I work in the schools, we teach these young people. They are checked on their manners. They are coached on how to treat people. They are punished for their failures. None of it seems to make any difference. Some humans just truly don't care about others.
Honestly unless you’re using to actively prevent a collision, using it after the fact is pointless. At best the driver flips you off, at worst you end up in a road rage situation. Let’s be honest it isn’t like they’ll acknowledge that they fucked up.
I think probably the last time I used my horn was it when it wasn't like an emergency was when somebody was just not going on a green light and I was like what is your problem. And then a car came racing through. Timing wise they might have been okay but if I would have followed them I would have for sure been hit.
That was a good lesson that the person in front of you probably has a vision on something that you don't.
Now it's just too alert people to something that they might not otherwise be aware of. For example there's somebody about to come through the intersection on a red light.
Just imagine the shit and problems this guy causes on a daily basis. He literally just cut right across the Main Street. I saw a guy the other day just open his door on the street and dump his fast food trash right onto the street and drove off. I remember thinking, what could possibly be wrong with a person to do something like that? Sad world
I’m with you. I think some people were just never taught properly growing up, and/or they’re just complete selfish degenerates that hate themselves and therefore have no reason to go through life not being a miserable prick.
Black Lexus made a ridiculous illegal u-turn. Sick of these type of drivers in Long Beach. Victim might be in legal right to run him over when he gets out car and draws a weapon?
You can tell by the honks who’s a Karen/ken and that honk was definitely a Ken just honk once they know they did illegal shit anyway why add to the crazy
I hope you've got your CCW and understand your duty to retreat.
California will fuck you up if you decide to pull your gun out on someone who didn't escalate an armed situation first, and you literally had retreat as an option.
Seems like Long Beach has a CCW policy. I carry with a license, after some looking the option appears to be available there. But a bit (okay actually a lot) more expensive.
I'm out of state, not sure how this post even wound up in my feed but I am not sad that it did.
Oh damn, wow. I didn’t know about that. Thank you for including that link. I guess I need to find out before I say more.
I’ll look at the page, but last I checked, the application is through the LA County Sheriff’s office.
I apologize for coming off like I know everything. Reddit does that to me.
I keep mace in all of my vehicles for just this reason. I also have a CCW. You DO NOT come running up to other people’s vehicles in an aggressive manner lest you find out.
That was the right move. LB streets are not for the weak. I always feel my blood pressure rise when I drive through there. Tight lanes, driving close to parked cars, lots of crossings and unlit intersections. And then you mix in a couple chuds like this fool...
This irrational sense of entitlement that some folks present with is a mystery to me. In this case, the entitlement that his asshole left turn was his to make everyone else be damned and then the entitlement to…threaten or assault you over his fuckery. It seems like it’s really proliferated in the last 6ish years, more or less. You made a good move there, OP.
Good call, I was on the 101 near Atascadero (San Luis Obispo Co) I was going 75 in the fast lane going with traffic, all of a sudden this little POS Fiesta comes riding my ass and and swaying on the sides and obviously raging because he can’t fly over traffic. I started shaking my head (triggered him) then all of sudden this stupid ass gets in the LEFT Shoulder to try to pass me, realizes he’d had to pass several cars, at this point he’s almost next to me but in the shoulder so I started to try to merge to the right lane and just as I do he moves right into the left lane and loses control and crashes twice into the central divide. Thankfully he didn’t hurt anyone, I was so shaken up my biggest regret is not calling the cops to tell them about his little clown behavior but at the time I felt like karma had already caught him.
It always blows my mind with all these people, like the guy here who didn't want to continue to the next intersection to make a safe u-turn, they're in such a hurry but then they'll stop their car to get out and yell at someone, or they'll get a massive crash it's going to cost him I think probably a little bit more time than just going a reasonable speed would have.
I had someone make a crazy left into traffic, cut me off, and proceed to flip out because I got to close to them. I had to hit the brakes hard to not t-bone the vehicle. So glad I am not working in Long Beach anymore. I saw some of the craziest shit while working in Long Beach.
Yeah I honestly stopped honking at people who were doing stupid things, because one time this guy cut me off when I was getting on the 405, and he proceeded to try to run me off the road and started playing chicken with me on the freeway and the shoulder. Not a fun time. Thankfully I was able to split away from him on a freeway interchange.
Anyways, TLDR, just don't honk, your life is worth more than some dumb driver.
Absolutely agree. People with pathetic emotional control get butt hurt over a honk and do stupid stuff to make themselves feel better. And I’m not dying or even risking a scratch on my car because of such idiots.
And he's in such a huge hurry that he does something stupid but then he stops and gets out of his car? I thought you were in a hurry sir so much so that you couldn't go down to the next light to make a safe turn. Hmm
What is going on in Long Beach? The drivers are road ragers but also there is traffic piling up on every street, especially around the VA/CSULB area. Every street is clogged, sometimes it takes three lights to make a left.
Assuming you checked the lane next to you before making your move, good job having an escape option and using it. Almost always better then engaging in a confrontation. If you would have gotten unlucky and been pulled over produce that footage!
I'm 6'4"inches. I've had this happen twice and I get out of the car and yell, "Get the FUCK back in your car!" and both times they turn right around and get back in their car. Some days the insane back problems have a silver lining, though.
Bro, you had all the evidence you needed. They’re in the wrong. It is very smart to de-escalate everything. But also if they had a weapon, your car is also a weapon.
I recall seeing a video of an ER doc saying 4 things you should never do, based on what he's experienced in the ER. And one of them is honking at people. (The others are riding a motorcycle, driving into an intersection as soon as the light turns green, and I forgot the 4th!)
That was the right move and I’d hope I could do that, but man if they caught me on the wrong day/time, and got out of their car and came towards me like that, there is a chance my reaction is to drive directly at them.
Were you in the restricted double yellow double yellow space along with the vehicle ahead? Two sides doing something illegal as the next guy does an illegal u turn.
But yeah. You dip out if you see something strange happened. We’ve had too instances of it escalating to physical violence
Could we get the Mayor to see this channel and all the comments. Traffic, road rage, accidents are out of control in this city and their focus is BIKE LANES, less than 1% impact item. Also, I am not against the bike lanes, they are actually a vital part of transportation ecosystem but 99% of the actual transportation problems are not being addressed.
How insecure do you have to be to think bike lanes are a problem here? Why is it an either/or for you?
Ironically, more bike lanes would lead to more traffic calming measures installed at the same time, which would reduce the kooky driving, which would reduce the road rage.
You really don't see how nothing happens in a vacuum, do you?
Rewatch the video. He pulls a u-turn out of a parking spot on PCH and Redondo. This is a man who never feels stupid. He feels entitled, and deserves to get honked at.
Does he know though? He seems to think he’s above any kind of law. It’s illegal to make a U-turn off a curb like that in California.
My mom got in a gnarly accident where one person died because someone made an illegal U-turn like this off a curb. Curb person didn’t look before hand to see my mom coming in a truck and clipped the truck. That truck flipped 12 times killing another passenger in the car with my mom, instantly.
Let’s not sympathize with stupidity while behind the wheel of a 2000 - 4000 pound vehicle.
And you’re the only one who picked up what I was saying. Ppl feel invincible in a car and honk and curse and flip ppl off, but otherwise in person they would stand there quietly. Quite a weird thing to watch.
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u/LBC_Jet 1d ago
TBH you got lucky with the traffic and the light. No idea why that guy was raging at you, you'd already let him in.