chipperi
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The cop who took the report said it was the right thing to do. But I have been thinking about it ever since.
Yesterday morning on the way home from work it was very foggy so several cars in front of me as well as everyone behind me was doing the speed limit. I turned where I needed and a black Toyota pickup also turned. this is a 2 lane road that cuts through a farm and makes a sudden hard right hand turn about 1/4 mile into it. This idiot in heavy fog and no headlights crosses the double yellows and begins to floor it.
Now heres where the cop said I did good but I put myself in a potentially bad spot.
I straddled the lines and slowed to a stop. I stepped out next to the truck and motioned for him to roll his window down, and he did. I said calmly and not aggressively that "sir you need to slow down a little this is a farm road and most mornings the guy is parked halfway in the road feeding cattle ahead and you wont be able to see him in this fog." I started back into my truck as he jumped out of his yelling "*** boy I have probably been driving longer than you are you calling me stupid?" he grabbed what appeared to be a bat or ax handle from the seat or behind it, and walk briskly toward me. For the first time in the 3 years I have had a permit I drew and aimed. I advised him I said what I had to say and to get back in his truck and leave. Which he did.
The best part of the whole fiasco is that sharp right had turn I mentioned earlier he was going to fast and put the drivers side wheels into a deep ditch and bottomed. I drove past him and called the law and advised them what had happened. Turns out he was an out of state visitor here for the race and was DUI already at 830 in the morning. The deputy told me not to sweat it.
Yesterday morning on the way home from work it was very foggy so several cars in front of me as well as everyone behind me was doing the speed limit. I turned where I needed and a black Toyota pickup also turned. this is a 2 lane road that cuts through a farm and makes a sudden hard right hand turn about 1/4 mile into it. This idiot in heavy fog and no headlights crosses the double yellows and begins to floor it.
Now heres where the cop said I did good but I put myself in a potentially bad spot.
I straddled the lines and slowed to a stop. I stepped out next to the truck and motioned for him to roll his window down, and he did. I said calmly and not aggressively that "sir you need to slow down a little this is a farm road and most mornings the guy is parked halfway in the road feeding cattle ahead and you wont be able to see him in this fog." I started back into my truck as he jumped out of his yelling "*** boy I have probably been driving longer than you are you calling me stupid?" he grabbed what appeared to be a bat or ax handle from the seat or behind it, and walk briskly toward me. For the first time in the 3 years I have had a permit I drew and aimed. I advised him I said what I had to say and to get back in his truck and leave. Which he did.
The best part of the whole fiasco is that sharp right had turn I mentioned earlier he was going to fast and put the drivers side wheels into a deep ditch and bottomed. I drove past him and called the law and advised them what had happened. Turns out he was an out of state visitor here for the race and was DUI already at 830 in the morning. The deputy told me not to sweat it.