What drives me to honk my horn
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A horn should only be used when warning someone of danger, not to indicate your annoyance at a manner of driving.
A horn should not be sounded when stationary on a road at anytime, other than at times of danger due to another vehicle on or near the road.
A horn should not be used on a moving vehicle on a restricted road (basically a road that has streetlights and a 30mph limit) between the times of 2330hrs and 0700hrs
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A horn should not be sounded when stationary on a road at anytime, other than at times of danger due to another vehicle on or near the road.
A horn should not be used on a moving vehicle on a restricted road (basically a road that has streetlights and a 30mph limit) between the times of 2330hrs and 0700hrs
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LEE COUNTY: In an unusual case of road rage, a woman?s car was damaged after an alleged attack from a man who was driving 30 miles under the speed limit.
We've all been stuck behind a car that's going too slow.
"Kind of aggravating but you kind of get used to it, get around them somehow," said driver Stacey Snyder.
It's not just aggravating, it's just as illegal as speeding.
"There is a law on the books in the state of FL that addresses the issue of people going too slow," said Lieutenant Robert Forrest of the Lee County Sheriff?s Office.
Deputies say Donald Willacker is one of those people.
"The posted speed limit in the location is 45 mph. Don't know if they were sightseeing, don't know if they don't know what they were doing, but apparently they were going 15 mph," said Forrest.
Deputies say that caused the frustrated woman behind Willacker to honk her horn as the two cars made their way over the Cape Coral bridge.
When they were stopped at an intersection, the victim says Willacker got out of the passenger side of his car and approached the passenger side of her car and began kicking it and punching it trying to get inside.
"Yeah, that's why I don't honk my horn. Honestly I don't even know where my horn is on my car because you just don't know. People these days, they're crazy," said driver Joy Fellows.
Deputies tracked Willacker down at his home and arrested him.
We tried to find Willacker, but were unsuccessful.
"It would be interesting to see what kind of justification he thought he had for this," said Forrest.
Willacker has been charged with burglary of an occupied conveyance, a felony, and criminal mischief, a misdemeanor.
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We've all been stuck behind a car that's going too slow.
"Kind of aggravating but you kind of get used to it, get around them somehow," said driver Stacey Snyder.
It's not just aggravating, it's just as illegal as speeding.
"There is a law on the books in the state of FL that addresses the issue of people going too slow," said Lieutenant Robert Forrest of the Lee County Sheriff?s Office.
Deputies say Donald Willacker is one of those people.
"The posted speed limit in the location is 45 mph. Don't know if they were sightseeing, don't know if they don't know what they were doing, but apparently they were going 15 mph," said Forrest.
Deputies say that caused the frustrated woman behind Willacker to honk her horn as the two cars made their way over the Cape Coral bridge.
When they were stopped at an intersection, the victim says Willacker got out of the passenger side of his car and approached the passenger side of her car and began kicking it and punching it trying to get inside.
"Yeah, that's why I don't honk my horn. Honestly I don't even know where my horn is on my car because you just don't know. People these days, they're crazy," said driver Joy Fellows.
Deputies tracked Willacker down at his home and arrested him.
We tried to find Willacker, but were unsuccessful.
"It would be interesting to see what kind of justification he thought he had for this," said Forrest.
Willacker has been charged with burglary of an occupied conveyance, a felony, and criminal mischief, a misdemeanor.
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The Story of Honku
I started writing Honku after a near-death egg-throwing experience around Christmas, 2001. At the time, I lived in a one bedroom apartment on a quintessential, historic Brooklyn street lined by trees and brownstones with big front stoops. Thanks to defects in traffic signal timing and the brains of New York City motorists, there had always been a lot of horn honking in front of my apartment. But this one day it got to be too much.
Some jerk in a crappy blue sedan had decided to let loose with a continuous, non-stop blast directly beneath my window. I'd never heard anything quite like it. As the honk persisted I felt my chest tighten and my reptilian fight-or-flight response kick in to action. I looked outside to see what the problem was. Not only was there no emergency - the traffic light in front of him was red!
I'd had enough. I thought to myself, if this guy is still on the horn in the amount of time it takes me to go the fridge, get a carton of eggs and open my window, he's getting it on the windshield. And I want him to know it was me.
My first egg hit his trunk and the second hit the top of his car with a satisfying thud that managed to break the sustained honk. But I had determined that egg-on-windshield was the just sentence. By the time the third yolk met glass, he was out of his car and he was going ballistic.
A Brooklynite of indeterminate ethnicity - stocky, balding, fortyish - he gestured towards my third floor window shouting, "I'm coming back, [expletive deleted]! I'm gonna kill you! I know where you live!" His sincerity was terrifying. The traffic in front of him finally began to move, but he didn't care. He just stood there screaming while the cars behind him went berserk and started blasting their horns at him.
He drove off and, thankfully, I never heard from him again. But the incident left me shaken. For the next couple of days I couldn't concentrate. I found myself milling about my apartment taking stock of household items that would make good weapons. This ball peen hammer? No, wait, the bread knife! I went to bed with a big, steel monkey wrench near my pillow.
I realized that I had snapped. I had crossed a line. I had soaked up so much honking and road rage that I had become the honking. I had become the rage. Though my righteous, egg-flinging fury felt sweet and just, my angry response escalated the cycle of frustration and honk-violence. It only made things worse. But I couldn't take it anymore. I had to do something. So, a few weeks later, after another particularly rotten day of horn blasting, I sat down and came up with my first batch of honku -- haiku poems about honking.
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carry a carton of eggs with you and wait until someone honks at you. If your in front you could lob them out the window so they kinda float up and over onto the car behind you.
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I started writing Honku after a near-death egg-throwing experience around Christmas, 2001. At the time, I lived in a one bedroom apartment on a quintessential, historic Brooklyn street lined by trees and brownstones with big front stoops. Thanks to defects in traffic signal timing and the brains of New York City motorists, there had always been a lot of horn honking in front of my apartment. But this one day it got to be too much.
Some jerk in a crappy blue sedan had decided to let loose with a continuous, non-stop blast directly beneath my window. I'd never heard anything quite like it. As the honk persisted I felt my chest tighten and my reptilian fight-or-flight response kick in to action. I looked outside to see what the problem was. Not only was there no emergency - the traffic light in front of him was red!
I'd had enough. I thought to myself, if this guy is still on the horn in the amount of time it takes me to go the fridge, get a carton of eggs and open my window, he's getting it on the windshield. And I want him to know it was me.
My first egg hit his trunk and the second hit the top of his car with a satisfying thud that managed to break the sustained honk. But I had determined that egg-on-windshield was the just sentence. By the time the third yolk met glass, he was out of his car and he was going ballistic.
A Brooklynite of indeterminate ethnicity - stocky, balding, fortyish - he gestured towards my third floor window shouting, "I'm coming back, [expletive deleted]! I'm gonna kill you! I know where you live!" His sincerity was terrifying. The traffic in front of him finally began to move, but he didn't care. He just stood there screaming while the cars behind him went berserk and started blasting their horns at him.
He drove off and, thankfully, I never heard from him again. But the incident left me shaken. For the next couple of days I couldn't concentrate. I found myself milling about my apartment taking stock of household items that would make good weapons. This ball peen hammer? No, wait, the bread knife! I went to bed with a big, steel monkey wrench near my pillow.
I realized that I had snapped. I had crossed a line. I had soaked up so much honking and road rage that I had become the honking. I had become the rage. Though my righteous, egg-flinging fury felt sweet and just, my angry response escalated the cycle of frustration and honk-violence. It only made things worse. But I couldn't take it anymore. I had to do something. So, a few weeks later, after another particularly rotten day of horn blasting, I sat down and came up with my first batch of honku -- haiku poems about honking.
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carry a carton of eggs with you and wait until someone honks at you. If your in front you could lob them out the window so they kinda float up and over onto the car behind you.
:SIB
Jack
yeh that the best policy I think.
I have honked if someone did not see me and was coming in my lane.
I think I honked once just before I ran this pedestrian over. :SIB
yeh that the best policy I think.
I have honked if someone did not see me and was coming in my lane.
I think I honked once just before I ran this pedestrian over. :SIB
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First I honk...
First I honk...
THEN I flip them off. Did a douible flipper just yesterday. Only do this when it's a life-threatening occasion or they've surpassed the usual driving stupidity you expect on a daily basis. I don't get mad about it, it's just my way of letting the other person know they're a f*cktard.
First I honk...
THEN I flip them off. Did a douible flipper just yesterday. Only do this when it's a life-threatening occasion or they've surpassed the usual driving stupidity you expect on a daily basis. I don't get mad about it, it's just my way of letting the other person know they're a f*cktard.
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dawg
give a example of the honking in jest ?
I think i could use that one driving with my wife.
Hi, my name is Jason and I have road rage.
Yes that is correct there are some things that really tick me off when I am driving, and I am going to name them for you right now.
1) When someone pulls out in front of you and then drives 10 mph slower than the speed limit. ( Now,this really irritates me but it is not the thing that sets me off the most.)
2) When someone honks at me to turn right on red when there is a sign that says no turn on red.
( If you do this to me, I guarantee I am going to get out of my car and beat the crap out of you. Yes, that includes you grandma!!
3) When I am on a back road and I cannot pass you but you go 20 mph.
( You will definitely here my horn if you choose to be the moron that does this.)
4) You decide to run the red light just as I am going through the intersection.
(Now this really gets to me, you want to kill yourself fine, but do not take me with you.)
5) When you decide to go on the shoulder to get past me while I am sitting on the expressway in a traffic jam.
( You are not more important than anyone else, you selfish bastard.)
6) You make a turn without using your turn signal.
( Turn signals were designed to be used to alert other drivers to slow down so they don't hit you in the butt when you are turning.
7) When I am courteous and let you in and you don't wave or signal a thank you.
( This irritates me a lot. If I let you in, a wave is owed to me you unthankful jackass.) Just for the record I wave twice, once when they let me in and once when I am all the way in.
8) If you think I made a mistake and honk your horn at me and I feel that your horn honk is unwarranted I will chase you down and scare the crap out of you like I did to an old man a couple of weeks ago!
And the number one thing that irritates me the most is,
When you are coming out of a place of business and trying to get onto the road do not, I repeat do not stick the fat nose of your ugly piece of crap car right out in the middle of the road, because if you do and I see that, I will act like I am going to hit you and honk my horn as I drive by you, you piece of arrogant crap. The people that do this need to be beaten and have their licenses revoked!!!
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so this guy comments in a blog
The other one I hate is parking lot cutters. Just because no cars are parked in the spaces does not mean you can race accross. You have to stay straight down the aisle!!!
I have the big white truck, and I zoom directly at parking lot cutters over at Home Depot! It scares the poopy out of em'!
This is all I can do because I am not 6'4" like you are...so beating the crap out of someone is not in my best interest! LOL I just use my big truck to scare them.:scared
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Yes that is correct there are some things that really tick me off when I am driving, and I am going to name them for you right now.
1) When someone pulls out in front of you and then drives 10 mph slower than the speed limit. ( Now,this really irritates me but it is not the thing that sets me off the most.)
2) When someone honks at me to turn right on red when there is a sign that says no turn on red.
( If you do this to me, I guarantee I am going to get out of my car and beat the crap out of you. Yes, that includes you grandma!!
3) When I am on a back road and I cannot pass you but you go 20 mph.
( You will definitely here my horn if you choose to be the moron that does this.)
4) You decide to run the red light just as I am going through the intersection.
(Now this really gets to me, you want to kill yourself fine, but do not take me with you.)
5) When you decide to go on the shoulder to get past me while I am sitting on the expressway in a traffic jam.
( You are not more important than anyone else, you selfish bastard.)
6) You make a turn without using your turn signal.
( Turn signals were designed to be used to alert other drivers to slow down so they don't hit you in the butt when you are turning.
7) When I am courteous and let you in and you don't wave or signal a thank you.
( This irritates me a lot. If I let you in, a wave is owed to me you unthankful jackass.) Just for the record I wave twice, once when they let me in and once when I am all the way in.
8) If you think I made a mistake and honk your horn at me and I feel that your horn honk is unwarranted I will chase you down and scare the crap out of you like I did to an old man a couple of weeks ago!
And the number one thing that irritates me the most is,
When you are coming out of a place of business and trying to get onto the road do not, I repeat do not stick the fat nose of your ugly piece of crap car right out in the middle of the road, because if you do and I see that, I will act like I am going to hit you and honk my horn as I drive by you, you piece of arrogant crap. The people that do this need to be beaten and have their licenses revoked!!!
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so this guy comments in a blog
The other one I hate is parking lot cutters. Just because no cars are parked in the spaces does not mean you can race accross. You have to stay straight down the aisle!!!
I have the big white truck, and I zoom directly at parking lot cutters over at Home Depot! It scares the poopy out of em'!
This is all I can do because I am not 6'4" like you are...so beating the crap out of someone is not in my best interest! LOL I just use my big truck to scare them.:scared
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When people just drive dumb, I go into character... :0corn
"Oh no you didn't! You are getting the honk!"
Then I just randomly toot my horn at some point and wave at someone. My kids like it.
"Daddy, give them the honk! Do it! Do it!"
Trips are fun, and it bets the shit out of 100 bottles of milk on the wall!
I am a founding member of the Minivan Gangsters
"Oh no you didn't! You are getting the honk!"
Then I just randomly toot my horn at some point and wave at someone. My kids like it.
"Daddy, give them the honk! Do it! Do it!"
Trips are fun, and it bets the shit out of 100 bottles of milk on the wall!
I am a founding member of the Minivan Gangsters
Instead of giving the finger when i pass a f*cktard - i give them a thumbs up with a big smile
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Ususally does the job
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Ususally does the job
Virginia Tech psychologist Scott Geller has spent over 20 years studying road safety and became interested in road rage in 1993 after reading of a driver killed in an incident. He developed surveys that indicate your personality type usually determines the kind of driver you are
Answer the following scenarios to determine your propensity towards road rage:
You are driving your car down a two-lane road. Without warning, another car pulls out in front of you from a parking lot. You had to brake suddenly to avoid hitting it. How do you respond?
1. Let out a sigh of relief and drive on.
2. Lean out your window and yell at the other driver.
3. Honk your horn to let the other driver know they almost caused an accident.
4. Follow the other driver to its destination so you can give him a piece of your mind. Get out and scream at them through a bullhorn waking up all the neighbors.
Driving down the interstate in the passing lane, you approach a car going slower than you are.
1. Even though you flash your high beams as a signal to get over, it does not. How do you respond?
2. Shrug your shoulders and continue to wait for the driver to get over.
3. Make an obscene gesture as you pass on the right.
4. Continue flashing your high beams hoping the behavior will cause the car to move over.
Start driving on the bumper and honk your horn.
Tap their back bumper in a simulation police move, and hope it knocks them into a tree.
You are in a full parking lot. You see a driver leaving, put on your blinker to indicate you intend to take the parking space. As the other driver pulls out, a second driver cuts in front of you and takes the parking space. How do you respond?
1. Shrug your shoulders and look for another parking space.
2. Glare angrily at the other driver as you move on to find another space.
3. Wait for the other driver to get out of the car, scream out your window at him/her for being an inconsiderate jerk.
4. Stop your car, approach the other car to express your anger to the driver. Reach through the window, pull their tie so they choke and bloody their nose.
You are driving in the passing lane at 75 mph. The speed limit is 55 mph. A car comes up from behind you very quickly. Soon the other vehicle is right on your bumper and the driver flashes his headlights and honks the horn. How do you respond?
1. As soon as possible change lanes and let the other car pass.
2. Stay in the same lane at your current speed.
3. Give the other driver the finger and stay in the passing lane at your current speed
4. Give the other driver the finger and purposely slow down to aggravate the driver behind you.
Hit your parking brake to turn your lights on without actually slowing down. If you have a paint ball gun, now is the time to get it out.
You are traveling in a single lane late at night and the vehicle coming at you has on high beams. 1. You flash your lights, but the brights don't change. How do you respond?
1. Grit your teeth in frustration and wait for the other car to pass so you can see again.
2. Put on your high beams in retaliation.
Put on your high beams and honk your horn.
3. Turn around and follow the other car with your high beams on. Get him / her to pull over,
hop out and beat their car with a baseball bat breaking every window.
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Answer the following scenarios to determine your propensity towards road rage:
You are driving your car down a two-lane road. Without warning, another car pulls out in front of you from a parking lot. You had to brake suddenly to avoid hitting it. How do you respond?
1. Let out a sigh of relief and drive on.
2. Lean out your window and yell at the other driver.
3. Honk your horn to let the other driver know they almost caused an accident.
4. Follow the other driver to its destination so you can give him a piece of your mind. Get out and scream at them through a bullhorn waking up all the neighbors.
Driving down the interstate in the passing lane, you approach a car going slower than you are.
1. Even though you flash your high beams as a signal to get over, it does not. How do you respond?
2. Shrug your shoulders and continue to wait for the driver to get over.
3. Make an obscene gesture as you pass on the right.
4. Continue flashing your high beams hoping the behavior will cause the car to move over.
Start driving on the bumper and honk your horn.
Tap their back bumper in a simulation police move, and hope it knocks them into a tree.
You are in a full parking lot. You see a driver leaving, put on your blinker to indicate you intend to take the parking space. As the other driver pulls out, a second driver cuts in front of you and takes the parking space. How do you respond?
1. Shrug your shoulders and look for another parking space.
2. Glare angrily at the other driver as you move on to find another space.
3. Wait for the other driver to get out of the car, scream out your window at him/her for being an inconsiderate jerk.
4. Stop your car, approach the other car to express your anger to the driver. Reach through the window, pull their tie so they choke and bloody their nose.
You are driving in the passing lane at 75 mph. The speed limit is 55 mph. A car comes up from behind you very quickly. Soon the other vehicle is right on your bumper and the driver flashes his headlights and honks the horn. How do you respond?
1. As soon as possible change lanes and let the other car pass.
2. Stay in the same lane at your current speed.
3. Give the other driver the finger and stay in the passing lane at your current speed
4. Give the other driver the finger and purposely slow down to aggravate the driver behind you.
Hit your parking brake to turn your lights on without actually slowing down. If you have a paint ball gun, now is the time to get it out.
You are traveling in a single lane late at night and the vehicle coming at you has on high beams. 1. You flash your lights, but the brights don't change. How do you respond?
1. Grit your teeth in frustration and wait for the other car to pass so you can see again.
2. Put on your high beams in retaliation.
Put on your high beams and honk your horn.
3. Turn around and follow the other car with your high beams on. Get him / her to pull over,
hop out and beat their car with a baseball bat breaking every window.
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