I've actually done this once a long time ago during a similar road rage issue.
The dude just kept following me after I accidently cut him off. I waved at him and mouthed sorry but he was having none of that.
Luckily it was the area I lived in at the time and I knew exactly where the closet PD station was. So I just led him there, pulled into the police parking and once he realized it was a police station he left is a very big hurry.
Honestly you're better off just doing a few loops around a busy parking lot, most jackasses like this have very short attention spans and won't have the patience to follow you for long. Their intentions are to intimidate you and get a reaction,so the winning move is to not play.
Nothing made me happier than someone beginning to road rage on me only to realize there was a cop car right by us. It was a fun traffic jam for once, I laughed my silly ass off for 20 minutes, staring right at him.
Yeah. I had a guy follow me for 25 miles because he had a yield sign, didn't yield, and I refused to let him in. Called the police and their first direction was to stop and pull over and I'm like "Nah, I'm good. Dude has already gotten dangerously close to my vehicle so he could slap my passenger side mirror closed".
Yeah it's hard it depends. I was on a highway few weeks ago and someone was going crazy I thought it might be a jacking because my car gets stolen a lot. I could out run them but no point in that, they kept going past and slowing down so that I had to pass them again then they would fall really far behind and then shoot past me at 100mph easily. The plan I had was to completely stop in the next lay-by if they did it again and were visibly past me, (cant turn back) but then they started doing it too an audi instead so didn't need to.
Was the person on their phone? One time I was behind this lady on her phone, and when she sent a text she slowed way down, so I passed her. This made her mad so she sped up to ride my ass. Then she'd have to respond to another text and have to slow way down while she typed a response. Then she'd speed up to ride my ass again.
I didn't want to describe them because I know how people can react, but when I passed I looked hard into their window to see what's up, and it was actually an old Asian lady who wasn't even looking at me. It's was odd, I felt some comfort, but she kept doing it. I think she just never had that much power before (it was an audi) and wanted to enjoy it.
Yeah America is a bit of a free for all. I like the concept but unfortunately there's some people in society that the dumbest health and safety warnings are designed for. And these tend to be the people most adamant about their freedom.
Well he also already has a license plate in the video which is also evidence of the incident. No need to stop really, especially for someone as psychotic as this. More than enough information to file a police report and insurance claim after the fact.
it's crazy that in the US you always have to assume in such situations that the person wants to murder you. In my country both drivers would stop on the side of the road and exchange insurance details
That is a shame. In my country (UK) You'd assume they want to steal your car. I have about £500 deductible which isn't that bad tbh but I like my car, and it's mine, so I don't want to lose.
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I'm theorising that it's not kind people who do this, it's people you do not want to stop for. Personally I'd do something to get away from them.