Judith,
Glad it worked out okay for you. But there are some very disturbed, angry,
and even psycho people out there on the road.
I'm learning that you just have to subdue the tendency to honk, gesture,
yell, anything.
Had a road rage incident where a guy cut me off, then drove dangerously. I
happened to catch up to him at a red light and shouted a few choice things.
He actually followed me to my destination, got out of his car as I walked
across a parking lot, and began punching me. A bystander with a cell phone
said "Leave him alone. I've got your license number. Get out of here right
now or I'll call the police." If not for that bystander I might have been
really hurt.
I thought of asking the witness for the license number, and pressing
charges, but if the person was crazy enough to do what they did, how crazy
would they be if I pressed felony assault charges?
Sad, isn't it, that the innocent have to steer a wide path around the
perpetrators for fear of retribution?
Ben
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Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 6:25 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Road Rage Hell
Hi. I just went for a drive with Michael and the kids. It was fun -- until I
made the mistake of not seeing a stop sign and running through it, and
almost having an accident with another car.
Okay, I was wrong to have run through the stop sign. And maybe I just should
have stopped and backed up and not steered around the other car (I was
already in the middle of the intersection and so was he) and then driven
away.
I'm a pretty new driver -- While I have had a driver's license since 1989, I
haven't driven till May of this year. So occasionally, I make mistakes.
I thought, "Thank G-d, we didn't have an accident." I stopped at the next
stop sign and then at the next red light, and lo and behold, there is this
man (the same one I almost had the accident with) following me.
At that point, I was terrified. I kept thinking of that incident with the
guy (in New York, I think) who took a dog out of a car and threw it into
oncoming traffic. And I've got three kids in the car!
He came up to the car and he starts screaming at me. He called me stupid and
he was so angry -- he said, "What were you thinking? What, you didn't see
the stop sign?" He started cursing me out. He said, "And look, you have kids
in the car."
So I said, "Yes, you're right, it was a stupid thing to do. Definitely." I
thought the guy was nuts, but he was right that what I did was wrong and
probably stupid. I figured if I agreed with him, maybe he'd go away. It was
Michael who got angry and starting to yell at him. I said, "Michael, it's
all right." The only thing that was running through my head was, "Oh G-d, I
hope he doesn't have a gun." And I didn't want it to escalate any further. I
most definitely didn't want Michael to get out of the car.
Finally, after he and Michael finished yelling at eachother, he went back to
his car. The light turned green and I moved forward. I was shaking, but I
kept driving. What else could I do?
Judith
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