Seeing an idiot get their just desserts

[hidetheelephants]

ORD said:

Try driving a 2CV! I don't buy into all the nonsense about them being great drivers cars - see Chris Harris- they are properly horrific pieces of kit. BUT they are a hell of a challenge, that's for sure. Wide open throttle at all times and still little progress.

I think I learnt to drive in a Punto (a 16v one, mind) in about 1999, and it made my Fiesta Zetec feel like a rocket. (To be fair, that Fiesta was a damn good car.)

He who cannot enjoy driving a 2CV is tired of life itself.

[DickyC]

hidetheelephants said:

He who cannot enjoy driving a 2CV is tired of life itself.

You are Dr Johnson and I claim my deux chevaux.

[cathalferris]

Late 1990's, heading from Dublin back to Limerick after a weekend of kayaking. I was driving a Peugeot 309 diesel van without the rear seats and with no rear side windows, with 4 kayaks on the roof.

The road was single carraigeway and there was a lot of traffic coming against me, and I was travelling at or close to the speed limits as I was not in a hurry and I was pretty beat up after the rivers. In hte rear view I noticed a set of badly adjusted headlights coming up at a rate of knots to sit less than 5 feet from me rear bumper. It was some form of 4x4 with the Hellas on the bullbar (switched on and blinding me..). This particular idiot behind me wasn't able to overtake with the constant stream of oncoming traffic, and I had no room to move over given the hedge beside me. This idiot travelled about 5 miles sitting directly behind me, matching any left-right positioning in the road, possibly in an attempt to intimidate me.

After another 5 minutes or so I begin to get a little annoyed at this cretin as I can't do much about the situation. However, there's a village oncoming so I drift to the right in my lane, and the idiot matches me without paying much attention to what's going on ahead of me - where there is a kerbed traffic island. So I drive further and further to the right, and after priming my passenger to the situation. With about 5 metres to go, I swerve to the left to avoid the traffic island. This island has a 1 foot vertical kerb, and the idiot behind me hits it at ~60mph. The idiot wasn't tailing me that close after that..

[anonymous-user]

boxedin said:

Late 1990s.

Trundling through an Essex village on a motorcycle one night doing the 30 with someone dying to do their '30', which is 40 behind me in their woefully under-powered car, still. This guy finally overtook me, no problems, apart from the blinding white flash as he overtook heading towards a gatso.

Laugh? me?

The village finishes a minute after the gatso and returns to NSL, yes I did overtake him, pointing at him with a thumbs up..

If the blinding white flash was facing you then nothing would have happened??

cathalferris said:

Late 1990's, heading from Dublin back to Limerick after a weekend of kayaking. I was driving a Peugeot 309 diesel van without the rear seats and with no rear side windows, with 4 kayaks on the roof.

The road was single carraigeway and there was a lot of traffic coming against me, and I was travelling at or close to the speed limits as I was not in a hurry and I was pretty beat up after the rivers. In hte rear view I noticed a set of badly adjusted headlights coming up at a rate of knots to sit less than 5 feet from me rear bumper. It was some form of 4x4 with the Hellas on the bullbar (switched on and blinding me..). This particular idiot behind me wasn't able to overtake with the constant stream of oncoming traffic, and I had no room to move over given the hedge beside me. This idiot travelled about 5 miles sitting directly behind me, matching any left-right positioning in the road, possibly in an attempt to intimidate me.

After another 5 minutes or so I begin to get a little annoyed at this cretin as I can't do much about the situation. However, there's a village oncoming so I drift to the right in my lane, and the idiot matches me without paying much attention to what's going on ahead of me - where there is a kerbed traffic island. So I drive further and further to the right, and after priming my passenger to the situation. With about 5 metres to go, I swerve to the left to avoid the traffic island. This island has a 1 foot vertical kerb, and the idiot behind me hits it at ~60mph. The idiot wasn't tailing me that close after that..

So you purposely invoked a potential serious accident? Bravo

[Centurion07]

anonymous said:

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Who caused the accident?

[anonymous-user]

Centurion07 said:

Who caused the accident?

cathalferris said:

So I drive further and further to the right, and after priming my passenger to the situation. With about 5 metres to go, I swerve to the left to avoid the traffic island. This island has a 1 foot vertical kerb, and the idiot behind me hits it at ~60mph. The idiot wasn't tailing me that close after that..

He is proudly stating he set the guy up to hit a 1' kerb at appx 60mph

[HereBeMonsters]

anonymous said:

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Where does it say the flash was facing him? Post simply says he overtook heading toward a gatso, causing a flash. From either way these can be blinding.

Attempted pedantry fail. Stop trying to ruin PH.

[ST270]

anonymous said:

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I think the point being had he not have been a few inches from him bumper the 4x4 would have noticed the kerb and not driven up/over it at a stupid speed, regardless of where the van in front was placed on the road.

[walm]

The point is that he intentionally caused an accident.
Like brake testing but worse.

Not good form IMHO.

[ST270]

walm said:

The point is that he intentionally caused an accident.
Like brake testing but worse.

Not good form IMHO.

Neither is tailgating / driving to try and intimidate & where there are no safe places to overtake. Who knows the bump may have made the 4x4 driver think twice before doing it again.

[walm]

ST270 said:

walm said:

The point is that he intentionally caused an accident.
Like brake testing but worse.

Not good form IMHO.

Neither is tailgating / driving to try and intimidate & where there are no safe places to overtake. Who knows the bump may have made the 4x4 driver think twice before doing it again.

No one is defending the tailgating.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

[ORD]

ST270 said:

Neither is tailgating / driving to try and intimidate & where there are no safe places to overtake. Who knows the bump may have made the 4x4 driver think twice before doing it again.

Shooting him in the knee caps would have the same effect, so I suppose that would be fine...

[Dark85]

HereBeMonsters said:

Where does it say the flash was facing him? Post simply says he overtook heading toward a gatso, causing a flash. From either way these can be blinding.

Attempted pedantry fail. Stop trying to ruin PH.

"apart from the blinding white flash as he overtook heading towards a gatso"

By there. It's a valid point that a Gatso might well flash as you head towards it but nothing will happen beyond that.

As for the guy who deliberately caused an accident because he didn't like someone else's driving - I despair.

[ManOpener]

Dark85 said:

HereBeMonsters said:

Where does it say the flash was facing him? Post simply says he overtook heading toward a gatso, causing a flash. From either way these can be blinding.

Attempted pedantry fail. Stop trying to ruin PH.

"apart from the blinding white flash as he overtook heading towards a gatso"

By there. It's a valid point that a Gatso might well flash as you head towards it but nothing will happen beyond that.

As for the guy who deliberately caused an accident because he didn't like someone else's driving - I despair.

If knobber in question hadn't yet reached the Gatso when he began the overtake it could be facing the same way as them whilst knobber headed towards it, and therefore have caught him.

Edited by ManOpener on Tuesday 12th August 16:58

[Timbo_S2]

About 5 years ago, me and my mate were out on the bikes (SP1 and a GSXR1000). Come to a road we know well, stopped at a set of traffic lights. Two guys join us at the lights, both on 600's. We all set off at a good rate, and are enjoying a 'spirited ride' until we come to a particular, rather dangerour bend (with side roads and a garden center). Me and mate back off, and these guys are keen to show that 600's can piss on bigger bikes. Now wee look like a group of nobs. Another couple of miles, and again we come to a dodgy section, that both my mate and I know is heavily policed. Again, we slow, again these guys speed up to overtake at speed. Nice policemen is sitting on the straight after the bend, and pulls us all over. Checks over my bike and that of my mate, and tells us to bugger off. As I looked in my mirror, I could see him getting his notebook out...

[Centurion07]

walm said:

ST270 said:

walm said:

The point is that he intentionally caused an accident.
Like brake testing but worse.

Not good form IMHO.

Neither is tailgating / driving to try and intimidate & where there are no safe places to overtake. Who knows the bump may have made the 4x4 driver think twice before doing it again.

No one is defending the tailgating.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

It's not the same as brake testing IMO.

What if the kerb had in fact been some little old dear/kid/animal that had stepped into the road? Bellend got taught a lesson and hopefully won't do it again. No sympathy from me. Drive like a , pay the price.

[ManOpener]

I can see both sides, but am of the opinion that, hypothetically speaking, had the knobber in question been keeping a correct distance, if they wouldn't have had to perform a maneuver the car in front can't be held responsible for their actions. In the case of brake testing, you're still forcing someone behind you to brake- therefore you're actually instigating their actions. In this example, had the driver behind been keeping a safe distance they would have not been "forced" to perform any maneuver at all as they would have seen the obstruction in good time.

[Fartomatic5000]

I met an old guy driving an oncoming car on a country road, he slowed and stopped as I was approaching as there was horse poo on the road.
"WTF has he stopped for?" I though. It's only horse poo?
I continue at the speed I had been doing and drove straight through the steaming pile, whilst the old man gave me a bewildered look.

It didn't take long for the stench to make its way into the car. I had erroneously though that horse poo doesn't smell. It does. Thankfully I was near home, but I felt really stupid rinsing horse poo off the tyres, wheel arches and driveway. It stinks.

[HereBeMonsters]

Dark85 said:

HereBeMonsters said:

Where does it say the flash was facing him? Post simply says he overtook heading toward a gatso, causing a flash. From either way these can be blinding.

Attempted pedantry fail. Stop trying to ruin PH.

"apart from the blinding white flash as he overtook heading towards a gatso"

By there. It's a valid point that a Gatso might well flash as you head towards it but nothing will happen beyond that.

As for the guy who deliberately caused an accident because he didn't like someone else's driving - I despair.

Do you really not understand that it's possible to be travelling towards something that isn't facing you?

Jesus fking wept.

[NRS]

Centurion07 said:

It's not the same as brake testing IMO.

What if the kerb had in fact been some little old dear/kid/animal that had stepped into the road? Bellend got taught a lesson and hopefully won't do it again. No sympathy from me. Drive like a , pay the price.

You're a moron. Yes, he was stupid but you were worse. What happened if he got seriously injured for example? Or what happened if hitting it at that speed he was spun and if there was someone coming behind/ towards him that were then involved in the accident too? Yes, I have been in many situations there's someone annoying behind you (being in a relatively low car in a place where most people have 4x4 and around 6 months of winter it's not too strange for me) but it's no excuse.