I was coming home from work this morning. As I pulled into my neighborhood, I noticed a white Camaro flying up to pass me. Now, I'm in my neighborhood now, just small side streets with houses on both sides, 25MPH speed limit. He goes by me and gets the obligatory one-finger salute from yours truly. I decide to follow him to wherever he's going and have a word with him. We tend to have a lot of teenagers who don't think speed limits apply to them. I do my share of speeding to, but when it comes to small side streets with chidren present, that's where I draw the line. Especially dumb-ass moves such as passing other vehicles recklessly.
As I start following him, I notice a full size pickup on my ass. He also passes me in a very reckless manner. Now I know that something is up. It may be a case of road-rage, I really didn't care, these a-holes were going to slow down through my neighborhood!
So I'm watching where they are both headed, and the Camaro turns up a road that winds back around to my house, with no other way to go. I head to my house with the intention of heading these guys off. Well, as I pull into my driveway, this Camaro comes flying, like 50+ mph around the corner a half block from my house. I throw my truck into reverse, and attempt to block his route, he goes behind me, but loses control on the wet pavement. He does several fishtails before coming to a stop completely sideways 2 doors down from me. I jump out of the truck and start over that way and the truck that's chasing him pulls up and stops. The guy is yelling at me to jump back in my truck and help box him in. I asked what's going on, and he tells me that the guy had just stolen a bunch on computer equipment from him.
I jump back in my truck, and once again follow both vehicles. The guy in the Camaro takes another wrong turn and goes up a street that only has one way out. The pickup follows him, so I go to the street that they are going to exit on. I turn onto the street, and here comes the Camaro. I try to block as much of the road as possible with my Toyota, but he's not stopping. He goes between me and the curb, maybe even up on the curb, not sure. As he goes by, he clips my front fender with his rear driver quarter-panel, and keeps on going. Smashed my fender, bumper, and park light. The other truck goes behind me and they take off out of the neighborhood.
I follow them for a ways, but these guys are blowing through red lights and stop signs, so I just pull over and call 911. The guy in the other truck must have been on the line with them, because they already had the discription of the vehicles. They told me to stay put and an officer was on the way. It was only 2-3 minutes before 4 cops cars blew me with sirens going. The last one stopped and told me to fill out an accident report and return it to the PD, because he had to go help with apprehending this clown. They had him holed up at his home a few blocks away.
Maybe what I did was stupid, I don't know. I did what I felt had to be done. Now I have to figure out how to get my truck paid for, as the guy doesn't have any insurance. At least they got him.
As I start following him, I notice a full size pickup on my ass. He also passes me in a very reckless manner. Now I know that something is up. It may be a case of road-rage, I really didn't care, these a-holes were going to slow down through my neighborhood!
So I'm watching where they are both headed, and the Camaro turns up a road that winds back around to my house, with no other way to go. I head to my house with the intention of heading these guys off. Well, as I pull into my driveway, this Camaro comes flying, like 50+ mph around the corner a half block from my house. I throw my truck into reverse, and attempt to block his route, he goes behind me, but loses control on the wet pavement. He does several fishtails before coming to a stop completely sideways 2 doors down from me. I jump out of the truck and start over that way and the truck that's chasing him pulls up and stops. The guy is yelling at me to jump back in my truck and help box him in. I asked what's going on, and he tells me that the guy had just stolen a bunch on computer equipment from him.
I jump back in my truck, and once again follow both vehicles. The guy in the Camaro takes another wrong turn and goes up a street that only has one way out. The pickup follows him, so I go to the street that they are going to exit on. I turn onto the street, and here comes the Camaro. I try to block as much of the road as possible with my Toyota, but he's not stopping. He goes between me and the curb, maybe even up on the curb, not sure. As he goes by, he clips my front fender with his rear driver quarter-panel, and keeps on going. Smashed my fender, bumper, and park light. The other truck goes behind me and they take off out of the neighborhood.
I follow them for a ways, but these guys are blowing through red lights and stop signs, so I just pull over and call 911. The guy in the other truck must have been on the line with them, because they already had the discription of the vehicles. They told me to stay put and an officer was on the way. It was only 2-3 minutes before 4 cops cars blew me with sirens going. The last one stopped and told me to fill out an accident report and return it to the PD, because he had to go help with apprehending this clown. They had him holed up at his home a few blocks away.
Maybe what I did was stupid, I don't know. I did what I felt had to be done. Now I have to figure out how to get my truck paid for, as the guy doesn't have any insurance. At least they got him.
