ols386
I want to live at Disney World!!
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Well, you should tell your son my story. About two weeks ago, while taking my one daughter to dance and the other one to the library, I was driving on a road with a 35 mph that slowed down to 25 mph around a bend. As I approached the bend and started to slow down (I was doing about 32 mph at this point), I see a van with a young man driving right on on rear bumper. I also see this young man screaming and giving me the finger as I'm driving. My younger daughter even said something. He was really out of control.
Well, not understanding what in the world I am doing wrong, this van passes me on a double yellow line (we are just getting around the bend with limited sight), still screaming and giving me the finger. He then slams on his brakes when he pulls in front of me. Luckily, I had really backed off from him because I could not understand what his problem was. He starts again and comes to a red light. I should mention, this road is right by a park where people are crossing the street all the time. At the red light, I stay back several car lengths because I can still see him ranting and raving. He then opens his door and starts walking back to my car. Of course, my kids are starting to cry. I pull out my phone and dial 911. He sees that I'm on my phone, he then gets into his car and starts backing up to hit me
Well, I now have the police on the line, I give them his plate number. Light turns green he turns, I tell the police where he is headed. They do pull him over and I head over to a gas station to meet a police officer. We give our stories. Know what his story was - he was hungry and I wasn't going fast enough
What is the ending to this story - after I turned over my written statement, they forwarded to the city attorney who issued a bench warrant for him. He is being charged with reckless driving, reckless endangerment and a couple of other things. They can even charge him with assault since he tried to hit me with his car. How much you think that is going to cost him and his parents (he was 21 and was driving his Mom's car).
My kids were terrified - I was terrified. I hope he learns a lesson from all of this and pays a pretty penny for being such a jerk.
Stacy
Wow, I'm glad that you and your children were not injured or anything.
And to think, he was that enraged because he was hungry. I think there are probably many more situations like your's that happen every day, which is a very sad and scary thing.
The fact that he got out of his vehicle and started walking toward your's is really over the top, and then started to back-up into your vehicle.
This is going to be a very expense food run for him when its all over.
