Road Rage

Road rage is happening and just thought it would be interesting to poll tthe members to see experiences

road rage...

i dish it out on occasion in the confines of my own car to the amusment of my passengers.

mainly consists of loud swearing, horn honking and hand gestures. if its a bombadore thats cut me off i will drive up beside them and give them a *very* stern finger

i would think road rage is pretty common seeing as how there are so many knobheads on the road these days who shouldnt have a license let alone a car. Its pretty obvious they dont have brains to use them.

Usually restrained to cursing them from with the car - very occassionally they may get a gesture...

But

Have twice flattened dickhead drivers. One ran up my arse at a set of lights. He was still looking at the girl he was watching when he didn't bother to stop. I hit him thru his window. Pulled him out and hit him several more times for being a dickhead.

2nd time. Hit while at lights by a glazier. He had no licence - his truck uninsured and unregistered. Was stupid enough to tell me he had just written of his commonbore. Hit me hard enough that I pushed the Falcon in front of me into the intersection. After I pissed myself laughing that he lost all of his glass on the truck I hammered him when he admitted he wasn't watching and when he looked up he thought "oh well just a VW and didn't want to hit the brakes too hard!"

My worst experience was when a 'bloke' wanted to pass me.....
NO!! I wasn't going slow , either.
He mounted the median strip to get past me,
on Ipswich Road, outside the Oxley Cop Shop.

At the set of light up the road; for some reason he stopped.
The passenger got out and came over to me carrying a wheel wrench.......
Just to say 'hello'.......NOT.

Little did he realise I am such a big S0-and-So.
I sat him upon the road and the driver sicked his German Shepherd onto me,
The dog was as silly as him.

It just looked at me..................

Ivan
Mostly a Gentle Giant:kiss
Sometimes not:repuke

There's no excuse for rage or violence. Ever.

Yeah people, chill out. Don't succumb to the rage, there's enough knobheads and dickheads out there. Of course, I can understand that restraint might be difficult if some dumb bastard drives into your precious while you're stationary at the lights. That is really crap!

I drive a kinda-tired bay bus, so I sometimes have frustrated people 'waving' at me, particularly going up hills. I just pretend that they were waving at me and wave back, smiling. Shits them to tears sometimes. Patience IS a virtue, right.

Peace.
Aurel.

I am a psycho behind the wheel.

I just piss people off that are really doing wrong, like sitting on my ass when I'm doing 40 in a school zone. You aren't getting to work anytime soon if you do that to me...

well a tricky situation as i have been in both situation of being and road raging.....
i have been a victim cause i was smoking in my car and the wind blew my butt away as i had my arm resting by the window while driving....i know not a good thing...anyway that hyppy greeny started to rad rage me for littering....and i apologised by the window but he kept on going and stucking himslef at my ass, beeping the horn and yelling so i took a detour towards the cop station,parked my car got out of it and said ...if you got a problem lets go inside and explain it to the officer on duty...and the guy walked away...lol.
i know i was in a bad in a way but i though tat was a bit extreme...
i have road rage someone as someone cut me off while i was on my bike and nearly run me over....beeped my horn and they ignored me....so got near them and abused them....they still ignored me....so i kicked their door...and kept on going....but then they started to abuse me.....then i ended up being the bad guy...quite ironic....and stupid...considering she nearly ran me over...😠
my 2 cents

try riding a motorbike for a few years. jeepers, if i stopped to punch a driver everytime i am almost killed (let alone cutoff, not seen ect) i'd never get anywhere cause i'd be in more fights than george w bush.

i find some fruity language yelled within the helmet makes me feel alot better and allows me to keep going to where i'm headed. sometimes ariving a bit hoarse tho.

The road is just full of morons ! I travel on the freeway to work each and the number of people that get in my way really piss me off ! They chop and change lanes, cutting people off and then hammering the brakes. Do they no realise that if they stay in the same lane and drive at the speed limit (or a little bit over !:thumb) Then they will arrive at their destination at the same time and less stressed ????? I do show my middle finger often though, more when I am driving hubbys suburu. It is a big tough mans car and people don't mess with it .... They just laugh at my beetle !!!!!!

I only lose my patience with dickhead drivers who have little or no regard for other road users, like:

travelling slower than the speed limit (kombis excepted)

not indicating

speeding up at overtaking lanes

not keeping left unless overtaking

There's no excuse for rage or violence. Ever.

Plenty. Whenever people are so stupid they shouldn't be on the road and thier indifference causes injury they deserve what they get.

helterskelter400 wrote:try riding a motorbike for a few years. jeepers, if i stopped to punch a driver everytime i am almost killed (let alone cutoff, not seen ect) i'd never get anywhere cause i'd be in more fights than george w bush.

i find some fruity language yelled within the helmet makes me feel alot better and allows me to keep going to where i'm headed. sometimes ariving a bit hoarse tho.

I am with you mate. I have ridden a bike on and off ever since I have had my licence (18years) and so I reckon I have seen every wanker out there. Their usual statment is Oh I did not see you. Well shit I have a head light on all the time are you f***ing blind???? And man watch out for famer Joe inluding hat in the landcruiser on the roundabouts:cussing And how is it when they are in the car in the rain and they have wipers they seem to see less then the poor guy on the bike????????


And as for punching someone through the window OH you must be tuff if you are to scared to let them out so they can flog the crap out of you.

I tend to get very annoyed when I'm alone. I often shout and swear at people from the safety of my own car. When I'm with other people I'm usually much more restrained because angry drivers make me very nervous. My dad in particular scares me. He has a horrible tendancy to follow very closely but will happily point out how stupid other people are for doing the same.

I like to have fun with angry drivers too. Whenever I see someone following me too closely, I usually make sure I'm dead on (at least as dead on as you can be in an old Beetle) the speed limit. After a few seconds they usually figure it out and back off.

What pisses me off is when people's cars are more capable than mine at doing the speed limit (or more) and they sit about 5-10km/h under. On roads where there are small sections where I could pull out and overtake I would have to cane my car to get past them so i just sit there and wait and wait until an overtaking lane and then they speed up and i get up next to them and they go a bit faster so i dont get past, the overtaking lane ends and they slow down again. On most suburban, 1 lane each way, roads you cant overtake.
Also people going slow in the right lane, unless they're planning on turning soon. Sometimes i go in the right lane to go past slower drivers only to be blocked by a car that is doing the same speed as those in the left lane, but they're not moving across. If i'm in the right lane and already going the speedlimit or faster and someone comes up behind me wanting to go faster then I move across.

MY STORY
The worst incident i have experienced was at a shell servo. I was just came out from paying and got into the car and straight away the lady behind me was tooting. I wanted to quickly check the amount of litres i put in before moving forwards so I could track my fuel consumption, so I look over towards the pump and next thing i know she's at my window yelling at me saying "some people actually have to get places you know". This lady was like 65 or something and I really didnt expect it. I tried to explain what I was doing and that i would only be 10 more seconds but then she started going on about young people having no respect and being selfish. That sent me off the edge. I started swearing and abusing the lady and she just ignored me and got back in her car. Anyway i thought screw it i will forget about checking the litres. So i started the car and moved forwards, then decided that i wasn't going to be pushed around by some lady, so i got out and went to the pump and wrote down the litres. Next thing shes out of her car again saying "you lay one finger on me and i'll call the cops, they'll lock you up, your a criminal". That sent me over the edge again and I went off "f**k you b*tch, you think young people are selfish, look at yourself, i was only going to be a few seconds and then you go off at me. have some patience, you aren't the only person in the world". Then I drove into a parking space to cool down. What annoyed me is that she made it out so that I was the one doing the wrong thing AND there were about 3 other pumps that were totally free when she originally pulled up behind my car.

swearing from within the car, hand jestures. Only when its some idiot who shouldn't be driving like a guy who didn't give way to his right on the roundabout !!!!

*did* wrote:Also people going slow in the right lane, unless they're planning on turning soon.

I agree, that annoys the hell out of me. That and when people blatantly ignore the "Keep left unless overtaking signs".

I am a very unconfronting person, but behinfd the wheel...lots of yelling a nd honking, a few hand waves...

This one guy in some sorta 2 door thing with a tail pipe the size of a storm water drain was stuffing around in front of me...he slowed down too fast and I end up quite close..I woulod have taken up most of his mirror...He looked thru his back window at me giving ME a look...I gave him the "yes yes move along, disaster averted" look and wave. He just sat there trying to get the last look...several time of gestures that should be aimed at small children he moved off...then he changed lanes and tail gated me...Now we have stedel bumpers so I dont really care but then ..I must admit I went that little anoying bit under the speed limit..here is the best bit, he went to do a big tough undertake and his "car" backfired...sucked in dickhead

Also
Why do people think I need to know they have already turned. much better to use those flashy light things to tell people you are GOING to turn.

Why do people think that pulling out in front of an old van is a good idea. old, non power asisted Drum brakes, wieght in the back, steel bumpers...sure it aint no accelerating machine but it still does move at the speed limit..

oh and a big one. pulling up to the lights in the left lane when they were in the right behind you and there are cars parked just the other side of the intersection. accelerate just enough to not let them in.

people hate to be over taken by an old kombi.

:cussing

I don't know why PPL have a problem with road rage! just because I get the tyre lever out and smash a few windscreens, PPL think I have a problem!!:thumb
Babybug...

[Edited on 21-4-2004 by Babybug]

Thats My girl!!😉
Rob...😎

Hmm Had a few things happen being as passenger only so far, some bitch gave us the finger for some reason, then we went something like "learn to drive bitch" some nasty road rage, Hopefully Ill never have to deal with that shit, only thing which would set off my anger button is someone tailing me and crashing into the back of hans,

I would belt the living shit out of them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:cussing

[Edited on 21-4-2004 by Sky]

I once had to make my way to the police station after some angry young man tried to force me into oncoming traffic. Took offence cos my GTI blew him into the weeds from a set of traffic lights. Wasnt even racing, just in a hurry. Had to do some crazy driving to stop him from stopping me. In the end, he took off when we got to 100m from the station. If my gf wasnt in the car, I could have escaped him with sheer speed.

I mutter things under my breath in general....but one thing that really bothers me is people cutting me off. I have drivers that like to while i am driving at the limit, overtake me and then in the space of about 200m or so pull back in and make a left hand turn...for the life of me i cant work out why someone would do such a thing especially when i have to brake hard to avoid running up the back of them (i have come to expect it more now so i am slowing down more anytime someone passes me). I would expect that the difference in time from travelling in the left lane or making the strange maneouvre would be so minimal that it is pointless....If i could get hold of the drivers who do this and had the power i would be cancelling their licences immediately.

I broke my second beetle horn this morning due to a stupid *&#$ing Commodore driver who decided it wasn't necessary to give way at a give way sign, causing me to slam on my brakes and nearly have a truck rear-end me. Then HE gave ME filthy looks!

I hate drivers.

Ah yes roundabouts! Most people have no idea how they work!

Most of these bloody things should be removed as no one seems interested in educating people how they work.

So many people think "Give way to the right" anyone to your right. In fact in only means give way to traffic IN the roundabout to your right. In a fourway roundabout with four cars approaching from each direction at the same time no one has right of way! You are expected to enter the roundabut at a reasonable speed and therefore all four cars can enter at the same time!

So many people come flying up to roundabouts and force their way in because they think they are on the right of the car entering ahead of them. They are not!

A friend of mine was hit by such a moron. He said to the coppers... Look, I t-boned him on the right he was supposed to give way why should I brake? The look on his stupid face was brilliant when the copper gave him a quick lesson on how he was now up for dangerous driving as he admitted he took no evasive action and he also didn't have right of way. MORAL- Just because you are on the right of the car unless you are in the roundabout they don't have to give way to you!

Matt same story with my sister:cry

She T Boned this old lady at the round about in her benz the lady approached it at 80kph not stopping cos she was on the right of my sis, my sis was in the round about first just rolling luck for my sister

due to speed and timing it look like it was my sis fault but with witnesses they all told the police it was the ladys fault. Police charged lady with neg driving and she wrote off her starlet

Sucked in! Im Happy that my sis didnt get hurt :sandrine

That's what she gets for owning a Starlet! :P

I sympathise with all the bikers - I ride a pushy most of the time. I expect to be ignored/not seen, so I just have to take my time and always make eye contact with the drivers. Doing hook turns at any intersection also freaks out some people. Go hook turns! Hehe. Oh and yeah, roundabouts are fun aren't they!

Aurel

Hook turns are just scary anyway.

I went to Melbourne for the first time ever last year and no-one warned me of the hook turn. Thank God I wasn't driving cos they scared the s#$t out of me!

Bah, hook turns schmook turns. At least its POSSIBLE to turn right in Melbourne - not like Sydney!!!! :thumb

I used to drive like a maniac when I was younger. A real speed freak.

One day, this guy with an even bigger problem started tailgating me. Ahead was a section of graded road, and when we hit it, a stone flew up breaking his windscreen. He overtook me on a blind corner and started waving me down. I stupidly thought that there may have been a problem with my car, and that he was being nice. DOH! He strolled towards my car as I wound down the driver window, and punched me full face THROUGH THE WINDSCREEN. He still had enough velocity to push my 2 front teeth together. A full skull reallignment.

I start to get out of my car, when he picks me up and THROWS ME through the rear passenger window. Then he goes for the rear window. Right about now, I start to get a little pissed off, and grab him. He is like on a full superhuman meth-amphetamine freakout, so it's not an easy fight, but eventually I get him in a headlock in the middle of the road on this BLIND CORNER. All of a sudden, he starts spouting this crazy shit in funny voices, and I freak and let him go. He runs to his car and drives off.

So, I go to the Police with the rego number, and explain what happened. They say that they'll take care of it. Nothing happened at all! If they'd gone to his place, he would have had pupils like the black sea, and a pretty broken hand. Good ol' Queensland Police. To protect and serve. Yeah, right!

Nowadays, to stop the temptation, I drive a car that I respect, and one that doesn't allow "EVIL VWOMBAT" any chance for lead footedness. I love cruisin' at 80 more than most things, and I get a special pleasure from watching people get frustrated about losing their 2 second time advantage behind me. Zen Buddhism and VW's have changed my life.

Jay_1965vw wrote:Bah, hook turns schmook turns. At least its POSSIBLE to turn right in Melbourne - not like Sydney!!!! :thumb

Oh, they make perfect sense! It's just really really scary for a first-timer who has never even heard of them!

🙂

I am in complete admiration of you Wombat. I don't think I could let that go very easily!

whats a hook turn?

I am in complete admiration of you Wombat. I don't think I could let that go very easily!

Letting it go? Ah, I could've drove around frustrated looking for the guy with a large piece of metal, but hey, that's just more work right?

It's all just part of the funny cavalcade of adventures that is my life I guess. Some other very weird things have happened too, but that definitely ranks as one of my 10 best stories.

Getting stabbed at 1a.m. in my home by a customer of my drug dealing flatmate, that was another one. Those violent episodes never really affected me the way they should have. I just got more careful, with a better reaction time. It's helped a lot by tuning me in to danger tho'. I saved a girl from drowning in France once. Big waves - young woman with boogieboard - bad idea. All this stuff just makes you who you are, and it all helps you grow stronger.

what's a hook turn?

Isn't that one of those ones "Batman" executes with the use of a grappling "hook"?

[Edited on 22-4-2004 by vwombat]

didnt think they were legal.......i spose it is victoria:P

Ahhh victoria the birthplace of roadrage

MMMMMM..
I've been involved in a lot over the years. 🙂

I cant believe I am the first to say I really hate road rage.

Every driver makes a mistake on occasions, or inconveniences someone etc. If you are driving hard the chances of it happening to you are much higher as the really bad drivers who make lots of mistakes are less likely to judge what you are going to do, how fast you are going etc.

I dont think there is any excuse to pull someone out of their car and beat the shit out of them. That deserves locking up. I do not believe there is a shade of grey here.

Next thing my 92yo Granny is bashed for going 5 kmh slower than the speed limit by matey boy who is going limit or faster and rides up her arse and pulls up beside her to teach her a thing or two?

So it the biggest dickhead/gorilla on the road allowed to go wherever they want? I bet every person on this list has had a few moments of erroe at some stage in their life. Do you deserve the beating if you happened to have matey boy and his crew or princess road rage... ( I have seen a girl smash a ladies window with a club lock....) behind you at the time.

Does your mum deserve it?

Do we vote 1 for road wars, where every trip is the chance to learn a lesson?

Fight club at every roundabout?

Live and let live. Listen to cool tunes instead on the radio. Put the window down and drive with the radio off and listen to the world. Chill out and take a deep breath. You will live better for it.

Ummm I am off my soapbox now, kool karma to you....

kkk

Hey Koolkarma - I wasn't supporting it in any way man! I'm the victim of it, and think it's the sort of behaviour that absolute truckwits engage in.

If you have to express your emotions with your fist's, what does that say about your intelligence and vocabulary? Fisticuffs are simply the banter of Neanderthal's and Ragamuffin's!

Road rager's should have their licence's revoked and be forced to smoke a bong load or two (Government sponsored naturally). BTW with all of my drug references, people might think I'm a DF'd loser, but I don't actually take any. Not even Caffeine or Alcohol.

Kool karma to all those who know what it means!

Hmmm, not much love here

There's definately no excuse for getting violent.

I had a p-plater tail me the other day so I slowed down a little so he'd go around me. He got into the lane next to me and reefed his steering wheel over, forcing me out into the lane on my right & the car that was in that lane up onto the median strip. He was willing to wreck his car, my car & the guy next to me not to mention hurt all three of us pretty badly, just to get back at me for doing 40 in a 40 zone.

That behaviour is just psychotic, it's not normal. I seriously think that actualy thoughless, violent road rage is an illness.

I have to admit though, I don't mind pissing idiots off. Problem is, that can backfire too.

Started this poll because I had copped a mouthfull from an inconsiderate driver, it seems that I am not the only one who has been victim to it. Interestingly enough the poll shows just as many of the forum readers have lashed it out as have received it.
No doubt it's happening everywhere, but the message seems to be to try and keep your cool for the benefit of everyone your own passengers included. Nevertheless it is still going to happen, my tip never lose total control and resort to physical violence, a smart, calm remark can often cut deeper than any explosive blurb. AT ALL TIMES PROTECT THE VW!!!!!!!!!!!!

ducky wrote:AT ALL TIMES PROTECT THE VW!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmmm that works only when u are dishing out the violence...subtle hint mate?

LET THEM HAVE IT I RECKEN I SEE IDIOTS EVERY DAY
DRIVING IN A DAZE WHEN PEOPLE HONK THEY DONT EVEN RELIZE
THERE AT FOLT :puke

I dish out the abuse quite often. But the sad fact is that 50% of people cant drive. People refuse to merge behind a VW. People who wont let other cars merge. People zig and zag changing lanes for kms in peak hour and still end up the car in front of me. People cant keep a car in one lane. Rubber neckers at accident sites. People who slam on the brakes and do 60km past an 80 km speed camera. People dont keep left. People dont give way. My daughter once told me (she may have only been 4 at the time, only 5 now) that someone was a moron for parking where they had because it was sticking out on a bend. And I had to cross to the other side of the road. 4 yrs old and she knew! Last night cruising down the freeway there was a car broken down in the left lane, someone had stopped to help. The helpers car was on the white edge marker line. He got out of his car, opening the door up into the 100kmh traffic, the car in front of me had to swerve to avoid it.

I'm sorry but if people are dickheads, seemingly unaware that they are dickheads, then it is up to me, to let them know... they are dickheads. I know that I aint a dickhead, cos nobody ever tells me.

HERE HERE BROTHER IM WITH YOU
GIVE IT TO THEM
IT MITE MAKE THEM THINK A LITTLE BIT I DONT MEAN TO BE SO UP FRONT BUT 10 HOURS A DAY IN A TRUCK YOU SEE IT ALL
GOOD TO SEE PEOPLE IN CARS SEAING THIS.
SOME TIMES IN A TRUCK YOU CAN SEA 10 CARS HEAD
SO CAR DRIVERS ARE NOT AWERE OF WHAT IS REALY GOING ON IT IS NO EXUSE THO THINK BEFORE YOU ACT OR GET PAID OUT ON I SAY