yeah. I was more than a little pissed, now I feel happy, less likely to beat this guy to a bloody pulp if I see him again. I can't stand liars, and his lying made the cop also assume I was lying, which made me even angrier.

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I try to never drive in Rhode Island. More dipshiits per mile than anywhere else I've ever driven...

Present company excluded of course...

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1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
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lol, the real fun part is that its a small state, very very small.

You run into the same people all the time, just this morning before this incident I happened to be right behind my GF's ex on the way to work. That was more than a little awkward, I kept trying to back off, and he kept trying to get away, but the way the lights work, I was parked right behind him at least 5 times.

I will certainly meet this alero guy again on the commute im sure. The funny thing is his plate is 2 numbers off the plate on my other car, so I probably sat next to him at the DMV at one point when we registered our cars

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Sounds like a first class dick. I'm with you though, I'm trying hard to ween myself off of any and all agressive shenanigans in traffic. I got a tailgating ticket a few months back for retaliating to a guy who flashed his brights at me for the crime of moving into the slow lane a safe distance ahead of him. I guess he thought it was too close but I wanted to get away from the other two lanes as their was some weird stuff going on with two other vehicles and I wanted to let them by.

So brilliant me, I got the notion to be weird myself. After the guy got up close and the passed me, brights on, I got up close on him with my brights on. Flashing blue came on immediately.

The cop says "first off, I don't even want to hear about what the other guy did!" I felt like an idiot, told the cop he was exactly right, which he was. He could have taken me in for an overnight stay if he'd wanted - wreckless driving or something, 2 points on the record, no driving school.

Saw this piece in the Chron a while back about a guy going one step (allegedly), a big step, further than you and paid for it with his life:

Fatal Richmond crash may be connected to road rage

Zerangue, who died at the scene, may have been trying to "brake-check" the driver of the 2004 GMC pickup truck at the time of the crash, said Officer Sam Morgan, a CHP spokesman.

Brake-checking involves intentionally swerving in front of a car and slamming on the brakes, Morgan said.

Zerangue, the lone occupant of the minivan, was driving behind the GMC driver before he swerved into the next lane and sped past the pickup, the CHP said.

He then apparently tried to cut in front of the GMC and hit the brakes, but clipped the pickup before slamming into the center divide, Morgan said.

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The stability of any of the high CG vehicles (vans, $hitboxes, etc) is very poor when such a vehicle is touched, even very lightly, laterally aft of the rear tires when it's moving quickly.

It takes very little lateral force to completely upset the line of travel and would require a very experienced driver to maintain control, with no assurance of success.

If you were of a criminal persuasion, you could easily terminate any $hitbox on the road by giving it a light tap laterally on the tail. It's not easy to do, however............you'd need to approach from the adjacent lane and swerve over.........

I witnessed exactly such an event a few months back, not intentional but as you describe. Maybe 30 - 40 yards ahead I saw a minivan suddenly make sharp move laterally in its rear. I couldn't see what sort of bump made it happen but it was too sharp and sudden to have been anything else. The mini van started swerving, amazing no cars near to it collided, looked like some near misses. He veered hard into the concrete center barrier soon enough. I had gotten on my brakes right away and ended up being the vehicle closest to him when we stopped. His air bag had gone off, he pulled himself out - I got out and asked 'are you OK?'

He was all grumpy and pissed, didn't answer, but it was clear he was walking OK, he had slowed considerably before hitting the barrier so I took off. A truck had stopped ahead a ways, maybe that's the vehicle he clipped or was clipped by.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K