Lubbock Police Roast Alleged Road Rager On Facebook

This came across my Facebook feed and it’s a stunner.

The Lubbock Police Department Facebook page gave an alleged road rager a complete dress-down on social media. In fact, the beatdown may have been worse than the crime. Okay, that’s a stretch, but I’d certainly hold this up as a warning to other Lubbock drivers — LPD isn’t having none of it. In fact, they didn’t even use the word “alleged.” They pretty much just called this guy out.

It All Starts With A Merge

It all starts with a merge.

You see, merging is one of those things that some Lubbock drivers simply do not understand. To complicate things even more, many drivers here also struggle with zipper merging.

You probably shouldn’t be riding in the right lane to begin with, but if you are, it’s the considerate thing to either slow down or speed up a little to let a car coming from the on-ramp merge into traffic. Visualize the teeth of a zipper slowly interlocking and you’ll get the concept.

“It’s My Lane” Syndrome

Sadly, more than a few folks here in the Hub City seem to have an attitude that says:
“It’s my lane, I was here first, and I’m going to pretend I don’t see you.”

It’s ridiculous, and one day when some of these folks have to drive in a much larger city, they’re going to find themselves on the wrong end of some serious road rage.

LPD Went All Out On This One

So back to our “bad driver du jour.”

I’ve seen little inklings of this kind of messaging from the Lubbock Police Department before, but they really went all out on this one.

The tone of the post was blunt, direct, and honestly pretty entertaining. At the same time, it also got the message across loud and clear.

We’ll let them tell you the story with the Facebook embed below.

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