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Given the chance I think most of us would have confronted the driver at the stop...
...I learned the value of running away to ride another day....akbeemer
When I see someone driving very dangerously, I just assume that there's a reasonable possibility of them having mental health issues, and I don't want any interaction with them.
+1.
So it's up to me, when given the chance, to try to "correct" their poor driving skills. Ignoring a road bully will only encourage them.
That will certainly make some road rage entitled driver stop their ways .and get you in a bind more likely.
I give them a wider berth than I used to....get a plate and good description...call the real road police cause it's not me .
I've tried that method, and been told flat out by the police, "There's nothing we can do."
I just rode through 2 states with highway signs posting numbers to call to report aggressive driving. Unless these are just scams, it appears there is something that can be done.
I don't think it's based on a 'cowboy' mentality. Cowboys are notoriously polite.
I think it's based on the "me generation" and "entitlement" mentality.
As to these signs saying call in aggressive drivers, I wholeheartedly doubt that means anything will be done.
I think it's more like a placebo.
You call it in at their suggestion rather than shoot them or otherwise escalate the situation. They do nothing with your information. But you feel all warm and fuzzy about your local politicians who have "solved the problem so that it will never happen again".
I have episodes like op describes several times a day in this city so the most I ever do with it is laugh. And get out of the frantic drivers way, one way or another. Lane splitting is frequently good for that.
I actually get a little bored on a ride in this town if some idiot doesn't try that stupid stuff with his "powerful" car, which can't go very fast as there are 100,000 cars all around him, mostly in front. And there's a red light a block ahead.
dc
I don't think it's based on a 'cowboy' mentality. Cowboys are notoriously polite.
I think it's based on the "me generation" and "entitlement" mentality.
I have episodes like op describes several times a day in this city so the most I ever do with it is laugh.
dc
"Stop BMW on BMW violence." Yeah, we need that bumper sticker.