Infuriating road rage incident this morning - Page 6 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

t walgamuth · #76 04-19-2012, 06:26 AM

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Originally Posted by jplinville

I have to admit, that when I'm on a motorcycle, and have someone constantly on my arse without passing me at many given chances, I keep .375 diameter steel ball bearings in my jacket pocket. One or two tossed over the shoulder seems to do the trick with little to no damage to their car.

I haven't needed it yet, but if I ever need it for protection, I carry my 1911. And before anyone goes off on the deep end about it, I'm legally licensed to carry concealed in three different states...OH, UT, and PA.

Dropping bearings is too much IMHO.

t walgamuth · #77 04-19-2012, 06:32 AM

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Originally Posted by JustPassinThru

It's called "swoop and stoop," in southern California it's a common insurance scam tactic. Always have your cellphone in the car, handy and charged, and call your insurance company immediately. I myself have a CPP and pack a .45 Colt Commander, so even though I'm 57 and only 5'8", nobody glares at or speaks harshly to me for longer than the about one second it takes for me to point it at them. Except for two fools in the last ten years who shut their cakeholes and ran after I fired a warning shot through their rear window and windshield. A 240-grain subsonic hollow-point slug, Winchester Ranger T, completely crazes both windows. A cheap alternative would be to get yourself a .40 caliber Glock. I buy my ammo from a local city cop. Training surplus. Since the Impostor just bought 750 million rounds of a .40 caliber cartridge equivalent to Ranger T, this ammo will be available cheap in the coming few years. Not quite as much stopping power as .45, so better use two rounds.

We certainly don't need people running around firing guns at random. And we don't need anybody bragging about it here.

Besides that I doubt the truth of it.

Please go post these cartoonish violent posts at some other forum.

MS Fowler · #78 04-19-2012, 09:11 AM

Oh my. I am sitting in a Jeep Cherokee as I type this. I don't own it; its a company vehicle that has been assigned to me. 222,000 plus miles

Brian Carlton · #79 04-19-2012, 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by jplinville

Don't be so narrow minded and damn an entire line of vehicles or their owners.

Naturally, you're correct (he states after sobering up.........).

I'm a bit jaded by the Grand Cherokee crowd that wants to run me off the highway at every opportunity.

Hatterasguy · #80 04-19-2012, 09:18 AM

This is why I want a T55, no one carves up a T55 on the road.

JB3 · #81 04-19-2012, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by MS Fowler

Oh my. I am sitting in a Jeep Cherokee as I type this. I don't own it; its a company vehicle that has been assigned to me. 222,000 plus miles

lol, its pretty funny how the thread developed into a jeep=DB? question.

Personally, ive never had any problem with jeep owners, except for a good friend of mine, who drives his wrangler like a lunatic on his morning commute.

If I were to equate type of car with DB status- id have to say male owners of Maxima's or Altimas, year ranges between 2000 and now.

Whenever some DB is driving too fast and tailgating, or trying to swerve around traffic and I witness it, it seems that a majority of the times, its one of those two model cars, and only the newer ones.

Secondly its always some guy with one of those little hairline DB beards that are so popular with DBs, and the standard DB fully reclined one armed driving style.

Then add in the b****y looking GF with a cell phone, and you have the whole DB premium package

rs899 · #82 04-19-2012, 09:23 AM

It's the big pickup trucks that get on my butt in the morning at 5AM. Headlights blazing into my cockpit so I can't see anything, which makes me want to go even slower....

I saw one light up the road behind me this morning- I swear he was a mile back.

jplinville · #83 04-19-2012, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

Dropping bearings is too much IMHO.

They are reserved only for those that are so close that I can smell the breath of the driver...all others get a pass.

jplinville · #84 04-19-2012, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by rs899

It's the big pickup trucks that get on my butt in the morning at 5AM. Headlights blazing into my cockpit so I can't see anything, which makes me want to go even slower....

I saw one light up the road behind me this morning- I swear he was a mile back.

...which is why I wonder why they haven't dropped the headlights to bumper height, which matches most vehicle headlight heights. Headlights don't have to be right below the hood.

The latest fad for SUVs and trucks is to increase the brightness of the headlights, which adds to the glare behind you as you drive in front of them. I've left mine alone on both the Tahoe and the F250, but integrated large, brighter lights right behind the grille of the F250 for when they are needed, like off-road or 2 land country roads I have to drive at night.

I'm actually thinking of how to do this to the Tahoe without changing the front end for a Yukon. The Yukon has the larger grille, which allows more mounting areas.

What I really hate is the idiots that tailgate you with those bright blue head lights. They are on dims, but they will burn a hole in the back of your head!!

rs899 · #85 04-19-2012, 11:08 AM

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...which is why I wonder why they haven't dropped the headlights to bumper height, which matches most vehicle headlight heights. Headlights don't have to be right below the hood.

Ah, but that would make too much sense. The stylists and marketing types would veto that anyway. Who would want to buy a truck that looks different than all the other air haulers?

retmil46 · #86 04-19-2012, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton

I'm a bit jaded by the Grand Cherokee crowd that wants to run me off the highway at every opportunity.

You ain't the only one my friend.

Grand Cherokee? Ultimate poseur vehicle. $40K plus, leather seats and every other known high end convenience - and you seriously want me to believe that someone is going to drop enough money to buy a new MB, on a POS Chrysler vehicle, and then take it off-road? Yeah, right.....

But what REALLY makes my blood boil are some of the morons that bought one of the Liberty CRD's - and know absolutely nothing about diesels - and have since tried just about every way imaginable to destroy what, IMHO, is one of the best damn small diesel engines ever sold in this country.

Here's an example - one particular tuning outfit that goes by the initials GDE (who popped up 3 years ago just as Chrysler went bankrupt , and ONLY offer tunes for Jeep Liberty CRD's....gee, wonder where THOSE guys used to work

), offered up the utterly nonsensical advice that, to get better fuel mileage, it was perfectly OK to completely remove the viscous clutch and mechanical fan from the vehicle.

We're talking an inline four cylinder 2.8 L diesel with an ALUMINUM HEAD, variable vane turbo, with even a mild aftermarket tune can kick out 185 HP and 330 ft lbs at the rear wheels, egr cooler, intercooler, and air-cooled tranny oil cooler.

Guess what? SOME OF THOSE EFFIN MORONS ON THE JEEP FORUMS ACTUALLY LISTENED TO THOSE IDIOTS AND REMOVED THEIR COOLING FANS!!!!!

You know what the result was. Coolant leaks, blown head gaskets, leaking injector seals, warped heads.

And what did said tuning company and their idiotic fanboy followers have to say about the resulting carnage? Twasn't their fault for removing their cooling fans - oh no, the REAL problem in their opinion was that the engine manufacturer (VM Motori) had installed an inadequate water pump with insufficient cooling flow.......

It's almost enough to make me an advocate for forced sterilization, to keep morons like this from reproducing.

Brian Carlton · #87 04-19-2012, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by retmil46

You ain't the only one my friend.

It's almost enough to make me an advocate for forced sterilization, to keep morons like this from reproducing.

I can commiserate.

They are everywhere now. It's virtually impossible to go for a drive without some moronic DB trying to get wherever he is going two minutes faster than you do.

Carleton Hughes · #88 04-19-2012, 01:47 PM

True, very true....especially on my weekly commute into Brooklyn.
But.....you all know one thing? Anger is not only a waste of energy, it is also a silent killer. Negative energy. Took me a loooong time to learn to redirect my thoughts from immediate anger and hatred to calm aceeptance of stupidity in the face of some hoople being stupid...but being a landlord has hepled tremendously in my quest to deal with and understand the vagaries of human nature, that most annoying, unpredictable and agita causing quantity.

Brian Carlton · #89 04-19-2012, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Carleton Hughes

Took me a loooong time to learn to redirect my thoughts from immediate anger and hatred to calm aceeptance of stupidity in the face of some hoople being stupid...

..............got a pill for that............???

..............or maybe I just go and get a lobotomy..........

engatwork · #90 04-19-2012, 01:52 PM

Yea, I don't let driving get my bp up. I figured out a long time ago that there are too few roads and too many drivers. I always try to give ppl plenty of room and get out of the way if I'm slowing them down. I look at it as everyone needs to learn how to share the road.