I need some information. I am the kind who always gets caught [on the rare occasion that I violate a driving law]. That is why I drive according to the law.

Today I was at a T-road intersection. The appropriate place was left open for those turning left. A repair stop with one way traffic was at the right. This "lady" passed me and went into the intersection, taking up the left turn opening. I honked at her and she put down her window and badmouthed me. I told her what she did was breaking the law. I told her I was taking down her license number and description. She said something nasty so I figured she lost the pi**ing match. The person behind her left me in [must have been listening]. I have her license number and the type of vehicle she was driving [her smug-ugly face with the potty mouth, description, too].

Since this was in a work zone, she should get a maximum penalty. We all need to be patient when people are working on the road. Their safety is important.

What can I do, if anything? Groundpounder, do you know? Anyone else?

Good luck with that one - I filed a complaint on an aggressive driver (like 3 inches off my bumper, and when I refused to go above the speed limit of 25 mph, they blew past me IN TOWN on a double yellow line. The irony was when I was now behind him at the red light, therefore, I had the vehicle make, color, and license plate of the car. I was told they "will keep an eye out for this person in the future". wth!

If nothing else, you can always add them to the list here:

http://www.platewire.com/location/?Pennsylvania

I never saw this site before - I was dying laughing - this is great!

Very cool - never knew it was out there. Thanks!

This would be interesting. Citizens' Arrest, to my knowledge is only for felonies and only when the person making the arrest has observed it. "Probable Cause" granted to the police does not apply to commoners. Why do I know anything about this? Cause way back when my hometown started paving over everything, some idiot who moved in made a bunch of threatening statements because one of our farm animals got it's head stuck in a fence. This happens. It was no big deal to get her out and it's not like the animal had been there for hours. She was happily munching on grass and probably would have unstuck herself if given time. One of the threats besides calling every humane society known to man was a citizens' arrest.
While I was tempted, I didn't run this person off the property with a pitch fork, cause I know a loaded shotgun wouldn't cut the mustard in this state any more. This is the early 90s. Anyway, later I did some research on it, since it was before the days of the internet, it was a lot more work then.

Today, I found this, but don't have time to read it:
http://books.google.com/books?id=SwwgkQh04...ute&f=false

I'm pretty sure you're limited to giving the person who's endangering the construction crew the finger. Although that could qualify as assault if you're in Columbia.

Nice site.

We could always start a thread on here and list our own complaints along with license numbers.
Is there any rule against that with LNP?

An older and wiser man once passed this gem to me:

"What are you getting so worked up about?"

If you are going to get upset over every driver that speeds, impedes, runs stop signs, blows red lights, stops at green lights, cuts you off, cuts you under, tailgates... you will be ready for the funny farm in no time. It just is not worth the stress. Depending on the situation, the other driver could accuse you of road rage for blowing your horn when there was no emergency. Then to open your window and yell back? There are lots of people that aren't wired according to manufacturer specifications. Give them a nice wave, smile, and move on. Then mutter your derogatory of choice.

My husband just asked me, on the ride home this evening, as an F&M student blew through a stop sign on State St. while texting with both hands, almost running over a group of 8 -10 year olds , what would have happened if the driver had run one of the kids down and my husband had beaten him to a pulp. He says no jury would ever convict him of assault, I encouraged him not to even think about it and just thank God the kids are safe for today.

state st is a disaster. just last week we were almost t-boned by a car that ran a stop sign (not f&m kids though, they looked too dopey).

True, but I usually have at least one kid in the car who doesn't deserve to be hurt or, God forbid, killed because someone else can't follow the rules and drive safely. That's what makes me so angry with near misses.

But don't drive angry... that will put your kid at risk, too. Just anticipate that every driver is going to do something stupid.

You can go to the prosecutor, and file a complaint.

You know how they have signs in the restrooms of stores saying that if the place isn't clean, you should let them know at the customer service desk, and yet there is accumulated filth that must have taken six months or more to get there? A guy explained to me that putting up a sign is a lot cheaper than actually cleaning the johns, and it provides some entertainment for the people at the customer service desk, to laugh at you behind your backs for thinking that anyone give's a rat's patoot.

For years, I've dreamed of a company that made gun turrets for cars and trucks, complete with a paintball gun. If someone was really an !profanity!, you could open up the turret, aim, and splat their car with paint - except that I'm thinking that you'd want to make special paintballs that were filled with axle grease instead of paint. Axle grease is awfully hard to wash off, but it won't cause the kind of permanent damage that paint does if it dries.

Your real savior, though, is digital photography. Post a video of the jerk behaving like a jerk on YouTube, and hopefully you get the guy's face and license number in the video as well. Sooner or later, the guy's "friends" will tell him that 247,312 people have seen him behaving like a real idiot. and they'll razz him for months and years to come. Meanwhile, he will have forgotten who you are, which means he won't come looking for you with a shotgun in his hands.

Many police cars are equipped with video cameras. If I were an auto manufacturer, I'd make this an available option with every vehicle I made. I think it would sell well.

You have a lot more faith in humankind than I do. Post idiot behavior on YouTube and you'll have all the bad driver's buds high fiving him and trying to emulate him blowing through a stop sign and barely missing catastrophe.

Husband has been wanting one of your turrets though, except he wants anti-personnel rockets or a cosmic vaporizer. (He is intolerant of horrible drivers and stupidity in general.)

Well I once witnessed an 'older' lady trying to open her car door only to realize several minutes later that it was someone else's car. Her plate had QUEEN on it.

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"Don't drive angry!"

MMMmmmmm.... VAPORizerrirrrr.............

Cool site...I checked..I wasn't on it!! Whew!!

I cannot seem to use that site. Someone use this information who can access the site above. Tell me you will do it and I will send you a PM with the license plate. Thanks !

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I was not angry until that lady acted the same as the entitled kids of today. It is easy to see how they got that way when the adults are acting that way, too. The woman could have been very pretty, but her demeaner made her look ugly in spite of the obvious good physical features.

There's always the story, supposedly true, of the drunk who called police to report that someone had stolen his steering wheel, and gas and brake pedals, only to call back a few minutes later to say nevermind, it seems I got into the rear seat by accident.

Half a century ago, my cousin unlocked his car at Sears, to find that a valuable package on the front seat was missing. He got out, thinking he'd call the cops and report the theft, only to have a woman start batting him on the head, accusing him of trying to steal her car. His car, same year, make, model and color, with identical locks, was parked about 30 feet away. His mechanic at the dealership said there wasn't much point in changing the locks, because there were only about 40 or 50 different keys required to open the entire year's production run. That changed in the 1960s....

I had hear an anecdote similar to that. Seems some Detroit auto exec was arrested for auto theft because he drove off in a car identical to the one he had rented. Since it was a competor's make of car the reporters had a field day asking him how it drove.
Anyway back to the topic at hand, if you file a complaint with the police it's your word against the offending driver's as to what happened.
The best thing if you got some azzhat crawling up your exhaust pipe is to gradually slow increasing the distance between you and the vehicle ahead in case of an emergency stop.
My pet peeve is dodging the cars that cut through a corner parking lot evade the red light at the intersection.

Yup, best advice I ever got was "drive as if everyone else is out to kill you". That way, when they do something that seems like they were trying to kill you, you got what you expected.



My mom retells a similar story.
They came out from a shopping trip in NY to find a woman sitting in their certainly locked Mint Green 1955 Bel Air (man, I wish I had that car), who insisted that it was her son's car, not theirs. Had the keys and everything. Her son's car was parked near by.

About 3 decades ago, there was a car tailgating me with their brights on I-465 circling Indianapolis. I slowed and slowed and slowed, and finally pulled to a complete stop. The jerk, a woman, stopped behind me.

I got out and stood beside her driver's door, yelling at her to dim her headlights. She shook her head "no."

I opened my trunk, and got out my tire iron. I walked back to her again, and yelled through the window that if she didn't dim her headlights, I'd dim them for her. She again shook her head "no".

I got back in my car, and took off fast. She tore out, trying to tailgate me. I slammed on the brakes, and she came within a hair's breadth of hitting me, and when I started up again, at 30 MPH, she apparently decided that it wasn't safe to tailgate me, so she pulled into another lane, and drove ahead of me.

It still raises my blood pressure to think of that incident. I really was sorely tempted to bash in her headlights.

In today's world...I wold never attempt to stop anyone for a ctizens arrest...especially for a traffic incident. Not taking a knife or bullet for that