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GV27
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  #2815410 18-Nov-2021 19:24
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Someone took exception to something I did (best I can tell it was 'slow down on an offramp'?) and get out of their car, punch my window and then use their workboots to kick the side of my car. 

 

I'm starting to resent living in West Auckland. 




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  #2815414 18-Nov-2021 19:47
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Are you OK? Got the plate?




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  #2815417 18-Nov-2021 20:03
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I can remember not that long ago when I used to blissfully drive around with my car doors unlocked. There is no way I would do that now. 




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  #2815419 18-Nov-2021 20:11
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freitasm: Are you OK? Got the plate?

 

Shaken. I back myself in that car and in the backroads if I had to floor it to get away from someone, but still just feeling pretty awful about having to take that offramp. I'll avoid it for the next few weeks. 

 

I never got a plate because he was so close to me as I came off the off-ramp I that I couldn't see the front of his car. I left-foot brake and I drive a manual so the car usually has brakelights on well before it starts slowing down. 

 

Meh. As long as I can avoid him again, I'm reasonably confident he'll be the kind of person who'll do it to someone who will get out of their car and make him regret it. He'll get what's coming to him one way or the other. 


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  #2815553 19-Nov-2021 09:04
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GV27:

 

freitasm: Are you OK? Got the plate?

 

Shaken. I back myself in that car and in the backroads if I had to floor it to get away from someone, but still just feeling pretty awful about having to take that offramp. I'll avoid it for the next few weeks. 

 

I never got a plate because he was so close to me as I came off the off-ramp I that I couldn't see the front of his car. I left-foot brake and I drive a manual so the car usually has brakelights on well before it starts slowing down. 

 

Meh. As long as I can avoid him again, I'm reasonably confident he'll be the kind of person who'll do it to someone who will get out of their car and make him regret it. He'll get what's coming to him one way or the other. 

 

 

People that unrestrained always get what's coming eventually because they have no self-control. 

 

 

 

 





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  #2815559 19-Nov-2021 09:20
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Rikkitic:

 

GV27:

 

Shaken. I back myself in that car and in the backroads if I had to floor it to get away from someone, but still just feeling pretty awful about having to take that offramp. I'll avoid it for the next few weeks. 

 

I never got a plate because he was so close to me as I came off the off-ramp I that I couldn't see the front of his car. I left-foot brake and I drive a manual so the car usually has brakelights on well before it starts slowing down. 

 

Meh. As long as I can avoid him again, I'm reasonably confident he'll be the kind of person who'll do it to someone who will get out of their car and make him regret it. He'll get what's coming to him one way or the other. 

 

 

People that unrestrained always get what's coming eventually because they have no self-control. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  #2815567 19-Nov-2021 09:34
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GV27:

I'm starting to resent living in West Auckland. 



Plenty of us that are Good Sorts here in West Auckland. Person could equally have been visiting from outside the district.




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  #2815787 19-Nov-2021 16:28
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Happened to see our erstwhile aspring world champion driver travelling at excessive speed along the motorway today, however a few cars up ahead of me and giving other motorists the same treatment. 

 

Thankfully I was en pointe with the car description when I spoke to the traffic centre yesterday, eventually someone else will *555 them with a plate number to go with it. 


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  #2815812 19-Nov-2021 17:34
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GV27: ... I left-foot brake and I drive a manual so the car usually has brakelights on well before it starts slowing down....

 

Brake-lights on continuously /on randomly (so entirely useless for safety) is a classic symptom of left foot braking. Could the agitated driver have been caught out by your brake lights lying to them?

 

Wasn't a blue, chromed up Colorado was it? Had him follow me into a flush media when we're both turning right across traffic, and totally block my view of traffic coming up the left side from. I was up against an island so couldn't move forward to see better. He got irate that I wasn't going - I got irate that he'd parked his bro-dozer in the way of seeing the traffic. He pulled onto Northwestern heading west. (I had to wait for him to over/under-take me before I could see to go).


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  #2815819 19-Nov-2021 18:06
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I was a little shaken an hour or so ago after I rounded a corner and came face-to-face with someone on the wrong side of the road. Fortunately slamming on the brakes was sufficient to avoid collision (thankfully, as there's not much else I could've done).


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  #2815870 19-Nov-2021 18:10
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tripper1000:

 

GV27: ... I left-foot brake and I drive a manual so the car usually has brakelights on well before it starts slowing down....

 

Brake-lights on continuously /on randomly (so entirely useless for safety) is a classic symptom of left foot braking. Could the agitated driver have been caught out by your brake lights lying to them?

 

 

I would say that extreme behaviour like this is far more likely to be due to drugs or psychological problems, rather than any rational thought process. 


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  #2815875 19-Nov-2021 18:48
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alasta:

 

I would say that extreme behaviour like this is far more likely to be due to drugs or psychological problems, rather than any rational thought process. 

 

 

Judging by seeing what I think was the same car acting in the same overly aggressive manner, I'd say it's a wiring issue (and not just the car). 

 

And frankly, you should be on the brakes there anyway, because the high barrier on the inside masks a hidden queue turning left.

 

Also, not a Colorado, but I did have to leap out of the way of a blue ute coming at me from miles back today on the way home. That's a pretty normal ute thing on SH16 though so it didn't seem notable. 


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  #2816403 21-Nov-2021 08:42
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How did you learn to brake with your left foot??

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  #2816409 21-Nov-2021 08:53
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He must have been into car racing/rallying in his younger days?


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  #2816410 21-Nov-2021 09:02
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k1w1k1d:

He must have been into car racing/rallying in his younger days?



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