I'm "that guy" apparently. (Safety man content)

Yesterday after I finished being the SSS and trailer tower for my local autocross, I went home and gathered up my kids for returning to their mother.

Along the way I was traveling along a 55 mph road at slightly below that, following a Honda Odyssey. Weather was clear and dry, near perfect visibility. We round a corner (I'm following maybe 75 yards back) and I see a kid on a dirt bike shoot out of a driveway across the road. Kid is going 25-30 mph and misses the front of the van by probably 20 ft. Van driver didn't even have a chance to touch his brakes.

I point out the stupidity to my kids and drop them off. Returning I decide to be "that guy" and probably get the kid in trouble but hopefully save his idiot life.

Mom answers the door and when I explain to her how close she came to losing a child is nearly in tears. (kid didn't have on a helmet either BTW). He may hate that busybody who ratted him out but FSM willing he'll grow up to appreciate people who try to teach him things.

I think you did the right thing.

Once you're dead, you're dead.

Yesterday we saw a kid trying to kill himself on a sport bike. He was wearing a helmet, but slaloming through traffic and splitting lanes will eventually catch up with him.

I have a lot of respect for you. Good work, my friend.

This is the type of stuff my Dad preached and harped on me for when I was a kid and it pissed me off so bad. Don't you wish we could have understood then what we understand now? I digress.

Hope the kid stay safer and his parents let him know how important being safe is.

I think you did the right thing. Let the kid be pissed, maybe his mother will never get "the call" now.

It's not "ratting" if you were not participating. You might be tattling, though. Either way, someone needed to do it.

Someone has to be that guy or few of us would be here. Thanks

How else would the mom know? Good on you.

It takes more guts to do the right thing than to ignore it. Good on you.

I know someone who lost his son when he jumped his 4wheeler out in front of a truck. Even if the kids mad you did the right thing.

Stand and do what is right, even if you stand alone.

not only did you possibly save the kid's life.. but probably some poor innocent driver's (or their passenger) too. I think that is a very fair trade for the week or so the kid is going to be in deep doo doo

I had a cop escort me home and tell my mom the first time I got pulled over instead of ticketing me. It would have been a hefty ticket. I did not at al learn my lesson. My mom grounded me from driving her cars for a month though. I still went on to eventually lose my license three times.

Nowadays my record is so clean it gets me out of tickets.

Appleseed wrote: Stand and do what is right, even if you stand alone.

Well put.