver decided to pass me - across the double yellow line - you guessed it - right in front of the police cruiser that he never saw. (lol) I leaned out the window to wave at the officer. It was so much fun to watch the cop car take off, sirens wailing, after the driver who’d just passed me. :-)


53 posted on 03/28/2014 8:14:48 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: servo1969

Video taking driver is a jerk and a lane hog. The left lane is a passing lane. Pass, and get out of the left lane.


54 posted on 03/28/2014 8:15:56 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I miss you, dad.)
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To: servo1969

Should the driver have gotten over? Maybe. But I saw her going over 55 and passing cars on the right. Was she passing “fast enough” for the jerk behind her? Should she have even cared if she was passing fast enough for some jerk tailgating her?

I could go on but hopefully the point is made. But even if my point is still something someone disagrees with, then consider this: in the end she indeed got the last laugh, figuratively and literally. Everyone should remember that next time anger starts to well up because the person in front isn’t passing traffic “fast enough”, whatever that means. Otherwise you may end up being the next laughing stock for your out of control temper.


55 posted on 03/28/2014 8:16:03 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: servo1969

I’d wager that for every post blaming the woman who shot the video, there’s a frustrated guy who bought a “get-outta-my-way” pickup, an “I’m-a-man-hear-my-truck-roar” pickup...and found that it doesn’t always work as advertised.
:-)


56 posted on 03/28/2014 8:17:23 AM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: servo1969; All

A quick look at google maps shows that Highway 41 in Tampa isn’t a limited access highway, just a regular road in Tampa with 4 lanes. Cruising around in street view shows that the road doesn’t seem to have speed limit signs, but, it is rather congested. I drive on a similar road every day, and you have to set up that left hand turn a mile back to make sure you get into the lane in time.

I think the driver of the vehicle in front did no wrong in driving in the left lane here as indeed she was setting up for a left turn and appeared to be passing the trucks in the right hand lane as was her right. She did do wrong in video (unless she was the passenger. I wasn’t sure from the video or article.

Guy in the truck was a total jerk and Karma will win out.


57 posted on 03/28/2014 8:17:35 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Wolfie

Nope. Right there with you...


58 posted on 03/28/2014 8:18:01 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (Tre Norner eg ber, binde til rota...)
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To: Conan the Librarian

OH and I see she was indeed driving and video. She is lucky she didn’t kill anyone also.


59 posted on 03/28/2014 8:18:29 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Hoodat

No visible signs like this on the road, at least on Google street view. Not much in the way of signs at all that I could find.


60 posted on 03/28/2014 8:19:54 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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