I’m going to post a wall of text.
I have stayed silent on the things I’ve seen in some of we5leyz’s videos because I’m fairly new here, but I do have to agree with some of the other posters’ assertions that some of the actions exhibited in the videos aren’t what I would call those of a law-abiding citizen just going about his/her business. I’m not sure about the traffic laws where we5leyz lives, but I’m pretty sure that the driving I’ve seen in these videos (from the perspective of the camera) would get the attention of law enforcement, no matter where the driving is taking place.
I am also noticing that we5leyz keeps bringing up the fact that he served in the military when he has to justify his actions whenever he is called out on them (" I assure you, I have done and seen more in 1 day than you ever will your entire life."). Now, I’ve never been a soldier or even thought about joining the armed forces or reserves or anything, but I’m pretty sure that many, many people would disagree with him whenever he implies that, since he served in Iraq/killed people/whatever, he can drive however he wants to. I’m not poo-poohing his time served wherever his military career took him–in fact, I’m glad that he served his time because I didn’t have to–, but, IMHO, using that as an excuse to drive in a legally-questionable manner just cheapens his military experience.
Now, some or most of us may be driving in a legally-questionable manner just by the fact that we have these gargantuan horns on our vehicles. Some of us have them to scare people with them, others have them to “clear the road” for them, and yet others have them to keep other drivers from killing them. I am in the latter category, in that the only times I have used my horns in a manner other than a very dangerous situation are 1) scaring my sister at a restaurant, 2) making a vehicle-accident victim move out of my way when the light turned green, and 3) whenever someone else honks at me (because let’s face it–they asked for it). Any other time, it was to keep that semi tractor from merging on top of me or stopping that Honda Fit or Yaris or whatever from pulling out in front of me or blasting that deputy’s wife for parking her car in the middle of my lane on a blind curve while checking her mail or whatever.
we5leyz, if the thought of having an enraged driver “snap” whenever you cut them off or horn them or whatever doesn’t deter you, then hopefully the possibility of law-enforcement seeing your videos or seeing you personally will give you a moment of pause. Because I know that, in the right circumstances, law enforcement isn’t going to care why I honked my horn or how many lives it saved or how much danger I was in. It doesn’t matter if individual police officers are “cool” with my horns; if I end up with that one officer who has had a bad day or otherwise just doesn’t like me (or even if the day was perfect for everyone), when all the facts are out, I’m still going to get a fine, and I’m either going to have my car towed or an order to remove those horns within 30 days or whatever. In Florida, there is no law about having large horns on vehicles, but there IS a clause in a statute that prohibits “unreasonably-loud” horns. That’s why I hardly use them.
And if the law isn’t going to care about why I horned someone, I’m pretty sure it’s not going to care about why you cut off that person or why you went 20 MPH over the limit just to get through traffic. It’s certainly not going to sympathize with you if your driving ends up causing an accident, and the fact you served in the military isn’t going to help you one bit. Think of all those old war vets (or new war vets) that have no jobs, no family, no home, nothing but a cardboard sign and a bag with everything he owns–or, he may be able to stay in a temporary shelter. That’s how much your country cares about the vets who are law-abiding citizens. They’re NOT going to care about a vet that caused a wreck, shutting down X miles of freeway and injuring Y amount of people in the process, and has multiple videos on YouTube detailing the similar driving that caused said wreck in the first place.
I’m not claiming to be more mature than you; in fact, I’m only a couple years older. It’s just that I’ve had to learn the hard way about driving and law enforcement when I was just barely in college, and they didn’t care about the fact that I cut off that van because I was late for a class. I still got 2 aggressive driving citations, and I still had to go to clerk court to get the points removed from my license (after paying them half my monthly wages to do so). That doesn’t count all the speeding tickets I got up to that point. I’m simply asking you to think about what your driving and your videos on your driving are telling other people what to think of you.
BTW, if you didn’t want to read the wall of text above, here’s a summary: The driving in the video looks bad, you shouldn’t keep doing it.