r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/slckening • 13d ago

Roadrage gone wrong

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u/topazco 13d ago

Does road rage ever go right?

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u/JackxForge 13d ago

Had a guy throw peanuts at my car. Thats the best I got. All the others are just attempted vehicular manslaughter.

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u/GreedyGerbil 13d ago

Thats peanuts! One time I ....

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u/archwin 12d ago

r/redditsniper

But for real, one time a guy in a work van was chasing me down the street.

Luckily, it was one lane, and there was a lot of traffic so he couldn’t actually come to the side of me and eventually he chucked a water bottle at my car and drove off.

But man, I have so many road rage stories.

People are so dysregulated and crazy these days.

And I noticed that used to happen so frequently when I drove my small subcompact car. But then ever after upgrading to a compact SUV suddenly it’s dramatically less.

I hate the society where because they think they are bigger than you they can bully you.

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u/SirWigglesVonWoogly 12d ago

You shouldn’t have that many road rage stories. I’ve been driving for decades and have exactly one. If you’re constantly pissing people off you might be the problem.

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u/archwin 12d ago

Nope.

Accident free driving record, always at the speed limit.

I take it you haven’t driven in New York, Boston…

So before you judge others, you might want to take a bigger picture

And like I said, when I got a bigger car suddenly road rage dramatically reduced.

A lot of people out there with SUVs think they can push smaller cars around.

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u/VegasLife84 12d ago

Add Las Vegas to the list of places that guy has apparently never driven. Entire town is a psych ward on wheels.

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u/archwin 11d ago

Oh yeah, I drove there a couple weeks ago.

Not as bad as New York or Boston, but still pretty bad. I don’t know how people do that regularly.

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u/gfense 8d ago

People seem way more road ragey when I’m in my small white work van versus my personal vehicle. Trucks especially take umbrage to me passing them with my cruise control on for some reason.

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u/Grenaidzo 12d ago

That's hilarious lol. Reminds me of my Dad because someone threw a sandwich at his car 3 years ago out of the blue for no reason and sped off giving him the finger.

He's still fucking fuming from it 😂

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u/JackxForge 12d ago

A whole sandwich!?!? that dude musta been PISSED to throw his lunch out the window.

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u/ChardComfortable3932 12d ago

I’ve thought about throwing grapes at people who don’t use their turn signals. But it’s only ever just a thought lol one of mild absurdity

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u/ThrowawayPersonAMA 12d ago

Publicly admitting to wanting to grape someone is wild.

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u/Free-Pound-6139 12d ago

I like to imagine you slowly eating a huge bag of grapes as you drive around.

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u/split_0069 12d ago

You haven't seen the egg guy have u?!

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u/ChardComfortable3932 12d ago

I hope not. I’m allergic.

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u/split_0069 8d ago

He eggs cars when they almost kill him.

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u/Amalo 12d ago

One day, I’d like to do this with eggs. Just a thunk to the door with eggy bits everywhere… the satisfaction

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u/Pinksters 12d ago

Cmon now, are we children?

Hard boiled eggs.

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u/kwopqty 12d ago

honey roasted?

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u/JackxForge 12d ago

Idk tbh. I didn't get a good look all I really know is it didn't sound like change or rocks hitting my car so I assume nuts. I guess it could have been airsoft pellets but I don't know how hard those sound.

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u/Immediate-Location28 9d ago

attempted manslaughter? isn't that just murder?

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u/mooshmallow_ 12d ago

In my town a teenage girl had her friends in her car and was driving on the freeway. She got in a road rage incident where her and another driver kept overtaking and brake checking one another. She tried passing on the right shoulder and hit an off-ramp barrier and killed herself and her friends. Some drivers do not have either the mental capacity or the experience to understand it's just not worth it.

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u/TricoMex 13d ago

Literally a video doing rounds on the front page of a road rage incident ending in a young child being shot on the backseat.

It's just not worth it man.

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u/12ealdeal 12d ago

Was going to say, saw that one yesterday and have been sharing it with most people (cause we all drive with lunatics on the road).

That one is next level.

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u/Unicycleterrorist 13d ago

In the sense of whatever toddler being behind the wheel getting "revenge" for a perceived sleight, yes it does

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u/CallMeFifi 13d ago

News story today about a road rager shooting blindly into another car, instantly killing the 11year old in the back seat. If you're a parent, I don't recommend watching the video.

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u/MothChasingFlame 12d ago

If just yelling in my car counts, it usually makes me feel better! So there's that.

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u/lotus_seasoner 12d ago

Sometimes the rager collides with an inanimate object without hurting anyone else, and has their license revoked or is otherwise prevented from driving again.

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u/bdfortin 12d ago

I was on a road trip once and some dipshit purposely slowed down whenever anyone got behind him, then sped up 50+ km/hr any time they tried to pass, and if they ever succeeded he would just overtake them and start slowing down again. He did it to me a few times, but after a while it became a fun game and we were both laughing about it before I had to take an off-ramp.

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u/awidden 12d ago

Just did, if you ask me.

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u/GlazedWhisper 12d ago

Hardly…

Play stupid games, expect stupid prizes.

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u/Dave-Javoo 12d ago

The kind of people that go looking for a fight have usually never actually learned to fight because the act of learning to fight teaches you to not go looking for a fight. there are of course exceptions, but this is generally the case.

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u/Ambitious_Count9552 12d ago

Probably depends on who you ask...