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Jeremy Bass1 Aug 2012
NEWS

Revenge is sweet… and wet, and dirty

Forget the need for speed, what happens when someone thwarts your urge to merge?

Have you ever found yourself infuriated by drivers who refuse to give way at merging points?

They’re a menace to society, those gap closers who view anyone getting before them as a personal affront. It’s not just the ludicrous self-centredness that galls, but the stupidity of failing to realise that if we all merged in proper dovetail order we could do it at 100km/h. All that happens is that they keep “their” spot in the traffic, but they slow everything down and raise the aggregate blood pressure of those around them to sometimes dangerous levels – dangerous enough to see them doing equally stupid things to teach them the lesson they so richly deserve.

Well, not always stupid. “Road rage” and “clever” are terms you don’t normally find in the same sentence, but we have to hand it to the driver of this Toyota Prado for imagination and quick thinking in the lesson they gave the driver of another car in decorum and the art of merging…

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