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11Man who was imprisoned for road rage killing, dies in road rage killing.
Gary Durham got out of prison four years ago after serving more than a decade for killing a man during a road rage incident.
On Wednesday, Durham, 40, was shot dead in Plant City, Fla., during another traffic confrontation that he reportedly instigated.
He was still on probation.
The widow of the man Durham killed 15 years earlier called his death “poetic justice.”
http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/deputies-investigating-shooting-in-plant-city-1
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Angry, aggressive man is still angry and aggressive after a decade in prison, starts fight, gets killed.
/giphy dis my shocked face
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Road rage shootings are too real! This just happened near LA http://ktla.com/2016/08/10/man-shoots-at-suv-tire-during-apparent-road-rage-incident-in-canyon-country/
@connorbush
I think 1 or 2 people died last year after road rage attacks.
I don’t have words for that.
Ha, Plant City is 20 miles from me. People in Tampa Bay drive insanely aggressive. It’s everywhere down here…a sense of entitlement that they own the road and you’re in the way…it’s shocking to drive somewhere else and realize that not all Metropolitan area drivers act like the fuck heads around here (and they all carry guns too)
@shells
Local variations in driving attitudes are so odd.
The craziest driving I have experienced in the US is, hands down, greater Boston, tho I might be out of date. However, even though Boston area drivers have apparently never heard of traffic laws, and are unable to interpret the meaning of traffic lights and stop signs, they are very unlikely to try to kill you because they are having a bad days or whatever. It’s just not that personal to them.
This lack of murderous practice is not, afaik, due to a lack of guns or other weaponry. Seem to be more about the driver seeing impediments to his/her next insane move as mere obstacles to be overcome, not actually worth getting emotionally challenged by; ergo, no attempted “showdowns”.
@f00l this may explain the expressions i have heard for a NYC left at a light and a Boston left at a light.
A NYC left at a light is where, on green, the person making the left turns quickly in front of the oncoming traffic.
A Boston left at a light is the same, except the three people making a left behind the first offender follow behind him/her.
/giphy boston left
@Yoda_Daenerys
In Manhattan, no turns, right or left, on red, as famously mentioned in “Annie Hall”. Aside from a few stragglers entering an intersection just when the light goes red, normally traffic lights receive respect. Justified by local conditions. Pedestrians and other “techical non-combatants” are normally not collateral damage there. The consequences of ignoring these rules are island-gridlock, not a mere ticket, so self-preservation of one’s personal agenda mandate relatively sane conduct.
In greater Boston, what is this “light” you speak of?
@f00l no specific light i am aware of, but all traffic signals - really, it’s just a funny description lumping all boston drivers together as aggressive drivers, it’s only hearsay…
@Yoda_Daenerys
It’s been a few decades, but way back when, the legend of “Boston drivers” understated the reality.
Source: personal experience of terror.
/giphy terrifying