Dealing with road rage and 4 wheelers in general

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  1. 1278PA

    1278PA Road Train Member

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    I had a Subaru a few months back get nuts too now that I remember. I turned into a shopping center again in my old trusty 97 Tahoe and this subie is up my ### but there is a car in front of me that don't know where they f they are going. My back window is tinted jet black and my Tahoe is wider then the idiots car in front of me so the subie dude thought it was me not knowing where or what I was doing because he didn't know there was a car in front of me.

    So the car in front of me finally found it's way back to earth so I turn left and come to the red light. As soon as that thing turned green that subie raced around the left of me and cut right in front of me and took off like 100. We met up at a 4 way stop and he leans out his window waving his ### banger at me. I put up my phone recording him and he leans out the window with both his ### bangers this time and takes off.

    Some people just need meds.
     
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    I don’t really worry about cars much. I cruise in the middle lane and leave plenty of room in front of me for people cutting me off.

    If I need to get over most people will move when you put your blinker on. If you don’t want to move we can play that game and I’ll start creeping over then I bet you will.

    Idk man don’t let road rage get to you or bad drivers or you’re going to spend your whole day pissed off. When people flick you off give them the finger gun and smile.
     
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    Its an everyday occurrence unfortunately the stress of city driving can make some people go kookoo I drive on a one lane highway each day and cause we have no dual carriage way have to put up with all these cars towing caravan's at 85km ph in 100 km zone talk about how frustrating when they [a]. refuse to speed up . refuse to pull over and allow traffic to pass.
     
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    Get a good dash cam and use it all the time. So that if it develops into something you will have it on video rather than he said she said.

    I usually have a passenger with me and if there is going to be a problem she is on the phone with the law in our area. They have no problem rustling up the aggressive road rager. We have recently suffered some deaths on our local roads from senseless road raging including a famous one where 4 non american travelers were killed in a Caddy from one of two road ragers hitting head on after he cross the yellow.

    Road raging is fairly common here in Arkansas and we are happy to have them in the front. Worse case scenario we would leave the highway and use a alternate route to get home or where we are going once the problem vehicle has passed the off ramp.

    If the rager is behind us, we will get in front of a 18 wheeler. That driver would not like us too much but I would use a little finesse to scrape the rager off. There is a few other methods in addition to using a semi that I would also employ to get the rager into the front and that would be a bit of braking in the mix.

    We havent had trouble lately with a rager and I own a tahoe myself. My insurance agent said that generally I am the crusher, not the crushee and it's good to be the crusher if it came to a problem (That is where the camera comes into play if something did happen.) But I would have done a number of things to eliminate the rager as a ongoing problem long before then.

    The last time we had a rager in our 18 wheeler the law got involved rather quickly and removed that parasite before something did happen that cannot be fixed. But generally the rager removes themselves.

    That's all we have, I am sorry that we are not more specific, ragers are a problem and a unwelcome one. And they do show up now and then. It's unfortunate. As a licensed carry, I am even less inclined to continue to have a problem with a rager who has no idea.
     
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    I like to add humor in saying: "They forgot to take their medication."

    Seriously.... As of 2014, there were 70 million American's on legal, prescribed, mind altering drugs. ...Think about it.
    In my research and discovery of health. It's getting bad.
    ...All I have discovered in eating really good food. I'm talking shopping at farmers markets, or health food stores. Avoid all the pesticides, GMO foods, even beef that's been shot up with drugs to make it grow. It does make a big difference. People are eating pesticides. They can't be washed off completely. Can't be washed off at all with broccoli.
    ...Also things like vaccines. Younger people have had far more vaccines than us older people have had to tolerate. They have literally created autism with a vaccine... It's been proven. The government coverup was proven. Most of these vaccines are to make the drug companies easy money. They are immune from legal responsibility. The law made it that way.
    ...Every drug is a toxin to the body. Every last one. Think long and hard about it.

    ...All of this stuff is making people nuts. I'm convinced that what we take into our bodies is a major contributor to mental health problems.
    Sometime I think about why I'm even still in this life. Why I haven't been born into the next yet. Must be to watch and witness the making of the Apocalypse. Exactly how it goes down. All these drugs, toxins, stuff people eat, are at the basis of what is creating that mentality of self destruction. It's all based on greed. The Roman's knew about lead. They just decided they were ok if they weren't exposed to too much of it. They were wrong.
    Think long and hard. Don't let this life hold you down to it. Live for forever. Live for life, not destruction. Wish all life, and life more abundant. You will begin to be part of life itself. Part of who has control over those particles that make up protons, neutrons, and electrons. Those particles that do not obey the laws of nature.

    On the cameras. There is also a portable camera for rear view. Other half is a unit you put in the cab. There is also an extension so the radio signal can work from the back of a 53 foot trailer. One of these would be another help.
     
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    It is not just four wheelers. I've had trucks play games. This morning I had a rush trucking driver play games with a couple of us while returning home, he wasn't happy with us passing him and cut in front of us and sat pacing another truck. This ended up nearly causing an accident because people were going to miss their exit and tried to change lanes with everyone bunched up. It isn't the first time this has happened, and I know rush trucking doesn't give a crap about what their drivers do so complaining is useless.