Posted: 4/12/2020 12:13:52 PM EDT
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I was at home depot early this morning since we needed a bunch of home repair tools. I load up the minivan with a couple hundred dollars with of tools and go to leave. I notice there's a car with 2 masked men behind me as I leave. Ok, not so weird, I'm wearing a mask and gloves. I go to turn left in a double turning lane and they stay behind me. make the turn and I notice they stay about 10 feet back no matter how fast I drive. I intentionally go annoyingly slow in the right lane, they don't pass. I make a 3rd turn and they are still on my butt. I believe I remember the 3 turn rule, but I'm not sure if that's a real thing or I'm imagining it. Anyway they are still right there, so I figure something is up. And these 3 turns now have been very specific and only lead to a few neighborhoods, so it's not a common way of travel around here. Speed up coming to a traffic circle, and go completely around it so I've basically done a 180. They seems to pause in the circle and then went another way. I stayed back until they were gone the other way before turning towards our neighborhood. Had they followed me around I would have called police as I was driving towards the nearest station. I guess I'm wondering when you should start think you're being followed, and how long into a trip do you start to pay attention to it. I feel like I looked like a target, suburban dad piling tools into a mini van in obvious view, but nothing I could really do about that. Was carrying but concealed. I'm not sure if I'm just on edge because of reading about everything going on in the world, or that there were so few cars out they were easy to see. |
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Quoted: what's a crazy ivan? It's when you go to starboard in the bottom half of the hour. Edit: I remember reading somewhere ("Blind Man's Bluff", maybe?) that a true crazy Ivan was a bit MORE dramatic than what was depicted in HFRO. In the movie the Typhoon pulls a U-turn and proceeds slowly back down it's course to clear it's baffles. In the book I think they described it a something far more aggressive; whipping around and charging at speed back up the way they'd come. There was as much as aspect of "getting the fuck out of the way" as there was "making like a hole in the water". |
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Quoted: what's a crazy ivan?  The Hunt For Red October 1990 - Crazy Ivan |
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If I think someone is following me I just slow down and drive like 5 under. No one in their right mind keeps following you when you're going under the speed limit. Also, why are you wearing a mask/gloves inside your own car? I take off any gloves (discard) and mask (throw it on the dash) before touching ANYTHING in my car to avoid cross contamination. Then I purell. |
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Quoted: Alter your route, double back, take unnecessarily long detours. It ought to be easy to discover a tail, especially if it's just one vehicle. If you follow Matt's suggestion, try to capture 1 or 2 of the occupants alive so you can interrogate them. 
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Worked corrections and did security contracting in the hood. If you want to know if youre being followed look for a drive through. How many people pull up to a 24 hour mc d’s get in the drive through then get out before you stuck in. If they follow they must not be hungry either. Also round abouts or traffic circles going to one see if they follow you around two or three times. Hit the local police substation and back into a spot. Look for a cop running a speed trap on the side of the road and pull up to him. |
| Back when I lived at home with my folks, had an interesting situation. I had just left work, and was headed home. After about 3 turns I started getting concerned. It was getting dark, and couldn't make out the car. I was definitely being followed. After about 5 more turns was still after me. So probably about 8 turns and was definitely being followed. I was coming up on home. I debated about slowing down and jumping from vehicle. But on second thought I turned into driveway. Yep. Car turned too. Pulled Into parking place, quickly exited vehicle. It was my brother. By coincidence he was coming home same time as me. |
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OP just assume they are after the 3 turn rule is exceeded, and then make a random turn at an intersection. Don't let "I can't believe it" bias take over. Odds are of course you'll lose them. If they keep turning with you make a beeline for the police station. If you can get a license # somehow while you're doing the turns, text it to yourself or your wife. I've done that - some guy gets road rage on you for no reason, I want someone to know who it is. |
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Quoted: It isn't easy if they're using revolving tails (especially in the city), but in more remote areas it's still fairly easy to detect by altering you course several times like Deadtired suggests. If you follow Matt's suggestion, try to capture 1 or 2 of the occupants alive so you can interrogate them. |
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I had this happen once before when I lived in Texas, guy followed me for like 8 turns. I pulled a few hundred yards away from my house and he stopped at my house and got out! Had a pizza I didn't know my wife ordered... this time it felt different and I'm more rural than before. Plus with the thought that I was obviously loading up tools I probably looked like a good target |
| Once upon a time It was late at night.. 11pm. Making a left on a service drive. Before I could turn left I had to wait for a green. Well, a select car passed the intersection that caught my attention. I ended up turning and low and behold this car had slowed all the way down so I would catch up. Knowing we had a few stoplights before the e-way I stayed behind him. I stayed 4 car lengths behind him going and I am not joking.. 5mph. We did this all the way until the on ramp of a highway. At that point he had halted in the middle of the road. As soon as the taillights came on. I smashed the gas pedal on a very quick modded 300C and hit the ramp at 130 plus and pinned it . I knew what was about to happen next and I wasnt waiting around to find out |
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Quoted: Back when I lived at home with my folks, had an interesting situation. I had just left work, and was headed home. After about 3 turns I started getting concerned. It was getting dark, and couldn't make out the car. I was definitely being followed. After about 5 more turns was still after me. So probably about 8 turns and was definitely being followed. I was coming up on home. I debated about slowing down and jumping from vehicle. But on second thought I turned into driveway. Yep. Car turned too. Pulled Into parking place, quickly exited vehicle. It was my brother. By coincidence he was coming home same time as me. |
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Quoted: I had this happen once before when I lived in Texas, guy followed me for like 8 turns. I pulled a few hundred yards away from my house and he stopped at my house and got out! Had a pizza I didn't know my wife ordered... this time it felt different and I'm more rural than before. Plus with the thought that I was obviously loading up tools I probably looked like a good target I did that to somebody by accident. A pizza delivery car pulled out in front of me on my commute home; I followed it turn for turn from the parking lot until it stopped: in my driveway. I pulled up next to it and got out. My wife had ordered it without me knowing 
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Quoted: If I think someone is following me I just slow down and drive like 5 under. No one in their right mind keeps following you when you're going under the speed limit. Also, why are you wearing a mask/gloves inside your own car? I take off any gloves (discard) and mask (throw it on the dash) before touching ANYTHING in my car to avoid cross contamination. Then I purell. Same people I see in the store hiding their phone with a gloved hand. Guess what numbnuts? All that shits on your phone now. People have no idea how to properly use PPE. I almost don’t blame the government for lying to us anymore |
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Quoted: Park in the middle of traffic, hop out, brush your jacket back so it gets hung up on your sidearm, walk up to the driver's side, tap on the window, and ask them if they need any police assistance. Attached File |