Thread: "I see stupid people!" or "spot the blithering idiot"

Originally Posted by Ashore

Was there a Green peace sticker on the back window.

No Greenpeace sticker....but I dare say therell be a vehicle defect notice slapped on the windscreen as soon as she passes the first cop.

Idiot, n. a member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominent and controlling. The idiot's activity is not confined any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is final is unappealable. He sets the fashions of opinions and taste, dictates the limitations of of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

The devils dictionary.

That lets Amanda Vanstone, Joan Kirner and several others of the hook

Back in 93 when i was managing Lysaghts in Tamworth all of sudden all the lights went out the computers went down and all the the machinery stopped. We all thought it was a blackout.

We go outside into the street and just down the road is a small crane truck. Apparently he had done a small job up the road and took off back to his place of work and forgot to put the jib down on the crane.

Just as he went past his place of work a small engineering concern the jib hooked the overhead electrical cables into his factory.

The result was that he ripped the mains out of their switch board and blacked out 2 blocks.

He was not very popular.

Was sitting once inside a McDonalds with the kids and was watching an elderly gent tying down his load on his trailer.

The trailer was just beyond the driveway of Maccas and this bimbo pulls up waiting to leave the carpark in a Hyundai. (say no more) She sits there and waits for the traffic to pass.

Just looking at how she was angled I thought to myself she is going to hit that trailer.

Sure enough, takes off and wipes out the entire left side of her car from about the front wheels all the way back :eek: There was heaps of space to avoid the trailer, but no the shortest path is the quickest they say (it was a female driving a Hyundai)

She stops, gets out, the old bloke just ignores her, as he should. She picks up the remains of the side "protective" strips she peeled of her car and drives off.

The trailer just moved a bit but was otherwise intact.

I think of this incident whenever I'm on the pushbike - It's a worry.

One I have seen numerous times and still find it amusing, Mr renovator and family by wood panelling or similar for home, put it on the roof rack and tie down (despite about 3' overhang either end of the rack).
The desired speed seems to be about 40kph and snap, shorter sections of wood panel.

I was really shocked to see the female helper on ToolTime with tim the tool man Taylor spinning some timber on a lathe while her long hair merrily waved about her face .
That was stupid .

Originally Posted by namtrak

I remember as a kid once, fixing up the front wheel on the dragster, putting it back on and duely forgetting to tighten up the front screws. Do you understand the fatalistic dread one feels, when in all their 70's coolness pull a 'mono' only to see the front wheel come whizzing off. I think I was able to ride about 40 yards in 'mono' state before the inevitable - I think all my mates were reduced to tears, bastards!!

That actually happened to a Honda rider (Mick Hone?) at Bathurst many years ago. He pulled into the pits for a front wheel change and in those days there were two humps going down the straight where the bikes would get slightly air borne. Well....in the rush the pit man failed to tighten the wheel and you can guess what happened.....the rider survived but never seriously raced again.
I won't call the man in the pits an idiot because I'm sure he's not at all stupid and he'd be as devastated as any man could be.


But on the subject of idiots.......the world is full of 'em....but at one time or another we've all been that idiot.

I have one of these stickers on my toolbox.

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Helps keep me focused.

Stupid drivers, many years ago while bases at enoggera I drove fairly large Macks, you know the ones. Well at the of the Samford road there were traffic lights and the lines on there road were sagged. The sign on the traffic lights said do not enter against the traffic or something like that. Well a lot of motorist didn’t read the warning and moved over the line and one day as i was turning a ladie did this and i ran over the frount of her 3 week old Torana, it was only a slight bump. i had a tank on a lowloader

Originally Posted by Christopha

On my way to Adelaide for the woodshow a couple of years ago when I noticed a ute heading toward Tailem Bend towing one of those big four wheeled Broomwade compressors...... the road breaker was coming along behind on about 40feet of hose....... Boing! Bounce! Fertang! Clonk!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

I dont see anything strange about that....we have quite a few road trains here in SA.

Bloody hell! I posted that 5 bloody years ago!

Originally Posted by Christopha

Bloody hell! I posted that 5 bloody years ago!

I hope you've had a haircut since then.

Originally Posted by Christopha

Bloody hell! I posted that 5 bloody years ago!

Takes a while for posts to get down to SA