What do you do to cars?

Porgy

I once left a head shaped dent in the back of an expensive Merc (funny! always Mercs that I have trouble with) and lots of my blood on the bonnet while i tried to stop him driving away from the scene of a crash. Oh yeah - and while he was trying to run me off the road he managed to break his own wing mirror by hitting me with it. Then he tried to sue me for the cost of getting it replaced!

Apart from that - I regularly hit cars to make a noise but cause no damage. Sometimes its the only way to make a driver notice that he's about to run you over.

I find many motorists have a hair-trigger temper and are much more likely to flip and cause damage / exact violence than I am. Especially black cabs. when I worked around Paddington having a cab driving into my back wheel and crushing it was a fairly regular event. One even crushed my back wheel and then got out and gave me a good kicking. Another one stalked me in the back streets repeatedly trying to run me over - I had many witesses to that outrage.

I even had a pedestrian unexpectedly jump out of a routemaster there and straight into me - there was no way I could have anticipated him jumping or stop in time. He decided to punch me in the face for that and I spent all day in a hospital and still have the scar today.

Brains

I'm obviously an execption. As a London commuter I probably take out about one wing mirror a day. Ususally i just bend them forward, but occasionally they break. Most mornings I do an entire line of them in Leadenhall St EC1 where they are parked on the no stopping, no loading cycle lane.

ddraver

thats bad luck porgy

and whoever it was...you were enquiring to what effect a u lock would have if the opposite party was brandishing a knife.....not just the average stupid person

opening the boot is my absoloute favourite but i ve never had anyone get dangerous to warrant it

ddraver

thats bad luck porgy

and whoever it was...you were enquiring to what effect a u lock would have if the opposite party was brandishing a knife.....not just the average stupid person

opening the boot is my absoloute favourite but i ve never had anyone get dangerous to warrant it

ddraver

thats bad luck porgy

and whoever it was...you were enquiring to what effect a u lock would have if the opposite party was brandishing a knife.....not just the average stupid person

opening the boot is my absoloute favourite but i ve never had anyone get dangerous to warrant it

Big n Daft

ddraver wrote:

whoever it was...you were enquiring to what effect a u lock would have if the opposite party was brandishing a knife.....not just the average stupid person

That was me and you missed the point.

Which was if you pull a D lock on someone, don't be surprised if that someone comes back with a knife or something they just happen to have stuck under the drivers seat, or indeed as Jacomus says the person who will take it off you and make you eat it. The situation is simply not worth the possible end result, you are escalating a situation where no one is hurt into one where someone could end up assaulted, maimed or worse just because you took offence at someone's driving and wanted to exact some small measure of revenge? Now is it just me or does that sound pathetic to anyone else?

Another question is for our road rage practitioners is, do you shout, abuse or punch everyone who wrongs you in some way, or is it just reserved for the roads?

Take it from my experience, there's no such thing as the average 'stupid' person, people react to threats in one of two ways...fight or flight, its an inbuilt instinct.

People do crazy things during fights, including using anything they can lay their hands on as a weapon, or just simply not stopping when the threat is passed.

I say to everyone, put yourself in that position......how would you react?

You answer your own question, 'i've never had anyone dangerous enough to warrant it'

All the macho posturing in the world won't help if someone takes offence to your actions and decides to come after you in a car.

Eat My Dust

I was gobsmacked last night on my commute home, 2 near misses that were nipped in the bud by a load WHOOAAAA, both drivers apologised, I was taken aback a bit, I wasn't even going to say anything to either of them, as it was just the usual pulling out into the "empty" lane move. Restored faith a bit!!

ddraver

well ok...i was assuming they had already pulled a weapon after one had pointed out that perhaps they re driving was not of test standard...or perhaps that now was not the time to read that txt message or whatever