Road-rage fury captured on video
AN expletive-laden tirade exploded into road-rage fury when a man pulled a wooden pick handle from the boot of his car and attacked a motorist in the Cape Winelands.
The altercation was captured on video by Egan Ezra, who was allegedly hit in the face by the unidentified driver of a silver VW Polo.
A young girl was in the front passenger seat of the Polo during the fracas‚ which happened on Monday in broad daylight on a busy street.
It all started when the man accused Ezra of not maintaining the correct following distance.
Grabbing what appeared to be a pick handle‚ the aggressor stormed towards Ezra, screaming expletives.
The two argued and the aggressor continued to hurl abuse until he realised that he was being filmed.
“Who said you can take a photo of me‚” he demanded to know in Afrikaans and then appeared to jab the weapon into Ezra’s face through an open window.
In a second video‚ Ezra followed the man down the road and the altercation almost turned violent again.
“This guy was very angry, but violence is never the answer‚” Ezra said yesterday.
“I laid a charge with the police, so they will try to locate him.
“I don’t want him to rot in jail, but it is not OK to drive with a weapon in your car and use it to attack people.
“I only had a bottle of water in the car. What was I going to do with it? When you are angry you converse‚ you don’t attack. “I am being criticised for being too calm but that is just my nature. Violence has never appealed to me.”
Describing the incident in a post on Facebook‚ he said: “Well friends‚ today I had the personal experience of being assaulted by a man.
“When I passed him and gave him the ‘head-shake’‚ he responded by calling me a ‘hotnot’ which is Cape for ‘I don’t like you because you have a nice tan’.
“He then swerved in front of me a second time‚ showing aggressive hand-signs and even though my lip-reading is not on CIA-field-agent level‚ I could make out the words ‘ek sal jou bliksem’, which is Afrikaans slang for ‘I will make you say Eina’. Eina means ouch by the way.”
The events that led to the altercation were not captured on video.