[KeyLargo]

Maybe drivers should use these stickers on their vehicle to indicate that they already served as a target and for the shooter to pick out some other driver for target practice...... sarc

[KeyLargo]

There was another road rage shooting on the same roadway four days ago.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3112370/posts

[cuban leaf]

I actually hit my brakes one time to get a guy off my bumper. But when I do it, I slam ‘em on for just the briefest instant. The idea is to get my nose to dive and the tail to lift way up so the guy is absolutely certain he’s gonna hit me. The guy almost went ff the road.

Most of the time I just let them pass or get out of their way.

BTW, in the case above, the tailgating was the last part of some ongoing harassment he was doing. If someone starts shooting at me, I don’t pull off. I ram their car.

[StAntKnee]

Braking like that IS road rage and an incitement to escalate. Signal. Pull clear. Live long and prosper.

[trussell]

It’s a crazy world out there...I haven’t been able to wear my firearm because of pain issues...I have been wearing stretch pants so the stiffness of jeans don’t make me uncomfortable..I guess I’ll have to find a spot in my wheelchair bag to put it so I have it with me again.

[Adder]

The woman said the driver got in front of her vehicle as they turned off 25th onto Burr Street before entering Interstate 80/94 westbound.

He should have just gone on at that point....driving is a social contract. The lady could have driven however she wanted so long as she was not overly impeding traffic with her caution. If she was, she should have pulled over to allow others to pass.
The other guy found a way around her...that should have been the end of it.

In the end, its just courtesy.

[Drawsing]

I have noticed a lot of people habitually tailgate and just think that is the normal way to drive. I have been a passenger in their car more than once while they just carry on a normal good-natured conversation apparently unaware that they are way too close to the car in front while going 70 mph.

Very few people follow the 2 second rule. (Pick out a shadow or mark on the road ahead and start counting seconds when the rear of the car in front passes it. You should count to 2 just as the front of your car passes the mark.)

[sickoflibs]

RE :”The 33-year-old woman told police she was on 25th Avenue in Gary driving her Chrysler 300 slowly because of potholes. She said a car behind her was following too closely, so she braked to get the car to back off. The braking apparently angered the other driver. “

I hate drivers who think its their job to set the speed limit.

Maryland is full of them.

[bigbob]

So she profiled him (black)

[driftless2]

You can be a victim/survivor of a road rage incident anywhere in the country. Ten years ago while driving to work (midnight shift), I passed a car that appeared to be stopped in the middle of the street of a small town. As I passed the car, I noticed it was speeding up ever so slightly. Suddenly, I felt a crash. The car I passed was smashing into the back of my car. It did so two or three times. I managed to elude the car, and parked my damaged car on a side street. I thought maybe the lunatic had driven off, so I moved my car back to the main road in the middle of this small town.

I was wrong. I saw a car coming down the street in my direction. Fortunately, I was not standing outside my car. The lunatic smashed his car into my car again. Then he drove off. I managed to limp to a side street with my car now totally disabled. As I walked to a telephone to call the police, some young woman drove her car into the parking area where the phone was. The lunatic had attacked her car as well. The young woman was sobbing as she told me her story.

Well, it turned out the lunatic was a parolee from Colorado state prison where he had served six years for a violent assault. He was supposed to be on medication for his (psychotic) illness, but his relatives said he had gone off the medication and disappeared. So he stole a car and drove about 500 miles where I was unfortunate enough to run into him. Actually, he ran into me.

The upshot was, after assaulting me and the young woman, he crashed his car into a fire hydrant and stole another car. He then led a number of county and town cops on a high speed chase out of town. He crashed that car after trying to negotiate a country curve at a high rate of speed. As he emerged from his car in a cornfield (ironically a very short distance from my house), he was facing four county cops who were pointing their pistols at him. The man was armed with a knife which he was told numerous times by the cops to put down. After a few minutes of staring at the cops, the lunatic decided to charge the cops while waving the knife. He was riddled with a lot of bullets and didn't survive his ventilation.

So friends, you can be a victim (or survivor as I look at it) of road rage anywhere. This incident took place in a very small Midwestern town with an almost total absence of violent (or any) crime.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

We drove north on I-39 through a snowstorm just about the ENTIRE length of Illinois this past Saturday.

By the time we hit Wisconsin (HOME!) I was ready to start shootin’, LOL!

[Red in Blue PA]

I tell people I am a member of AA......Always Armed.

[Ditter]

There was a story of road rage on the Houston news last night. The aggressor was a white female city employee, a lawyer I think. A guy cut her off and she followed him for 2 miles followed him into a bank(?) and threatened him with a handgun.

Now that is road rage!!!!!!