Bikers/Range Rover Chase

AVB-AMG · #11 10-03-2013, 04:49 PM

Since we are expressing our thoughts on what each of us would do in that hypothetical situation if we were the driver of that Range Rover and our wife and child were in the vehicle, how would we react...?

I agree that I would certainly become defensive. But would I also become aggressive and consciously attack bikers who, while swarming around and along side you have not done anything else than that. I don't know...

I would like to think that I would not do something consciously stupid or life threatening, but we all have a "snapping" point and it may be at a different point for all of us.

I know that when I am in the supposedly "safe cocoon" of my enclosed vehicles, I feel more ready to verbally condemn other knuckle headed motorists for doing stupid and/or unsafe things with their vehicles. I admit to having "shot the bird" to other motorists who have cut me off or have engaged in stupid behavior.

So at what point would each of us transform our behavior from defensive to offensive...?
Would it be once one or more of the bikers physically attack my vehicle? If so, would it have to be more that denting body panels, such as breaking glass windows?
Most likely, it would be at the point where in our conscious thinking, we jump from fear as our motivator, (i.e. drive away at a fast rate to attempt to escape the danger), to violent physical rage, (turning my vehicle into a weapon and actually use it that way to consciously inflict physical harm on as many cyclists as I could....).

This frightening video really does raise many questions for each of us and makes me think, "what would I do....?"