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guest entry: dueling semis by roger williams 2007-05-14 - 8:04 p.m. "Dueling Semis" is � 2007, all rights reserved, by Roger Williams Note: Here are the exciting! events! of May 5 from Roger's point of view. We all know thanks to Michael Moore's little Canada trip in Bowling for Columbine that despite owning plenty of guns our Canadian neighbors aren't prone to USian displays of gun-related massacry. On my recent trip I was fortunate to survive seeing how they do sort out their aggressions. One day last week we decided to take a day trip from the Leamington/Point Pelee area to see Niagara Falls, since neither Y or I know if we will ever be that close to the area again. It's about 3.5 hours each way according to Mapquest, a good little venture for a day when the bird migration isn't producing for her life list. I scrupulously did the speed limit since I've been warned that our neighbors are a bit sharp about speed limit enforcement. So I was about half an hour out of Leamington when Semi 1BLOWS by me as if I was standing still. And then Semi 2, about three feet from Semi 1's bumper. Then it got weird. Semi 1 pulled into my lane. Semi 2 pulled up even with him and then began to drift into Semi 1's lane, forcing him onto the shoulder. I was just wondering how much 2's driver had had to drink last night when I realized it wasn't an accident -- he was trying to force the other truck off the road. Semi 1 slammed the brakes so Semi 2 overshot him. I slammed the brakes. This was the 401, a fairly major highway, so there was lots of 100 kph traffic oncoming. I took the shoulder and watched the rear-view mirror nervously. Semi 2 swerved into the right lane, so Semi 1 moved toward the left lane to try and pass him -- and Semi 2 swerved hard to block him, also cutting off a third semi oncoming in the left lane. Semi #3 had to slam its brakes to barely avoid hitting both of them. At this point the dueling semis commenced to weave down the road at about 5 kph, #2 trying to block #1 and eventually bringing everything to a full halt about 500 meters before an interchange. My wife was going white-knuckle in the passenger seat and saying "We've got to get away from this!" but there was nowhere to go; the way the two dueling semis were acting I feared I'd get creamed in my compact rental, if only by accident, if I tried to sneak past them. I was actually prepared to punch it into the grass if it looked like something heavy might be preparing to rear-end me. I hit my emergency blinkers, and fortunately Semi #4 saw this in time, put on his blinkers, and coasted to a nice gentle stop behind me. I felt much better with 40,000 kg of truck between me and the other oncoming traffic. Finally everything was stopped dead and a few brave four-wheelers began sneaking around the whole mess in the median grass (both shoulders being fully blocked by the dueling semis). I joined this conga line and noticed that Semi #2, the apparent aggressor, had its driver's door open. I was most worried that the whole thing would progress to the point of gunfire, but it didn't, and since I snuck around it as other drivers were apparently exercising persuasion on the duelers I never got to find out how it ended up. I have to admit that I have had some weird shit happen to me, including an actual drive-by shooting in my own living room, but in 30 years of driving in the US that's something I never saw before. You gotta love vacations for showing you new shit. back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford