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Woman, 70, Victim Of Road Rage Attack In Grocery Store Parking Lot

October 19, 2010 at 8:43 am by Morbid

WALKERTOWN, N.C. – As 70-year-old Rebecca pulled out on to Highway 158, she noticed the car behind her was coming up pretty quick. She tried gunning it, but the furious driver behind her caught up to her and stayed inches off her ass, following her all the way to a Lowe’s Food where Rebecca planned to do some shopping. Approximately 45-minutes later, Rebecca was pushing her cart of groceries to her car when she noticed the enraged driver from earlier was in the parking lot waiting for her. Rebecca initially thought the woman was going to get out and berate her, but instead the woman drove toward Rebecca and rammed the cart she was pushing. She then put her car into reverse and hit Rebecca’s cart two more times before leaving the scene and before anyone could get a license plate number. “Your mind can’t wrap around what’s happening. You just can’t believe it, and she’s coming at you again,” Rebecca said. “She was actually smiling. She was smiling like ‘I got you now.’” The obvious lesson to be learned here is that you never drive significantly slower than the person you just pulled in front of and that ultimately, elderly people should be required to take their drivers test every three years.

Tags: assault and battery, Crime, North Carolina, parking lot, Road Rage

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Tenntitanfan

That wasn’t road rage that crossed the line into stalking when the bitch waited for that poor old woman 45 minutes while she was in the store. That is just totally fucked up. As old as that woman was she could have had a heart attack. The woman that rammed this old lady’s shopping cart could see she was a senior citizen. I wonder how she treats her own mother.
http://www.dreamindemon.com Morbid

I guess it all depends on if her own mother almost kills her when she pulls out inf front of her while driving down the highway.
Anonymous

Poor grandma, This had to be terrifying for her. I find my self in a hurry 99.9% of the time and always end up behind the slowest person on the planet earth. I just figure that it is God’s way of telling me to slow down and smell the coffee.
http://www.facebook.com/people/John-House/1011555524 John House

Well shit, if she noticed the car sitting there waiting for her, why didn’t she get the license number THEN? I guess Gramma’s memory isn’t as great as it could be….
kitand

Poor granny…all she needed was a good talking to, no need to ram her shopping cart.
Sublime

There is nothing I hate more than people who slow down when cutting me off. If you’re going to cut me off, fine, just make sure to speed up and at least go with the flow of traffic. I see it everyday and while I think this lady took it to the extreme, I can definitely see her reasoning.
Angelaceleste

The lady that rammed the grandma couldn’t have been in to big of hurry since she waisted time parked and waiting!
Gee

That is a lot of rage when you can sit there and wait 45 minutes and still be just as angry to ram this old lady’s cart. Going after a 70 year old lady is just wrong. This bitch needs some help. If her rage allows her to do that what else is she capable of?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5WYTW5UWWTGEKN4L2HBZ7I4E5E Zazen

I’m sorry, but the obvious lesson here is that road ragers are douchebags of the highest order who think nothing of abusing their driving privileges and terrifying little old ladies.

As a driver, I take it in stride that little old ladies are a fact of life. They are always going to be there, driving at least 10 miles under the posted speed limit. No matter what anyone says, no matter what having people tested every so often if they’ve gone over a certain age may accomplish, there will always be someone who’s going too slow.

Suck it up and drive defensively. Not offensively, ever. The little old ladies have as much right under the law to drive on the road just like everyone else. Wow though, and lying in wait for 45 minutes to crash your car into a shopping cart being pushed by the little old lady? Seriously? Predatory psycho much? That crazy bitch needs to be in jail.
Anonymous

I can’t shake the thought of “Jennifer Petkov has moved to N.C.” out of my head.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1422940974 Anonymous

She couldn’t have been in much of a hurry if she waited 45 minutes for her to shop. I know i’m one of the biggest assholes on the road but holy shit! I’m all set with psycho stalking someone and trying to run them over!!!
Anonymous

I swear to god that this is my mother thats driving. Every fuckin leaf that gets blown in front of the car is a cause for stompin the break. A cat on the side of the road..break..going under the speed limit..” well, they just need some manners”. And I just sit as a passenger and I want to ram her car.
Anonymous

I swear to god that this is my mother thats driving. Every fuckin leaf that gets blown in front of the car is a cause for stompin the break. A cat on the side of the road..break..going under the speed limit..” well, they just need some manners”. And I just sit as a passenger and I want to ram her car.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GWBV2FUY3OBYX3RNK6I44QSC7I Kwum

LOL @ this “gotcha bitch!” incident…
What is it with these geezers( aka “qtips”)? Ether they are either cutting you off then puttin along daydreamin or they are floorin it and careening up on sidewalks (hello florida!) taking out countless pedestrians..
ugh
Tundratot

Just what I was thinking.

Typical road rage involves a person in a hurry who is incensed at the delays caused by other drivers. They don’t have time to stalk and get even in that way. Instead they try to get around you, honk madly or yell obscenities, and sometimes try to cut you off. If you can ignore them, they have no time for long thought out shenanigans.
beatlechick

I am all for Senior citizens having to retake their driver’s test every few years. Hell, I am all for all drivers having to retake their test when they need to renew their licenses. I am not however for road rage incidents. They cross the line and can be deadly. That’s the lamest excuse to punch the shit out of people. Go to anger management class or stay off the fucking road if you don’t like how other people drive.
celia

Wouldn’t even count it as road rage considering that’s usually when people just snap and get pissed. She waited for the woman to leave the store to be a douche-bag. Therefore she’s just a douche-bag who needs anger management to learn not to be such a douche-bag to others.

I vote for everyone having to re-take their driving tests more often. some of you mother fuckers can’t drive from the get go.

including myself.
Boughtthefarm

forget the testing. The minute they retire, the elderly ought to have to turn in their driver’s license for a bus/rail pass.
Bluenoser

Let he who has comminted no driving error ram the first cart.
melb1970

That poor woman to be stalked by somebody that needs their ass beat.
She has time to wait for granny to get out of the store to ram her car into a grocery cart but is too freaking lazy to even get out of the car.
Personally, I would like to drag that pyscho sow out of her car through her window just to say hello.
Sam

This has nothing to do with the woman’s age and if she was following the speed limit as determined by the maniac behind her. Obviously the sociopath didn’t have to be somewhere fast since she waited in the parking lot. I am really surprised the owner of the site made such a comment.
http://www.dreamindemon.com Morbid

You’re surprised at that comment? Wow, you are either new, or about to quit visiting.
http://www.dreamindemon.com Morbid

You’re surprised at that comment? Wow, you are either new, or about to quit visiting.
http://www.dreamindemon.com Jaded

*slap*
http://www.dreamindemon.com Jaded

Couldn’t agree more, Tenntitanfan.
Athena

I don’t know why it’s presumed the road rager was in a hurry. Clearly, she wasn’t. Perhaps this old lady almost killed her pulling out in front of her like she did.

I’m not exactly proud of it, but I had a similar road rage incident when I was younger. I was on a four lane road that curved sharply to the right, and I was in the right hand lane. This older woman driving in the left-hand lane next to me was on her cell phone not paying ANY attention. As she glided far into my lane, I was forced to pop the curb and perform some evasive manuvers to avoid some pedestrians. This woman almost killed 3 people by forcing me off the road, but would have creamed me and my little sports car had I done nothing. I was instantly enraged. Fuck this woman for thinking her goddamn PHONE CALL was worth my LIFE. So, I did what any reasonable person would do…

I sped up and slid sideways, cutting off all northbound traffic. I then got out of my car, walked up to her window (bitch hadn’t even bothered to hang up yet!) and said very angrily, “Get off your fucking phone before you KILL someone, you oblivious moron!”

Hilariously, since everyone stopped had seen the peril she put me in, I actually got applause from a couple drivers. Why? Because I did exactly why most people would want to do in such a situation. That said, I gave up tactics like that years ago. I’m sure the woman I stopped didn’t quit talking on her phone while driving, and I doubt this will be the last time this old lady pulls out in front of someone. Hopefully, this driver grows up, like I did, and realizes that “teaching other drivers lessons” is far more trouble than it’s worth.

Even to this day, though, I admire those who give old people an automatic pass. I can’t bring myself to. If you’re on the road endangering MY life, I don’t give a flying fuck what your handicap is.
Anonymous

Because she didn’t have time to figure out that the bitch was about to ram her vehicle into the woman’s shopping cart? That sort of thing doesn’t happen every day, you know.
Wut

cool story, bro
http://www.myspace.com/553147094 Domino

i have a bit of road rage, BUT to be honest the second i see it’s some old fart my heart softens and i defuse. feel kinda bad for the little old lady.
The Eccentric Celtic

I drive like everyone is out to get me, like if I see a car that looks like it might turn right in front of me, I assume it will and slow down. Did I mention I drive in Atlanta? Yeah, now you get it.
I also wonder if everyone who commented on seniors giving up their driving intends to turn in their license at age 65?
beatlechick

The problem with that is rural areas that don’t have any public transportation.
Anonymous

OMG, the traffic in ATL. . .there were things I liked about living in Atlanta, but not that. What a clusterfuck.
http://www.myspace.com/553147094 Domino

in brazil they urge anyone over 60 to give up their license, and make the test quite a bitch to pass. at age 60 FREE public transportation is implemented here 100%. elderly people can get around and do their everyday things free of charge and rely on using a friend or family to get some of the heavier shopping done – i hardly see older people on the road, because of this amazing service. fuck, i’d rather be chauffeured around any day than drive through the traffic here, it’s a fucking mess.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=718490043 Karen Eileen Butner

young people suck too with their damn cell phones. We spent seven restoring our 1966 barracuda after a drunk loser plowed into the back of her at a stop light. After the car was hit, we discovered our insurance agent was a crook and had been pocketing our payments and printing out the “proof of insurance” off his computer. needless to say, it took us 7 years to come up with money for parts. We didn’t even have her on the road for 15 minutes when some bimbo on a cell phone rammed into her rear. We were stopped by a train and several cars were already in line when we saw her coming. We started honking when we noticed she was getting too close without touching her brakes, then the cars in the lane next to ours started honking. After she parked her car on our bumper, she had the audacity to say she didn’t see our car. My boyfriend started yelling that she should stop driving and get her damn eyes checked because it was pretty damn hard to not see the big-ass train directly in front of us or the line of cars that were parked in the middle of the road.
DamagedGoods

Ahhh, now…having a 66 Barracuda smacked into after all that would probably cause me to have road rage on an epic level….
Anonymous

Your story made me think of the commercial with the Pink Escalade… :p I love that one! Sorry about your car :*(
EveryVillainIsLemons

Rebecca misjudged the distance between her and Speedy McPsychopath. It happens. It’s entirely possible that Rebecca was actually going the speed limit and no matter what speed she was at, it obviously wasn’t enough for the woman she “cut off.”

Stories like this and drivers like Speedy McPsychopath are the reason that elderly drivers take years to make a right or left turn onto a busy road. I wish they would just use intersections with four-way stops or stoplights if they’re that intimidated by the process and don’t trust their judgement enough to figure out when it’s safe to make a turn.

Oh, before anyone comes in with “public transportation,” our transit system blows goats, and our cab drivers are fucking expensive.
Anonymous

Today on my way to work I unfortunately had to stop at Wal-Mart. The shopping wasn’t bad, but when I got into my car to get to work, I was following some idiot on a phone in a Volvo SUV who apparently decided that all three lanes coming up on the light were meant to be used by her exclusively. Which she did. I was trying to get into my lane to take my left, and ended up swerving around just to avoid this nimrod. I ended up beside her, and saw that she was gabbing on the phone. She looked in my direction just in time for me to mouth “STUPID BITCH”, then completely ignore her until the light changed. That is usually the extent of my road rage.

So, I actually have a point here. Age really doesn’t have much to do with moronic drivers; I really think it’s pure selfishness and a feeling of immortality just as often as it is age.

My daughter’s boyfriend’s brother wrapped his first car around a tree driving like an idiot last year, and his mother decided to keep that totaled car and park it to the side of the driveway, as a reminder. My girl and her BF are up for their licenses very soon (eeeek!) and this is an EXCELLENT object lesson for them. I thanked the mom.
Anonymous

That or try to get out of your house EARLIER.
Anonymous

Holy Smoly Cow! ATL the last time I went through there I had to stop when I was clear and decide if it was worth going thru that again to go home! Those big transport truck things are monsters!!! And they don’t care about speed or right of way… psssh…. I think they ENJOY causing mayhem!!!!
Anonymous

While I hate teeangers/ young adults (these think they can txt, talk & drive 20 – 40km/ph over the limit), business people (their calls are way too important to hang up) & old people driving I am one that refuse to tailgate, speed or ignore road signs at all costs. Usually if I’m NOT driving but in the passenger seat I’ll see someone driving on the phone & make gestures for them TO HANG UP.

If I’m driving & someone’s tailgating me (that means riding my ass) I usually slow down to make them pass me. They give me the finger or cuss at me & I blow them a kiss with a smile.

It’s called GET OUT OF YOUR HOUSE EARLY & WITH ENOUGH TIME TO BEAT THE DAMNED TRAFFIC, JACKASSES!

Btw, that store doesn’t have any video surveillance of the parking lot? & Jeez if I’da seen that woman waiting for me, I’da gone back into the store & CALL THE COPS GRANNY!
Anonymous

After reading all the comments… one thing came to mind… did the shopping cart rammer not know how to switch lanes? I mean we are talking about a highway. When you have someone pulling out… it takes a second to check your mirrors and switch lanes. Obviously she had plenty of time to reduce her speed to avoid an accident…. so my guess is her life was never in danger. Hell with this kind of attitude she would be in all kinds of trouble with truck drivers around here…. they pull out into 65 mph traffic (which really means 70 to 90 mph) and you have NO choice slow down or switch lanes. Maybe she is just really more upset with her own ineptness!
Anonymous

After reading all the comments… one thing came to mind… did the shopping cart rammer not know how to switch lanes? I mean we are talking about a highway. When you have someone pulling out… it takes a second to check your mirrors and switch lanes. Obviously she had plenty of time to reduce her speed to avoid an accident…. so my guess is her life was never in danger. Hell with this kind of attitude she would be in all kinds of trouble with truck drivers around here…. they pull out into 65 mph traffic (which really means 70 to 90 mph) and you have NO choice slow down or switch lanes. Maybe she is just really more upset with her own ineptness!
Athena

Not all highways are multi-lane. In fact, most rural highways I’ve encountered consist of only a single lane on each side.

If it were so easy to simply switch lanes or swerve to avoid, no one would ever get T-boned. But it happens every day.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GWBV2FUY3OBYX3RNK6I44QSC7I Kwum

Id say asswipes at any age yammerin on cell phones piss me off.. all distracted and oblivious.. of course yes.. and so do soccer moms driving like bats outta hell to get thier brats to soccer practice , get to walmart etc..
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GWBV2FUY3OBYX3RNK6I44QSC7I Kwum

Id say asswipes at any age yammerin on cell phones piss me off.. all distracted and oblivious.. of course yes.. and so do soccer moms driving like bats outta hell to get thier brats to soccer practice , get to walmart etc..
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GWBV2FUY3OBYX3RNK6I44QSC7I Kwum

Id say asswipes at any age yammerin on cell phones piss me off.. all distracted and oblivious.. of course yes.. and so do soccer moms driving like bats outta hell to get thier brats to soccer practice , get to walmart etc..
Anonymous

Just to be 100% sure I checked…. It is a four-lane…. At some places it is a divided four-lane…..
Anonymous

oh and the speed limit varies from 50 to 55….
Anonymous

oh and the speed limit varies from 50 to 55….
Anonymous

oh and the speed limit varies from 50 to 55….
Anonymous

oh and the speed limit varies from 50 to 55….
Anonymous

Maybe Granny was slow, just as likely Susie Psycho was speeding, and could have sped up when she saw Granny coming up the ramp. A-holes will do that, just because.

I have a 15 year old car. I am not elderly. But if the ramp is backed up, and I don’t have as much room/time to accelerate, I will not be doing 70 the second I hit the highway, it will take the car a few secs to get up to speed. Hell, even if I’m 20 over the speed limit some jackwad will think it’s not fast enough.
aka Mr.Darcy, MrDarcy

Idiot drivers cause me to be a road rager. Don’t pull out in front of me and then proceed to go 40 mph, when I was already going 55mph. Especially if you are going to turn 1/4 of a mile up the road!!! People are so f*cking stupid! Today, I wanted to beat the crap out of the old lady that decided to drive 45 mph for a distance of 20 miles, with a line of cars behind her. None of us could pass until about the last f*cking mile. Wasted 1/2 tank of my gas! BITCH – the speed limit is 55!!! Do it or get off the road. Damn.
aka Mr.Darcy, MrDarcy

To tell other people to get off the road if they don’t like how other people drive is BS. Other people need to have some CONSIDERATION, COURTESY, and RESPECT for others. THAT’S what needs to happen.
beatlechick

Ok. The logic you’re throwing at me right now is what I don’t get. You tell me that I am wrong for telling people to get off the road, but then you go and say the same thing yourself. Only you say this to people who are going under the speed limit, which is not against the law.
“aka Mr.Darcy, MrDarcy [Moderator] Yesterday 05:06 PMIdiot drivers cause me to be a road rager. Don’t pull out in front of me and then proceed to go 40 mph, when I was already going 55mph. Especially if you are going to turn 1/4 of a mile up the road!!! People are so f*cking stupid! Today, I wanted to beat the crap out of the old lady that decided to drive 45 mph for a distance of 20 miles, with a line of cars behind her. None of us could pass until about the last f*cking mile. Wasted 1/2 tank of my gas! BITCH – the speed limit is 55!!! Do it or get off the road. Damn.”