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Re: Doing more.

KP, you can't blame this guy for not taking off after both the car and the Ducati and making a dangerous situation even moreso.

I do understand your outrage, though. There are some real sick S.O.B.s out there, in cars and on bikes, that have no regard for anyone else's safety. Especially if it's an inconvenience to them.

And, yes, I probably would have taken off after both of them and made a bad situation worse. But I've been known to do stupid things occasionally.

 

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Re: No I meant go after them to get a better ... and to deflate things

I know what you meant. I'm just assuming that to catch up to this psycho he potentially would have had to go speeding off after him. I'm sure the **** didn't just ram the bike and calmly drive away at the speed limit. And the guy on the Ducati, presumably speeding after him, would have been in the middle of this mess. This sounds like it could have been a recipe for disaster. I'm also assuming that the first reaction is to check that the rider was okay and not take off after said psychotic idiot.

Like I said, I know what I would have done, but I can't knock someone for being more prudent. He did get a partial plate number, and assuming he gave a good description of the car, the cops probably got this a**hole.

I would like to take this opportunity to call the sociopath in the wagon an a**hole again.

 

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Re: No I meant go after them to get a better ... and to deflate things

Actually, I hope he wrecked in a high-speed chase, car burst into flames, and he's paralyzed and horribly disfigured.

And he's got to eat through a feeding tube for the rest of his life. And...

...Well, you get the picture.

 

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Re: No I meant go after them to get a better ... and to deflate things

Of course we're just venting. But as tonyharrah so rightly points out, I really don't care what happens to someone like this. You know, there are just some evil little bastards out there. We'd all be much better off without them. Do you think that his sociopathic behavior began and ended with this incident? I doubt it. I'm sure if we could look into this person's life we'd find all sorts of injustices, large or small, perpetrated against others.

Listen, this isn't a case of a careless soccer mom, this is felony assault with a deadly weapon and an absolute indifference to someone else's well-being and property, so I think a little venom is understandable. And I seriously doubt that any of us wishing violence on this clown is going to have the desired effect. Hopefully, someone above is watching.

In almost every case, I would do exactly what you prescribed: just let the jerk go. And as I've stated, eddyline did the prudent thing.