Cray guy tried to run me off the road!

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BobD

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Today I get up and run to Tim Hortons for a coffee. Well, I was in my wife's Impreza. As I am leaving the drive thru this guy in an Explorer behind me yells..."Buy American!" So I give him the bird, what else am I going to do right? :lol So I am going down this 4 lane divided highway, Out of nowhere this guy cut over (he is in the fast lane flying and I am in the slow lane getting ready to turn) 4 lanes and right in front of me locking up his breaks! I almost hit him. Then he just stays stopped. So I go to go around him and he tries to f**king hit me! Runs me off the road into the turn around lane! WT*?!?!?!?! Then he starts to get out of his truck so I waited for traffic to clear and cut over into a bank parking lot and lost him down an alley. This dude was nuts!
 
Holy crap! Another reason to just be cool and not gesture or yell etc. at anybody, since you never know what kind of nut job is in the other vehicle. Since you are right there in MoTown, I'm sure there are plenty of workers stressed out about losing their jobs to foreign competition and what not, I guess you never know if one of them is going to go postal.



Glad you escaped without personal or property damage. Just keep an eye in your rear-view in case this is a guy you run into on your normal route to work.
 
Yikes, glad you got away!



Uhm, yeah, that's sorta a lesson about those hand gestures ;) Flipping off somebody who's already acting a bit nuts might not be the best course of action.



You might've tried calling 911 from your cell if you had it, stuff like that gets prosecuted rather vigorously these days. And yeah, I'd keep an eye out for him...
 
Or you can keep a big pipe under the seat Get out with that, he might turn around back into his vehicle. :argue Or maybe not a good idea.........:lol

Import owners are descriminated in SE MI...
 
wifehatescar said:
Or you can keep a big pipe under the seat Get out with that, he might turn around back into his vehicle.
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Yeah, or he might pull out a knife or a gun! If the guy has already risked his vehicle, I wouldn't recommend a face-to-face. Besides, keeping a "big pipe" under the seat violates weapons laws in many states.
 
Danase said:
So I give him the bird
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you have to be careful these days! there are too many crazy people out there, and you're lucky you didn't get shot or something... glad you're okay! :)
 
Try commuting on a motorcycle every day. I used to have a thing where I would tell the wife when I got home "well no one tried to kill me today" :eek:



As many inattentive and stupid people as there are on the road, I am still looking forward to getting my motorcycle back together so that I can get back out on two wheels.



I definitely agree with those that suggest restraint, there is just no way to know how someone will react, even to something as minor as a hand gesture.
 
Im glad you are okay Bob!



Today when I was driving some nut job kid was driving in back of me in a Volvo, he obviously was too busy riding my tail to see anyone braking because of someone turning left, he almost slammed into me so I had to slam on my horn so he would hear it and look up. I rolled down my window (since they are tinted too dark) looks in my side mirror and gave him a little birdie and called hima dumb *ss and continued on my way, behind me I could see him swerving in and out of lanes so he could get ahead of everyone, finally he caught up and just blew past me...only to come to a red light where he sat right next to me...and of course I took the opportunity to roll down my passenger window and shake my head at him and mumble a few words to myself.



anywho...Glad you got out of your journey alive...sounds like this guy is way nuts though, who in there right mind would just shout out something so stupid like that and make such a big deal about it. I always tell my girlfriend I want to install a potatoe shooter as my exhaust so I can just speed ahead of jerks like that and shoot a potatoe at their car....I know, far fetched :) but it would be amusing!
 
I'm sure he was talking about the Subbie, but this stuck me as funny -



You were coming out of a Timmies... he probably thought you were a "Stupid Jap buying Canucker!" :D
 
The funny part is I just traded in my Impreza for a new FORD F-150 a week ago! I was in my wifes car. :lol
 
imacarnut said:
not really a good term to use...
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Thanks for the tip - but that was the point. I was mocking the guys ignorance. You didn't even read it right anyway if you though I was saying "stupid jap". I was saying "stupid japanese car buying Canadian", but in the way that the whacky guy who tried to run Danase off the road probably would have said it.



Haha, I see you gave me negative karma for that. Now there's some irony, you can't even do fake quotes anymore without someone getting offended on the internet. It's almost as if I've moved back to San Francisco. Whoops, didn't mean to offend any San Franciscans. Try not to negative rep me!



Seriously, what's happening to Autopia?
 
Buy american were the parts are made world wide, and assembled in mexico, and partially made into a componant here, shiped back to mexico for instalation then ship back here for sale.



brilliant.!
 
rjstaaf said:
The video looks a little to rehearsed to me. I am willing to bet it was completely staged...
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Maybe, maybe not; I dunno :nixweiss



If it was staged it was pretty good acting; if it was real it was pretty good fast thinking.
 
I had a similar experience in my MR2. This dirtbag in a Ford Exploder was all over my a$$ for a while. At a red light he pulled along side and started spewing this crap about buying Japanese cars. Light changed mid-sentence and I took off, leaving him in the dust so to speak. I hit the freeway and accelerated to 75 quickly. A couple minutes later I saw him closing on me very rapidly. I decided to exit the freeway and I hit the next exit at 75. It was a tight 270° 35mph exit. Last I saw he was sliding the side of his SUV along the concrete guardrail shooting sparks everywhere.
 
Ten years ago, my wife my son and I had been on vacation at our timeshare in Williamsburg, VA. One night, as we were leaving the cinema, we were being chased by a couple of jerks in a pickup truck. I guess they noticed my Massachusetts plates and decided to screw with the "Yankees".



They were pulling the same shenanigans, speeding up right to our tailgate of our Explorer then dropping back, flashing the lights, honking the horn, etc.



My wife got on her cell and called the James City County PD. She told them the road we were on and where we were headed. The police dispatcher told us to just drive back to normally and head back to the resort.



The turkeys in the truck got a rude awakening when they were pulled over by two James City County police cruisers just as we pulled into the secuirty gate of the timeshare. We watched as they were given field sobriety tests ( which they failed miserably) and had the last laugh as they were arrested, handcuffed and placed into the cruisers. :hifive:
 
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