When Two Dudes In Front of You Are Road-Raging and One Gets Out of His Car With a Baseball Bat

"SVTyler" (svtyler) 08/01/2017 at 20:02 • Filed to: None

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Some people, man...

ktfright | Kinja Neighborhood Black Guy > SVTyler 08/01/2017 at 20:24

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I’ve never been the type to rage like what you described.

Honeybunchesofgoats > SVTyler 08/01/2017 at 20:26

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I wonder what the legality of running someone over is in that situation.

SVTyler > Honeybunchesofgoats 08/01/2017 at 20:36

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Depending on the specifics of the encounter (like if the guy was walking towards you or waving the bat around) you could probably make a case in court that you felt threatened and reacted in self-defense. Today the dude in the Yukon just got out and stood there for a few seconds yelling before he got back in so I don’t know.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > SVTyler 08/01/2017 at 20:40

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Aluminium or wood?

No joke though I sleep with a goalie hockey stick under my bed in case of a break in

Honeybunchesofgoats > SVTyler 08/01/2017 at 20:43

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I had my first and only encounter where some dimwit in a rage got out of his car and started coming towards me a few weeks ago. I waited in reverse for him to start walking, then reversed and went around him.

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SVTyler > ktfright | Kinja Neighborhood Black Guy 08/01/2017 at 20:45

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I occasionally yell obscenities to myself as a form of catharsis while driving around delivering pizzas but after a few seconds I’m back to normal and don’t care anymore. Actually getting out of your car just seems like too much effort to me.

SVTyler > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 08/01/2017 at 20:58

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It was either an aluminum or composite Little League bat, looked something like this:

This was right as Little League practice was letting out of the park so the dude probably picked up his kid right before this and pulled his bat out of his bag. Great example to set for the kid :|

I thought about something like that when I got my own place but since I sleep so soundly (I’m not entirely sure I’d wake up even if someone was stealing the mattress out from under me) I figure it’d be a good idea not to leave a potential deadly weapon out in the relative open in case I’m not the first one to get to it. At least that might make the guy work for his murder.

SVTyler > Honeybunchesofgoats 08/01/2017 at 21:09

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Holy crap, I missed that post the first time, there’s seriously some insane people out there amongst the rest of us. Props on handling it well though, sounds like that could’ve gone a lot worse otherwise.

The worst thing that happened to me was a dude stopped and got out in the middle of the road to yell at me because I was following him a bit too close (in my defense he was doing 10 under but still). I just stuck my head out the window and apologized, saying I was delivering pizzas and was late for an order (which I actually was), and he got back in and went on his way without saying anything else which was a much better ending than I was expecting.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > SVTyler 08/01/2017 at 21:21

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That’s the great thing about a hockey stick, most burglers won’t think to grab it and they really hurt if you get smacked from behind with one

Honeybunchesofgoats > SVTyler 08/01/2017 at 21:45

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It’s a shame that 99% of drivers are incapable of deescalating like you did.

Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief > SVTyler 08/01/2017 at 22:22

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I’ve got an ice axe between the mattress and box spring. Compact and thin, heavy and an axe blade on one side and a huge ice pick on the other. Looks the part as well. Hopefully it’s frightening enough to never have to swing it but it’d be life threatening to anyone if I did.

I used to have a Mossberg Defender 12 gauge that I owned primarily for sailing offshore, where there are no police. I gave it to the Oakland Police department a few years back though as the odds of it being stolen while I’m not home are 100:1 to a home invasion. Seemed like it was only adding more risk to the world than anything else, especially locked, where it’d be useless in an invasion anyway.

Get something you’d actually use that isn’t worth stealing. The aforementioned goalie stick is an excellent idea.

My bird IS the word > SVTyler 08/01/2017 at 22:40

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I keep a tire iron under my seat, but it’s more for defense than anything.

SVTyler > Honeybunchesofgoats 08/02/2017 at 09:35

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That’s what I don’t get, you’d think that 99% would realize how much they could ruin their own lives by starting something and potentially getting shot or arrested or whatever but you still hear stories like ours all the time. I was in high school and even then I was like, “you know, I’m at my job, we’re both being idiots right now, this isn’t worth it”, no idea how successful people (dude was in a new Range Rover) get that far in life without developing some amount of common sense and self-preservation along the way.