Good ol' American road rage gunfight

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A Las Vegas mother was giving her teenage daughter a driving lesson when they had an encounter with an aggressive driver. The daughter honked the horn, and the guy got out of his car and screamed at them.

So, Mom decided to go home and get her grown son. He strapped on a gun, and they went out to look for the guy. They found him in his car and followed him around for awhile, before deciding they'd had enough. But then the guy followed them back home, at which point he and the son exchanged gunfire...

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...meyers-went-looking-suspect-road-rage-n307896

They pulled the plug on Mom, on Valentines Day.

"I did what I had to do to protect my family. Everyone can think what they have to think; I did it for a reason. And I'd do it for anyone I love," Meyers' son, Brandon, said at a vigil Tuesday.

Fun story, eh? I'm surprised they haven't caught the guy yet. I bet they will.
 
Charlie Wilkes said:
A Las Vegas mother was giving her teenage daughter a driving lesson when they had an encounter with an aggressive driver. The daughter honked the horn, and the guy got out of his car and screamed at them.

So, Mom decided to go home and get her grown son. He strapped on a gun, and they went out to look for the guy. They found him in his car and followed him around for awhile, before deciding they'd had enough. But then the guy followed them back home, at which point he and the son exchanged gunfire...

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...meyers-went-looking-suspect-road-rage-n307896

They pulled the plug on Mom, on Valentines Day.

"I did what I had to do to protect my family. Everyone can think what they have to think; I did it for a reason. And I'd do it for anyone I love," Meyers' son, Brandon, said at a vigil Tuesday.

Fun story, eh? I'm surprised they haven't caught the guy yet. I bet they will.
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I don't get why people follow or look for aggressive people they encounter in traffic in the first place. Aside from the fact that that is just asking for trouble, I don't understand what kind of anger people posess to even consider that. If you enter traffic, sometimes there are going to be idiots, sometimes there are going to be ********. I've found the most effective method in dealing with aggressive drivers, especially those that stop to shout and hurl insults at you is to just keep perfectly calm and extra polite.

This is the place where I state that this wouldn't have happened in Europe because guuuhns?
 
So sorry for the family, but this is what happens when guns are seen as a solution, not as a dangerous tool. They escalate a potential scratch-and-slap fight into a lethal situation. Sad.
 
Greedo said:
I don't get why people follow or look for aggressive people they encounter in traffic in the first place. Aside from the fact that that is just asking for trouble, I don't understand what kind of anger people posess to even consider that. If you enter traffic, sometimes there are going to be idiots, sometimes there are going to be ********. I've found the most effective method in dealing with aggressive drivers, especially those that stop to shout and hurl insults at you is to just keep perfectly calm and extra polite.

This is the place where I state that this wouldn't have happened in Europe because guuuhns?
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They must pay for their insolence. If everyone was polite an in control like you, what a peaceful place the world would be.
 
I had an auto claim once where two women fought for over sixty miles, trying to run each other off the road and throwing anything they could find while traveling up I-65 at speeds that sometimes exceeded 90 mph. Coffee cups, bobbleheads, anything within reach. The stupid was epic.
 
Gawdzilla said:
I had an auto claim once where two women fought for over sixty miles, trying to run each other off the road and throwing anything they could find while traveling up I-65 at speeds that sometimes exceeded 90 mph. Coffee cups, bobbleheads, anything within reach. The stupid was epic.
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This is why car-mounted cameras should be mandatory. Just think of all that entertainment, missed out on!
 
Charlie Wilkes said:
A Las Vegas mother was giving her teenage daughter a driving lesson when they had an encounter with an aggressive driver. The daughter honked the horn, and the guy got out of his car and screamed at them.

So, Mom decided to go home and get her grown son. He strapped on a gun, and they went out to look for the guy. They found him in his car and followed him around for awhile, before deciding they'd had enough. But then the guy followed them back home, at which point he and the son exchanged gunfire...

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...meyers-went-looking-suspect-road-rage-n307896

They pulled the plug on Mom, on Valentines Day.

"I did what I had to do to protect my family. Everyone can think what they have to think; I did it for a reason. And I'd do it for anyone I love," Meyers' son, Brandon, said at a vigil Tuesday.

Fun story, eh? I'm surprised they haven't caught the guy yet. I bet they will.
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Well it is a more polite society now I guess.
 
Gawdzilla said:
Straight feed to "World's Dumbest Drivers" studios?
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YouTube. It's already full of Russian car crashes, but those are disappointing because most Russians are so used to insane crashes that they're nonchalant about them. A van goes airborne, hits a truck, and they both slam into buildings and collapse them, and the pedestrians just step around the flaming wreckage. They're used to it.

Half the fun of chaos is the horrified reactions. Would you dash a bowl of tomato soup into the face of a rich old lady if there weren't a dowager duchess present to exclaim "Well, I never!" while looking at you through a lorgnette? Of course you would, but it would lack that extra sizzle that makes it so much better.

If we must live in a world of madness, at least let's make it available to watch 24/7.
 
Look on the bright side, no one ever chickened out and ran away from a fight in this case. That is continuing great american traditions.
 
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a car ...

Also goes for tomato soup. Concealed carry.
 
So, aren't we feeling sorry for "the victims" in these epically stupid cases anymore? I remember the outcry when the two road ragers died after battling it out in a parking lot and people mocked their dumbassedness. Have we become insensitive, hardened to the plight of innocent victims?

Or is it like many of us have said all along, "This **** is hilarious!"
 
qayak said:
So, aren't we feeling sorry for "the victims" in these epically stupid cases anymore? I remember the outcry when the two road ragers died after battling it out in a parking lot and people mocked their dumbassedness. Have we become insensitive, hardened to the plight of innocent victims?

Or is it like many of us have said all along, "This **** is hilarious!"
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While it is saddening that people are this stupid or perhaps so emotionally charged that they should know better than to put themselves in these situations, it is also hilarious.
 
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