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Road rage caught on a dashcam

I saw this maniac coming up fast from behind while I was traveling at 100km/hr (speed limit). I horned him as he flashed past, and flashed my lights to suggest he slow down. He stops, asks “What you want” several times, then grabs my phone (I got it back), and twice kicks the door (hear the thuds), and then leaves, unaware the whole episode is being recorded. Highway 40, 7:40am 30/7/2012 . Ever tried to make a complaint to the police here? Last time I tried, I was sent to 3 other police stations and had to bring an interpreter – no police station would take the complaint, eventually I realized that complaints from expats is highly discouraged. I see scores of similar (speeding) incidents every day.

This reminds me, I need to setup my dashcam. [YouTube]

Note: Did video was NOT shot by me.

95 replies on “Road rage caught on a dashcam”

It indeed does, I have over 84 videos from my dashcam that I setup since March this year, and about 12 I took before that since 2010, I thought I’d upload it to youtube but since they were so many now I’m making a whole movie of them, it’s just so interesting and scary, because cops do it, cops in civilian cars do it, civilians thinking they are above the law did it, I have had my windshield smashed, I learned to be calm since most if not all of these people have some kind of weird anger, I can’t explain it, I mean if you are in a hurry, why would you slow down after you pass me at 200+ because I avoided you and almost crash then I flashed you to know that there are other people on the road? that and few that comes from the the under bridge U-turn and doesn’t even stop, a bus that crossed the 3rd ring road traffic light between dasma and sha’ab and would have hit me if I didn’t see the other side traffic light,(I had to be careful after experiencing so many incidents) with another one at 4th ring road with the guy passing a red light and the camera got it, when I called 112 the operator was like “The camera got him? it’s ok he’ll pay the fine” what about me? what if he hit me? that what made me start all of this thing.

Speed doesn’t kill you, being ignorant does.

I did not see anything worth you forcing him to stop? It is very clear in the video that he crossed you from a distance, so a collision wouldn’t likely happened so why even go to the trouble of stopping it?

Completely not worth it if he passed by you FROM A DISTANCE (yes, this type of behavior is bad, but is it really worth the fight with him?)

So what you’re saying is people should look the other way unless it personally affects them?

And then people wonder why nothing changes.

I agree. This is just like when I started dropping bricks from the 10th floor onto the sidewalk. I didn’t hit anyone, but people were complaining that I could’ve hit someone. It was completely unnecessary to stop me from throwing bricks. Bunch of whiners if you ask me. I’ve been dropping bricks from high places all my life, I know what I’m doing.

Excuse my previous comment (I know I should ENCOURAGE you for this type of behavior instead of DISCOURAGING you but sigh……. nothing worthwhile gets done from going through the trouble….. It’s not like though as if he will learn his lesson if you stopped him….. anyways what you did is good though..)

There is no citizen arrest law in Kuwait, therefore he can’t impersonate Police Officer, this video shows he act as police officer asking for papers and stuff which he can’t do it, not even a police officer can ask anyone and randomly anyone walking which consider abusing of their authority unless he was on suspicious act.

What I’m I saying, he shouldn’t of not stopped him if the dude was just speeding.

each person should work in their society as their job requirement do, when people doing police officers work, it’s called vigilantes, and by law vigilantes act is a crime.

Not getting him to report this, it’s actually doing him a solid because evidence of acting on his own to apply the law consider vigilante act.

as for the other guy, would get speeding ticket, and assault IF the assault was proven, which it cannot be proof.

my conclusion…

if you want to help, you should just try to make public awareness, and hope for the best.

“I want your number so I can report you” doesn’t sound like doing police work to me. It’s clearly saying that he wants to turn it over to someone who has the AUTHORITY to do something about it. It’s not vigilantism to report people and it’s not like he stole a siren and pulled the guy over.

that’s the work of vigilante dude.

what business he has, how about him speeding up to catch up to him, why not he report himself too!?

in the end, Dashcam dude is drunk.

Btw “I horned him as he flashed past, and flashed my lights to suggest he slow down”

That’s a first. Never heard of that working in Kuwait ever before, nor is it a norm around here. If anything, it’ll piss them off even more to harass you for the rest of your journey.

So if anyone is almost going to kill me, shouldn’t I warn them that I’m not an object (car) but someone inside it?

That mentality is what taking us Kuwaiti’s backward.

Not defending the asshole in the white pickup truck, but the guy in with the dashcam is an asshole too…

I guess this video is a good example of how things can escalate really quickly when two assholes meet up on the highway.

Here is how the person who shot the video should narrate the incident:
“I saw this maniac coming up fast from behind while I was traveling at 100km/hr (speed limit). I horned him as he flashed past, and flashed my lights to suggest he slow down.”… THEN I SPED UP, CAUGHT UP WITH HIM AND PROBABLY CONTINUED FLASHING AT HIM AND THEN FOLLOWED HIM TO THE SHOULDER OF THE ROAD. WE STOPPED AND I WAITED FOR HIM TO LEAVE HIS CAR BECAUSE I WAS IN A MOOD FOR A FIGHT, BUT THEN FOR SOME REASON AT THE LAST MINUTE BOTH OF US FOUND IT NOT WORTH IT TO FIGHT <<< really? Or did you flash a handgun? hmmm… .

Exactly!! The video and flashing was enough no need to stop with him on the side, ofcourse the Kuwaiti would harass him.

Agree dat dere is no point getting into further mess but sometimes u hv to give it bak to dese crazy maniacs on the road. Wonder what action will be taken if dis video is sent to Maj Gen Abdul fattah al Ali???

It may be because i’m a woman but i would never stop voluntarily even if he did. Had this been anywhere but Kuwait i doubt the driver would have stopped. Obviously he wanted to create trouble so why escalate it by stopping as well? Thank god he didn’t get a weapon down with him. It’s not worth it. What did you think was going to happen? He was going to come and apologize? Reckless drivers are reckless people by nature. Let it go, his life is out of control and he will get what’s coming to him. Don’t feed or fuel the fire.

Well if he can reach to abdulfatah office (head of traffic department), which is not hard as you think, he will check it and preform the proper action.

Actually in one of the interviews he encouraged drivers to shoot traffic violation and bring them to him personally.

Abdulfattah said in his TV interview that people are welcome to email him about any violations they see on road. He also said that he replied to many, in person.
Some of the expat comments here are very sour pussy and negative.

No need to become the good samaritan, if you have caught something on tape and it is worthwhile to help the police with it, then report that, it is strongly advisable to avoid any type of confrontation with anyone on the road, the last time I lost it with someone on the road, the guy pulled out a gun on me. Could have just as easily shot and drove away.

Dont forget you still get plenty of drunk drivers in kuwait and or under the influence of drugs, just cause your in a muslim country does not mean such influences do not exist.

Think wisely about what may happend before you step out of your car, you can always report it to the police later.

Road rage russia … ultimate rush.

on the other hand,why honk if you thought he was heading your way for a collision ? Why not steer away or “avoid” it ? ,and afterwards if the guy in the truck wasn’t really civilized and pulled over the guy filming should have just avoided all this. but in simpler words kuwait is Kuwait ,This happened and all this dispute could have been simply avoided .I mean you had him on camera could of just reported it then … and saved your car some “Thuds” … ,DOUBLE Idiocy .

Now, everyone in Kuwait, What is the difference between this story and the one in Dubai (Mark covered the story in “Dubai not so perfect’?

It could be that Kuwait has the rightful assumption that you do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy when you are in public. If you are filmed acting stupidly in public, the person filming you did not “defame” or “humiliate” you…you did that all by yourself.

Just face it kuwaities don’t like to be told of when they do something wrong. They want to live by their own rules dispite risking others life. No respect for safety what’s so ever. Just do like I did, take the film ( a lot worse) to the chief of police and have their cars impounded for 3 months. The law works in kuwait but u gotta have wasta.

The core of the problem here is the police and that is the main difference between this incident and the one in Dubai. He had to get someone to translate to speak to the police and they had a poor, unprofessional attitude with a total disregard for their own law. The police in Dubai follow the laws, are respected and have people in the station that speak English because they are more educated than the Kuwaitis.

Habeebi,

Kuwaitis are the most law-abiding people in the world.

who knows he might be going below the maximum speed limit and you were driving under the minimum speed limit.

I differ, sorry but you don’t want to obey laws because you are spoiled.

I dare you to drive in Scandinavia for a week exact same way and I bet you will be in jail before sundown. Just park and you will be good to go.

@d’fine, a law breaker would break the law whether he is in Kuwait, the US, or Mars. The fact that there is almost zero traffic police on the roads or security officers in general and yet people are obeying traffic lights and women can walk safely on the streets at night and we do follow the laws of countries that we visit means that we are a law abiding citizens, we are highly educated with decent level of awareness and we are decent.

If you call us spoiled, that means you are a jealous and a hater. We hold zero respect of people with those two characters.

After ten years in Kuwait I feel I am spoiled too. Watching my sister follow the speed limit back in Denmark last week, I almost got embarrassed.

And trust me I am no hater, I am just in despair that such a small country like Kuwait with all the oil funding you have, you should be able to appoint better traffic police who can reenforce the laws. Problem your spoiled with the fact that you can get out of the fines in a heart beat with wasta.. If you look to Dubai, there is not such thing anymore and look how they clean up.
There is no dear mother mentality anymore…

So wake up and smell the coffee.. you need to grow up.

WHAT !!! There is no wast in Dubai ?! And they don’t have emaratis who break the law or speed ?!!!

please go on YouTube and check on this my dear.

In no way I condone this in Kuwait and in no way I claim that it does not happen in Kuwait. But it bugs me when people make claims about other countries which are not true. Believe me I know more than you about UAE and I know how much better we are than them about laws and law cases.

It is different when you see Dubai and experience it for a couple of days than living it and having the real experience. The experience beyond jumaira, shaikh zayed road,and Irish village areas !!

Ok well, yes I agree. But you don’t see the waste and road rage where it matters. My office is in Salem Mubarak street, the street is dump and there is no order in the traffic. This is the street we take our families when they visit to see. What shame.

@ahmed and Mark…

The fact that Kuwait has a high rate of crime in the GCC does not indicate that Kuwait is the worst country of the GCC. In fact, if anything, it means that Kuwait is advanced of all GCC countries when it comes to documenting and reporting crimes. If anything this is a good indicator of how civilized our community is and how people feel safe in reporting a crime.

Look at Dubai for example, just few days ago a man who documented a crime ended up being arrested and threatened with a jail sentence longer than that of the physical abuse criminal will be charged with.

If you think for one minute, me, as an expat woman, would ever EVER step foot in a Kuwait police station to report a crime or anything NO WAY!
Firstly, I don’t trust your police, I don’t respect your police because I can’t trust your police and quite frankly I would be AFRAID of being raped. Ever been to India? Or Indonesia? I would rank your police on the same level, what ashame for a GCC nation! You need to clean up your police. Now, would I go into a police station in Dubai and report a crime? YES SIR, I respect them and although you don’t agree with their laws, they are THEIR laws and they follow them and there is transparency. Repeat after me….TRANSPARENCY. That is what you don’t have in Kuwait.

Stop posting under different nicknames. sarah, ahmed and abdul you are all the same person. Either stick to one name or you’re going to be permanently banned from commenting here.

So we know you’re not a woman but even if you were I’ve never heard of any case where a woman walked into a police station in Kuwait and had gotten raped. But even if there was an incident I’m sure it was an isolated one like the cops in detroit who were robbing people https://www.inquisitr.com/878043/fake-cops-robbing-detroit-real-cops/

I am sure that the woman that got raped and reported it then got arrested thought the same thing as you, they trusted the police in Dubai to do the right thing. Good thing she got pardoned…

i don’t know if this is weird but i have been living in Kuwait for 10 years. British expat and i never ever get this on the road, in my 10 years here i only had 2 minor bumper bashes and that’s it, when i get on the highway the Kuwaiti’s are kind enough to give me a gap to get in the lane. it’s the Indians i cannot stand! they don’t care about other drivers at all on the road.

exactly what this driver did, i get that ALOT! but i don’t start any fights next to the road i just turn my music up and continue my Journey.

these young Kuwaiti’s are very very dangerous! he could have stabbed the guy.

@Oliver: You seem to be a smart British guy to differentiate the Indians from the lot of Asians (as all look almost the same)! The whole world does know about the British….I NEED NOT SAY! Don’t compare the law abiding Indians with others please!!

youre finance manager? AMAZING! WOW!

You’re also a racist. People from the entire subcontinent look similar. S’okay. I lived in the UK for a while – and although the brits are a LOVELY people, I’ve also met your type!

Hmm, I totally agree Oliver about Indian drivers and I don’t think this is racism.

I was in India and I have to say they are worst drivers in the world!!! Horn, horn, horn, horn… This guys just can’t drive without beeping every freaking time.

In Kuwait they can’t beep like in India but they are successfully following most major Indian driving rules.

1. They will never give you way.
2. If you give them way, they never say thank you for this.
3. They never looking in the mirrors.
4. They love driving on wrong ways and they don’t give a f**k when you flash lights because they are driving on wrong way and blocking you. They act like they can’t see your freaking car.

So, this is not racism. This is way how most of Indian drivers driving and probably you know this better then me.

All world is saying most of Americans are eating junk food. So is this racism too?

I guess you have to check definition of racism.

Judging only by my own personal observations, I have found that people from the Asian Subcontinent seem to be generally oblivious of their immediate surroundings, whether driving or not.

Racist much? Do you guys even understand the word?

Categorising EVERYONE in that racial group for the same behaviour is outright racism. Don’t care if it is categorising US, UK, Indian or Kuwaiti.

In bahrain, if he does this, we would beat them up, if a person acts like a God, we would teach him how to be respectful if his parents didnt teach him we will. If words wont work, then a couple of beatings here and there would work. In kuwait its the land of the wasta, you see when Saudis come to Bahrain and they want to fool around, they do something wrong, we just break their bones, In Kuwait, people here act like Gods, and they have no shame, and dont care, just oil and money.

Oh yes because thats exactly how a civalised law abiding society operates, take the law into your own hands and break bones thats how its done lol. If your above statement proves anythings its that you know nothing about the people of bahrain to which you claim to be a part of, Bahrainis are some of the nicest people in the gulf and i highly doubt thats how they enforce the law in their country now is it. Lets say what you mentioned was true its not exactly something you should take pride in 😉

this is why i LOVE Bahrain and Bahrainis. Absolutely lovely ppl unless you start acting like you are the shit.

Ramadan is the worst time to challenge someone. Flashing lights and chasing after them is more of a threat than warning someone you are not an object. No one in their right mind would pull over but since there’s a camera rolling he felt brave enough to do it? I had some guy come to my car at a stop light trying to open my door so I called my husband and let him put the smack down on him, now that was fun. It’s fun when you act like your pulling over and just keep going. These days in Kuwait everyone is angry and looking for a fight no matter where they are from. Expats are just as bad as Kuwaiti drivers so just ignore and keep going it will save a lot of trouble, no one wants to go to the police station and have a case over something childish.

@Mark where can I find a dashboard camera in Kuwait?

I would also think twice of walking in to a normal police station without male/layer company.
No one speaks a word of English number one, number two your police stations looks like a diwaniyha with uniforms.

Hand written statement from a flirtatious smoking police brat… no thank you. I will take my changes elsewhere.

Murphy’s Law #4: Drivers behind you are always maniacs and drivers in front of you are always morons.

LOL 😀 so true…

This low is also perfect for current video.

White pickup guy is maniac and dashcam guy is moron.

they speak English when in any fast-food joint or restaurant in Kuwait or in some EU country. but in kuwait when speaking to an expat who cant speak arabic. nahh!

Actually for those commenting about non co-operation of police officers, its normal in Kuwait, and as a kuwaiti I have the same treatment, regardless of being an expat or not.

It depends on the severity of the issue on hand, and yes no one is bothered to do anything, just as long as salaries are paid, thats pretty much the attitude going on in Kuwait, what do you expect from a society that does not hold it’s manpower accountable for their work output, thats the government sector and not the private sector.

Am not speaking of all, as some police stations work, but sadly though the majority dont, and it’s all about wasta, wasta is not about turning something against the law in your favour, its about processing your paperwork faster then those that have to do the normal routine. So having a wasta at the police station just shortens the time for things to be done and or taken seriously.

Its the same all over the world, the only difference it’s more apparent her in Kuwait, its because it’s a small country and pretty much someone you know will know someone you dont know. Simple as that.

It may be similar but it is NOT the same. If you can’t speak arabic here you are treated WORSE than if you can. That’s the first. Secondly Police (as we have seen) can break into your house in the morning and rape women… would they dare do that in a Kuwaiti house? Your assertion that it happens all over the world, is sadly, all too typical and very untrue. Cops are jackasses in a lot of countries true – but people like you continually saying that it happens everywhere, are part of the problem in keeping things static and backward.

Nazi Germany: But Genocide happens in a lot of countries – why is everyone making a big deal about this?

stupid right?

After reading most of the comments, I am inclined to highlight a couple of things to all the moaners! No one is forcing you to take Kuwait as your country of residence. If you wanna compare Kuwait to Dubai go to to Dubai, if you are capable of getting a job there! Now once and for all, if you have a job in this country, you are a guest which means, you have limited rights, either you accept that fact or make your way back to your beloved perfection, where I bet, you will start bitching and moaning about it either way. Been here for 12 years and I love it, with all its pros and cons, I call it home and I am European!

I tend to agree. Kuwait has it’s issues, but so does New York, London and Bangkok….and everywhere else.

Hmm funny, I must have missed the post where you were hired by the Ministry of Interior to flash down people who violate a traffic law. Interesting..

WOW! This escalated very quickly.
Guys, let us stop arguing and getting into racism and such. JUST LOVE EACH OTHER (Just finished an hour of meditation) hahahaha

We have just been informed from our director that the police will arrest anyone with a dash cam.
We all have them in our company.
Why does it do away with WASTA

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