A stick-swinging Wisconsin motorist went berserk and thrashed another driver’s car in the middle of traffic during a road rage rampage caught on camera.
The explosive footage captured the blood-soaked driver, identified as Mike Chaltry, storming out of his car and violently smashing the windows of a white Nissan behind him with a stick on a busy downtown Milwaukee freeway Tuesday afternoon.
The Nissan quickly backed up during the chaotic attack and then lunged forward, nearly pinning the frenzied man against another car before attempting to speed off, the dramatic video showed.
But Chaltry followed the car on foot and landed a few final whacks before the fiery clash fizzled out.
“I’m not the one who started it,” Chaltry told WISN 12 News following the tempestuous scuffle, admitting that he’s now the “face of road rage” in Milwaukee.
“I mean, he was driving like an idiot.”
Chaltry claimed the intense encounter began when the other driver recklessly tried to cut him off on the highway as their bumpers nearly collided.
The loose cannon recounted how the hot-headed motorist allegedly followed him off the highway before walking up to his driver’s side window when they were stopped at a light and punching him multiple times in the face — prompting Chaltry to grab his stick and start swinging.
“He sucker punched me through the window of my car and broke my nose – I got stitches,” Chaltry told the outlet, noting that he “didn’t see it coming.”
“He put my life in danger three times. When he hit me on the highway, when he punched me in the head and when he tried hitting me with his car. I think you saw that in the video. There’s no need for that. I just don’t get it. I was angry, but I had good reason to be angry. He didn’t.”
Cops later arrested the unidentified Nissan driver for suspected battery — and hit him with citations for driving without both insurance and registration, the local outlet reported.
Chaltry also faces possible charges for disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property after his case was referred to the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office.
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