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Barney Fife may have been posted there due to a high accident rate on that road. So by egging on the other driver you could have caused another accident.
The next person you want to bait into being a victim might not just want to race to try and show you up. Maybe he runs you off the road, pulls a gun, or otherwise is able to do you physical harm.
Another thought. Barney is going to catch on to your game. He will start to recognize a pattern in the stories of those he is stopping, and start to connect your truck with all these stories.
One time I was getting onto the Bay Bridge in Oakland on a nice, sunny day... top down... you know, California. Good stuff.
So as I'm sitting in line, this dude in previous-model Jag sedan pulls up alongside me and tries to muscle in front. There's like ten feet between the front bumper of my car and the divider to make sure you don't slam into the toll booth, and I'm already moving - I just honk at him. He whips his wheel back over and I see him drop his Blackberry - he looks at me and starts screaming. Chunky dude, 40's, slicked back hair... prototypical "I flip houses for a living" sort of guy.
Well, I go through the toll booth and let her rip - my car has a 9,000 RPM redline, it was made to blow away from toll booths. I rev up, get to about 70, and cruise. Then, a silver Jag flies up alongside, and the guy is still screaming at me from behind his window. He gets in front, brake checks me, I go to move to the left, he tries to block me, I fake to the right, he still tries to block me, I drop it down a gear, floor it, get around him, and just basically speed the hell away.
He's nowhere to be seen, and I get off at the first exit to get to downtown. Just my luck, I hit traffic... and sure enough, he comes off, sees me, pulls alongside me, and finally rolls down his window to scream at me: basically expletives about what he perceives my sexuality to be. I don't say anything to him and just sort of sit there, not wanting to escalate the situation.
Next light, he honks, I look over, and he's making a fellating motion at me and pointing. I look back to the front, glance in the rearview mirror... there's a cop two cars behind me.
So, I look back over at him, don't say anything, but lift my finger at him. He starts flying off the handle again, and screams "I'M GONNA BREAK YOUR F'IN NECK YOU etc etc etc." I still don't say anything, but make a motion for him to come on and try. He goes berserk, undoes his belt, jumps out of the car, and runs around the hood - screaming - and then...
*BWEEEOOP!*
The cops don't see me baiting him, they just see some dude getting all road-ragey in mid-afternoon traffic. He stops dead in his tracks, and traffic start to move... I wait till I see the door on the cop car pop, and then drive away, leaving him to his fate...
My car was brand-spanking new and still had dealer plates No way for the cops to run it and try to get "my side of the story."
One time I was getting onto the Bay Bridge in Oakland on a nice, sunny day... top down... you know, California. Good stuff.
So as I'm sitting in line, this dude in previous-model Jag sedan pulls up alongside me and tries to muscle in front. There's like ten feet between the front bumper of my car and the divider to make sure you don't slam into the phone booth, and I'm already moving - I just honk at him. He whips his wheel back over and I see him drop his Blackberry - he looks at me and starts screaming. Chunky dude, 40's, slicked back hair... prototypical "I flip houses for a living" sort of guy.
Well, I go through the toll booth and let her rip - my car has a 9,000 RPM redline, it was made to blow away from toll booths. I rev up, get to about 70, and cruise. Then, a silver Jag flies up alongside, and the guy is still screaming at me from behind his window. He gets in front, brake checks me, I go to move to the left, he tries to block me, I fake to the right, he still tries to block me, I drop it down a gear, floor it, get around him, and just basically speed the hell away.
He's nowhere to be seen, and I get off at the first exit to get to downtown. Just my luck, I hit traffic... and sure enough, he comes off, sees me, pulls alongside me, and finally rolls down his window to scream at me: basically expletives about what he perceives my sexuality to be. I don't say anything to him and just sort of sit there, not wanting to escalate the situation.
Next light, he honks, I look over, and he's making a fellating motion at me and pointing. I look back to the front, glance in the rearview mirror... there's a [/i]cop[/i] two cars behind me.
So, I look back over at him, don't say anything, but lift my finger at him. He starts flying off the handle again, and screams "I'M GONNA BREAK YOUR F'IN NECK YOU etc etc etc." I still don't say anything, but make a motion for him to come on and try. He goes berserk, undoes his belt, jumps out of the car, and runs around the hood - screaming - and then...
*BWEEEOOP!*
The cops don't see me baiting him, they just see some dude getting all road-ragey in mid-afternoon traffic. He stops dead in his tracks, and traffic start to move... I wait till I see the door on the cop car pop, and then drive away, leaving him to his fate...
My car was brand-spanking new and still had dealer plates No way for the cops to run it and try to get "my side of the story."
Barney Fife may have been posted there due to a high accident rate on that road. So by egging on the other driver you could have caused another accident.
Zero chance of that. The only reason he was there is because there is easy pickings for revenue fines.
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No way for the cops to run it and try to get "my side of the story."
