Attack Of The Insane Driver
It was last Thursday when this happened, but I have been busy and stuff?..
So I am coming out of the drive way of my office block, and there is a cross road beside me, I am turning right, it is a staggered crossroad, there is a car waiting to go from the road across from me, he has no indicator on, so I go, he obviously thought that I was telepathic or somehow knew that he wanted to turn the same way as me, but I didn?t, because he had no indicator on. So he is behind me, shaking his head and that, tut-tuting, I am thinking ?what an idiot? then as the traffic moved foreward the guy decides now is his chance to frighten the bejasus out of me, he drives up on the grass verge to the left of me so close that he clipped my wing mirror, and then starts to try and get on front of me, I am having none of it. In my head I am thinking ?I won?t let you beat me?. My friend was in the car on front of me, he was looking quite concerned at the situation. He tried to get on front but cut the car out on the process. So I drove around him. And then he went on the verge again and started to laugh insanely. I locked my doors. My friend in the car on front put on his hazard lights, I was thinking ?oh-oh?. My friend gets out of his car, walks to the insanely laughing mans car and knocks on the window. He asks what the guy is doing, and the guy just laughs in his face. My friend politely asks the insane guy to please stop trying to ram his friend?s car, and walks away. I think ?ok maybe now we can move forward? but he did it again!!!!!!! So I let him go, not without taking his reg number though. I don?t know if I am allowed to post it here, so I won?t. But he had no NCT, no tax or no insurance. So if I am feeling like fucking someone over someday, it will be him. And not without due cause??.
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A good idea would be to report the guy to the Garda traffic watch numbers (1800 205 805). I did this before for a guy that went the wrong way around a roundabout towards me. They take your details on the phone. About a week later you get a call from your local Garda station . They check you still want to make the complaint. If you do then you drop in, or they come to you and you make a formal statement. They can then use that as the basis for action against the person. Depending on the offence that may be calling to them and giving them a caution, or something more serious. If the car has no tax/insurance/nct as you say they will surely talk to them about that as well. I would recommend giving them a call.
Posted by: Seamus | January 15, 2007 2:38 PM
DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT!
And then blog about it.
Posted by: Matt | January 15, 2007 2:44 PM
Glad you're all right! People are nuts...
Posted by: Calista | January 15, 2007 4:53 PM
Yeah maybe I will. He really scared me, as in, it took me about 5 minutes to take down the reg plate cause my hands were shaking, and Babs doesn't get scared easily. Big horrible no tax, man that's all he is. I said the words "I hope that you write off your car" as I drove past him. I feel bad about that now....
Posted by: Babs | January 16, 2007 8:51 AM
You've no reason to feel bad, you didn't say you hope he got hurt or anything, you just hoped his car got fucked up. That's allowed.
Posted by: Matt | January 16, 2007 2:19 PM
You know me though, I feel guilty for things that I cannot do anything about anyway. I like to call it Unexplainable Guilt Syndrome.
Posted by: Babs | January 16, 2007 4:26 PM
What is wrong with blogging the car's reg number? If you've told it to the freephone number, why not shout it to the internet?
I snap and send in two clicks when perturbed:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/stupiddriving/
Posted by: Bernie Goldbach | January 26, 2007 6:44 AM