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but it wouldn't have forced all other traffic to go at a snails pace, all teh vehicles that were fast enough to overtake would have done so. Busman was an easy target, like it or not.

As you said, he may have been able to overtake it but his own comments show that he knew they were intent on playing silly beggars before he decided to overtake. His correct option would have been to take the reg number and get a passenger to ring the police and report it as dangerous driving with road rage tendancies. they could easily have kept the police up to date with the current location and it wouldn't take plod long to catch him up. Kids pulled over and license removed, job done.