Next time you flash your lights at someone to get over think about this
- Thread starter GlockCop
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I tend to lock up my brakes. I'm not sure why, but there always seems to be small animals running out in front of me the second someone tailgates me. With that said, I never go more than 5mph over the speed limit and I never hang out in the left lane without reason.
Thanks, when I've done it I wasn't on their tail, I've waited patiently for them to move first. Then like a friendly honk at a red light I give a little flash of the lights.
Maybe people have stuff on their mind and forget their in that lane.
Hope you folks that like to brake check have video to prove you had a good reason other than just to assault the person/people in the vehicle behind you - you might just need it if they decide to accidentally drive right up your ass.
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Just something to think about.
Slamming the Brakes on a Tailgater: How It Can Land You With A Criminal Charge AND Prevent an Injury Recovery!
Related article: 'Brake-check' video prompts NC cop to resign
Just something to think about.
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70 is the new 50, didn't you know? It's worth your life to go the speed limit in the left lane, as I have learned several times recently.
I always just get out of the way of the assholes who are tailgaiting me as soon as there is a place to go. Inside I am thinking, "please don't escalate this to the point where I have to kill you." I have become much more polite and submissive in traffic since I started carrying a weapon. I used to be a highly skilled "bumper tag" player. Didn't value my life very much at the time, and got off on the adrenalin rush. Now, I just try to stay out of the way and hope an LEO happens to be in the right place.
If the idiot appears to be in excess of 100, I do call *55, and on a couple of occasions on 44 have been rewarded by seeing the offender stopped by the OHP.
Well cut that out. You are risking your life to teach a lesson to someone who won't learn anyway.
You can't kill all the skunks, and if you try, you'll eventually get sprayed.
Your approach could get someone killed for nothing. Not worth it.
I agree, break checking, especially as an armed citizen, is just as dumb as tailgating. I don't break check...but I don't risk my own safety or progress to get out of the way of some idiot who wants to climb onto my bumper either. They can settle down and wait until it's safe/convenient for me to get over.
The guy filming was just as much of a d$ck as the cop was. He was following far to close long before the cop pulled his trick.
The guy filming was just as much of a d$ck as the cop was. He was following far to close long before the cop pulled his trick.
I dont understand why everyone is driving in the passing lane in the first place.
I have a 5 mile stretch I drive both ways to work, clearly marked "Slower Traffic Keep Right" signs, but every day, both ways, you have those people that are clueless.
It used to really get to me until I realized that it was going to be this way every single day. Now I get around them when I can, keep peace with myself.
But, that day when they tell me I got 2 weeks to live, watch out! You goin in the ditch son, and I hope I break your damn cell phone too!
I have a 5 mile stretch I drive both ways to work, clearly marked "Slower Traffic Keep Right" signs, but every day, both ways, you have those people that are clueless.
It used to really get to me until I realized that it was going to be this way every single day. Now I get around them when I can, keep peace with myself.
But, that day when they tell me I got 2 weeks to live, watch out! You goin in the ditch son, and I hope I break your damn cell phone too!
Yep yep yep
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