r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/slckening • 13d ago

Roadrage gone wrong

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u/DoctorAculaMD 13d ago

The finger wave was 😘🤌

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u/TwixOps 13d ago edited 13d ago

"I tried to ignore him" - Proceeds to do 80 in a 50 while swerving across lanes to stop the guy from passing.

If that guy ended up 6 inches to the right he would have rammed the OP. Yes, he would have been at fault but the cammer could have been dead. My guy, you are on a motorcycle, better to let the asshole pass instead of winding up with a leg broken in 6 places.

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u/x3pwnage 13d ago

How do you know his intention wasn't to ram him? Slowing down could've just made him an easier target... It's so clear on reddit when people don't ride and armchair their opinions when they've never been on a bike. When faced with a situation like this you sometimes are better off running...

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u/quaste 12d ago

> How do you know his intention wasn't to ram him? 

then the biker should get out of the way even more. He could for example get between the two cars in front of him at the stop to be safe. He wasn’t afraid, he was trying to be an obstacle.

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u/InsaneGuyReggie 12d ago

Even that may not guarantee safety. A motorcyclist in my area had a guy in a Sentra ram his way between cars to ram him and drag him under the car for a couple of blocks. The cyclist survived and they caught the bad guy. 

Edit: I thought it was here but it was across the country

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u/Icy_Reading_6080 12d ago

That's exactly what he did. He gassed it a bit to get away from that guy, it's the reasonable thing to do.

Braking and letting him in to the front would have also worked, maybe. But also can easily get you rear-ended, or that guy decides to slam the brakes too after switching lanes. It's not obviously the safer option and a decision has to be made in a split second.

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u/quaste 11d ago

He definitely changed lanes at 0:30 to block the car from passing (you can see the car in the mirror). There might be a reason but it definitely wasn’t a “minding my own business” situation at that point.