Forum menu
What to do about a ...
 

[Closed] What to do about a car driver who pulls a knife on you?

Posts: 0
Free Member
Topic starter
 
[#2900237]

Bit of a road rage incident and the car driver pulled a knife on me. What would you do?


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:04 pm
Posts: 6581
Free Member
 

Leg it


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:05 pm
Posts: 50252
Free Member
 

[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:06 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Get out of there as fast as I could, and try to remember details about the car. Then ring Plod.


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:06 pm
Posts: 5559
Free Member
 

Quickly remove forks and own innit.
Bike as a weapon.
run away.
wake up and get ready for work.
Take reg number tell police.


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:07 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

yup

My rule is quite clear these days - I do not hang around if the driver looks like getting out of the car. Swear at them, slag 'em, laugh at them and ride off laughing.

Report it to the police if you hve the number or if there is a CCTV camera there


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:07 pm
Posts: 341
Free Member
 

PHONE 999,
do you really need to ask,


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:07 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Leave very quickly and invest in a helmet cam for some evidence in case it happens again.

Did you get the reg number?


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:07 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
Topic starter
 

I got the reg number.


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:07 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

report to the police then. Fair chance he will get stopped and searched and get an APNR marker on the car. CCTV would help as well


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:08 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

May as well report it, they might do something if the driver is known to them.


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:09 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Bit of a road rage incident and the car driver pulled a knife on me. What would you do?

I wouldnt do anything, I'd stand back and watch you lamp him.


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:12 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

just report the number to the plod


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:13 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

He pulls a knife.
You pull a gun.
He puts one of yours in the hospital.
You put one of his in the morgue.

That's the Chicago way.

The British way however is to make a note of the registration, make and model of vehicle and report it to the Police.


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:16 pm
Posts: 9
Free Member
 

Pull mine out, plus throw my bike at him to distract him and get stuck in.


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:19 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

i always carry a combat knife and pepper spray...
get some hear
http://www.suntekstore.co.uk/Silver-Crime-Defense-Halter-Pepper-Spray-60ml-.html


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:20 pm
 ton
Posts: 24283
Full Member
 

i would calmly and quietly ask hin why he felt the need to threaten me with a knife.
i would then ask him to put it away. ๐Ÿ˜€


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:20 pm
Posts: 9
Free Member
 

sbz you like upsetting the wrong people dont you!


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:20 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
Topic starter
 

No fist pie Ton?


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:21 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
Topic starter
 

bigyinn - this was a guy of 50-55yrs old.


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:21 pm
Posts: 74
Free Member
 

bb gun with pelets laced with Ricin ๐Ÿ˜ˆ


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:23 pm
Posts: 4468
Full Member
 

Wasn't in Leicester was it, a guy driving a VW Polo by any chance? A friend of ours got a knife pulled on him not 2 weeks ago by an old fella at the lights. Police were informed and said they were too busy to look into in that night and would get around to it in the next day or two!


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:32 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Hmm, all the martial art training I've done (a fair bit, black belt in TKD and kickboxing plus brown in BJJ) have taught to do one of two things. If possible, run. If not, punch in throat, kick through knee, kick in balls, hurt - really really hurt the person. Id much rather do the first but I'd be ready to do the second.
Failing all though, get down on my knees and beg him not to hurt me.


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:37 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Beat them to death with my penis


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:38 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

You could've KO'd him. Or whack him with your bike, done properly his knife wouldn't be a problem for you.


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:39 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

My understanding is that if threatened in an open area you run towards a gun and away from a knife. YMMV.


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:44 pm
 ton
Posts: 24283
Full Member
 

diplomacy is the key nowadays george............... 8)


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:48 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

walk off then turn around follow him when he gets out the car. TORCH IT!!!!

alternatively call cops zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

alternatively man up kick his ass
or
just leggit


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:50 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
Topic starter
 

Guy has been traced and charged with breach of the peace. From what the police said he'll spend the night in the cells and be in court tomorrow.


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:52 pm
Posts: 6127
Full Member
 

Impressive. What did you do to get PC plod to move so soon - pull a knife?

Too soon? ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 9:58 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Hang on, he threatens you with a knife and gets 'breach of the peace' whilst i threaten gits breaking into my garage with my axe and get Affray?????


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 10:00 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
Topic starter
 

Knife crime is taken very seriously round that part of the country.


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 10:01 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Breach of the peace is a fair bit lower down the scale than affray though isn't it?


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 10:04 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
Topic starter
 

They are considering more serious charges but need to determine reasons for carrying the knife and classification of the knife first.


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 10:05 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Ah, i see. Hopefully they'll nail the pillock to the wall then.


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 10:07 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
Topic starter
 

Hopefully. Either way I hope he has a rough night in the cells.


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 10:07 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Can't imagine he got arrested for breach of the peace for having a knife, he must have kicked off when they went round.

Having a knife would be possesion of an offensive weapon surely.


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 10:18 pm
 mega
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Call in the bombers.

AIRSTRIKE!


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 10:20 pm
Posts: 19914
Free Member
 

yup
My rule is quite clear these days - I do not hang around if the driver looks like getting out of the car.

I do. I just get so close to their door that they can't open it. And if they try I can force it shut again.


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 10:26 pm
Posts: 129
Free Member
 

Having a knife would be possesion of an offensive weapon surely

Unless he can prove he saw a horse with a stone in its hoof nearby and he was going to its assistance, I would think he would need a very good lawyer!


 
Posted : 29/06/2011 10:27 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Sitting behind my keyboard I can safely say that I would have disarmed him and then knocked him out with a single punch and then torched his car.


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 1:38 pm
Posts: 91169
Free Member
 

This is why we must say no to road rage. Turn the other cheek as someone once said.


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 1:42 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Turn the other cheek as someone once said.

Didn't somone nail him to a tree?


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 1:43 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
Topic starter
 

Wonder how he enjoyed his trip to court this morning.


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 1:45 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

PeterPoddy - Member

"yup
My rule is quite clear these days - I do not hang around if the driver looks like getting out of the car."

I do. I just get so close to their door that they can't open it. And if they try I can force it shut again.

Tee hee - like it


 
Posted : 30/06/2011 1:48 pm
Page 1 / 2