Spitting-Road Rage?

TEXAS-I had a run in on the road with a lady who was holding up traffic on a country road. I got out of my vehicle asked (told) her to move the hell out of the way so people could pass on a two lane Farm Market Road. She exited her vehicle-started cursing at me, with anger building and the vehicle still not moved, I had had enough and told her how bad I would like to beat her-but instead I spit at her. Knowing that I did not physically harm her and it would not be road rage. She threaghtened me she had a friend who was a Sherriff when I was driving around her vehicle, I yelled I had a family member in law enforcement too (It was a lie), and drove off as she wrote down the plate number.
2 months later my husband gets a call from an investigator questioning what his wife looks like-if she was attractive, where I worked, what I drove, did I have a cell number. Confidential info.-when my hub. refused to answer the qustions-the Sherriff threaghtened he would arrest his wife-and have blood test done to see if I had aids, put a warrant out, and put me in jail. I have NO CRIMINAL RECORD-no bad driving record at all, nor have I ever been in jail. I now know I have a warrant, because I was pulle dover and given a warning for speeding 5mph over the limit, and was let go. I made an appt., with the Investigators supervisors-after hours. No one was at this office when I showed besides the supervisor-he said ooh, he was right you are cute. Anyway.long story short basically they wantd to see what I looked like-& tell me he wasn't going to make his employee drop the warrant because if I did have a relative that worked for the police-that I would have done the same thing. If I had a warrant-why didn't he keep me in custody-or arrest me then? It's a class C, 500 bail. Can't get a lawyer-nor a bail bond person because it's too small for them to deal with.
What do I do to clear my record-it's been 1 year and 4 months since the warrant was issued.

try the state police see if they have a community relations officer who might be able to look into the matter.you can also try talking to the sheriff (not a deputy) and see if he can help. if anyone asks why you want to see him just say it's confidential.

[JETX]

Your post never explained... what were you charged with???

Oh, and you may be cute and all, but spitting on (or at) someone can be assault..... and it isn't very pretty.

Now, with that out of the way, lets review your post and try to read between the lines....

"TEXAS-I had a run in on the road with a lady who was holding up traffic on a country road."
You were upset with a driver in front of you because she wasn't going fast enough for YOU. And of course, you were just trying to go only the speed limit and there were NO passing areas for you to wait for.

"I got out of my vehicle asked (told) her to move the hell out of the way so people could pass on a two lane Farm Market Road."
You, in your official capacity (as what??), decided to demand that someone do what YOU wanted them to do. And since you were able to stop them, I assume you must have 'whip' passed them and then stopped them so that you could exercise your lip.

"She exited her vehicle-started cursing at me, with anger building ...."
Damn right. I would have been mad to. I also assume that YOUR anger wasn't building and that you were cool and calm.

".... and the vehicle still not moved,...."
If you stopped her for your 'discussion', how was her vehicle not moved??? Could it be that you pulled her over?

"I had had enough and told her how bad I would like to beat her....."
If she was in fear of physical harm or imminent danger, that is assault.

"-but instead I spit at her."
That CAN be considered battery. How does she know that you aren't some drugged out old 'needle-hag' with 20 crack boyfriends and shared needles suffering in the last stages of AIDS? Oh, that's right.... you're cute!

"Knowing that I did not physically harm her and it would not be road rage."
The question isn't whether YOU knew that you harmed her, but whether she felt in danger due to your ridiculous and inexcusable actions. And, it obviously WAS roadrage.

"She threaghtened me she had a friend who was a Sherriff when I was driving around her vehicle, I yelled I had a family member in law enforcement too (It was a lie), and drove off as she wrote down the plate number."
Here you say that you drove around her vehicle, I guess I am still curious how you managed to get her to stop in FRONT of you for your confrontation. Did she pull off the road and you followed her?? And I also don't understand how her telling you that she had a 'sheriff in the family' was a threat to you. Unless you knew that you had done something wrong. This is supported by your lying about your 'friend' and your noting her writing your license plate.

All in all, sounds curious to me.

Now, it is up to you... you can respond with clarifications and details, or you can respond in a mad and angry manner... and if you want, please feel free to spit at your monitor and pretend it's me.

[LegalBeagle]

I don't care how cute a woman is.. spitting is disgusting and makes a person extremely ugly. Had someone 'assaulted' my wife in that manner, I would have them arrested by the end of the day and pressed charges.. and then sued for them for the medical costs of testing.

Personally, I think you got off lightly.

[wtd]

From your post it would seem that the other person's car was never moving - just stopped in the road
I got out of my vehicle asked (told) her to move the hell out of the way so people could pass on a two lane Farm Market Road

the vehicle still not moved


Possibly next time you could just skip to this part and avoid the confrontation.
when I was driving around her vehicle

wtd

did it ever occur to you that she may be having problems ? elderly lady stopped in the middle of the road, maybe disoriented or lost,possibly ill. maybe you should have stopped to see if you could render assistance before you had your hissy fit.

[JETX]

Gee, wonder why 'Miss Cute' hasn't responded to any of our supplemental posts. Maybe she did have AIDS after all and got her little cute-self arrested.

Still cute-and free as a bird. And imagine this, the warrant that was issued is no longer there. Hummm, maybe I did have some kind of impact on someone.

You know..even though I didn't take the necessary precautions at the time of this occurence, I was just protecting my self from this angered older woman (being in her mid 30's) threatening me with her choice of words. Rather than me battle with 4 letter words and her choosing to approach me-is the reason I choose to do what I did. If she were in her right mind-I don't believe she would have exited her vehicle and approached me not knowing who or what she was getting into. I could have been a very mean and ugly man with a firearm, or deadly weapon. She could have been beat and left for dead. Remember-we were on a back country road. No witnesses, not anything--and NOPE no aids here.

Originally posted by Halket
Your post never explained... what were you charged with???

Oh, and you may be cute and all, but spitting on (or at) someone can be assault..... and it isn't very pretty.

Now, with that out of the way, lets review your post and try to read between the lines....

"TEXAS-I had a run in on the road with a lady who was holding up traffic on a country road."
You were upset with a driver in front of you because she wasn't going fast enough for YOU. And of course, you were just trying to go only the speed limit and there were NO passing areas for you to wait for.
(she stopped in the middle of the road...I was far enough back to watch her back up on the two lane road and park her car across the two lanes-the vehicle that was directly behind her was able to pass in the right lane when she pulled to the left to back up)

"I got out of my vehicle asked (told) her to move the hell out of the way so people could pass on a two lane Farm Market Road."
You, in your official capacity (as what??), decided to demand that someone do what YOU wanted them to do. And since you were able to stop them, I assume you must have 'whip' passed them and then stopped them so that you could exercise your lip.
(I'm not in any kind of enforcement position to make someone stop-remember I was two vehicles behind)

"She exited her vehicle-started cursing at me, with anger building ...."
Damn right. I would have been mad to. I also assume that YOUR anger wasn't building and that you were cool and calm.
(My adrenaline was up with fear not knowing what this woman was doing or going to do)

".... and the vehicle still not moved,...."
If you stopped her for your 'discussion', how was her vehicle not moved??? Could it be that you pulled her over?
(It was pretty evident that she wanted nothing other than a confrontation when she blocked the road using her vehicle)

"I had had enough and told her how bad I would like to beat her....."
If she was in fear of physical harm or imminent danger, that is assault.
(this was in my mind-nothing to this sort was said due to the fact of me not knowing how crazy she was or could have been)

"-but instead I spit at her."
That CAN be considered battery. How does she know that you aren't some drugged out old 'needle-hag' with 20 crack boyfriends and shared needles suffering in the last stages of AIDS? Oh, that's right.... you're cute!
(yep cute that's all, definitely not a druggy nor a criminal)

"Knowing that I did not physically harm her and it would not be road rage."
The question isn't whether YOU knew that you harmed her, but whether she felt in danger due to your ridiculous and inexcusable actions. And, it obviously WAS roadrage.
(I was the one in danger being she trapped me on the road by blocking me-yes I would agree she did have some bit of raod rage-but how would one determine who's rage it was. She was infront of my vehicle stopped.)

"She threaghtened me she had a friend who was a Sherriff when I was driving around her vehicle, I yelled I had a family member in law enforcement too (It was a lie), and drove off as she wrote down the plate number."
Here you say that you drove around her vehicle, I guess I am still curious how you managed to get her to stop in FRONT of you for your confrontation. Did she pull off the road and you followed her?? And I also don't understand how her telling you that she had a 'sheriff in the family' was a threat to you. Unless you knew that you had done something wrong. This is supported by your lying about your 'friend' and your noting her writing your license plate.
(Basically she stopped me and any othe person whom "might" have come upon this area it was in. All of this incident occurred ON the road, not off. I had to back my vehicle up, and drive in the ditch to get around her vehicle. OK her telling me she had a friend that was a Sherrif-wasn't a threat-yet just to scare me or let me know she would not get in trouble for what she had just done. My lying about having a family member was to nearly protect myself from her acting out in any other way form or fashion.)
All in all, sounds curious to me.

Now, it is up to you... you can respond with clarifications and details, or you can respond in a mad and angry manner... and if you want, please feel free to spit at your monitor and pretend it's me.

(I'm quit the shy and innocent person-but yet I will protect myself if I feel indangered-harmed or approached in manners such as these-I feel no threat from you giving your opinion on this board
AND I thank you for your response.)

Not that this really matters, and I'm only curious, but if you and she were the only ones there, why didn't you just drive around her to begin with? I noticed you said "spit at" not "spit on". Did you hit? Was there any possibility of your hitting? Why wasn't she moving?

[JETX]

Qadaq, nothing like trying to force your way into an old discussion....

I have a suggestion... why don't you change your closing line from "I am not a lawyer" to
"I am not a lawyer, but I am an idiot!". That way you will practicing another legal principal you know NOTHING about.... "Truth in Advertising"!!

Oh yeah. "Just curious" is one of my most forceful lines. Why do you care? If they want to reply, they'll reply.

[JETX]

Originally posted by qadaq
Oh yeah. "Just curious" is one of my most forceful lines. Why do you care? If they want to reply, they'll reply.

Qadaq, gotta' admit. Your new 'closing' line made me laugh OUT LOUD!! Thank you!

[I AM ALWAYS LIABLE]

Originally posted by Halket


Qadaq, gotta' admit. Your new 'closing' line made me laugh OUT LOUD!! Thank you!

My response:

Hey qadaq - - please add "IAAL" to your tag line also !

I join, concur and agree with Steve Halket, you idiot !

IAAL