Help? Just Got Followed Into My Neighborhood (Road Rage)

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I was behind someone swerving in between lanes going 25 miles on a 65 MPH highway, a few weeks back, and gave a little tap of my horn, in case they were looking at their phone or something. They stopped swerving but were driving in the middle of two lanes at once, so I passed them in the remaining lane, and in doing so they rolled their window down and made a gun firing motion with their fingers as I drove by.

It's probably best to just go around them, and quietly call the police I guess.
 
I had a guy follow me and then I proceeded to the nearest police station. That was the end of it.

Also, if someone pulls right next to you at the light and seems pretty angry, ignore him or her. The person wants to see a reaction and justify having a road rage incident.
 
Glad youre ok but wow thats a dick move(going under 5). Damn for all you know hes rushing to the hospital. Or worse.. he has massive diarrhea.
 
DirtyLarry said:
I think you are okay if nothing else happened.
I got hit in the face with a McDonald's Cheeseburger thanks to Road Rage, not kidding.
We were at the Holland Tunnel going into NYC, summer time windows down, my friend who was driving pulled a dick move and did not let the car behind us in breaking the common courtesy flow of every other car. Dude was cursing at us and beeping the entire time through the tunnel and when we got out of the tunnel and the traffic broke up a little he sped up on the passenger side, my side, and hit me square in the face with a wrapped McDonald's cheeseburger.

Dumbfounded, I looked at him, unwrapped it, and proceeded to eat the entire thing. This made him furious beyond belief, so he followed us for a good 5 blocks, until my boy who was in the back seat said pull over, which the driver did, and my boy got out of the car, as did the driver of the other car, and my friend laid him out with one punch like it was the fucking movies.

It was all crazy as it sounds and ever since I do my absolute best to avoid any additional road rage incidents.

You'll be fine OP. If they didn't do anything as it all went down its over.
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I desperately want every word of this to be true

Glad you're safe, op. I wouldn't worry about this following you home.
 
99Luffy said:
Glad youre ok but wow thats a dick move(going under 5). Damn for all you know hes rushing to the hospital. Or worse.. he has massive diarrhea.
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To clarify I was doing 5 under the speed limit, not under 5. So I let off the gas until I was doing 40MPH in a 45 :P

Definitely feeling better now, as is my roommate, going to try to get some sleep now. Hamburger story makes me wondering what the guy threw as I drove off though. Maybe I'll go back to the area tomorrow and see if there's anything around :D
 
All my instances of road rage usually start with me doing something reckless and Floridian, and end with them deescalating it once they look at me and see that I'm just a sweet little lamb.

Glad you're ok OP. Road Rage is never worth it
 
CarpeDeezNutz said:
I had something like this happen to me, i was driving around with my cousin and his friend while we were curising in a new car he just got. We dropped some acid and were laughing our asses off at how the downtown city lights lights looked like they morphed into a tunnel we were driving into. Out of nowhere these two cars drive up to us and one of the drivers was acting like he was an owl and chasing us for no reason. We pull up to a red light and they say "Hey Passat, let's eat!" We lost them after a while, ended up coming down from our trip watching Daria and at my grandma's (not sure how we ended up there) and Lars Ulrich printing out names of people who illegally downloaded Metallica's music on Napster on MTV.


Never saw them again.
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Please never drive again.
 
I got road raged at a taco bell for supposedly cutting a guy off into the drive thru lane. He yelled bitch at me and flashed his headlights. I ignored him until he bumped my car. I got out, took photos of the incident and warned him I'd file against his insurance if there was any damage. I was yelling the whole time. Luckily there was no damage.

The next time this happens I'm just noping the heck outta there. People get shot over stupid incidents like this.
 
Pretty good one here.

My grandfather is a truck driver and my grandparents owned and lived next to a building that docked trucks

Me and my grandmother were at home and someone knocks on the door. Some 20 something year old girl was saying hey call the police this man is about to hurt my boyfriend. My grandmother looks out and my grandfather is pulled over on the side of the highway.

My grandmother looked at her and said you better get out of here. Mostly cause she isn't calling the police I guess.

The girl look horrified and said this is his house.

Turns out the boy was brake stopping in front of him to be a dick. He was in front of my grandfather and he was mostly angry cause he could have hit him and killed him because tricks are hard to stop with weight. He definitely has a temper though and the boy did stop and pull over in front of him to show off even more I guess. My grandfather said he had a gun when he walked up, punched through the glass and took it from him and was going back to his truck to call the police.

And the boy was apparently shitless scared after that.

My grandfather is a small man, only 5'9 or so but a good and overly tough guy. Seen him collapse his steering wheel in a crash into a tree and walk away saying he isn't going to the hospital. But he was hurting later.
 
It's unlikely it was due to road rage, but my fiance (girlfriend at the time) was driving and I was in the car, and at noticed this truck following us the entire way home. He pulled into the apartment complex behind us and that freaked us out a bit. We decided to drive past her apartment, make a loop in the parking lot, and if he isn't gone by then, leave out the other side of the parking lot. He followed us the whole way, even on the loop. We went out of the complex and onto a nearby busy street. The truck stopped at a gas station, so we went around and took a different way home, and no one was following us this time.

Nothing else ever came of it, but it sure was scary. Our guess was he was scoping out her place to potentially break in later.
 
Dice said:
I don't think safety in response to recklessness is a dick move.
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Going 5 mph under the speed limit isn't "safety." Especially when it's done specifically to teach the guy a lesson.

mike6467 said:
Yeah, slowing down isn't aggressive by any means, but it boils down to me being able to defuse the situation by getting out of the way, and choosing not to.

My roommate is currently trying to avoid a panic attack, it freaked her the fuck out. I can deal with the consequences of my actions (had I been alone I may have stayed and dealt with the guy), but that choice put someone else in danger and I feel a bit sick thinking about it. Lesson learned I guess. Thanks all for the replies, this thread did a lot to reassure us.
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Yes it is. Passive-aggressive, at the very least. You did it specifically to show the guy that he's going too fast. As I said, it doesn't deserve such a disproportionate response, but you had to expect some kind of response. Don't act innocent, is all I'm saying.
 
Something similar happened to me and my girlfriend when the Pokemon Go craze was at it's height. There's a Pokestop near her house at a station and one night (about 9pm) we drove into it to get close enough to get it, then we were going home. Out of a random parking spot this guy suddenly drives forward (he had no parking lights on) and tries to cut me off. I think "man what a fucking retard", say this to myself and drive behind his car and exit the parking area and start driving home. I park nearish to the house after this guy is following us for a little while to see if he just happens to be going the same way. He pulls up beside us and is staring at us intently. I go "fuck this" and drive off. I drove through a red light (where I knew there wasn't a red-light camera) to see if he would follow me through. He did. I drove all around my girlfriend's suburb and after about 20 minutes we get to a double-set of turning lanes and he parks very close to me and yells "I'll fucking follow you all night."

It's at this point I've gone nah fuck this and told my gf to call 000 (911 for Australians) to get emergency services on the phone and to give me the phone. I've still got adrenaline pumping at this point and am pretty calm considering. I tell the responder that we're being tailed and he says the only way anyone can help me at this time is to go to the nearest police station and he's sure the guy will back off. I go ok, but I'm staying on the line.

I pretty much speed to the police station, this guy still on my arse and pull up to the police entrance of the cop station where I see two police officers sitting in their car. I roll up and say "this fucking dude is following me, can you please tell him to stop". They got his side of the story, and get this, he told them that he is "paranoid schizophrenic" and he thought we were following him. Uh, okay? Eventually the guy leaves and all the adrenaline in my body is gone and I'm shaking like crazy. Cops talk to us for a while and say if we spot him on the way home to call 000 again and to quote their names and badge numbers.

Haven't seen the guy since.
 
I feel your pain OP.

I was victim to a pretty bad road rage incident a few years ago. I hadn't been driving long back then and it effected my confidence as a driver for a while after.

In my incident I was at a yellow box junction cross roads and I was at the front, but as my exit wasn't clear I couldn't move forward. The guy in the car behind me didn't see it that way and thought that hitting is horn repeatedly would get me to move. I stayed where I was but I could see in my mirror that this guy was angry, hitting his steering wheel and shouting obscenities though is window at me.

To cut a long story short the guy ended up following me to a supermarket car park where we had it out. I ended up calling him a fat stupid cunt in the end after i lost my cool and he backed off when he saw that I was losing it too. Its hard to admit but I legit cried when I got back home and the adrenalin had worn off, and I ended up catching the bus to work that night as I didn't want to drive.

Some of the people that suffer from road rage are the nicest people when their not behind the wheel.They'll open doors for you and let you push in the queue when your in a hurry, but they turn into monsters behind the wheel.

Try not to take it personally, and don't let it stop you from driving as you were and certainly don't try to speed up if someone is tailing you in the future.
 
My mom made some innocent driving mistake and the dude chased her down and tried to assault her when she was about to get out for some Walgreens shopping. Fortunately she didn't get out quicker, because she hadn't even noticed that he chased her down and parked next to her. He jumped out of his car and tried to open her door, then proceeded to start beating on her car.

Also fortunate that a truck driver had witnessed the whole thing,, realized what the dude was doing, and chased him down to set the road rage guy straight. Mom is mid 60s and was alone. Crazy guy had his wife with him.
 
eggandI said:
Get a gun and wave it at the next road rager who tries to follow you
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had a dude tail me on my hour long trip from home to work even when speeding or going 5 below the speed limit. Still don't know what set him off or why he tailed me the whole way. Thankfully he ended up taking a different exit before I got to work
 
This is why I'm going to take a concealed weapons course. This happens a lot in Florida and I'll put to the test if a guy wants to risk his life over something stupid like getting mad for driving the speed limit.
 
mike6467 said:
Holy shit, shaken.

I was just driving home from the grocery store with my roommate in the car. We were doing the speed limit when a car (an Escalade) comes up behind me and tails me and is generally driving aggressively. This is a residential area where people walk, so I decided it was a good idea to slow down to 5 under to make a point. This was a bad idea. I should've let him pass. I won't do things like this in the future. I couldn't have imagined the response.

Anyways we got to a double turn lane, he pulled up next to me and I just looked over with a puzzled "What the fuck" look and tried to visibly shrug, there was clearly a women in the car and I assumed things were done at this point, because who would lose their shit with their wife/girlfriend in the car?

Apparently this guy, because we took the turn. He proceeded to get in my lane and tail me HARD. My neighborhood was coming up, and this was already freaking me out, so I didn't go home. I proceeded through another part of the neighborhood and tried to turn around in a cul-de-sac so I could get into a public place He attempted to box me in and almost hit my driver's side when I was turning around. I panicked at this point and told my roommate to call 911. I slowed down, and when I saw him get out out of his car I gunned it around him, he screamed at me and I'm pretty sure he threw something.

I didn't stop, and just got out of the area. We proceeded to get on the highway, drive for about 20 minutes and take an alternate route home. My roommate hadn't actually finished dialing 911 and she didn't finish the call because at the time we were panicked and just focused on the moment, this was probably a mistake as well.

Shook as fuck right now. I'm just glad nobody got hurt, but I'm wondering what I should do, and what I should be worried about. I didn't get his plate number, but he easily could've gotten mine, should I look at replacing them? I mean should I be filing a police report given how little information I have? I just know it was a white, late model Escalade and the dude was white with glasses.

Mostly I'm paranoid that this guy could find out where I live, my roommate has two kids and I'm feeling like a total failure for doing something so stupid. I feel like I'm overreacting here, but when someone did as much as they did under these circumstances and was clearly ready to resort to violence, I don't know what limits they'll go to.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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I dont get why you wanted to make a point? You think the driver would change his mind? You didnt think this would make them angry?
You should only do that kind of thing if you have leverage.

At least you were wise enough to learn from your mistake.
 
Some people get absolutely nutty when they're behind the wheel. Glad you're ok, OP. On a related note, I was walking my little dog today on a calm residential road and I heard a car behind me speed up. I turned my head to see an SUV drive past so close to me that it nearly hits my dog. I was bewildered at this point and I saw the driver shrug her shoulders as she passed me. There were no other cars, there was plenty of room on the road, and also, I'm in a wheelchair. I was fucking livid. Some people turn into Mr. Hyde behind the wheel and it infuriates me.
 
you should have probably filmed it
Zee-Row said:
This is why I'm going to take a concealed weapons course. This happens a lot in Florida and I'll put to the test if a guy wants to risk his life over something stupid like getting mad for driving the speed limit.
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honestly you sound like a person that shouldn't have a concealed carry permit
 
Im glad I spent the money on front and rear dash cams. Never know when they'll come in handy. I would have also drove on the freeway and tried to loose them like you did. N
Glad the guy didn't have a gun op.
 
Yikes..... I'm glad you guys are okay.

And thanks for actually describing what happened. I bet it was hard to do but thanks.
 
If someone starts tailing you like that just drive to the nearest police station. Had something similar happen to me once:

- Finished having a lunch/picnic with kids etc in the car. Was parked up by a lake thing where lots of people go for walk/runs/cycling/feeding ducks etc.
- Checked around me, nothing coming went to slowly drive off
- Next thing a horn tooted at me and it was a guy on motorbike.
- Motorbike guy pulled up to the side of me, I wound down my window and said 'sorry my bad' (hadn't seen him coming and didn't move off at any great speed)
- Motorbike guy says menacingly 'that's not good enough'
- told him to 'well, fuck off then' and drove off. I mean really. What else are you meant to say/do?

He started following me. Drove for about 10 mins to my normal destination, when I realised he was still following, just headed to the nearest police station. A couple of minutes before getting there he changed direction and just went off.
 
Did you get his license plate? Report him. People like that should not be allowed to drive, or to mix with normal people in general.
 
Yeah, like everyone said, these people aren't likely to come after you anymore so you should be fine.

I once had an SUV chase me and my friends on the highway and try to ram us off road because my friend who was driving at the speed limit didn't let them pass (technically they would be speeding). In the end the SUV got in front of us and stopped in the middle of the road. 4 guys come out of the car, so my friend instantly comes out of the car and punches one out. He fell into the other lane (the lanes are at different heights).

His friends get supper pissed, so one guy calls out to the driver to get the gun from the car. We're like Oh shit, we're dead ! The driver gets in the car and drives off leaving the 2 guys alone in the middle of the road lol. I guess he heard his friends say they have a gun or something.He just left them there and bolted. We kicked their asses. The next day, a lot of people at the university were asking us what happened (I guess someone saw us) luckily we didn't get into trouble since we were with university basketball team at the time.
 
I had to flee a group of guys in a car years back because they apparently didn't tolerate me cutting them off (safely) when I was forced to due to road work. They followed me for miles before I just said fuck it and gunned it. Thankfully I was in a way faster car. At that point I know they were following me until I bailed or stopped, they still tried even after I took off. They weren't leaving. And I live in a country where we have no right to carry guns around, thankfully.

Yes yes I know, if I had a gun! It would have been me vs. 4 all the same. No thanks.

Avoiding your house and driving around was the right move.

Didn't read thread. I now see all the concealed carry blablabla. In my situation, for example, what does that achieve? I get one or two, and I'm down? Awesome. Totally would love a shoot out on the highway with 4 random dudes for no reason. Sounds fantastic. Enjoy your guns!
 
This thread reminds me that my girlfriend was followed home about a month ago because she was at a stop sign and the car in front of her was just parked there and not moving so she gave a little honk and the animal in the car didn't like that and started cursing her out and then followed her everywhere. She called the cops and tried to lead her there but fucked off when they got close, I despise Floridian drivers, like I get pissed as shit sometimes driving but never ever to the point of following anyone and cursing them out.
 
I don't get this kind of road rage.

We're all sharing the road, sometimes others do things we hate, sometimes it's us. We all mess up from time to time.

Or that long ago, I was in the fast lane ( it was bust and all lanes were busy) and I normally stick to the speed limit. A guy comes up behind me obviously didn't like I was going at the speed limit in the fast lane, as he flashed his lights.

So I realise I'm probably not being considerate so decide to switch off the fast lane to let him pass. I indicate as required and change lanes into a gap. Apparently a truck behind me thought I was cutting him off - I mean seriously I was trying to be considerate and get out of the fast lane, but how can I do that with a hug truck to my side? Of course I would speed up and pull in front of the gap. If i were to slow down to pull behind it the flashing lights guy behind me would've be done me in.

Anyway, the truck driver decides he doesn't like what I did and tailgates me REALLY close. I had two kids in the car and so kept trying to avoid him but there he was. I eventually switched lanes again and he drives past honking at me.

I don't get it. I mean even if I were in the wrong for driving too slow (and slow meaning the speed limit), I acknowledge this by trying to rectify the situation only to annoy someone else.

We're all on the road together we could show some patience with others.
 
Definitely report it. About a year ago, I was a victim of similar road rage: someone didn't understand how merging onto the highway works and almost collided with us as a result, so they started following us and eventually threw a beer bottle or something at our car. Unfortunately, they didn't get much other than a note put in the database for if the cops run into them within their jurisdiction again, but I still feel much safer knowing that they have the information just in case something did happen.

Next time something like that happens, get the person in the passenger seat to start filming. That video proof would have made all the difference.
 
Ah yes good ol road rage stories. Six or seven years ago, a bit after last call my buddy and I were walking home from the bar to his place. Streets are fairly mellow, but we see a cab awkwardly cut off a convertible only for them to both be sitting lined up at a red light. Convertible driver gets out and walks up to cabs window, yelling all sorts of body murder. Cab driver finally gets out, immediately they start going at it/ rolling around right there on the street in the middle of the night. Convertible driver is probably a good 25 years younger than the cabbie and is beating him pretty good. I want to go peel them apart but my friend restrains me.
All the while, convertibles chick is sitting in the passenger side screaming at him. During the tussle, she climbs into the drivers seat, puts the car in gear and speeds off into the opposite direction. Convertible driver is not amused, gets up off the ground and runs down the street into the darkness somewhere. Cabbie lays there for a moment as his bones knit, picks himself up out of the street pathetically, gets in cab and drives away.
There's a reason I don't watch much television.
 
My husband had to change his route to work because some fucker apparently held some sort of grudge and kept trying to run him off the road.
 
Haven't read all the responses so I apologize if I reiterate shit.

First of all, I'm glad you're okay and nothing serious happened.

But honestly... he probably saw the fear in your eyes and proceeded to fuck with you some more. The fact you still shook over a tailgater is pretty funny.

Also, why start shit and then call the cops?

I want to downplay the situation, but I do realize the risks of having some petty idealism/ having a face off in those metal death machines.

Don't be a narc when you start shit.


My brother gets in these situations all the time. It bothers me.
 
Had a guy follow me and then pull a gun and point it at me because we were on a 2 lane road that merged down to 1 lane and he was not happy that I merged in front of him?

another time, had some punk kid try to start some shit at a stoplight until I guess he realized that I was a lot bigger and tougher looking than him so he just sped off. that was more confusing than anything
 
Linkura said:
My husband had to change his route to work because some fucker apparently held some sort of grudge and kept trying to run him off the road.
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I don't know why this made me laugh.


Just imagining this dude on his way to work, sees your husbands car, and thinks "I'll get you this time"
 
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