Angry freeper tries to run me off the road.

[Robin Hood]

Yesterday my wife and I were driving down some rural country roads out in freeperville Oregon. I noticed an old man with a buzz cut following way to close for my comfort. I was doing the speed limit of 45.

He then began to pass me on a double yellow line, and I slowed down and pulled to the right in order to give the moron as much room to kill himself with as possible. As he and his Buick ripped around me, the old fuck violently flips me the bird and mouths all sorts of vicious obscenities. Which left me dumbstruck, since he was the one putting all of our lives at risk.

Now, I don't drive a VW bus with dancing bears all over it, I drive a white ford f-150 with only one sticker on my back window. A member of Oregon Public Broadcasting(OPB) sticker. I have been trying to think of why I got the reaction I got and that is all I can think of. Jeez, I can't imagine if I put my DU sticker on my truck, I probably would have been shot.

Anyway, I think that the changing tides for the freepers is making them desperate and even more violent than usual. They can't stand the fact that they are wrong and have always been on the losing side of history, Always.

Moral of the story is, be careful out there, we're dealing with sick people here.

[ronnykmarshall]

1. That's scary!

Glad you guys are ok. Yeah, them freeper creepers are getting angry.

[Pepperbelly]

2. Probably you were the victim of ...

nothing more than an irrational road rage because he needed to take a leak or something. Not everything is political. Some people are just assholes and that is a natural fact.

[Robin Hood]

4. No, not everything is political.

But out here in rural Oregon, Everything is political. On these country roads, numerous farms have huge bill boards on them that say U.S. out of the United Nations, they want your guns. And other stupid things. And the flags still fly out here.

[bearfartinthewoods]

37. the flags still fly around here....at MY house

what the hell are you saying?

[Trek234]

39. You fly the confederate flag at your house?

nt

[bearfartinthewoods]

40. who said anything about the confederate flag?

[Jennellist]

31. Agreed.

Athough freeps are usually assholes, we mustn't assume every asshole is a freep. Life's stressful enough as it is without creating additional monsters.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. This was not political...

your offense was driving the limit.

(and, maybe, not having a gun rack on your truck)

[oustemnow]

27. I can't help but be reminded of a thread in the Lounge last week

from an irate Oregonian who had visited California recently and referred to us Golden Staters as "pieces of shit" because we all drive like maniacs.

[Robin Hood]

28. I moved here from California two years ago.

And I can tell you that I have never seen such bad driving in my life, and I am a professional city bus driver. These people run red lights like it's just a suggestion. They really don't know how to drive.

Perhaps, when you drive like a moron for your whole life and then get surrounded by decent drivers, you don't know how to handle it.

[stevedeshazer]

32. Hold on a minute, Mr. Oregonian Generalist

Not everyone here drives like a moron for life.

This fifth-generation Oregonian drives just like you describe. He also has a DU bumper sticker, and has never been hassled in two years.

Since there are ten Californians for every Oregonian, I'd bet there are ten times as many shitty drivers in California.

Nonetheless, I'm glad you're here :-) since you will vote Democratic

You met up with the same kind of idiot you could meet anywhere.

[Kamika]

5. How do you know he was a freeper?

just curious

[Robin Hood]

8. I am assuming,

considering the political local environment, the buzz cut, the buick, the violent tendencies, the low class nature of blaming me for his inadequacies, the bad driving. All smell like a freeper to me.

[soup]

6. Glad you're ok.

Our standard response to the angry flip-offs and red-faced obsenity hurling is to smile and flash a peace sign. (which really ruins their day) :shrug:

Maybe he thought OPB stands for Old Poopy *Bush?

[Robin Hood]

9. lol...Old Poopy Bush..

That's good.

[tabasco]

7. Fight back

Self defense is authorized.

[Robin Hood]

10. Trust me, I wanted to.

But my good wife held me back. I just flashed him my brights.

[hayu_lol]

11. Thats why we have deep ditches here in rural Orygun...

to push Freepers into. K-Falls

[Robin Hood]

19. Hey Oregonian.

The ditches are deep here. Oh man, K-Falls is even worst than where i am at. I'm in SW Portland, Sherwood.

[Nailzberg]

12. Damn law abiding speed limit follower!

It does sound politically neutral, though. Unless perhaps the OPB is a well know hotbed of traitorous liberalism out there in Oregon. I can't imagine freepers being smart enough to make such connections.
Now if you had a more blatant Bush bashing bumper sticker (amazing amounts of alliteration)maybe there is a case to be made for mad freeper activity.

[Robin Hood]

21. Opb is a hotbed of politics.

As it is the only fair and balanced news source on the radio that is filled with nothing but hate radio, And i mean nothing but hate radio.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

33. ya gotta do at least 5MPH faster than the limit most anywhere

clearly you weren't going fast enough for the asshole. I doubt he could read your sticker anyway- hey I doubt he could read. period.

[LearnedHand]

13. Interesting, very interesting.

The VERY day I put the democraticunderground.com sticker on my bumper, someone smashed into me from behind and destroyed the rear door of my RAV-4. Had to replace the door, and, of course, my bumper sticker is gone.

Coincidence?

[Robin Hood]

22. Jesus.

I have been afraid of putting my DU sticker on my car because of shit like that. Was that an anonymous hit? Hit and run?

[bearfartinthewoods]

44. you really think someone would screw up their own car just to get rid

of a DU bumpersticker?

sheesh....i guess i forgot to take my paranoia pills this morning.

[donsu]

14. I agree that they are getting more vicious

lately I've been called a communist and have been given the finger and the looks on their faces is crazy.

but it isn't going to stop me from speaking out and acting up for my country. (even if my knees shake while I'm doing it :))

[Brucey]

15. Drive defensively. I've had similar problems with nuts.

I think part of it is frustration, but also believe that Chimpy's invasion sort of opened the floodgates, kinda validated the idea of being violent with others as an okay solution. Studies show that murder and suicide increase during times of war, and I don't think it's due completely to the stress that is caused... I think some observational learning goes on. In Bush's case, we could say: Monkey see, monkey do.

[Mairead]

16. It was probably your speed

I've done 70-75 on 65-limit Massachusetts highways, passing everyone in the slower lane next to me, and still been cursed, 'saluted', and almost run into by fools who think it's their right to do 95 unimpeded. (Usually, but not always, they have a NH licence plate)

[Robin Hood]

23. The guy was going so fast around corners,

That he was coming close to losing control. He was a bad and dangerous driver.

[bitchkitty]

17. He might have been

just another delusional soul, set loose from a hospital by budget cuts. What's scary is that he might have been armed.

[gratuitous]

18. Yeah, I'm not sure I smell freeper here, either

And I drive some of those same roads. Sometimes a dangerous idiot is just a dangerous idiot. Next time, give him one of these. :hi:

[Webster Green]

20. I have actually been receiving less obsene gestures lately......

I have 3 bumper stickers: Impeach Bush, Vote for Kucinich, and Democratic Underground. I have noticed that I am getting less attitude lately. In fact, I am usually the one doing the gesturing. Your everyday brainwashed sheeple gets a thumb down for pseudo-patriotic crappola. The Humvee drivers and good old boys flying two 3x5 foot American flags in the bed of their pickups get either the partially open, pumping fist (jerk-off), or the bird.

[Robin Hood]

26. Yeah, well.

You also live in Sonoma. I lived in Santa Cruz for 20+ years, And it's a different world out side of the golden state.

[Webster Green]

29. true enough...we do have them outnumbered here.....

I love Northern California!

[Robin Hood]

30. I love northern Cal as well,

I just couldn't afford to buy another home in California and pay the property taxes, not to mention Northern Cal sucks for jobs. humboldt would be nice, if your retiring or a guerilla farmer.

[_NorCal_D_]

34. Yeah,

isn't it great?

[7th_Sephiroth]

24. I get tons of flack on the road

I have a license plate frame that says "my next license plate will be made by bush & Cheney"

[Robin Hood]

25. Hahahah!!

That is freakin hilarious. i love it.

[FlaGranny]

35. Some people just get weird

when they drive.

A year or so ago I was driving on an unfamiliar road and discovered it was a dead end, so I pulled over to the shoulder off the pavement to let a car that was behind me pass(there were a few houses further on). The other driver, a woman problably in her 30's or 40's pulled over about 5 or 10 yards behind me. I waited a few moments and she didn't move, so I did. I started up and made a U-turn. For some reason that really ticked her off - she started to move just a second or two after I did. I guess she figured I should have just kept waiting until she decided to go. Anyway, she makes her U turn and speeds up, passing me by about 20 mph over the speed limit in a no-passing zone. I could see her screaming and shaking her fist at me.

What was that all about????? I even used my signals 'n everything. Maybe she was angry because she followed me into a dead-end street. Or maybe she was angry I didn't wait for her. I still have no idea what ticked her off. I think she was just crazy.

Like I said, some people get weird when they drive.

[AntiCoup2K4]

36. It's been my experience, on Oregon highways...

...that the average speed is 10 - 15 above the posted speed limit, which is probably why ODOT isn't in any hurry to raise the speed limit on highways, since it would be merely a "formality" in practice anyway. Also, I rarely seem to see Highway Patrol on any roads outside of I-5 or US 26 west of Portland.

Now if you want to see true maniac drivers, try Utah or Colorado. Those people are psychotic!

[oasis]

38. Motive may not be political but Freep behavior for sure. eom

[ronzo]

41. Yawp! sounds like just another asshole to me.

eom

[bpilgrim]

42. put up the REVOLUTIONARY FLAG and the GADSON!

hard to argue those ;->


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scary story... glad to hear it wasn't any worse :hi:

peace

[Oracle]

43. Where would "Freeper OR" be?

I live in Humboldt County and drive up to Eugene and Bend often and I have very obvious... "I hate Bush" bumper stickers on my 4X4 pick-up...I love going through places like you speak of...I'd love to get my frustrations out on some big stupid right-wing thug and rip out his fucking lungs...I'm speaking to you right now via a tequlia hangover, partying with some of my fine organic last night!!!!Where's it located?

Big party in Arcata Square today, come on down!