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beerzerker · 03-11-2012, 08:37 PM

I was heading home from a nice ride on a two way road, when I see this car swerve crossing the yellow paint on to my lane barreling down right towards me. I slow down, he sees my headlight and swerves back into his lane. I looked at his face as he drove by, intending to give him the evil eye. But he would not even look at me and had a look on his face as if he did not do anything wrong.

I don't know if the driver is drunk, distracted or just plain crazy, but I wanted to chase him down and beat him to a pulp. Some may say that I have anger management issues, but I am all about hurting people who intend on hurting me.

williamr · 03-13-2012, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by beerzerker

, but I am all about hurting people who intend on hurting me.

Why do you think he intended to hurt you? He almost certainly misjudged the distance and approach speed and made a mistake - otherwise he wouldn't have swerved back into his lane. And given that he didn't intend to hurt you something must have made him swerve. What did he see that you failed to?

Riding under the influence of paranoia isn't conducive to a long or happy life. And you have anger management issues.

Rob

alfacliff · 03-13-2012, 09:49 AM

paranoia might not make you happy, but it can save your life. little mary sunshine already is a smear on the highway.

tomfleming · 03-13-2012, 09:55 AM

i'd say you controlled your anger quite well. i agree with you.

mfile2000 · 03-13-2012, 10:30 AM

Good thing you're OK. Letting it go was the right thing to do, no matter how hard it was.

beerzerker · 03-13-2012, 03:02 PM

If you are on your cell phone or texting while driving then you are intentionally trying to hurt yourself an others.

If you drive drunk then you are intentionally trying to hurt yourself and others.

If you are doing something else while driving besides paying the f$&@ attention to the road then you are intentionally trying to Hirt your yourself an others.

I love my life. And if I get killed because some jackass just wanted to get that last bite off his burger while driving then that would suck wouldn't it?

Some people just don't get the effects of their actions. Messing around with your radio while driving seem innocent enough, until you cross that yellow line and hit someone head on.

STW · 03-13-2012, 04:22 PM

So obviously someone texting while driving. He didn't look at you because he was ashamed and defensive. That's good because most people swerve back into lane and finish the text--no shame at all ;-&

saphena · 03-13-2012, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by beerzerker

If you are on your cell phone or texting while driving then you are intentionally trying to hurt yourself an others.

If you are on your cell phone or texting while driving then you are behaving carelessly, recklessly, negligent or stupidly. That's the opposite of intentional.

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Originally Posted by beerzerker

Some people just don't get the effects of their actions. Messing around with your radio while driving seem innocent enough, until you cross that yellow line and hit someone head on.

But fortunately you the rider won't be behaving carelessly, etc so you'll allow for his mistake and get out of the way.

beerzerker · 03-13-2012, 04:47 PM

[QUOTE=saphena;2163020]If you are on your cell phone or texting while driving then you are behaving carelessly, recklessly, negligent or stupidly. That's the opposite of intentional.[Quote]

Here in the US we have laws against the use of cell phones while driving. Thus, the driver intentionally broke the law.

The driver swerving on the wrong side of the road was not intentional. But whatever he was doing to distract him to do so was intentional.

Spunky99 · 03-13-2012, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by saphena

If you are on your cell phone or texting while driving then you are behaving carelessly, recklessly, negligent or stupidly. That's the opposite of intentional.

But fortunately you the rider won't be behaving carelessly, etc so you'll allow for his mistake and get out of the way.

I have to speak up here....your logic in the first statement just doesn't make sense to me. I know it's your opinion so please take this response as non-personal.
Your statement is almost exactly the same as saying a girl that has sex without contraceptives and gets pregnant did so by accident. If she used contraceptives and got pregnant, that was an accident or immaculate conception.

The fact that she doesn't protect herself from impregnation makes her pregnancy intentional especially if the contraceptives were readily available. If she knowingly had unprotected sex with someone with full blown AIDS and got the disease, was that an accident and unintentional too? If I close my eyes before throwing a rock at your window, does that make the fact that the window was broken and someone took a rock on the noggin make it unintentional?
The fact that someone is doing something that #1 is against the law (at least in Calif it is) and #2 something that everyone knows easily leads to accidents makes it intentional. Your reasoning could be expanded to drunk driving as the drunk obviously never intended to hurt anyone but drove intoxicated anyway. Where I live drunk drivers that kill other people "unintentionally" go to jail.
There is a limit to behavior that is careless, reckless, negligent or stupid. It becomes intentional when the behavior is likely to cause an accident or death.