Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 16:25:01 -0700
Reply-To: Steve@SCHWENK-LAW.COM
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From: Steve@SCHWENK-LAW.COM
Subject: Re: Tail lights 'n gators (vent)
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If you are concerned about road rage...as you should
be...and you want to deploy the safest method for
getting the guy past you to eliminate the danger he
poses through the tail gating (not many women are
shooting at people in cars....seems to be just guys),
you can always fake mechanical problems, put on your
flashers and slow dramatically. This will convert the
rage into annoyance, and he will pass annoyed rather
than ready to shoot you.
This is becoming a survival issue, in my opinion. I
recently had a guy glue himself to my bumper...i was
doing 80 mph (in my 86 BMW 325e) in the far left lane.
He did this just as we entered some congestion and had
to slow down...and he stayed glued to my
bumper....there were cars to the right and i could not
merge. I slowed way down so that it was apparent I was
"concerned". He shot around me at the first
opportunity, rudely cutting someone else off. then the
guy got in front of me and procdeeded to cpome to a
nearly complete stop..as pay back for me slowing down.
I shot around his right side in an evasive manuver and
guned it to 90 mph to get away from him... but there
was congestion ahead...and i had to slow to about 30
mph...and he caught up and proceeded to throw metal
objects of some kind at my car! I grabbed a paper and
started to write down his license number, and then
grabbed my dictaphone and pretended it was a cell
phone. ...so he could see. He dove for the next exit
and was gone. This was on 280 between SF and Silicon
Valley, where the flow of traffic in some places is 80
mph. I was scared!
Stucco wrote:
>
> As much as I dislike aggressive drivers, I don't think flashing strobes in
> the eyes of another driver is a good idea. The odds are favorable that the
> victim will cause a wreck. It used to be that when tailgated, I'd just slow
> down more and more until the jerk would pass me, but anymore the jerks are
> armed and willing to demonstrate their lack of respect for life with cars
> and weapons. Just my $.02.
>
> Scott Paddock
> '87 Vanagon Wolfsburg "Rolf"
> '93 Eurovan GL "Gita"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
> Of Sean O'Neil
> Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 11:29 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Tail lights 'n gators (vent)
>
> Being somewhat of an advanced amateur photographer, I have tried, with
> great
> success taking a flash picture through my back window, usually with the help
> of
> an equally terrified co-driver. We are talking nighttime on roads in New
> Brunswick with a pulpwood truck -right up our ass- for twenty or thirty
> miles.
> This is a very dangerous situation folks as the roads are two lane, curving
> up
> and down hill in every kind of weather.
>
> There is nothing quite so startling as a pair of Vivitar 283's and the
> license
> plate they illuminate firing off on a black rainy road. I get a record of
> how
> close the as*hole was driving and his plate at the same time. Tends to make
> them
> back off quick.
>
> Tony Peet wrote:
>
> > God I HATE tailgaters and it seems there are more of them than not these
> > days! It's a really agressive and stupid thing to do. I feel like the
> > biggest morons can put me and others at risk.......and a bunch of them
> STILL
> > DO IT IN HEAVILY RAINY/FOGGY CONDITIONS!!!
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