kins

If you were in the US and someone blocked you into a carpark and started screaming at you about your driving... would you be worried that they might have a gun in the glovebox, or would it not occur to you?

An American friend of mine says it wouldn't even occur to her. But when it happened to me I was terrified that the guy might have a gun (I'm in Maine where 50,000 people have permits for concealed weapons). I immediately called the police and told the guy I was doing so, and after the police answered he drove off.

Is it a cultural thing. Do we Brits have an overly-developed fear of guns compared to Americans?

Do you have a gun in your glovebox? In your house?

neil

If I was driving badly enough to make someone do that I'd turn in my licence for my own and others safety

Ray

'A' Gun ...singular .....your kidding ...

TruBrit

never mind in the glovebox, here they carry them on their passenger seat or on view in their cab in the back of their pick-ups...seen lots of them over the yrs consequently you rarely hear anyone honk their horns coz you know you'll be in line for a bullet

kins

Well he said I was driving too slowly (I was doing 35 in a 40 because I was lost) and then that I should've let him undertake me when he was turning right, even though I was also indicating to turn right and was in front of him.

So I guess it depends on your definition of driving 'badly'...

basementwaj

yup, you could've been shot for that

kins

neil

I once really pissed someone off by driving about 30 in a 25 (I guess they were in a hurry) - when he started beeping and pulling right up behind me I slowed down to 25 (that was the speed limit after all). Just before it turned into a 35 limit there was a petrol station so I decided that would be a good time to fill up - he was so close behind me and ready to swing around me at any opportunity that he didn't spot my indicator so when I slowed to turn in he had to swerve violently around me. It never occurred to me that the guy might have a gun, but I guess if I lived in some parts of the country I may have thought about that.

RoadWarriorFromLP

Using the turn signal marked you as a furriner. If you want to fit in here, do as we do -- react to tailgaters by locking up your brakes, and whatever you do, don't use your turn signals.

basementwaj

http://my.break.com/content/view.aspx?ContentID=366326

video of rednecks following a guy in a BMZ Z4 and giving him grief... until he pulls a gun on them

SpoogleDrummer

I don't even think about it though I only got my license last week. I know my wife complains all the time about other people's slow driving even when I state that they're going the speed limit for the road, yet if I go 5 over or under the limit I'm told off

Ray

Looked bit set up to me...

basementwaj

as are most videos on youtube etc.....
Although there are a lot of comments on that video that state it's genuine.

the answer my friend is blowing in the wind

RoadWarriorFromLP

Looks like a skit. And all of those guys had Canadian accents. Not to say that there are no handguns in Canada, but they aren't common there.

another bloody yank

God, that vid caused a 20 page thread on a forum I used to visit. People were arguing over wether it was real or not... IIRC, someone finally posted a link where the guy who created it claimed it was done as a project and not intended to be real, but then it got onto the internet and out of his control...