Road and Air Rage
PREDATORS CLASSIFICATION: Road and Air Rage Road Rage Articles on Road Rage and Aggressive Driving
PREDATORS CLASSIFICATION: Road and Air Rage
Road rage is the act of lashing out against someone because of feelings of anger and frustration. Most of us have occasionally gotten angry while driving; in a more extreme situation you may have even followed another driver in anger, before "letting it go." But in certain cases the anger turns deadly. People have been killed because of a look they gave another driver, or for cutting him/her off in traffic. Others have been killed over a parking spot or because they would not let another driver pass.
People have a false sense of reality when driving. They feel that they are relatively safe, that no one will be able to accost them while they are in their own cars. Unfortunately, this is often not the case.
A similar phenomenon is air rage: acting in anger while on an airplane. Even in a post 911 world, many cases exist in which passengers have gotten upset, and attacked flight attendants or stormed toward the cockpit while the airplane is in flight. Most of these incidents have been alcohol-related, involving people with short fuses and little self-control. One man was beaten to death after forcibly trying to enter the cockpit of an airplane.
Source: Dr. Eric Hickey
Road Rage
Increasingly crowded highways and traffic backups cause many drivers to lose control and become extremely aggressive.
If you encounter aggressive drivers, don't challenge them, and stay as far away as possible. You may want to take down the license plate number and report their behavior to police so they won't hurt themselves or someone else.
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