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Originally Posted by JonDuke

I'm not trying to justify what I did, but feel the need to clarify a little bit. In both instances, I never once feared the drivers car hitting mine. On Stoney, I came to a stop, but not slammed. I slowed to a stop and there was no other traffic behind us. I would not have done it had there been traffic behind her, thus jeopardizing a crash there as well. Nor was she ever boxed in. For the playground zone, I did slam on my breaks but the guy behind me was far behind and had tons of time to break. I would never put myself in that position if I thought there was a legit chance of either party getting hurt.

For the first one, when I exited my vehicle, I motioned with my hand as a phone/hawaiin hand sign to my ear and screamed "get off your f'n phone", and got back into my car. I never once moved toward her car, nor did I utter threats. My intention was not to come across as threatening at all, but as maybe a wake up call that she should probably put her phone away.

And whoever mentions the axe...I laughed. My dad always carried an axe handle too which is why I would never actually walk up to a car.

And yeah, I honestly do get that what I did was completely stupid. No denying that. Was it criminal? Very well could be but I don't know. I think that I too will ask the next officer I see and check what laws I could potentially break in that situation.

Texting while driving, drives me nuts, but at the same time, I 100% understand that you would not want a bunch of idiots, like myself, stopping in the middle of the road to teach people a lesson. Irrational lapses of judgment? For sure. I'm not "dumb" though, so I'll take what everyone had to say and remember that for next time and not stop in the middle of the road.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Regulator75

There's quite a difference between what I do and what JonDuke did.

Look at the odds here;
Being first at a light,
That light having two lanes,
Person beside you texting at that exact time,
I move my car an inch or two,
The texting idiot then notices my car move.

I've seriously only came across this perfect storm about 3 times since the distracted driving laws came into place, each time the distracted driver only lurched forward about 3-5 feet. Not speeding into traffic or a pedestrian.

2 of the 3 times, they look around, then at me all confused and I just kinda laugh at them. Then they hang their head in shame and actually pay attention to their surroundings. The other time, they just pretended nothing happened and played "blind".

Hehe, the people called out for their douchy, dangerous behaviour are now squirming with multiple paragraph posts, trying to backtrack and add minute details that make their actions not dangerous. Details they oddly enough, didn't have in their original posts. I love it.