brake check to tailgater backfire

[JBG3]

thought id relate this little story-

was passing a truck getting off the highway, guy in an alero comes up on me at what must have been 80, sits on my bumper flashing his lights, rude hand signals, the works. 

I tap the brakes to get him off me, and hes so close that he nearly hits the fast lane retaining wall not hitting me.

Then when I yield, I guess he decided the gloves come off, and nearly sideswiped me, then STOPPED once he got right in front, and I rear ended him lightly.  The whole time gesturing and whatnot.

We pull off, and he jumps out yelling, threatening, and demanding cash because I "rear ended him while he was trying to get off at the exit".  ****ing lying POS. 
He discovers I have at least 100lbs on him, and was literally quivering with rage, so he backs off a bit, but still demands we exchange insurance information since "I hit him while he was peacefully driving along."

The problem is that with no other witnesses, im at fault, even though he caused the accident.  Tapping the brakes is not worth it, gratifying if someone gets the point, but this guy decided he was going to cause an accident, then attempt insurance fraud.  He came this close to losing all his teeth, but with the way this guy was lying, who knows how that would have ended up, I could have easily been in jail for assault the end of the day.

End of the story is there was no damage to my jetta, a scuff on his car, and the cop was more than a little pissed to have been called to such a minor thing, but he did understand my point of trying to get a third party accident report before any insurance info was exchanged.  The guy compromised himself with his lying too, and the cop started to see through it.  When I started taking pictures of the damage, the guy wanted to drop it all, really he was just after cash, or insurance fraud, but god help him if I run into him at a bar.  Not even for the accident, for all the lying. 

Moral is that if the guy had been just a little bit better liar, I would have been forced by the cop to exchange insurance info, and who knows what would have been claimed, certainly would have been a nightmare, so from now on, no more brake checks for me. 

[CRSMP5]

fyi a mason jar full off ball bearings and bodily fluid of your chosing chucked out the drivers window as he tries to pass is much more fun... just make sure it gets his windshield... man if i ever went thru with the crap i think of for moron drivers... rear mounted spud guns anyone??

[Luckypabst]

ATF injected as a fine mist into the exhaust manifold...

[CRSMP5]

back in highschool days.. people still had carbs and hoods that opened from outside the car... all it takes is a few oz of atf to make a smoke screen that lasted a good few miles... LOL... i sure was glad to own a diesel... LOL.. could fill the football field with a cloud of oil filled fog.. LOL... way too many classmates got that trick

still worst ever prank i witnessed... drunk party... idiot who does not lock his doors while passed out in his car... a bottle of super glue... power windows... now imagine disconnecting batt... a bead of glue on the doors weather stripping... and doors shut... then watching poor guy need to puke/piss and unable to open windows or doors... was sooo rotten... but when drunk funny as hell...

[billybobf]

yup yup, Ive had someone ride my tail in  my old rabbit, he just wouldnt go around me for ANY reason, but didnt mind being ten feet behind me, I laid out a cloud that was two lanes wide and probably 200 yards long.

course the down side was, when I towed my little aluminum boat to the lake pulling steep hills up the mountain, it was pretty black on the exhaust side of the boat

[rallydiesel]

Always best to just keep your distance. You never know what people keep in their cars nowadays. There's a lot of messed up people out there.

[8v-of-fury]

Always best to just keep your distance. You never know what people keep in their cars nowadays. There's a lot of messed up people out there.

Agreed..

But that ATF sprayer sounds pretty awesome .

[Toby]

I prefer small arms myself, but a huge cloud of diesel smoke comes in a close second. I once had an ass clown tailgating my F250 with a load of pea gravel in the back. There was nowhere to go except to slow down to a crawl and move into the right lane, and that I was not on my list of options. So I found a big pot hole and treated him to a little gravel shower. Very effective against tailgaters. I fantasized about a hidden gravel spreader in front of the rear tires for some time. I used to commute about 75 freeway miles each way to school when I was being retrained for my latest profession and it certainly hardened my attitude toward tailgaters. I used to pull over for the guys that were genuinely hauling ass, until I realized that the same guys were passing me 3 times in 30 miles. Most of these clowns would veg out when a good song came on the radio and end up behind me while they were snoozing to Snotly Screw or some other metal band and then want me to let them by again after they woke up.

I designed a little bomb release set up while stuck in traffic that year, that would drop a water filled section of 4" PVC with a couple of Ts at either end to get a good tumble out of it after release. Once the "payload" was released there was no evidence that it had ever been there. Good thing I never built it or I would still be in prison.

[libbydiesel]

I found that once I stopped giving a flying fig about tailgaters, they all stopped following me around.  No really.

[Toby]

That is called Magical Thinking. I have been rear ended 8 or 9 times in the last 20 years and nothing stops tailgaters except fear. Its hard not to "give a fig" about tailgaters while you are in physical therapy. Most of them are too stupid to realize that if I have to stop they will end up in my trunk. It always seems to come as a surprise. Only fear seems to penetrate the cortex of their golf ball sized brains.

[lovinthedeez]

I always found the best solution to let them pass and go.  laugh at how they do it to the next person and be glad you're not the person they do it to next. 

[745 turbogreasel]

nothing stops tailgaters except fear.

I don't know, I've had 7 or 8 eat my hitch ball,  and I'm sure they'd have been scared if the took the time to think about where they were going.

[libbydiesel]

nothing attracts tailgaters except fear.

FTFY 

[fatmobile]

 I had a '76 toyota SR5 liftback and somehow the rear window sprayer broke off.
 I was on top of the rear of the car and could now shoot a 1/4" stream.
 I had someone on my tail that wouldn't pass when it was clear and I slowed and moved to the right of the lane.
 Speed up in a no pass zone and they are right on my tail again.
 So I hit the rear wiper sprayer (turned James Bond anti-tailgate device) switch.
 I don't know how well it cleaned their windshield but they backed right off and stayed back.
 I want one on my Rabbit.

[8v-of-fury]

Now replace with 90w gear oil, and call it a day .