Albuquerque Road Rage... Again.
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A lot of tough guys here advocating carrying and blowing the bad guys away. As a law enforcement officer I can tell you there are several legal repercussions in taking someone's life. Possible criminal charges, civil liabilities and the thought of living with the nightmare of killing another. Deadly physical force is only justified if a person is using deadly physical force against you or another person. That's the law in New York State. If you're not in harms way it's probably better to diffuse the situation.
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I was sitting on a beach in Florida one day wearing a Porsche hat (didn't wanna get the corvette hat dirty) and a random guy walks by me and flips me off. I looked at my fiance and said, "is he flipping me off"? She said yes and I said, must hate Porsche drivers, good thing I'm not one. He kept walking and we continued to enjoy the beach.
Next time, wesr a hat with the middle finger on it and smile at everyone who walks by.
When you ask your fiancé "Is he flipping me off?" She can say "Maybe he's just repaying the compliment?"
Enjoy the beach.
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Enjoy your slurpee and be cautious of brain freeze. Hahaha
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It's getting worse and worse everyday. I keep wanting to get another motorcycle but I always keep telling myself, it's not worth it with all the idiots out there nowadays.
One night I was with my wife in my CTSV and we were at a light in a small town (about 1 am) There was a guy getting ready to walk through the crosswalk walking in our direction and he flips us off. I caught it out of the corner of my eye, but my wife says did you see that. I said what did he do. She said he walked passed us as we started to drive off and was flipping us off and saying something. Normally I would laugh and drive off, but for some reason it pissed me off. Nobody was around so I flipped it in the middle of the street, whipping it around pretty good. As I did that he took off running and ended up coming out from behind a building with just a t shirt on, lol took off his jacket when he ran around the building. I pulled up and said, what's up tough guy as he walked down the sidewalk. He wouldn't look over so I just said yea, now you're not so tough are you and drove off.
Was it stupid, yea. He could have had a gun, who knows, but sometimes you don't think about that stuff in the heat of the moment. Just be careful out there.
One night I was with my wife in my CTSV and we were at a light in a small town (about 1 am) There was a guy getting ready to walk through the crosswalk walking in our direction and he flips us off. I caught it out of the corner of my eye, but my wife says did you see that. I said what did he do. She said he walked passed us as we started to drive off and was flipping us off and saying something. Normally I would laugh and drive off, but for some reason it pissed me off. Nobody was around so I flipped it in the middle of the street, whipping it around pretty good. As I did that he took off running and ended up coming out from behind a building with just a t shirt on, lol took off his jacket when he ran around the building. I pulled up and said, what's up tough guy as he walked down the sidewalk. He wouldn't look over so I just said yea, now you're not so tough are you and drove off.
Was it stupid, yea. He could have had a gun, who knows, but sometimes you don't think about that stuff in the heat of the moment. Just be careful out there.
Last edited by Quik Z06; Jun 3, 2016 at 06:55 AM.
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Originally Posted by Kevinl 
A lot of tough guys here advocating carrying and blowing the bad guys away. As a law enforcement officer I can tell you there are several legal repercussions in taking someone's life. Possible criminal charges, civil liabilities and the thought of living with the nightmare of killing another. Deadly physical force is only justified if a person is using deadly physical force against you or another person. That's the law in New York State. If you're not in harms way it's probably better to diffuse the situation.
One on one, it's just a fist fight if you are an able bodied man. Two on one, could be your demise.
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