tail gaters SUCK!

[Firebird]

I was just reading some of the other posts when I remembered how much this pisses me off. every morning I drive 20 miles to school and of those 20 miles I spend 19.9 of them with some stupid assed mother fucker in a *insert the name of any mid priced automobile here* right up my ass. Why the fuck do people have to ride my ass? It doesn't matter if I do 10 under or 25 over the speed limit there they are right there on my ass! I understand that people are in a hurry but shit if your in that big of a hurry go fucking around me, don't ride my ass! and worst of all is the last couple of months have been on and off snow, and a normal intellegent person would think that this would mean you drive with a little more space in between you and the person in front of you, but fuck no the same kind of people are right out there riding my ass. I got tail gated a few weeks back by some dude in an Eclipse (not implying anything about Eclipse drives ) but here we were driving down the highway and it's snowing like a mo fo and I'm doing 45-50 plenty fast (maybe too fast) for the conditions and he is right up my ass so to try and get him to back up i fish tail to show him how slippery it is well being an idiot he doesn't get the clue and instead rides my ass more.

finally we get to a split in the road and he takes the other direction I think ok he turn off, (but this is a weird road because both directions of the fork intersect the main road, so you can turn on to it from both roads of the fork) well I'm stoped at the stop sign for the main road and look over and what do I see he blows the fucking stop sign and jumps on it so I have to wait for him to go past me by now I was really pissed so I nailed it and called him all sorts of nasty names (can we say road rage ) but I just ended up giving up I didn't need to make anymore of an ass of myself than I already did.

but this is something that I deal with everyday and I know a lot of you probibly do to so does anyone have any good advise on how to stop stupid assed people like that from tail gating?

sorry this was so long I just got caught up in something that really pisses me off, now I feel a lot better.

[MaFi0s0]

i dont think a bumper sticker is in the question.

so if they are really shitting you off that bad just slow down so they gotta break heavily, i dont know about the laws over there but here, you can stop suddenly and if the car behind you hits you from behind its there fualt.

[89ssgti]

just a question like that,if they ride your ass,why don't you go in the center lane and let them pass you?
people don't know how to drive,just let them go at the speed they want,sooner or later they are going to understand.Might cost them a lot,or hurt a lot,but they are going to understand.

[Firebird]

well as for moving in to the center lane thats a no go all of the roads I take are back country 2 laners and if I slow down and try to get them to pass they just stay back there like I'm a leader that they have to follow, and it just makes me late tring to get someone to pass me who just won't. Oh and about the tail gateing laws yes there are a lot of them, tail gateing itself is supposed to be illegal but the cops around here see it so much you never get pulled over for it unless you do something stupid along with tail gateing like doing aggresive stuff or trying to run the other car off of the road (seriously, I've seen it done ) I even get so feed up that when a cop goes by and someone is right up my ass I flash my lights or wave to try and get thier attention. It has never worked yet I'm pretty cool with everything if you speed thats fine if you take corners at 90 thats cool too but if I'm not in the mood to go fast why is it so hard to just pass me and be on your merry little way? I really don't think that this problem will ever get better here, in the past few years I've been driving it's only gotten worse. I have thought of the idea of just slaming on the brakes and just letting them hit me but that would only teach that one person and it would put me in danger too, as well as wrecking my car which would really piss me off. I think maybe I'll go get some big nasty old truck to drive to school in like an old Blazer with some big solid steel bumpers on it then everyone that tailgated me would get to see how a big assed bumper feels but no way in hell would my crappy little 5 mph plastic bumper stand up to that. Maybe I'll just move out to the middle of no-where and say :finger: to all of the tailgatters.

[Towlie]

oh, u should just hti the brakes like 3 times in a row, now enuff for them to hit u, but enuff for them to think ur crazy and not to stay behind u


or slowing down, getting in the righthand side of hte lane and put hazards on

[RazorGTR]

One of my good friends back in the states devised a wonderfully and slightly illegal way of getting assholes off your ass. He has a Ford F250 4x4 with a double roll bar. He had mounted off road driving lights on it. So he turn 2 of the 5 around. Those two happen to have kyrpton bulbs in them.
by now you're getting the point. It is hard to drive when you can't see. Usually flash or two coupled with only lighting the brake lights up works. They either go around or back off considerablly.

I to have that problem here in New Zealand and I am seriously considering on mounting some extremely bright lights facing back. I would imagine the suprise the prick gets will be enough to make them think twice about ever doing it again to me

[redneck37343]

Firecrackers work well!

[spnx]

Another pet peeve of mine too!

I occasionally tailgate, but only when I'm in the passing lane, and there's someone obstructing traffic there. I'll come close, then back off, to let them know I'm there, and I want to use the passing lane for passing.

For some reason, drivers in Ontario are really bad about sitting in the passing lane and refusing to move over. I'm going to Quebec in a couple of weeks, and it's always a pleasure to drive there. Like Europe, they seem to use the passing lane for passing, and they allow faster drivers by.

For tailgaters, I don't put on the brakes any more, too dangerous.

I usually decide it's time to wash the windows...

If they're really tailgating, their windows just get covered, and they usually back off, and have to turn on their wipers

One time I was driving at the speed limit, but I was in the far right lane of a 16 lane highway, (not obstructing traffic in the passing lane!) and there was a woman in a Camry tailgating me so close I couldn't see her headlights. She refused to use any of the lanes to my left to pass me.

I happened to be drinking a bottle of water, and I'm ashamed to say I ended up spitting a full mouthful out my window. She moved back, fast

[boingo82]

I read a great story in a Car and Driver that was about 6 yrs old..this guy and his friend were driving out on a 2 lanes each way back-country road. They come up on an old, run-down, 40's era truck, with two bumpkin people in it, driving in the passing lane. They get behind them, flash their lights, and gesture towards the right lane so maybe the country-folk will move over. They don't. Eventually they give up and pass on the right.

Then, the friend says, 'you know, I'll bet they don't even know there's a right lane' and they decide to find out. It's a 55mph road, and they pull back in front of the couple, and start slowing down, laughing and looking in the rearview to see if they get a reaction. The couple doesn't move an inch or make a single expression to indicate that anything's the least bit out of the ordinary. They keep slowing...40, 25, 10, 0...and they're stopped, in the passing lane, with the expressionless couple sitting calmly behind them. They guy looks at his friend and just laughs, and they peel out, leaving the bumpkins in a cloud of dust.

My other favorite C&D story:

Kids just love Barney, right?
My buddy Mike was leaving early in the morning for a long drive to his new college home. His sister sneaked his car keys, and while he was sleeping, a friend and I gave him a going-away present at about 3 a.m.. We altered the new stereo system I had installed the previous week. We disconnected the signal and amp turn-on leads from the radio, wired the remote to the ignition, and hid a Walkman cassette player, also connected to the ignition and set on continuous play, beneath the carpet under the back seat. So now, whenever his car was running?regardless of what button or switch he hit on the radio?his stereo would play whatever cassette we put in that Walkman at 75 percent of full volume. We put a time delay on everything so he would be at least 45 minutes out of town before the thing went off. So, about two-to-three hours after he'd left, he was back at our doorstep, yelling and whatnot. My friend and I thought he would feel cool listening to the Barney theme song over and over at excessive volume. (The stereo consisted of two 12-inch subs, four six-and-a-halfs with about 600 watts of power.) Gee, guess we were wrong.

[Jimster]

If people do that to me I just move to the left and stop, thus letting them past