Avoid Road Ragers…Because Angry People Have Terrible Judgement [VIDEO]

I did. I can still remember the jingle. “It’s so easy with Cellular One. It’s so easy with Cellular One.”

I was recently involved in a case of road rage. Fortunately, I was able to fake him out and turn onto a side road quickly leaving him stuck in the direction he was traveling. He flashed me half a peace sign, or told me I was number one with the wrong finger. Sweet fella!

oh yeah… there were cell phones back then. they weren’t like they are today with smart phones and they were a lot more expensive.

94ish, yeah

“You had a cell phone thirty years ago?”

They were called ‘bag phones’ back then, weighed nearly 10 pounds, powered by a lead-acid jell battery or cigarette lighter plug. Typically came in a leather satchel of sorts.

Oh, and calls cost 1 dollar a minute…

I had one of the very first “small” ones (that weren’t the huge 1980s type, but actually could be held in the palm of one hand like today’s phones) back in the mid-90s. That was about the time pagers were still ubiquitous and on everyone’s belt.

I also had a cell phone 30 years ago. It was about the size of a gun case that would hold two 1911s and a couple extra mags. It weighed like 3 or 4 pounds, maybe 5. Out in the boonies, you put an external antenna on top of the truck, or you got no signal to speak of. There were no “apps” for it – it was a phone, nothing more, and nothing less. And, I often wanted to pitch it out the window while driving over a bridge. I don’t miss that old phone at all.

The phone I had ~25 years ago would be more familiar to kids today. Ugly stupid feature phone, no Android, no iPhone apps, but it fit into a pocket, and the antenna worked pretty well, eliminating the necessity of an external antenna.

When I stopped working on the road all the time, I stopped carrying cell phones. They’re a headache, no matter how you look at them.

I’ve recently purchased my first cellphone in 15 years or so, primarily for medical emergencies. Dear Wife and I are aging, as are several members of the extended family.

I repeat, cell phones suck. But they can be life savers, so I’ve finally caved in to family demands.

I got my first cell phone a Motorola Brick in 1991. $600

So did I. We still have the brick phones and then the first flip phones. I still have a cellular one Antenna pen.

Road rage magnet. I noticed a very sharp uptick in road rage around me when I had a Donald Trump for president sticker on my car

darcydodo…your words are words against you…Correct Zimmerman was almost killed and a firearm saved his life. If left up to democRats like you he would be dead.

Do you even have a driver’s license as we already know you don’t have any guns there Jerry? Either way I would say speak to what you actually know anything about but that would probably prevent you from posting ever again.

A viscous naked ape?
So he had high resistance to flow?
Did your mommy miss your vocabulary lesson today?

“The article simply shows why most, if not all European Nations, outlaw the carrying of weapons for self defense because when you put a gun in the hands of a viscous naked ape he or she will use it on his fellow naked apes.”

Except, the exact opposite happened.

Florida got concealed carry in about 1987. Since 1987, gun murders have dropped about 50 percent…

Instead of describing dacian as viscous, I would just call him thick!

dacian the demented dips***,

I didn’t realize your monumental ignorance about policy, politics, economics, and firearms also extended to the English language. The word is “vicious” you dolt, not “viscous” (which describes a characteristic usually attributed to liquids and lubricants). You repeatedly misuse this, so it isn’t just a typo, you’re actually so stupid you don’t know the correct word. It is what comes of being an uneducated, Leftist/fascist dolt. Perhaps if you’d actually gone to school, you’d be less ignorant. Nah, you’d have gone to some Leftist/fascist school, and you’d STILL be ignorant . . .but at least you’d have a useless degree (probably in some dips*** ‘discipline’ like Gender Studies). So you could feel good about yourself when you’re asking “would you like fries with that?”.

P*** off, loser.

They have a solution already: Disarm everyone. That’ll solve emotions! Nobody ever gets hurt that way.

Too bad the same can’t be said for Illinois!

Nice.

Congrats cousin fuckers! I mean… natives of Alabama… 😉

You sound like a rager.

I can’t help but chuckle at the amount of idiots who would rather waste their time and money with potential insurance claims and body work or worse, or just lose value on their vehicle instead of simply driving safer. I’ve even seen people comment that they would rather cause a wreck deliberately rather than yield or simply just avoid it because they want to “prove a point”. Usually though, it’s two road ragers finally meeting each other.

Don’t torget Force = mass × acceleration. The more mass a vehicle has the more force it can generate in a impact. Of course less mass = greater acceleration.

My ‘84 mercury capri RS would do 55 mph at 1500 RPM, 75 mph at 2K RPM in fifth gear.

Angry people without a gun are dangerous people.

Yea we are all about blaming the object here… not the people…

idiot.

You fascists and your draconian punishments. How did that work for the war on drugs? Booze?

Perhaps it is a cultural thing of not backing down to appear weak?

Much like those in jolly little Britain who want to make the country a caliphate or have lots of little caliphates dotted around the country.

“Anybody”… lol ok Karen.

Numerous times a show of force has deescalated a potential rager. But keep telling yourself that stereotypes are okay…

Also, what happens in areas where they don’t allow self defense? The helpless victim uses their phone… like it’s going to save them in that instance.

All it takes is 10 minutes of dashcam videos to know your comments are naive. If an attacker approaches and a firearm send them tucking tail, that firearm possibly just saved a life. Why risk your life hoping someone already unstable will be reasonable while they are road raging?

Dumbass. I’ve seen too many videos of people helpless in their vehicles blocked off from surrounding traffic with kids in their car being attacked by a road rager to side with some idiot that wants to ban self defense.

@Albert L J ‘Karen’ Hall

“Apartbn from stating the blindingly obvious the real, problem is far too, many people have handguns and far too many people are prepared to use them to stlle minor grievences ”

Apparently far too many idiots like you think the internet magically makes them seem intelligent.

There has been road rage for as long as things with wheels have carried people. Heck, the streets of central London in the U.K. were pattered on the Roman chariot paths back when the Romans held that area and if you did not clear a path for a Roman chariot they simply ran you through with a spear. Its not suddenly some new thing because there are guns. In 2022, ~1,300 people daily were criminally attacked with a knife and 132 of those daily were criminal attacks by a road raging attacker and that’s ~48,000 people annually attacked with a knife by a road rager.

You have road rage in the U.K. too, people get knifed by a road raging brit all the time in road rage incidents in the U.K. but like the U.S. your media also doesn’t report on it unless its sensational enough. Road rage happens all over the world, its not unique to the U.S.

Close but no cigar. While in flight at night, over one of the world’s many oceans, the rear cargo door should open and the wire box container with the 50 – 60 aliens get dumped. You would thick that many could swim to hold the wire box afloat, but then again, maybe not.

“transported in sealed cattle cars“

Wow, the fascists are saying it out loud now.

Do you want to get the 40/8 cars out of the museum for nostalgia’s sake?

Yep. Downside is where I live, a lot of areas are no signal. But it’s still worth a quick hit of the mic button the steering wheel and a “call 911” prompt. I would hate to do it but if you are raging that much I’m covering my tracks. 3 dash cams to prove it too (front, rear and interior).

Never had an issue anywhere else but in town, cities and suburbs. On the highways I try to position myself to let them see more so they can pass by kind of moving over to the right in the upcoming passing zone. Most people know the roads though and will wait for certain areas but there is always that one jackass… always.

Most people don’t realize that “watching your rear view” can be seen as threatening too. If they are mad already, your acknowledgement of them is kind of provoking. Just ignore them, you know they are there, let them pass or simply just do nothing because no matter what you do they are going to rage.

I would still try to avoid breaking traffic laws to get away from a rager if at all possible as you don’t want to cause a accident with a 3rd party or get pulled over and be wrongly accused of being the aggressor. Non LEOs lack lightbars to warn others to get out of the way. Pulling into a police station parking lot is a pretty effective way to lose any ragers.

You know, not everyone who has a fast ride acts like that. Just the same as assuming all who have a gun are mass murderers.

Most of us keep it on the track and try and keep it as quiet as possible to avoid the unwarranted attention from the piggies who are often looking for any excuse to harass, incarcerate, or seize steal your vehicle. Ever had your Rights violated being held without charge on the side of the road for 3 hours for just idling though rush hour like everyone else? I have.

Noise? Below 3100 rpm, even though there’s a giant free flow exhaust, it’s nearly as quiet as a stock vehicle. Mundane even. Above gets real raucous, deafening even when the turbo’s spool up.

There is no way to just switch off anti-lag, and turbo’s don’t spin down instantly. Especially big ones. The source of the popping as you described. Trust that most don’t have any intent in building their cars to personally victimize anyone, or you in particular. It’s a hobby, and 1542 whp is great for evading rager’s, plus it’s quite amusing, you should try it.

If you think gas prices are bad, try running pure E85. And I run another 250 wet spooler shot pumping alcohol. To flip that coin you tossed, you sound like a rager. Also the automotive equivalent of a Fudd who doesn’t understand freedom. And chill Montana, I still <3 ya.

Sounds like a Ricer showboating around town. Ricers are generally import cars but domestics can also be “riced out.” Not all hotrodders are PITAs but the bad ones sure are.

In my area its big pickups who often drive like jackasses, especially the diesel guys with their coal rolling tunes.