Flipped off, driver flips out - Also, Bush-Cheney bumper sticker road rage

St. Petersburg Times ^ | March 12, 2005 | SHANNON COLAVECCHIO-VAN SICKLER

[1FASTGLOCK45]

"My husband is West Point graduate," Lisa Weiss said Friday morning from their home at 86 Ladoga Ave. "He is a gentle, kind, giving person who just wouldn't harm anybody. I am dumbfounded."

--> Typical statement of an aggressors family: CYA, or covering the aggressor's A$$ in this case.

[jocon307]

They can throw his butt into jail right next to the leftie from the other day. They can then learn to debate things civily while they do their time.

I make note that in BOTH these cases it was MEN harrassing WOMEN AND CHILDREN. I wonder how these brave fellows would have felt if they'd killed someone due to their ill tempers.

[Boardwalk]

What would make a man chase a pregnant woman with children for 35 miles! That shows some pretty poor judgement on his part! You wonder what he could be capable of next?

[sgtbono2002]

I wonder how they would have felt if the lady in question had stuck a gun in his face when he came back to her car in a threatening manner , and shot his stupid ass. Isnt Fla. a carry state?

Dems are losing it they need mental help, Maybe a law should be passed making Floriduh dems go on Ritalin.

[tm22721]

Road rage is increasing because of congestion of our outdated raod system.

Freeways must be automated you should not have control of your car on a congested road a computer can do a much better job of eeping traffic slow moving.

BUMP

[battlegearboat]

"Daniel, who hangs X-rays for a medical office, was leaving Tampa General Hospital. She tried to merge into traffic as she left the Davis Islands ramp going toward Platt Street, but her stomach has grown so big, she couldn't turn back to get a clear view of oncoming traffic."

Well then, I guess, uh..., does this show good judgement on her part?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Her caution gave the man license to terrorize her?

[sierrahome]

Here on the California freeways we have several speed limits. There is the one posted by the State; then the Contractor speed limit and the Hmong speed limit, the let's put on makeup speed limit. Just try to obey the one posted by the state and it is "road rage fun time".

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I hope these women have restraining orders out against these unstable assailants.

For them to be out on a couple of grand bail is mind numbing.

[raybbr]

Road rage is increasing because of congestion of our outdated raod system.

I think you are beind sarcastic but in all seriousness congestion isn't the problem. It's our society today. It is a lack of respect for others that causes them to act this way. If the had respect for others they wouldn't think that everyone is a target. Everyone thinks they have the right of way and there is no longer any common courtesy.

[muir_redwoods]

I suspect this guy needs a blood screen. I wouldn't be surprised to find meth or coke.

[Caipirabob]

This is why these are the sticker of choice on our cars:

I won't discuss the mixed rounds of choice.

[tiredoflaundry]

I live in Tampa Bay. If your on a road that has a posted speed limit of 55, that means you have to go 70mph in the slow lane! Scary

[jocon307]

"Everyone thinks they have the right of way and there is no longer any common courtesy."

Bingo! Around here in morning rush hour traffic (not highway) people will swerve into the oncoming traffic lanes, driving like maniacs, and all they accomplish is being one car lenghth ahead of where they were.

Plus, our roads are in such bad shape you basically need a hummer, or a tank, to drive from Bayonne to Jersey City. HEY NEW JERSEY - PAVE THE STREETS!

I'm just so fed up.

[repinwi]

Of course the guy was wrong, but..........if the pregnant woman was not able to drive at 100% capacity because of her condition should she have been driving in the first place?
Stopping on the freeway is pretty danged dangerous in itself.

[battlegearboat]

No way do I condone his behavior.

But I wouldn't call her inability to surveil oncoming traffic, due to her physical condition, as using the best judgement.

In high school in the sixties, I had a mother and her one week old baby make an illegal left turn in front of my oncoming vehicle and a violent crash where (no seatbelts) mother and child were badly injured.

So many people these days see it as their right to multitask behind the wheel and to blatently disregard or forget altogether the rules in the driver's handbook.

That being said, the guy's a jerk.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

100% capacity?

I'd like to see one of those drivers.

[philo]

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