Road Rage / Middle Finger

Marcus.Aurelius

ambro25 wrote:

Typical reply to a lady's finger wave is, driving circumstances permitting, either to

(i) blow her a kiss, as previously suggested, or

(ii) sign-languaging 'You?' (finger pointing at her) then 'Me?' (finger pointing at self, sequence conveys 'you and me?') then a prayer gesture and a look of rapture - some go redder than a red light at that one

lmao

OLDYELLAR

Na giving the middle finger I wouldnt consider that road rage. You could report her for dangerous driving alright but na the finger definately not.

jwt

ambro25 wrote:

... though I've been known in my younger days to drive a car or two off the road after they either accelerated while I was overtaking (gravest sin in my driving book)

I can never figure out why people feed the need to accelerate while you overtake them.

Mind you the equall and opposite of overtaking someone then slowing down is equally silly

John

Stark

jwt wrote:

I can never figure out why people feed the need to accelerate while you overtake them.

It tends to be either

a) Indignation. "I'm not letting that speeder get past me!". Irony being that you're the more dangerous driver in this case and are showing no regard for any oncoming traffic even if the overtaker was in the wrong.

b) Obliviousness. Driver sees a clear stretch and decides to give it some throttle without so much as a glance to the mirrors to see if anyone has decided to overtake him/her on the clear stretch.

unkel

Stark wrote:

It tends to be either

a) Indignation. "I'm not letting that speeder get past me!". Irony being that you're the more dangerous driver in this case and are showing no regard for any oncoming traffic even if the overtaker was in the wrong.

b) Obliviousness. Driver sees a clear stretch and decides to give it some throttle without so much as a glance to the mirrors to see if anyone has decided to overtake him/her on the clear stretch.

With about 90% in the latter category in this country in my experience.
Oblivious, ignorant, incompetent, uneducated and hence dangerous as drivers

jmayo

An old example of drivers having no regard for other road users was something that used to happen a fair amount on country roads years ago.
I haven't come across this much nowadays.
While driving at night, some eejit with spots all over the front of his car, aka Billy Coleman's rallycar, would come up behind you and blind you as way of making you move or just for the hell of it.

Well someone I heard of was tired of this and came up with an interesting response. He mounted a powerful rear tractor light in back of his van with switch on dash. Next time someone did this to him, he accelerated suddenly and hit the light switch . Suffice to say guy ended up in ditch and was taught a valuable lesson in manners.
I know it is not legal and is dangerous for person behind, but I have to say some people just deserve what they get.

I just hope some of the people that do the very inconsiderate stuff in this country try it somewhere like the states.

green123

iceman
it is a good idea to beep the horn at people because it lets them know they have done something wrong. maybe they will think about what they did wrong and maybe not do it again.
if you dont beep then they probably have no idea they have done something wrong

Andrewf20

I suffer from road rage. Recent incidents include roaring my head off with rage behind the wheel after been stuck in a queue of cars blocked by a car at the front trundling along the sliproad coming onto the M50 at 35 mph.

I have no patience whatsoever for drivers who are not clued into even the basics of driving. Even as a passenger I can get freaked!

Dr. Loon

icemanjimbo04 wrote:

Well firstly if they dont see you, chances are your in their blind spot.. so if you just brake a little it wouldnt be a problem. Unless overtaking you shouldnt really drive along knowing you are in someones blind spot tho..

If you're going to change lanes, one of the first and last things you do is check your blind spot. I often beep people who are trying to change lanes into my car. Check your f*ckin blind spot!

Regards road rage, I was once heading into Dublin city and was first in the queue at a red light. The lights went green and I cut out. Woops! As I was turning the key to start the engine again the guy behind me started going nuts. Beeping the horn and flashing me.

It took me about 3 seconds to restart the car and take off. He annoyed me with his impatience so I flipped him the bird. It was hilarious how he reacted. Started punching his wheel and dash and generally looking like a mentalist. I mean I cut out and delayed traffic for 3 seconds. I know city centre driving is all fairly rushed and some lights can change within seconds but cop on and chill out.

Esel

Tauren wrote:

No, i mean anagram. Thats what all the cool kids have decided it will be used for. ya old fogie.

No, you mean acronym, you FW!

IrishRover

cavedave wrote:

"Have you ever gotten pissed off in traffic? Like, really pissed off? I think we all have. We've thrown finger gestures and wedged our heads out of the window and screamed "LEARN TO F*CKING DRIVE, F*CKER!!" We've all pulled the gun out of the glove compartment and let a few fly at the offending car. Not firing at their head or anything. Just, you know, at their tires.

Now imagine yourself standing in an elevator with three other people, two friends and a coworker. A friend goes to hit a button and accidentally punches the wrong one. Would you lean over, your mouth two inches from her ear, and scream "LEARN TO OPERATE THE ****ING ELEVATOR BUTTONS, ****CAMEL!!"

They'd think you'd gone insane."

http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/monkeysphere.html

Thanks for that brilliant link. A great read - really funny.

Spitfire666

overdriver wrote:

Heartwarming story, Spit!!



(Hope you're going to swing by next week to check out my new Triumph, given you're in the area??)

What area is that now?

UrbanFox

Andrewf20 wrote:

I suffer from road rage. Recent incidents include roaring my head off with rage behind the wheel after been stuck in a queue of cars blocked by a car at the front trundling along the sliproad coming onto the M50 at 35 mph.

I have no patience whatsoever for drivers who are not clued into even the basics of driving. Even as a passenger I can get freaked!

You will achieve peace and serenity when you eventually realise your inevitable potential and either kill or maim someone, quite possibly yourself !!

overdriver

Spitfire666 wrote:

What area is that now?

Same area we were both in when you were going to show me the Spitfire, and I was going to show you the Herald a few months back. Unless you've moved?

blastman

I met some moron on the M1 tonight who drove like he was trying to cause an accident and finished our encounter (just before I left the motorway) by undertaking me (I was at the back of a line of five or six cars) and then pulling over in an attempt to run me off the road. After this exceptional driving display had gotten him in front of me (because I didn't want his sh1theap Hiace to be the demise of my car), he then proceeded to give me the finger.

I have his reg, any point in doing any more about it? Or do I already know the answer to that?

cavanmaniac

Guys, what happens, if anything, when you report the morons you encounter on the road? There's a particular spot I know where there's single line traffic over a narrow rural bridge, oncoming cars heading into a village are supposed to yield to cars leaving, but frequently you get chancers barging through forcing traffic with the right of way to yield. And of course, sticking up the fingers when you flash them or blow at them. I often thought of reporting them but never have.

Reallllllllly bloody annoys me. I was overtaking heading from Kentstown to Navan recently and ahead of me on a long straight a car was looking to pull out from the right, as I was overtaking I assumed he'd seen me and wouldn't do anything ridiculous like pull out into the road.

Alas, no, this was too much to hope for and out he comes regardless forcing me to dangerously cut back into the middle of the two cars I was passing. I gave him the lights, he gives me the wanker sign.

Sometimes I despair about the way this country is going I really do, but tell me, is it the Garda traffic watch you call and do they actually do anything?

Pherekydes

cavanmaniac wrote:

I was overtaking heading from Kentstown to Navan recently and ahead of me on a long straight a car was looking to pull out from the right, as I was overtaking I assumed he'd seen me and wouldn't do anything ridiculous like pull out into the road.

Do you mean you were overtaking approaching a junction?

Spitfire666

cavanmaniac wrote:

Guys, what happens, if anything, when you report the morons you encounter on the road? ........................Sometimes I despair about the way this country is going I really do, but tell me, is it the Garda traffic watch you call and do they actually do anything?

They cant do anything unless you the witness are willing to go to court having made an official statement of complaint and are willing to stand up and give evidence as to what you seen. which when it comes down to it most people are not.



Sorry overdriver, i have no idea what your on about LOL.

mikemac

Wow, a lot of rage in this thread.

There was a program on BBC about a young driver that was full of rage and constantly roaring and beeping at people in cars. An example was if people didn't move when the lights turn green with the reaction speeds of Fernando Alonso, he's be swearing and beeping.

They got him to walk down a busy street, a bit like Grafton St, or Shop ST, Galway. Of course people walked across him, slower than him, brushed past him but he never got angry as it was just different people going at different speeds.

He then had to apply this to his driving and calmed down considerably. It's easy to sit in a car and be brave and roar at someone but people don't do this to a stranger in a footpath.

So relax people...I drive a motorbike and am far more vunerable than any car user but have had no road rage incidents yet.

Edit: I know you have a right to be defensive if someone puts your life in danger but for simple stuff like stalling at lights or going 10km per hour below the limit there's no need to go mad

fletch

I experienced road rage this morning.....after dropping my parents to the Airport, was coming back the M50 Northbound. From the M1 interchange all the way to the Blanchardstown exit, some idiot in his BMW 5-series sat in the overtaking lane with a Megane up his ass trying to get by(the BMW was not doin 120kph and had ample opportunities to move over to the driving lane as there wasn't much traffic). I got really annoyed when the knob driving the Beemer put his hand out the window and gestured to the Megane to back off. At which point I dived up the inside, pulled up parallel to the Beemer and held my hand on the horn :mad: No response from the BMW driver. So anyway I left the motorway at the Blanchardstown exit, at which point the Megane driver went to undertake the BMW, and all of a sudden the BMW driver decides to very slowly move back into the driving lane! :eek: I wish I had have taken the BMW drivers registation and reported him for dangerous driving.