So I’m driving today. I’m trying to turn right on a green light. The pedestrians have a don’t walk sign. Solid, not flashing. Three snot-nosed little bastards walk out in into the crosswalk forcing me to brake. I blow my horn at them and they flip me off.
So I pick up my gun. I don’t point it at them, just show it. I roll down my window and yell, “flip me off again, motherfucker.” They turn white as sheets and scurry off.
So did I over-react?
Overreact?? I think not. That’s my SOP for such occassions. Sometimes I throw it in park, chase the little bastards and pistol whip them. That works, too.
Zette
“If I had to live your life, I’d be begging to have someone pop out both my eyes. Just in case I came across a mirror.” - android209 (in the Pit)
Zettecity
Voted “Most Empathetic”- can you believe that?
Of course you did! Why the hell would you brandish a weapon just because some teenagers gave you the finger? It doesn’t make any sense!
Geez, Otto. In answer to the OP–um, yeah.
I don’t know where you live, maybe it’s a Combat Zone, but where I live, you’re damn lucky those “snot-nosed little bastards” didn’t scurry to the nearest phone and call 911. You’d be posting from the county lockup.
My guess would be that you got lucky–one or more of them had some compelling reason not to want to draw official attention to himself.
Geez. You scare me sometimes, ya know?
People pull that stunt around here with TOY guns, and they still get locked up. Judge has no sense of humor, I guess.
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen
So, didja buy that gun for self defense, to go hunting, or to shoot skeet?
Just wondering.
:rolleyes:
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OK, I laughed at that. 
But Otto, I’m a little taken aback myself. Are you usually this aggressive, or is it just when you’re driving (which wouldn’t be unusual - I seem to have more patience than almost everybody when I’m driving, and even then not 100% of the time)?
That was most assuredly an overreaction, and depending on where you live, do that in Philly and all three of them pull out guns, and you’re the lead story on the 6:00 news.
Esprix
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If you’re inclined to lose your temper so easily, I’m not sure that you’re a fit person to be driving a car in the first place.
The guys are tight. The gun will get you in trouble. My solution? I don’t brake for pedestrians.
Err. “right” not “tight” easy Esprix 
You’re a nut, Otto.
Get some balls on you and do that whole thing without the gun. Coward.
Yet to be reconciled with the reality of the dark for a moment, I go on wandering from dream to dream.
I wouldn’t say so Otto. I would have popped off a few shots and made them dance a few minutes before the light changed.
** Sigh. So many men, so few who can afford me ** Original by Wally
I’ve learned that if someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it.
All right, who stole Otto’s password? 'Fess up! I’m going over there to show you my gun.
Let alone owning a gat.
Keep the gun but there should be a campaign against cars, especially the fully automatic type.
It’s not like the public need fully auto cars is it?
The kevlar piercing hood ornaments have to go too .
Why should people be allowed to go on excercising their constitutional right to drive when cars kill so many Americans every day.
Everyone knows that cars can fall into the hands of the bad guys.
Don’t you think that if cars were banned there would fewer car-assisted crimes?
It’s a shame that good honest Americans can’t walk down the middle of the freeway because of car-driving nut cases.
I’ve even heard stories of kids who are younger than voting age being encouraged by their parents to drive.They claim that good training makes for a responsible car owner but you can’t ever get round the fact that cars were made do drive around in .Surely that must lead to accidents.
Stop the carnage.Ban cars.Everyone must have the democratic right to jaywalk.
I’m organising a series of freeway hopscotch outings soon, if you see us skipping up and down the outside lane of your interstate come and join us!
GET INVOLVED BEFORE ITS TOO LATE TO STOP THE CAR!!!
Do not wait for the last judgement-It takes place every day
CAMUS-The Fall
WHAT? How *dare you, casdave, threaten to take away my God-given right to a car? Why, the ownership of cars is a fully protected right, enshrined in the Second Amendment!
Think about it. The Second Amendment says that I can form a well-regulated militia. How could I possibly form such a militia without everyone being able to drive their cars to our weekend camping retreats and target practice? Do you really think the soccer Moms of America would be willing to join up for the defense of their rights without a minivan so they can run their errands? And how do you expect us to get up into those wilderness cabins, anyways? Hike? Good Lord, man, a car is absolutely essential to the creation of a militia. And “well-regulated”? Can you possibly deny that the automotive industry is “well-regulated”? Why, Ford has to jump through regulation hoops and meet standards that no other company- aside from possibly drug companies- are held to! And by God, if my ownership of a car isn’t “well-regulated”, why the hell is my glove compartment full of forms to pull out to prove that A) I own a car; B) it’s insured; C) it’s been emissions inspected; D) it’s been quality inspected; E) I’ve taken courses learning how to drive and F) I’ve shown to the MVA that I know how to drive? By God, that paperwork itself could act as a second air-bag for the passenger seat, which I would remind you is required by federal law!
Sure, some people get hurt by cars. Even killed. And, yes, many of those killed are killed by their own cars. But that doesn’t undo what is right there in the Second Amendment- my God-given right to own and operate a car of my choosing. Even one with dual cams.
You’ll get my keys when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.
JMCJ
“Y’know, I would invite y’all to go feltch a dead goat, but that would be abuse of a perfectly good dead goat and an insult to all those who engage in that practice for fun.” -weirddave, set to maximum flame
The second paragraph of the OP was a complete lie. I don’t even own a gun. But it was a lovely fantasy moment. Little snot-nose bastards. Next time maybe I won’t brake.
Honestly Otto, I woulda have been freaked out if the part about the gun hadn’t been a joke. But the little jaywalkers certainly deserved something. . .I hate anyone who doesn’t observe the whole pedestrian-driver relationship. That includes drivers who insist on going through a stop sign or turning right on red while I am in the crosswalk. What if I dropped something and darted back for it?? They woulda fucking hit me, the bastards.
Rather, I was in the position of a spore which, having finally accepted its destiny as a fungus, still wonders if it might produce penicillin.
–Ayi Kwei Armah
People got a right to walk where they want.
It’s undemocratic having car owners remove that right.
Feet were there long before cars.Check your bible(and God created feet sometime during the sixth day)
Cars are man’s infernal creation feet are Gods divinity.
If cars were meant to rule the earth then we’d all be born with twin carbs.
Support this motion
Cars must **DIE!**
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Erm hope this isn’t trollish
Do not wait for the last judgement-It takes place every day
CAMUS-The Fall
link http//www.Thebible/God.org
casdave,
You damn creationists just don’t know when to quit.
Don’t you know that the fossil and genetic evidence clearly proves that when man’s earliest ancestors crawled out of the primoridal ooze, cars were rolling up out of the ooze right along with them. Actually, they were more motor-scooters back then, but they evolved, too.