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Last Friday night I was driving home around 11.30pm.  I was driving down  notorious Bell street Preston and stopped at the lights to turn right, next to the Maccas on St Georges Road.  Behind me was a blue lancer with an exhaust you could hear a block away and a full evo body kit.  This shit kicker had three blokes in the car. He then started revving his engine hard.  When I say hard I mean red line, engine breaking revving.  The whole time I'm thinking "Your a bloody tosser"

Anyway the light turns green and he had about as much chance of keeping up as a pot bellied yobbo picking up a grid girl at the F1.

Anyway the story did not end there.  He started following me. I was near home and I went down a few streets in a big circle and the persistant little bastard kept coming.  By now I'm getting pissed off and a little worried so I put the foot down and managed to get a fair way ahead.  I have an eletronic roller door so I hit the 'open' button, drove in and shut the roller door without him seeing where I live.  

Even after doing this I could hear the drone of his exhaust going up and down the sorrounding streets for ages after.

I was nearly tempted to get the old .303 rifle my family has and sit on the roof and blow one of the wheels off his car as he drove past.... Cops would probably have something negitive to say if I did that though...

Anyway have any of you had something like this happen?  Any road rage that has turned into a chase?

Quik: I had the exact same thing happen to me when I had my GTS-T

I was coming home from a friends place about 2am on a Sunday morning and a small car pulled out behind me a few streets from my place. Seing as I could hear yelling from the car behind while it tailgaiting the hell out of me, I knocked the car back a gear and took off down a sidestreet around the corner and they followed. I ended up driving into a carpark at the local shopping centre and waiting 5 mins before driving out and slowly back up the road past the shops only to see him pulling out of a different exit. It was on again.

This time I took off up the highway and once he was out of my mirror i went down a sidestreet, turned around and waiting for the prick to come past but he never did so after about 15 mins of sitting around I head home, watching every direction.

The problem continued when I pulled into my driveway and in my mirror saw the bastards waiting in a culdersac for me - they rolled (with headlights off) up to my driveway while my roller door was going up - I ran in, grabbed a large type baseball bat not knowing what the deal was and jumped back in the car and began to reverse and they took off.

Scared the absolute 5hit out of me and I have been very vigilant ever since.

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