Can I Have My Money Back?

So I'm driving back from Washington D.C. where I'd gone to install an Etna cartridge in an AMG Viella turntable for a friend. His politics are 180 degrees diametrically opposed to mine. In fact, he's a consultant to "those people". But you know what? Politics stops for me at the lead-in groove.

I get within a mile or so of the final toll on the Garden State Parkway and I'm in the left lane doing about 80—okay, that's speeding but if you don't go that fast you get eaten alive on that road—when this van comes charging up behind me and gets so close a credit card wouldn't fit between my rear bumper and his front one.

He pull over to the next lane and passes me in his Best Buy "Geek Squad" van, must have been going 100, and then of course he pulls back into the left lane just clearing my bumper, to let me know he's "king of the road" with anger management issues. By that point the toll plaza was just ahead and there were more than half a dozen open lanes for him to use, but no, he had to pull in front of me to make his point.

He goes zooming through the plaza at a high rate of speed and disappears. I go through and make my way to the next exit. I head down the ramp and there he is at the bottom waiting for the light. Now this is the exit for the giant Garden State Plaza Mall, so there are two lanes turning left and two going straight into the mall or turning right. He's in the left-most lane behind a few cars, but the right left hand lane is open so I take it.

As I get the bottom, he sees me and begins to pull into my lane to cut me off! My choice is to continue in my lane or make a sharp righthand maneuver into another lane without having time to see if someone's coming. In other words if I do that and someone hits me, it is my fault. So I stay in my lane and he bumps into my rear left side wheel well. It's a gentle touch but I look over and he's screaming and cursing and giving me the finger.

This Geek Squad guy is deranged! I'm not getting out to "talk it over" with him. So I go home and assess the damage. Not bad, probably a few hundred bucks that my deductible won't cover. Nonetheless I call the insurance company and report the incident.

A few days later I get a call from the Paramus, NJ police asking about the accident. I tell the officer that yes, there was an "incident" but i wasn't about to get out and confront this maniac given his display of ongoing anger and I describe the entire incident from the tailgating part on. He asks for me to email images of my license, registration and insurance card and I do.

A day later I start calling the Geek Squad "customer satisfaction" center about this crazed maniac and I'm promised return phone calls and for three weeks I get none. Three weeks! Finally I get through and I explain what happened and ask to speak to the local Geek Squad manager. No can do. The guy I talk to explains that the local manager has the police report and that the Geek guy has filed a "hit and run" accident report against me even though he hit me and he didn't make any attempt to pull over. And I'm told, the police "sided with him."

Now that is B.S. since the police just take down the information in these cases, they don't draw conclusions.

I again ask to speak to someone at Best Buy/Geek Squad just to let them know that they have a reckless, angry Geek working for them who drives like a crazed maniac and that one of these days they will be sorry. But no one wants to talk to me.

So I contact the Paramus police to get the accident report and I read it. This POS claims we both turned left and that during the turn I hit him! Lying sack of crap! But worse, my accounting to the officer mentions nothing about the "road rage" incident before the encounter and worse turns it into a "he said, he said dispute where we both turned, but I claim he hit me! That is NOT what happened! This happened at the bottom of the ramp at the red light before the turn.

So this guy, who is a Class A road rage driver is also a liar and he's on the Best Buy, Geek Squad payroll to boot. So you can be sure of one thing: my Best Buy shopping days are 100% over. You can do as you wish of course.

i realize this is mostly "off topic" but the "Can I Have My Money Back' section is where I can vent non-related stuff. So I did and now I feel much better. Thank you.