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From: Raymond Keattch on 28 Jan 2008 04:44 In article <32fee86e-3559-48ab-83bf- 8877aaa02e8e(a)e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, halfanorange(a)gmail.com says... > So you spot someone coming up behind you very quickly in your rear > view mirror, obviously in a hurry and would like you out of their way. > The highway code states if that happens you should slow down. But what > other ways are there to annoy them? > > 1. When you arrive at a roundabout only pull away when there are > absolutely no cars in sight. This should leave the tail gater fuming > as you pass up many opportunities to pull away. Delaying yourself in the process. > 2. When there is no longer any excuse to sit at the roundabout pull > away, but first do it in a way that causes you car to stall leaving > you sitting there for another 10 seconds or so. Delaying yourself in the process > 3. Before starting your engine put the back wipers on, make him > believe you have no idea how to work a car and should give up on the > idea of getting to wherever he's going on time. > > 4. If stopped at some lights wait at least 5 seconds after the lights > have gone to green before pulling away, then dribble down the road > before -slowly- picking up speed. Delaying yourself in the process. > 5. Keep -at least- 5mph below the speed limit. Delaying yourself in the process. > 6. Take every opportunity to flash cars in or out of junctions, > anything to put a bit of traffic and time between the tailgater and > their destination. delaying yourself in the process. Care to comment on the other cars in the queue behind who are NOT tailgating, but being held up by your childish behavior -- MrBitsy
From: cupra on 28 Jan 2008 05:07 Mark W wrote: > "halfanorange" <halfanorange(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:32fee86e-3559-48ab-83bf-8877aaa02e8e(a)e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com... >> So you spot someone coming up behind you very quickly in your rear >> view mirror, obviously in a hurry and would like you out of their >> way. The highway code states if that happens you should slow down. >> But what other ways are there to annoy them? >> > > Drive slowly but when an overtaking opportunity arises, speed up. That > certainly irritates me. I did that on Saturday - he started to move out and I booted it at the appropriate point, left him well behind....
From: TripleS on 28 Jan 2008 06:46 Raymond Keattch wrote: > In article <32fee86e-3559-48ab-83bf- > 8877aaa02e8e(a)e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, halfanorange(a)gmail.com > says... >> So you spot someone coming up behind you very quickly in your rear >> view mirror, obviously in a hurry and would like you out of their way. >> The highway code states if that happens you should slow down. But what >> other ways are there to annoy them? >> >> 1. When you arrive at a roundabout only pull away when there are >> absolutely no cars in sight. This should leave the tail gater fuming >> as you pass up many opportunities to pull away. > > Delaying yourself in the process. > >> 2. When there is no longer any excuse to sit at the roundabout pull >> away, but first do it in a way that causes you car to stall leaving >> you sitting there for another 10 seconds or so. > > Delaying yourself in the process > >> 3. Before starting your engine put the back wipers on, make him >> believe you have no idea how to work a car and should give up on the >> idea of getting to wherever he's going on time. >> >> 4. If stopped at some lights wait at least 5 seconds after the lights >> have gone to green before pulling away, then dribble down the road >> before -slowly- picking up speed. > > Delaying yourself in the process. > >> 5. Keep -at least- 5mph below the speed limit. > > Delaying yourself in the process. > >> 6. Take every opportunity to flash cars in or out of junctions, >> anything to put a bit of traffic and time between the tailgater and >> their destination. > > delaying yourself in the process. That doesn't seem to be important. The objective here is simply to be an even bigger PITA than the tailgater. > Care to comment on the other cars in the queue behind who are NOT > tailgating, but being held up by your childish behavior Oh that's a difficult one. Hadn't thought of that. Best wishes all, Dave.
From: Eeyore on 28 Jan 2008 06:49 halfanorange wrote: > So you spot someone coming up behind you very quickly in your rear > view mirror, obviously in a hurry and would like you out of their way. > The highway code states if that happens you should slow down. But what > other ways are there to annoy them? Well ... if you really want to ANNOY them, simply lightly touching the brake pedal so the brake lights illuminate but YOU don't slow down is one of the best. Graham
From: Ian Dalziel on 28 Jan 2008 07:19
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:49:38 +0000, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >halfanorange wrote: > >> So you spot someone coming up behind you very quickly in your rear >> view mirror, obviously in a hurry and would like you out of their way. >> The highway code states if that happens you should slow down. But what >> other ways are there to annoy them? > >Well ... if you really want to ANNOY them, simply lightly touching the >brake pedal so the brake lights illuminate but YOU don't slow down is one >of the best. > If he's far enough away to see your brake lights, he's not a proper tailgater. :-) -- Ian D |