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BMK 05-26-2004 03:40 AM

Road rage !!!
 
:LOL: ROAD RAGE

Here's a funny story (true) that I heard at a dinner the other night.

:LOL:

My friend at the dinner is a real car enthusiast and collector and has a lovely mint Ferrari. He is totally paraniod about parking it or leaving it anywhere.

So he tells this story. %/

We pour another beer and listen....



"I'm in peak hour Melbourne traffic and we are slowly moving forward. Hell, I don't know what the hold up is. Traffic should be moving quicker.

As I move forward, I let a new Ford Falcon sedan move across in front of me into my lane. I notice that there are two guys in the car.

They look like a couple of business guys caught in the same slow traffic. The passenger gives me the thumbs up for letting them move across into my lane and in front of me.

We slowly move forward and I can see there is a car double parked in our lane and the occupants two or three young males are standing next to their car talking with some others in a car parked at the kerb.

Hell I think, these bastards are just double parked blocking the traffic and don't care a damn about anyone else on the road.

We move slowly forward, with traffic swinging out around the double parked car. The three young males don't care that they are holding us all up.

:confused:

Little did I know what was about to unfold.


The two guys in the Ford Falcon directly in front of me move forward - I move forward.

I then heard the two guys in the Ford Falcon in front blast their horn.

You guessed it. The guys standing around talking ignore them after giving them the bird. Their not moving their double parked car for anyone.

So the guys in the Ford Falcon blast the horn again and put their indicator on. They obviously want to turn and the double parked car is blocking them.

Hell, the guys standing around get more abusive and start yelling.

The guys in the Ford Falcon move right up behind the double parked car and sound the horn again.

Well next minute one of the three guys standing there gets really abusive

"Why don't you f#^* off", they yell.

Patiently the guys in front attempt to move back, but my Ferrari is right behind. I panic and stand on my horn. The guys in the Ford Falcon stop and move forward again.

I can see them signalling to the guys to move their double parked car. They sound their horn again. Again they are abused and ignored.

The Ford Falcon is now stuck between me and the offending double parked car. They sound their horn again.

The three young guys all get abusive and suddenly one throws a beer bottle. It flys through the air. I watch hopeful that it does not bounce off the Ford Falcon in front and onto my Ferrari.

Well, I didn't have to worry, as it smashes the front window of the Ford Falcon, glass flying everywhere.

Then the fun really started.

:LOL:


Next minute, the two guys fly out of the Ford Falcon. The driver has the biggest handgun I have ever seen and the passenger pulls a shotgun from somewhere behind his seat.

I have a front row seat on all of this. Guns are in ears and faces. The three guys are on the ground. The crowd builds up a bit and I hear the sound of Police sirens in the distance.

You guessed it. These 'road rage' idiots had just thrown a bottle through the windscreen of Melbourne's 'finest'.

The plain Ford Falcon was the Criminal Investigation Police in an unmarked Police car.

:eek:

I watched these three idiots placed in the back of two Police cars that had turned up within seconds.

One of the plain clothes Policemen from the Ford Falcon walks back to my Ferrari.

'Sir', he says casually. 'Sorry to hold you up, we will be a moment longer my partner is writing a 'Parking Ticket' for this double parked car that is blocking the road'.

I think he is serious.

I laughed at his joke anyway and drove on home.

:LOL:

:LOL:

It was a great dinner...... thought I would share his story.

Cheers

Bernie

mr0077 05-26-2004 05:05 AM

Good story Bernie, sweet justice for a change!

trularin 05-26-2004 05:09 AM

Just goes to show ya, you never can tell who is driving that car next, behind or in front of you.

Mannors on the road count. ( dang that spelling )

Cheers

Lowell W 05-26-2004 05:17 AM

For once! When ya needed a cop to be there...

Great story!

Lowell

BMK 05-26-2004 05:47 AM

Lowell

After dinner the conversation went back to the 'Road Rage" and we were debating as to what would be the more expensive.

:confused:

The windscreen of the Ford Police car or the Ferrari windscreen.

We all agreed, the cost of the Police car windscreen and the associated Court charges and fines could just come out on top.

Yeah thought it was a great story - I'll look closely before I throw my next beer bottle. :LOL:

Cheers

Bernie

RICK LAKE 05-26-2004 06:16 AM

Bernie Knight Bernie you have all the fun down under.:LOL: It's nice to see that nice things happen to nice people. Those three guys are lucky it was not in NYC. They would have recieved bullets instead of hand cuffs.:eek: NYC is not that bad. Did you give them any Georgia?:confused: Yea I thought so.:rolleyes: Have a good day:D Rick Lake

Back in Black 05-26-2004 07:32 AM

Nice story
 
A little preliminary cosmic justice......

Dangerous Doug 05-26-2004 09:13 AM

Heh, heh, heh, what a GREAT story.

Dangerous Doug

MidOHasp 05-26-2004 10:46 AM

That story just made my day. Of all the possible outcomes I thought of, that was not one of them!!

Tongue Pirate 05-26-2004 01:12 PM

Justice served:)

Lowell W 05-26-2004 02:58 PM

Guess it just goes to show: If you have to throw that beer bottle, throw it at the Ferrari; not at the Falcon! :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

Lowell

Dennis Kelley 05-26-2004 03:29 PM

If your going to throw something throw LEAD!

WILDAC 05-27-2004 01:47 AM

Great story Bernie:D

Just goes to show you that what goes around comes around:eek:

Cheers Robo

BMK 05-27-2004 03:05 AM

Hey Rick

Perhaps they had been drinking the 'Georgia Moon".

:confused:

Then again, I did not wake up for 10 hours - so it wasn't "Moon"

Tongue Pirate

Hyde,

Let me know if you get down to HB I stayed there with a few guys who are real weekend cruisers from Malibu to Laguna and in between.

I don't know how they sleep they drink so many of the 'Starbucks'

We ended up in Crystal Cove shopping centre one Sunday and had a great morning and a cruise to San Diego and onto that big fence down south.

They are down at the shopping centre there most Sundays.

Could be worth a cruise down (405 ?)

Cheers

Bernie

BMK 06-01-2004 04:09 AM

Interesting story in the latest edition of 'Unique Cars' about a red Ferrari and a pick up.

:eek:

Road rage gone real wrong.

:confused:

Perhaps those red Ferraris just attract un - wanted attention.

%/

F1 driver Michael Schum. may relate to that after his little bump behind the pace car.

:CRY:

Seems new Ferrari owner was being tail gated on a US freeway when the guy overtook the Ferrari and suddenly pulled in front and slammed the brakes on. The poor old Ferrari owner just could not stop and run under the pick up. $18,000 US later and the pick up owner just laughed.

Seems he does not like Ferraris. The Ferrari owner had just taken delivery of his new Ferrari.

:eek:

Takes all kinds.

:confused:

Cheers

Bernie


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