The "Sh*t Driving Caught On Cam" Thread Vol II

The "Sh*t Driving Caught On Cam" Thread Vol II

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heebeegeetee

28,598 posts

247 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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Atomic12C said:
This happens a lot.
The onus is surely on the driver changing lane
The onus should be on both to merge.

FraserLFA

5,083 posts

173 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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Dark85 said:
Please say I need a Parrot?

Merging in turn is not a difficult concept and the Swift driver is a total cock for trying to prevent it.
But there wasn't any signs saying to merge(That I could see). It seems to carry on in two lanes. Is there any obligation to let someone in under that circumstance?

Serious question, I'm fully aware most would let him in anyway out of courtesy.

Burwood

18,709 posts

245 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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FraserLFA said:
Dark85 said:
Please say I need a Parrot?

Merging in turn is not a difficult concept and the Swift driver is a total cock for trying to prevent it.
But there wasn't any signs saying to merge(That I could see). It seems to carry on in two lanes. Is there any obligation to let someone in under that circumstance?

Serious question, I'm fully aware most would let him in anyway out of courtesy.
Major lack of courtesy in this country. I will always let someone in. A woman did this to me on a motor way exit which was grid locked for 100s of metres. she would not let me cross over to the left despite patiently indicating for a good few minutes and I even waived politely. eventually the red mist came down and i bullied my way over which resulted in screaming abuse.

Stickyfinger

8,429 posts

104 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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FraserLFA said:
But there wasn't any signs saying to merge(That I could see). It seems to carry on in two lanes. Is there any obligation to let someone in under that circumstance?

Serious question, I'm fully aware most would let him in anyway out of courtesy.
You sir are the very reason there are signs in bathrooms saying "Please use the paper to Wipe your arse", but hey, that's Norfolk for you smile

ORD

18,086 posts

126 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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edo said:
I hope they throw the book at the tt.
I would rather drag him out of the car and beat him to death with the book, to be honest. I would give serious jail time for that - 10 years.

jamei303

2,996 posts

155 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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ORD said:
I would rather drag him out of the car and beat him to death with the book, to be honest. I would give serious jail time for that - 10 years.
In some countries they dish out lifetime driving bans. We normally don't manage more than a year or two here.

surveyor_101

5,069 posts

178 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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WinstonWolf said:
Someone's going to jail...
Now you know what people selling quick cars mean when they say no test pilots.

Mr Snrub

24,942 posts

226 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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surveyor_101 said:
WinstonWolf said:
Someone's going to jail...
Now you know what people selling quick cars mean when they say no test pilots.
Well he won't have that problem with his Fiesta now

rainmakerraw

1,222 posts

125 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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heebeegeetee said:
The onus should be on both to merge.
Quite. Funnily enough I had a similar problem today. Two lanes merging to one at a set of lights in a nearby town centre. The ATS is red on my approach, lane 1 has half a dozen stationary cars. Lane 2 has just one car, so I blend into lane 2 and slow it right down anticipating a change. The lights go green, and the car at the front of lane 2 is well away with the lead car of lane 1 a couple of feet behind. They merge (lane 2 then lane 1) so I aim to slot in behind the lane 1 guy (a la 'zip merge'), but the Corsa driver next to me apparently takes exception and plants her throttle. Being a (presumably) 1.nothing litre it made a lot of noise but not much happened so I maintained course to maintain the zip merge. She then tried to push me off the road by swiping sideways at which point I dropped the hammer (2.0 TSI) and left her behind. She then proceeded to follow me for over a mile, hanging off my rear bumper and pointing and me, shouting and shaking her head at me every time we stopped at lights.

Did I mention she was at least in her late 70s? hehe I just ignored her of course, eventually giving her a cheery wave after she went full mental at the last stop at lights before she turned off. Never known anything like it. I don't know if she had a medical condition or was just so blind/ignorant she thought she was in the right. Funny, though.

That Fiesta driver needs some time in a 6x4 to think about what he did...

Bennet

2,119 posts

130 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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Dark85 said:
Merging in turn is not a difficult concept
It may be more difficult than you think, since that wasn't a merge in the sense we'd usually use that word.

I'd have let him in as well, but there was never really a gap there. The van driver should have held back when it became clear what was happening. It's interesting to me that he, and you, it would seem, think he had a right to that space.

imdeman87

886 posts

106 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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Drifter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2PW9oxuKXA

Undertaker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7Vqwh7sD-A

Edited by imdeman87 on Thursday 29th September 22:43

pinchmeimdreamin

9,839 posts

217 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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rainmakerraw said:
at which point I dropped the hammer (2.0 TSI) and left her behind.
You really should be careful carrying tools whilst driving it could have gotten stuck under a Pedal.

apotts

254 posts

206 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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Cyclist ignores pedestrian crossing and pedestrian makes a point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxSN7S2rPCg

jamei303

2,996 posts

155 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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apotts said:
Cyclist ignores pedestrian crossing and pedestrian makes a point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxSN7S2rPCg
Ped is being an arse. The requirement is for the cyclist to give way, not to stop. If the ped had kept going the cyclist would have simply passed behind them. The ped is of course entitled to suddenly change direction on the crossing, but it's a bit of s trick. I bet the ped wouldn't have tried that with a car.

matchmaker

8,463 posts

199 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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jamei303 said:
apotts said:
Cyclist ignores pedestrian crossing and pedestrian makes a point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxSN7S2rPCg
Ped is being an arse. The requirement is for the cyclist to give way, not to stop. If the ped had kept going the cyclist would have simply passed behind them. The ped is of course entitled to suddenly change direction on the crossing, but it's a bit of s trick. I bet the ped wouldn't have tried that with a car.
No, cyclist is being an arse. He was approaching the crossing far too fast.

jamei303

2,996 posts

155 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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matchmaker said:
No, cyclist is being an arse. He was approaching the crossing far too fast.
If you were in a car on a mini roundabout and you saw someone approaching far to fast, would you go round again and try and hit them?

John145

2,447 posts

155 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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jamei303 said:
matchmaker said:
No, cyclist is being an arse. He was approaching the crossing far too fast.
If you were in a car on a mini roundabout and you saw someone approaching far to fast, would you go round again and try and hit them?
If you saw the space shuttle trying to land at Stansted when it was ofcourse by 4000 miles would you get in your microlight at Duxford IWM to stop them?

Some Gump

12,671 posts

185 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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pinchmeimdreamin said:
rainmakerraw said:
at which point I dropped the hammer (2.0 TSI) and left her behind.
You really should be careful carrying tools whilst driving it could have gotten stuck under a Pedal.
Dangerous things, those 2.0 TSI's. That most made me cringe hard enough to pull a muscle!

carlove

7,539 posts

166 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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jamei303 said:
If you were in a car on a mini roundabout and you saw someone approaching far to fast, would you go round again and try and hit them?
Depends if you have the dashcam on. wink

trails

3,624 posts

148 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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matchmaker said:
No, cyclist is being an arse. He was approaching the crossing far too fast.
Not really; cyclist had eyes, there was a gap and the handlebar thingys allow you to point your vehicle through the gap...if the twerp pedestrian had just of carried on instead of channelling John Rambo all would have been well.

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