BMW driver cuts off car behind me , then me. We honk. He goes nuts!
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Hey, what's the difference between a BMW and a porcupine?
That car is quite snappy
That car is like going to a decent restaurant to get an expensive burger and they bring you a McDonald's burger.
Like getting a Big Mac at the Whitehouse.
Shit you really can’t make up. Imagine getting an invite to the fucking white house for winning as sports team. One of the coolest things possible. Even a dinner invitation. And then you face dozens of probably cold McD burgers
Imagine working in the finest restaurants and training under the best chefs in the world to earn your stripes. For years and years you have operated at the very pinnacle of your trade and pushed yourself to innovate.
You're hired to be the Executive Chef of the White House and you... get to watch while they serve cold McDonald's to champions.
The Clemson players confirmed the coldness of the "spread"
PROBABLY cold? I would say DEFINITELY cold.
You you damn well those burgers were cold. The funniest thing about it is fast food like McDonald's is only good when it's hot and fresh. I guarantee most of that food was inedible by the time they got there.
Not only that, they were stacked on top of each other, getting more soggy.
This is why I hate libs.
THERE WAS FRIES TOO AND IT WAS ALL STACKED SO NEAT WAY BEFORE THE TEAM EVEN GOT THERE.
i should prob throw in the /s at this point
But they still charge you 'decent restaurant' prices, and they only give you 3/4 of the Big Mac. The i3 is like 2 feet shorter than a Nissan Leaf. It has around 120 miles less range. Its starting price is 20k higher. It has a theoretical max speed of 99 mph, and the only reason it can get close is the 2975lb kerb weight. If it wasn't that heavy, the wind and drag will cause the skinny 155/70 tyres on the front to death wobble around 75-80. It's a product of precision engineering, but it wasn't engineered to excel. It took the entire kingdom of Bavaria to make a car that's just barely on the right side of not killing you near its theoretical top speed.
Anyone who buys an i3 is a dumbass. No exceptions.
I used to own an I3 it's a great car. I did sell it after 3 weeks however but that was more because of the shitty charging infrastructure in the UK. Edit: it's great at what it's designed to do, which is drive around densely populated cities, I can't think of a better car I'd want to drive around London. On the motorway, not so great.
why tf are people so mad about the i3 tho. It‘s a small electric city car. And it‘s great at that. And fun.
I've owned several performance cars and the i3 is pretty amazing in its own right. I love mine. Comments like the above are just pure ignorance.
Same, I thought it was a Prius
The fact that they did it several times afterwards on purpose is insane. I'd call the police and turn them in immediately.
I did
Please let us know the outcome. I am infuriated as well as the whole bar.
Can’t see the driver. My car is shit so I would have let him hit me. Just kept going straight, your bad. I’d actually get way more for my car. Would be great
Lol my exact thoughts while watching this!! He could hit my 2006 Buick I could give 2 fucks, my neck would hurt very badly afterwards too.
Don’t forget about your back. Go ahead and throw in that pussy and crack as well. It’s all hurts.
Haylp me doc
“I don’t know if you’ve ever hurt your back, but your back is basically your whole body.”
—Hannibal Buress
Can confirm, warehouse worker. Back starts going bad, everything goes bad all at once.
As an aside, lots of other issues (that you normally don't think of as back-related) get fixed with a trip to the chiropractor, which is both cool and weird.
It's almost like your entire nervous system is wrapped around your spine.
Gotta keep the skeleton man inside you happy
which is both cool and weird
As one would expect from pseudoscience that its founder claimed was taught to him by a ghost. Plus a mediocre massage.
Don't forget the emotional damage too. That shit will help make some good bank aswell. Twist'em for everything they got.
Yes, in my medical opinion, this patient clearly needs some expensive dick.
He could hit my 2002 buick and id do whatever i can to fuck him over
Pee yourself: $1,000 in court
Poo yourself: $2,000 in court
Him crying over his (already expensive) insurance sky rocketing: priceless.
Right? My car is a 2007 Nissan with 270,000 miles on it, go ahead and fuck around, I’ll kill us both, I don’t give a shit about this car! Have your insurance buy me a new one!
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My late mother always wished she had a total beater car to drive in Beverly Hills. And say, figuratively, because she was always polite, "FU in your pricey supercar, here I come and I don't car about your pretty "expensive" car, I am not giving way. back off, 'cause I won't" I miss her so much
Right. Mine is a 2006 Hyundai Sonata that already has a salvage title. Please put it out of it's misery because I haven't the heart. lol.
I'd be grateful they saved me from having to spend more money on my beater
insurance though man insurance would still suck after
If you purposely hit maybe, but with the antics of this clown you can claim distress. Dude might even get charged with vehicular assault or something. Then again, laws aren’t written to protect the common man anyways.
Lmao!!
Especially that last time was such a perfect time to PIT him.
My car isn’t shit but I have great insurance and lately been running out of fucks to give. Depending on my current mood I would have on kept straight too lol
TOWANDA
Same. Already needs a paint job and is 22 yrs old. I don't move or swerve when shit like this happens, call their bluff.
We need more heroes like you with nothing to lose and everything to gain
Every morning in Chicago there is a long line to turn right to get on 90 west from foster. Idiots like to cut the line by taking a right from the left lane. Every morning the same Audi would do this. So me in my old busted up truck would take really wide right hand turns to block them out and if luck was with me, hit one. I came so close to hitting that Audi. I still get a phantom boner while having day dreams about it
Im here like Im rocking an '05 Durango with a HEMI. You want to hit me with your baby BMW? Have fun lol. Bet the insurance company will love you.
Police generally dont do shit about road incidents they didnt see. I called the cops on a drunk driver once and asked if i could submit video evidence in order to charge reckless drivers with a crime and they straight up said no we wont charge anyone based on anything you give us.
I called the cops on a drunk driver once and asked if i could submit video evidence in order to charge reckless drivers with a crime and they straight up said no we wont charge anyone based on anything you give us.
What they said initially sounds really dumb on its face, but unless your camera clearly caught an identifiable image of the driver themself, the cops have no way to prove the registered owner of the car was driving it. That's why they said that.
If I see a drunk driver, I immediately call 911 and report their tag and direction of travel. I've never had the cops not respond that way, and one time they asked me to follow the car at a safe distance until the trooper got there because the highway the drunk driver was on had many different exits he could take and they wanted to be sure they could catch him.
You have to report while it's actively happening or they'll do fuck-all because they can't prove who the driver was.
One time driving home from a state park I go hiking at I was on a windy Ohio highway once it got dark and was just kinda spazzed out while driving in the right lane, cruise at 70. The road has lots of turns so it's not unusual to see upcoming headlights in different spots. So I didn't really pay much attention to seeing headlights further over right, and have you ever been spaced off driving and then come to realize you haven't even been paying full attention? That happened, not that I wasn't driving responsibly but just didn't notice a car that was on the wrong side of the highway. It passed my car in the left lane, and once it passed by I was like wait holy shit was that a CAR???? so I pulled off at the exit that was right there, and called 911 the moment I was pulling into the exit. I pulled off at a gas station that was right there and there was actually a sheriff there too. Right in the middle of my phone call he took off and I could hear by his engine he was fucking flooring it, lights on and everything. So I think I luckily had everything work perfectly for me that time and someone responded immediately.
But afterwards I definitely went through some many moments of me thinking about it and how that could have went so wrong. What if they were in my lane? Good thing I don't camp out in the left lane I always thought... It definitely sent me through some thought loops for a good while after but I am very very lucky that went the way that it did for me. Two cars hitting head on at 70 mph I'm sure would be instant death for both
That's mad, here in Northern Ireland I phoned them about 3 things in a week, 1st a drunk driver swerving everywhere, 2nd 3 cars racing outside the school, and 3rd a flock of maybe 80 sheep on the main roundabout into the town. I have never phoned them before or since, but they actually did something every time and contacted me each time several hours after to confirm what had happened.
Must have been slow days lol.
Please let us know the outcome
I’m from the future and I can tell you nothing at all happened.
There will be no outcome. Police don't give a shit
That was the answer I got when I told the police I had dash footage of someone driving like a psycho in a school zone. I was actually told that they don't care.
I got a drunk lady on my dashcam one night last winter on my way home from work at midnight. Like swerving all over the road and at a couple points I thought she was going in the ditch on the opposite side of the road, with cars coming towards us. Followed her right to her house while talking to the cops on the phone. I got out and talked to her and asked if she was drinking and she admitted it while I was on the phone with them. They talked to her for a bit and said they were sending someone over and told me I could leave. Told them I had video and they didn't seem to care that much. Don't know what came out of it but I hope she learned a lesson that night.
She even had the nerve to accuse me of ruining her life when I first told her I was on the phone with the cops, as if she hadn't just nearly actually ruined a few others' lives right before that.
I also did this before, minus the dashcam. 911 dispatch honestly sounded like they were just doodling on some paper, then were happy to hear the drunk driver got home so they could hang up on me.
they've got homeless people to harass and non violent weed smokers to arrest
Gotta remember that the original and current purpose of the police force is to protect capital.
exactly, the nice lady on the other end of the phone probably didnt even write a thing down
This sub is the best advertising the dash cam industry ever got. Got me to get em for each car.
At this point, just disengage… take the next exit, have a coffee. Getting wrecked by someone’s else idiocy is not worth your time.
Good. 31,720 people were killed in vehicle accidents in 2021 and that’s just the US. A car can be used as a deadly weapon and that’s definitely attempted vehicular homicide. Get the crazies off the road and into the white straight jackets they belong in.
Please follow up!
Ooooh keep us updated. That's reckless driving for sure.
especially almost running him into a fucking semi truck fuck that, that part really made me angry like this driver isn’t just road raging this person is certainly a perpetual asshole. Also, not exactly the model i pictured when i read BMW driver lol…sorry but being cut off and harassed by that goofy ass car would make me even more mad lol
What astounds me with people like this is how they drive like they're in a hurry, but always seem to have unlimited time to harass a driver that has the audacity to point out these shitty driving habits.
I feel like with proof you should lose your license on the spot. Driving is a privilege and you’ve shown you’re willing to use your car as a weapon, endangering MULTIPLE others.
Definitely. Never drive again motherfucker. You can’t be trusted
I had someone do this to me today. Was in traffic and when I tried to get in the right lane to get passed the stopped lane, the car behind me wanted to get in the right lane too, only they decided they deserved to be in front of me. They kept cutting me off and changing lanes into mine, or swerving around other cars to zoom ahead of me. I dont understand what I did to piss him off other than exist. He made up his mind that that he was in a race with me for some reason.
Seriously, doing shit like this should be an immediate suspension of your license at the bare minimum.
better than i would do. shit i would have held my lane and let the dodo hit me. dashcam = he/she is at fault and would be dealt with quicker. set it up so they pit maneuver themselves on you.
One of these days they’re going to pull that shit on the WRONG person…
I assume everyone I don’t know is crazy and has a gun. Like I can’t understand fucking with a stranger, just never know what that person is capable of.
Looks like attempted murder to me.
Don’t you wish they would play these games with an unmarked cop car ?
I wish they would play it with me. Go ahead, sideswipe by beater Honda so I can get paid.
After like the 3rd time Id probably hold my lane and let him hit me. I promise, it will hurt your car more than my 25 year old $1000 truck.
As someone who owns both a beater and newer model car. No one tries this shit when you are in a beater, they understand you have nothing to lose. Cut me off and add to my dents, bumper came off 3 years ago I hope you like direct metal frame contacting your plastic BMW.
Beaters, unite!
...wait, that sounded better in my head...
I love the videos on here of the instant karma these drivers get when they pull stunts in front of a cruiser. When you know its gonna happen, Its the same weird anticipation you get when you watch those gross zit popping videos.
Bold move in a car with carbon reinforced plastic body panels.
The chassis is carbon reinforced plastic and aluminium. The body panels are ABS plastic (and glass as mentioned)
ABS plastic? Lmao this thing is a damn LEGO
Stepping on Lego hurts more than having that run over my foot.
You can be 'flip a small BMW' strong but it won't be strong enough to separate two 2x2 flat pieces of lego.
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If you ever think your job is useless, just remember somebody gets paid too install blinkers in BMWs.
Sorry to be that guy man but carbon reinforced plastic has incredibly high specific strength.
I'd be mad too if I got THAT BMW.
Came here to say that. I actually have a picture of one of these on my phone I took because I thought it was the ugliest car I had ever seen. Lol
Dw, there’s worse lol
My favourite to mock is the fiat multipla
Good God what did I just look at? They had to have been on drugs to design and approve that ugly bastard
While I’m at it, ‘ave another british classic, the PT cruiser! XD
Edit: it took me 2 hours to find this again, me and my dad love randomly browsing the images from this manufacturer, recommend looking at the older cars ”SsangYong” it’s a bloodbath of ripoffs
I had a PT Cruiser up until a couple months ago. It was an awkward, ugly vehicle, but it was reliable, tough, and incredibly roomy. We rebuilt the engine and the body out of four other PT Cruisers. The Frankencruiser would still be around today if the head gasket hadn't blown.
I sold my beautiful 2002 Limited PT Cruiser to a guy doing just that after my daughter totaled it shortly after I had taken Collision off the insurance (dumb idea!!!). He had a cheaper totaled one and he wanted the nice interior of mine. I'd have sold it for 1000 bucks but I put it at auction on eBay and got $1600.
We're waiting for scrap prices to go up a little in our area, then we're going to junk it. Our mechanic advised against anymore frankensteining of the engine and said it needs a full replacement and a new transmission. The window motors have mostly stopped working and the back hatch will pop open if we hit a bump.
British classic? The PT cruiser was made by Chrysler and designed by some dude from Arizona
The Pontiac Aztec is the ugliest piece of shit I've never seen. If it wasn't for Walter White they'd all be disassembled and buried next to the Plymouth Prowler lol
Ooo forgot about that one, right piece of work... yuck
PT is love or hate, it's not the worst looking car and has a market.
Multipla is the king, and I hope is never unseated.
They are ugly, but they are fully electric and apparently extremely reliable cars with near zero maintenance. They are no longer built.
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It is a really good car! Says an i3 owner. However, it is ugly af and husband wants nothing to do with it.
My parents have one. Can confirm, the thing drives wonderfully. Acceleration is fantastic.
LMAO he got the Bitch Made Wagon
He really trying to flex that shitty ass i3 lmaoo
The Larry David car?
This is the kind of guy who sniffs his own farts like on South Park.
Was that contact at the end? I'd send it to the police, hit and run
I’d send it anyway.
Contact or not, that was incredibly reckless for numerous people. If someone swung a bat at you, but missed, would you excuse it?
Something like 30,000 people die a year in cars, you’d think it would be a place people didn’t fuck around.
He probably thought you were laughing at him. He’s probably right.
We are all laughing at him
He gave you many opportunities for a pit maneuver, would have been very tempting.
Would you be entirely at fault if you just keep going forward and let karma do its thing, even with video evidence of their repeated aggression like this post?
Edit: I’d just like to say that I’m not dumb enough to actually allow an avoidable collision to happen and put lives at risk, including my own, over road rage. But I don’t think the aggressor should be getting off Scott free either. If I was in this situation I would probably just document the plate and call the police. Road rage never works out for anyone.
No it's on the person transitioning lanes to make sure its safe to get over. Especially if you have a footage of them doing this.
Not entirely, but certainly you would have some fault. I applaud you for resisting the temptation of a pit maneuver!
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No, as long as you drive to a safe location and report to police immediately, you could say you were in fear for your life from the other driver.
"my reaction time was bad, he was driving erratically and i just messed up once and didnt see him i was so panicked"
This is not sound advice as far as safety, legality, or liability is concerned.
In fact, I strongly urge everyone to consider every single reddit post as completely unreliable and utterly untrustworthy.
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I mean he was ramming the OP into occupied lanes, including into a fucking semi.
Mannn that semi scared me.
Yeah near the semi just a wee bit of a clip as I " tried to resume the left lane but misjudged and boy howdy how did he wind up in the semi's rear wheels!?"
That BMW is probably a lot heavier than you assume. It's 2899 lbs according to Wikipedia.
Thats not heavy though.. my full sized legacy weighs 3800 lbs.
2898.5 lbs of stupidity .5 lbs car
Anything sub 3000 lbs is pretty light...
Very narrow wheelbase, wouldn't take much to overturn or at a minimum get sideways
It’s also probably got shitty, narrow, and hard high mileage tires.
Engines in the front of both cars making the weight distribution during a pit maneuver having the heaviest part of a vehicle hitting the lightest part of a vehicle, it would need to be a substantial weight difference for the pit maneuver to not work.
It has 55% of the weight on the rear of the car.
It's an electric car
Engine is in the back if that’s an i3. Battery is along the floor. Very low center of gravity.
The best way IMO to handle these people is to pull off the road and have a coffee or something. There's no point engaging with these people, and better to avoid them entirely.
Urge to punch them in the face is strong tho, but you’re right.
You’re right. I have road rage now, and I’m lying in bed. I’m so thankful i wasn’t in OP’s seat.
I would be taking that video to the police and see if they’ll charge them . Whata self centered asshole.
Reckless driving at the very least.
If nothing else, send this video to their insurance. Their rates will spike.
How can I do that? How do I know what insurance to send to?
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Oh ok, I was trying to figure out how I would go about doing that when people said that. Thanks
They can't do anything unless the video clearly shows the driver. For all we know, Kanye's driving that car.
people are crazy. best thing to do in this situation is to let him get ahead of you and then exit to lose them. its not worth your life.
The problem is that once these lunatics engage they have a hard time letting go of the situation and will usually brake, lanechange, accelerate just to stay in your bubble. They don't care about getting to their destination quickly, they only care about teaching you a lesson. Which is stupid, dangerous, and an actual crime in this case..
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Yep. Attempting to squeeze past them is about the worst thing to do in that situation.
I feel like trying to launch yourself out your passenger door and karate chop their wing mirror might be worse.
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What a turd.
Christ, ya got a camera. Either do a little bump or just pull off the highway for a while. Just cruising with him has the be the worst of the 3 options.
Personally, I'd just never expect a driver to do that to me so many times. It's insane.
I don't understand the energy it takes to keep doing this over and over
A yawning pit of sadness that consumes your every decision with a need to score a victory, -any- victory.
That’s kind of insane don’t you think? You don’t know how unhinged they are and if they’re driving like this they probably aren’t ‘hinged’. What do you stand to lose to just let them move away from you? Nothing but pride. Don’t let your ego get you.
EDIT: person I am responding to changed their post. ‘Let’ became ‘Expect’
Big time what you’ve just said. This subreddit devolves so quickly into JUSTICE-MANAGEMENT. Frankly, drivers like this are common and if you’ve driven for more than 10 years you’ve had your run ins more than once. If it was me I wouldn’t continue to antagonize this dumbass in a deadly weapon and just let them do their bullshit. Find a safe lane or let them go ahead. I got a life to take care of - my pride isn’t worth a position on the highway
Exactly. Everybody talking about the BMW and my first thought is why OP continues to engage with them. I'd slow down or pull over.
You have no right to act tough when you drive a car that looks like that
All big and tuff until a traffic jam hits…
Did you call the police? This is reckless driving. They’re actively trying to cause an accident.
I hate this crap…
So ugly.
The best thing to do is just let it go. To many wingnuts out there. Let them keep going and you go home safely. They'll get there's one day when they do it to the wrong person.
That's when you call the police and give em the footage, they guy deserves to lose his license
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This is why I’ve stopped honking. It was my go to in moments of silent road rage but in my state several people have been run down and SHOT at for honking. Maniacs out here I tell ya
Why do people play cat and mouse with these idiots in the first place just let them be dumb and do stupid things without retaliating and possibly causing larger issues.
Oh he big mad
I wish a motherfucker would
I understand this person was crazy. Clearly. But total de- escalation is the best way to proceed in these types of situations. Just take the next exit and wait 5 minutes before hoping back on. Or just slow way down and let him get far enough ahead you don't have to deal with him any more.
OP was entertaining it a little I feel.
17 seconds in why would you speed up next to a car clearly changing lanes? Obviously he's more at fault not indicating etc but you acting reckless meant you had to end up swerving into the left lane and another car had to swerve to avoid you. Not sure why no ones mentioning your reckless driving here. Need to compensate for shitey drivers mate
They were probably engaging in a road rage for longer than when the video started. OP is trying to portray a different story if I had to guess
Yes holy shit OP is driving like a moron. Drive defensively. Remove yourself from the situation, if the asshole gets in front of you WHO GIVES A SHIT you'll forget about it in 30 seconds and they will be gone. Relax.
Seriously. It’s honestly sad how many comments I had to go through to see this. I scrolled past too many “just run into him” comments to see something reasonable. OP was also driving like an ass. Not as big of an ass as the BMW but the solution to this is literally just slow down in the far right lane and let the dude go and think he won. Not worth the lives of you or other people to try to play who has the bigger dick
I think if you brought this to the authorities there could be some charges thrown at this individual. They ran you off the road, and ran you down numerous times, attempting to use a car as a weapon. Especially when you were run off the road and the attempt to push you into a 18 wheeler. They’ll be awfully upset when the 5-0 shows up at their house or even better, at work!
I called 911 near the end of this, but after looking at the law, this could actually be misdemeanor assault with a deadly weapon for repeatedly swerving into me. I’ll probably file a police report. Thanks!
Sometimes you just gotta say "insurance bitch" and pound that asshat!
Yep I’d let them merge right on into me with 911 already on my phone
Not worth the headache of dealing with insurance and being without a car for some time.
That is what's called a morale hazard in the insurance industry.
Why not give the crazy person space and not help facilitate them causing an accident?
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Slow down and let those people in. Give them space. You get nowhere, and no brownie points for trying to control other drivers from your vehicle. Not to mention, you take a big risk by trying to do so.
Beemer has WAAAY too much time on his hands.
I expected an e46 BMW not that
That moment you let your fragile ego endanger human lives
Not the BMW I was expecting