Road Rage No Police Action

Hi all, Posting something for the first time ever so please be gentle.

I am little disturbed with an incident this evening and just thought of sharing it with you folks and let it out and not sure if there is something else I could have done. So here goes…

I was in a one way street where 2 cars in front of me were waiting for spots to park and I was patiently waiting behind with my family in the car. This a narrow one way street with cars parked on both sides of the street. The moment the 2nd car in front of me moves into the spot, he is still half on the street as you can imagine trying to reverse park, the SUV driver behind starts to flash his lights, honk roll down his windows and starts yelling for me to move. He even came out of the car threatening me with violence. I rolled up my windows clearly shaken, I called up the police and told them the entire incident.

Obviously I was too shaken to drive immediately plus I mis-understood that the police would show immediately (not comparing but just a similar call in US would have a cop car immediately at the scene) so I stayed in the same spot for about 10 minutes. I had informed the SUV driver that I am calling the cops, so at least he did not then act in any away but I had others requesting to move my car so I could unblock the street which I did.

The police called me after 35 minutes and told me the reason they were contacting me now is they thought it was not serious enough an incident and instead asked me what action I was expecting them to take ( apparently the SUV driver had called them as well) I was like I just wanted to ensure that driver didn't go around threatening people on the road to which I was told that they will contact the driver and tell him to more patient?

Well I maybe wrong but I found that to be a very mild action in comparison to someone threatening you with violence when you are with your family, such rowdy behaviour should be dealt with more strict action even if it means just making them sit in the police station for a few hours to drive the point home….not sure but here my rant ends, thanks all for reading and yes feel free to suggest if I could have done something else in the situation except bikies :)

Comments

  • Did i miss the dashcam footage or MS Paint image?

  • +2

    There a shit people everywhere. Sometimes they come into your life momentarily and in situations that are not necessarily "fair" to you. How you choose to react to the situation will determine how happy you are.

    The more you dwell on this, and allow him and his actions to live in your brain rent free, the more he "wins" and the more you "lose"

    If it helps, people who have these OTT road rage reactions are usually deeply unhappy in their lives elsewhere

    Just let it go and move on

    "Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore." - Albert Einstein

    • You must be a therapist lol but seriously very nicely put.

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