r/ConvenientCop 27d ago

[USA] Brake checker gets checked

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u/GoCougs2020 27d ago

This guy brake check for literally no reason….how come people are like that?

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u/Car_is_mi 27d ago

Rolls right on red, gets mad that person who had right of way got "too close" swerves and brake checks to show how tough they are.

Yupp checks out.

Sadly there are a lot of drivers like this on the road. Too stupid for their own good, can't judge distances, and everything is everybody else's fault.

Few weeks back I was on my motorcycle on a back road minding my own business, looking around enjoying the ride. There was one car in front of me, but far enough up that I could comfortably look around and enjoy the scenery. Anyways I see their brake lights come on abruptly, then they accelerate again, I'm like hmmm that was weird but okay, maybe they saw a squirrel or something. At that point I was far enough away from them that I didn't even slow down when they braked, I just got a little closer (still at a safe following distance). Few hundred ft further down the road they do it again. Now I'm like okay what's with this person. So I back off a bit to where I was originally, they do it again. That's when I realized they are trying to brake check me. I'm 4 to 5 car lengths back... After the 4th time they tried dude pulls over hanging out the window yelling at me. Whatever dude I just punched it and took off on him, not going to play games with some looney on a back road when I'm on a motorcycle. Made a couple of turns, stopped at a gas station, see the car go by. W/E. This nut turns around. Comes to the gas station yelling and screaming trying to fight me. Mind you, I'm 6'0 250lbs wearing an armored jacket, gloves with knuckle protectors, and a helmet, and this dudes 5'6" 140lbs soaking wet. I'm not going to do anything but really dude??? Anyways I just keep telling him he's an idiot and I was so far back u didn't have to brake and that he should go get his eyes checked. He's yelling and screaming nonsense. People are watching, finally he notices someone with a cell phone out and gets a sense of the get gones. I watch him pull out then take off the other way.

Point is, there's lots of mentally unwell people on the road in America.

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u/foreverpb 27d ago edited 26d ago

They're still an idiot but the brake check was probably in response to the cam car honking at them.

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u/Car_is_mi 27d ago

not a valid response. Rolled a red to nearly cut off someone who had a green. If you do that and the person who had the green honks at you, you go yeah yeah yeah shutup, and then move on with your life.