oilycreek
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Caught a road rager on my cell phone
- Thread starter SONIC
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They take reports. Enough reports get made for one driver and then make a phone call, or send a letter. Reports continue and, especially in more rural jurisdictions, they might just pay a visit.
The incident occurred in a public place, where the other party has no expectation of privacy. You're free to show it. In fact I run cameras virtually every day and compile videos of the idiocy that I see on the road, then post them to Youtube.
Hey you're sharp!
Ugh ya! And why I'm undecided about how to approach the situation, and the reason for my post, I broke a minor traffic law to capture a serious crime.
What part of any of last few pages did you miss, he tried to cause an acident, he then tried to kill me, verbally threatening me with violence.......... ON VIDEO. Soooooo I'm the one, the only one that broke the law?
Yes, I suppose I should've, could've been ticketed since I did break the law, but so did he, I suppose the cop deemed it just cause seeing as the road raging freak was clearly trying to run me down.
Sativa Quemador
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this is just like other countries laws for driving, there are the rules, then there are the unwritten rules. yes, staying back 3 car lengths is a rule, but its also not practical for certain times of the day. you are almost begging people to cut you. can you imagine applying this rule to driving in china, japan,russia, or one of those places ?
stop thinking that just because you follow every rule, means you're not the one causing a problem.
you are probbaly the kind of person that drives the same speed as the car beside you, blocking everyone else beside you.
stop thinking that just because you follow every rule, means you're not the one causing a problem.
you are probbaly the kind of person that drives the same speed as the car beside you, blocking everyone else beside you.
Like showing a cop a video you took while driving? Lol
Help me out here, is it illegal to distance in traffic?
And perhaps this is another debate all together regarding driving habits, which I would be interested in having, where people think that driving right up on someones *** when all the traffic around them is driving at the same speed is how you are suppsoed to drive because if you leave too much of a gap you are slowing people down....
How does crusing at a distance, while maintaining the same cruising speed as everyone else, translate into someone causing traffic or other motorists from getting to where they are going slower?
That was exactly what this guy had a problem with, he felt that I was holding him up, and didn't like it, so he showed me. After he zoomed by and did what he did, guess how much further he got? That's right, nowhere, because everyone was still going 90-100.
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At that point I had no choice, I was asked to pull over because the guy started chirping the cops that I had my phone out, not knowing what was happening, so to save myself I better have some reason why, which the cop accepted based on the actual video.
I do have a choice here.
And then people wonder why this happens
You can post it
Cop was lazy and didn't want to deal with it.
Next time instead of picking up your phone and recording instead leave or call 911.
If someone is trying to run you off the road i think you might be justified in using your phone to record the other person.
Sativa Quemador
Well-known member
i havent even been here that long, and i know that you are causing everyone else a headache
get off the road, abuelita
get off the road, abuelita
See that's just it, that was first inclination but then thought, what's a phone call, there's no proof, just what someone said, so I'm going to record this loser.
rmemedic
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There is always that idiot that leaves too much space ahead of him that allows ignorant people to cut in front of him. He then backs off of the guy that just cut in front and another one does it... So everyone behind this guy is being slowed down every time another car gets in front of him That's how. I only drive in heavy 400 series city traffic like once a month and I know this.
I HATE driving in the GTA because I HATE tailgating. It just isn't something that I like to do because people are far too irratic in their driving. However, it is something that you have to do in heavy traffic, otherwise people will push in. But I'm just some country bumpkin, so my idea of tailgating in my ~5000lb truck is what others would say is a "safe following distance."
I don't think you have to be here long to understand common sense, how is driving at a distance causing traffic, or slowing someone down from getting to where they need to go, if traffic is all moving at the same speed?
It's like people that feel the need to gun it from a green light when you can clearly see the next intersction just turned red.........you just lost all that ground for nothing, you got nowhere. I'm the type that looks 1-2 intersections away to see what's happeing ahead(things I've learned from ridiing), if there's a red light I coast at an average speed so that by the time I get to that next intersection It's green again, I never had to hit my brakes once, and i'm still making the same time.
I'm thinking that this can carry on, quite well, without the insults.
