Just driving home from work, one of my usual routes, so know where to position my car to weave in/out of traffic, was coming across an island where there is one lane entry, but the exit splits into two, and you can usually cut into the right lane and move forward at least ten spots, plus i normally take the right turning straight after it, so thats my usual way of manouevuring round this particular island, but not tonight..

Coming down the dual carriageway before, and there is a maroon mini cooper s in the left and he sees me coming, and pulls out to block my path, i think fair enough and brake in plenty of time and hold back.. but the cream coloured moped who was obviously tailgating the mini, thinks i can get out too, and pulls out, i think fair enough to that too, and pull back even more, the mini overtakes a few cars and pulls back into the left, as we enter the island, the moped makes a dash to take the mini, closely followed by me, we clear the mini passed the island and pull back into the left lane, but for some unknown reason the moped takes offence and smacks his brake lights on.. i wasn't close, but NOW I AM.. he gestures at me some swear word or another then sits in the middle of both lanes, i go to take my right position ready to turn right, and he weaves in front of me and smacks his brakes again, me with my right indicator on, i smack my horn and give him a quick toot, then he sticks his right indicator on, so to avoid confrontation i pull back into the left lane and decide to go straight instead, as i do so, he slows right down, and looks over his shoulder at me.. and i couldn't resist it, so i mouther at him and boot it off carrying on straight, and now the mini gives chase.. but he isn't of much concern. As i pull up at the next set of lights, i hear a toot and look in my mirror and the on the moped is parked up my arse.. i think better of it, and now ignore him and when the lights change i go.. he tailgates me for a good two miles, turning left/right whereever i do, and now i have got a good look at him, cream coloured piaggio, looks like a guy who thinks he is cool riding it and he has a head helmet with his face on show, and he is wearing what looks like a suit with a cream jacket over (to match the bike-how cute) but he is about 6" and quite chunky, so i think better of it then to jump out of my car.. presume he will go away in a minute or two and is just making a point..

But he pesists, left/right.. and then i get a clear stretch.. so i engage sport.. and boom, leave him as a distant memory, and take a u turn on a dual carriageway (short cut i take) and lo and behold look right and he is still chasing!!! its wet, and i have 4wd and he is on a moped for gods sake.. whats the point!? i think this guy would have followed me home, and i would have had to do something, so i let it rip.. take about 15 cars on the next stretch of dual carriageway and leave him behind for good..

I can't believe that little situation escalated into something, where he was actually following me home! what a prick.. i doubt he actually lives anywhere near me, but was actually following me, on a bloody moped! and giving it loads to boot (in the wet..).. my mate who phoned me just after it happened, said i should of smashed my anchors on and made him go over my boot.. but why scratch my car!? trust me i wasn't being a he just completely just spotted me and thought right i'll av im.. but the funny thing is, a load of my mates were down the local down the road from me (where we had dinner after the LR event) and if i couldn't have lost him i would have led him right there.. and we would have had sum fun then.. but like i said, wanted to avoid confrontation, so just used my car, and let rip..

really got me going.. assh..e..

driving does have some strange effects on some people - very odd - I suffered a similar experience a few years ago with my wife on board so couldn't get away from the fool. I actually did end up stopping, to which he followed suit, however he drove off almost immediately - in hindsight I should have driven directly to a police station.

Glad it didn't turn into anything more serious for you.

Kaine

I picked up a trailer last night and had someone trailergating me - much easier now to hit anchors and not worry

Kam u need this

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Do moped's have license plates in the UK? And did you get his license plate? I'm sure he got yours! There are some real sh*theads on the road

We also had an incident a couple of years ago. We were driving on the highway somewhere in Holland. We were in the lefthand lane, overtaking cars etc. Behind us was a Mercedes S-class and he was obviously in a hurry.

Then we wanted to go back to the righthand lane, but changed our minds because there was a highway entrance-lane, so we decided to go back to the left hand lane, so other cars could enter the highway.

But the guy who was driving the Mercedes wasn't really happy about that and he overtook us on the right handside and was now right beside us.

He was yelling something and was waving with his fist and he wanted to fight. He had put his car in front of us now and was jamming the brakes, so we had to slow down and he was trying to push us off the road so we had to stop .

But my dad was able to get the car back in the lefthand lane and there wasn't enough room for the Mercedes to do something.

And after that, the guy in the Mercedes took the first exit and was gone...

We got his license plate nr. and I don't think he got ours, because we were surrounded by other cars.

And there was also a really ugly old blonde woman beside him... She was doing her make-up the whole time . And she was acting like this was normal

Friso

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And there was also a really ugly old blonde woman beside him... She was doing her make-up the whole time

you can see why he was so angry

Kam - always getting into scrapes with other road users!

What he thought he was going to achieve on his moped I don't know. At worst he could have seriously injured himself and caused a lot of damage to other cars etc... I guess the red mist came down for him.  

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You'd REALLY need a fuel card to keep those bad boys on the road, all that extra weight. It'd be like driving round with VA in your boot  

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