Thread: Idiots aplenty

Yes plenty of them around artme, whatever happened to a little friendly courtesy. I love the Friday afternoon Grand Prix, people just have to get home as quickly as possible risking their lives and others just to watch Summer Bay or Neighbours on TV

To quote the current F1 world champion "you get cucumbers every where even on the public roads".
Regards

Where do you live ? I'd call that a good day out here in the western suburbs.

I moved from sydney to brisbane in 95/96 can't remember exactly. To this day I've never got used to how dreadful drivers are up here. On the one hand you've got the locals in a coma, on the other the ex-melbournians looking for someone to ram.

It's not just the roads. Try walking around the CBD, but be warned football pads are a good idea. If they aren't queue jumping they are bashing into you as you pass on the footpath, r walking blithly out in front of traffic just expecting everyone to stop for them.

I swear people here are ruder than Sydney now. IMO Brisbane has overtaken Melbourne as the worst place in Australia to live..YMMV.

I live in a very small township and we have one marked pedestrian crossing with flashing lights. The number of cars that take no notice is unbelievable.
Cheers,
Jim
ps the cars aren't the problem of course just the idiots driving them.

After having my car written off in a full head on by an idiot texting while driving these jokers are increasingly getting on my nerves. I don't know how many times I have had to toot stationary (mainly younger women) driver too busy texting under a green light and several of them have even given me the finger thereafter. I was thinking of pasting a sign on my car saying something like, "My last vehicle was written off by someone texting while driving". Just last week I watched a guy in a BMW 4WD drive at a fair speed right through a roundabout while he was texting - he only glanced up once briefly during the whole manoeuvre.

No worse than the drongo I had to avoid this morning. I'm the 3rd of 4 cars sitting on 100k and up comes the dopey tradie in his flash black commodore towing his tradie trailer and starts overtaking us. That's OK until he gets beside me and his trailer unhitches - sparks flying, me and the car behind me braking like all stuff to avoid the whipping trailer. He pulls off on the other side of the road eventually thanks only to his safety chain and I kept going - idiots like that don't deserve help. Lo and behold, 15 k up the road and who overtakes me!!! But he got his this time - I was in a 60 zone doing 60 and I don't think he even saw the camera-car

I like the new signs on cars - "P" stands for "Please be careful around me, I am busy texting".... There's a green one and a red one, I guess green is for iPhone, and Red for Windows Mobile....

Originally Posted by Claw Hama

..... just to watch Summer Bay or Neighbours on TV

How do you know what's on at that time. You have a TV on at work?

I made a ladie flick her phone out the drivers window. how did I do this, well coming in on the mackay-bucasia road, this ladie was weaving in her lane and sometimes in to the lane I was in, as well she changed lanes going through round aborts, coming to the lights at mount plesent I pulled up beside her and saw that she was still texting, so I let rip on the horn. She jumped, and the phone went out the window, ow I drive a 8 ton waste truck with air horns (very loud)

Originally Posted by opelblues

I made a ladie flick her phone out the drivers window. how did I do this, well coming in on the mackay-bucasia road, this ladie was weaving in her lane and sometimes in to the lane I was in, as well she changed lanes going through round aborts, coming to the lights at mount plesent I pulled up beside her and saw that she was still texting, so I let rip on the horn. She jumped, and the phone went out the window, ow I drive a 8 ton waste truck with air horns (very loud)

Did you back up over the phone?

Twice on my bike I have, after being sideswiped or very close called, in stopped traffic, their window wound down (2nd time i tapped on it to make the guy wind it down) grabbed their phone off them and thrown it under the wheels of the oncoming traffic. Then ridden off through stopped traffic. Best place for it.

Originally Posted by veloaficionado

Twice on my bike I have, after being sideswiped or very close called, in stopped traffic, their window wound down (2nd time i tapped on it to make the guy wind it down) grabbed their phone off them and thrown it under the wheels of the oncoming traffic. Then ridden off through stopped traffic. Best place for it.

I guess that qualifies as road rage, I can see why bike riders don't want number plates

So two wrongs make a right after all then?

Originally Posted by veloaficionado

Twice on my bike I have, after being sideswiped or very close called, in stopped traffic, their window wound down (2nd time i tapped on it to make the guy wind it down) grabbed their phone off them and thrown it under the wheels of the oncoming traffic. Then ridden off through stopped traffic. Best place for it.

Originally Posted by Big Shed

I guess that qualifies as road rage, I can see why bike riders don't want number plates

So two wrongs make a right after all then?

Yeah! Maybe chuckin gin over their back seat? Gets the point across but not costing their parents a fortune.

Originally Posted by veloaficionado

Twice on my bike I have, after being sideswiped or very close called, in stopped traffic, their window wound down (2nd time i tapped on it to make the guy wind it down) grabbed their phone off them and thrown it under the wheels of the oncoming traffic. Then ridden off through stopped traffic. Best place for it.

Originally Posted by Big Shed

I guess that qualifies as road rage,

Nope, just keeping yourself safe.