How do you react when drivers tailgate you?

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  • robertw486
    robertw486 Posts: 2,399 Member
    I'll brake check a cop. And there are cops that would back me on that. I've enraged many a tailgating dbag and get a good laugh out of it. The more they rage, the more the chances are they they will get slowed down even more.
  • summerkissed
    summerkissed Posts: 730 Member
    I drive a big jacked up 4wd, I also have rear spot lights and big tow bar........so if it's night I blind the *kitten* with the spotties or if it's daytime I break hard!!!! They won't damage my truck but they will have a tow ball through there radiator lol
  • knelson095
    knelson095 Posts: 254 Member
    Speed way up when it's clear and they can pass, slow waaay down when there's cars and they can't. Repeat. (For single lane hwys)
    One moron was following me so close I couldn't even see his head lights in my mirrors. I actively tried to allow him to pass me and when he wouldn't I got pissed off and decided to mess with him this way. Jerk was close enough I could see him singing along and could tell we were listening to the same freaking radio station. Clueless people like that scare the hell outta me.

    I've spent a lot of time driving recently (across the US 5 times in the last year). Road rage helps keep me alert, and there is plenty of opportunity out there, lol. Nebraska roads are great, but 9 out of 10 drivers cut me off as I was trying to pass, went 2 mph faster than the person we were passing and took ten minutes to do it. People that do that are right up there with tailgaters on my *kitten* list.
  • HappilyDistracted
    HappilyDistracted Posts: 1,700 Member
    Not well.
  • KillerKel01
    KillerKel01 Posts: 16 Member
    Taunting and intimidation is what they want to express. Back in the day, when I was invincible, I would slam on the breaks. Every single car I did this to would get pissed and flip me off and then go around. I would smile and say thank you. This happened less than a handful of times. As I matured, I put up with others having bad days, that are trying to take it out on a complete stranger. Those people only think about themselves, like I did. They don't think about why the person in the other car is not driving slower. Could be a million reasons, tired, babies are in the back, could be grieving, could have lost their job, could just be a safe driver. I try to slow down to let them pass. I blow them a kiss as they flip me off when they pass, and we both get on with our lives to live another day. Share the road...take the higher road.
  • ARGriffy
    ARGriffy Posts: 1,002 Member
    Break test!
  • Shells918
    Shells918 Posts: 1,070 Member
    Birkah wrote: »
    I flip on my windshield wiper fluid and spray the crud out of them. People usually slow down a bit to look to turn on their wipers. Repeat as necessary. Note: This is extremely humorous if the offending vehicle is a convertible with the top down.

    This

  • RogerToo
    RogerToo Posts: 16,157 Member
    Timshel_ wrote: »
    Had a girl doing this just last week. On a three lane road, speed limit is 45 an i am doing about 50. Guy is in the middle lane so I move to the right lane and slowly start passing him. The left lane is completely open but this girl decideds she is going to run up on my butt while I pass. I mean, she is about bump-drafting me, it was THAT close. I waited till she move back just a bit and gave her a quick brake check (tap the brake peddle really quick while still having a foot on the gas). She locked up, screeched tires a bit and moved back. Of course, soon as I was around the other guy she drives by and flips me off. Meh...

    I saw her just a mile up the road were traffic always backs up and she wasn't tailgating anyone at least.

    The next day I saw her speeding down the side shoulder when traffic stopped. Unfortunately, she will kill someone and not just herself with the way she drives.

    I always say, you want to see the true nature of someone, drive with them.

    Hi
    The last time I saw someone on the shoulder of the highway passing backed up traffic she was being followed by a State Police car who turned on the lights and siren as he was passing by where I was, yea!

    The Ones that bother me are the ones that start honking the horn as You are slowing down for the stop sign, I can only guess they will they kill someone in the future by not stopping for a right on red or a stop sign.

    I had one person decide to tech me a lesson. I was passing a slow moving car in the left lane and not going fast enough for him so once I moved back to the right he got in front of me and slowed down below the limit. I was too slow so he will punish me by going even slower in front of me? He was the one in a big hurry :)

    Cheers
    Roger
  • Kali2024
    Kali2024 Posts: 73 Member
    edited February 2016
    caroldavison332 wrote: »
    I joyfully pull more to the right and let them pass. Why not?

    exactly, this is how road rage happens… why not just move over as much as you can so they pass (single lane)?

    If I have no where to go on a highway or there's a slow car in front of me, I move slightly over to the left or right to show them that there's someone in front ofme… they back off cause they see it (i drive an SUV).

    Road rage is pretty dangerous these days, you don't know who has a gun on them, and people have been known to get killed.

    Is playing games worth it?

  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    I ride a motorcycle. I used to keep a couple ball bearings in my pocket to toss over my shoulder back in the day. Now, I just change lanes, if possible.
  • pondee629
    pondee629 Posts: 2,469 Member
    Hit my emergency flashers. They look like my break lights.
  • kchuskey
    kchuskey Posts: 882 Member
    I turn on the oil slick, or the smoke screen, that I have installed. If that doesn't do the trick, then I drop out a couple of banana peels.
  • Meganthedogmom
    Meganthedogmom Posts: 1,639 Member
    Depends. If I'm in the left lane, I get over to the right. If I'm in the right lane, I break check them. I speed most of the time anyway so there's no need for tailgating other than to be a douche.
  • spocksmom83
    spocksmom83 Posts: 1 Member
    I start with a friendly break check. If that does not work I either
    A) take my foot off the gas and we see just how slow they like it (ive gone down to almost 20 in a 65.....) or
    B) I begin to slightly swerve as though I am suddenly drunk
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Interesting with all of the brake checking...that can now get you a pretty hefty fine where I'm at and they consider it reckless driving...a cop sees you doing that he will pull you and the tailgater over and both drivers will be charged with reckless driving.

    We've had a lot of problems with road rage, guns being pulled, and sometimes people getting shot...the latest incident was over a lane dispute and a 4 year old girl was shot in the head and killed...law enforcement is finally starting to take all of this douche behavior very seriously on both sides of that equation.
  • wanzik
    wanzik Posts: 326 Member
    edited February 2016
    I couldn't care less. They don't bother me. I'm usually the tailgater because I'm stuck behind some clown going 10 miles under the speed limit. If they speed up to the speed limit I back off. If they brake-check me I'll close the gap. :smile: I know that will offend some. Sorry. :neutral:

    I ride a motorcycle and if I get a tailgater on that I'll just pull over and let them by. No problem.
  • Kali2024
    Kali2024 Posts: 73 Member
    edited February 2016
    yeah…amazing that most don't just move over.. even if you speed that person might want to go faster then you, who are you to be the speed police. Why not just move over?

    WANZLK: I'm always stuck behind a left lane dick too who feels the need to dictate my speed on the highways. What I usually do is pass them then swerve into their lane and break as I'm passing them, that usually makes them move over as other cars do the same thing after and it finally clicks "maybe I'm not going fast enough".

    Sorry get the F out of the fast lane aholes!
  • summerkissed
    summerkissed Posts: 730 Member
    OMG all these replies with guns pulled on you!!!!.......thank f$&k I live in Australia and the gun happy mentality isn't something we have!
  • wanzik
    wanzik Posts: 326 Member
    Kali2024 wrote: »
    yeah…amazing that most don't just move over.. even if you speed that person might want to go faster then you, who are you to be the speed police. Why not just move over?

    WANZLK: I'm always stuck behind a left lane dick too who feels the need to dictate my speed on the highways. What I usually do is pass them then swerve into their lane and break as I'm passing them, that usually makes them move over as other cars do the same thing after and it finally clicks "maybe I'm not going fast enough".

    Sorry get the F out of the fast lane aholes!

    AMEN!!!
  • ladymuaythai
    ladymuaythai Posts: 1,298 Member
    edited February 2016
    LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO yes, me too whatever. SUCK BUMPER *kitten* :lol:

    Except the last time I did that, it was an undercover cop up my a$$who ended up pulling me over for speeding LOL oops.
    _MistahJ_ wrote: »
    Considering I'm generally traveling just under a criminal speeding ticket, I downshift.


  • Doc0862
    Doc0862 Posts: 43 Member
    summerkissed wrote: »
    OMG all these replies with guns pulled on you!!!!.......thank f$&k I live in Australia and the gun happy mentality isn't something we have!

    True that, but do consider... here in Tenn area I'm in most people have guns, permits or not. Most of us are crazy, the ones who aren't know this. Therefore we have virtually no road rage incidents (always visiting out of towners) I cannot remember the last time someone rode my bumper. (in reality we pull over just to see if they want some)

    When i was a teenager I did heave a DR Pepper bottle thru a guys windshield who was dogging me on purpose. Yes I went to jail. yes I worked to pay for a windshield. And yes you couldn't pay that guy $100 bill to come anywhere near me.... to this date.. OK moral is this- in a world full of nuts, just become one with the universe... go nuts!!!
  • Meganthedogmom
    Meganthedogmom Posts: 1,639 Member
    wanzik wrote: »
    I couldn't care less. They don't bother me. I'm usually the tailgater because I'm stuck behind some clown going 10 miles under the speed limit. If they speed up to the speed limit I back off. If they brake-check me I'll close the gap. :smile: I know that will offend some. .

    Same here. In Louisiana, apparently no one understands that the left lane = fast lane or passing. They think it means go 45 in a 65, or ride right alongside the person in the right lane. Seriously worst drivers in the world right here.
  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
    If they're going faster than I am and I'm in the left lane and can do it, I'll change lanes and let them go past. Otherwise, I'll flash my brake lights to try to get them to back off a bit. Sometimes people just aren't paying attention to how closely they're following and that's usually all it takes.

    Now, if they're really being a horse's *kitten* and honking the horn, flashing lights and all of that I get out of their way however I can - and wait to drive by the inevitable accident with them involved some distance up the road.
  • WW_Jude_V2
    WW_Jude_V2 Posts: 209 Member
    I used to be like many of you until recently. I was rushing to my dying mother's bedside and some "idiot" in a truck was trying to get by me. I'm going a good 30 mph over the limit. He finally pulled out and passed me and sped down the road and turned right a few blocks up.

    By the time I got to where he turned he was already at the bottom of the hill, pulling into the hospital emergency parking lot.

    Years ago, my sister was being rushed to Emergency after her appendix burst. Our father was speeding, honking the horn and flashing the lights.....to no avail. No one allowed him to get by.

    I now try VERY hard to not judge - - just in case. Panic and fear can make the best drivers reckless.


  • Jonesingmucho
    Jonesingmucho Posts: 4,902 Member
    I just don't look in the mirrors again if someone is tailgating. It's hard enough to control my own speeding car. I can't control theirs too. They can do whatever they want back there. I'll just focus on what's in front of me. :)
  • StrongLife
    StrongLife Posts: 525 Member
    Panda_brat wrote: »
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  • Pennilopez
    Pennilopez Posts: 278 Member
    I drive real slow on purpose to pee them off ! :D
  • Tonydevolanii
    Tonydevolanii Posts: 657 Member
    never happens.
    otherwise spit
  • sassygirl711
    sassygirl711 Posts: 4 Member
    rarely happens with my radar detector
    and how fast I drive.
    but...there are a lot of crazed unhinged drivers out there...it takes only a second
    for a bad situation to turn really awful.
    and it can't be reversed. you will hopefully never see this nut again.
    breathe deeply and move on.
  • robs_ready
    robs_ready Posts: 1,488 Member
    Give the the middle finger

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