A little bit of Road Rage...

No, it's not a good idea to do anything back to an obvious nut behind the wheel of a vehicle, just let him go. My daughter, who posts on here, shared a road rage incident that happened to her family the DAY BEFORE their youngest child was to be born and their assailant turned out to be an off duty police officer who displayed his weapon at them while riding next to their truck. This whole incident started because this evil man thought my son-in-law and his brother were mexican and he started out yelling insults at them, which they responded to nicely at first and then they got more angry. They were very fortunate that no one was hurt and even more fortunate that we live in such a small rural area that the Sheriff's dept. was able to pick this guy up and he was charged. But, he could have just as easily killed or hurt five innocent people. It's never worth it to risk your life over something minor.

I can speak from both situations of retaliating back and just letting it go.

It's better in the long run for you to let it go. It's not worth your time, the guy is already upset doing anything would make him more upset and escalate the situation. At that point you both could be charged with road rage or worse. Let the guy speed off, cool off whatever. You did the right thing by just letting him be.

You were right not to chase the car and had every right to be outraged! After the horn honking act, I would have gone 5 miles or more under the speed limit until he passed me or got the message which this person obviously won't have gotten it. Upon the first rock, I would have picked up my cell and dialed 911, while repeating the tag number aloud so as not to forget it. That is really dangerous and I think warrants an emergency call.

Well, first off, I can relate to about 99% of what you wrote.
I've almost been ticketed in a construction zone - zipping up the fine to nearly $500+.

Anyway, road rage is always a tough one for me.
On the one hand, I love Texas because if you have a permit, you can have a gun in your car.
And the whole throwing rocks deal? Yeah, that is enough to be considered a threat to your life because rocks could injure you, his erratic driving could have injured you, your loss of focus on the road could have injured you - I would have pulled out the handy Glock and fired off several rounds, no lie.

But for the pacifists out there, I would take down the plate number, if you're quick with your hands, snap several pics of the car on your cell cam, call 911, call police when you are home and file a police report, and if the cops do nothing, hire a private investigator (because you would have gotten his license plate tags) and find him, then file a suit in small claims for the damage to your car.

But that's just my way of thinking.
The Texas way.:)

Road rage can be a scary thing. I just wrote a post about my husband being held up at gunpoint because he honked at a guy at a stop sign that would not move. You have to be really careful about the people out there nowadays. You did nothing wrong. I would have been so scared, I probably wouldn't have gotten his number either. I hope everythings better now for you.

I love it!

You said '... as he's passing me, he's throwing rocks at my car, I couldn't believe it, what could I do? I was hoping there would of been a highway patrol somewhere, that would catch him speeding. I thought about catching up to him, and throwing rocks at him, but... '

I mean, is the standard thing in your part of the world to have a stockpile of rocks in your cars ready to lob at anyone? haha

I remember walking in the street by some traffic lights which had turned green and the guy behind bellowed to the lady in front (who was checking her nails), 'Hey lady, don't you like the shade of green?' haha

Anyway, enough jokes. Poor you. It is not nice to be on the receiving end of road rage. It can be quite frightening.

People are jerks, thats all there is to it. A few years back I had a similar thing happen. It pissed me off so much I flipped the guy off. Big mistake. Before you know it he was trying to run me off the road. I finally managed to escape him by taking a last minute turn. Now I've learned to just ignore such things as much as I can because you never know if they will shoot you for no reason or something.

Bless your heart!! If you had thought to write down his tag number and called it in that would have been terrific but as it was I think you did the right thing. I'm so glad you weren't hurt!!

The person didn't follow me, but I was sitting in town one time waiting for a light to turn green. One second it was red and I looked down at something just for a second and then I heard this honking behind me. When I looked up the light was green so I started moving at the correct rate of speed too. This person, and this really made me mad, was wanting to turn right at the light we had just gone under!! He was mad because he had to wait a whole two seconds, maybe three, to get to turn right!! It made me so mad I just said out loud "Oh shut up!!" My kids were in the car and I felt bad about saying it in front of them but I couldn't take my words back after I said them.

Hope you never have an experience like that again. There are really some crazy drivers out on the road today!!

Road rage is a terrible thing and to have rocks thrown at you is really way bad. It's a good thing nothing happened to you, a blessing really that it was you and not some other male who might be tempted to fight back. I often get annoyed when I drive but I try to calm myself down and make it home without any incident.

I have put the highway patrol's number into my cell phone for just such occassions. He maybe scary but at some point he's going to kill someone because of his stupidity. Sorry you had to go through that. My man would have reacted like your's did. He gets real upset if he feels I am threatened and he is not there the take up for me. He would have also asked if I got the tag numbers.

One day that guy is NOT going to get to where he is so hellbent headed! His poor family.