I’m one of those people who don’t believe children, or really anyone, should be slapped across the face repeatedly.
Once or twice…
Nit-Picker Props to Sailboat for using “vapors” correctly instead of “fumes.”
Do tell!
I used to yell at morons texting/talking on cell phones while driving. There are WAY too many of them now. I commute 110 miles daily and see stupidity in action on a minute too minute basis.
Do you have kids of your own? 
I’m usually too far away from them to confront them (but I would not hesitate for a moment if they were near): People who try to run in front of an approaching train in order to get to the side that boards passengers. Most recently a woman weighed down with bags, accompanied by three children, one of them in a stroller being pushed by one of the other children, actually paused as the train approached, then decided to try to dash across. Fortunately several folks who were closer were able to stop them. If they had managed to cross, they would not have been allowed to board by the conductor.
Here in Montreal it’s illegal to smoke in bus shelters. If I’m in a bus shelter and somebody tries to smoke inside it, I remind them that it’s illegal. Most, but not all, of the time they agree to smoke outside instead.
I did once try to confront someone who was playing, without headphones, some very offensive music in a bus line. He didn’t turn it off.
I also sometimes try to confront litterers. I don’t always succeed.
FTW!
Huh, what’s funny is that the first thing that popped into my head when I read this thread topic was how I was at the gas station the other day and the guy in the bay next to mine was topping off his tank. And how all the while he was staring intently at the price, trying to get an even $ amount or something, gas was spilling out the top of his tank.
I don’t know if this is stupid so much as “don’t understand local driving etiquette” but Los Angeles these days is overrun with tourists who do not know that they should pull forward into an intersection and turn left on yellow if there is no dedicated left hand arrow. After sitting behind one woman who sat in the left hand turn lane for two cycles, I leaned my head out the window and yelled, “Hey! Pull forward!” Unfortunately, this caused her to illegally turn in front of oncoming traffic right as the light turned green. :smack:
I’ve confronted a couple of people lately who were breaking the laws with their off-leash dogs in on-leash areas. The response I got was a universal, “Mind your own business, bitch” (to paraphrase). Maybe next time I’ll just pepper spray their dogs and let them explain to the police why their dog was off-leash in an on-leash area and I felt threatened by it. 
Well-played, sir.
Yeah, but doing so was even stupider on my part. I chased a guy out of a bar who was being REALLY obnoxious and starting to get physical with a gal. I waved my pool cue at him, chased him around the table and he went out the emergency door.
WTF was I thinking, seriously? I’m female, 5’4, not scary looking, and have no defense, or offense, skills at ALL, nor any weapons. But that wasn’t the first time or last time I’ve done something like that, and one of these days I’m gonna pay for it. :smack:
Oh dear God. I’m sure that as soon as I show my wife this post and she starts reading it, she will immediately hear in her head me yelling, “Own the fucking intersection!” at people. I’m glad that you 1) got this person’s attention, and 2) nobody died. 
Agreed.
Also, there’s way too many nutjobs out there. I don’t want to provoke them.
What I sometimes do, however, is take a pic or video with my phone. I post it on FB for me and my friends to LOL.
I would be one of those ‘idiots’, since anywhere else I’ve lived that’s a HUGE no-no. One that’d get ya killed.
Are you saying that, in LA, the drivers coming from the other direction don’t SPEED UP on yellow? 'cause I sure as hell ain’t turning left in front of oncoming traffic. :dubious:
Yesterday, shortly after narrowly avoiding a head-on collision with someone driving the wrong way in my lane (see John’s pit thread), I was at a left turn lane red light behind a bozo who also didn’t know enough to pull into the intersection. After I tapped my horn to get their attention and gave a “move forward” gesture, the driver waited until all the oncoming traffic had passed by, then shot forward like a bat out of hell, burning rubber onto the Interstate on-ramp.
Either they belatedly discovered they were in a hurry, or I am a very very scary-looking person. 
If the situation is such that cars are pulled into the intersection waiting to turn left, it’s considered good manners to slow down and stop on yellow, allowing two cars to turn left and clear the intersection before the light turns red. If this didn’t happen, no cars would ever be able to turn left during heavy traffic, causing even more backup.
Okay, I’ve only lived in LA for like a week, but I have yet to see anyone do this. Everybody runs yellows the same way they did back home. And the lack of left turn arrows is totally baffling. Y’all have all this traffic, dedicated turn lanes, and then no arrows! I can’t figure out how they decide which 10% of the intersections in the Valley get arrows and which drivers just have to fend for themselves. I’m from DC, so I do know the trick about pulling into the intersection and haven’t gotten honked at yet, but if there’s no space on green then I’ve just been running the red.