Given the fact that this idiot seemed to be doing the same trick to everyone he came across, sooner or later he'll do it to someone who will just stand on their brakes and cause him to shunt them.
Either that or he'll do it and see a nice flip up sign appear reading POLICE - FOLLOW ME......
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Forgot to add: Remember that you always have the option to make an official complaint regarding someone's manner of driving, as long as you're prepared to go to court.
Always worth noting the reg number if possible.
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The only flashing lights you see on a BMW is their headlights when they want to pass, obviously their indicators don't work, bunch of *******!
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.>> The only flashing lights you see on a BMW is theirheadlights when they want to pass, obviously their indicators don't work, bunch of *******!
Sprice, I take it that you don't drive a BMW then.
Must say that I find categorising people by the car they drive very very tedious. It is not particualry this case (because of I drive a BMW) it is because it is a very childish argument.
Bring back Toad of Toad Hall - at least his postings were amusing
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Forgot to add: Remember that you always have the option to make an official complaint regarding someone\'s manner of driving, as long as you\'re prepared to go to court. Always worth noting the reg number if possible. PP
This can work. I had a similar experience with a Mercedes SL driver. He flashed, I didn\'t move as I was rapidly approaching a slow moving truck, he screamed past on the nearside, pulled out sharply with very liitle room between him and the truck, and then stood on the brakes! My poor old Ford did it\'s best to stop, but if he hadn\'t put his foot down again he would have had droF stamped into his boot lid.
Drove to the police staion and made a statement. Asked if wife and I would go to court - of course we would. Got a call some weeks later to say we didn\'t need to go as he\'d pleaded guilty to driving without due care.... If you\'re going to drive like an idiot, don\'t have a personalised plate that\'s so easy to remember deleted. ND. (I hope he reads this! I\'d love to meet him.)
I\'ve removed the number plate details as there is no guarantee that the gentleman concerned still owns that plate. I would hate for us to cause undue distress if the plate is in new hands. ND
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Either that or he'll do it and see a nice flip up sign appear reading POLICE - FOLLOW ME......
Exactly that happened to a colleague of mine, in his Mazda 323 V6. After sitting behind it for a while away from a roundabout, he got fed up wih the plodding (pun not intended!) way that the car in front was overtaking the traffic in the inside lane, and remained in the outside lane even when the inside lane was clear for quite a distance.
Eventually, he says that he started intimidating the guy in front by headlight flashing, dropping back, and zooming right up close to the back bumper.
After repeating this cycle several times, the Police Stop sign popped up in the back window of aforementioned car...
For some reason that I don't understand (perhaps engagement on another task), the sign then went back down, and the unmarked car carried on.
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the Police Stop sign popped up in the back window of aforementioned car>>
Had a similar experience in the 1990s when I used to drive into Preston on a dual carriageway.
Doing about 80mph in the outside lane overtaking slower traffic when I gradually came up behind a black Rover Sterling; put up with this for about a minute or so (perhaps even less!) and started flashing my headlights.
No response for about 30 seconds and then, all of a sudden, blue lights went on in the rear screen for about five seconds and then off. Eased off smartish.
Later discovered it was the Lancashire Chief Constable's chauffeur taking his boss to the Police HQ at Hutton.
Felt a bit of an idiot for a few days...:-)
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Years ago a work colleague Cut up a taxi when coming out of a roundabout at Harlow, forced it into a lamp post which fell on the taxi and wrote it off.
A little scratched paint on his mum's Fiat 500.
Same evening, out on his AJS 350 he overtook a car doing a little over the posted limit.
Turns out it was the Essex Chief Constable's car and he received a NIP a few days later.
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Sure I have mentioned this somewhere before. I am probably the same as most people here, the more someone tries to intimidate you, the more you will stand your ground.
However a few years ago had a guy following me , very close to my bumper, eventually I was so concerned, I pulled into a layby. He swerved out to overtake me and wrapped his car round a lampost on the other side of the road. Turned out he had been sacked that day and had went to the pub to drown his sorrows. 3 times over the limit.
Sometimes, its best just to get out the way....
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Don't want to hijack my own thread, but I'd argue that it's *always* better to get out of the way.
If someone's four feet from my back bumper, the best place for him is far away from me. The easiest way to arrange that is to let him do what he wants to do by moving over and letting him past.
Holding them up raises your blood pressure, might cause them to do something stupid and you might get caught up in the aftermath.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I'd argue that it's *always* better to get out of the way.
If someone's four feet from my back bumper, the best place for him is far away from me. The easiest way to arrange that is to let him do what he wants to do by moving over and letting him past.
Holding them up raises your blood pressure, might cause them to do something stupid and you might get caught up in the aftermath.
Amen.
Swallow your ego. Let him go. His Karma will catch up with him someday. You don't want to be part of his next accident. Someone's waiting for you back home. A few minutes extra on your journey is not worth risking losing years off your life (Book of Growlette 4:6 and oft-repeated, glad to say).
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18 seconds....
Well said, Vin.
If someone's four feet from my back bumper, the best place for him is far away from me.
Even better....
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Barney100: This was my method of dealing with this form of dangerous driving and it works 85% of the time
On my way to work, one particular van used to tailgate me at the same point every day. He was one of the 15% where the rule didn't have any effect. However, liberal use of the windscreen washer to get that stubborn bug off the windscreen sharp made him move back (after a few flashes of objection) I know this was not the way to deal with it, but he never did it again.
We have only once lodged a complaint about someone?s driving, as it was somewhat more dangerous than tailgating. To cut a long storey short, a jeep overtook us on a straight piece of single carriage way which ended in a sharp right bend. About 400m from this bend, he overtook, but the road was heavily covered with slush which the jeeps tyres sprayed entirely over the car, to the point where the wipers couldn't cope. We were then effectively travelling blind! What was worse, it took him twice as long as it should to overtake, so by the time he was past, we were nearly at the bend. Made the complaint but never heard anything more.
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And they're never around when you need them, silver BMW touring drivers that is.
When I was running an old Xantia with a crank seal oil leak that would cost more to fix than the car was worth, I was praying for someone to rear-end my car so I could get something back on their insurance...
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