View Full Version : It's not just CB'ers who are idiots.
k4kyv
07-28-2007, 06:07 PM
Remember the CB feud a year or so ago that turned fatal in a mall parking lot somewhere in Washington state, IIRC?
Well it's not limited to CB. Check out this story about a Navy man who got mad when someone mocked him as a "nerd" over the Internet, and climbed into his car and drove 1,300 miles from Virginia to Texas to teach the other guy a lesson.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070726/D8QKES4G0.html
Surprise Surprise!!! both the wackos involved are military men! One retired and one active duty. I have no idea what that indicates. But I'm sure it's not mere coincidence.
W4INF
07-28-2007, 07:55 PM
Aw shucks, burnt his trailer down. Well theres a surprise!
I hate to see what he would've done if he had been called a pansy or a wuss...
One guy on a message board threatened to sue me for "stocking" him online.
What a maroon!
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G0GQK
07-28-2007, 08:46 PM
A recent poll in Britain indicated that the most worrying incident for a car driver would be the involvement in a road rage attack. The results showed that 16% of car drivers had been innocent victims of a road rage attack. When this figure was extrapulated it showed that in Britain there are over five million people who have "road raged" another driver for some infringement which the road rager lost his sense of decency.
I have experienced four different road rage attacks. One when I pulled up to buy fuel at service area and another driver drew alongside a foot away from my car and continued this trick until I reached the fuel pumps. While this was going on he was bawling at me from inside his car until I got out. I asked him what the problem was, received no sensible answer, I had never seen the man or his car before until he pulled up at the side of mine.
Another one was the usual overtaking a car on a clear road, the driver took exception, overtook me then slowed down to a crawl so I stayed behind him at 15 mph until a truck driver blasted his horn at the pair of us driving so slow, which scared the driver and he pulled into a layby so I shot off down the road at 80 mph and vanished down some country lanes.
The others have been women drivers who seemed to be suffering PM stress, wound down windows and showered vulgarities at me while I was waiting to join traffic queues in a stationary position.
I am an advanced driver who drives defenceively so I don't get wound up, but some people could commit murder in these
circumstances.
G0GQK