Road rage is apparently a major problem in America. I didn't realize quite the extend of this problem until I started researching for this report. About 1,800 incidents of road rage on America's streets were reported in 1996. And these are simply the reported incidents. Many more certainly go unnoticed in the great expanse of streets out there. This is a far more serious situation than I previously thought. Many "experts" are already trying to find the source of this problem. Many specialists contribute this problem to nationwide social problems. They say that hard times are causing our roadway outbursts. Sometimes small troubles in the economy can frustrate many enough to take out their anger on other motorists. Some people simply jump off a building to avoid going broke. At least then they are only hurting themselves. Others attribute the rash behavior to social decline in our nation. People these days have less respect for others and are not taught enough !
manners, they say. Even if our country has lost some moral standards, it is not enough a precedent for this to be happening. Stress is always considered a cause no matter what "expert" is asked. Our country has too much stress right now. Eve
I, even at such a young age, have already witnessed road rage. Luckily it did not happen to me, I was just a bystander. I was in St. Louis near Fitz's bottling shop. I noticed one car stop and slow down right in front of another, forcing it to stop. Both drivers got out and started arguing. The occupants of the vehicles were two black males, one quite a bit larger than the other. I couldn't pick up from their yelling what exactly had the feud been over. Soon the argument escalated into a fight. One guy, the huge one, took a swing at the other. Luckily for the other guy, he missed. The smaller man picked up a large pole, I don't know where he got it, and started swinging it defensively. Here I started to hear all the conversation. The smaller man said that the cops were already on their way. Apparently he knew the other man was quite violent and had thus called them for a car phone. This struck the large man rather harshly and gave him a hint of fear visible in hi!
s eyes. After a minute of his vicious ponderings, he asked the other man if they could leave the scene. He said that he wanted to go simply "settle their differences" in a basement away from prying eyes. The smaller man, quite confident in his ability to win with his stick, agreed. I saw them backing into a large alley slowly, keeping eye contact the whole way. I thought that that would
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