A person who is employed at my company had this experience.
Before work, this person was taking his children to school. He stopped at a four way stop sign, and since he had the right-of-way, he went on. The other person (I'll refer to him as "the crazy") at the stop sign took offense and began following him. "Riding his bumper" was the description.
The man continued to school and dropped off his kids. The crazy pulled into the school parking lot but then left without confronting the man.
The man then began to drive from the school to work. He passed a police car driving the opposite direction which immediately pulled a U-turn and began following him. This police car was quickly joined by a second and then a third police car.
Having sufficient numbers for a confrontation, in their reckoning, the police pulled him over and asked to search his vehicle. He gave them permission and after some time it became apparent that they weren't finding what they had hoped to find.
He started asking questions.
The crazy had called the police, given them the man's license plate and a description of his vehicle and told them that the man had waved a gun at him in the school parking lot.
Fortunately, the man was not carrying a pistol in his vehicle or things could have gotten VERY unpleasant for him. It wasn't exactly a walk in the park as it was.
I'm not sure what lessons are to be learned from this. I wonder if there is any way to protect against this kind of "attack." The only thing I can come up with is to install video cameras in your vehicle. That seems a bit over the edge.
I don't even think there is any recourse for the man in this situation. The crazy wins by using the cops to terrorize someone for him.
Before work, this person was taking his children to school. He stopped at a four way stop sign, and since he had the right-of-way, he went on. The other person (I'll refer to him as "the crazy") at the stop sign took offense and began following him. "Riding his bumper" was the description.
The man continued to school and dropped off his kids. The crazy pulled into the school parking lot but then left without confronting the man.
The man then began to drive from the school to work. He passed a police car driving the opposite direction which immediately pulled a U-turn and began following him. This police car was quickly joined by a second and then a third police car.
Having sufficient numbers for a confrontation, in their reckoning, the police pulled him over and asked to search his vehicle. He gave them permission and after some time it became apparent that they weren't finding what they had hoped to find.
He started asking questions.
The crazy had called the police, given them the man's license plate and a description of his vehicle and told them that the man had waved a gun at him in the school parking lot.
Fortunately, the man was not carrying a pistol in his vehicle or things could have gotten VERY unpleasant for him. It wasn't exactly a walk in the park as it was.
I'm not sure what lessons are to be learned from this. I wonder if there is any way to protect against this kind of "attack." The only thing I can come up with is to install video cameras in your vehicle. That seems a bit over the edge.
I don't even think there is any recourse for the man in this situation. The crazy wins by using the cops to terrorize someone for him.