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On my way home up I-95, the other day, some punk-ass kid in a rice-burner with a shoddy body kit and an I-want-attention exhaust system almost clipped my front end as he weaved from lane to lane.
I communicated my displeasure with his driving style by laying on the horn for several seconds.
He
answered with an extended middle finger, waved out of his driver's side window in a jaunty manner, whilst expressing tentative actions I could do to myself in my spare time.
I decided to follow him for a while, with the hopes that he would be exiting the highway before my exit, affording me the opportunity to follow him to his house and beat his ass.
He did.
I followed, closely enough and deliberately enough to indicate my violent intentions.
After a labyrinthine route through town, he eventually pulled into the police station parking lot, parked and sat inside his car with windows up, doors locked and looking intently at his lap.
It occurred to me, as I pulled out of the police station and made my way back to the highway, that if I had a placard of sorts that I could affix to my car indicating that I am ready, willing and able to follow you home and beat your ass, then both parties could have saved each other a great deal of time and embarrassment.
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all the energy produced by a lifetime of anger would not keep your coffee warm for long ... |
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Trying hard to see an idea here, but just finding a rant. |
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It seems to me that being more obvious about your intentions is not the most intuitive approach for someone who actually intends to beat someones ass. Next time don't be so obvious. |
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How about smiling and waving graciously? |
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What did you do when the guy who was following you, after you just about clipped his bumper while attempting to follow the kid who just about clipped your bumper, finally caught up with you? Does your ass still hurt? |
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yeah, I can think of another way that "parties could have saved each other a great deal of time and embarrassment." and that is to keep your cool next time and spell check your post next time. Are you going to follow me home and beat my ass for pointing out that this isn't exactly respectable behavior? |
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If you want to beat someone up, follow [rcarty]'s advice. |
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...and the sign said road raged freaky people, speed not me by,
so I tucked my sign up onto my dash, and I stalked him to ask him why.
I said you drive like a blind grandstanding punk man, I think you'll do,
So I took off my hat and I knocked him flat, heh, then I laid the boots to him tooooo |
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Sign Sign everywhere a sign... |
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I find it more satisfying to simply ignore stupidity than rise like a fish to its dangling bait. |
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It can also be highly dangerous to follow people home. In my home town you could find your car being rammed; you dragged out and made to watch as it was pounded then burnt; then your fate could be just about as bad as anything you can imagine. |
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I try to avoid that sort of thing as best I can. No point in turning up dumped inside a bin-bag just because some idiot cuts you off in a car. If it happens a lot, get a camera and post films up on youtube. You might end up attracting a following. Have this bun to quell your anger + |
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[+] and a couple more buns for [2fries] |
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Lucky the punk was into games theory. |
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As regards the placard idea, I don't like it. I fear the punk
will start
selectively cutting off cars without placards. Some people,
through no fault of their own, aren't willing and able to
follow him home and beat his ass, and aren't willing to make
empty threats either. |
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//Are you going to follow me home and beat my ass for pointing out that this isn't exactly respectable behavior?// |
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[WcW], Admonishments don't put my life at risk. Someone else's road rage does. But if you are offering, I could oblige, I'm sure. |
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One of two things will happen; you will get your car keyed a lot, or in 6 months everyone will have one and it will be meaningless. |
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But sort of baked anyway because they have rear window displays now that can be programmed to display whatever message you want. |
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Hmmm... it's possible that the sado-masochistic drivers will misread the intent and look forward to it with great relish "...Oooooo, stop it more! Stop it more!!!..." |
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Hey. MikeD's gonna follow y'all home and Beat Your Asses! |
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With "mail-a-car.com" (link) or a similar service, such as a social networking site in which your membership is tied to your vehicle license plate, you would be able to wave virtual placards at errant drivers, and perhaps beat virtual asses. |
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//everyone will have one and it will be meaningless// |
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Actually, I have planned for this contingency, [DIY], there will be a limited number of placards produced, and if you want one, you need only follow someone whom has one home. He can either hand over the placard or fight. |
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//Where'd daseva's anno go?// |
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Don't ask me, [21]. I've never deleted an anno other than my own. |
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//make sure that you're packing heat and layered with body armor// |
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There are times when you are not? |
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<Shakes head disapprovingly> |
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I'd suggest, as I suggest to my wife, that you relax, realize people are lazy and stupid and let it go and don't allow other people to have that much control of your life. If not, I suggest two options: one, get a Land Rover or similar tank like vehicle and simply allow them to hit your car. I have had six hit my old Disco and I was only out a total of $25 for a broken tail light lens and $75 for the plastic bit at the end of the rear bumper. Whereas one or possibly two of them were totaled. I got WAY more than $100 worth of entertainment from their actions. The second option is to mount camera or cameras to your car and report them to the authorities. The best of all options is to do both. Then when they cut you off and you don't swerve to avoid them, you can submit the video to YouTube and make money off their stupidity. |
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Perhaps similar placards could be created for anglers who
cast into eachother's waters. |
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They would read "I will follow you home and eat your bass." |
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I like the homrighaus scenario as a short film: enraged and bent on revenge, each in turn wrongs another, and ultimately the last wrongs the first, so they chase each other in a circle. At the end the camera pans back to show the entire circle, then down to the center where there is a dilapidated Chevy Cavalier. On the hood sits the Buddha. |
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21, I deleted my anno. I didn't like it after I posted it. I
found myself partaking in idle threats and felt pretty
stupid for that. That being said, |
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The anno said something about how, if I were an angry
enough person, I would let you follow me home, call my
most troubled and troublesome buddies and have them
waiting on you with chains and bats and half empty
bottles of whiskey. I would lure you into a situation you
could not control, beat your own ass for being so
presumptuous as to assume I'd follow your lead, then
leave you for dead in a ditch somewhere since you and I
are perfect strangers in this world and therefore the
police will have a hell of a time figuring out it was me
who murdered you. |
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But, I'm not that angry so I deleted it. |
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21 was confused because I said the placard would be
"directed at me" and he thinks it's impossible to direct a
placard at any individual person. I think pointing at it
while riding someone's ass is a good way to direct it at
someone, like he basically concluded on his own. |
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[Daseva], I probably should have elaborated... the placard does not say: "I will follow you home and beat your ass." It is a symbol, like the "striped ass ape" (which signifies a seriously souped-up automobile). The significance of my placard would not be apparent prima facie, but would be a slow-learned subconscious understanding that those with one will take your road-rage to a level you were hitherto unprepared. |
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Touch my donkey and I'll kill you. |
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Oh, I get it. It's like a warning label. On your car. Warning
others of your bad mornings and such. Cute. Undecided. |
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[my hair is having a bad me day] |
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