I hate to compare the two incidents, since you are a father and I think I am personally going to sterilize Mooshoo for humanity's sake.I'm gonna see if I can upstage him. Here's the setup. My driveway is blind from one direction and short distance to a curve in the other, two lane, narrow mountain road. Pulling out across oncoming traffic is sketchy every time and speed limit is 35. No passing.
I come home from my daughters Christmas play w/ my parents in the car behind me a minute or two back at night. Pull in the drive and check the mailbox. Start back to the car and hear tires squalling in the distance. Look up and a truck is ripping past my parents (with my daughters in the back seat) in the curve. I reach down instantly, no forethought, and grab a handful of gravel. He passes by me in the wrong lane 50+mph and gets a grill full of gravel. Heart racing, scared that my kids almost died at his hands.
Here's your clincher. Nutjob has the balls to come back. Doesn't turn in my drive but starts to get out. I rush up and pin him into his truck. He's got one leg on the ground and I've literally got his skull pinned in his door frame to keep him from getting out. He's cussing me and I'm telling him to apologize and he almost killed my babies. That I'll make his skull pop before I let him out. Guy starts panicing and and says he's got a gun. I punch his head again with the door hard and he starts squeeky voicing, telling me he passed them b/c he's on his way to his mom. Throws in a "she's dyin." Dude's nutty. I make him take off. No apology. Just a tag # and a call to the cops who don't bother to find him over the threat.
My dad tells me I'm nuts, etc. but I just said "If he wasn't doing anything illegal, no rocks would have hit his truck and all I could think about was my childrens lives threatened". I reacted.
Oh, and shortly before the cops came, the guy drove by in a different car and said "cops ain't gonna do ****e". My only grace is he never really saw my face or what I drive b/c my car was at the house which sits 3 houses back on a private drive. he only saw my dads.
So discuss that act of idiocy.
However, as poorly and intentionally dangerous that nutjob was driving, by throwing rocks at his window, you probably taught him nothing about poor driving and you exposed your family to a potential threat.
You were wise to pin him in his car door before he got out, though.
But I probably would have done exactly what you did, and I would be wondering if I did the right thing for a long time, as well as peering out my window every time a car pulled into my driveway.
Mooshoo didn't get hurt (although I don't think he wrote that he had been hit the week before, badly enough his rear wheel needed to be replaced) and he struck the guy's bike.
I almost got hit twice tonight. I did my usual maneuver, which is to start waving like, "Did you see me?!?!?", but that's about it. It would have been funnier if I slashed their tires, but what I am going to do?