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The original was posted on /r/newzealand by /u/Persiope on 2025-01-17 10:13:20+00:00.
My partner and I just moved to Auckland a couple of months ago and are in Taupō for the weekend.
Intercity bus here, a bit wild on the turns but nothing too crazy. Picked up our rental to drive the short distance to our accommodation, easy peasy - or so we thought..
Two turns in and we’re driving on a 50km road with multiple cars in front of us and I can see in the rearview that the guy tailgating me also has a tailgater, who is driving on the non existent shoulder - I guess trying to see why we were all so slow (was I too slow for going the limit in a high crash zone??)
Guy directly behind me then proceeds to cut me off as I’m trying to turn left. It was super dangerous so I beeped my horn and he came to a stop directly beside me to yell some things at my partner who had his window down to ask ‘man what the fuck!?’
This then pissed off the tailgater behind him (who I also let pass coz at this point I’m not wanting to pay an excess for something so trivial) who beeped and sped up directly behind him so he just stopped dead in the middle of the road.
It’s first tailgater stopped at the left turn give way line, shoulder driver tailgater stopped behind him and then us stopped a little further back.
He got out, she got out, they yelled in each other’s faces while we sat in our car watching. She then stormed to her boot, pulled out a MACHETE and a BASEBALL BAT?!
Meanwhile I’ve switched my gear to reverse ready to Tokyo drift outta there and possibly straight back to Auckland because wt actual f.
Old mate at the front’s already driven off by this point so machete mama gets in and flies down the road to continue the tailgate.
Thankfully we were only behind them for a couple of minutes before we turned off onto a quiet, empty road.
I don’t even know how to end this except that this was probably one of the more intense situations I’ve had the misfortune of being a part of since moving here.