At the risk of perpetuating stereotypes . . .

[taterguy]

SUV driver leaving Walmart gets a case of road rage and deliberately causes an accident that damages seven cars and leaves at least one person seriously injured.

Where to begin?

http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/jan/11/act-of-spite-wrecks-7-vehicles-trooper-says/

[saltpoint]

1. Wal-Marts sure seem to be high-risk venues of late.

[Vickers]

2. "started the chain-reaction wrecks but drove off without getting entangled in it"

Success!

:headbang:

Seriously, just about every road rage incident I've ever read about or witnessed first-hand involves at least *two* people acting like jackasses. I'm willing to bet the van driver in this is not totally innocent...

[taterguy]

3. I'll bet the guy will get caught eventually

He did this in a fairly populated area.

At least I hope he gets caught because he really needs to be removed from civilized society for a while.

[MH1]

6. "the driver ahead stopped his van instead of moving forward through a yellow traffic signal"

yeah, sounds like a real jackass. Everyone knows you're supposed to speed up when the light turns yellow, not stop! (Of course, I learned in NJ that it's positively dangerous to stop at a yellow light there)

of course, that's the van driver's story, presumably corroborated by the Kia occupants. Since the other guy didn't stick around to tell his side of the story, I guess we'll never know.

[taterguy]

7. It's possible that words / gestures were exchanged after the yellow light

But it's also possible that the SUV driver was just a psycho.

[Vickers]

11. Hey, I speak sarcasm.

:P

[taterguy]

12. Where's your emoticon?

Sarcasm with no smilie just confuses people

[dorkulon]

16. BS

I've seen plenty of jackasses blow a gasket just because the car in front of them is only going 20 mph or so over the limit, and not breaking the sound barrier.

[Vickers]

17. Easy there, big fella...we don't need any thread rage here.

:spank:

[Chemical Bill]

4. Why don't we just round up all the suv drivers?

Just kidding, honest.

Bill

[taterguy]

5. Who would we call when we needed to move furniture?

[leftofthedial]

8. two stereotypes in one event

[taterguy]

9. If I had pointed out it happened in the South there would have been a trifecta

[leftofthedial]

10. three strikes!

lock 'em up and throw away the key.

[The Straight Story]

13. What was the race and sex of driver, income, were they a smoker, gun owner?

We need more data to fuel our outrage at colors and devices to help us deflect it from the individual :)

[taterguy]

14. Hit and run so we're not sure

But since the incident took place in Winston-Salem the odds are higher than average that the perp smoked, or at least has smoked at some point in their life.

[The Straight Story]

15. Hmmm were they using a cell phone at the time and a w sticker?

I still not have enough data to fuel the fires and create a righteous rant...of course I might get too much data and not be able to truly pin point the real cause of said person's actions (though I suspect it was because they owned a gun and smoked in bars.... :rofl: )