Strange people follow me in the car

In reply to petegossett:

Month or two.

Sounds like it's time for some James Bond style mods. Mount tank in rear, install valve in drain tube from bottom of tank, fill with used oil, and bam, instant oil slick! Smoke screen button - put an additional tank full of coolant under the hood, plumb to exhaust manifold.

you do not even have to go that far, Furious. When the powersteering pump in my Rover went, it was spraying a fine mist of PS fluid everywhere. Nobody would follow me. All you need is a fine spray of something non-toxic that does not come off easily with the wipers. A modified rear window sprayer with olive oil might work well. Put it down low, around bumper height, aimed upwards, it will get on their windshield easily enough.

mad_machine wrote: you do not even have to go that far, Furious. When the powersteering pump in my Rover went, it was spraying a fine mist of PS fluid everywhere. Nobody would follow me. All you need is a fine spray of something non-toxic that does not come off easily with the wipers. A modified rear window sprayer with olive oil might work well. Put it down low, around bumper height, aimed upwards, it will get on their windshield easily enough.

Creative, and eco-friendly. :)

GSmith wrote:

mad_machine wrote: you do not even have to go that far, Furious. When the powersteering pump in my Rover went, it was spraying a fine mist of PS fluid everywhere. Nobody would follow me. All you need is a fine spray of something non-toxic that does not come off easily with the wipers. A modified rear window sprayer with olive oil might work well. Put it down low, around bumper height, aimed upwards, it will get on their windshield easily enough.

Creative, and eco-friendly. :)

And if you leave it in there long enough it will go rancid and add a whole new level of nasty to who ever is behind you. Especially if it gets in the air vents.

I had a weird one two weeks back. Not really a following incident but weird.

I am going home from work and come upon three cars on a 2 lane road. The lead car is a VW Jetta, The next car is an older Hyundai sedan and behind him (in front of me) is an older e46?? M3. The lead car is doing 5 under the limit. The second car I can tell the driver is loosing his mind. Pounding on the steering wheel swerving partially out into oncoming traffic. I follow them not really minding the pace. The BMW and I are keeping a reasonable distance from them but the Hyundai is just getting more and more animated. We come to a light and the Hyundai partially pulls into the left-hand turn lane and the BMW blips his lights as he is wanting to take a left. I can see the driver of the Hyundai losing it completely he is screaming at everyone banging on the wheel the roof and the dash. The light goes green and the BMW takes a left so I am now following the Hyundai. (note to self: Do not blip my lights at this guy) We go a couple miles and things continue. I keep my distance as the Hyundai Driver is obviously borderline psychotic at this point and the traffic coming the other way prevents him from making a pass. Meanwhile, the VW slows down with every car that approaches and when this happens I can see the Hyundai driver losing it. So we are now approaching my turn off. It is a fork that veers to the right. As we approach the lead VW slows way down. I have quite some distance between the Hyundai and me so I just let off the gas and roll. As I am getting close to my turn the VW slows even more and the Hyundai pulls out into on coming traffic. I have my hand on the stock to signal my turn but with the abrupt move by the Hyundai I make an evasive move to the right, and you guessed it, I blip my high beams at him. All crap brakes loose. The guy is screaming pounding on the car. Punching the roof. He stops opens his door for a moment in the middle of the road (State Highway #117) and then thinks better of it as there is a bunch of traffic and it is an intersection with a fork to the right and a road coming in on the left. He gets back in and then pulls off to the right into the fork I want to take. I follow and he rolls forward stops thinks about getting out then rolls further forward then stops again and gets out of his car. They guy looked like a bum. Really scruffy tattered looking guy. Now the following all happened very fast so think of this all happening in about 2 seconds. As he gets out I slow way down and signal to the left to go around him. I pull out and just as he gets out of the car and turns around to face me a car comes flying through the fork behind me pulls to the right probably thinking I am making a left turn into the church and plows into the Hyundai that is now about even with the bed of my truck. This all happens in a blink of an eye. The impact occurred just as I was going by the guy standing next to his Hundi. I watch in my mirror and it was really weird as the guy that got out of the car was literally 4 feet from me as I went by and at the same time the other car plowed into his car pushing his car forward. Since no one hit me and I had no part of that mess I just continued on my way. I wonder what the police had to deal with when they got there.

This happens to me with some regularity. The cars always seem to be domestic sedans or suvs and are driven by people in costumes. I just pick up the pace.

sesto elemento wrote: ... driven by people in costumes. I just pick the place.

Much weirder when it's read how I read it the first time.

sesto elemento wrote: This happens to me with some regularity. The cars always seem to be domestic sedans or suvs and are driven by people in costumes. I just pick up the pace.

Ronald McDonald put out a hit on you

Furious_E wrote: Sounds like it's time for some James Bond style mods. Mount tank in rear, install valve in drain tube from bottom of tank, fill with used oil, and bam, instant oil slick! Smoke screen button - put an additional tank full of coolant under the hood, plumb to exhaust manifold.

We had a waste water treatment polymer that was about the slippiest E36 M3 I ever seen, more so mixed w/ water. Always had thoughts of an air over polymer tank w/ solenoid valve hosed up to a manifold w/ sprayers spanning the width of the car. This stuff don't let go either.

They'd hafta call the fire department to clean that mess up.

That could be a future project.

fasted58 wrote:

Furious_E wrote: Sounds like it's time for some James Bond style mods. Mount tank in rear, install valve in drain tube from bottom of tank, fill with used oil, and bam, instant oil slick! Smoke screen button - put an additional tank full of coolant under the hood, plumb to exhaust manifold.

We had a waste water treatment polymer that was about the slippiest E36 M3 I ever seen, more so mixed w/ water. Always had thoughts of an air over polymer tank w/ solenoid valve hosed up to a manifold w/ sprayers spanning the width of the car. This stuff don't let go either. They'd hafta call the fire department to clean that mess up. That could be a future project.

So what you are saying is you are going to make an industrial KY dispenser.

I had a friend of mine years back plumb a small line in to his exhaust post the cat and he would "dispense" dish soap. I was never sure of the reason for this but it made him happy.

Hell, I would have given anything for just 10-15hp extra at the time mine happened, or a couple banana peels to throw out the windows My incident was well before I had my first cell phone, I had no clue where the police station was and just got lucky to find the one I did, although I'm not entirely sure one was even in the car, if so he wasn't awake or was otherwise occupied.

dean1484 wrote:

fasted58 wrote:

Furious_E wrote: Sounds like it's time for some James Bond style mods. Mount tank in rear, install valve in drain tube from bottom of tank, fill with used oil, and bam, instant oil slick! Smoke screen button - put an additional tank full of coolant under the hood, plumb to exhaust manifold.

We had a waste water treatment polymer that was about the slippiest E36 M3 I ever seen, more so mixed w/ water. Always had thoughts of an air over polymer tank w/ solenoid valve hosed up to a manifold w/ sprayers spanning the width of the car. This stuff don't let go either. They'd hafta call the fire department to clean that mess up. That could be a future project.

So what you are saying is you are going to make an industrial KY dispenser.

Well, yea... pretty much

build thread in the spring

I had a girlfriend get followed. She was driving my 1960 Bugeye Sprite and is a pretty girl when a big jacked up blazer started messing with her. They were doing the shouting and hooting thing trying to get her to pull over but when the veered at her a couple of times she got serious. She cut through a school between some of those pipes they put up to keep people from driving where the truck could not go. They tried going around the buildings to where they thought she would come out but she turned around and came right back out where she went in. Never saw them after that but she wanted to drive my Mustang after that. She really loved driving the Bugeye!

Bruce

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