George Carlin once said "anyone driving slower than you is a moron, anyone driving faster than you is a lunatic!" and EPMD once said:
Sit back and relax, let my rhymes tax
Maintain MC's while the Double E macks
Always calm under pressure, no need to act ill
Listen when I tell you boy, you gots to chill.. *echoes*
yes you GOTS to chill you BMW driving retired Greyhound German military memorabilia collecting guy...
Road rage leads to fatal heart attack
After argument and loss of his car keys, Woodside man walks home -- and dies
Donald Frailey wasn't ordinarily the kind of person who lost his temper behind the wheel, according to his wife. He might have wanted other cars to go a bit faster sometimes, but in general, he was a sane driver.
Authorities, however, believe the 66-year-old retiree might have lost it as he was driving home Thursday on Skyline Boulevard above Woodside. What they initially thought was a mysterious killing turned out to be a natural death -- and the final act of a road-rage dispute between Frailey and the driver of a pickup truck that had passed his BMW.
Emergency dispatchers got a 911 call from Frailey's house Thursday afternoon in which he reported that he had been beaten and carjacked. When San Mateo County sheriff's deputies got to his home on the 13600 block of Skyline, they found a puzzling scene.
Frailey was in his chair, dead, with no apparent signs of injury. His BMW was soon found abandoned about 3 miles away.
The mystery unraveled when residents in the area began to tell what they knew, sheriff's Capt. Don O'Keefe said Friday.
They reported having seen Frailey and a pickup truck speeding south along Skyline and passing each other repeatedly Thursday afternoon. A work crew told investigators they had seen the vehicles veer onto Tunitas Creek Road, with the truck in the lead and the BMW close behind.
A bit of detective work revealed that the pickup driver was a 42-year-old electrician who lived in the area and was acquainted with Frailey, O'Keefe said. The driver told authorities Frailey had gotten mad when he passed him south of Highway 92 and that Frailey thought he had been cut off.
The electrician said he stopped half a mile down Tunitas Creek Road, asked Frailey what he was doing, grabbed his keys out of the ignition and threw them in the bushes. Then he drove home.
Investigators believe Frailey couldn't find his keys, so he walked 45 minutes to his house, 3 miles away. He had just arrived home when he called 911 to report that he had been beaten and his car was "stuck," O'Keefe said. Then the call cut off.
It turned out that Frailey had suffered a fatal heart attack, authorities said Friday.
O'Keefe said the electrician is not facing any charges.
Frailey's wife of 44 years, Rogene, said her husband was sometimes impatient about people driving too slowly but had never done anything except rail about it.
"He was a really nice guy,'' she said. "He would just say, hurry up, but that was it. ... He was a wonderful person.''
She said her husband retired 10 years ago from his job as a foreman at San Francisco's Greyhound bus terminal and recently was working a couple of days a month at Books Unlimited in San Mateo. In his spare time, he collected German military memorabilia.
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a little more at the link
ps (I am now using my broad brush) Is it your experience that a BMW driver will let you merge in front of them on the freeway, or slow a little to let you pass?
Me neither.
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