Spotted, your teenage son
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Anonymous
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Do you have a teenage son who was driving a black honda civic with a Fairfax Lacrosse sticker in the back window on Sunday morning between 9:30 and 10am? He was going eastbound on Braddock Rd. and turned left on Chain Bridge Rd. He was tailgating my husband at a distance of approximately 2 feet away from the back bumper of the truck my husband was driving. He tailgated from Shirley Gate Rd. all the up Braddock Rd. and continued to tailgate until he turned off to his destination.
It was seriously alarming. My daughter was with me and we were following my husband. If my child had been in the car with my husband, I would have called the police and reported your son as an aggressive driver. If it were not completely unsafe I would have filmed it as well to show to the police. |
Anonymous
In the future consider getting his license plate number if at all possible and reporting him to Fairfax Co police's online reporting system. The driver can't be ticketed, but he will get something in the mail. It would be at least something in the case of a teenage driver - perhaps it would go to his parent. I really wish other counties in the area had something similar. |
Anonymous
| No, not my teenage son. Wrong car, state and sport. |
Anonymous
Hey why don't all of us post if it ISN'T our son. WTF? |
Anonymous
| This is why we need speed cameras. |
Anonymous
| Speed cameras don't catch tailgaters. They catch speeders. OP doesn't even say that the driver was speeding or not. |
Anonymous
Just answering the OPs question. And I get tired of the posts on here who always assume the worst of teenage boys. All your darling little 5 year old boys will be teenage boys some day. And you know what? They are not all bad drivers or drug users or child molesters or whatever else people here seem to think about teenage boys. |
Anonymous
This one WAS, idiot. |
Anonymous
| I know MoCo will send a letter to the registered owner of the vehicle which is likely the parents |
ThatSmileyFaceGuy
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| Should have stopped short. Sorry officer a dog ran out in front of me. |
Anonymous
How is this an assumption? This kid was doing something wrong. That doesn't mean they all are. I wonder how much trouble your son has gotten in for you to be this defensive. |
Anonymous
| OP, do you have a bumper sticker? Maybe he was trying to read it. |
Anonymous
Oddly defensive. Its like you feel the need to assert that your teenage boy is a good boy, unlike the one on the original post. I'm pretty sure that OP was in no way envisioning your DS when she wrote that post. It isn't always about you. |
Anonymous
| OP, was your husband practicing defensive driving? In instances like these he should a) pulled over b) turn off the road c) slow down. |
Anonymous
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As the parent of a teenage son who drives (not in Fairfax, though), if you see my son driving in a dangerous manner, by all means, I want you to call the police. We parents can talk until we are blue in the face, and our teens can drive cautiously when we are with them, but otherwise, we just have to trust that they are doing the right thing -- we have no way of actually knowing they are.
BTW, if someone is tailgating me that badly, I make a turn or pull over and let them pass. |