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Re: dealing with tailgaters... is this legal? - davester - 05-09-2008
[quote kap]Someone did that to me one time and I slammed on the brake. Then immediately switched to the farthest right lane.
Now wait one gol darn minute. You "switched to the farthest right lane"?? What the heck were you doing in the passing lane with people coming up behind you (or perhaps I don't understand what you were doing)? Nobody should be blocking faster traffic in the left lane (and it is illegal in some states) unless passing a slower vehicle on the right. Unfortunately, this is not enforced much in the U.S. but it sure is in much of Europe.
Re: dealing with tailgaters... is this legal? - M A V I C - 05-09-2008
[quote davester][quote kap]Someone did that to me one time and I slammed on the brake. Then immediately switched to the farthest right lane.
Now wait one gol darn minute. You "switched to the farthest right lane"?? What the heck were you doing in the passing lane with people coming up behind you (or perhaps I don't understand what you were doing)? Nobody should be blocking faster traffic in the left lane (and it is illegal in some states) unless passing a slower vehicle on the right. Unfortunately, this is not enforced much in the U.S. but it sure is in much of Europe.
davester, if I could lock the forum for a day to focus on one post, I would do it with your reply.
What makes driving in the US a pain, is many of the rules of the road are not enforced. Keeping right except to pass is one of the key elements to keeping traffic flowing smoothly.
Re: dealing with tailgaters... is this legal? - Black Landlord - 05-09-2008
[quote M A V I C][quote davester][quote kap]Someone did that to me one time and I slammed on the brake. Then immediately switched to the farthest right lane.
Now wait one gol darn minute. You "switched to the farthest right lane"?? What the heck were you doing in the passing lane with people coming up behind you (or perhaps I don't understand what you were doing)? Nobody should be blocking faster traffic in the left lane (and it is illegal in some states) unless passing a slower vehicle on the right. Unfortunately, this is not enforced much in the U.S. but it sure is in much of Europe.
davester, if I could lock the forum for a day to focus on one post, I would do it with your reply.
What makes driving in the US a pain, is many of the rules of the road are not enforced. Keeping right except to pass is one of the key elements to keeping traffic flowing smoothly.
Lots of people lose life and limb every day because traffic laws are not enforced.
But lamenting for the quality of drivers' motoring experience is at least a start. . .
Re: dealing with tailgaters... is this legal? - comaplate - 05-09-2008
I'm a big fan of minding the posted speed limit, and of course giving the jerk behind me a bath by blasting out the windshield wiper fluid in massive quantities creating a spray cloud behind my vehicle.
Re: dealing with tailgaters... is this legal? - blooz - 05-09-2008
[quote M A V I C]
My days of excessive speeding are over. When I drive I typically have my wife in the car, and we have good conversations. So it's nice to be able to focus on that and driving, and not adding watching for cops out of every nook and cranny.
I try to keep it down also. I'm passed by some wingnut between my home in Cummington and Goshen, sometimes illegally. I try to pull into the breakdown lane and let them go if possible, but if they came up really fast I make them wait awhile. Thing is, the road downhill between Goshen and Williamsburg is about 7 miles of curvy narrow highway, with not much of a shoulder. And there are a lot of log trucks, schoolbuses, old farmers who don't think the car has to go any faster than their tractors also traveling this route. I couldn't tell you how many times I've come around the bend into Williamsburg and seen the car that passed me 7 miles back only two or three cars ahead of me.
Re: dealing with tailgaters... is this legal? - Buzz - 05-09-2008
back when I young and spry, an @$$hat in a caddy, speeding like a bat out of heck climbed up my rear bumper going up a hill on a narrow two lane canyon road w/ no place to pull over, and my trusty old buick not running real well at the time so I couldn't speed up... when the road widened, he kept honking and gesturing, and honking and gesturing, glaring, swearing, and generally acting w/ one could describe as rage. he pulled ahead of me and sped away..., as best he could for the couple of blocks left until the traffic backed up at the top of the mountain intersection stop light, and I pulled up behind him. I calmly grabbed a piece of sporting equipment (strictly for personal protection), exited my car, approached his, and upon getting his attention, Mr. Ragefull in the caddy at first resumed his glaring and swearing; until seeing the baseball bat... he then rolled up his window, allowing me to kick his rear view mirror hard enough to knock it off its mounting, hanging by the cable. as I started to walk back to my car, the guy rolled his down window, and gave me a "WTF did you that for?..." in an almost apologetic tone, so I spun around, and gave a substantial enough roundhouse kick to his rear quarter panel to leave a soccer ball sized dent where my size 13 adidas had struck, and told him that maybe he oughta think next time, before going ballistic on someone's bumper when there is no place to pull over.
legal, schmegal; sometimes tailgaters just need a good tail kicking to set 'em straight.
not quite as psychically satisfying as cbelt3's adventure, but I've had an extra ten years to enjoy the memory (late 1970's)
Re: dealing with tailgaters... is this legal? - RAMd®d - 05-09-2008
Lots of people lose life and limb every day because traffic laws are not enforced. [/[]
True. And a few more are lost because they do Stupid Revenge Tricks thinking "THAT'll teach 'em!" and finds out that he is stupider than the other guy is crazy.
The only thing dumber than the inconsiderate or reckless driver is the asshat who thinks he can or has taught somebody a lesson.
egal, schmegal; sometimes tailgaters just need a good tail kicking to set 'em straight.
That's an example of Darwinism at work. Try that now and see if you don't get *your* ass kicked (a more likely scenario), a ticket, or even a bullet for your trouble.
It seems a lot of people are a legend in their own mind. Best to leave the enforcement to those better trained or one day you may not be able to relate your tales of heroics.
Re: dealing with tailgaters... is this legal? - Fritz - 05-09-2008
"I have also long harbored a desire for a rearward facing spring operated high carbon steel spike that would jump out, puncture their radiator, and then pull back into its housing, which would be disguised as a trailer hitch. I even went to the extent of designing such a thing once, but I never built it."
Junior Johnson did and had a good start to a career.
you can also carry a "spare" truckers bomb in a plastic soda bottle, so no one gets hurt, just pi$$ed.
Re: dealing with tailgaters... is this legal? - Mike V - 05-09-2008
In the States, can't you just pull out your hand gun and shoot them?
Re: dealing with tailgaters... is this legal? - freeradical - 05-09-2008
[quote Mike V]In the States, can't you just pull out your hand gun and shoot them?
No No - hand guns are girly guns.
