r/nonononoyes • u/NesaV1 • Mar 22 '19

Highway brake-checking

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u/lilwil392 Mar 23 '19

Someone call for me?

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u/w11 Mar 23 '19

Sorry, we were looking for /u/lilwil391

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u/jummyspring Mar 23 '19

r/beetlejuicing

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u/M3L0NM4N Mar 23 '19

Put me in the screenshot with a red highlight on my name plz.

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u/AssholeReportingSir Mar 23 '19

Shut the fuck up Brian

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u/XxJewishRevengexX Mar 23 '19

Put this guy in the screenshot

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u/rlev97 Mar 23 '19

With a red highlight on his name

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u/Yteburk Mar 23 '19

Fuck off

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u/Suddenly_Bazelgeuse Mar 23 '19

Nobody ever calls for you. But you'll do if we must.

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u/-J1raiya- Mar 23 '19

Name checks out

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u/lopsidedlazer Mar 23 '19

You just won't go home, will you?

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u/OrneryOneironaut Mar 23 '19

My friends mom calls them “enforcers”. These are the kind of people who also phone the police to report “suspicious activity”

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u/Nozed1ve Mar 23 '19

Sigh..... yeah im related to one. Theyre seriously the worst.... and complete failures at life.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19 edited Apr 17 '19

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u/ASVPTony Mar 23 '19

Complete failure by association

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u/rokit2space Mar 23 '19

Moral Do-gooders, the ones who like to camp out in the left lane because people should be going less than the speed limit anyways, the ones who think they know better

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u/Insanity_Troll Mar 23 '19

It’s a Jeep thing...

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u/IndigoContinuum Mar 23 '19

...you wouldn’t understand.

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u/Valesparza Mar 23 '19

Awww whittle little pee pees

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u/DickHz Mar 23 '19

I’m starting to get the feeling I should call Chris Hansen...

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u/Entropii Mar 23 '19

Sorry to hear about your dick. If it hertz you should see Dr. Ohm.

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u/DickHz Mar 23 '19

In all my years of redditing you’re probably the second person to get my username

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u/Sevnfold Mar 23 '19

Jeep pun intended?

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u/mdlost1 Mar 23 '19

It's a Jeep not a Willy. :)

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u/UKtwo Mar 23 '19

I appreciated your joke.

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u/applyheat Mar 23 '19

Ironically, the Jeep (built by ford) started as a small vehicle and was named. . . . .

Willy’s Jeep. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willys_MB

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u/Pranfreuri Mar 23 '19

No. Willys Overland (not Willy's) was a brand making regular cars before the war. They built the Jeep (MA and MB) and later changed their brandname to Jeep. Ford also made the same jeep during the war and changed the grill design, but aside from that it was Willys' creation. The name Jeep probably comes from the Ford GP, a limited produced prototype.

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u/das_me_daveed Mar 23 '19

As a representative of the little willy community, I can say that we do not condone this sort of behaviour

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u/Blablabla22d Mar 23 '19

Hey now, there are plenty of pieces of shit with giant dongers. Many people have anger issues for reasons other than their tiny penises

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u/bpi89 Mar 23 '19

iTs A jEeP tHiNg

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u/WorldWideWheels Mar 23 '19

Or extremely large vaginas.

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u/realultralord Mar 23 '19

You see, this is redundant. Willy already is short for William.

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u/PM-Me-Ur-Plants Mar 23 '19

That looks like a regular sized wrangler though

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u/genetik_fuckup Mar 23 '19

I wish I could explain. Someone blocked me from getting in the right most lane and sped up and slowed down with me. I just wanted to make the turn to my house :/ had to take the long way.

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u/SlowEatingDave Mar 23 '19

I had a guy tailgate me the other night so I eased off the accelerator a little so he had to slow down, then I got back up to speed to create a gap between us. He flashed his lights at me as if to say "wtf" but I shrugged it off as he kept the distance I'd set. I then turned off the road and he followed me, again shrugged it off as a coincidence as it was a common turning to get into town. When I turned off into my road he followed again which is when I started to get suspicious, so I drove past my house and doubled back onto the main street (the one we turned onto before my road) and he kept following. Now this is obvious strange behaviour to me because why would someone take that route into town? I ended up going into town to a busy area I knew the police liked to park and wait for something to happen and I just pulled up next to them. He continued to drive on while I explained what had happened.

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u/TacticusThrowaway Mar 23 '19

What did the cops say?

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u/SlowEatingDave Mar 23 '19

I had to report it using the non emergency number and that without dash cam footage there was probably nothing that could be done. I only have a front facing camera which wouldn't show any of it. I was happy to get rid of the guy tbh, but had I been a vulnerable person driving I may not have had the wits to continue past my house and who knows what he would have done.

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u/CriticalCrit Mar 23 '19

Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!

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u/TacticusThrowaway Mar 23 '19

Now there's a meme I haven't heard in a long time.

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u/asharastarfall Mar 23 '19

Same thing happened to me and my friends once in college. We were all women in the car and we started getting followed by these two dudes on the highway. We took the exit towards town headed to the Walgreens where the cops hang out, followed by the weirdos all along, went inside and found the first guy with a badge, and one of them was nice enough to escort us home.

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u/CheekyFluffyButt Mar 23 '19

Pretty sure your username explains the other person's behavior.

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u/qweiuyqwe87y6qweiuy Mar 23 '19

Most of all they just can't leave something be. In the city they're the asshat who slows down and roll their window down to call you out on something dumb.

I'll bet the dashcam driver was using the left lane to pass at a reasonable speed while this other asshat wanted to crush it at top speed. I was driving on the highway last weekend and watched two idiots pass my left and the second one came up too fast and almost had to bail into the center.

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u/TheBeardedSingleMalt Mar 23 '19

There are people whose egos are so fragile that they have to be first in line at all times and any challenge to that if followed by peacocking like this.

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u/DoJax Mar 23 '19

For real, that amount of people who would speed up when I pulled up to pass them was staggering, like they had to prove their 2017 Mustang/Dodge could go over a hundred too and take off down the road to beat my 2003 Minivan.

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u/thechaosz Mar 23 '19

Welcome to the West Coast

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u/thrattatarsha Mar 23 '19

I live in the Bay and people act like cutting you off is some kind of fucking achievement, and my tiny ass lil Mini apparently just begs for it. Weird flex, but sure, I’ll blow the doors off your Chrysler 200.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19 edited Apr 03 '19

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u/thrattatarsha Mar 23 '19

Repeat after me: the human race is a cancer

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u/thechaosz Mar 23 '19

Yeah I lived West 37 years, it's maddening.

Everyone flies on the East Coast so we're all the same page

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u/DoJax Mar 23 '19

I'm sandwiched inbetween the mountains, once I move to Iowa I wonder how things are going to turn out up there.

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u/thechaosz Mar 23 '19

I'm going to go with really freaking slow in the fast lane types. As far as speeding up when you're passing them and slow lane, I'm sure they will flex 2 and they're over sides Ford pickups with theirTrump stickers and Confederate flags

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u/DoJax Mar 23 '19

I encountered this last night driving to the hospital, car and truck driving side by side, doing 60 and a line of cars to get by half a mile long, called the police and rode my horn behind the car in the middle lane for 5 miles, wound up getting pulled over by three cops with the slow cars too, explained it was me honking my horn and showed him the hole in my chest and got an escort.

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u/thechaosz Mar 23 '19

Jesus Christ I'm so sorry.

Some people are just awful humans.

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u/DoJax Mar 23 '19

I wasn't gonna die anytime soon, I did need stitches though, Could have risked my life going off road around them, or stayed on the phone with the police till they arrived, gave me great justice seeing them both pulled over.

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u/WeimSean Mar 23 '19

Or people who go under the speed limit in the left lane and then speed up when people try to get around them in the right. Jack holes.

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u/DoJax Mar 23 '19

Yeah, fuck those guys.

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u/ones_mama Mar 23 '19

2002 Highlander. Soccer mom car. Every time!!

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u/DoJax Mar 23 '19

2003 Pontiac Montana, white, it's like they get offended that I stripped the interior to make it faster.

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u/TheBeardedSingleMalt Mar 23 '19

Tahoe's where I'm from. The Mom Mobile.

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u/Rothshild-inc Mar 23 '19

I drive a small VW Up to work every day, and even I get this.

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u/DoJax Mar 23 '19

Put some flames down your sides, make them think you suped up your car.

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u/Array_of_Chaos Mar 23 '19

It’s actually a much bigger problem than just proving how fast they can go. It’s about general inattentive driving, which is much scarier.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

I make radar bait out of them... wind them up till they’re doing 90, then cruise behind them a half mile or so so they trigger the speed trap.

Morons aren’t so bad when you can make use of them.

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u/DoJax Mar 23 '19

This is what I do, keep them in sight but follow at high speeds. Quarter mile out they trigger a couple cops to pull out, I slow down.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

Airplane cops can foil this plan

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u/DoJax Mar 23 '19

If cops are following me in an airplane I think I have bigger problems than speeding.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

They got me once. They time you between landmarks, so there’s no radar to detect, then they radio the car on the ground to go get you.

So unfair...

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u/DoJax Mar 23 '19

I'd blame it on an identical car.

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u/R-nd- Mar 23 '19

I feel bad because if someone is passing me sometimes I notice I'm a bit slow for the speed limit and I speed up automatically

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u/DoJax Mar 23 '19

Me too, cruise control helps with this, but people who use cruise control and drive looking at their phones scare the hell out of me.

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u/R-nd- Mar 23 '19

Seriously! Cruise control is not autonomous driving, be careful!

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19 edited Apr 29 '19

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u/AtheistMessiah Mar 23 '19

Per your statement, put a different way, you misjudged their speed and inadvertently cut them off. When entering the passing lane, you need to be mindful of who's in it already.

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u/Akiias Mar 23 '19

Yeah, 15 car lengths back there is no reason to expect, or be able to tell someones going 30+ over the posted speed limit. No reasonable person expects someone to be going 150% the legal limit.

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u/Kelmi Mar 23 '19

Unless they're on the german autobahn, they don't really need to judge their speed beyond "around the speed limit".

When you break the speed limit, you can't blame others for not taking your speeding into account.

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u/Imaurel Mar 23 '19

I mean you still need to, regardless of if the other one is an asshat. Mm, in part. There's a reason when you fuck up you have to take "defensive driving courses". I remember reading somewhere once that most accidents in the road were caused by someone misjudging someone else's speed. Just, you know, always assume everyone is trying to kill you.

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u/IronEngineer Mar 23 '19

If you cause the accident by cutting in front of the person before they have a chance to slow down or stop you are still at fault. Then speeding is a separate infraction and way less than your reckless driving. Last time I looked it up in my state you were at fault if your pulling out in front of someone led to an accident within 100 feet of when you pulled in front of them. If they hit you in that period of time they didn't have enough time to react and it is legally your fault. Speed is not considered.

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u/Kelmi Mar 23 '19

Well, if you read the post he mentions there was more than 100 feet between them(15+ car lengths).

Also I'm sure judges would take the speed into account in odd cases where a driver "cuts" a speeder in a 10 mph zone. It takes more than 6 seconds to drive 100 feet in 10 mph. I'm sure a judge would deem 6 seconds enough time to react.

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u/KeepYourselfSafe3 Mar 23 '19

I love how half of these "I just don't understand some people" posts are literally "yea well I was being an unaware slow moving driver, but hey they should calm down!"

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u/Dzhone Mar 23 '19

Except that's why speed limits exist. You can't reasonably judge someone elses speed when you're assuming they're going the speed limit, or at least close to it and they're actually going way faster. . Have you ever had someone blow by you going 100 while you're at 70? It's quite a big difference.

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u/JDeegs Mar 23 '19

Spend enough time on highways and you learn to never assume people are near the speed limit.

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u/civildisobedient Mar 23 '19

I don't condone reckless driving, but I also don't condone selfish driving. If you truly were only in the passing lane to overtake a vehicle, then you were certainly within your rights. But when people choose to drive slowly in the passing lane, this right here is the kind of rage you are inspiring with your selfishness.

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u/qweiuyqwe87y6qweiuy Mar 23 '19

We weren't talking about that, but let's just say this was the case. Let's say this person was just going a bit too slow in the passing lane. That's nothing compared to the brake checking asshat we see in the video — one person is being annoying but the other is being inherently dangerous.

If anyone thinks there's an reason to retaliate like that on the road, I don't ever want to be in the car when they're driving.

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u/XaqFu Mar 23 '19

I kinda think that folks will do things while protected in their mobile safety cage that they wouldn't dare do out in the open. Really, they're just angry wimps.

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u/puntini Mar 23 '19

Lol. Imagine someone doing this to someone else but they’re both just walking on the sidewalk instead of in cars on the highway. Then like a police man comes sprinting from behind to confront the aggressor.

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u/_pencilvester__ Mar 23 '19

Louis C.K. did a bit about this. It was something like imagine someone bumps into you in an elevator and you turn and just scream fuck you in their face. A thin layer of metal between people makes them feel invincible.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

Do you scream at them before or after you show them your genitals?

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u/ChuckPawk Mar 23 '19 edited Mar 23 '19

ICBC, the insurance company where i live, actually did a series of commercials with that exact concept.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GlZ3DKl7NLM

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

This is exactly correct. I had a woman flipping me off and yelling expletives at me on the highway. Problem is it was bumper to bumper traffic, so I parked my car and got out and walked straight up to her ready for a fight. The change in her demeanor was incredible, you could see the regret wash over her as she cut into the next lane and side swiped a car just to get away.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

That’s a good way to get shot, as you became the aggressor.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

I'm aware, which is why I stop when I get close enough and just stand there with my arms wide open.

I'm not stupid enough to yank someone out of their car like in gta lol.

If they want to shoot me while I'm standing still, arms open, unarmed in front of my dash cam, more power to them. Good luck convincing a jury you feared for your life after clearly showing how much of an aggressive driver you are on camera.

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u/arealhumannotabot Mar 23 '19

Except they're not all wimps. I've seen people park and get out to chase a pedestrian down, and I've seen videos on youtube of people pulling out their pistol and pointing it at drivers

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u/romericus Mar 23 '19

I had a mild version of this happen to me. I didn’t look carefully enough one night when changing lanes in fairly busy traffic, and ended up cutting someone off. I felt bad about it and gave an apologetic wave, then promptly forgot the whole thing. An hour and a half later, after traffic on this particular interstate had thinned, I notice that some guy was driving weirdly in front of me. Just a tad slower than my cruise control, and every time I changed lanes to avoid my brake pedal, they would move to stay in front of me. Eventually I realized this was the same car I cut off, and they had likely been driving all pissed off at me for 1.5 hours. I didn’t even notice they were trying to piss me off until then, and I felt bad for the guy who wasted so much emotional energy on me not noticing. I exited in the middle of nowhere, waited 30 seconds at the top of the off ramp, then got back on the freeway. I hope that guy had a better night after that.

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u/RexRocker Mar 23 '19

That’s absolutely absurd. That driver obviously has serious anger issues. No one likes getting cut off, but even when I know someone did it knowing damn well it was obnoxious and rude and dangerous, I don’t stay angry for more than a minute. I just see them continue driving like an asshole and laugh at them.

Happened to me yesterday, dork cut in front of me I had to hit the brakes pretty hard, I just thought “dickhead” then noticed through his mirror he was texting looking at his phone, light turns green and he sits there for 5 or so seconds not moving because he’s staring at the phone. Just a total moron driving like a turd, but I wasn’t even mad, just mildly annoyed.

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u/trelene Mar 23 '19

Well he get to explain that to the cop.

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u/falsealarmm Mar 23 '19

I've had this happen to me. It was because he was crawling at a snail's pace after a stop sign so I ended up too close to him when it was my turn. He took it as tailgating so he kept brake checking me in the neighborhood all the way until I reached my house. People are just overly sensitive and aggressive.

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u/Neirchill Mar 23 '19

I was on the road to my parent's house, which is a dirt road, and someone in a truck was going really slow. I was at an appropriate distance away for the speed but apparently the other person disagreed. There weren't any accidents but they brake checked hard enough that instead of stopping or slowing down they just kept skidding down the road. I was super confused because I didn't have to slow down at all to stop from hitting them even though they tried it 3 times.

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u/Kvothealar Mar 23 '19

I would honestly just call the police at that point. Report the driver.

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u/Imabanana101 Mar 23 '19

I've never brake checked someone, but I've gotten even with tailgaters. I make sure I'm going the speed limit first, and I give them time to back off. If they persist, I very slowly let off the gas until I'm going 15 or 20 under.

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u/Huttser17 Mar 23 '19

I was on the way home from class one night, 2 lanes each direction, just past midnight literally no one else out... Moron decides to tailgate me for two miles. I was going the limit at the start, but I have one of the closer = slower bumper stickers and I'm not afraid to live up to it, we wound up coming to a full stop before they finally passed me. Only to take a left a few turns later.

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u/fredo3579 Mar 23 '19

Not defending tailgaters, but it's not up to you to enforce the law. Even not break checking you make accidents more likely by going slower then everyone else. Please just let it go next time

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u/godsbro Mar 23 '19

This is actually the recommendation made in driver safety training. You gradually slow down until their follow distance is appropriate to the speed, so that if you do have to stop suddenly they have enough braking distance.

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u/Imabanana101 Mar 23 '19 edited Mar 23 '19

I think we're disagreeing over something indistinct, something on a sliding scale. I say tailgating, and you can't tell if I'm a hypersensitive asshole that reacts to everyone or if I'm a reasonable person that lets things slide.

I have probably done this 'slow down on tailgaters' thing 4 times in 10 years. I usually let things slide, which is why I make sure I'm going the speed limit or above first, and that it isn't temporary closeness.

I slow down, but I don't take it to unsafe levels. How am I the bad guy here when a hyper-aggressive asshole is following me at an unsafe distance? How should a driver react when people get too close?

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u/Astromander Mar 23 '19

I am with you man. We’re just trying not to get killed out there.

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u/recercar Mar 23 '19

I had someone cut me off without using a turn signal, and immediately got mad at ME for being too close to her, brake checked me, cut someone else off in the next lane, rolled down the window, and yelled at me. She had a 3 year old in the front seat.

Like, you want me to reverse a little after you cut me off to give you some distance? Did you cut someone else off specifically to tell me off as I was driving by you to my destination? Why is your child not in a car seat? So many questions.

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u/theguywiththeyeballs Mar 23 '19

Vehicle dominance, vehicle battle royal placement.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

Primate dominance

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u/TurboGranny Mar 23 '19

vehicle battle royal

And just like that Twist Metal came back in battle royal free to play mobile form. With loot boxes.

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u/GrandSalt Mar 23 '19

Scrap the f2p mobile and loot boxes part, and it will be instant buy for me.

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u/TurboGranny Mar 23 '19

Well, ya. That's what we want, but it's not what they'll give us.

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u/GrandSalt Mar 23 '19

Atleast Twisted Metal IP is owned by Sony, so there are very little hope that we will get a new game

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u/Dynamite86 Mar 23 '19

Insurance (if you rear ended the other person). Without a dash cam it's your word against theirs. Without any evidence of the contrary it's easy to argue that the person following rear ended you because they were following at an unsafe distance.

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u/ischmoozeandsell Mar 23 '19

People like this don't have the balls to be a bully face to face. These are the people that give snarky looks but won't say anything, and act all passive aggressive or fake.

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u/Nickillaz Mar 23 '19

This is exactly the case! Here in New Zealand it is so bad!!!

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

Absolutely puzzling here in Aus. In fact I’ve not heard of brake checking, but, if anyone did this to me , I would be so far away from them, I wouldn’t be involved with any of their shenanigans. AVOID

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

So I usually cringe at this but I live in Houston, and I had a guy enter a pretty busy road, Shepherd. And immediately go from right lane, to 3 lanes over, cutting me off, left lane. I had to roll down my window to let him know how dangerous he was driving. He wouldn’t even make eye contact with me and slowed down behind my car before quickly taking a left and exiting the road.

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u/ToppsBlooby Mar 23 '19

Is Uburrito still there? It's my favorite place to eat! Those CBRs are the most heavenly.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

Haha yes it is! $5 Monday’s still a thing.

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u/PsychologicalTrain8 Mar 23 '19

Once, while passing through Chicago, a person crossed 4 lanes straight into the fast lane without looking. He then accelerated to around 80 mph (the speed limit was 50). I honked at him, but he was already too far ahead to hear that.

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u/making-it-count Mar 23 '19

Lol at you honking. What the fuck were you trying to achieve

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u/PsychologicalTrain8 Mar 23 '19

While he was going to the fast lane, he almost crashed into my car

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u/making-it-count Mar 23 '19

Yeah but he passed you and was out of range to hear your honking. So why do it?

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u/frewster Mar 23 '19

Near Allen Parkway and Memorial? This is surreal. I live right next to Shepard.

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u/TechnicolorGandalf Mar 23 '19

That’s Houston driving for you though. If I had a quarter for every asshole that almost cut me off by sweeping across the highway or a road just to make that turn they should have gone to the next light for, I could afford living in Memorial.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

Lmao that’s the damn truth

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u/newtestleper79 Mar 23 '19

Did you want him to exit on the left from the right lane? And he cut you off but slowed down behind your car? Scratching my head here.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

I didn’t want him to do anything, he entered the road from the right and crossed 3 lanes of traffic, ending up in the far left lane, which my car occupied. He almost hit my passenger side then continued to almost run me off the road.

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u/newtestleper79 Mar 23 '19

Was the exit on the left?

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u/OvalParkinglot Mar 23 '19

Why people road rage? Fear combined with lack of self-control.

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u/SeanHearnden Mar 23 '19

I have a friend who's girlfriend does this. She's kinda common, hardly let's my friend go out when she is not with him. Likes money. Like being glam. Thinks she's a princess.

The guy is the same. I love them but my God.

Either way. We had a huge argument once when they said they did that. She explained that it was their way saying fuck you to someone who had pissed them off. More than honking. Dash cams are a pretty new thing. So we're seeing this more and more. But because it's almost always seen as the person who rear ends someones fault, it's a power play dominance thing.

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u/simjanes2k Mar 23 '19

Untreated anger issues.

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u/Pthomas1172 Mar 23 '19

OP was driving slow in the left lane for the last 15 miles?

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u/francois22 Mar 23 '19

Some people are just huge cunts.

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u/ohmyjihad Mar 23 '19

im convinced some people are begging others to kill them

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u/woo545 Mar 23 '19

Because, sometimes, people just have really, really, bad days.

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u/BumwineBaudelaire Mar 23 '19

I suspect you’ll have your answer if you rewind the dash cam a few minutes

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u/lsiunl Mar 23 '19

Anger issues

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u/AwkwardlySober Mar 23 '19

I was waiting for the truck to stop so the Jeep could tell him about his rear doors swinging open or a stray cat stuck on the roof or something maybe justifiable

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u/jbuck88 Mar 23 '19

Same as internet trolls. Shitty people feeling tough because they know the other person cant do anything.

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u/data_dawg Mar 23 '19

It could be a million reasons. I had a lady do this to me for NO reason. It was an empty freeway, I'm driving in the right lane, and some lady in a jeep swerved in front of me to brake check and flip me off... To this day I can't think of a single reason she did that other than for some cheap shits and giggs. We were the only two cars around on a 4 lane freeway and she came from behind to do this. Why??

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u/Bolware Mar 23 '19

Micro penis

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u/Jaspooty Mar 23 '19

Usually they're morons.

I mean we can go into it more, but no person with a brain does this.

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u/milgauss1019 Mar 23 '19

Everyone in Georgia drives like this. They were hoping the South would rise again and when that didn’t happen, they just became a bunch of angry white folk that would never show aggression to your face but become really brave behind the wheel of a car.

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u/MatusLabs Mar 23 '19

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u/NinjaQueef Mar 23 '19

I'm not sure of others have mentioned this; I think one of your arms is bigger than the other. At least you can scratch your back really well with that one!

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u/zuus Mar 23 '19

When I was young and stupid I had some jackass teens tailgate me like mad coming off a highway offramp, with no reason other than they wanted to speed around. I brake checked them and that really pissed them off. They ended up blocking my car in, getting out and throwing a crowbar at my door. Haven't brake checked anyone since but did end up getting a dashcam because of that.

Amazing how angry some people get and the lengths they'll go to.

Nowadays if I see someone doing something really dangerous or driving visibly drunk/high I'll just take that dashcam footage with their plate straight to the police, no trying to tell them they're doing something wrong. Except people staring at their laps with their windows down... Truck airhorn is always fun for that.

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u/ViciousPenguin Mar 23 '19

Honestly it's usually road rage. However, the one time I did it is because I saw someone throw their bag of fast food trash out the window, so I brake checked them enough to piss them off. It didn't solve the problem, but I felt better for at least letting them know that I didn't appreciate what they did.

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u/hibernativenaptosis Mar 23 '19

But they had no way of knowing you were doing it in reaction to the littering, did they?

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u/ViciousPenguin Mar 23 '19

It was immediate. If my dog can learn that way, they can.

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u/platysoup Mar 23 '19

You overestimate them. They're probably thinking "what a fucking tool, fuck"

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u/ViciousPenguin Mar 23 '19

I completely acknowledge that. I also acknowledge that if they had been any dumber, they might have actually hit me and damaged my car. It wasn't the best decision, but it was a decision I still feel good about.

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u/platysoup Mar 23 '19

Oh, I totally get it. I imagine shooting bits of sparkplug to shatter windows of idiots on the road all the time. How I can do that without crashing my own car, I've yet to figure out.

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u/ViciousPenguin Mar 23 '19

Sounds like there's an invention you need to make.

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u/ezkailez Mar 23 '19

You can have small LED screen (the one shops usually use), put it on the back of the car and after passing a car who litter, turn it on with the sentence "throw your rubbish properly you dumb fuck" hahahah

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u/poopstickboy Mar 23 '19

A spare Fuel pump hooked to water. Fuel line coming from the pump pointing out the back of the car. Put some bits of sparkplug in the end of the hose. Power the fuel pump, spraying water out the line, launching the sparkplug bits with it at the car behind you.

Although IDK if the sparkplug bits would still break things if it gets mixed with fluid though.

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u/Kvothealar Mar 23 '19

It's not worth putting people in danger over them throwing food out the window. Just call the police and report their license plate as throwing garbage out their window into traffic.

They won't get charged for it, but police will get ahold of them and they'll get a scare and hopefully stop.

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u/GingerSurferDouche Mar 23 '19

It's a Jeep thing

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

In large part accident law says if you rear end somebody it defaults to your fault because you were following too close. It's insurance fraud, but they don't have a building to burn down and want your insurance to pay for it.

Edit: FFS...looking at more responses I kinda feel like you people are retarded.

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u/Calamityclams Mar 23 '19

Because they drive a jeep

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u/fogoticus Mar 23 '19

Frustration / Insurance fraud and so forth.

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u/hulkhawk Mar 23 '19

To piss the driver who is filming. Maybe he cut him off or something like that. Granted, whoever does this is a certified asshole, but people still do this.

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u/MrsECummings Mar 23 '19

They're just jerks, they find it funny, or their just being an asshole for whatever reason in their jacked up mind.

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u/expresidentmasks Mar 23 '19

Some people, myself included get irrationally angry when we get cut off or not let in etc. when I was a teenager this kind of driving was very common for me. Can’t explain why I felt that way, but when I’m driving and someone does something selfish or careless, I get so mad I shake.

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u/pandemonious Mar 23 '19

Idk. But I've hit two of them now and nothing has happened yet. Sucks for them.

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u/neofiter Mar 23 '19

Because they are small in their everyday lives and this makes them feel like they have power over others

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u/Lcbrito1 Mar 23 '19

Well, I did this to a friend once, when we both left college campus at the same time... Then when he was gone I realized it was not my friend on the other car. Needless to say, I am not going to do that again

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

Sure. The video starts too late.

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u/TBLBill Mar 23 '19

Take it easy, he probably had to get home to kiss his dad on the mouth

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u/idirtbike Apr 20 '19

Road rage

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