Have you ever seen someone driving so erratically on the road that you thought it would be a good idea to get a picture of their license plate so you could report them?

In this story, one man finds himself in this situation. The problem is that it’s hard to get a clear picture of the guy’s license plate, so he follows him for awhile to try to get a better picture.

Now, he’s wondering if he took things too far. Which driver is the one who messed up here?

Let’s read the whole story to decide.

AITAH for trying to get the plate of a guy driving recklessly on the highway and then through our neighborhood (which has 2 schools / zones he skirted through)

The road to my neighborhood (which is more like a small town) is two lanes.

This guy is in a lifted F350 toting a jetski basically duct taped to a piece of wood behind his truck was purposefully driving like a piece of garbage.

Doing 50 in a 65, drifting into lanes, his trailer and jetski swerving erratically between both lanes as he road on people’s tail ends, cut people off, just genuinely driving in what I would consider dangerous.

He was seriously concerned.

I said to my girlfriend, “if this guy lives in our neighborhood I’m reporting him to the HOA / police”

This was following a series of incidents where he was break checking me, not letting me get over, just being a jerk and dangerously being a jerk at that.

I have never reported a driver. To get me to the point of deciding to “get the plate” requires incessant and dedicated hazardous, bad behavior.

Keep in mind all drivers on this 2 lane road are 3/5th mini-vans full of kids and this guy is nearly killing them with his trailed and gigantic death machine truck.

It was hard to get a picture of his license plate.

Sure enough, he pulls into my neighborhood. First roundabout ends in a school zone and a middle school which was GETTING OUT AT THE TIME THIS OCCURRED.

Dude skirted that roundabout and took off down the road.

Because he was driving so erratically in a small township neighborhood and had a trailer I could not get his plate. Blurry pic after blurry pic.

Yikes! This is getting scary!

At some point he realized I was following him, probably because he was watching my vehicle so he could taunt and mess with me while we were on the highway.

At some point he decided, while driving, to put on a balaclava, sunglasses, etc cover his face, and block the road.

This is while school kids are walking next to us with their backpacks on and retired folks on golf carts are driving by, etc.

Like literally next to a middle school and gold course this guy makes a complete roadblock using his truck and trailer, gets out in a balaclava, and is wielding or pretending a to wield a pistol in his pants while old people and children walk by.

It could’ve ended badly for the guy with the jet ski…in an alternate universe.

I wish i could paint this picture better.

It means that at some point, between two innocuous roundabouts and a school zone, this dude decided to conceal his identity, load a weapon, barricade the path, and approach a stranger’s car because we…. took the same path.

If I were headed home in an alternative route, that would have been a completely legitimate route to take.

In many alternative universes, he got shot and died that day. I do not open carry but pulling out of a roundabout to see a F350 and trailer barricading the path forward and gun wielding balaclava freak who clearly has anger issues based on the substance of our engagement thus far standing in the center of the road with his arm up — nah.

The guy turned the tables.

Deciding reporting his hazardous driving wasn’t worth dying I threw my car in reverse and decided to just go home.

Jokes on me.

He chased me down through the roundabout and cut my car off so I could not proceed forward and, again, came up to my car completely unrecognizable and screaming with his hand in his jacket / shorts saying “I have a kid in my car bro why you following me home?”

He was even more confused.

While yes this is a neighborhood it is also a large township with multiple schools, shops, parks, lakes, nature trails, etc.

I legitimately just wanted to report his driving.

Further information including he has kids in the car only confused me further and I said: “You have a kid in the car and you’re driving like that?”

He started to spazz out and walked away.

He defends why he was following the guy.

My girlfriend says I should not have pursued his plate so vigilantly but watching him nearly murder several gold carting old people, blow through a school zone, and tear up two roundabouts in my neighborhood was genuinely alarming.

This is a township build around a school. 90% of the home owners have small children. In a truck that large, he would not see a 7yo on a scooter and flatten them without realizing it while driving like that.

Barricading the road and coming up gun drawn with a balaclava once was odd.

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Chasing me down and doing it again was baffling.

He’s wondering if he should report the driver after all.

Knowing this freak lives in my neighborhood terrifies me — I drive very carefully in a small sedan and nearly smack into a toddler every day because it seems like it is their sole purpose on Earth to run into cars.

Going through my photos I realized I do have his license plate but I am hesitating on reporting it because in hindsight I could see a father (total jerk endangering others regardless) with a kid in the car feeling… threatened? By a car taking the same route?

My only guess is that because he was paying such attention to my vehicle on the highway while he messed with me, he made the assumption I was now an aggressor seeking revenge for his actions as opposed to a teacher alarmed that this behavior was occurring in a suburban township.

Did I go too far?

Yikes! At the very least, that guy has anger issues. Maybe his crazy driving was due to OP following him, but maybe he’s just an awful driver who’s lucky he didn’t hurt anyone.

Let’s see what Reddit thinks.

This person thinks chasing the guy was a mistake.

Another person urges him to report the driver.

Better late than never.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about neighbors who have to set a firm boundary with neighbors who ask too many child-related favors.

This person thinks OP was probably driving recklessly too.

This story is interesting because it seems that both drivers thought the other driver was the problem. OP wanted to report the truck driver, but the truck driver may have been driving recklessly to try to lose OP when he realized he was being followed.

I’m glad nobody got hurt. This could’ve ended badly.