The "Sh*t Driving Caught On Cam" Thread Vol II
Discussion
Usget said:
hondafanatic said:
There was a BBC news website article (I tried to find it but my Google skills have failed me) that addresses this issue in India. For the main part people are frightened to get involved because of corruption. There are numerous cases where someone has tried to help, the authorities turn up and then arrest anyone there...
Actually I see it's been answered further up...I should have read all of the posts.
I read the same article - it was about a bloke campaigning to change the behaviour through legislation. And I can't find it either.Actually I see it's been answered further up...I should have read all of the posts.
Have another video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-0RBs6Rd5k
Van driver texting or otherwise distracted?
Van driver texting or otherwise distracted?
Usget said:
hondafanatic said:
There was a BBC news website article (I tried to find it but my Google skills have failed me) that addresses this issue in India. For the main part people are frightened to get involved because of corruption. There are numerous cases where someone has tried to help, the authorities turn up and then arrest anyone there...
Actually I see it's been answered further up...I should have read all of the posts.
I read the same article - it was about a bloke campaigning to change the behaviour through legislation. And I can't find it either.Actually I see it's been answered further up...I should have read all of the posts.
An army medic who taught me first aid said that when he went to Germany he was told to avoid giving CPR because of a case where a woman sued the person who saved her by using it because he inevitably cracked her ribs. It does seem to be a myth going round the army with no proof of its truth.
http://www.arrse.co.uk/community/threads/german-su...
However, nurses and doctors in the UK have said they've been advised not to divulge their professions when giving first aid outside hospital settings as it may increase the likelihood of them being sued if what they do doesn't work out perfectly.
Blakewater said:
An army medic who taught me first aid said that when he went to Germany he was told to avoid giving CPR because of a case where a woman sued the person who saved her by using it because he inevitably cracked her ribs. It does seem to be a myth going round the army with no proof of its truth.
It's difficult to know the truth of these things. As a Scout we were being taught first aid by a leader who happened to be an ex-policeman. He says he'd attended a car accident where a woman had a piece of the car speared into her upper thigh area and she was bleeding a lot. He applied pressure and stemmed the flow as best he could despite fearing the worst as she'd passed out. In time she recovered enough to try and sue him for some form of sexual harassment because he touched her upper thigh without her permission (e.g. unconscious)Not surprisingly it got thrown out of court and that was the end of it. (I think the moral of the story was always try to stop the bleeding regardless of how dead you might believe them to be)
IF it's true, it go's to show just how nutty some people are.
Munter said:
Blakewater said:
An army medic who taught me first aid said that when he went to Germany he was told to avoid giving CPR because of a case where a woman sued the person who saved her by using it because he inevitably cracked her ribs. It does seem to be a myth going round the army with no proof of its truth.
It's difficult to know the truth of these things. As a Scout we were being taught first aid by a leader who happened to be an ex-policeman. He says he'd attended a car accident where a woman had a piece of the car speared into her upper thigh area and she was bleeding a lot. He applied pressure and stemmed the flow as best he could despite fearing the worst as she'd passed out. In time she recovered enough to try and sue him for some form of sexual harassment because he touched her upper thigh without her permission (e.g. unconscious)Not surprisingly it got thrown out of court and that was the end of it. (I think the moral of the story was always try to stop the bleeding regardless of how dead you might believe them to be)
IF it's true, it go's to show just how nutty some people are.
feef said:
Munter said:
Blakewater said:
An army medic who taught me first aid said that when he went to Germany he was told to avoid giving CPR because of a case where a woman sued the person who saved her by using it because he inevitably cracked her ribs. It does seem to be a myth going round the army with no proof of its truth.
It's difficult to know the truth of these things. As a Scout we were being taught first aid by a leader who happened to be an ex-policeman. He says he'd attended a car accident where a woman had a piece of the car speared into her upper thigh area and she was bleeding a lot. He applied pressure and stemmed the flow as best he could despite fearing the worst as she'd passed out. In time she recovered enough to try and sue him for some form of sexual harassment because he touched her upper thigh without her permission (e.g. unconscious)Not surprisingly it got thrown out of court and that was the end of it. (I think the moral of the story was always try to stop the bleeding regardless of how dead you might believe them to be)
IF it's true, it go's to show just how nutty some people are.
Peanut Gallery said:
On a slightly different subject, is it true that ambulance / ambiwlans / fire drivers have to contest their speeding fines?
Yes, as far as I'm aware every speeding ticket has to be contested to a superior. The fines all go to the registered keeper of the ambulance, then the driver at the time has to say what job/run their on and why they were speeding. If you can show you were on a job at the time then it gets dropped but if for whatever reason you weren't on a job but still speeding then it all goes on your license like it would any normal speeding offence.I'm sure there's more to it than that but the FIL is a paramedic and response driver and he always tells us about this stuff. He said it never used to be an issue because if the lights were on they could see you were responding but with the new LED lights they don't show up on the camera which is why every ticket has to be checked.
mattlad said:
Have another video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-0RBs6Rd5k
Van driver texting or otherwise distracted?
Must have been. Happens far too often now.Van driver texting or otherwise distracted?
ShaunTheSheep said:
To be fair, in this case it would be the same in the UK if we also had their rules. It's something like if you go help someone after a hit and run, you're responsible for their medical bills if they can't pay.
While not quite that bad, I stopped to help a motorcyclist who'd had a fall in front of me last week. He had over braked in slow traffic, lost his balance and hit the vehicle in front resulting in a scuffed up knee and a lot of shock. A few others helped with directing traffic while I helped the guy out. Comments from the locals in Dudley were"Get out the f
king road" (despite there been plenty of space to get around one at a time"f
king tts" from a bus driver who was uni pressed at the lady directing traffic"Stop your f
king gawping" when I was trying to get out of the truck to help the chap (took a while as others who saw it drove off and I couldn't get the door fully open."Hope it hurts" was a lovely comment from some chaps in a VW Up!
I think it is a case of cretins are everywhere.
The young chap was OK in the end once he had calmed down
Must admit I was shocked at how people reacted, I thought there'd be more concern for the injured rather than how they'd delayed motorists for 20seconds.Stickyfinger said:
WJNB said:
Just spotted this & know the road well.
My 6th sense would have told me that car trouble. The warning signs were that he tended to wander from side to side albeit within his lane so may be listening to the Archers. His speed was unnecessarily slow which I would have interpreted as deliberate knowing there was a truck behind.
Probably with little to do & all the time in the world to do it & probably bored with an empty life now retired he was able to take out his bitterness on somebody else, especially somebody who has a job & a purpose in life ( & a good woman!)
These living dead populate the south of England especially.
Tailgating no way yet in a truck you 'ain't never going to get by him. Oh the joy of going straight into him when he braked.
One of these days an old git like that is going to followed back to his destination & have his car either keyed, his home burgled or simply stabbed or shot - it happens elsewhere in the world & one day here.
Imagine the headlines UNPROVOKED ATTACK ON PENSIONER. Sometimes the perpetrator becomes the victim & it serves them right.
And when it is YOUR Grandad who for whatever reason is going slow ?My 6th sense would have told me that car trouble. The warning signs were that he tended to wander from side to side albeit within his lane so may be listening to the Archers. His speed was unnecessarily slow which I would have interpreted as deliberate knowing there was a truck behind.
Probably with little to do & all the time in the world to do it & probably bored with an empty life now retired he was able to take out his bitterness on somebody else, especially somebody who has a job & a purpose in life ( & a good woman!)
These living dead populate the south of England especially.
Tailgating no way yet in a truck you 'ain't never going to get by him. Oh the joy of going straight into him when he braked.
One of these days an old git like that is going to followed back to his destination & have his car either keyed, his home burgled or simply stabbed or shot - it happens elsewhere in the world & one day here.
Imagine the headlines UNPROVOKED ATTACK ON PENSIONER. Sometimes the perpetrator becomes the victim & it serves them right.
What a dreadful post and attitude.....you Sir SUCK
The old chap was an idiot for reacting to the lorry driver but the lorry driver was being an idiot to provoke him in the first place. If you try to bully people you're going to get a reaction and one day the person driving the OAP car the lorry driver thinks he can tailgate may be someone who gets out and gives him a hiding.
Crush said:
ShaunTheSheep said:
To be fair, in this case it would be the same in the UK if we also had their rules. It's something like if you go help someone after a hit and run, you're responsible for their medical bills if they can't pay.
While not quite that bad, I stopped to help a motorcyclist who'd had a fall in front of me last week. He had over braked in slow traffic, lost his balance and hit the vehicle in front resulting in a scuffed up knee and a lot of shock. A few others helped with directing traffic while I helped the guy out. Comments from the locals in Dudley were"Get out the f
king road" (despite there been plenty of space to get around one at a time"f
king tts" from a bus driver who was uni pressed at the lady directing traffic"Stop your f
king gawping" when I was trying to get out of the truck to help the chap (took a while as others who saw it drove off and I couldn't get the door fully open."Hope it hurts" was a lovely comment from some chaps in a VW Up!
I think it is a case of cretins are everywhere.
The young chap was OK in the end once he had calmed down
Must admit I was shocked at how people reacted, I thought there'd be more concern for the injured rather than how they'd delayed motorists for 20seconds.k off.Blakewater said:
the lorry driver was being an idiot to provoke him in the first place. If you try to bully people
The lorry driver explicitly said in the comments that the only times he got close were due to the fact its hard to slow a wagon and he failed to anticipate Mr antagonistic slowing down.Jumping to unsubstantiated conclusions is an injustice to the driver. It's a PH speciality but still wrong.
If he said thats what happened, then we need evidence to the contrary, not just conjecture. Unfairly labelling someone a bully isn't on.
Of course you could be right, but back it up with something more than "well my car brakes better than that!". Biggest thing I've driven is a piddly 3 tonnes, the brakes are utterly s
t despite it being a new motorhome in almost factory condition.Edit: p.s. if Mr antagonistic really believed he was at risk, why the hell did he not get out of the way? Either pull over or f
k off into the sunset. Risking doing a sardine impression isn't sensible, whatever the issue. Better to be alive than right as they say...Balance of probabilities... Mr antagonistic is a
iferous wkfk. Ample opportunity to extricate himself from the situation, instead decides to make it last longer then tops it all off with a healthy dose of indignation.Edited by ShaunTheSheep on Tuesday 28th June 16:33
edo said:
There is an actual thread for that. edo said:
You can def hit 190 on the mountain 
Bit late to the party, but hey ho.
This old biff in the Vauxhall Dullorama 9000, what's his problem?
I use a bicycle to get to and from the office on occasion. I do half the journey on the road and half across small public paths. If I come across a pedestrian going my way, I cycle up behind them, they hear me, look over their shoulder, I smile, they stand to one side, I nip past them and say thanks and off I go. I do my speed, they do their's, we all get along famously.
In the car, however...
What is it about the metal box on wheels that turns some ordinary people into such idiots?
This old biff in the Vauxhall Dullorama 9000, what's his problem?
I use a bicycle to get to and from the office on occasion. I do half the journey on the road and half across small public paths. If I come across a pedestrian going my way, I cycle up behind them, they hear me, look over their shoulder, I smile, they stand to one side, I nip past them and say thanks and off I go. I do my speed, they do their's, we all get along famously.
In the car, however...
What is it about the metal box on wheels that turns some ordinary people into such idiots?
ferrariF50lover said:
Bit late to the party, but hey ho.
This old biff in the Vauxhall Dullorama 9000, what's his problem?
I use a bicycle to get to and from the office on occasion. I do half the journey on the road and half across small public paths. If I come across a pedestrian going my way, I cycle up behind them, they hear me, look over their shoulder, I smile, they stand to one side, I nip past them and say thanks and off I go. I do my speed, they do their's, we all get along famously.
In the car, however...
What is it about the metal box on wheels that turns some ordinary people into such idiots?
I'm sure there is something about personal space and shields, etc.This old biff in the Vauxhall Dullorama 9000, what's his problem?
I use a bicycle to get to and from the office on occasion. I do half the journey on the road and half across small public paths. If I come across a pedestrian going my way, I cycle up behind them, they hear me, look over their shoulder, I smile, they stand to one side, I nip past them and say thanks and off I go. I do my speed, they do their's, we all get along famously.
In the car, however...
What is it about the metal box on wheels that turns some ordinary people into such idiots?
Turning it on its head, how about how people drive into a car park and then get out; suddenly as pedestrians they are blindly walking in front of moving cars without looking...
grayme said:
I'm sure there is something about personal space and shields, etc.
Turning it on its head, how about how people drive into a car park and then get out; suddenly as pedestrians they are blindly walking in front of moving cars without looking...
It's not just the physical shield. There are the rules. That vauxhall was probably reading 50 on the speedo at 45 on the camera. The truck was probably a bit closer than it needed to be if they are both doing the limit. One person appears (from inside the vauxhall), to be breaking the rules.Turning it on its head, how about how people drive into a car park and then get out; suddenly as pedestrians they are blindly walking in front of moving cars without looking...
As a pedestrian in a car park there are no rules. So people do whatever they want.
Experienced my first proper road rage incident for a good few years this morning resulting in a young woman determined that I'd crash into her rear at speed because she took issue at my driving:
First ever time I've uploaded footage in the two years I've had a dashcam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuCjy51u738
At 20 seconds in she thought I was too close to her rear ( despite there being plenty of road for a bus between us and no cars in inside line) and brake tested me - all this resulted in was her jolting forward.
At 36 seconds she starts giving me the wker sign.
At 58 seconds as I drive past I get the abuse signs again and I drive along side asking her what the problem is but she has some wire coming out of her ear and continues to give me more abuse.
At 1.23 she drives up my backside flashing her lights and I stupidly make the situation worse by giving her screen wash.
At 2:46 it gets really bad. she's right up my backside giving me more hand signals. I lose my temper and turn my head around gesticulating to tell me what her fking problem is. She undertakes I ignore it then she pulls out and does that.
After the video she's continuing to give me the wker sign for the next two minutes. I unplug my dashcam, drive alongside her and show it her. She does a mock smile pose but then suddenly no more abuse. 
First ever time I've uploaded footage in the two years I've had a dashcam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuCjy51u738
At 20 seconds in she thought I was too close to her rear ( despite there being plenty of road for a bus between us and no cars in inside line) and brake tested me - all this resulted in was her jolting forward.
At 36 seconds she starts giving me the w
ker sign. At 58 seconds as I drive past I get the abuse signs again and I drive along side asking her what the problem is but she has some wire coming out of her ear and continues to give me more abuse.
At 1.23 she drives up my backside flashing her lights and I stupidly make the situation worse by giving her screen wash.
At 2:46 it gets really bad. she's right up my backside giving me more hand signals. I lose my temper and turn my head around gesticulating to tell me what her f
king problem is. She undertakes I ignore it then she pulls out and does that.After the video she's continuing to give me the w
ker sign for the next two minutes. I unplug my dashcam, drive alongside her and show it her. She does a mock smile pose but then suddenly no more abuse. Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff