Just saw some scary shit on the way back from lunch

[ckruzel]

i come up on a car in a 35 zone by my house, i notice that its swaying a bit in between the lane, crossing the yellow line, now i notice its going about 15mph, oh great here we go again, and i'm trying to beat the clock to make it back from lunch on time, i'm looking through the back window and i notice the rear view mirror is tilted toward the driver

now i know, idiot young girl putting her mascara on :WTF:

then she lets go of the wheel (on a curve) to get something out of her purse, car just moves over into opposite lane and almost tags the curb. i've got my fingers draped over the clutch lever, right middle finger resting on the brake lever and right foot poised to push down on the rear brake, i'm ready for whatever happens, backing off a little but since i'm so amazed i'm far enough behind to stay out of trouble, but close enough to still see whats going on, then came lipstick, something on her face

when she is going 10 and swerving over in the other lane, i lay on the horn, she moves the mirror to see, smirks, then puts it back and continues :WTF:

as soon as we are getting on the expressway, i get away from this death on a stick scenerio, i cut accross the rippled v shaped concrete, i didn't even want to wait for the pavement to start

from what i saw in the mirror, a hot looking young chick, too bad she will probably die in the car one day or worse kill someone else


i haven't seen one like this in a while, just thought i would share it

[commandodave]

I would have got her tag number and called it in to the local drunk driver hot line.

Dave

[Arnie]

One of my pet peeves, women putting on make up while driving. Don't you just want to drag her out of the car and bitch slap her? Why can't women put the make up on before they leave home or if they are in a big hurry wait until you get to work and do it in the restroom.

[ZeroTwoRSV]

I can't stand that shit! Here's a tip ladies, wake up 15 minutes earlier and choose your clothes the night before :bond: Needless BS on the roads, no wonder crashes are on the rise. The fact that you blew your horn, she acknowledged, then continued as before is just a sign of princess in training. Sorry you had to be there for that, lucky she didn't have an accident THIS time is right.:soap:

[RZRob]

Hey, you're the sticker guy. Can't you make up a bumper sticker that conveys what so many of us are thinking: Make up won't help, or Hang up & Drive, or Get your F%#king minvan ass outta my way.

[Arnie]

Hey, you're the sticker guy. Can't you make up a bumper sticker that conveys what so many of us are thinking: Make up won't help, or Hang up & Drive, or Get your F%#king minvan ass outta my way.

LMAO :funnypost

[ckruzel]

actually should have had a shirt made up that says right lane asshole or something like that on the back, really big like the whole back

[RSV_Ecosse]

I would have got her tag number and called it in to the local drunk driver hot line.

Dave

Yeah, that always shakes 'em up a bit.

Was following a Hyundai Accent a few days ago on my way to work. The elderly gent driving it was doing @25 in a 60 zone and braking hard then crawling around every corner he came to. Because of the particular road we were on and volume of oncoming traffic, it wasn't going to be easy to overtake as I was in the wife's little Fiat Punto.

A guy in a Subaru Impreza WRX appears a few cars back and starts "leapfrogging" the cars behind me eventually ending up right on my tail.

"Easy, fella...." I'm thinking.

He sees a gap and goes for the overtake, just as he is about to pass the old git in front when the coffin dodger swerves violently out to the right to block him and then pulls back in!!!. Scooby driver thinks "WTF!!!???" and hangs back.

Another gap appears in the traffic and the Scooby tries once again to overtake. Mr Old Age Pensioner does exactly the same thing, following it up with a wagging finger in his rear view mirror and much shaking of head. As if he was trying to tell the Scooby driver "No........you will sit at whatever speed I decide you have to". Bizzare.

I got so annoyed with this carry on, which continued for another 10 miles until the old git pulled off at a junction and went the other way, that I noted his registration plate and pulled in. Called the local police and said "I think I have just followed a drunk driver......this is what he did and here is his reg number".

They said they had a traffic police crew in the area and would dispatch it immediately to check it out.

I'm not a vindictive person normally, but I hope to hell the old git got a good fright and a bit of hassle when/if he was pulled over by the cops. :soap:

On a related note, again on the way to work on the Mille on another day, I spotted a guy in a Toyota coming the other way drinking a cup of tea.

Not a paper/plastic cup, but a china mug!!!. He was actually stirring it with a spoon as he drove towards me!!!.

Madness I tell ya!!!!. :bond:

[styx]

right foot poised to push down on the rear brake
What, yours works?? :)

[NorCalRSVR]

This sort of thing is so common out here that it doesn't even deserve comment. I have seen two things that scared the crap out of me while riding here in the Bay Area though. A number of years ago I was still a mechanic and was on my way to a training course being put on by General Motors in San Leandro. Anyone in the Bay Area can attest that the traffic on 880 in the East Bay is some of the worst (skill wise and density wise) around. I'm riding along in the third lane and ahead of me in the second lane I see an old battered Toyota pick up. It's a bit chilly out and the windows are all fogged over. I'm thinking to myself that whomever is driving can't see me for sure so I cautiously approach the position next to said pick-up and I look over. To my surprise it's not fogged over, the driver is smoking the fattest spliff doobie I've ever seen!!:eek: The driver takes a huge drag off the thing, the cherry must have been the size of a small plum and smiles at me. I thought I better get out of here before he does something unpredictable and takes me out. Turns out I need not have worried as he drove behind me for several miles before he got to his exit and all without swerving around or even inadvertantly leaving his lane.
A second time I was riding passenger in a buddies Camaro when I look to my right and next to us in a low riding sports car (Honda something or other) are two girls getting high. :eek: I don't know what they were smoking as the window was up but it was a small bowl of some kind. I told my buddy that we better get out of there before they do something to cause an accident. He called the PD later after we made it to lunch but as they were beside us we never got a plate number. I've seen all the other stuff that makes me shake my head, even people reading the paper or a book in morning commute traffic.......sean

[Tasunke_sapa]

I was stuck behind a car this evening, going just under the speed limit and slightly swerving with no room to get around before my turn...We both have to stop at the light. There was a sticker on the rear of the car: "Guns don't kill people, drivers on cell phones kill people."
I look over at the driver's side mirror only to see that the driver is an old woman talking on her cell phone.

Still haven't decided if it was hypocracy, or fair warning.

[RZRob]

There was a sticker on the rear of the car: "Guns don't kill people, drivers on cell phones kill people."
I look over at the driver's side mirror only to see that the driver is an old woman talking on her cell phone.

Still haven't decided if it was hypocracy, or fair warning.

That's hilarious!:plus:

[StefanJ]

I was driving back to Fort Campbell after visiting the father in-law in Melbourne FL and doing a CCS race at Homestead when I noticed a car stopped in the left lane of the highway in GA. There was this trememdously huge and I mean phenominaly big/large/gigantic lady beating the living crap out of some small guy. He threw a couple of punches before she proceeded to beat the snot out of him. I kept an eye out and called Johny Law. They of course realized what I was doing and took off!!

That same trip I had a Ford Explorer that belonged to a Miami Radio station (I believe it was 95.9 or 95.5 can't remember) somehow drop the left rear tire (came off with the rotor). First the tire shoots off and damn near hits my new truck and then I'm trying to avoid this big Explorer which is spinning everywere!!! It also happened right next to a Florida Highway Patrol. The Explorer finaly came to a stop on the side of the road and the girl looked ok besides probably peeing herself.

[williamr]

Hey, you're the sticker guy. Can't you make up a bumper sticker that conveys what so many of us are thinking: Make up won't help, or Hang up & Drive, or Get your F%#king minvan ass outta my way.
What's wanted is a bumper sticker saying something like " totally inconsiderate idiot driver" that you can slap on to the rear of the car as you pass it - or better - on to the drivers side window.

Anyone got an idea how to make this practical - tear off pad on the tank perhaps? And it wants to be of a resilient plastic with an adhesive that won't come off.

Rob

[commandodave]

The commedian George Carlin did a bit on this some thirty years ago. The gist of it was every driver gets a gun with a yellow magnetic dart that trails an orange ribbon that says "STUPID". The idea was to shoot the dart at a car when the driver did something idiotic. The police would then ticket any driver that had accumulated 3 darts on his vehicle for "driving while stupid".

Dave

[RZRob]

Okay so I'm getting off track, but this buddy of mine was a printer and we were messing around in his shop and made some stupid stickers with stong adhesive, but a paper front instead of vinyl (i.e. doesn't peel off) that we could put on a holes cars for example:

Join BGN (Be Gay Now)
Very Gay & Happy
Blowjobs $1

I put one on a neighbor's car just to watch them try to deal with it.

RZ Rob

[MilleArp]

......, i lay on the horn, she moves the mirror to see, smirks, then puts it back and continues :WTF: .....



Betcha she thought you were tooting at her hotness.... yeah, that's hawt, yeah, hawt... where's my Tinkerbell?

:rolleyes:


I've experienced pretty much every scenario described in this thread so far.
I ride to work almost every day, 25 miles one-way, 23 miles on a 4-lane freeway, in Detroit area rush hour.
I see it all.

Watched a girl holding up traffic, had a big bowl of fruit or something in her lap, fork in the right hand, cellphone in the left, trying to balance the bowl and steer at the same time with the knees. I just stared in amazement, shook my head, and got in front of this rolling road hazzard.

Watched a guy doing 20 over on I-75 N bound, newspaper fully opened, holding it with both hands, as you would need to if it was fully opened, steering with his knees, and occassionally looking up to see if anyone was impeding his forward progress....

Watched a woman in normal city non-freeway traffic, clutching some sort of portable electronic game, with both hands, resting the game on top of the steering wheel, sometimes looking ahead to see if she was getting to close to someone...

See people cross the whole road, from the far left lane of a 4-lane Highway, to catch the exit they are just about to pass. So far, haven't seen actual contact, yet...
Actually saw a copper do this once, too!

Police are some of the WORST most-inconsiderate drivers!

:soap:

[MilleArp]

Oh, and the new thing is to have your new laptop ultra-mini pc actually in your lap, typing, as you drive.

And the new scourge.... cops on cellphones!
:eek:
:mad:
:pissed:

[hank]

Guns don't kill people, drivers on cell phones kill people.




That's the best line ever!

Chris, make a sticker for that and I'll put it on track van

[rainh8r]

Lots of computer folks around here and too many are working while driving, open laptop against the wheel, intently watching the screen while heading to work. Couple that with their cereal bowl and coffee, and it gets pretty tough to get past them sometimes.

[ckruzel]

Just imagine, front end crash air bag is deployed - laptop to the face !

[MaSK]

I went around a young hotshot suit in a BMW coupe who was watching a DVD on his in-car system, whilst driving at 100km/h on the Freeway, at peak hour. My first thought was if he has an accident I will render assistance to the other party first, no matter how minor the injuries. Others shouldn't suffer for the idiocy of the few.

Mike

[ak.hunter]

Piker, my wife can do all that, steer with her knee and talk on he phone!

:kidding:

[Douwek]

And the new scourge.... cops on cellphones!
:eek:
:mad:
:pissed:
In one week I counted 7 out of 10 doing it. North Detroit suburbs.
Douwek

[cornercarver]

What's wanted is a bumper sticker saying something like " totally inconsiderate idiot driver" that you can slap on to the rear of the car as you pass it - or better - on to the drivers side window.

Anyone got an idea how to make this practical - tear off pad on the tank perhaps? And it wants to be of a resilient plastic with an adhesive that won't come off.

Rob

No, the trick is to make it out of those stickers that actually have millions of small cuts in them so when you try to peel them off, they come off in little tiny 1mmx1mm pieces (like concert wristbands). I used to have a stack of such items which said "If your penis was as small as mine, you'd drive a truck this big, too" or something to that effect, useful for sticking on big trucks with 3 foot lifts and knobby tires seen either cruising through suburbia or demolishing 1,000 year old saguaro cacti in the desert, and appropriate in either context.

--sam

[mfbRSV]

I saw a first the other day, a women driver talking on a cell phone while dialing a second cell phone...while doing 50 in the left lane of a busy three lane 45 mph zone. :WTF: