Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Driver Teaches Road Rager A lesson In Petty Revenge


Nothing melts our icy hearts like reading a story about a driver having to deal with some road rager that couldn't keep their stuff together, for like a minute (if that), and ends up being the butt end of a petty revenge. It's a beautiful thing, really. A lost art form. 

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Text - r/pettyrevenge u/-avenged- • 7h + Join 1 3 1 1 So you're not in a hurry? Okay then I guess you don't need to overtake, right? A bit of context - right-hand drive country, rightmost lane on the freeway is the fast/overtaking lane and you're to give way to faster vehicles regardless of how fast they're going, even if you're at the speed limit. Basically you have no right to police anyone's speed as a civilian.

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Text - Unfortunately, half the drivers here will happily hog the right lane even with the road ahead clear, and justify it as being within the speed limit (totally ignoring the rule about giving way). It's almost a daily occurrence and frankly it's frustrating because these guys just like to be on the fast lane without actually being fast, so they choke up everyone else behind. It's not uncommon to see a whole line of drivers picking up when that one hogger ahead finally changes lane, not becaus

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Text - I wait for an opening on the left, drop two gears, and overtake him. Then I ease off the throttle and cruise even slower than he was doing. Road hogger gets annoyed after awhile and switches to the middle to overtake. But l'm prepared for that, having scouted the road in front.

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Text - A little ahead of me are slow vehicles in the middle and left lane: A small truck in the middle lane and two bikes on the left going parallel to each other, all 3 doing 20 or 30 below the limit. Side by side. Perfect. I drop 2 gears and make sure to keep pace with the road hogger, modulating my throttle input until l'm about rolling up alongside the small truck, and then I let off the gas and pace the two slow vehicles in a very lazy 5th gear. Road hogger has absolutely nowhere to go on t

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