Road rage is a weird thing. When it takes you, you no longer think. I’ve been chased by fathers with kids in the car for some perceived traffic insult. Who would put himself or his children in danger to address someone he will probably never see in his life again? This falls under the category people not thinking. But there should be cameras facing this intersection, so we’ll see what happened.
So true. I once heard a DJ interviewing callers describing road rage instances. One lady said she was running late to a very important appointment when somebody cut her off in traffic, so she started following them, tail-gating and blowing her horn for the next half hour to teach them a lesson. I kept thinking "but what about the very important meeting you were already late for?" She completely lost sight of the big picture and let her ego make decisions, instead of using good judgment.
I had somebody following me all over town for about 10 minutes, which feels like an eternity when somebody is after you. And this dude had a kid in the car. Then I decided to drive on over to the police station (I should’ve thought about this much sooner, I was lucky that traffic was very light and I was never blocked in by traffic. I did blow a couple of stop signs and one red light after making sure there was no cross traffic or I could beat it. At that point, I wanted a cop to see us and pull us over.) I pulled into the cop shop thinking that anything that happens there will be captured on camera. And I saw a cop just coming out, so I pulled right up to the building where he was. The guy kept on going and I never saw him again. He had out-of-state plates, which I also consider a good thing. It’s been years and I’ve never seen him again.