Although I've always thought my (18 year old) brother is something of a little shit, I've never really considered going to the filth about him until today. This evening, after eating out, he was driving me and my family (4, all told) home in a small hatchback (my parents') and refused to put the lights on, despite it being dusk and other drivers having theirs on, and our reasonable requests to do so ('anonymous, please put the lights on'). He simply refused and kept going, eventually braking aggressively and shouting that 'everyone's a driver!' (I've been qualified for just under 5 years, my mum and dad since the dinosaurs), refusing to see sense.
He then took off, doing at least 25-28 on a 20 mph road with speed bumps. At this point I demanded that he stop and let me out, but 'I'd had my chance', refusing again on my second and third requests and he kept going. I eventually said unless he stopped the car I would call the police, upon which he duly did, with much snarling and all that wank. We all got out of the car and he fucked off to god knows where. AFAIK he's still driving somewhere, gone to a friend's house or wrapped around a lamp post.
My mum and dad basically pretended nothing had happened as we walked home. I wouldn't let it go and said that he is clearly not fit to drive a car (I didn't go so far as 'and needs professional help', for my sins). In any case, my parents don't seem to have any intent of doing anything meaningful concerning his behaviour. He's always been a bit of a prick; in the last two years he's become a really arrogant and selfish asshole, but this is behaviour is genuinely life-threatening, to himself, passengers pedestrians and other motorists.
I am in two minds about what to do. On one hand he might become more of a cunt if I really take matters into my own hands, such as by calling the (non-emergency) filth, and cause bad drama with my parents. On the other, he could end up being responsible for the death or injury of an innocent person. Exactly what I should do next, I don't know. I've tried googling 'what to do if dangerous driving' and other similar search terms but nothing is coming out. Are there any charities that might be able to help out with this? I'd be very grateful for any advice.
I think the standard response to family drama of this nature is to ignore it and build your own life, and only see them on Christmas. Incidentally, I think that's why "drinking to excess" is a Christmas tradition.
From the situation you've described I can only see two scenarios. Either you are a reasonable and well adjusted human being and your brother is a massive prick who is probably on drugs, or your brother is a poor driver, which isn't a crime, and you are an insufferable prick. I'd guess the latter.
>>2907 I think you missed the bit where I asked him to stop the car so I could get out and he said 'no, you've had your chance'. Never mind, eh, this is .gs, so the priority of the fastest responder is to find some way of belittling the OP...
Fair enough he's driving like a typical knobhead just-passed-his-test young lad, and you want him to see sense, but I think you know he isn't going to listen. Your parents probably feel much the same but, having experience raising young 'uns, they know sometimes it's best to let them realise their mistakes on their own.
Just wait 'til he writes his precious motor off and has to pay a £500 insurance excess, he'll soon change his ways. I can see where you are coming from that he could hurt someone, but from what you've described, it's not as though he's powersliding round housing estates or doing twice the limit past a playground. If things were more severe then you would have more cause for concern, but as it is, it's probably not worth stressing yourself out about. Your heart is in the right place, but some things in life simply aren't under our control, the behaviour of other people least of all.
Chances are he'll have an accident, realise he's been a bit of a dick, and calm it.
>>2905 Do you look reasonably similar from behind? Fly past a rear-facing camera, and name him as the driver. Go about 5 over the limit and he'll be put on a course. Alternatively, if you're feeling evil, go about 20 over the limit and make it a six-pointer.
I am of course not being serious, as this is very illegal. Especially if your wife is actually giving a lecture 50 miles away.
I didn't miss it, I chose to ignore it because it had no relevance on my comment. I'm sure if we asked your brother to describe the situation he would have told us that it went very differently.
It's also none of your or our business. There must be a total of 5 people in the world who after having been in a teenlad's car would come home and google "how to stop my brother being a bad driver."
But when his most serious offences are doing 25 in a 20 zone and not turning his lights on at dusk, I think it's fair to say that he's at only a slightly higher risk of doing so than you are to end up in A&E with a household object stuck up your arse, you fucking tedious prick.
>>2915 >doing 25 in a 20 zone
Not him, but over speed bumps with a full load? You seriously don't see that as a problem? In most small shitboxes you'd be lucky to get away with that without the suspension bouncing up through the body into your face.
>>2905 You sound like a self-righteous, self-absorbed, know-it-all, horrible bastard. Leave him alone. If you are such a great driver, buy your own fucking car. When he is driving, he is the fucking driver. Back-seat drivers can fuck off. You are a cunt mate. I hope you die in a car accident.
Leave your own, fucking brother alone. You have other reasons for hating him, don't try to make it about cars. Go start a thread in /emo/ about hating your brother. You are honestly a vile creature. Fuck right off.
>>2914 I'm pretty sure it's very much ops business if he's in the fucking car with him, and it's very much my business if he's on the same fucking road I am putting my life in danger along with his own shitty one.
Surreptitiously acquire solid evidence of him driving like a prick and anonymously report it along with his details? Choice words from the local rozzers or a few points might help nip it in the bud.
How do you judge the likelihood of him endangering others with his behaviour? Is it possible for you to do something without causing a family brouhaha?
Irresponsible driving really gets my goat, too many lives get ruined thanks to thoughtlessness behind the wheel.
>>2922 It's because of people like you that this country is going to the dogs. Grow a pair and accept that you hate your brother because he is better than you. It has fuck all to do with driving. You are just a hateful cunt.
>You are just a hateful cunt.
Says the guy who wrote all this:
>You sound like a self-righteous, self-absorbed, know-it-all, horrible bastard.
>You are a cunt mate. I hope you die in a car accident.
>You are honestly a vile creature. Fuck right off.
I thought this was a quality post which made a lot of good points. The whole 'he could kill people' argument is both valid and void at the same time.
He could ride a bicycle like a knob and kill someone, or run down some stairs and kill someone etc... etc...
OK sure, he's in a motor vehicle so he has a tool that could do that a lot easier but you're going for the worst case scenario. It's far more likely that in driving like an idiot he'll get caught by the old bill who will give him a talking to + more if they feel the need or by a speed camera.
If you want to try and get through to your brother, maybe try an approach where you ask him if he's ever killed anyone before. Then ask why he's acting like he wants to. Or something, I don't know.
Also, him killing someone might not be such a bad thing, the person he kills could be an utter cunt.
I'd be more concerned about him ending up as one of those pricks on Road Wars.