Comment on Welcome to petty lane
random_character_a@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Only time I’ve been close to road rage was when a Mercedes CL had a really bright LED strobe light installed inside it’s front grill and he activating it, if somebody was in his way.
It wasn’t a cop or other emergency vehicle. Just an asshole.
I was lucky to be in front of him for 15 minutes when traffic got compacted enough to prevent lane change.
For a moment I considered hitting the brakes on that particular tailgater.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Sometimes you can adjust your side mirrors to reflect such a light into the driver’s eyes
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That works. Also, back when I delivered pizza I kept a rather large LED flashlight in my cupholder all the time, ostensibly for spotting mailboxes and house numbers. (This was back in the day when having a powerful LED flashlight was a big deal, not like nowadays when you can get 3 for $10 on Amazon or whatever.) Pointing it out the back window usually got the point across when asshats felt the need to sit three feet off my back bumper and shine their high beams at me.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Shit if I find myself night commuting again on back roads I might have to keep such a flashlight in my car. I’ve had so many trucks light up my entire fucking cabin with their illegal light mods
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My attorney has advised me to make no statements whatsoever regarding the applicability of the Lumintop Thor Mini I just bought the other week, which outputs a mere 250 lumens but does so in a narrow cone that’s got, to my reckoning, a divergence of only about four or five degrees.
I’ll have to do some measuring later, but at rear-windshield-to-asshole distance it’ll only throw a spot that’s probably about a foot wide, delivering maximum fuck you with a minimum of collateral damage.
TassieTosser@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
People keep saying this but I tried it and its really hard to do that and concentrate on driving.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah the one time I tried it I ended up just mucking up my own mirrors and not managing to shine the light back in their eyes