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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Have you ever been stuck on a highway? Two lane highway?
You're like on your way somewhere and you catch up
to two semis, one of which is trying to pass
the other. Have you ever had that happen to you? Absolutely?
It's Is there a worse feeling than that, especially when
you're about to approach like a hill. It's a very
hopeless feeling. Yeah, I like, neither of these guys are
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going to back down. The guy in the right lane's
not going to slow down, so the guy in the
left lane can like slide over, and they're just just
gonna be mashing the gas pedal all the way down
and trying to pass each other nice and slow. Now,
I don't know what precipitated this or if there was
anything else besides just the fact that these two are
like one guy is trying to move out of the way,
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or the guy wanted him to move out of the way.
But this situation was to just the east of des
Moyne and Iowa on Interstate eighty and police say they
were called to the report of gunfire on the highway.
I don't know who reported this, Maybe it was somebody
behind them that saw this. Happening. But apparently they determined
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the driver of a semi truck hauling a grain trailer
fired multiple gunshots at another semi as they were attempting
to pass. So, like, he's a he's sitting in his
driver's seat, he sees this semi trying to pass him,
and he just starts starts shooting at this semi next
to him. Now, the victim pulled off the highway, the
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victim semi, and they were able to get the description
of the other semi truck and the driver. They were
able to find it, and they found a handgun on
this guy. He's a fifty six year old uh and
uh yeah, So he's booked in charge with attempted murder,
intimidation with a dangerous weapon, going armed with intent, and
he missed all of his shots, for whatever it's worth.
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But is that kind of insane to you? Like, like,
there's a semi truck driver carrying a loaded handgun in
another semi tries to pass him, and he's like, bang,
bang bang. Anyone who do anything like that, that is
that's insane. But that I mean for and again, I
don't know if there was something else that precipitated this
between those two guys. Yeah, I bet there was. Are
they insulting each other on the on the on the radio,
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a little bit of chatter on the on the U
or did that guy pass him and then this guy
is trying to repass him? What you remember on Dumb
and Dumber, the whole Sea bass situation. Maybe that's what
happened at the prior truck stop and the other guy
just caught up to the other one, because you know
how it ends in Dumb and Dumber when he tells
the story, he says, well, oh, go ahead, what do
they just drove down the road and got away scott free. No,
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he caught up with them down the road and whoa
you remember? I think that's violent, and uh I do too.
I'm not I'm not aspousing as violence. I'm just telling
you what happened in Domanis Movies of all Time on
the Greatest Lloyd Christmas Harry Done. Nobody, Nobody's ever said
that sentence about Thumb and Dumber. Dale is on a
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phone line of four O two five five eight eleven ten, Dale,
you want to talk a little bit about road rage
with us today?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
For taking my call? Yeah, I believe that truck driver
is a little bit more hot water than that because
the memory service quection. I believe it's illegal for the
person who carries the cdo to carry a fire in
his vehicle. He's got probably more problems than than people realize.
But I kinda ask good question. I witnessed two cars
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going down in the interstate and they were bumping one
another straight and paint, and it was kind of curious,
and I kind of backed off when I thought. But
then I asked myself. I said, now, those gitards that
were trading paint, would that'd be considered a road rash?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yes, Dale, I think that would indeed be a road rash.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Okay, I appreciate the verification.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Thank you much.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Thanks, Yeah, you as well appreciate it. Oh Dale, what
a card? Have you ever gotten enough to do something
crazy on the road? I'll be honest, I have guiltiest charged.
What'd you do?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Well?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I didn't. It was kind of what I was. I
don't know. You tell me, I'll describe it, and you
tell me if I was a bad guy. Here, I'm
driving home. I'm in a vehicle that's a sedan, so
I'm not like a like a big vehicle. It's different.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
You get these people out there with their six wheel
diesel trucks out there and they're just pushing people all
over the place. No disrespect to you diesel truck driving
pickup guys, but it's just like they change lanes and
they don't really even care where you are a lot
of the time because like, what are you going to do? Right,
Like you're gonna get out of the way so they
don't hit you. So I don't know, you want to know,
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you want to know something. I sometimes have a short temper.
I try really hard to keep that under reps. I'm
on the radio, say it ain't so I know. I'm
not a perfect guy. Well, what happened was there was
this car that came onto the like I was on,
Like they were coming off the interstate onto this like
main road. It's a two lane road, but it's the
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main road, and they came onto the high like from
the highway, and you know how you are supposed to merge, right, Well,
they not only merged, I gave them room. I was
in the left lane, but they cut me off on
the left lane right, so they got into the right lane.
I moved over for them and then they wanted to
pass the car in front of them. They didn't even
care about where I was, or even didn't notice where
I was, and then cut me off. I was matt
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I honked my horn, which again in the Midwest, you
don't know a lot of horn honkers around these parts, right,
Like you give people benefited doubt most of the time
before you start laying on your horn. Well, I laid
on it for a couple of seconds, so this person
knew I was upset. I was in the car by myself,
for whatever it's worth, and I followed this person as
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I was on my way home, and they were going
the same direction I was going. So you know what
I did. I sped up, got in front of them
and cut them off in the right lane. And then
you know what I did. Every time they tried to
pass me, I got in front of them. So so
this person, who was a girl, I think she was
probably in her mid twenties or whatever. We were about
the same age. Like, I slowed down to like let
her know I was upset with what she did to me.
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And then she would try to pass me on the
left and I'd immediately go into the left lane of blocker.
What do you mean you slowed down to let her know?
What does that mean she passed me, or she got
into the highway she cut me off. We're going like
forty five, because that's what this main road speed limit is.
You know, forty five fifty traffic is somewhat busy. You know,
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it's like a little after rush hour. I've had a
long day. I'm getting frustrated here, so I got in
front of her. I don't need to be home right away,
so I get in front of her and I hit
my brake, like I'm going thirty five to forty now,
and you're stuck behind me. And every time she tried
to pass me, I just got back in front of
her and didn't let her pass me. And I did
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that all the way until I got to my turn
off to go home. How long of a time was that, Oh,
it was probably like five minutes real time at least.
I mean, I'm sure I was driving her nuts, but
I wanted her to know that. It was like she
almost got me and her almost got in a car
accident because she's an idiot, and I wanted to let
her know that. So she made a mistake. Yeah, almost
got us in a car wreck. Yeah, and you've never
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done that before yourself. I have. And what if every
single person did that to you every time you made
a mistake, I would say, I deserve it. It's my bad.
There was one time I was driving a station vehicle.
This was the worst. I was driving a station vehicle
leaving town to go on like a long trip to
ghost like a call a softball game or something. I'm
in the station vehicle. It's got the call letters and
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everything all over it. Right, it is unmistakable who could
be driving this car. Okay, there's only like a handful
of people that would at any point drive this car.
And I'm driving it and there's a car, like maybe
a truck or something on the side of the road.
You know what you're supposed to do when you see
that right like on the shoulder, You're supposed to move
to the left lane, right you following? Yeah, I didn't
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see this person who had approached me from my blind spot,
and as I just kind of like blindly moved to
the left lane to avoid this truck, I didn't see
this mini van who basically had to like go to
this onto the side of the road before I realized
that there was a car right there, and then we
got past this she pulled up next to me, and
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I knew I had messed up, and she kind of
looked over at me, and she was mad, and she like,
you know, she looked at me while we were driving,
and I just like waved at her and I nodded
and my mouthed sorry and everything, and I let her
pass me and I let her get far enough away
before I got back into my up to speed. I
had to eat that one because I messed up this
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girl as far as she seemed to care, like she
didn't mess up at all, and I wanted to make
sure she knew she messed up. Okay, nobody got hurt.
It probably was a bit immature and could have been
a lot more dangerous had I been around other cars,
But for the most part, right like, I felt like
I needed to get a point across to this woman. Yeah,
a little toxic, okay, you know. I tried to learn
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and grow from that point. It's three twenty nine. If
you got some thoughts on road rage, you got your
own road rage story you'd like to share with us today,
feel free to call us at four h two five
five eight to eleven ten four h two five five
eight to eleven ten. You're listening to news radio eleven
ten kfab. Emery Sunger on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
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There was a guy, a nameless guy that decided to
call in and yell at you about my story.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
He did.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
He was so mad at you for the way you
traded and treated that young lady. And I see his point.
By the way, I was a young man who cares well,
I was a young warthog. That doesn't make a difference.
So she she certainly wasn't practicing a kuna matata when
she almost put me into a wall on an overpass
off of a highway. But you didn't have to creep
on her for like ten minutes straight on her. I
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just slowed her down a little bit, let her know
that I didn't really appreciate her not paying any attention
to me. Well, she almost killed us both. Well either way.
The guy who called in was so upset he couldn't
even go on air. He said, I'm too upset to
even go on air. Why would you call in and
be so upset that you won't even use that for
the good radio that that could provide like what a
thing to do, Like, so you know the radio station's number,
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you put it into your phone, you dial it, you
call it rings, I answer. There's a person that answers
the whole while you're too upset to even go on air.
You just wanted to yell at Matt about my story.
That doesn't make any sense. But somebody tell me how
that makes any sense. He was raging about my road
rage story, but he was so mad he didn't You
want to confront me about it. What does that tell you?
Road rage to phone rage? Where is my rage? I'm
(10:33):
stuck in a cage and I'm gonna make you talk
about your rage once I massage it out of you. First,
I want to go to the phones at four h two, five, five,
eight to eleven ten. It is Mark, Mark, Hello, what's
going on? Oh yeah, Mark, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah's been twenty years ago. But a couple of cops left,
A couple o police left Omaha and threw out like
your Nebraska side by side, that trap backed up for
you know, like thirty miles. I think there was a
little bit of road rates there.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Why did they do that?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Look it up? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I think they were going to some kind of a
conviction or bench at or meeting or something. But I
think you'd probably look it up and find that it
was a big deal for quite a while.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
So for that long it was they were. They drove
that far next to.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Each other, Yes, they do. They left Omaha and they
got out the central the grass and maybe that quite
so grand Allen. I don't know for sure where they
were going, but it's been a few years. I think
if you looked at up on the computer somewhere, you
probably find it.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Oh I would I would be, that would be it was.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
It was huge.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
That would mess me up, man, I would have made
a lot of phone calls, especially if I had something
to goy No, thank you, all right, that's uh. I'm
glad I didn't have to deal with that. Mark. I
appreciate you sharing that with me, though, thanks for listening.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I'm glad I didn't either, So thanks.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Buddy, appreciate the call. Uh. Curtis emails in and says,
I don't particularly have stories I'd like to share. I'll
say this. There is an invisible power up level at
the corner of ninety six then Harrison eastbound that gives
every driver the power to exercise your special finger. If
you have the nerve to drive the speed limit with
a bunch of kids in your car, And how do
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you feel about this? You're on the freeway, it's like sixty, right,
fifty five or sixty most of that, Yeah, but let's
say traffic is kind of going more sixty five to seventy. Okay,
you the guy that's gonna, you know, follow follow traffic
and just stay in the flow of what's going on.
Or are you the guy that's gonna get into the
right lane and say I'm going the speed limit and
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you guys need to get you can go, like figure
yourselves out. I do try to stay in the right
lane because I do not always want to go with
the flow of the traffic. Don't always go to the
floor if they I mean, it just depends generally. I
try to I do. I think I think that the
safest thing to do is to go the flow. Because
if the flow of the traffic is ten miles above
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the speed limit and you're and you're back there and
everybody's just lying around you the whole time, and there's
trucks and everything, that's a little bit more dangerous I
would say, but yeah, at the same time, like I,
it depends on your confidence level with what you're doing
and how well you know the highway right, because if
you know what exit you're trying to get to, you're
gonna kind of be able to prepare yourself. You don't
want to be in the far left lane and have
like a half mile to try to work four lanes
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to the right to be able to get off on
the right exit. Right, that's where you're going to find
a lot of danger. But yeah, I don't know. I'm
a little torn on that. When I was when I
was learning how to drive, my dad took me up
to the big city of Des Moines to do some
highway driving with me, and that was his first lesson,
is like, get in the middle lane unless you know
you're exiting, and go with the flow of traffic, stay
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at the speed of the car in front of you.
And there was it was a good lesson. You know,
I don't always practice that, especially if I'm in a
new city and I kind of, you know, I am
a little bit more cautious, but you know, it is interesting.
Amber emailed in and said, Hi, I'm road Rage, Nice
to meet you. My old boss called me road rage Amber.
That's probably all that needs to be said about this.
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We all know somebody like that, right. It's just like
literally anytime that they're on the road, there's a good
chance that they're gonna have some sort of adversity. They're
gonna have to worry about it. Sometimes it's the people
you least expect. I think that that's kind of common honestly,
like a channel channel it, right, Like it's like a
channeling of all of your emotions into like one thing
that happens to you while you're driving. But it's one
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of those things where like when you have that separation
and maybe you got a lot of things in life
that are pushing you down. There's extra gravity in your life,
and maybe you're the type of person who just kind
of takes it and smiled and says, Okay, I'm gonna
keep going. I'm a nice guy. And then you get
in your car and people start cutting you off, and
then it's like, okay, enough of miss or nice guy
who wants some and then all of a sudden, a
let Biscuit song starts coming on the radio. Yeah, I
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don't know if I I don't quite compete with that
wearing a pair of jeorts and you got a backwards
hat or a Stircochelle necklace. Disturbed comes on. W Yeah,
that'll get you going. Let's the body said the flug
and you know, like so well no, But when I
was thinking, like, is there's kind of like a bubble
when you're on the road, right, unless you're in this
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situation from Eastern Iowa where the guy like took shots
at the one semi driver was taking like shooting a
gun at another semi driver. But usually you're kind of
safe in your bubble, right, Like I can get mad
at you and like throw my fingers in the air
and all that stuff, But what are you going to do?
You can't come get me. We're moving at forty five
miles an hour down the road, right, Yeah, for the
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most part, I mean sometimes there are an extreme like
you can get real mad, but I mean, like, what
are they gonna do? You're just yelling at each other, right,
It's kind of like an Internet fight, except you're in
moving vehicles and you can pretty easily, you know, injure
yourself if you're not doing it right. Richard's on the
phone line of four h two five, five, eight eleven ten.
Welcome Richard. What are you thinking about?
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Aery Sanger? I wanted to add what that gentleman just
called you about the two Omaha policemen. That was back
in the early eighties, and the speed limit was fifty
five mile an hour, and it seems the two Omaha
policemen decided that they were going to maintain that speed
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limit for everybody going down the road. So they drove
side by side for like eight or ten miles and
it took a highway patrolman to the demply run down
the median to come up behind both of them and
pull them over, and he wrote both of them a ticket.
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Oh and they had to go to court in New York, Nebraska,
and apparently the judge was livid about it. It was
on the news, but all he could do was find
them for whatever their ticket was for. That's what that
was all about.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Interesting, So I guess my thing on that front would
be right. It's just kind of like, who were these
guys with these these experienced officers, like, oh.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Yeah, they were standard Omahawk cops who were out of
their jurisdiction and decided to play a big, big dog
because they had red lights on their vehicles, and they
were fortunate that they didn't have me following them because
I know that they were out of their jurisdiction and
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I would have passed them on the right shoulder and
gone around them. Yes, said the hell with you?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Yeah, well, I'm glad that they got their come up
in eventually, because that just is a complete waste of
resources there.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Oh well, what they did was no different than say
people who uh uh uh demonstrate on the highway and
back up traffic. There could have been an ambulance. Now,
enough of that. Your situation and what you did to
that young lady, I can appreciate how you felt, but
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what you did was unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Yeah, yeah, I know I've become a better man, Richard.
I learned from my miss stakes in life.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Well how old were you then?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Twenty six? Maybe twenty seven?
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Okay, Well I wasn't too bright when who's that age either?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I mean, I'm not too bright now, but I definitely
feel brighter than I was then, that's for sure. My
wife I told my wife about what happened. Oh she
was not happy with me either. Yeah, she was, well, do.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
It, do it in this dam agent. You could get
yourself shot. I've had people cutting me off. I used
to get a hostile that I finally just backed off.
I take a deep breath, and I wish them well
and I hope they get where they're going safe. So
I'll let you get back to the show.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Good tagging you, Thanks Richard, good stuff. Really appreciate you
calling in man, it's good stuff. You got some road rage,
thoughts or experiences or anything you'd like to share with
us today call us at four h two five five
eight eleven ten four h two five five eight eleven
ten News Radio eleven ten kfab Emery's stung. I'm telling
you right now, you got one, and it's underneath your skin,
right now, get it out. I put myself out here.
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Yeah see, and you're just gonna let me take all
the heat. He's getting blowback for the story he told
and now he wants me to top. And he's like,
be but be a good producer. Make yourself look worse. No,
there's gotta be something where you got real angry when
you were behind the wheel and you did something that
you probably regret. There's gotta be wide. Let me tell
you there was one day, No, it was night in fact,
it was the middle of the night. It's the darkest
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part of the night. There was no moon in the sky.
I was in a highway. I was driving down a highway. No,
it was a dirt road. In fact, actually it was
just just a big old field. Now that I remember,
now that the clarity of my memories have started to
percolate to the tip of my brain. There was this car.
It was a little car full of a lot of clowns.
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And these clowns were not driving correctly. They were weaving,
they were dodging, they were all over the place. And
I was in my tractor right as one is, howling
at the invisible moon in the sky, plow in the field,
just like a good young producer in training would do.
And this car full of just kept cutting me off.
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So finally what I did is I dropped my plow.
I made my move, and there's probably about fifteen to
eighteen less clowns in the world. And then I woke up.
Thank goodness, it was just a dream. As it turns out,
I've never made a single traffic mistake. I hate you sometimes.
I understand why I thought we had this conversation where
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you have had multiple moving violations since the last time
I've had a moving violation. What's a moving violation where
you're moving and you get like pulled over for doing
something wrong like running a red light or getting ticketed
for speeding or erratic driving or something. Haven't I haven't
had a moving violation on my record in fourteen years.
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I'm a very cautious, careful driver, except for the one
time where I got into a little spat with some
girl that almost killed me. But you know, other than that,
I've been a pretty responsible driver. And here you're telling
me that you never make a traffic mistake or a
driving mistake, You're perfect on the roads. I'm not perfect.
I ran into a fence once. It was my first
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day of driving in high school. The Lincoln Park was
on the CD plugged end of the You remember those
old you know, you had a cassette tape in the
ninety three Chevy what was it, Chevy Blazer. Ninety three
Chevy Blazer had one of those cassette tapes things. He
had the core that goes into the cassette tape. You
got to cassette tape and then you could play CDs
on it. So I was fiddling with that because I
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had hybrid theory ready to go. It was my first
day of junior year of high school, and I was
probably pretty moody at the time because who wouldn't be
listening to Lincoln Park sixteen years old high school student.
All those things check out right. So I hit the
gas a little bit too hard. I wasn't expecting it.
I was wearing these cool new boots that I bought.
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They were a little heavier than what I was used to.
Are you making this up to No, this is real life.
I ran right into the fence. I clipped about six
to eight boards a wooden fence. Yeah, well what happened? Well,
I kept going you hit and ran on the fence?
Yeah I did.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
I did that. Emory, Okay, you want to throw me
in jail. Now, what is a statute of limitations? Why
don't you throw me into the Statue of Liberty? And
then I could just live there for the rest of
my life because I'm such a horrible person. You know
what's funny though, some of the kids who lived at
the house that I messed up the fence at I
kept seeing him around school that day and it was
haunting me.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I was like, oh, no, they know about the fence.
They're giving me looks. They had no clue. But I
got home that night and talked to the owner of
the fence, and he was really nice about it. He
patted me on the head and you know, understood that
I was just some young, dumb kid. Okay, so you
did fix it up? Yeah? Yeah, like, yeah, what'd you
have to do? You get to replant like the fence
post and he patched it up the way he patched
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up our relationship there by being a really nice You
didn't I didn't have to do anything. Yeah, okay, So
I guess the lesson is just go go ahead and
run in the fence as kids. Somebody else will fix
it for you. Well, he paid me a kindness that
day that quite frankly, I try to pay forward. So
I appreciate that, mister Dale. Yeah, with your terrible made
up stories that you're dreaming about anyway more on the
way on news right, will ever think a F A B.
Have you ever been stuck on a highway? Two lane highway?
You're like on your way somewhere and you catch up
to two semis, one of which is trying to pass
the other. Have you ever had that happen to you? Absolutely?
It's Is there a worse feeling than that, especially when
you're about to approach like a hill. It's a very
hopeless feeling. Yeah, I like, neither of these guys are
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going to back down. The guy in the right lane's
not going to slow down, so the guy in the
left lane can like slide over, and they're just just
gonna be mashing the gas pedal all the way down
and trying to pass each other nice and slow. Now,
I don't know what precipitated this or if there was
anything else besides just the fact that these two are
like one guy is trying to move out of the way,
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or the guy wanted him to move out of the way.
But this situation was to just the east of des
Moyne and Iowa on Interstate eighty and police say they
were called to the report of gunfire on the highway.
I don't know who reported this, Maybe it was somebody
behind them that saw this. Happening. But apparently they determined
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the driver of a semi truck hauling a grain trailer
fired multiple gunshots at another semi as they were attempting
to pass. So, like, he's a he's sitting in his
driver's seat, he sees this semi trying to pass him,
and he just starts starts shooting at this semi next
to him. Now, the victim pulled off the highway, the
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victim semi, and they were able to get the description
of the other semi truck and the driver. They were
able to find it, and they found a handgun on
this guy. He's a fifty six year old uh and
uh yeah, So he's booked in charge with attempted murder,
intimidation with a dangerous weapon, going armed with intent, and
he missed all of his shots, for whatever it's worth.
(01:48):
But is that kind of insane to you? Like, like,
there's a semi truck driver carrying a loaded handgun in
another semi tries to pass him, and he's like, bang,
bang bang. Anyone who do anything like that, that is
that's insane. But that I mean for and again, I
don't know if there was something else that precipitated this
between those two guys. Yeah, I bet there was. Are
they insulting each other on the on the on the radio,
(02:11):
a little bit of chatter on the on the U
or did that guy pass him and then this guy
is trying to repass him? What you remember on Dumb
and Dumber, the whole Sea bass situation. Maybe that's what
happened at the prior truck stop and the other guy
just caught up to the other one, because you know
how it ends in Dumb and Dumber when he tells
the story, he says, well, oh, go ahead, what do
they just drove down the road and got away scott free. No,
(02:32):
he caught up with them down the road and whoa
you remember? I think that's violent, and uh I do too.
I'm not I'm not aspousing as violence. I'm just telling
you what happened in Domanis Movies of all Time on
the Greatest Lloyd Christmas Harry Done. Nobody, Nobody's ever said
that sentence about Thumb and Dumber. Dale is on a
(02:53):
phone line of four O two five five eight eleven ten, Dale,
you want to talk a little bit about road rage
with us today?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
For taking my call? Yeah, I believe that truck driver
is a little bit more hot water than that because
the memory service quection. I believe it's illegal for the
person who carries the cdo to carry a fire in
his vehicle. He's got probably more problems than than people realize.
But I kinda ask good question. I witnessed two cars
(03:23):
going down in the interstate and they were bumping one
another straight and paint, and it was kind of curious,
and I kind of backed off when I thought. But
then I asked myself. I said, now, those gitards that
were trading paint, would that'd be considered a road rash?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yes, Dale, I think that would indeed be a road rash.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Okay, I appreciate the verification.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Thank you much.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Thanks, Yeah, you as well appreciate it. Oh Dale, what
a card? Have you ever gotten enough to do something
crazy on the road? I'll be honest, I have guiltiest charged.
What'd you do?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Well?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I didn't. It was kind of what I was. I
don't know. You tell me, I'll describe it, and you
tell me if I was a bad guy. Here, I'm
driving home. I'm in a vehicle that's a sedan, so
I'm not like a like a big vehicle. It's different.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
You get these people out there with their six wheel
diesel trucks out there and they're just pushing people all
over the place. No disrespect to you diesel truck driving
pickup guys, but it's just like they change lanes and
they don't really even care where you are a lot
of the time because like, what are you going to do? Right,
Like you're gonna get out of the way so they
don't hit you. So I don't know, you want to know,
(04:42):
you want to know something. I sometimes have a short temper.
I try really hard to keep that under reps. I'm
on the radio, say it ain't so I know. I'm
not a perfect guy. Well, what happened was there was
this car that came onto the like I was on,
Like they were coming off the interstate onto this like
main road. It's a two lane road, but it's the
(05:03):
main road, and they came onto the high like from
the highway, and you know how you are supposed to merge, right, Well,
they not only merged, I gave them room. I was
in the left lane, but they cut me off on
the left lane right, so they got into the right lane.
I moved over for them and then they wanted to
pass the car in front of them. They didn't even
care about where I was, or even didn't notice where
I was, and then cut me off. I was matt
(05:26):
I honked my horn, which again in the Midwest, you
don't know a lot of horn honkers around these parts, right,
Like you give people benefited doubt most of the time
before you start laying on your horn. Well, I laid
on it for a couple of seconds, so this person
knew I was upset. I was in the car by myself,
for whatever it's worth, and I followed this person as
(05:47):
I was on my way home, and they were going
the same direction I was going. So you know what
I did. I sped up, got in front of them
and cut them off in the right lane. And then
you know what I did. Every time they tried to
pass me, I got in front of them. So so
this person, who was a girl, I think she was
probably in her mid twenties or whatever. We were about
the same age. Like, I slowed down to like let
her know I was upset with what she did to me.
(06:09):
And then she would try to pass me on the
left and I'd immediately go into the left lane of blocker.
What do you mean you slowed down to let her know?
What does that mean she passed me, or she got
into the highway she cut me off. We're going like
forty five, because that's what this main road speed limit is.
You know, forty five fifty traffic is somewhat busy. You know,
(06:30):
it's like a little after rush hour. I've had a
long day. I'm getting frustrated here, so I got in
front of her. I don't need to be home right away,
so I get in front of her and I hit
my brake, like I'm going thirty five to forty now,
and you're stuck behind me. And every time she tried
to pass me, I just got back in front of
her and didn't let her pass me. And I did
(06:50):
that all the way until I got to my turn
off to go home. How long of a time was that, Oh,
it was probably like five minutes real time at least.
I mean, I'm sure I was driving her nuts, but
I wanted her to know that. It was like she
almost got me and her almost got in a car
accident because she's an idiot, and I wanted to let
her know that. So she made a mistake. Yeah, almost
got us in a car wreck. Yeah, and you've never
(07:12):
done that before yourself. I have. And what if every
single person did that to you every time you made
a mistake, I would say, I deserve it. It's my bad.
There was one time I was driving a station vehicle.
This was the worst. I was driving a station vehicle
leaving town to go on like a long trip to
ghost like a call a softball game or something. I'm
in the station vehicle. It's got the call letters and
(07:34):
everything all over it. Right, it is unmistakable who could
be driving this car. Okay, there's only like a handful
of people that would at any point drive this car.
And I'm driving it and there's a car, like maybe
a truck or something on the side of the road.
You know what you're supposed to do when you see
that right like on the shoulder, You're supposed to move
to the left lane, right you following? Yeah, I didn't
(07:56):
see this person who had approached me from my blind spot,
and as I just kind of like blindly moved to
the left lane to avoid this truck, I didn't see
this mini van who basically had to like go to
this onto the side of the road before I realized
that there was a car right there, and then we
got past this she pulled up next to me, and
(08:19):
I knew I had messed up, and she kind of
looked over at me, and she was mad, and she like,
you know, she looked at me while we were driving,
and I just like waved at her and I nodded
and my mouthed sorry and everything, and I let her
pass me and I let her get far enough away
before I got back into my up to speed. I
had to eat that one because I messed up this
(08:39):
girl as far as she seemed to care, like she
didn't mess up at all, and I wanted to make
sure she knew she messed up. Okay, nobody got hurt.
It probably was a bit immature and could have been
a lot more dangerous had I been around other cars,
But for the most part, right like, I felt like
I needed to get a point across to this woman. Yeah,
a little toxic, okay, you know. I tried to learn
(09:02):
and grow from that point. It's three twenty nine. If
you got some thoughts on road rage, you got your
own road rage story you'd like to share with us today,
feel free to call us at four h two five
five eight to eleven ten four h two five five
eight to eleven ten. You're listening to news radio eleven
ten kfab. Emery Sunger on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
(09:23):
There was a guy, a nameless guy that decided to
call in and yell at you about my story.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
He did.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
He was so mad at you for the way you
traded and treated that young lady. And I see his point.
By the way, I was a young man who cares well,
I was a young warthog. That doesn't make a difference.
So she she certainly wasn't practicing a kuna matata when
she almost put me into a wall on an overpass
off of a highway. But you didn't have to creep
on her for like ten minutes straight on her. I
(09:49):
just slowed her down a little bit, let her know
that I didn't really appreciate her not paying any attention
to me. Well, she almost killed us both. Well either way.
The guy who called in was so upset he couldn't
even go on air. He said, I'm too upset to
even go on air. Why would you call in and
be so upset that you won't even use that for
the good radio that that could provide like what a
thing to do, Like, so you know the radio station's number,
(10:11):
you put it into your phone, you dial it, you
call it rings, I answer. There's a person that answers
the whole while you're too upset to even go on air.
You just wanted to yell at Matt about my story.
That doesn't make any sense. But somebody tell me how
that makes any sense. He was raging about my road
rage story, but he was so mad he didn't You
want to confront me about it. What does that tell you?
Road rage to phone rage? Where is my rage? I'm
(10:33):
stuck in a cage and I'm gonna make you talk
about your rage once I massage it out of you. First,
I want to go to the phones at four h two, five, five,
eight to eleven ten. It is Mark, Mark, Hello, what's
going on? Oh yeah, Mark, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah's been twenty years ago. But a couple of cops left,
A couple o police left Omaha and threw out like
your Nebraska side by side, that trap backed up for
you know, like thirty miles. I think there was a
little bit of road rates there.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Why did they do that?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Look it up? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I think they were going to some kind of a
conviction or bench at or meeting or something. But I
think you'd probably look it up and find that it
was a big deal for quite a while.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
So for that long it was they were. They drove
that far next to.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Each other, Yes, they do. They left Omaha and they
got out the central the grass and maybe that quite
so grand Allen. I don't know for sure where they
were going, but it's been a few years. I think
if you looked at up on the computer somewhere, you
probably find it.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Oh I would I would be, that would be it was.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
It was huge.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
That would mess me up, man, I would have made
a lot of phone calls, especially if I had something
to goy No, thank you, all right, that's uh. I'm
glad I didn't have to deal with that. Mark. I
appreciate you sharing that with me, though, thanks for listening.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I'm glad I didn't either, So thanks.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Buddy, appreciate the call. Uh. Curtis emails in and says,
I don't particularly have stories I'd like to share. I'll
say this. There is an invisible power up level at
the corner of ninety six then Harrison eastbound that gives
every driver the power to exercise your special finger. If
you have the nerve to drive the speed limit with
a bunch of kids in your car, And how do
(12:15):
you feel about this? You're on the freeway, it's like sixty, right,
fifty five or sixty most of that, Yeah, but let's
say traffic is kind of going more sixty five to seventy. Okay,
you the guy that's gonna, you know, follow follow traffic
and just stay in the flow of what's going on.
Or are you the guy that's gonna get into the
right lane and say I'm going the speed limit and
(12:36):
you guys need to get you can go, like figure
yourselves out. I do try to stay in the right
lane because I do not always want to go with
the flow of the traffic. Don't always go to the
floor if they I mean, it just depends generally. I
try to I do. I think I think that the
safest thing to do is to go the flow. Because
if the flow of the traffic is ten miles above
(12:57):
the speed limit and you're and you're back there and
everybody's just lying around you the whole time, and there's
trucks and everything, that's a little bit more dangerous I
would say, but yeah, at the same time, like I,
it depends on your confidence level with what you're doing
and how well you know the highway right, because if
you know what exit you're trying to get to, you're
gonna kind of be able to prepare yourself. You don't
want to be in the far left lane and have
like a half mile to try to work four lanes
(13:19):
to the right to be able to get off on
the right exit. Right, that's where you're going to find
a lot of danger. But yeah, I don't know. I'm
a little torn on that. When I was when I
was learning how to drive, my dad took me up
to the big city of Des Moines to do some
highway driving with me, and that was his first lesson,
is like, get in the middle lane unless you know
you're exiting, and go with the flow of traffic, stay
(13:40):
at the speed of the car in front of you.
And there was it was a good lesson. You know,
I don't always practice that, especially if I'm in a
new city and I kind of, you know, I am
a little bit more cautious, but you know, it is interesting.
Amber emailed in and said, Hi, I'm road Rage, Nice
to meet you. My old boss called me road rage Amber.
That's probably all that needs to be said about this.
(14:01):
We all know somebody like that, right. It's just like
literally anytime that they're on the road, there's a good
chance that they're gonna have some sort of adversity. They're
gonna have to worry about it. Sometimes it's the people
you least expect. I think that that's kind of common honestly,
like a channel channel it, right, Like it's like a
channeling of all of your emotions into like one thing
that happens to you while you're driving. But it's one
(14:22):
of those things where like when you have that separation
and maybe you got a lot of things in life
that are pushing you down. There's extra gravity in your life,
and maybe you're the type of person who just kind
of takes it and smiled and says, Okay, I'm gonna
keep going. I'm a nice guy. And then you get
in your car and people start cutting you off, and
then it's like, okay, enough of miss or nice guy
who wants some and then all of a sudden, a
let Biscuit song starts coming on the radio. Yeah, I
(14:45):
don't know if I I don't quite compete with that
wearing a pair of jeorts and you got a backwards
hat or a Stircochelle necklace. Disturbed comes on. W Yeah,
that'll get you going. Let's the body said the flug
and you know, like so well no, But when I
was thinking, like, is there's kind of like a bubble
when you're on the road, right, unless you're in this
(15:06):
situation from Eastern Iowa where the guy like took shots
at the one semi driver was taking like shooting a
gun at another semi driver. But usually you're kind of
safe in your bubble, right, Like I can get mad
at you and like throw my fingers in the air
and all that stuff, But what are you going to do?
You can't come get me. We're moving at forty five
miles an hour down the road, right, Yeah, for the
(15:26):
most part, I mean sometimes there are an extreme like
you can get real mad, but I mean, like, what
are they gonna do? You're just yelling at each other, right,
It's kind of like an Internet fight, except you're in
moving vehicles and you can pretty easily, you know, injure
yourself if you're not doing it right. Richard's on the
phone line of four h two five, five, eight eleven ten.
Welcome Richard. What are you thinking about?
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Aery Sanger? I wanted to add what that gentleman just
called you about the two Omaha policemen. That was back
in the early eighties, and the speed limit was fifty
five mile an hour, and it seems the two Omaha
policemen decided that they were going to maintain that speed
(16:04):
limit for everybody going down the road. So they drove
side by side for like eight or ten miles and
it took a highway patrolman to the demply run down
the median to come up behind both of them and
pull them over, and he wrote both of them a ticket.
(16:26):
Oh and they had to go to court in New York, Nebraska,
and apparently the judge was livid about it. It was
on the news, but all he could do was find
them for whatever their ticket was for. That's what that
was all about.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Interesting, So I guess my thing on that front would
be right. It's just kind of like, who were these
guys with these these experienced officers, like, oh.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Yeah, they were standard Omahawk cops who were out of
their jurisdiction and decided to play a big, big dog
because they had red lights on their vehicles, and they
were fortunate that they didn't have me following them because
I know that they were out of their jurisdiction and
(17:16):
I would have passed them on the right shoulder and
gone around them. Yes, said the hell with you?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Yeah, well, I'm glad that they got their come up
in eventually, because that just is a complete waste of
resources there.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Oh well, what they did was no different than say
people who uh uh uh demonstrate on the highway and
back up traffic. There could have been an ambulance. Now,
enough of that. Your situation and what you did to
that young lady, I can appreciate how you felt, but
(17:53):
what you did was unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Yeah, yeah, I know I've become a better man, Richard.
I learned from my miss stakes in life.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Well how old were you then?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Twenty six? Maybe twenty seven?
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Okay, Well I wasn't too bright when who's that age either?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I mean, I'm not too bright now, but I definitely
feel brighter than I was then, that's for sure. My
wife I told my wife about what happened. Oh she
was not happy with me either. Yeah, she was, well, do.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
It, do it in this dam agent. You could get
yourself shot. I've had people cutting me off. I used
to get a hostile that I finally just backed off.
I take a deep breath, and I wish them well
and I hope they get where they're going safe. So
I'll let you get back to the show.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Good tagging you, Thanks Richard, good stuff. Really appreciate you
calling in man, it's good stuff. You got some road rage,
thoughts or experiences or anything you'd like to share with
us today call us at four h two five five
eight eleven ten four h two five five eight eleven
ten News Radio eleven ten kfab Emery's stung. I'm telling
you right now, you got one, and it's underneath your skin,
right now, get it out. I put myself out here.
(18:58):
Yeah see, and you're just gonna let me take all
the heat. He's getting blowback for the story he told
and now he wants me to top. And he's like,
be but be a good producer. Make yourself look worse. No,
there's gotta be something where you got real angry when
you were behind the wheel and you did something that
you probably regret. There's gotta be wide. Let me tell
you there was one day, No, it was night in fact,
it was the middle of the night. It's the darkest
(19:19):
part of the night. There was no moon in the sky.
I was in a highway. I was driving down a highway. No,
it was a dirt road. In fact, actually it was
just just a big old field. Now that I remember,
now that the clarity of my memories have started to
percolate to the tip of my brain. There was this car.
It was a little car full of a lot of clowns.
(19:41):
And these clowns were not driving correctly. They were weaving,
they were dodging, they were all over the place. And
I was in my tractor right as one is, howling
at the invisible moon in the sky, plow in the field,
just like a good young producer in training would do.
And this car full of just kept cutting me off.
(20:01):
So finally what I did is I dropped my plow.
I made my move, and there's probably about fifteen to
eighteen less clowns in the world. And then I woke up.
Thank goodness, it was just a dream. As it turns out,
I've never made a single traffic mistake. I hate you sometimes.
I understand why I thought we had this conversation where
(20:24):
you have had multiple moving violations since the last time
I've had a moving violation. What's a moving violation where
you're moving and you get like pulled over for doing
something wrong like running a red light or getting ticketed
for speeding or erratic driving or something. Haven't I haven't
had a moving violation on my record in fourteen years.
(20:45):
I'm a very cautious, careful driver, except for the one
time where I got into a little spat with some
girl that almost killed me. But you know, other than that,
I've been a pretty responsible driver. And here you're telling
me that you never make a traffic mistake or a
driving mistake, You're perfect on the roads. I'm not perfect.
I ran into a fence once. It was my first
(21:06):
day of driving in high school. The Lincoln Park was
on the CD plugged end of the You remember those
old you know, you had a cassette tape in the
ninety three Chevy what was it, Chevy Blazer. Ninety three
Chevy Blazer had one of those cassette tapes things. He
had the core that goes into the cassette tape. You
got to cassette tape and then you could play CDs
on it. So I was fiddling with that because I
(21:26):
had hybrid theory ready to go. It was my first
day of junior year of high school, and I was
probably pretty moody at the time because who wouldn't be
listening to Lincoln Park sixteen years old high school student.
All those things check out right. So I hit the
gas a little bit too hard. I wasn't expecting it.
I was wearing these cool new boots that I bought.
(21:46):
They were a little heavier than what I was used to.
Are you making this up to No, this is real life.
I ran right into the fence. I clipped about six
to eight boards a wooden fence. Yeah, well what happened? Well,
I kept going you hit and ran on the fence?
Yeah I did.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
I did that. Emory, Okay, you want to throw me
in jail. Now, what is a statute of limitations? Why
don't you throw me into the Statue of Liberty? And
then I could just live there for the rest of
my life because I'm such a horrible person. You know
what's funny though, some of the kids who lived at
the house that I messed up the fence at I
kept seeing him around school that day and it was
haunting me.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I was like, oh, no, they know about the fence.
They're giving me looks. They had no clue. But I
got home that night and talked to the owner of
the fence, and he was really nice about it. He
patted me on the head and you know, understood that
I was just some young, dumb kid. Okay, so you
did fix it up? Yeah? Yeah, like, yeah, what'd you
have to do? You get to replant like the fence
post and he patched it up the way he patched
(22:40):
up our relationship there by being a really nice You
didn't I didn't have to do anything. Yeah, okay, So
I guess the lesson is just go go ahead and
run in the fence as kids. Somebody else will fix
it for you. Well, he paid me a kindness that
day that quite frankly, I try to pay forward. So
I appreciate that, mister Dale. Yeah, with your terrible made
up stories that you're dreaming about anyway more on the
way on news right, will ever think a F A B.
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