Most cities and towns around Wyoming seem to have at least one notoriously bad or aggressive driver who manages to raise the blood pressure of everyone else on the road.
In Cheyenne, that’s the Crazy White Honda Lady, who has spent the past few months stopping in the middle of roads, flipping other drivers the bird and yelling out her window at anyone within earshot.
Her antics around Wyoming’s capital city has made the Crazy White Honda Lady a minor celebrity and a frequent subject of discussion in the local Crappy Drivers of Cheyenne Facebook group.
She’s always reported driving alone in her four-door white Honda Civic LX and will stop in the middle of traffic or pull over to the shoulder. She also isn’t shy about getting out of her car to shout at others, people report.
Just encountering the White Honda Lady has become a road game around Cheyenne, with other drivers eager to let everyone else know they’ve seen her.
And most of the reports are about the same: She stops in the middle of the road or in front of other drivers, yells at people, honks her horn and is prolific in giving her fellow motorists the one-fingered salute.
That’s what she was doing when Justin Crozier had his encounter with the Crazy White Honda Lady. At first, he thought she might just be a myth or meme going around the Crappy Drivers group.
“Nope, she’s real,” Crozier told Cowboy State Daily. “When I came across her, she was honking at everyone for what seemed like forever. She was opening her door, closing her door, rambling and honking at the red light.
“Then she was gone.”
On The PD’s Radar
The Crazy White Honda Lady isn’t just a favorite subject to gossip about on local social media, she’s also on the radar of the Cheyenne Police Department.
The PD has received calls about this particular driver, said department spokesperson Alexandra Farkas.
“Our Traffic Enforcement Unit is familiar with that driver,” she said. “She’s been issued citations in the past, but she is a licensed driver.”
While the Cheyenne Police Department confirmed this driver has multiple traffic citations, it declined to identify her. Cowboy State Daily was told that a formal request is required, and then the driver would have to agree to be identified before that information would be released. Also, Wyoming privacy laws restrict access to information about who owns a particular license plate.
It’s one thing to get secondhand reports of bad behavior on the road, but officers need to see it to issue a ticket or go beyond giving a warning, she said.
While it may be fun to call the White Honda Lady out on Facebook, being aggressive and deliberately antagonistic on the roads is a serious issue, Farkas said.
“I would say that as the summertime months pick up with large events and more things going on, that could contribute to some more of testing people’s patience,” she said.
In those cases, it’s best to remain calm and report any unsafe or inappropriate behavior on the roads, Farkas said.
“Reporting it is really important, we want to know,” she said.
‘In The Wild’
Sarah Dixon is another driver who said she was surprised when she encountered the Crazy White Honda Lady “in the wild.”
Driving ahead of Dixon and her boyfriend last month, the woman in her four-door white Honda passenger car put on her hazard lights and stopped in the middle of the road, Dixon said. Then she “honked incessantly and flipped us off.”
“We were just driving normal behind her, and she just stopped in the middle of the street,” Dixon told Cowboy State Daily. “She was shouting profanities at us and flipping us off.”
That Dixon and her boyfriend just laughed at her in response seemed to make the woman more angry, she said.
“She was honking her horn, and we were just sitting there laughing at her,” she said. “I see all the other posts saying the same thing. It’s bizarre that’s how she behaves.”
One of the Facebook group’s regulars goes by the handle Seymour Leeman, who posts videos of his encounters with the Crazy White Honda Lady. He seeks her out and follows her, and it doesn’t take much get on the woman’s bad side.
An aggressive or antagonizing response to the White Honda Lady’s antics — or anyone else on the road — is something law enforcement doesn’t encourage.
“I think many of our officers are aware of her,” said Cheyenne Police Chief Mark Francisco. “We would much prefer people drive defensively and not be in a hurry and not be aggressive.”
In the meantime, Cheyenne drivers and those with their own White Honda Ladies around Wyoming can do with a little more understanding, Dixon said.
Because those people are “clearly having a bad life.”
Greg Johnson can be reached at: Greg@CowboyStateDaily.com
Greg Johnson can be reached at greg@cowboystatedaily.com.
