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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!

The fact that you actually required the responses of people on a message board to realize that you should not stop in the middle of a road makes me question the accuracy of the first part of that sentence.

This thread is great, nothing like spending a Monday morning reading people confess to crimes on the internet.