Revenge of the tailgated!

DirectDebacle

Usual advice for when being tailgated is to drop back from the traffic in front to allow yourself more time to brake slowly, to try help prevent being rear-ended by the mentally !!!!!! idiot behind you.

So why not say that instead of the garbage in your previous post? There are people idiotic enough to think it was sound advice.

Only an idiot who thinks it's ok to tailgate would say it was idiotic advice

Maybe, but your advice was directed to those being tailgated, not those doing the tailgating.;)

At least you have tried to redeem yourself by giving some sort of sensible advice in the end.

cyclonebri1

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers! wrote: »

But that isn't what happened, is it?

Really, who gives a !!!! what the motorist behind you is doing? I don't. I prefer to spend my time looking out for real dangers.

The motorist behind you is just as bigger danger to you as the one in front, or the one coming in the opposite direction. They are all real dangers and all can end you clean license, your day, and even your life, :eek:
We all need to think "bigger",

goldspanners

joyfull wrote: »

I get very wound up by tailgaters. Particularly when I'm abiding by the speed limit & The Tailgater is superglued to my rear bumper.

Last week I was driving along a familiar road and I noticed The Tailgater getting closer & taking up position a few feet from my car. I was approaching a familiar and very deep pothole. A little swerve to the left, as usual, would avoid it. At the last second this is what I did. Half a second later I looked into my rear view mirror to enjoy the spectacle of The Tailgater CRASH VERY HARD INDEED down into the pothole, water splashing everywhere. Mr Tailgater in his now not so shiny black 4 wheel drive didn't get so close after that.

It made my day, in fact it's made my week! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

joyfull wrote: »

What standards of driving?
I swerved to miss a pothole!!! Is that dangerous driving?

ive highlighted the answer you need,it was in your first post.

Innys

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers! wrote: »

Really, who gives a !!!! what the motorist behind you is doing? I don't. I prefer to spend my time looking out for real dangers.

Mirror, signal, manoeuvre...presumably the Department of Transport feel you should "give a !!!! what the motorist behind you is doing"?

Plus, someone right up your chuff is a "real danger" - at least you can avoid a maniac in front of you.

goldspanners

Jem8472 wrote: »

But if you work for a company that has the name of that company all over you van do you really think it is a good idea to drive like a moron?

I guess you do, would not want you driving anything with my company name on it (if I had a company)

so what does the phone call achieve? if you don't i'll tell you. nothing!

cyclonebri1

Flearoy wrote: »

Never ceases to amaze me how otherwise reasonable people decide to vent their frustrations at life at other road users while driving.... Sad.

A guy I used to work with really hated tailgaters. He had great lane discipline - he wasn't a lane hogger at all. He also liked maltesers. He found one day that opening the sunroof and ejecting a malteser resulted in a spectacular, but non-damaging explosion of biscuity honeycomb on the windscreen of the tailgater.

I must at this point stress that this was an insane response and could have caused a huge accident if the tailgater panicked.

Also total bullshgit/bollox, :mad::eek::A:T:j:beer:

DirectDebacle

joyfull wrote: »

I swerved to miss a pothole!!! Is that dangerous driving? Should I have crashed down it? Not under the circumstances you describe. You were correct not to go into the pothole.
If the impatient idiot behind me was too close to see the pothole is that my fault? No it wasn't your fault
HE was driving dangerously, not me. He wasn't driving dangerously. He was driving without reasonable consideration for other road users.

I do not condone your actions but understand them. From the tailgaters point of view they were not to know what you were doing. They would see a vehicle make a sudden change of direction and not realise why until they went into the pothole. In effect your actions were no different to those of someone who did not know the road and suddenley spotted a pothole.

Hopefully the tailgater learnt a lesson with no more than damaged pride as the injury.

perplexed.com

It's clear that there are some people on here who just want to have no-one in front of them on any road, at any speed. Full stop. Ok I get the message, anyone who doesn't want to break the speed limit or drive sensibly on a winding road without the possession of second sight ( to see that there aren't any tractors round the corner ) should just stay at home or get a bus and let all the speeding, careless people who can't lose a precious second of their time have the roads all to themselves.

DKLS

I discovered a simple £20 solution to tailgaters.
My auto electrician mate, simply wired up one of the blank buttons on that dashboard directly to the brake lights.
A simple push of the button sorts them out.

ceebeeby

DKLS wrote: »

I discovered a simple £20 solution to tailgaters.
My auto electrician mate, simply wired up one of the blank buttons on that dashboard directly to the brake lights.
A simple push of the button sorts them out.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Sorry for childishly laughing, but that is genius!!!

I always wanted one of those signs on my back windscreen that said "if you get any closer you'll realise I haven't wiped my bum" but I'm far too prim and proper really!!

I also hate tailgaters, however, just pull over as soon as I can as they scare me too much. It's kinda like bullying really isn't it ...?