Here are some recent articles from around the web pertaining to road rage. . and how it just makes you shake your head.  Looks like people are using shushi knifes, guns, alcohol and pellet guns to vent their anger.  THIS IS NOT RIGHT!

Sushi Chef Accused Of Road Rage Slashing (Feb 20, 2009)

http://www.nationalpost.com/related/links/story.html?id=1310163

A road rage incident turned even uglier when one of the drivers involved turned out to be an angry sushi chef.

William Smith, a spokesman for the Staten Island District Attorney’s office, said two men were driving on the West Shore Expressway when the car driven by Jack Zaiback nearly collided with a vehicle driven by sushi chef Yao Zhou.

New York Police Department cameras recorded much of the subsequent brawl after both men left their vehicles, Zhou carrying a 30-centimetre sushi knife.

Zaiback’s attorney, Alex Grosshtern, says his client required approximately 100 stitches to his face and torso following the incident.

“He tried to make sushi out of my client,” Grosshtern told the New York Daily News. “His skin just came off.” Zaiback and Zhou, both of Brooklyn, pleaded not guilty to assault charges.

3 charged in road rage incident (March 4, 2009)

http://macombdaily.com/articles/2009/03/04/news/srv0000004826722.txt

A late-night road rage incident that erupted into gunfire between motorists in two cars on Interstate 94 has landed three people in trouble with the law.

All three suspects had legal permission to carry their guns with them, but all three had been drinking and that may have played a role in their decision to start shooting at each other while they drove along the freeway, police said Tuesday.

“To be involved in a road rage episode where another driver might challenge you to pull over and settle things is scary enough,” said Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel.

“But when you add drinking and handguns into the mix and then they started shooting at each other, I don’t know how any one of them would justify their actions.”

No one was injured during the Sunday incident but both vehicles were struck by gunshots. Investigators believe the incident started as the result of a fender

bender on the freeway.

Dion Griffin, 46, of Grosse Pointe Farms, is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, a 4-year felony, along with operating a car while intoxicated, and carrying a concealed weapon violation, both misdemeanors punishable by up to 93 days in jail.

Griffin’s wife, Lisa, 41, also was arrested on a CCW violation because she was intoxicated and had possession of a handgun on her, police said.

The other driver, Dorian Hatchett, 31, of Lathrup Village, was charged with the same offenses as Dion Griffin. Both men have been released on a $10,000 bond each.

According to the Macomb County Sheriff’s Office, Griffin and his wife, along with their adult daughters, were returning home in their Nissan Armada after celebrating Lisa Griffin’s birthday when the incident started.

The two vehicles apparently had a minor collision on the freeway near Van Dyke in Detroit and both kept driving with Hatchett’s car tailing the SUV. At one point, Dion Griffin took out his 9 mm Beretta and shot out of the window at the car behind him, police said.

Police said Hatchett, who told them he feared for his life, brandished his .357 Glock and returned fire.

As the two vehicles raced along eastbound I-94, Lisa Griffin and one of her daughters both called 911 from inside the car. The call reached the Eastpointe Police Department.

“They’re shooting at us, I don’t know why, but they’re shooting at us,” Lisa Griffin said in the 911 call, according to an audiotape of the phone message. The tape also showed that Lisa Griffin told police it was her 41st birthday.

Macomb County Sheriff’s deputies eventually intercepted Hatchett’s car on I-94 near Metropolitan Parkway, while the Griffins kept driving until they were stopped by police near 23 Mile Road.

Dion Griffin’s CCW permit from Macomb County has been revoked, the sheriff said. Investigators have notified the Wayne County Gun Board of the incident as both Lisa Griffin and Hatchett received their CCW permit in that jurisdiction.

David Beniston later admitted to police he was so “wound up” he had to restrain himself from shooting the older man with his BB pellet gunBeniston, of Queen Street, Thorne, pleaded guilty to possessing an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear or violence and was sentenced to 36 weeks in a young offenders’ institution, suspended for 18 months.

He must also complete 120 hours of unpaid community work and pay £263 costs.

Prosecutor Carl Fitch said Paul Moss and his 15-year-old son were driving along Queen Street when they were obstructed by Beniston’s car and there was a disagreement between the drivers.

Mr Moss drove away but at a junction Beniston pulled up alongside him and the dispute continued, with Mr Moss getting out of his car and approaching the other driver in an aggressive manner, the court heard.

Mr Fitch said: “The defendant pulled out a BB gun, capable of firing plastic pellets, which the complainant’s son believed to be a real gun, and Mr Moss hastily returned to his vehicle before the defendant discharged the gun at his car.

“Mr Moss pursued him to the defendant’s father’s address and had a further argument.”

The court heard Beniston told police he was “really wound up by what Mr Moss had said and done and wanted to shoot him but bit his tongue and shot at the car instead”.

He then threw the gun in the canal.

David Taylor, defending, said Beniston felt he was the victim because he had been pulled out of his car.

He knew the BB pellets wouldn’t cause damage to anyone or the car.

The judge, Recorder Hawks, told Beniston that brandishing an imitation firearm was serious because no-one knew if it was real or not and serious tragedies could occur.

“It is always a serious matter when firearms are produced in public, particularly when people’s tempers are up.

“This must be marked with a sentence of custody but because of your age and circumstances I can suspend it.

“The matter that makes the difference is the behaviour of the complainant. That doesn’t excuse your behaviour but puts it in a proper context.

“I hope this has been a salutary lesson to you.”