[theholycow]

Originally Posted by Justin

What pisses me off more than the tailgaters is the people that rip around you in double yellow zones

That's ok with me. I wish they would just pass me. They're already not interested in anyone else's safety (nor their own), they might as well only risk an accident for a few seconds passing rather than for minutes behind me. Plus, they might actually get cited for that if a cop sees them; a cop will never pull someone for tailgating, at least not around here.

Originally Posted by SScattergunSS

What some people don't realize is that the other person may really need to GET GOING for some legitimate reason.

For every 1 that has a legitimate reason to endanger others on the road by tailgating or going faster than a safe speed (I'm not talking speed limit, I'm talking safe speed, which tends to be higher than the speed limit IMO), there are 9999 others who do not have a legitimate reason.

If it's just the way he drives, he'll eventually draw the attention of some traffic unit on the prowl, and will get pulled over and cited.

Not in this region. Here, there are two things that can get you pulled over:

1. Driving extremely fast.
2. Driving while being me (regardless of driving perfectly within the law, going with the flow of traffic, and/or looking like yet another boring sheep in the flock).

They don't pull people who are driving recklessly, they don't pull people who are obviously drunk, they never pull someone for tailgating. Maybe, if a cop is really bored and the ticket quota deadline is approaching, they might pull someone for passing across a double yellow.

BUT without question, the dumbest thing a person could do is a stupid "Break Check"!!! Do you really want to get into an accident...even if it's the other guy's fault?!?!?! And then what do you do when you pull over to exchange information, only to find out that this guy REALLY IS, "Barney Bad-Ass" and not only is he having the worst day of his life, but now he's focused all his attention, and now anger on you because you wanted to play some lame-ass "Brake Check" game?!

I agree wholeheartedly. There are plenty of better ways to deal with it than brake checking, which could result in injury, your own liability if you get caught doing it, and a whole lot of time and hassle spent on an accident that you choose to cause.

Originally Posted by Silverghost

I've waited intil I come up on some road debris and waited till the last possible moment to swerve around it. They usualy back off after realizing they can not see in front of me and hit a re-tread or ladder, those are the most common things in the road here. Makes me laugh when I think of them puckering right before impact.

I love it. That is an awesome strategy.

Here's my strategies:

• If I'm in my truck, I feel comfortable enough just slowing a little bit at a time. They don't really notice that you're slowing, if you do it right, and eventually you've got them down to 1/2 the normal speed and suddenly they notice and pass.
• If I'm in my hatchback, I get really nervous when being tailgated, even though I know logically that I shouldn't be. So, I speed up and slow down repeatedly so I've got space between most of the time and eventually they realize what I'm doing, or I squirt them with my rear washer. My rear washer's nozzle is removed and it squirts directly back onto their car.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...46325790254055

I just got another idea: Pull out my camera and take a picture of the license plate. Take repeated pictures until they see what you're doing. Maybe then they'll think you're going to report them...