1st (hopefully last) Experience as Road Rage Victim

Jan_23_2014 about  1st experience as road rage victim. Weird, bad experience.

Firstly, the weather is  freezing and inclement. There’s a local weather advisory to be extra safe while driving. It is  extremely icy, lots of snow and slush on the ground, black ice and such. It’s not something you should drive in if you don’t have to. I needed to. Something had to be mailed before a deadline.

Secondly, if that isn’t enough, just a few blocks from the incident the major traffic light  was not working, or at least it had not been working for two days and earlier today, Jan 23, 2014.  Traffic guards had been there earlier in the day .  That traffic light handled  the the major intersection feeding traffic also onto the opposite side of the street (the traffic I had to wait for in order to turn left).
Driving my parent to Post Office. He had to make his IRS payment on time.  I had to make a left turn on E4th street. The street I’m on is narrow and two-way.  If you are going to make a left turn onto a street, the vehicles behind you have no choice but to wait until traffic clears enough that you can turn.

There were still about 5 or 6 vehicles in the oncoming opposite lane, I couldn’t turn. I was waiting. The motorist behind me in the Sequoia 4WD with “EST_” New York plates is in a big hurry. He is hammering and leaning on his horn while inching forward, very close behind my vehicle.  I can’t turn without causing a fatal pile-up! However, I try to inch forward. Any further forward, and making the turn would not be possible.

Before I could make the left turn, the SUV narrowly passes my vehicle there is a loud, sharp sound  of something striking my car as the driver  chucked something at the passenger side car window as he passed!

Not appreciating the harassment, and mostly, not certain if there was any damage or what had stuck the vehicle, I followed motorist to get the vehicle license plate.  He had sped forward and turned right onto E2nd street and stopped at the light.  I took the opportunity during the red light to take a photo and some video of the license plate and vehicle. Being it was evening and quite dark, I was barely successful. I certainly was NOT going to get out of my vehicle and expected that at the end of the red light, the driver would continue on his way.  But that;s not what happened, instead Part 2 of  his road rage ensued.

Thee light turned green, but the SUV Sequoia did not budge. it wasn’t moving.  For several minutes the vehicle was stationary as the light turned from red to green and red again. In hindsight, I can only assume Speedy the Angry was revving up his Iphone or smartphone for social media action. Since i’ve nothing of the sort, I can’t be ccerain. however, my handy dandy unsmart phone Nikon de Alkaline Battery (of which I am the original Quickdraw McGraw- fastest camera-hands in the East Coast)  kicks ass! Well enough.

Now vehicles behind me started honking. I’m stuck between Mr revved up and the captive audience hammering their horns behind me.  Sitting Duck, comes to mind since I can’t exit stage left if and when Mr speedy the Angry comes flying at me with Godess knows what. Anyhow, now  the same motorist that was in such a rush or potty emergency  that he couldn’t  wait for the passing traffic in order for me to make a left turn; was now seriously  holding up traffic! Again, he was priming his iphone, smartphone or what have you.

The driver’s side door is flung open and a man- who I will refrain from describing, or giving his ethnicity since its not about any of that, but about the incident itself. He leaps out with a camera held high and an angry face.  The way he is holding it, it appears to be an iphone or such.  His face is contorted ads he rushes over to the front of my car, does a deep squat directly in front of my vehicle- no more than 12 inches away from the plates, and takes a photo or video  or both of the license plates.  he is quite lucky I wasn’t a raving motorist like himself since he endangered himself (as well as others) by getting out of his vehicle and seeking to escalate the event, then by squatting down directly- no more than a few inches from the front bumper of my car,  in front of a vehicle that is NOT in park, but is held by foot brake at the light! All so he can get a close pic of my  car’s plate!  He wasn’t finished, he  then comes a bit closer toward my car door and snaps pictures and or video of myself and my parent in the passenger side of the car. We’re sitting ducks if this guy whips out a gun because again, we are behind his vehicle on a narrow one way street, cars are behind me. Speak of “Stuck in the Middle with You!”

One pedestrian ogles the incident while chatting on his smartphone or iphone. He’s standing on the curb outside the local cafe.

I let the angry driver busy with his camera of iPhone cam, holding up traffic, know that his vehicle was on camera too. He’s yelling something and begins looping back to his SUV. Inevitably he gets to shouting  “Fucking.  -!”  but before he could get out the rest, or the inevitable sexist or racist comment,  I recited his  his license plate number at top volume to drown him out.

He slams his door and speeds off.  Later, I could not find any damage, but I was in dim lighting when I checked. I really don’t like the idea that he took our photos, particularly when I was victimized by his road rage, twice. Luckily for me  he jumped out with a camera instead of a gun. He was very hot under the collar and we were locked in a narrow one way street and he was blocking me and others from moving forward since his vehicle sat at the beginning of the traffic light. I never left my vehicle, yet he got out of his, approached our vehicle and took pics and or video. I can only hope I’m not on his Facebook somewhere in cyberland. Which is why I have to log the events here, just in case. I’m not engaged in social media as yet.

Obviously, I want  and need to make a police report, but part of the inhumanity an injustice of being a GHAC, gov harassed and abrogated rights citizen, is that it takes tremendous courage to even try to make a report, 2nd, reports are usually DENIED and not taken. 3rd, you must always be concerned about further denial of rights or harassment for trying to exercise your very right to make a police report.

It takes nearly as much courage and tenacity to call 311.  I called 311  tonight at about 9:15pm Jan 23, 2014 and tried to report the incident there. However, 311 says all such motor incidents are a 911 call.  I’m too oppressed, weary,  abused by 1st responder/gov harassment to file a report without the support of others.

The best I can do is blog the incident for my protection. TM. 1-23-2014.

Note the photo of the 2nd portion of the Road Rage event. The Driver holds up traffic, leaps  out of his vehicle, luckily it was a camera and not a gun. he took pics of my car plates, myself and my passenger.  I’ve obscured the plates with the date and time stamp.

This is being cut and pasted from my Jan 23, 2014  personal log and journal of incidents. This incident IS NOT a gov harassment incident at all, but rather a story of two motorists. One who became incensed when the other was not moving fast enough, heedless of the fact that I could not go through oncoming traffic because he was in a rush. Interestingly, he could not have been in a rush at all when you consider the time and leisure he took to hold up and endanger traffic at a green light while he escalates matters by first priming his iphone for four many minutes before leaping out and taking vid of his victims!

Over and out for now.