called 911 on a tailgater today

[danceronice]

[QUOTE=vacation1;4357545]
:lol: Classic Jersey driver confrontation. My family swears I’m going to get shot some day because while I am resigned to poor driving, aggressive driving like tailgating makes me crazy and I am quite free with the obscene hand gestures. I may have to rethink that, as the last guy swerved around in front of me, slammed on his brakes and jumped out of his BMW, screaming. It’s always the people in the expensive cars, for some reason…[/QUOTE]

I’ve begun to think the real reason for the extremist gun control in Massachusetts (you have to have a Firearms ID card to buy pepper spray) is that if it were easier to get projectile weapons half the drivers would be in prison for shooting the other half. And you know, there were days…car-mounted trebuchet, that’s all I’m saying.

If you’re in THAT BIG A HURRY just pass.

Now I live in the middle of nowhere (yay!) and there are days I <3 this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=antUcw20V1w

[Sithly]

[QUOTE=Pat;4357619]
We were passed by two ‘busses’ within 30 seconds, going in opposite directions. We heard sirens and were waiting. The ONCOMING crews had already passed us with lights only, it was the one behind that had not been running lights and sirens, so we didn’t know about them until they hit that siren 50 feeet behind us. [/QUOTE]

When I used to drive hay rides, I had some a-hole in a police cruiser swerve AT my horses intentionally and flip on his lights and sirens. Came within inches of hitting them. I saw him through the window laughing like it was the funniest thing ever. Horses didn’t flinch, bless their hearts.

Luckily I was on the way back to the barn with no customers, so I let him have it. I screamed so loud I swear his ears must have been bleeding right through the closed windows of his cruiser. Then I told my manager, who proceeded to call up the station and tear them to shreds.

[MunchkinsMom]

@mswillie;4357585

Too bad the horse didn’t need to urinate. I’ve only seen it firsthand once myself, but I noticed a car traveling too close to the back of an old fashioned bumper pull trailer. Not being aggressive, just carelessly too close. Anyway all of a sudden the break lights come on, the windshield washer fluid starts squirting, and the wipers are on high speed.

I’m still not sure of how it was physically possible for urine to splash from the back of a trailer but it did. I’ll bet those people learned to give a bit more following distance for horse trailers.

All it takes is a tall mare and a lower ramp. I’ve seen it happen, and what was funny was it was happening to my friends husband who was following the trailer home from the show. It was particularly funny because he had a phobia about dirt and germs.

I’m thinking perhaps getting some sort of system like the windshield washers, that would spray on the cars that are tailgating - they wouldn’t know that it wasn’t horse pee !

[Equibrit]

I trailer a 17’2" horse who lifts his tail and dumps a load over the back door. Oooh, see car swerve !

[MunchkinsMom]

@Equibrit;4357702

I trailer a 17’2" horse who lifts his tail and dumps a load over the back door. Oooh, see car swerve !

Love that! Wouldn’t it be lovely if the trailer ramps/doors had a sort of shelf/catapult system, the horse poops, lands on the shelf, and some sort of mechanism could then catapult the load onto any tailgaters.

[dghunter]

I always thought it would be great if cars came with this feature where you could hit a button and a boxing glove would shoot out and punch the car enough to leave a dent :lol: Horse poop is a much better idea though :winkgrin:

[marta]

i have to admit

that afterwards, while doing barn chores, i started questioning myself and the decision to report this asshat, but your posts reassure me that i made the right decision.

so anyone w/ a police connection know how long this ‘complaint’ will remain lodged with the police? is that something that clears out of their system within the next few hours or does it remain in there for a long time? i’m just curious whether it’s possible that they stop this guy 3 weeks from now.

[Foxtrot_s]

You girls scare me - too many crazees on the roads - some with guns. They can follow you if you turn off, and who knows what they will do in a fit of road rage, or pull up in front of you and force you to stop. They might be on drugs, drunk or had a fight with the wife.
Just slow down and let them pass and keep your blood pressure normal.

I had some idiots try the slowing me down trick on a dark road one night and scared the dickens out of me.

Good for you to call 911 - yeah.

[ESG]

@Sithly;4357685

When I used to drive hay rides, I had some a-hole in a police cruiser swerve AT my horses intentionally and flip on his lights and sirens. Came within inches of hitting them. I saw him through the window laughing like it was the funniest thing ever. Horses didn’t flinch, bless their hearts.

Luckily I was on the way back to the barn with no customers, so I let him have it. I screamed so loud I swear his ears must have been bleeding right through the closed windows of his cruiser. Then I told my manager, who proceeded to call up the station and tear them to shreds.

With all due respect to most of the boys in blue, cops can be the biggest @$$holes of them all. I remember hauling a trailer on a 50mph 4 lane road south of Houston. I was in the right lane, and the left lane was clear for at least five miles ahead. An HPD cruiser decides to get in behind me, and tailgates me for at least three miles. When I finally get to where I’m going and turn on my indicator light, @$$hat “cop” pulls up even with me, shrieking something unintelligible (it was summer and I had the windows up and the A/C on) and pointing to his shirt and the HPD patch on the sleeve. I blithely gave him the finger and turned off into the farm I was visiting. I wish to this day that I’d gotten his license plate # and reported his sorry ten-cent @$$, and that was at least eighteen years ago. :rolleyes:

[Grataan]

[QUOTE=Ambrey;4357506]
You need to market something that’s like a little container that you can fill with horse poop, and if people tailgate you you can pull a string from inside the truck and dump it on them

(just kidding! it would be really dangerous. funny, but dangerous!)[/QUOTE]
My endurance horse (well, ok, so I’m holding him back and at this point we do long trailrides lol) POOPS OUT THE WINDOW!!!

he he heeeee

I get angry tailgaiters every so often. I just smile as they flip me off while angrily flipping their wipers on, smearing the alfalfa poo across their windshields.

[Foxtrot_s]

ESG - you don’t have the total rights to ass** cops. We had a young horse, first time travelling and had to take her up country to a ranch. Same thing, right hand lane, lots of
space in the left hand lane and not much traffic. We are way into the toolies. Cops comes up following us. We are travelling fairly slowly looking for the turn to the ranch road and out of respect for the young horse. Cop stops us and tries to ticket us for going too slowly! We talked ourselves out of it, but it was a bit over the top. Idiot.

[corgigirl14]

I have a sign on the back of my trailer that reads:

CAUTION PLEASE LOVED ONES INSIDE

Don’t know if it makes any difference but it makes me feel better knowing it’s there!

[asb_own_me]

Good for you, Marta, to call 911/police. I have done that more times than I care to remember…and a few of the times, I’ve had the singular pleasure of watching the a$$hat that I reported being pulled over. Absolutely call and report when someone is acting/driving like that - whether you’re pulling a horse trailer or not. People can get killed because of impatient or impaired drivers exhibiting shitty behavior and a major lack of impulse control.

[ESG]

@Foxtrot's;4357835

ESG - you don’t have the total rights to ass** cops. We had a young horse, first time travelling and had to take her up country to a ranch. Same thing, right hand lane, lots of
space in the left hand lane and not much traffic. We are way into the toolies. Cops comes up following us. We are travelling fairly slowly looking for the turn to the ranch road and out of respect for the young horse. Cop stops us and tries to ticket us for going too slowly! We talked ourselves out of it, but it was a bit over the top. Idiot.

Sorry to hear that Canada is as cursed with @$$hat cops as the US is. :sigh:

[Rodeio]

Not sure which BB I read this on but it was also about tailgaters. One person posted how they were being tailgated while hauling a nervous about trailering mare. She pooped loose poop out the back of the trailer and it hit the tailgater. Who was driving a convertible, with the top down. Could you imagine?!

[JanWeber]

I just put on my flashers and go even slower. That way, they’re not sure if I’m having a “problem” or if I’m just being an a**hole and impeding their progress. Works every time…

[Skeezix]

Having been rear-ended three times I really don’t like tailgaters. This is also the biggest reason I usually follow the trailer in my car so I can protect the back from asshats like that.

[copper1]

Ithink I have a bumper sticker on my truck that I can’t see but others can that says: “please follow as closely as possible”! I am always being tail gated and I hate it! It is 6 miles from my house to the barn on a 35 MPH two lane road that has lots of houses and side roads. Enough twists and turns to make it a no passing zone for 3 of the miles. I am not usually going 35 but they still stick to my bumper and I get a bad case of the “slows”! I back off to exactly 35 or maybe 34 then I give them the evil eye thru all the mirrors. That often works well. I always try to have someone follow the trailer when we are hauling.

[Laurierace]

My sticker is 4 inches by 4 inches. If they can read that they are literally on on the trailer’s bumper.

[bumknees]

I had a friend who I assume had this made and she lived by it…
the bumper sticker read " The closer you get the slower I go"… I remember once when I was in her car on a very curvy, hilly single lane road in s. calif ( la area) some asshat began to tail gate her. Speed limit I would think was around 25-30 ( hey its been almost 30 yrs) by the time we hit the straight away that had passing lines she was going something like 10mph…

I would love to have that bumper sticker…