Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2015 14:33:25 GMT -6
This is kind of a rant, but more a general discussion starter on just what the anger issue is with people these days?? Anger and outright, unmitigated stupidity.
As I was driving home, I came to the 4-way stop down the road from me. Cross traffic went, I started to go, and someone on my right didn't even attempt to slow down, blowing right through before standing on the brakes...short of hitting me 1/2 through a left turn. This is all residential, and speeds weren't significant compared with the main streets. Maybe..20 mph with the idiot. Still, he honks at me...and whatever.. Stupid is as stupid does.
The problem is..he also rides my ass like a trailer for the 3 blocks to my street, slows while I turn and go into my driveway (I'm 2nd in from the corner), but then comes right around the corner and slows almost to a stop. ...looking like he wanted to follow me into my driveway. (sigh)
Now it pissed me off in the moment, and I'm afraid I may have ended up in a lethal force situation with one guy, over his blowing a stop sign and almost hitting ME, to come right onto my property and "finish" whatever he was thinking.
He kept rolling though, and went on down my street at maybe 5mph the rest of the way. Like he and his passenger might have been debating coming back.
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Two big things here...
First..What in God's name gets into someone to even consider pursuit of another car, over such a minor issue, and where no damage was done with no contact actually made? (I'd have almost welcomed him hitting me in the intersection that way..I was alone, and I could use a new car at his insurance company's expense) ...but to pursue? There were over 1,600 concealed weapons permits issued in the first year or so of our state program, in this county alone. It's been going for years now, and the numbers are likely much higher. So...only a complete buffoon with a death wish wouldn't be aware of that, with our local news carrying stories to highlight it every so often.
Second...it didn't occur to me until afterward. He didn't stop or follow me into the driveway, likely, only because he didn't like what he saw in me, as I was getting out. What if that had been my wife and in-law? Talk about something that could have gone real differently, and not to any positive outcome (She had to let her permit lapse for medical limitations..so isn't armed outside the house in the same way, either).
Really? What IS it with people? Has anyone else had some demonstration of true dumb like this recently? This isn't the kind of thing I'm used to...and it did shake me up a bit when I had a moment to reflect on the second point above.
As I was driving home, I came to the 4-way stop down the road from me. Cross traffic went, I started to go, and someone on my right didn't even attempt to slow down, blowing right through before standing on the brakes...short of hitting me 1/2 through a left turn. This is all residential, and speeds weren't significant compared with the main streets. Maybe..20 mph with the idiot. Still, he honks at me...and whatever.. Stupid is as stupid does.
The problem is..he also rides my ass like a trailer for the 3 blocks to my street, slows while I turn and go into my driveway (I'm 2nd in from the corner), but then comes right around the corner and slows almost to a stop. ...looking like he wanted to follow me into my driveway. (sigh)
Now it pissed me off in the moment, and I'm afraid I may have ended up in a lethal force situation with one guy, over his blowing a stop sign and almost hitting ME, to come right onto my property and "finish" whatever he was thinking.
He kept rolling though, and went on down my street at maybe 5mph the rest of the way. Like he and his passenger might have been debating coming back.
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Two big things here...
First..What in God's name gets into someone to even consider pursuit of another car, over such a minor issue, and where no damage was done with no contact actually made? (I'd have almost welcomed him hitting me in the intersection that way..I was alone, and I could use a new car at his insurance company's expense) ...but to pursue? There were over 1,600 concealed weapons permits issued in the first year or so of our state program, in this county alone. It's been going for years now, and the numbers are likely much higher. So...only a complete buffoon with a death wish wouldn't be aware of that, with our local news carrying stories to highlight it every so often.
Second...it didn't occur to me until afterward. He didn't stop or follow me into the driveway, likely, only because he didn't like what he saw in me, as I was getting out. What if that had been my wife and in-law? Talk about something that could have gone real differently, and not to any positive outcome (She had to let her permit lapse for medical limitations..so isn't armed outside the house in the same way, either).
Really? What IS it with people? Has anyone else had some demonstration of true dumb like this recently? This isn't the kind of thing I'm used to...and it did shake me up a bit when I had a moment to reflect on the second point above.