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Took the bike out for a little spin over near Omaha and back today (about 300 miles round trip) On the way back I stopped at a Dairy Queen for some iced tea when two older couples rode up on a Goldwing and an Ultra-Glide. We chatted for a while and discovered we were going to almost the same place so we agreed to ride along together. I was riding in the rear as we came up on a red Camaro doing about 55 in a 55 on a hilly two lane highway. We slowed (from about 65) and followed it until we came to a suitable passing zone. The lead bike started around it, with #2 and I accelerating to pass too, when the 20 something girl in the Camaro floored it leaving us hanging out there in the on-coming traffic lane with nowhere to go. As Tailend Charlie I downshifted, let off the throttle, and swung back behind the idiot. The other two bikes soon did the same thing as the Camaro was pushing 90 by then. Several miles later we caught up with the Camaro as we entered a small town. The sweet grandmotherly looking lady on the back of the Goldwing then reached into some container on the bike, took out a pocket rocket slingshot, loaded up, and fired a spread of 3 or 4 brightly colored paintballs across the front and side of the Camaro as they passed her. The idiot slowed very quickly and the Harley and I went around as well. I wish I could of seen her face as the paintballs hit. I guess the lesson is, don’t mess with Grandma!
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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That's pretty funny. 
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I hate @holes in cars, but I would no sooner assault one from the bike than I would from the car.
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Way to go grandma! 
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I like the idea of the paint balls/sligshot combo. Thats a reasonalbly non invasive , non injurious method of getting your point across.
But I bet the Camaro driver filled her panties briefly
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Good onya granny! Less likely to injure someone than marbles over the shoulder - but just as effective at making your point. Now, where can I get some paintballs?
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 for granny. Only problem is if the A **** in the camaro got pissed, and wanted to play a little bumper tag. It's a hard thing to do when someone acts like a jerk, but I've found it's best not get a cage driver angry. I think it was last year in Myrtle Beach that a group of bikes pulled out in front of a van driver. Driver took offence chased the bikes down, and ran over one of the riders. My memory isn't what it used to be, but I think he killed the guy on the bike. We all know how Easy Rider ended.
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That is real cool, good on Grandma
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I think I mentioned it once before but old school bikers used to carry hammers (I think ball peen was the flavor of choice). I asked one once what the hammer was for and he showed me how he was able to access it while riding. He then followed up with "you close enough to smash a window or break a side mirror". Alrighty then.... 
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I'd be a bit hesitant retaliating with all the crazy road raged drivers out there. The craziest ones never think they're in the wrong and might do something worse to you. Finger signs and paint balls might get by, but breaking windows or mirrors could be asking for more trouble than you want.
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That's better than those magnetic signs someone sells that you are supposed to fling onto the offender. You get old, everything hurts and you get MEAN! Ask me how I know. 
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AWESOME Road Rage lives 
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Way to go grandma!
Old age and treachery always beat out youth and skill
just my 2 cents
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I tend to kick doors since I have nowhere to put a hammer.
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I tend, despite the desire to do otherwise, to just get the ****** away from a-holes, cause like the saying goes, "you can't teach old dogs new tricks", so once an a-hole, always an a-hole. Why bother getting your point across and maybe getting killed to teach a lesson to someone who won't learn that lesson.
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I tend, despite the desire to do otherwise, to just get the ****** away from a-holes, cause like the saying goes, "you can't teach old dogs new tricks", so once an a-hole, always an a-hole. Why bother getting your point across and maybe getting killed to teach a lesson to someone who won't learn that lesson.
I think the reason such atrocious behavior is demonstrated by so many people today is that there are no longer any consequences for rude inconsiderate actions. From teenagers who can’t say three words without two of them being obscenities, to idiots who rudely cut you off in traffic while flipping you the bird and fools like the woman in the Camaro who willfully endangered the lives of five people on motorcycles because, well, who knows why. Grandma gave that young twit some consequences for her behavior. Perhaps she’ll act differently next time some motorcycles start to pass her. In the past few years I’ve meted out consequences for two people who made serious attempts to kill me. One through inattention and the other with malice. I’m hopeful that the very unpleasant memories of their interaction with me will help them modify their actions in the future. The old bumper sticker “An Armed Society Is A Polite Society†speaks to a very real need in today’s society. Unless we are willing to provide negative consequences for dangerous, rude and inconsiderate behavior there will always be airheads and jerks willing to endanger and offend us.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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I tend, despite the desire to do otherwise, to just get the ****** away from a-holes, cause like the saying goes, "you can't teach old dogs new tricks", so once an a-hole, always an a-hole. Why bother getting your point across and maybe getting killed to teach a lesson to someone who won't learn that lesson.
I think the reason such atrocious behavior is demonstrated by so many people today is that there are no longer any consequences for rude inconsiderate actions. From teenagers who can’t say three words without two of them being obscenities, to idiots who rudely cut you off in traffic while flipping you the bird and fools like the woman in the Camaro who willfully endangered the lives of five people on motorcycles because, well, who knows why. Grandma gave that young twit some consequences for her behavior. Perhaps she’ll act differently next time some motorcycles start to pass her. In the past few years I’ve meted out consequences for two people who made serious attempts to kill me. One through inattention and the other with malice. I’m hopeful that the very unpleasant memories of their interaction with me will help them modify their actions in the future. The old bumper sticker “An Armed Society Is A Polite Society†speaks to a very real need in today’s society. Unless we are willing to provide negative consequences for dangerous, rude and inconsiderate behavior there will always be airheads and jerks willing to endanger and offend us.
Great post that sums up my thoughts exactly.
Just ignoring that sort of behaviour does nothing to help ensure it is not repeated.
I almost feel obligated to make some attempt at "educating" the rude, inconsiderate a-hole that just tried to kill me.
Maybe, just maybe they will think twice the next time.
Go granny go!
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and maybe they'll retaliate, and since my Bonnie is no match for a GMC Suburban, I'll take the high road. Don't get me wrong, I DO believe that, as Larry says, the root of the problem is lack of consequences for poor behavior, BUT, unless I'm somewhat equally armed (i.e. in my car), I'm going to think twice about venting on someone in a vehicle 6 times my weight! Just as there are people out there who simply aren't paying attention, or are just plain stupid, there are also people out there who are just plain a-holes and will decide that even though they cut you off or whatever, YOU are the problem and THEY need to get even. My wife was with me once at a traffic light, and it changed to green and I didn't BOLT out of the starting position fast enough for the jerk behind me, so he started honking. Well, she decides to give him a New York salute, and he proceeds to follow us for quite some way, until I ducked into a mall and lost him in the parking lot! Yeah, it probably would have been more fun and gratifying to just get out and "talk" to him, but then he might have felt more gratified to plug me because he skipped his anti-psychoses meds that day...
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Good luck with that! The last time I tried to "educate" a cager, he intentionally tried to run me down afterwards. I won't be doing that again unless I know I can safely get away with it.
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Obviously you have to choose the place and time. Removing the outside mirror of some idiot who purposely cut you off as you pass his stopped car at a light is different than playing chicken with a psychotic in a pickup truck. Yelling at a 16 year old girl who turned left just in front of you, and making a lasting impression on her, is different than doing the same thing to two rednecks tossing beer cans out the window. During my 35 plus years of riding motorcycles I’ve been in all those situations. Unless I want to start carrying a Beretta everywhere I go there are some situations where demonstrating the acceleration capabilities of the bike is the best choice. On the other hand; shock, humiliation and shame are great teaching tools when properly applied. Since I don’t usually have a rear gunner my plan for the Camaro driver was to pull up next to her at a stop and very loudly say something like “WTF do you think you were doing? You could have killed us back there!†But I liked grandmas idea better. As for when I'm in the car and someone decides words and gestures are not enough ....  Oh yeah, driving a nasty looking old 3/4 ton Chevy will get you all kinds of room on the road. Sometimes I miss that old beast.
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We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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I had to move past gestures about a week after I moved to Connecticut after some idiot behind me decided to race me through a light to an onramp. When he found out he lost that race, he decided to tailgate me close enough for us to share my coffee at which point I gave a firm enough tap on the brakes to make my car dive a little at which point his car dived a LOT, THEN, when he shot past me onto the interstate I moved on to gestures and words...
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Good luck with that! The last time I tried to "educate" a cager, he intentionally tried to run me down afterwards. I won't be doing that again unless I know I can safely get away with it.
me too. an older woman in a van. we were in heavy traffic and i pulled in front of her in the left lane at a break. i did not cut her off by any stretch. it appears she didn't like me being in front of her so she swerved hard into the right lane and nearly clipped me to get "her spot" back (i guess?). then i ended up next to her and she blatantly tried to side swipe me in the harbor tunnel (895). i noticed all the other traffic backed way off figuring i was a goner. i got behind her and stayed in her blind spot in heavy traffic for 60 miles, hopefully terrorizing her. i know it's not nice but she really did come within an inch of killing me. at one point i let her get far enough ahead that she would think i left and then blasted right up behind her again. i had to pull off when i hit reserve or i would've probably followed her to her house. i went from being pissed off to almost killed to enraged to plotting and then relieved to be home in about 2 hours that day.
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Stop reading my mind! :-)
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Stop reading my mind! :-)
You know what they say about great minds
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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Believe me, when I am "attempting to educate" a less then courteous driver I am very aware of where I am and what my options are.
I have had people follow me before. I handle it in one of two ways depending on my mood and the situation.
I either leave them in the dust or I pull over somewhere and see how bad they really want to talk about it. Never escalated past a little verbal sparring, yet.
I guess I picture my inexperienced wife out there and how things might have gone if it were her or some other inexperienced rider that had to deal with the a-hole.
I feel obligated.
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I bet grandma used to sling ball bearing in her younger days.
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I like to find a place where I can pull alongside the offender then speed past while dragging my boot along the side of his car. Doesn't do any damage but do you have any idea how much work it is to remove that long rubber streak? Nice thing is they may not even realize it until they get to where they're going. 
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Unless I want to start carrying a Beretta everywhere I go.
I don't carry a Beretta but I do carry a S&W Model 59 with 2 14 round preban clips everywhere I can legally.
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