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Please allow to introduce myself with this post and share from my experience. I was followed while driving couple of times, at that time was not carrying, actually I am not carrying now either (yet).

Anyway, the first time I was driving a BMW 330 Coupe, it was pouring in September on I-10. I was driving very slowly due to visibility conditions and exited for Costco. While waiting at the light I noticed that a guy from next lane in a red pickup was staring at me. I did not make eye contact, I was pretending I did not see him and proceeded with my route. He made an illegal left from his lane and followed me to the Costco parking lot. At that point I was hoping is just a coincidence and I parked my car just to notice he pulled right behind me and got out of the car walking towards my driver's side door. I got scared like _______, started the engine and took off in circles in the parking lot with the freak following me around. I was driving with one hand in the parking lot avoiding cars and people while dialing 911 with the other hand. Needless to say he almost bumped me couple of times and I believe my car saved my ass that day. After 5 minutes of parking lot madness and no cops in sight I decided that is getting very dangerous and I ran for the feeder road cutting off some cars on Old Katy Road (sorry) and driving on the wrong way with the maniac chasing me. Once on the I-10 feeder I floored the bimmer and at the first U turn I lost him. In the rain, his rear wheel drive pickup truck was no match for my BMW. The cops called me back 10 minutes after I got home asking if I am still at the parking lot cause the cop doesn't find me... I stopped going to Costco for a while...

Fast forward two years, driving on 290, some idiot (again in a pick-up truck) decided that passing him on the freeway was a deadly offense and started to mess with us on the freeway: I was slowing down, he was slowing down, I would try to pass, he would not let me pass. This time I am not calling 911 anymore and I did not let the situation escalate more then a minutes, at the first opportunity I passed him and floored the Audi (all wheel drive). I can't (won't) tell you how fast I was going but I lost him in less then a mile in the Friday night traffic.

My conclusion: run, baby, run.

--Sebis