How do you handle tailgaters?
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Darth Servo
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Depends on my mood. If I'm pissed off myself, I'll tap the brakes a bit. One jerk told me I was #1 after that but most ignore it and stay right where they are. If I'm in "responsible mode" I'll just try and get out of the asshole's way.
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Re: How do you handle tailgaters?
Honestly, it depends how badly they are tailgating. If they're kind of close in the middle of the day, I don't generally care. But if I'm driving home at ten o'clock at night with some asshole trucker with his HIGH BEAMS on, then I drive like my grandmother.Darth Wong wrote:Just in case this particular form of slang is not universal, tailgaters are those FUCKING IDIOTS who follow your car so closely that their headlights appear to fill your entire rear-view mirror.
Do you slow down? Ignore them? Hit the brakes? Give them the finger? I'm just curious what the mixture of response tactics is.
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Some asshole in a truck was doing this on a road where the speed limit is 40 mph( I was doing 45) in a huge Ford Truck. So what did I do? Well, this was about 8 pm Monday night, and a slow elderly citizen was doing 30 in the right lane(its a two-lane road), so I slowed down to 15 mph, rolled down all my windows, and played Limp Bizkit's "Hot Dog" on REALLY high volume(you know, the one where they say variations on the word "fuck" 46 times).
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heh, look over in venting, I fixed my car, and in the process of checking to see if everything worked right, I torchered a tailgater this afternoon, on a 16 mile streach of steep winding grade, with no turnouts....
it's really fun, putting on the gas, idling back, putting on the gas and never going less then the speed limit....also since I didn't use my breaks, just my throttle control, he didn't anticipate the curves like I did.... (of course if he could read the Bloody Speed signs as well as I could (nice slowing down just before the 15mph curve sign comes into view....)
really funny given he could have just seen everything I did just because his SUV was so much taller then my Small Passenger Car (roller skate)
really funny when I continued decellerating after the 20mph turn, just before the blind 10mph turn.....
it's really fun, putting on the gas, idling back, putting on the gas and never going less then the speed limit....also since I didn't use my breaks, just my throttle control, he didn't anticipate the curves like I did.... (of course if he could read the Bloody Speed signs as well as I could (nice slowing down just before the 15mph curve sign comes into view....)
really funny given he could have just seen everything I did just because his SUV was so much taller then my Small Passenger Car (roller skate)
really funny when I continued decellerating after the 20mph turn, just before the blind 10mph turn.....
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Personally I make it a point not to tailgate. Out here it's the biggest cause of accidents outside of drinking, the morons love riding each others' asses in traffic which slows down the merges and the traffic, something that if they left even 3 carlengths distance, would not happen.
Tailgaters are my biggest pet peeve on the road, to the point that sometimes I really want a brightass light in the back window just to hit them in the eyes, especially the ones riding my ass in an SUV with their brights on while I'm already doing nearly 15mph over the speedlimit. It's just rediculous what these asshats do just so they can think they're getting somewhere faster (when they usually arn't).
Like some of the others here, I'll frequently adjust my speed in traffic just to make sure they stay behind me to stop them from passing and just to piss them off.
There is only one other thing that pisses me off near as bad as tailgaters: the idiots doing speedlimit or below in the left lane, and even worse when the fuckwit is pacing someone in the right lane so no one can pass. Out here what results is a mile or longer trail of road raging commuters waiting for a chance to stomp the gas around the fuckers. I'm still waiting to watch a wreck happen while someone who got bottled up behind the pacing idiots (usually old people in land yachts, though sometimes I've seen young people in pimped out hoopties doing this shit.) hitting 90mph+ out of the area going all over the road because they're pissed.
The slow people are probably more likely to cause problems than tailgaters just because of roadrage. I've noticed a significant increase of tailgating in the Narrows bridge traffic after the pacing incedents, and usually wrecks in the area about the same time. Probably not related, but it is an odd coincedence.
Tailgaters are my biggest pet peeve on the road, to the point that sometimes I really want a brightass light in the back window just to hit them in the eyes, especially the ones riding my ass in an SUV with their brights on while I'm already doing nearly 15mph over the speedlimit. It's just rediculous what these asshats do just so they can think they're getting somewhere faster (when they usually arn't).
Like some of the others here, I'll frequently adjust my speed in traffic just to make sure they stay behind me to stop them from passing and just to piss them off.
There is only one other thing that pisses me off near as bad as tailgaters: the idiots doing speedlimit or below in the left lane, and even worse when the fuckwit is pacing someone in the right lane so no one can pass. Out here what results is a mile or longer trail of road raging commuters waiting for a chance to stomp the gas around the fuckers. I'm still waiting to watch a wreck happen while someone who got bottled up behind the pacing idiots (usually old people in land yachts, though sometimes I've seen young people in pimped out hoopties doing this shit.) hitting 90mph+ out of the area going all over the road because they're pissed.
The slow people are probably more likely to cause problems than tailgaters just because of roadrage. I've noticed a significant increase of tailgating in the Narrows bridge traffic after the pacing incedents, and usually wrecks in the area about the same time. Probably not related, but it is an odd coincedence.
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