Road Rage

[welshpete]

Picked up my son from nursery earlier, teacher pulled me to one side, apparently, he was playing in one of those push along cars (fred flintstone jobby) and might have got in an accident a bit - crashed into another kid in a similar car...lol

bad thing being the other kid got out, pulled my son out of his car, bit him really hard on the arm, got in his car and 'drove' off... basically a kindergarden car jacking! i was like wtf, what's that kid gonna be like in a real car when he's older?

just made me think about the times i've been (unfortunately) the target of actual road rage, i've been reversed into on purpose at some traffic lights (for no reason other than he thought my car was crap and he could claim it was me at fault)
and as couple of times people have overtaken me in a 30 zone and then slammed the brakes on.

anyone else had any experiences they'd rather not have had because of an angry person behind the wheel?

As an extremely far travelled and (mostly) competent HGV driver with over 30 years driving large vehicles in over 60 countries, I have had more than my fair share of such incidents. The most notable being in Germany, where a very irate farmer charged at my oversize 82 ft long 125 tonne load with one of those weird three wheel tractors they use a lot over there.... It turns out that two days before, the guy taking the load before me drove over his favourite dog which was sleeping in the grass at the roadside! He must have thought it was me. He hit the side of the load, ( part of a tbm), snpped his front wheel off, flew over the steering wheel and landed face first in the dust! Needless to say I pml, and drove off. Result....Inanimate objects1, homo sapien 0!