How do YOU deal with tailgaters?

[Toasted]

You're still all failing at life.

 

[Bryan316]

As much as you guys think Michigan drivers are terrible, as a Michigan driver who's seen everything this state can dish out, I take my hat off to the Atlana GA drivers. Those guys are RUTHLESS on their 8-lane highways. Nobody I've seen in my state can compete with Atlanta. I road-trip to that town once a year for the last five years, and each time, I'm a nervous wreck. Master Yoda would tell those drivers, "You are wreckless!"

 

[Selta]

Master Yoda would tell those drivers, "You are wreckless!"

"Wreckless you are". -10.

 

[Bryan316]

? What's the -10 points for? You think I misquoted Master Yoda? Trust me, it's been on HBO over and over all February. Go to the scene when Yoda first speaks to Luke about training him, in his home during the rainstorm.

Straight from IMDB.com:

Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless.

 

[Selta]

? What's the -10 points for? You think I misquoted Master Yoda? Trust me, it's been on HBO over and over all February. Go to the scene when Yoda first speaks to Luke about training him, in his home during the rainstorm.

Straight from IMDB.com:

You get +5 for proving yourself right. Then, you get +5 for citing IMDB. Then you get +1 for caring enough to do that .

 

[Phat Ham]

But -10 for spelling it "wreckless" instead of "reckless".

 

[Thor]

It is definitly a constant interaction between you and what is around you.

And as long as I'm going the speed limit, which is set by LAW, I don't have to accomidate someone else who decides they want to speed and break that law.

I do the speed limit at least, in all cases (usually 10-15 over mind you). If you're the one who wants to speed, do it at your own conveinance. Don't expect others to accomidate what "you" want.

And I'm 24.

Didn't you say that you were starting college this last fall?

 

[Brad Johnson]

1. If my son is in the car, and some jerk causes a crash with me for recklessness (tailgating).....Just test me.
I'm totally cool with receiving a woopin' if it's deserved. But So far that hasn't happened. (knock on wood)

And an underserved woopin' can't happen? I retract my point.

2. You are correct. Not an overall economical vehicle, but yes, relative to MY vehicle, it's better to go the speed limit or a hair under.

Like Jake, I was making a mild poke at the comment. I figured you were speaking relatively.

 

[Brad Johnson]

? What's the -10 points for? You think I misquoted Master Yoda? Trust me, it's been on HBO over and over all February. Go to the scene when Yoda first speaks to Luke about training him, in his home during the rainstorm.

Straight from IMDB.com:

-50 spent memorizing and researching Master Yoda way too much time you have.

 

[BadMonk]

Try driving in northern NJ. It's a trip alright.

The speed police that bother me the most are these: The guy in the middle lane who clearly sees you passing in the left lane and then moves over into the left lane for no freakin' reason. He doesn't speed up, doesn't slow down, just acts like an a*&wipe.

 

[thehurlatron]

And an underserved woopin' can't happen? I retract my point.




Like Jake, I was making a mild poke at the comment. I figured you were speaking relatively.

I meant no offence with the answer I provided. (sorry)

I usualy don't visit the OT section, and there are aparent reasons why. It's too tough to present an answer or comment without coming off the wrong way and sounding like a jerk. So once again....sorry. I really didn't mean to sound snippy.

 

[Bryan316]

-50 spent memorizing and researching Master Yoda way too much time you have.

This is the Gospel according to St. Yoda.

 

[Pacman]

As much as you guys think Michigan drivers are terrible, as a Michigan driver who's seen everything this state can dish out, I take my hat off to the Atlana GA drivers. Those guys are RUTHLESS on their 8-lane highways. Nobody I've seen in my state can compete with Atlanta. I road-trip to that town once a year for the last five years, and each time, I'm a nervous wreck. Master Yoda would tell those drivers, "You are wreckless!"

I loved driving in Atlanta. Almost everyone there really has a handle on it. Then, of course, you get the one odd idiot who can't and ruins traffic for everyone else. I lived there 7 years, and the only accident I was in was when I was parked on the connector near the Ted and got rear-ended. Not a bad record, considering.

 

[Brad Johnson]

I meant no offence with the answer I provided. (sorry)

I usualy don't visit the OT section, and there are aparent reasons why. It's too tough to present an answer or comment without coming off the wrong way and sounding like a jerk. So once again....sorry. I really didn't mean to sound snippy.

No problem at all, I took no offense. I just never seem to see people saying that if X happens I'll gladly get into a confrontation and possibly get my ass whipped.

That's what I found amusing. By all mean I mean no offense to you either. Hey, I'm a large guy, some might say imposing, and I know full well I could get out of my car and a 12 year old could pull out a gun and shoot me. Hey, no fair, I was about to bring a whoopin'. Or the person in the car, legitimately fearing for their safety could run me over.

True story: a guy who worked with me was on the Beltway in the usual "stop and stop and then maybe if you're really lucky go" traffic and the car behind him bumped him. Twice!

He was so mad he got out and (inexplicably) walked back to front of the other car and that's right... the car pulled forward and pinned him between it. Fortunately didn't break anything and as he dropped to the pavement in pain the other car backed up, pulled onto the shoulder and hauled ass. IIRC they were never caught.

Just my advice but whenever I hear people expressing the urge to start whoopin' ass I remind them that there's always a larger can out there.



BTW you didn't sound like a jerk. There are some actual jerks in this thread, you're far from that IMO.

 

[Brad Johnson]

I loved driving in Atlanta. Almost everyone there really has a handle on it. Then, of course, you get the one odd idiot who can't and ruins traffic for everyone else. I lived there 7 years, and the only accident I was in was when I was parked on the connector near the Ted and got rear-ended. Not a bad record, considering.

I've had no problems in Atlanta, it reminds me of driving around here. I try to get on and off the road in one piece.

 

[irjason]

...And I'm certainly not above giving a drunk driver a P.I.T. into a ditch. He'll kill less people being stuck in a culvert than continuing his deadly journey.

I have no sympathy for drunk drivers, but I think it's a bit extreme to run one off the road. Don't you think the possibility is there that the drunk could be injured or killed if you did that? You don't think someone might want to come after you and do you harm if you ran them off the road?
I'm not trying to single you out or anything here, but it doesn't take much speed wise for someone to be seriously injured in a car. I'm talking life changing stuff. Read about traumatic brain injuries for example. We see this quite a bit in the ER at the hospital I work in. The possibility for this stuff to happen is real. Why not just call the police and let them handle it?