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mickle
innit
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Crime? Which crime do you imagine I committed? I followed someone. And I looked at him.
Hilarious episode with a beemer
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Crime? Which crime do you imagine I committed? I followed someone. And I looked at him.
GrasB
Veteran
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- Nr Cambridge
So okay the guy may have been speeding etc. & given him self a shock. He may have miss directed that at you. But, to him what you did was intimidatory to some degree & you knew it, which is exactly why you chose that course of action. This intimidation enhanced the stress of the initial event causing the driver to take less rational & more dangerous actions. Continuing to follow him for 50 min would have continued to maintain a high level of mental pressure, making the driver less & less rational as well as reducing his ability to judge things correctly.
Sir, you acted like a class one twat with little regard for the safety and well being of others.
Sir, you acted like a class one twat with little regard for the safety and well being of others.
Is a defence used by stalkers.
If I may offer some advice. Next time you provoke someone to slam their brakes on in front of you, just look into their rear view mirror, laugh and point like you have won, then turn off. This does three things a) properly winds them up, b) saves you 50 minutes of petrol, c) doesn't endanger any other road users.
I trust this thread is just a wind up, because having seen your posts over the years I really don't want to believe you could do something so jaw droppingly stupid, because it kind of ranks along side those who tweet about running cyclists into ditches.
I really don't want to believe you could do something so jaw droppingly stupid, because it kind of ranks along side those who tweet about running cyclists into ditches.
Oh, don't be silly.
No really, doesn't matter if you're on foot, a bike or in a tin box, if someone is trying to intimidate you using their car then the intention is the same.
OP
OP
mickle
innit
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- 53.933606, -1.076131
I like to think I'm open to criticism, and I'll admit that it wasn't perhaps the most sensible thing to do, but the bottom line is that I'm tired of being treated like a mug on the roads and in this case I gave the driver of the BMW a taste of his own medicine. If I've given the impression that this was a scene out of Bullet forgive me, I really did just follow him. For the majority of the period I was behind him we were both travelling on city streets at well below the speed limit. A few minutes after the point he started to drive erratically I peeled off. My intention was to communicate to him that driving around like a twunt has consequences, that 'one of these days' his bully boy tactics would rub up against the wrong person. I wanted him to think that I'one of these days' had arrived, that I was that wrong person.
Waving cheerfully, pointing and laughing after they endanger our lives? Is that tactic working for anyone?
Waving cheerfully, pointing and laughing after they endanger our lives? Is that tactic working for anyone?
Personally If I'm in a tin box I worry about it much less than I would do on a bike or on foot, and I imagine the same is true for most people.
All you can do is win the small battle, you can never change him. He wanted to intimidate you, you decided to play his game and so he dragged you down to his level. I know it's difficult at the time, but derision is a powerful tool.
Intention and outcome. I agree the tin box is designed to withstand impacts, the human body not so. It's the intention of intimidation that is the same.
What you probably communicated to him was that he was bring followed by a psychopath
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You've met Mickle then?
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
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- Craggy Island
I'm in two minds about this, yes, it must have been fun to teach him a lesson, but what you did was equally as bad, I mean, 50 minutes??
FIFTY MINUTES??
That isn't normal Mister, that just isn't normal!
FIFTY MINUTES??
That isn't normal Mister, that just isn't normal!
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Nigeyy
Legendary Member
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- Massachusetts, USA
I'll be honest, when I first read Mickle's post I was amused; it's a case of where someone got their own back -sort of a situation where I think anyone dreams of now and again. However, reading your post, I think you make an excellent point about the potential of a serious accident. I know Mickle didn't do anything illegal, but I do think he aggravated the situation intentionally for no other reason than to do so. I know I would be beside myself if that driver caused a serious accident in his haste to "get away".
So I see why Mickle did it (and I'm happy he taught the driver a lesson) but I think the potential cost is too high. This also didn't cover the scenario of the other driver being a nutter and turning around and doing the same thing!
So I see why Mickle did it (and I'm happy he taught the driver a lesson) but I think the potential cost is too high. This also didn't cover the scenario of the other driver being a nutter and turning around and doing the same thing!
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
Pot, kettle, black?
Brandane
The Costa Clyde rain magnet.
I'm a retired one, if that counts
. I served in Scotland, where the law is different to England, but I am sure there will be something equivalent in England. In Scotland, to answer the OP's question, you could be quite reasonably charged with the crime of "breach of the peace". Reason being, you were placing the other driver in a state of fear or alarm (if he was to make a complaint against you). Which was the whole intention of your conduct as outlined in your confession, aka post #1. Guilty. Next!...............
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