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No. It used to work great but then the plug-in became very, very buggy and I think even caused issues with the main site. It hasn’t worked in years.

It's a rather skinny road. Between that and the fact I was curious what he was about to say, I kept my distance with the window slightly cracked. Agreed on the last part.

I always appreciate a great sense of humor...but I really wanted to make it home.

I do want to note that this will be the third "road rage" post within a week or two on TGO. I really do believe that in the mix of COVID, election/politics, social media, all very heavily intertwined with paranoia, fear, and conspiracy theories, a lot of people are on edge more than they've likely ever been and as such reports of road rage and similiar events does not surprise me in the least. I initially considered posting about it but decided against it. However, after seeing other somewhat similar posts I decided it was important for me to do this. I was out running errands about a week ago. It was shortly after 5:30 PM and I decided to grab a few beers before heading home. I stopped at the convenience station, grabbed the goods, and waited in what seemed to be a decently long line for probably 5-10 minutes. I remember not speaking to anyone in the line, but instead watching outside two men assisting a young lady with her old, old F O R D pickup. I was pleased to see they helped her get it started rather quickly, and all seemed right in the world. After checkout, I started to leave. Generally speaking, from this gas station, I can be home within 3-4 minutes. There is exactly one red light and then three additional intersections before I am in front of my driveway. Fast forward about 2 minutes. I'm sitting at the first intersection after the red light. There is a single vehicle in front of me at the stop sign. I quickly notice this driver turned 180 degrees around, facing me and generally looking rather wide eyed at me. At the time, I didn't think much about it other than it seemed odd considering this guy should have simply turned left or right instead. I concluded he either thought he knew me or someone else, or had a case of the heebee jeebies. So, he turned left and I turned left. He sped up rather a bit and I generally thought all was well. As we neared the next turn (for me) off the main road, I was hoping I'd see him continue straight. Well, last moment he threw his turn signal on and turned the same direction. Since I was going home and didn't want to go anywhere else, I turned too. This is a country road with residential houses alongside. He pulled approximately a few hundred yards up that road and stopped the vehicle. I quickly realized that something was about to get interesting as he exited the vehicle towards me. I'm a rather caring guy. There are, potentially, legitimate reasons for approaching another driver. Maybe he needed help, or saw something on my vehicle that needed addressing. That is all certainly possible. I made sure to leave a lot of room between my vehicle and his. I also left the vehicle in D with my foot on the brake. I also I slightly cracked my window as he was waving his arms and yelling at me. I missed what he said initially, so I asked if he could repeat what he said. It's been a week, but I'll paraphrase to the best of my ability. Hey, I want to know what your problem is. What do you mean? You've been following me ever since I left the store up there. What's your problem with me? Sir, I'm just trying to get home. Where do you live? I don't need to tell you that. I knew you didn't live on this road. You need to get out from behind me. You need to go on right now. So, at this point, I carefully but quickly just passed him and kept going. I was very afraid that he would attempt to follow me and had plans on diversion, but he very speedily turned his truck around and went the other direction. In hindsight, he may have very well been in front of me a place or two in the convenience store. I'm sure in his mind, I made eye contact with him once in the store, followed him out of the store, and was going to follow him home for some sort of mischief. I'm mostly sure he was either certifiably paranoid or on drugs of some sort. But, I didn't care to get to know him, anger him, or stick around much longer than needed. The whole encounter was probably 10 seconds. My point? Deescalation is always the preferred method of handling conflict. Even though he flew off the handle immediately I treated him with respect and called him Sir. Had he given me the chance, I would have simply apologized for anything that I had done and assured him I stopped at the store for beer and was headed home to my family. I could have verbally disputed with him, I could have upped the game by cursing/name calling. I could have acted big and tough by acting in threatening manners. At the end of all of it, I just wanted to get home to my family without incident and drink my beer. Be careful out there folks.

I'm glad both you and he made it home safe that day. Deescalation is always preferred to escalation. Again, I'm glad you made it home (as did he), but you were literally at any point one decision away from a shoot-out. Had he had a firearm on his person, he may have not needed to chamber a round and may have had a quicker response time than you. I highlighted the escalation performed by you in red. You needn't use inflammatory language, a simple "I"m very sorry" may well have ended everything on the spot. You claim to have pulled over to defuse the situation, which may very well have been your intent, but most of the time "pulling over" is purely meant for "settling the score". When you withdrew your pistol and chambered a round, that very well could have been seen as an immediate threat to his life. Had he shot you dead, it would have likely been his word vs the word of a dead person (you) who's vehicle was behind his. It would have looked like you followed him and pulled a firearm on him unless your family's lawyer could find video evidence. You considered driving around him out of the question out of fear he may "bash your car or impede you" but then directly resorted to presenting deadly force which could have left either or both of you dead. Insurance fixes cars, not blood drainage holes. Look, I understand that in the heat of the moment it can be tough to make the best decision. I just don't think you responded quite as well as you think you did. You mention being a "careful considerate" driver...that purposefully drifts into the lane in front of a car roughly two car lengths behind. Stay in your lane, I guess? Driving to the police station was your smartest move. Although I do wonder, in this situation, what would happen if the other driver phoned the police and told them you brandished a weapon. Go ahead, call me anti-gun, that's always fun. Here's a question, what is your exact motive for joining TGO and posting this thread? To get (or give) advice? I have a somewhat similar and very true story that happened about 1-2 weeks ago. I'll create a post as to not derail this thread.

I cannot argue against that.

Well...that's not how bitcoin works. This isn't an endorsement for bitcoin but rather just explaining a bit. If you have your own wallet setup on your computer, it's somewhat similar to having a safe in your house. The cryptography setup in that digital wallet is similiar to a safe, the password to the wallet is similar to the combination. If he used an online exchange, then sure it could have been theoretically hacked.

Bump. Lets get more people joined up!

The wisdom I have: The market oftentimes, if not more, does not behave the way we or any "reasonable" person would expect it. That's all I have.

David’s smart. I think he’s probably diversified 25/25/25/25 in Bitcoin/brass/lead/powder.

WHOIS

Mine showed negative. Oh well. Was super quick at least.

For what it's worth, at 11:00 today I'm going to get tested for COVID-19 antibodies. It's only $25.00 at the Laboratory Service Center available in Cleveland and Chattanooga. https://labservicecenter.as.me/schedule.php A quick finger prick with results in 15 minutes. I thought it'd be rather interesting to do.

That's true, I won't deny that. However, I will say that this page on GOA's site makes it very easy to find and contact the relevant politicians. https://gunownersaction.org

@gregintenn I really appreciate this thread. Lets keep the participation levels up. I cannot stress everyone enough, join at least one Pro-2nd Amendment group! If you have a few dollars to spare or can maybe skip a few coffees this month, join multiple!

Done mine. $35.00 annually for TFA, for anyone unaware.

That was fast. Doing mine right now.

Yes. I’ll join TFA if you join GOA. https://gunowners.org Serious, by the way. Just let me know.

You a member of GOA?

I didn't know about Gransfors Bruks but now I want one.

From a practicality standpoint, I'm not even sure how this works. Firearms are nearly unanimously serialized from the factory, unless you are dealing with something odd or homebuilt. Magazines are not. Unless they plan on somehow providing stickers, etc for the magazines, how could it even be kept up with which magazines were/were not registered. Of course, from a common sense standpoint, it's dumb to begin with. I hope that they know this type of stuff won't pass and that they are just virtue signaling to the extreme anti-gunners. That said, if there is even a chance that this passes...we are screwed.

Did you all see his we use, at least the original one? He wore the gear to protect himself against ANTIFA and found the zip ties. He held onto them for so long because he just wanted to turn them over to police.

I bet you could probably find someone on here to refund your monies if you don’t like it.

Emilia Clarke, Woody Harrelson, and Darth Maul make it watchable. Prove me wrong.