how you deal with them.

Had this happen many times and just last night. I really hate it when some SUV or Pickup gets pretty close behind me and they have those super extra bright headlights shining right in your back window and reflecting in your mirrors right into your face.

I very calmly aim my rear view mirror so it is pointed straight back. And then thanks to having electric outside mirrors I also aim those straight back and slightly up. It is amazing how quick they either back off our go around.

BACK ATCHYA DUDE!

OH, and those purple, blue, and green colored headlights are not only annoying but distracting as well. I can't believe that they are DOT legal.

"OH, and those purple, blue, and green colored headlights are not only annoying but distracting as well. I can't believe that they are DOT legal."

Those are HORRIBLE, especially when riding home on a bike at night, going down a semi-dark road. It is almost frightening when I am on the motorbike and I see a set of harsh, blinding purple, blue or green coloured headlights coming at me, because I then can't tell what else is around me. Those types of lights should be BANNED from all WA public roads!!

Oh yeah, I do the same thing you do DT when I have the truck. ;o)

It almost makes you want a Teddy Bear full of roofing nails that your kid can innocently drop out the window. "Uh-oh Daddy, big truck went boom."

Nah, This time of year a little bag of grapes and a sunroof take care of tailgaters. It sucks if you are in a convertible though.

LOL. I hasten to add that the stuffed animal trick was a joke. Do not attempt it.

Of course, if the bear is filled with a blend of ketchup and strawberry jam, everybody will slow down behind you. They might even send out a ghoulish news chopper.

Childhood memory time!

(and the grapes bit is just excellent! I'm highly likely to do this at some point in the far future.)

My brother and I got ketchup and applied it to ourselves, along with some dirt and other stuff and laid down in the ditch, looking for all the world like we were hit by a car.

The next hapless passerby, screeched it to a full, skidding stop. We got up and laughed --then the stuff hit the fan!

(it was an ugly evening after parents found out)

My favorite, don't follow me too close tactic, used to be to just pull the e-brake, enough to let some smoke rise from the tires, then release and punch it. Dangerous, but completely effective.

Nobody ever followed close after even the first one of those.

Haven't done that in years. Sometimes we are stupid as kids.

Another is pennies! Just start letting them fall out the cracked window. Doesn't take long for them to get the message on that either.

Finally, my wife and I were driving and she just went off on some jerk off. We were maybe 21. Anyway, she hucked a full 32 ounce cola out the window, right onto their windshield! I had to get out fast because I thought the people in the other car were gonna go nuts!

She's nice too! When she did that, all I can remember is, "Oh man, that guy is gonna be pissed.", and "Direct hit, ice everywhere!".

She never did tell what that clown did, but it had to be bad.

One last "dangers of following close" story:

My brother in law used to drive this really old beater Corolla. It had nearly rusted out in the trunk area and there was one of those large hydraulic floor jacks in there. On the evening being described, he was driving the dark highway to Otis, followed by an aggressive person right on his tail, looking to pass on that dangerous road.

There were too many curves for that, so it went on for a coupla miles when that jack fell through the bottom of the car!

He says he remember seeing sparks, then the other driver manouvering wildly, finally pulling over to the side.

Never looked back... When he arrived, and told the story to the rest of us, we looked in the back and saw just a big hole, where the remaining metal just had gave way, releasing the jack and a bunch of other metal stuff.

Sometimes stuff happens at night. Sometimes it's deliberate, sometimes it just happens. Following close is not a good idea either way.

LMAO!

In all seriousness, two members of our Portland radio engineering community were injured grievously in the past by stuff flying off a truck. Even given proper space, it can be very hazardous to drive behind another vehicle.

I have been known to carry BBs in my pockets while riding my motorcycle. Drop a couple and tailgaters back right off.

Gotta love those power mirrors for beaming bright lights right back at 'em. My rear view dims itself so I'm rarely blinded by lights from behind.

Hey Doug, make sure to get the "RED" grapes. They look just like big bug splats when they hit!

Do you have to have a sunroof for this to work?

NAH, just toss em up out your window, you may have to practice a few times to get your aim down, have Mr. M follow you and take practice shots at him! Or you could just use the shotgun method and throw handful's into the air! It'd be like flying thru a swarm of giant SKEETER'z!

Do I have to turn around and aim at the car, or can I keep facing forward to make it look like an "Accident"?

Warning: some A-hole in Vantucky threw a cup of ice on my windshield and cracked it several years ago...at that funky I-205-Hwy 14 interchange where both lanes are merging into 14 WB, I followed him back to all the way back Portland on 1-5, out 26, way up into the West Hills into some housing developement to hide, and then I waited at the bottom since I new he had to come out and he had no idea where he was.

He denied everything, and I told him since he was a nice Mormon Boy that went to BYU,, that it wasn't good to lie...he looked pretty dismayed. I drove right back to the WA State Patrol with his info...

Later, I sent him porn mag subscriptions with "Bill me later". Hopefully he was still living at home.

Nah, just watch the fun in the rear view mirror!

And BTW.......remind me to never do anything to make you angry.

Ahh crap Merkin, I thought we had that whole ordeal settled by now!!! ;o)

You went to BYU? You also must've grown a couple of feet taller since then also!

Grape tossing on the road! Priceless.

Thanks Darkie!

I'm so gonna do this.

Mrs. M, that "Bill me Later" option is just awesome! Bet he had fun with that.

You might have done a favor. It's an easy, "wasn't me!" out!

I think i'll go out and buy me some stock in "Grapes". The way people drive these days and now that the secret is out, I expect to see splattered grapes on windshileds all over the place!

Hey, at least it's harmless to the cars and they are bio-degradeable!

I wouldn't recommend using cherries though, that'd be the "Pitts" if you cracked a windshield or stained some cars paint! But they sure would leave interesting looking Blood Splats!