saw instant Karma today

I once accidentally "cut off" a beat to E36 M3 dodge dually full of HS age looking rednecks, pulling a loaded utility trailer, because I misjudged just how fast such a rig would be moving(they had to be doing 80+, I was cruising at 75 and went to pass a truck, then mirror full of dodge). As punishment for their bad behavior, they decided to try pushing me off the road, unsurprisingly even a POS sunfire with a passenger and a welder in the trunk can out accelerate said truck. I drop it into 4th and bring it up to 100 or so and take the next exit, they follow, I wring the ole E36 M3fire out again, lose sight of them going over a hill and turn off the road and into a random field entrance, they pass by, still going a ludicrous speeds down a backroad. I continue behind them at the speed limit.

A couple miles later not far from my house, we came across them again. Pulled over, midway through a big sweeper corner, trailer missing a tire, the driver was standing in the road and after spotting us was jumping up and down fist shaking mad, I drove around him and kept going, I've never seen somebody over the age of 12 so pissed off before or after that event.

It's best you saw the G35 pulled over, way better than watching a G35 plow through a gaggle of little school kids getting off a bus.

Maybe he'll learn.

Probably not ......

In reply to 914Driver:

Indeed, but probably not.

That was kinda on my mind when I got off the highway and pulled through 3rd (I think that's the only time I redlined 3rd gear in a modern car not on an empty highway) and into 4th, but being killed was a stronger thought. That and I'm pretty sure it was a weekend as I recall my Dad was standing there looking perplexed when I quickly parked my bright red car with smoking brakes in the backyard. This was also the time I learned why cheap brake pads suck, that second 100-20 slowdown was interesting, brakes on that car were kinda perma faded after that.

Kenny_McCormic wrote: I once accidentally "cut off" a beat to E36 M3 dodge dually full of HS age looking rednecks, pulling a loaded utility trailer, because I misjudged just how fast such a rig would be moving(they had to be doing 80+, I was cruising at 75 and went to pass a truck, then mirror full of dodge). As punishment for their bad behavior, they decided to try pushing me off the road, unsurprisingly even a POS sunfire with a passenger and a welder in the trunk can out accelerate said truck. I drop it into 4th and bring it up to 100 or so and take the next exit, they follow, I wring the ole E36 M3fire out again, lose sight of them going over a hill and tun off the road and into a random field entrance, they pass by, still going a ludicrous speeds down a backroad. I continue behind them at the speed limit. A couple miles later not far from my house, we came across them again. Pulled over, midway through a big sweeper corner, trailer missing a tire, the driver was standing in the road and after spotting us was jumping up and down fist shaking mad, I drove around him and kept going, I've never seen somebody over the age of 12 so pissed off before or after that event.

being the shiny happy person that I can be sometimes (sometimes ?) … I probably would have had to slow down, lower the window and use a finger to tell him he was number 1 … while LMAO …then drive away

Had a similar situation happen while I was commuting to school. I'm in the left lane passing a long line of trucks at roughly 10 over. First a Bronco pulls up behind me. Its clear he wants by, but he's cool about it. I'm looking for a gap I can jump over and let him by, but the trucks are pretty much bumper to bumper. Then my least favorite driver (except maybe soccer moms) arrives behind the Bronco. 40's, W/M, over-gelled d-bag haircut, driving company Taurus, suitcoat hanging in the back, talking on the cell phone. He keeps jumping out into the median, flashing his lights, just about rubbing bumpers with the Bronco. About a half mile down the road, I see the "Gumball" roof light of an MSP cruiser sticking up over the top of the wall where the median widens and the dividing wall ends. (He's got a great hide on the back side of the wall) The Bronco sees it too since he's sitting higher up. Company Taurus doofus, not so much. I timed it so Bronco and I move over and clear the way for Senior Taurus just as the wall ends. Predictably, he decides to show Bronco and I how annoyed he is that we've taken up a precious few extra seconds of his time by flooring said Taurus and roaring by as fast as possible. Since I was already at 10 over (which is NOT an issue in Michigan), he's quickly doing at least 20+ over (a BIG ticket). The trooper flys by about 30 seconds later. Two or three miles down the highway, there's Senior Taurus pulled over by the side of the road. I gave him a quick honk and the "parade queen" wave on the way buy.

Jesus SVreX, way to E36 M3 in the punch bowl.

My story isn't impressive, but after all the times I've had folks from Canada riding my ass (with me doing 5-10 over) it sure was nice the first time one blew by me then was almost instantly lit up red and blue for it.

In reply to SnowMongoose:

Not my intent. Sometimes the consequences are worse than others.

Deleted for the faint of heart.

Carry on.

In reply to SVreX:
Was just a very unexpected turn for the worse.
(pun sadly intended, I'm going to hell)

In reply to SVreX:

While a good cautionary tale, I don't see how a guy killing himself AND two innocent people for driving like an asshat counts as karma.

In reply to Kenny_McCormic:

kar•ma (ˈkɑr mə)

n. 1. (in Hinduism and Buddhism) action seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, either in this life or in a reincarnation.

Svrex's story made me wince when I got to the "mist" part, but I don't think it was out of line or needed to be removed. Karma's just a bitch sometimes.

In reply to EastCoastMojo:

I can put it back.

Just didn't think it was necessary. It was certainly Kharma, but not in line with the rest of this thread.

I have more than a lifetimes worth of horrible traffic and karma stories but its probably best if I leave most of those alone.

A good one with no injuries was when I was called to a bar where a guy was causing a disturbance throwing bottles and doing donuts with his pickup in the parking lot. As soon as I arrived I turned on my overhead lights. People yell "ITS THE COPS!"and the guy yells "berkeley THE POLICE!" and floors it out of the lot. He instantly loses control, crosses the street, and his pickup hits a support wire for a telephone pole. His pickup went up the support wire and hung up on the cross wire where it attaches to the pole. The support breaks so now his pickup is standing on its tail almost dead vertical with the nose resting against the telephone pole. Guy pokes his head out the window, looks around, and says to me in a completely calm voice "Officer could you please help me get down?"

yamaha wrote: The cops in my area got nailed on entrapment charges for sending out unmarked mustangs to try to get people to street race them. Just last year I saw ISP playing with a 92-7 firebird, and a 997 911 porsche, both unmarked, both yellow.

Would it still be entrapment if a "civilian contractor" were to be the one driving that Porsche instead, and the police just sat slightly up the road waiting for them?

Thought of this thread on my way in to work this morning.

Shiny Happy lady darting in and out of traffic in her cute-ute, I watched her coming up in my rear view, I did not let her in front of me, so she gasses it and cuts off the car about 3 ahead of me. I notice while she's passing me she's also putting on her make up. So driving like and idiot plus putting on make up.

Not 3 minutes later I see well ahead of me a series of brake lights light up, and a box truck swerve to the shoulder. When I get to the spot of the commotion, I see the same Shiny Happy cute-ute driver pulling off to the shoulder behind the car she had just rear-ended. No one appeared to be injured. I doubt she learned a lesson, maybe if she had a mascara brush stuck in her eye it might have sunk in. I do feel bad for the person that got rear-ended, hopefully their insurance will take the cute-ute for all they're worth.

• Lee

Hello all, my lurking days are done and this is my first post.

Back in the mid 90's I was driving along a two lane but one way street just after a rain in my heavily modded '87 Shelby Charger. Going the speed limit and being a good boy, two rednecks in a V-8 S-10 pull up beside me, revving and breaking their tires loose trying to get me to race them. They were so into the challenge in fact (i.e. looking at me and not the road ahead) They failed to notice that my lane was clear while theirs had stopped traffic. He drove into the back of a police cruiser at about 35 mph.....

I stopped to see if she (the cop) needed help or a witness for her report. She said it was ok but that the two idiots would be pedestrians for quite a while.