Road rage is a metro Atlanta staple, and not just during the six weeks that the burned-down I-85 bridge was being repaired. Still, one might've hoped those vehicular frustrations would have subsided a bit once the bridge was fixed.

But no. Metro Atlanta drivers find plenty of excuses to get mad at each other.

The incidents veer all over the road, from highways to shopping mall parking lots. You cut me off. You tailgated me. You went too slow in the fast lane.

And weapons? Everything imaginable and some you'd never think of. (Consider the woman who was accused of going after her antagonist with the closest weapon at hand: a Dirt Devil vacuum.) They pit man against woman, young against old, black against white and every other conceivable "this one" vs. "that one."

They even lead to fatherless children.