Lived n US . We dont need to go down their path !

Yeah get a dash cam and shoot him with that , too late then Pam G he has already put the axe thru your door .

I agree with Pamela G. A dash cam is at least one degree better than not having one! Get one! In fact, get two. I fitted two in my wife's car including one in the rear window. She is sick of being intimidated by hooligan tradies and knuckleheads in large vehicles sitting up the backside of her Mazda 2 while sticking to the speed limit. Might not stop you being attacked but it may get you justice if you survive long enough to get to court.

Horrible experience, to be sure. However, the current gun laws probably stopped him shooting you long before you would have been able to get a gun out.

Iza

Not a great experience Mike but I have lived in countries like South Africa & Mozambique where carring a gun for protection was pretty normal. What I learnt from those times was that if you carried one you 1) had better know how to use it and 2) be prepared to do so before they took it from you and shot you with it..The other thing that happens is that car jackers etc. start shooting people without warning just in case they are armed. As much as I don't like what is going on here with these ferals I would prefer to take the risk of relying on my dash cam and the police to sort it out rather than carry a gun.

Cheers

BB

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Saturday I had tarot card reader rage. She's pestered me from afar, for ages. I'm not a doctor, but she sounds a bit mental. Anyhow she set up a stall, and i foolishly asked if she had a Council permit. She jumped off her chair and pushed me in the back. I guess she hasn't got one??? Lol.

I'm a firearm owner and I had to hand in all my semi-autos back in 96 , I would luv to be able to carry a firearm but let's get real , its never going to happen here in Oz , you can't even carry pepper spray or any sort of weapon for self defence.

A dash cam , I have 2 front and rear might at least get you or your family some justice and put a psycho away .

Mike just imagine if carrying guns happened to be legal and in this situation you were able to react quick enough to pull the weapon from wherever you intended on keeping it, aim and fire at the guy. Imagine a little further that in your hurry and under stress you happened to miss him and were unlucky enough to hit or even kill some poor pedestrian or a child who was a passenger in another car. You guys who push for relaxing the gun control laws should move to somewhere like South Africa where it's pretty easy to get a permit to carry a gun around with you just be careful though when you try and use it or you may find yourself being just another statistic. 

I remember just as we were leaving SA the local newspaper had a front page story about a young woman who had been sunbaking on a public beach not far from Richards Bay. She carried a handgun in her purse for protection as there had been a history of sexual assaults in that area. A couple of guys who came from a nearby township attacked her, took her gun, raped her and then shot and killed her with it. If she didn't have the gun would she have put herself in this situation, probably not but guns often lead to people having a false sense of security. I don't have the answer on what we can do about people who act aggresively whether under the influence of drugs or not but if you had a dash cam I'm sure that it would have helped the police to catch up with him. Although the stories I have heard coming out of Victoria lately about law enforcement may in itself be part of your problem.

BB

If. I was in mikes position I would not produce the dash cam information even if I had one ,just get the hell out of there and thank god I escaped, bring the camera and police into it would in theory be the right thing to do,but it may also lead this nutter into knowing who you are,or even finding out where you live....

3 years ago I had a high as a kite nutter single me out in sparse traffic to slam his brakes on in front of me trying to cause an accident or to cause me to stop. Slowed down as much as I could so that I had other motorists around me as often as possible. Eventually this idiot took off at a rate of knots & I thought that was it.

Little did I know he hid in a service station waiting for me. This service station is off a slip lane about 1km from my house. I never saw him until he raced up behind in a back street trying to force me off the road & blocking me from turning back towards the main road.

We came to a halt at a roundabout, where he got out of his car. At that point I flew in reverse, did an about face & took off heading for the nearest shopping centre. Got to the car park & the same dude flies into the car park on 2 wheels before stopping, then gets out of the car & punches my car multiple times. All of a sudden he stops & sees all the witnesses, gets back in his car & disappears.

A couple of witnesses went with me to the police station, along with what footage I had. Car was stolen, but about 7 months later they got him on a raft of other charges. I was paranoid for about 6 months on the road after that.

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These noisy bully grubs are always cowards, and try to horrify fellow road users. I have always carried a huge razor sharp Bowie knife in the door pocket of our tow tug. If I pulled it out and flashed it at the window, the bully grub would run like a Dingo. You have a God given right to protect yourself & your loved ones from harm.

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Sorry Pariss but if you go around flashing weapons like knives, guns, baseball bats or whatever at other road users the chances are that you could find yourself spending some time in a big concrete motel. If people are too afraid to report these sort of road rage incidents no problem but dont complain later on that its happening and no one is doing anything about it.

BB

Road rage happened to us on 24thApril coming into Ballina at the Roundabout near the Good Guys.
A young bloke in Lancer zoomed up inside lane and cut in front of us, we had to slam on brakes and then he came to complete stop.
He had white dotted joining lanes, also there was only a minimal distance between us and other vehicle in front.
We contacted him and left a large Nudge Bar print in the back of vehicle.
The other driver pulled over and we did to exchange details.
He then got out of his car and Verbally and Physically assaulted me.
The language and abuse about older drivers not knowing the road rules and that he had right of way.
The spit out of his mouth and tried to knee me in groin, ended up with bruise on inside of leg
We locked ourselves in our Vehicle and called 000.
Other vehicles drivers were yelling at him to leave us alone.
The scary part was he had young children in the back of his car.
Took quite awhile for two police cars to arrive.
However they were extremely polite and courteous.
We were very stressed.
Luckily we had a Dash Cam and offered the footage to Police.
They took the Sim Card away and dropped back to us.
Also signed statement as regard to assault and accident.
We had stopped for Coffee to distress at the Police Officers suggestion.
Police said there would be no need to attend court, as they had all the evidence and that other driver would please guilty once he realised the facts.
Police also had the OOO recording as well.
Police utilised footage to charge him.
Court Case 14Jun where he pleaded guilty to Menancing Driving and Assualt.
12Months loss of licence and $800 fine on each offence.
That was the first day of our holiday and we now believe that Dash Cams are worth every cent.
Also damage to our car was movement of nudge bar on one side by about a 1/2inch.
His car was a right off.
Ours was Ford Territory AWD towing Jayco Journey.

The Belmont Bear wrote:

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Pariss wrote:

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These noisy bully grubs are always cowards, and try to horrify fellow road users. I have always carried a huge razor sharp Bowie knife in the door pocket of our tow tug. If I pulled it out and flashed it at the window, the bully grub would run like a Dingo. You have a God given right to protect yourself & your loved ones from harm.

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Sorry Pariss but if you go around flashing weapons like knives, guns, baseball bats or whatever at other road users the chances are that you could find yourself spending some time in a big concrete motel. If people are too afraid to report these sort of road rage incidents no problem but dont complain later on that its happening and no one is doing anything about it.

BB

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 Spot on BB although I would have thought you must report these incidents otherwise you just encourage these cretins to continue doing the same and possibly killing someone, that wouldn't rest well with me but from what I'm reading it wouldn't bother some. The firearm laws are a good mix at the moment except for Police inspections are lacking, I know several licenced people who have not been checked in 5 years of having said licence, one is separated living in the same home and is verbally aggressive towards his still legal partner.

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For me, the road rules can be condensed into two:

1/ Go with the flow
2/ Don't impede anyone

If everyone drove like that, it would reduce our stress levels immensely.

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 My sentiments exactly - don't insist on your right of way and just cruise along minding your own business.  Blend in with the mob so you are basically invisible and not on the radar of these dudes. 

Same with attracting the attention of police - out of the ordinary attitude and behaviour is what they look for and anything that causes a 2nd glance can trigger a response. 

 

Good Luck.