Results tagged “roadrage”

Six years ago, Brooklynder Brooklynite New Yorker Aaron Naparstek began writing honkus - haikus about cars and traffic - and taping them to lampposts near his Brooklyn home after he discovered that egging honkers from his apartment window was not necessarily the safest approach to dissuading the behavior. Houstonist feels his pain. There's no shortage of idiots behind the wheel in our fair metropolis. Personally, we favor a potato gun for our road rage retaliation,...

Police are still trying to piece together the events that led to a shooting on the East Loop yesterday morning, possibly the result of a case of road rage. The victim was 47-year-old Carlos Berdegues, who was found slumped over in his truck after the vehicle crashed into a roadside wall near Market Street between 6 and 7 a.m. Witnesses saw the truck weaving in traffic before it hit the wall, and that — not...

Good morning, Houston. We're ashamed to admit that, on occasion, we succumb to road rage — especially when we're staying within the speed limit and other drivers get right on our tail, flashing their lights and acting like we need to go faster. We've often been tempted to slam on our brakes and show the tailgaters what's what, but according to the Chronicle's resident police expert, maybe we shouldn't: HPD Sgt. Steve Copeland warns...

So the East Freeway wasn't the place to be early this morning, thanks to a shooting spree that apparently began with a case of road rage. The shooters were three men in a green pickup truck, the victims were a group of people in a gray Ford Tempo, and a couple of random people got caught up in the mayhem — and beyond that, things aren't too clear. According to KTRK, the guys in...

So the results of the GMAC Insurance driving test are in, and there's good news: Texas doesn't have the dumbest drivers in the country. Finally, a list where we're not the worst at something! The test consisted of 20 questions based on state driver's license examinations where a score of 70 or higher is required to pass. According to the results, which cover all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, the three states most...

LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark "Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid." Is that a promise? They also give us this week's best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow. Ah, Houstonist. They're biking to work, that is, if they can figure out how to get there. That's right, Mapquest says "Houston had the...

Ah, another national study of something we'd never thought about researching: the best and worst U.S. cities for road rage. Looks like drivers in Miami are the nation's rudest, while people in Minneapolis are veritable traffic angels. The Driver's Seat Road Rage Survey, commissioned by AutoVantage, polled people in 20 major cities to get their thoughts on how nasty drivers in their towns were, and the results were pretty much what you'd expect: People get mean when they get stressed, and people get stupid when they multitask while driving.

Though a suspect is already in custody, police are still puzzling over the murder of Kasey Davis, a Texas Christian football player who was shot to death at a Conroe apartment complex early Tuesday morning. Davis had just parked his Suburban at the Forest Creek Apartments on Montgomery Park about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday when a man got out of a nearby car and shot Davis through his driver's-side window, then returned to his car and...