Re: When are you too old to drive?

Adrian wrote:
> 
> 
> > I suppose I could have just jumped off very narrow shoulder of the
> > road
> 
> You either needed to do that anyway, or you didn't need to do that at
all.
> 
> After all, he missed you, didn't he?

We swerved toward me.
> 
> > and let the asshole get away intimidating.
> 
> Umm, yes.
> What's to be gained from anything else? Oh, yeh, you left the whole mess
> even more shaken...

I walk down this road almost every day, and sometimes at night. He has not
dared to do it again.  I don't know where you live, but around here, car
drivers are not allowed to threaten pedestrians like that. 


 
> What property of yours did he damage?
> 
> > I am entitled to react.
> 
> No, you aren't. Not in law.

Yes, in law. He threatened me verbally, and then came back and threatened
me physically by swerving at me at high speed. That is assault, and I am
entitled to react. He got a handful of gravel thrown at his car and he
left. He used a 2,000 lb automobile to threaten me because I dared to walk
on the side of the road.  I used a few ounces of gravel to ward him off.
Which do you figure used excessive force?

 
> >> Just as well he didn't lose control of the car, eh? Wouldn't *that*
> >> have been funny...?
> 
> > Yes.
> 
> Let's hope you'd have been laughing from your hospital bed, if he'd lost
> control and hit you. Not from a coffin.

I don't know where you got the impression that I was standing in the
middle
of the road when I threw it. 
> 
> >> I hope you're *really* proud of yourself...
> 
> > Yes :-)
> 
> Like I said. ****ing stupid. The pair of you.

I guarantee you that he did not repeat that stunt.