Sort of off topic - need opinions, Press charges? Options

[Scott S]

Last Sunday I took the car to a family barbeque. Around 11pm I was heading home and decided to take a main thoroughfair (sp) vs getting on the high way for the 30 minute drive home. I have done this before, as there is no traffic and it is actually more of a straight shot home. Unfortunately it goes through the city of Westminster, CO - a fairly tacky place. The Martini car rarely gets messed with on the road - usually I get chased down purely to answer questions. I am also old enough that it is pretty obvious I am not some fast and furious wannabe street racer - that, and I am a very mellow driver. Sunday was different. I had a Z06 come up on my left, a Saleen on my right and some rice boy so close to my tail I could not see his headlights. It was obvious that they were very young and in daddy's cars. Usually you ignor them and they speed away as if they have proven something - this didn't happen. The vette started to squeeze me - I could have reached over and touched it. I didn't flinch. Mustang did the same thing. That was when I realised I could no longer see the headlights of the rice boy behind me - so I hit my brakes. He backed way off, and the other guys started talking crap - this has now been going on for a couple of miles. I notice that the kid in the passenger seat looks nervous/out of his element - like a good kid who somehow ended up getting a ride from quite the asshole. As fate would have it we ended up at a stop light. Based on the nervousness of the passenger I decided to push it. Once the driver shut up about how I had didn't have the balls to race him I asked him if he thought it was smart to be playing games in his step dads car with someone who had both the physical and monetary means to make his and his families life a living hell. I undid my harness and opened the door as the light turned green. There was a hesitation then they took off.
I am big, and I can take care of myself without issue - however, I would be lying if said I wasn't rattled. My first thinking was to call the cops ( I have the plate numbers), the second was to hop in my truck and immediately go back to the neighborhood where they turned off and see if I could find the cars, knock an the door and see if I could wake their parents up. They were no older than 16-18 - high school kids. What would you have done?

Life was so much easier before I got old enough to be sued and they started carrying guns. I miss the old days where you could simply beat the shit out of someone and that would be the end of it.

There is a big difference between mischevious fun and what these douch bags were doing - it almost felt like they were setting up for a car jacking.

[sgomes]

From personal experience I KNOW the cell phone idea works. Recently I called 9-1-1 on a guy that passed me on the SHOULDER! He was driving like a nut case and was harrassing me for quite some distance. I picked up the cell and made a point of trying to get behind him to see his plate. Man did he gas it! I felt bad though 'cause it seems like I made him drive even MORE erratic and I would have felt terrible if he plowed into someone else because of it. All was better though when I saw him pulled over by a CHP a couple of miles later. I'd like to think it was from my phone call but it might have also just been a cop on the road. The CHP dispatcher did ask me what mile marker I was passing since they had someone on that road during the call (101 for the Cali people on here). I think they are interested in busting these people AT THE TIME. But if they don't have anyone near then I think they probably just file the report and move on.

I think one great idea is to carry a camera (still or video) in the car. Maybe even one of those cheap disposable ones. There are so many times when I wished I'd had a picture of the idiot. There used to be a website that some guy had in Santa Cruz. He'd post pictures of the idiots he saw every day driving over the hill. He got pictures of them in action. Eventually they made him ghost out the licence plates. (Why, I don't know) and then they told him he had to take the site down...some kind of slander or some other legal bullshit. I'm sure though if you had a camera pointed at someone they would start behaving pretty quickly.