@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:
I really never understood road rage.
Yeah, but this was road range fueled with mob mentality.
Off the subject, but not...
I had the driver of an SUV play cat and mouse with me over a basically deserted 30-40 mile stretch of highway once, and I don't mind telling you I was terrified. If I slowed down, pulled to the side, he did so, if I tried to speed up, he get right on my tail, if I tried to switch lanes, he wouldn't let me. If he got in front of me, he'd slow down and wouldn't let me pass. This was pre-cell phones. Him in his 18 wheel semi and me in my 1985 toyota corolla that would shimmy if I got it over 60 or 65. I finally got away from him by quickly getting off an exit that he couldn't manuver quickly enough to follow.
What was really bad was that afterwards, when I tried to tell him employee what had happened, I was blown off until I kept calling back a dozen times, even then it was "what do want us to do?"
Watching that video brought a lot of those feelings back. I wasn't there, and don't think I'd ever know the whole story, but I would think the people in the SUV were more frightened than the cyclists....and frightened people can make poor decisions. In this case I don't know what the right decision would have been....kids in the car and everything.....sheesh.