By Jim Hagarty
2017
Here is the proper way to carry out a road rage incident.
Pull over to the side of the road when you see the driver you suddenly hate pull over. Get out of your car and go up to him. Start yelling and screaming. Call him every name in the book because he deserves it. He is, in your estimation and rightly so, a complete asshole.
After you have made him well aware of this fact, go back to your car, get in and drive off, fuming. Drive away in a huff. Give him the finger if you think it will help.
But there are some things to avoid. Here is one of them.
A Florida man started out doing all the right things in a recent incident at an intersection in Orlando. But then he sort of went off the rails when he pulled a gun on the other guy.
Now, if you are going to pull a gun on your fellow road rager, point it at him and shoot the idiot, for Pete’s sake. You have my sympathy.
Instead, the guy with the gun shot himself. In the leg.
Not to sound condescending, but I am at a loss to see how shooting yourself during a road rage incident will help you resolve the matter in your favour.
But I have never been to Florida, so I know I shouldn’t judge. If your life has arrived at a point where you have to stand on an Orlando street corner and yell at a fellow traveller who has fried your bacon, maybe it does make some sort of sense to shoot yourself.
Come to think of it, I might be inclined to do the same thing.
Oh, one last thing. No charges, of course. The shooter was legally carrying his weapon.
So it’s all good.
