Road Rage lesson

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Reading that story made me angry. A mom is dead cause the teenage daughter "reached over from the passenger seat and blew the horn"
We stress the school solution here to ignore, and not react. Get to safety and call 911.
What was this girl thinking? She stated the chain of events that led to her moms death.
Then mom and son thought it was good idea to go looking for the guy with a gun. Not a lot of good judgement that day.
Sad event that could have been prevented.
 
bikerdoc said:
Reading that story made me angry. A mom is dead cause the teenage daughter "reached over from the passenger seat and blew the horn"
We stress the school solution here to ignore, and not react. Get to safety and call 911.
What was this girl thinking? She stated the chain of events that led to her moms death.
Then mom and son thought it was good idea to go looking for the guy with a gun. Not a lot of good judgement that day.
Sad event that could have been prevented.
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Not really. The initial incident appears to be over after they got yelled at and went home. At this point, there's no evidence of the other driver having followed them home after the initial encounter.
The fatal sequence of events began once the mother had her son fetched so they could go back out to find that other driver. Unfortunately, that decision lead to the deadly encounter with what turned out to be a dangerous individual. She ended up the victim of both her poor judgment choice and a dangerous individual.

From the looks of it, had they gone home and stayed there, the second sequence could've been avoided.

A very sad situation for that family.
 
The mom went out looking for trouble and found it. Now she's dead. Lesson learned? . . . . The 3 S's . . . Stupid places, stupid things, and most of all stupid people. Some might even call it Darwinism.
 
Lesson learned? Don't teach people lessons unless you're actually capable of teaching, and willing to accept the consequences for your likely illegal "lesson."

This goes further than just minding your own business - try to be a decent citizen and not provoke others with your behavior.

This whole situation could have been de-escalated: by the mom (by driving a safe and normal speed), the daughter (by not honking), the man (by not confronting), the mom and son (by not pursuing) and finally the man (by not murdering the mom).

I've never been in a monkey dance that ended well, just too bad it took so many to learn my lesson!
 
Are you guys seriously saying she shouldn't have honked the horn? This "started the sequence of events...."? Seriously?
There's a million ways for this to have gone that did not include violence. There's a couple hundred million honks of horns around the world every day, and in almost every case, nobody gets hurt.
Basics: It's wrong and illegal to hurt folks. Simple.
It's stupid to go looking for trouble because you don't like the way someone drives. Honk your horn? Sure. Call them a jackass out the window? No problem. Flip the bird? Absolutely.
None of these things warrant a violent response from anyone. Ever.
 
The article I read the other day didnt mention that the family went out searching for them. Only that the other car pulled up to their home and started shooting. The armed son was outside and managed to fire back.

That story made me feel like the mother was not at any fault. This one has the opposite effect.
 
When you go looking for trouble, you are likely to find it?
I guess this answers the question, of why didn't she call the cops, why didn't she go to a 'safe' location instead of allowing the car follow her home...

Generally, for people who are following you, the advice is to call the cops and meet them somewhere (better if you know there are cameras like a Walmart parking lot) or head to a police station. BUT... the rest of the story comes out.
 
Very stupid, careless, and reckless! One should always, always try to get away and do everything possible to deescalate the situation. Never try to follow them, get the heck out of Dodge and as far away as possible, it isn't worth the risk.

I've had more than one potentially deadly encounter with road rage. And despite my attempt to go the other way, I've been chased down, and ended up having to draw my weapon. This has happened twice, once several years ago, and once about 40 yrs, ago. In one of those situations I got cornered in a culdisac, but while trying to get away I made a wrong / bad turn. And although I had drawn my weapon, the 4 perpetrators were still assaulting my vehicle, they had smashed my windshield, both door windows, and were trying to get me out of the car. Just as I was down to no other option but to shoot, they were driven off by a near by resident who fired a shot into the air from a shotgun.

In the most recent incident, I had become trapped at a stop light, and as he began to approach my car with a bat, I pointed my firearm and yelled "get back, I'll shoot", the enraged driver broke off his attempted assault. As soon as the light turned, I went the opposite direction.

GS
 
The incident was tragically stupid behavior but not uncommon. In my life I have many times seen similar stupid behavior that could have ended in tragedy from people allowing overweening pride to overwhelm rational restraint. It is a form of immaturity some never outgrow.
 
I cannot believe there are guys saying that a teenage girl honking the horn started this "chain of events". :scrutiny: It started when mom got her son who had a gun and went looking for the guy. Seems like she was teaching her kids the wrong lesson and it backfired on her. She chose to put her son and daughter in harms way over a road rage incident which had already ended. I have sympathy for her kids because they lost their mother, but that is as far as my sympathy goes. The mom went looking for trouble and found it.
 
From ST&T's own rules ...

We generally discourage the discussion of road rage incidents, as the use of weapons is rarely if ever appropriate, and as driving techniques are beyond the scope of The High Road.
 
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