With all the incidents filmed on Russian roads, (you can head over to Jalopnik for some of the best dashcam clips of 2012 – we're preparing our own list, too), we rarely say this about a road rage incident, but WOW.
There's road rage, there's psychotic and then there's "this windshield ain't going to stop me punching your face" kind of rage, which makes Mad Max and Toecutter look like Care Bears…
We only get to hear and watch one side of the story in this incident as the perpetrator has yet to be interviewed, or captured by the police, for that matter, but here's what went on.
This past Sunday, Ken Olsen, a former police officer, was driving his camera-equipped pickup truck south of Brisbane, Australia, when all of a sudden, a black ute rear-ended him. Olsen looked back and saw the driver gesturing towards his direction before he tried to pull up next to his vehicle.
"At that stage he just appeared to be coming up beside me so he could scream through the open passenger window," Olsen told Today-Tonight, an Australian current affairs programme on Seven Network.
"He was going berserk at me again, so I thought 'I'm not going to pull over for this bloke because he seems a little bit unbalanced," Olsen added.
From there on, the situation got out of hand with the unidentified driver of the black ute smashing into Olsen's truck and trying to push him off the road.
And then it got worse. "He's gone onto grass verge, pulled over straight in front of me, and then immediately applied his brakes. I had nowhere to go and went straight into the back of him," said Olsen.
"He then jumped out of passenger door, came right up to vehicle, and I thought 'he's not coming to talk, he means business'."
And business he meant as the enraged driver smashed the windshield with his bare hands before Olsen was able to pull away, knocking him down with his mirror in the process.
Olsen was eventually able to make it out alive and unscathed to a police station. Even though as a former police officer he has dealt with road rage incident in the past, Olsen says he has never seen anything like this before.
"This has shaken me," he told Today-Tonight. "It's something that you don't expect and it's something that's very difficult to deal with. How do you deal with somebody trying to, what I think, trying to kill you on the road? I'm struggling."
According to the news report, the perpetrator has already contacted the police and is planning to hand himself in on Wednesday morning (Dec. 19).
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In the US, an assault like this would very likely provide justification for the victim's use of deadly force to defend themselves. Someone assaults you with their vehicle repeatedly and blocks your vehicle's escape in order to attack you, then tries to beat their way through your windshield, the person being assailed would be justified in shooting the attacker or running them over in self-defense. In this case the attacker was lucky that his target continued to flee.
It just keeps getting crazier and crazier on the roads, running a video continuously is becoming an ever-increasing imperative in order to provide evidence in cases like these.
This dude was definitely on something.
Anger management much? Geezus.
yes, but we were disarmed by our Government following a gun crime that seemed to have a whole parallel political process in place and set to roll the minute it ended. Rather like what's happening in America this minute.
love this clip! watching that monkey man dance around on the road is classic, what an all time idiot... "Hi mum, I'm a big man now... well there is one small thing..."
" the attacker was lucky that his target continued to flee."
Love it, absolutely love the way you put it.
But the way the attack kept raging on for such a long period of time (for other people, I guess some-hand waving or middle-finger raising would do the business of telling someone off), I'm almost sure that the attacker must have been taking some mood-altering substance of some sort.
Now just imagine the situation of Olsen if there had been no camera on board recording the events and the attacker beating him to the police post and reporting Olsen for fleeing from a rear-ending accident...
It gets even stranger after he turned himself in.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/today-tonight/consumer/article/-/15677455/road-ragers-bizarre-excuse/
Roid Rage, Road Rage or Roid Road Rage? This is also not the first time for Mr. Roid as shown in the link provided by bonzomatic.
The animal escaped from the Zoo.
When he got out of the car and came at me I wouldn;t have hesitated in running him over, calling and ambulance and then handing my self in to the coppers. The guy is f'ing nut, he should be fined, have his licence removed permenatly, his car crushed and serve a prison sentence.
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