We were sitting at a red light and got flipped off

[Omaha Steve]

Marta and I were stopped for a red light on highway 370 in Bellevue. Some car behind us starts honking. I know there are cars stopped in front of me and we can't move. I looked at the rear view mirror and shrugged my shoulders and looked at the guy. He points directly at the area of our "Turn Off Fox, Bad news for America" bumper sticker. Then he throws 3-4 birds in a row. All I could do was laugh and he got even more upset. It made our day!

[Bernie 2016]

1. Must have borrowed his mom's car or something...

[Hepburn]

25. Maybe she left the keys for it in her basement where he lives?

[marym625]

2. Haha!

Good! Too funny!

[PatrickforO]

3. Yeah, that IS funny. But, Steve, you're lucky the guy didn't have a gun...

[daleanime]

11. +1

[PRB]

20. Yep

I would have called the police just in case.

[Alkene]

49. Bad idea, depending on location.

Maybe he was a cop.

[PRB]

52. Why is it a bad idea?

Who was a cop? The guy giving the finger?

[Alkene]

58. Yep, the guy giving the finger. The responding police might not "Protect and Serve" the caller.

Calling the cops, although necessary for insurance purposes, can be a risk to even the caller- depending on the culture of the officers in a given location.
Best to include the police only as required, or for the most dire of circumstances.
Users' mileage may vary.

Or something like that.

[PRB]

68. Well, then I might

call the state police. Or the sheriff. I would file a lawsuit if they did not protect me. They are supposed to be doing their job. I hope you're talking about some podunk town or some bad police culture in places like the south. Otherwise, I am just going to drive away and get out of there.

[Spatened]

56. Please don't waste their time...

[PRB]

69. ?????

Waste their time? On some who is aggressive and something likely leading to road rage?

[hobbit709]

4. One time when someone flipped me off I gave him my little finger.

He asked "What's that supposed to mean?"

"It's a feather, you don't rate a full bird"

[narnian60]

36. Love that.

I hope I won't ever have to use it, but I will if provoked.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

46. You know what it means when you flip the pinky?

For those of you old enough to remember Hallmark Card commercials and the Hallmark Hall of Fame show, when you flip the pinky, it means "you don't care enough to send the very best".

The Hallmark commercials said "When you care enough to send the very best".

Since I live in the land of the giant pickups, I give people the peace sign. I figure an old hippie will piss 'em off just as well and more creatively.

And sometimes I wear my T shirt emblazoned with QUIT WORK MAKE MUSIC in large white letters on a black t shirt.

[Octafish]

5. Maybe that's why so many people are angry these days.

Fox noise made them nuts. Thank you Roger Ailes.

[a kennedy]

6. I worry about that.....they might be just cray enough to shoot ya......

[jwirr]

7. K&R

[Tracyjo]

8. Should have blown a kiss

[cwydro]

18. That's my response when I experience road rage from some jerk.

But actually, I never have all these experiences written about here on DU. I have Obama, DU, and various other stickers.

I have rainbow flags and the Darwin fish.

I live in the south.

Never had a single problem.

[Throckmorton]

53. Me too,

Followed by a "Jesus loves you".

[Enthusiast]

9. That is one disturbed individual. I would exercise caution.

My area is full of these nutters.

[NJCher]

57. I'm so glad I don't

It's unusual to see a big pick-em-up truck here.


Cher

[Enthusiast]

60. About half my little town's vehicles are pickup trucks.

I get the impression that it is more the truck's air of masculinity than the utility of the pickup that is valued. Lots of guys have the modified computer chip in the diesel powered pickup so they emit huge clouds of smoke and more closely duplicate the sound of the over the roads semis. An entire culture is built up around this stuff. I'm not exaggerating.

[V0ltairesGh0st]

63. I hate these bloody things.

It seems they can never be big enough, or make more than enough noise, or guzzle 3 gallons of air polluting diesel/gasoline fuel a mile.

Ford, Dodge, and Chevrolet's "full sized pickups" have only gotten bigger and less efficient and more flashy over time, especially in the last 10 years. They are outrageously priced, the tires and wheels used are more than most of time are those huge off road mudding tires and most people who own them don't ever drive them off road, you can litearlly hear these tires coming up on you from 100 ft behind you with the windows closed . Douche bag pickuper's roaring down the roads in these noisy goliath's at speeds above 90 mph (most of the time) cutting you off without signaling, and giving you the finger for daring to do the speed limit. Yes, that is also not an exaggeration, it has happened to me exactly that way more times than i can count.

[Enthusiast]

66. I get nervous in the close proximity of those monsters on the highway.

I have owned two of the small pickups in the past. They have excellent utility and use but a fraction of the fuel of their larger cousins.

[kairos12]

10. If he got out Mom's basement he left Cheetos dust

on the wheel.

[Arugula Latte]

12. I'm curious ... how old of a guy was he?

Young? Middle aged? Old?

[Omaha Steve]

13. Young

Mid 20's to 30 from what I could see.

[Arugula Latte]

14. Well that's too bad.

Maybe he'll get a taste of real life, though, and realize that Fox is peddling a sack of lies every minute.

[cstanleytech]

31. I wouldnt be willing to place any money on that actually happening.

[Wellstone ruled]

15. What is with 370,

was the guy from Sodak? Got to love it when they flash their I.Q..

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. I don't believe FOX "News" will last beyond Rupert.

[nadinbrzezinski]

37. It will, but I suspect his son will have a lot to say

bout the bend. Too much money in it to just let it go.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

38. Fox "News" has been an embarassment for years to the company that brought us Shirley Temple....

I'm picturing the board offering James a choice between early retirement or the Royal treatment.

[nadinbrzezinski]

40. The entertainment division and the news division

are quite separate. James has actually done a lot more with entertainment, than his father. The news part was his father's idea, and not just in the US.

The fact that he could bend it so far RIGHT tells you more about the American public iMHO than anything else. Sky News is RW but it is still forced to do well... news. Why? The British Public made it clear in ratings where Sky News, also a Murdoch, would go to.

News of the World was the closest to FNC.... and once the scandal developed it had to go. IN the US we have had a few that should have gotten that big.

Of course this is from reading a few articles and books on this.

I suspect that James will unravel some of this, and fire a few people, and get more ahem, newsy. For the record, from recent news, we expect something similar at MSNBC, not that US Media in general can cover more than one major story at the same time, as yesterday proved. They used to as well.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

41. Shame living in a country where they lack the freedom to air propaganda.

[nadinbrzezinski]

43. I know

[bucolic_frolic]

64. It's a good point

As soon as ratings tank or public opinion shifts left, they will change their tune.

They've kept an occasional hint of change in reasonable reporting of a few stories,
and an occasional middle-of-the-road point by Shep Smith or Megyn Kelly. The
army of fringe consultants can be jettisoned in 2 months. The climate has shifted
for Rush, well it's shifted for Faux too.

[progressoid]

17. WTG Steve.

I would love to have a couple of those kind of bumper stickers. But sadly I have clients in Nebraska that wouldn't hire me if I did.
I need the money.

[C Moon]

19. Road rage in the making. He sounded like a dangerous one. I'm glad it didn't evolve.

Great bumper sticker, though!

[cwydro]

21. I have become amazed at these stories that do not happen in the south.

I live in NC...during the Obama election I lived in Florida.

I have a DU bumper sticker on my car, as well an Obama sticker, not to mention my numerous anti-Bush stickers.

However, my car has never been vandalized, I've not been flipped off....I truly wonder if the real assholes live elsewhere than the south...

Anecdotes on DU that always take place in Minnesota (which I always thought was a nice accepting place), now Nebraska (again I thought a nice place)...wow, y'all need to move down here because this kind of crap has NEVER happened to me.

No one has vandalized my car or ripped my bumper sticker off.

I kinda feel sorry for you folks up there.

[Turin_C3PO]

48. It happened to me in the south.

I lived in Mississippi during the 2008 election and 3 TIMES my Obama sign in my yard was vandalized. This was in a middle class neighborhood. I daresay you've been lucky to have not been the target of shit like this.

[wyldwolf]

22. No - YOU'RE number 1!!!

[Turbineguy]

23. Are you in Florida?

There they honk if you don't run the red light.

In addition to defending Fox News.

[HFRN]

24. you were right next to Offutt AFB (former SAC HQ)

probably still a lot of right wing out there, in what was once the land of Curtis Lemay

[Va Lefty]

26. I have an old "Flush Rush" bumper sticker on my truck

I get flipped off at least once a week.

[rurallib]

27. Got to give the credit for being able to read

a rare trait in his social circle.

[nightscanner59]

28. You're not comforming to his moldy, constipated view of the universe.

It must be a terribly vexing not to have the majority in lockstep with their ignorance, especially after their cult leaders convince them of their "righteousness". It was not surprising for me to surf the teevee news channels yesterday after the marriage ruling to see celebratory coverage of equal rights on every channel...
Except FOX. "A devastating blow to religious freedom". Makes you want to bake them all a chocolate ExLax cake, eh?

[L0oniX]

29. I don't doubt some of those morans might even start shooting.

[AnnetteJacobs]

45. They already have

On the night of June 17th, for example.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

30. Same damn thing happened to me!

I was at a red light and I hear a honk and there's a 80-something female RWHJ furiously flipping me off.

I was actually shocked that a great-grandma would act like that to a total stranger over a stupid fucking bumper sticker.

I got the hell out of there, and layed low for at least 2 weeks.

ON edit: It was an Obama for President sticker

[HooptieWagon]

32. I was run off the road by a lunatic upset at my Obama sticker.

Be carefull, there's a lot of unhinged crazies out there.

[awoke_in_2003]

33. Laughing always makes them angrier...

it lets them know that you think they are foolish children, and they hate that.

[FailureToCommunicate]

34. A regular occurrence back in the day for me too. Now, it's surprising how meek road rage-rs become when

you aim your camera phone at them.

I've never had to turn any video over to police - or You Tube! - but they don't know that...

Glad your incident turned out okay.

[Laffy Kat]

35. Once in a parking lot....

Some RWNJ yelled over at me from a aisle away to criticize whatever bumper sticker I was sporting at the time. I smiled, waved, and yelled back "Oh, thanks!" as if I mistook the rant for a supportive comment. That REALLY pissed her off. It is now my go to response. It's fun watching their heads explode.

[prayin4rain]

70. LOL....that cracked me up! n/t

[Stargazer09]

39. There are a lot of disgruntled people around here

Especially after the SCOTUS rulings recently.

I've said farewell to some "friends" this week.

[barbtries]

42. i want that bumper sticker back

it was on my car that was totaled, and i've looked but not found it again.

[Gumboot]

44. Anyone gives me crap about my progressive bumper stickers...

... I just smile back and blow 'em a kiss.

They all love that.

[Surya Gayatri]

47. You be careful out there in redneck Husker heaven, Steve...

CA gets most of the road rage, but in the present climate, Nebraska could just go that way, too.

[romanic]

50. Right-wingers

are extra salty these days! I admire you taking it in jest but some of those SOBs are loony and may get violent. Be careful OP.

[NBachers]

51. It's your fault that he inflamed his own brainal hemorrhoids!

[B Calm]

54. I even had road rage people wave their hand gun at me! People are more worried

about the driver who smoked pot, than they are about the ones who have endless road rage.

[TNNurse]

55. The reason there are no bumper stickers on our cars.

I see such scary ones in parking lots....I fear for damage to the car at the very least,.

[alphafemale]

59. Haters had a really bad week. Bless their hearts.

If you are not southern ask a southerner what "Bless their hearts." actually means.

And:

Southern is not BAD.

Truman Capote was Southern.

Flannery O'Conner was Southern

Harper Lee is Southern

Martin Luther King was Southern.

James Earl Carter is Southern.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

61. Republicans seem to do that a lot.

It happened to me, but it was an 80-something woman that flipped me off because of my Obama sticker. It never occurred to me to do that to someone with a bumper sticker I didn't like. I just go around them so I don't have to look at it.

[ladyVet]

62. I just laugh at them, too.

Had some woman once screaming at me because apparently I didn't have the right to be ahead of her in a turn lane. The nerve! Raging and gesturing like a crazy person. I burst out laughing. Couldn't help it. She gave me a look that should have shriveled me dead, put on a burst of speed and took off down the road.

Want to really confuse this kind of person? When they make a big point of wishing you a Merry Christmas, smile and say "Thank you! Same to you!". They've girded their loins for the public persecution, and it just blows their mind when they don't get it.

Yes. I am evil.

[restorefreedom]

65. i used to wave at people like that

you know, really friendly like, like it was somebody I hadn't seen in a really long time and I was thrilled to see them. Usually takes them off their pins but. But nowadays I tend to just ignore it and pretend I don't see them just because you just never know what kind of weapon is in that vehicle or what kind of crazy person is driving it.

[SoapBox]

67. Grrrrr....

I say that NO ONE flips the bird at our own OS and Mrs. OS!

Grrrrrrr!