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I was coming back from my fiance's house tonight and decided to take the long way home so I could speed through some backroad twisties. As I come around one of the bends I see a car about 1/8 mile ahead so I slow down. I didn't come up on his rear until he stopped at the stop sign ahead. It was a blue '92 or so cavalier with some cheapass Pepboys Brospeed muffler w/3" tip and some american racing wheels. He sat there at the stop sign and wouldn't move but he was revving his engine. Then he put his car into reverse real quick and came at me! I was like, "whoa, what's this guy doing?" Then he starts going real slow on the main road so I swerve a little behind him and honk at him. We get to a straight and I pass him in the oncoming traffic lane and he TRIES to keep up with me to prevent me from getting over without success. I pull way ahead of him and then decide to slow down to more sane speeds. I thought I lost him but there he was skidding around the bend behind me trying to catch up. "OK, you wanna play?" Once again I pull way ahead of him with ease. I turn down a sidestreet that hooks up with my street and kill my lights. As I go around the bends of the street I can see the light of his headlights in the trees trying to track me down. Finally, I get on my street and slow it down again. I can once again see the beam of his headlights as he's searching for me still. I duck into the private driveway that my neighbors and I share and park my car behind my house in our driveway. I get out and hear him zoom by the front of the house. Great, lost him. I go inside and I hear him driving by real slow. I looked out of my bedroom window and I see him looking out his window at everyone's cars parked out front. After that pass, he made 4 more slow passes. Good thing the neighbors have a privacy fence that hides my car from view if he should venture down the street that joins the private driveway. My car isn't visible from the front either which is also good. I have an idea where the little punk lives so if my car gets vandalized I'll know who to rough up. Part of me thinks that I should have pulled off somewhere and confronted him. The other part of me thinks that it was better to lose him and not risk any kind of trouble. What would you guys have done?
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Fred G.
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scary man. u did the right thing. those low lifes have nothing to lose and can pull a weapon on your or something.
4 passes? that's psycho alright. maybe u can peek through the window next time and report him to the cops. don't give away your location to him.
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Houston, TX
1999 FBP Civic EX auto SUPERCHARGED Performance: Jackson Racing Supercharger w/fuel pump
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Scary...
Do your reconnasance on him. Get his tag number, make and model, etc. just in case there is trouble... then go on with your life.
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'93 Civic Si H/B with B18C1, JRSC @ 8psi
Best 1320: 12.68 at 110 mph
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That is scary. Back in the day punks were punks and things were solved after school or what not. These days punks shoot people and blow things up. Do your homework on him, find out what you can to protect yourself.
Zach
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94 Civic Coupe/LS Hybrid
JRSC@6psi
Turbo Convert
Import Specialty Automotive (253) 473-2606
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Strange.
Who knows, maybe he got you mixed up with some other car that had just cut him off.
Or maybe your car looked exactly like the guys that stole his ex-girlfriend?
Hard to explain his behavoir. Might a been drunk also
[This message has been edited by reddelsol (edited February 16, 2001).]
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Sounds like a drunk, or out of his head. If he really did endanger your life, then you do not owe him any favours : You may only get that last chance to protect yourself, and your community from that PMF. Call it extreme, but if that had happened to myself or my family, then I would phone it in to the police (from a call box, dont give your name) give the guys plate, and if you want him to avoid your route home in future : tell the police that you think he is stoned & packing a piece. The police will treat him with the contempt he deserves.
Maybe this is extreme, but you dont owe him ANY favours. F*ck him.
Personally, I have seen friends buried as a result of someone elses careless driving, and the effect that it has had on their families. I am quite sure that your family do not deserve to suffer because some PMF has had a bad day.
A word to the wise - unfortunately in this case, the guy has your location down to a block or 2, in future, if it happens again, drag him to some other part of town before you lose him.
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if you fealt threatened, which it seems you did, it is concidered aggrivated assault with a deadly weapon by the cops... all you have to do is call the police with the tag number and report the incident and he will be charged with fealony assault...
a friend of mine passed a lady too close and she called it in and that is what happened to him... the cops said as she fealt threatened and arrested him at his dinner table in front of his kids a week later, he spent a couple weeks in jail before he got out (with comunity service, fines, probation) technically if that guy has priors he could do 2-10 (in Texas at least)
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Just to offer a counterpoint to the above replies, and being somwehat of a hothead, I would have confronted the assailant.
I've done this before (more than once) and again, more that once, have found myself pretty lucky. The problem is that you never know what you are up against... (for example, what I thought was an easy fistfight with a middle aged guys truned into a two against one, they armed with a hammer, which incidentally I won because they underestimated the power of a cop issue MagLite). I would assume that by the description of the "Cavalier" young man (just a little funny joke there) that he was drunk or as somebody said, you are the guy who stole his girl. Personally, I would have gotten out of my car and kicked those guys in the teeth. On the other hand, maybe I would have been shot.
I think you did the right thing though. Next time, give me a call and we'll go racing and when this happens again, I'll stuff the "Cavalier Kid" into his exhaust tip.
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96 Integra RS w/JRSC @ 9psi (Thanks Endyn)
JR BTC, ST Rear SwayBar, Eibachs, 15" Eneki's,
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I would not have gone home, one guy was following me and swerving behing me and even stopped and floored it after my car (i never sped up) and stuff....i just drove around until i lost him ....it happened to me like 3 times, one time (i think different peopel) follwed me back to my HS and waited around the corner for me to come out of the parking lot....i didnt want trouble so i drove out , but with 3 other freinds to follow me out...at a traffic light one of my friends stopped on a yellow so the followers couldnt follow me, i really dont know what i woulda done if any of the guys following me follwed me and confronted me.
damn hoodlums.
anywhoo, your story is mad scarry dude, i woulda called the cops or somthing.
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Well, im glad to see you guys have found out how to make the SYSTEM work for you, instead of system working AGAINST you...
Ive had things like this happen to me, ive been threatened, ive been in fights, and i am by NO MEANS a big guy, im saying im pretty mucha WUSS! http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
Jus always keep in mind, you may lose the BATTLE, but you WILL WIN THE WAR when the courts make these hillbilly rednecks send you a check, for their STAND UP ATTITUDES, you smile real easily...
Its sad, kinda, i wouldnt have the things i have on my car, if it werent for those 2 incidents that these local rednecks caused....THANKS TO THEM, IM BOOSTED! http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
Another cool point is, as this is a judgement against them, its really cool to see them driving the same ol'shitbox car for the next 5 years cause, 9 times outta 10, the REDNECKS wont pay the state(which DOESNT affect YOU, you still get $$$), but this shows up on their CREDIT, and NO-ONE can/will finance them for $hit. They wont even be able to buy a FREE LUNCH! http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
So basically, my motto is, MAKE THE SYSTEM WORK FOR YOU, not AGAINST YOU!
Tony
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