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Authorities say an irate Chalmette man pepper sprayed another driver and hit him with a baseball bat during a road rage confrontation in Old Metairie. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office investigators aren't sure what happened to set off Gary Bergeron, 33. It began with some sort of traffic encounter between Bergeron and the victim, an unidentified 49-year-old man, on Interstate 10 in New Orleans around noon on Wednesday (Dec. 4), according to Glen T. Boyd, spokesman for the Sheriff's Office.