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    Road Rage

    As the poll says, have you even been involved in road rage, either receiving or giving.

    Firstly i have engaged in road rage, but only the odd finger and screaming some abuse. However since leaving wagga i dont bother, i show people my appreciation nowadays but dont real get worked up.


    What sparked this thread was an incident that we say on the way back from the botanical gardens today.

    We were on the M4 near the Northern Road exit i was in the fast lane sitting on about 115-120km/hr when i looked in my mirror and saw a hyundai Excel behind so i found a gap and moved into the middle lane, as i did this they slowed considerably. I was looking in my mirror at the time when i notice a falcon tradies ute right up there arse. I then concluded the excel had backed off to tell the ute to back off. Did this happen? Far from it!! The ute found the nearest gap in the middle lane, swerved into it drew along side the exel and then slammed them into the safety barrier on the inside of the westbound lanes. Now i am not sure if they contacted of if the violent swerving motion of the ute towards the people in the excel cause them to react and swerve away sending them straight into the saftey fence. Then to our amazement the ute just kept on trucking. We slowed down to get his number plate, but after a few minutes he pulled onto the hard shoulder and crawled along for a while before stopping. Very nasty indeed.

    Now i have seen road rage before but never to that extent. Matt
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    but did you ring the police to report it?

    not much use taking the number if you dont act on it...
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    Originally posted by incisor
    but did you ring the police to report it?

    not much use taking the number if you dont act on it...
    We didnt get the rego number we slowed right down but he slowed down more than us so he never caught back up to us. We did ring Penrith police and gave them our details so in the even they needed another witness they could ring us. Matt
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    This happen about 10 years ago (damn I feel old) my mate and I were in his mums brand new XR6 cruising the streets of Melb chapel etc…. anyway we got a phone call to pick up another mate so we headed toward Caulfield and along the way we came to a set of lights and a brand new Camry with 4 blokes in it pulled up beside us anyway we got that look lights went green and we smoked them!!! A Camry wasn’t going to be a match for an XR6!!!! Got to the next set of lights same thing smoked them again but this time they over took us on the wrong side of the road we backed off as this was getting stupid. Pulled up 2 blocks from our mates house and they were in poll position and we pulled in to the left hand lane and had a laugh and look back at them, lights went green and once again SMOKED them but this time I think we ****ed them off…… they were right up our ass flashing lights honking horn arms out the windows etc as we drove for a bit we had lost interest and pulled up 1 block from our mates house and 3 of the guys got out and started bashing the god damn car!!!! I don’t know how but these meat heads didn’t think to open the doors so we had time to hit the central looking one guys on my side hit the window so hard he started to bleed!!! The lights went green and we took off!!! Let me tell you the chase was on!!! As we both went to school in the area we new the street quite well but when yr on yr push bike speed humps really don’t matter but at over 100kmh speed humps are like f*@king jumps!! We got this xr6 so air born it felt like we were in the air for minutes before we landed but we couldn’t shake these guys in the Camry… anyway we finally lost these guys after some fancy driving by my mate pulled into someone’s drive way turned the car off and we ducked. I think we were in the car for about 15 min laying low before we took off back to our mates house. Once we got there we parked the xr6 in his garage and sussed out the damage the driver and passenger doors were screwed and blood all over the pass window. We were made to pay the insurance excess and never allowed to drive the car again  this was about the worst thing that has happen to me on the roads… and i have never looked at a Camry in the same way

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    It's a long story, but when I was a young teenager, I was in the passenger seat of a mates car and he got rammed for nothing in particular. The guy and his wife then got out and started beating into the car. unfortunately for them, a sargent from the dog squad was sitting at the nearby lights watching it all unford Lucky for us 8O 8O

    Anyway, it turned out that he was a friend of a friend of a friend 8O Apparently he arrived at a party at 3am (after the cops were finished with him) and told his mates that a couple of teenagers had been giving him a hard time :roll: :roll: :roll:

    I guess that kind of taught me that you never know what is the mental state the person in the car next to you. So, I try and be very firm in my driving style, but at the same time very courteous (??) I never give anyone the finger or use the horn etc though.

    Generally this works for me. However sometimes if someone p's me off I can be firmer with them than at other times so I picked the both option :wink: :wink:

    Did that all make sense to anyone else out there? ops: 8)
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    i think i'll keep all my reports to myself ops: ops: ops:

    there's been a few over the yrs :? :?


    best one was a young<span style="color:red"> P</span>plate driver being really stupid
    and nearly causing a accident

    so i got out of my car put my hand in his window :?

    pulled his car keys out and threw them on the shops roof :wink:

    then i told him to think about his stupid driven next time 8) 8)
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    Originally posted by hiline
    i think i'll keep all my reports to myself ops: ops: ops:

    there's been a few over the yrs :? :?


    best one was a young<span style="color:red"> P</span>plate driver being really stupid
    and nearly causing a accident

    so i got out of my car put my hand in his window :?

    pulled his car keys out and threw them on the shops roof :wink:

    then i told him to think about his stupid driven next time 8) 8)
    That is GOLD!!!

    I have dont it too mates but only thrown the keys in to the back seat or the try of a ute but to throw his keys on the shop roof CLASSIC!!!!!!

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    Originally posted by hiline
    i think i'll keep all my reports to myself ops: ops: ops:

    there's been a few over the yrs :? :?


    best one was a young<span style="color:red"> P</span>plate driver being really stupid
    and nearly causing a accident

    so i got out of my car put my hand in his window :?

    pulled his car keys out and threw them on the shops roof :wink:

    then i told him to think about his stupid driven next time 8) 8)
    I knew there was a reason why the keys go in the left side of the column on the fender ops: ops:
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    my'ns not really road rage but a guy that really cheesed me off

    i was doing 80 up a hill (the speed limit)..........and my disco isn't the fastest when it comes to hill climbs......

    this guy cam up behind me and he was traveling soooooo close to me i could only see the top of his windscreen in my rear view mirror and could only see his rear quater in my side mirror..........

    i lifted my hand to sort of say why are you driving like a nob......

    he persisted to travel what i call dangerously close as i would imagine he had no breaking distance between us......

    so becasue we were the only two on the road i very gently lifted off and we both travel up the very long hill at 45kph.........

    we we got to the top i put down my window and gave him a hand gesture as he past me.......

    funny he couldn't look me in the face when he passed.......

    i understand people need to get places and i must infuriate some people as i do tend to try and stick to the speed limit mainly becasue i'm on p's and i don't want to get caught speeding (this was also on a bank holiday double points if you get caught)

    but when people are that impatient that i feel they are putting my life at risk as well as there own it p**s*s me off.

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    The worst place for road rage is the motorway from the Gold Coast to Brisbane. Seems to endow a lot of drivers with a frontal lobotomy. They see the 4 lanes and go crazy - I've seen cars fighting over the fast lane and there's 3 others vacant :roll: At peak times it's hopeless even in one of the slower lanes they pull up right behind you a by insinuation demand that you get over to let them by. I'm gettin cranky just thinkin about it. I have driven in all states and that has got to be the worst.

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