My brand of justice pales in comparison to some stuff already posted.
I love busy streets, mall etc. seeing someone head down, walking without looking and texting... I catch them right in the trolley tracks. 6'2" 225 coming right through them.
Call it paying the price for distracted walking.
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I did this once too. The guy got t-boned and got paralyzed from the waist down LOL.
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Originally Posted by pylon
All three of you endangered everyone else around you, everyone on the roads, and yourselves more, than the original incident.
Especially Jonduke, if you actually did that on a freeway, you should be criminally prosecuted and have your licensed suspended for what you did. That is roadrage d-bag 101. Also there is a good chance that you likely committed some non traffic related crime like uttering threats. Why? All because someone was texting on their phone, and may or may not have maybe but probably not affected you in some way? You are not the Police, and even a police officer wouldn't do something so stupid. They have lights and sirens to pull people off the road for a reason. I am going to forward this to my buddy who is a cop, and see what he thinks. Maybe I am wrong, but I am pretty sure what you did is like a major criminal deal.
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".
I sometimes deal out white collar vigilante justice, like the time I threw down my Blockbuster card and stormed out because they charged me a BS fee. Never went in after that day, and they filed for bankruptcy a few years later. Gangsta.
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I put ads on Kijiji listing 'free stuff' for junk people in my neighbourhood leave on their front lawns.
OMG, our neighborhood needs to do this with the neighbor's nephew (who is living with them for a while) who has multiple vehicles that he parks all over the neighborhood and blocks people. Offer them for free.
I laughed when I first saw this too. They definitely deserve it.
However, after thinking about it, I see how it can be really dangerous, like a lot of those 'fun' car stunts people pull on other drivers.
What if he does go through the light and causes a serious accident to an innocent family?
Put your car in reverse and slowly back up. The texter will see you out of the corner of their eye, think they're drifting forward into the intersection, get freaked out and stomp on their brakes. You'll get at least as much entertainment out of it and it's not dangerous.
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!
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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.
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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.
Meh, as far as what Regulator did, it is way less psycho than JonDuke so it's not like he's wrong to point out the difference.
Plus, this thread could have gone in a more light-hearted direction if the fun police hadn't arrived. Since his post was only the second one and the tone of the thread hadn't been established, I think it's reasonable that he left out the clarifying detail right out of the hop.
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All three of you endangered everyone else around you, everyone on the roads, and yourselves more, than the original incident.
Background info: I had said I don't let people in vehicles with knobby tires that don't have mudflaps in front of me this time of year because I don't want them to spray rocks on my car.
I'm not putting anybody in danger. It may sound like backtracking, but it's not like I'd psychotically cut a guy off into a guard rail to prevent him from getting in front of me in a merge. If it could go either way, I'll use my 340 horses to get in front of him versus letting off the gas to let him in front of me. If he wants to change lanes in front of me I'll close the gap so he can't (when safe to do so). I'm not about to go all crazy to prevent somebody from getting in front of me when they don't have mudflaps, but I tip the scales of rock-chip probability in my favour by being mindful of who is kicking up rocks and who isn't. Why would I be nice by letting some a-hole in when I don't have to if he isn't considerate enough to prevent rocks from flying all over the cars behind him.
Honestly, next time you get a rock chip check out who it is from...nine times out of 10 it's from a d-bag with a big truck and no mudflaps. They're a scourge.
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.
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".
And what happens the 4th time? They stomp on the gas and into traffic or a pedestrian?
It's stupid and it's dangerous. There's no reasoning your way out of that. I'd much rather be on the road with people who text while stopped at a light then with people who pull stuff like this.
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