some 'knob jockey' comes right up to your rear (yet again!) in a bid to intimidate me as I was doing the speed limit on a local road after he tried to cut me up on a roundabout On that occasion he come unstuck, as I puled a police type stop maneuver on him and highlighted his driving deficences to him; he was not happy, but went very quietly indeed, with him driving very carefully after that behind me until I pulled off the main road!
Where do I begin?
Two wrongs don't make a right. Such a reaction to aggression in that way is likely to get you slapped, or worse. It is not your, or my, job to 'police' crap driving, our only defense is just that, defensive driving.
At best, your behaviour was twa-tish, at worse impersonating a police officer, which last time I looked was an offence... careless or dangerous driving being somewhere in the middle: which one depends the outcome of the situation, but rest assured deliberate actions leading to a collision would be considered dangerous.
All of your alleged training should teach you not to react to other drivers shortcomings, especially not whilst driving. Your first mistake was allowing yourself to be intimidated, the only response to this is to slow down and move left,turn left if you have to to remove yourself from the situation. Your second mistake was to react and respond to the situation in the way that you did.
Say what you want, you know I am right whether you admit it or not*.
*Before replying to this post, do yourself a favour and stop, consider the situation and run through the possible outcomes had anything happened differently regardless of whether positive or negative.
Ah at last a full explanation instead of one cynical sentence!
You have read so much into what I said and assumed soooo much as you often do.
In this case you have centred everything on "impersonating a police officer". Right, let's take that on first. I didn't actually say I was enacting a police stop, but a "police
style". Big difference. I work alongside the Police service, and have had police officers explain what they do and how they do it for many decades. So I will NEVER, and have NEVER impersonated a police officer. In fact although I have a pass to go into any police establishment in the County, I have to tell some very vulnerable people that I am definitely NOT a police officer and never have been; I am a civilian who acts as an advisor for the police and have seemingly worked alongside police officers most of my professional life. In fact, having had many police family members and friends, let alone going out on patrol with police officers, I know how much responsibility they carry on their shoulders which they can only do after much training and years of on the job experience. Therefore, I well know what the difference is between me as a civilian advisor and them as police officers.
On the question of what I did in the case I highlighted with the Range Rover driver, I will now give you the details to replace your cynical assumptions. It was a local urban road crammed with traffic and many people in cars. It was daylight, and I had many witnesses around if any trouble had arrupted. I was ahead of the RR after he tried to race on the inside down a dual carriageway, past others, at a speed above the 40 mph limit, then take the wrong approach to the third exit on the roundabout, almost forcing some young women driver into the roundabout. He arrived behind me at full speed, on a mobile phone, and then tail gate me within inches of my rear bumper. As I approached a central reservation with bollard, with a queue of traffic coming the other way, I braked him down to a stop, and swung the Omega across the road so he had no-where to go. I had nowhere to go, left or right! I then got out with many witnesses watching and spoke to him in my nice, professional voice, in a matter of fact way as a member of the driving public, explaining what he had just done that was so wrong. He accepted that, grudgeling, and said "sorry". Within two minutes I had got back in the car and we were all on our way. It was handled in a safe and controlled manner, with at NO STAGE me pretending to be a police officer. I am professionally trained to risk assess, and this is one rare occasion where I could as a female driver take the action I did to potentially save other drivers their property from damage, or worse still, personal injury. I did what a responsible member of the public can do when, as I am acutely aware knowing what I do about Kent Police, there are just not enough police officers to go around and sometimes us civilians have to step up to the plate and not be the "snowflakes" that so many on the OOF moan about. The police need our help when it is SAFE for us to do so; in this case is was perfectly safe and all under control.
I have replied to your post without having to consider what could have gone wrong as I DID THIS BEFORE MY ACTION ON THE DAY. I have had the displeasure of dealing with some hardened criminals during my retail career, when I had to take action bringing in the police to assist, but after they COULD have taken me out; some had knives, heavy fists, and even firearms. But I had a job to do to protect the company's monies and stock, let alone the jobs of my thousands of staff. So, I have the experience, knowledge, and total commitment to do what is professionally necessary in a safe and controlled manner. You should have recognised by now DG I am no shrinking violet of a women, but one who is large built and can hold her own when physically attacked; yes that happened to me as well on quite a few occasions.
So, DG stop worrying about me (if ever that was the case
) and cease reading so much into simple statements made on the OOF.