Jeez .. freakin nut cases!! I guess they don't teach 'Bubba's any manners.
I'm seriously hoping that they were just bluffing .. that they were just
posturing and didn't really intend to use that gun, but you just can't tell.
I'm glad the situation didn't deteriorate into a more serious confrontation.
It's kinda scary that those people are still out there and more frightening
that they might have been serious.
It's hard to imagine how the people in the early days of "the wild west"
managed to cope ...
Glad you're still with us :)
Todd
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Anyone hear Duelling Banjos, or is it just me?
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Allred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: Road Rage Hell
> Ben's experience reminds me of one in Alabama years ago. Road
> construction narrowed an interstate to one lane - with no shoulders. Two
> guys in a BIG 4XD truck thought that three feet was a good following
> distance. I used every strategem I knew to convince them otherwise, but
> only succeeded in pissing them off.
>
> When we got back to two lanes, they pulled alongside and the passenger
> pointed a large-bore, chrome-plated pistol with an 8" barrel down at me.
> As it happened, I had a pistol under the front seat. I reached down for
> it, and I think they interpreted the move correctly and moved on. I
> didn't pull the gun, but instead caught up with them. I got the tag
> number and stopped at the next station to report their actions to the
> local sheriff. I offered to press charges and to come testify at trial.
>
> All I can figure is that Bubba was the sheriff's son or the prosecutor's
> nephew, because I never heard anything more.
>
> Moral of the story? Consider how things would have turned out, had I
> brandished my pistol. They could have killed me and claimed
> self-defense. Or worse, I might have killed one of them.
>
> P.S. - That event convinced me to remove the gun from my car.
>
> --John
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