One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 2
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Swanny87 said:
HarryFlatters said:
Cliftonite said:
Knob on motorway with windscreen blocked by snow:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-30...
Includes video from rear dashcam.
I was going to post the same. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-30...
Includes video from rear dashcam.
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kwittery of the highest order."It takes just ten minutes to defrost a windscreen but a split second to cause a serious accident."
An "impaired winscreen"? Nothing wrong with the windscreen execept its covered in snow.
Ten minutes to defrost a windsceen? Yeah that'll persuade people to do it. 2 minutes maximum.
Tyre Tread said:
Swanny87 said:
HarryFlatters said:
Cliftonite said:
Knob on motorway with windscreen blocked by snow:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-30...
Includes video from rear dashcam.
I was going to post the same. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-30...
Includes video from rear dashcam.
f
kwittery of the highest order."It takes just ten minutes to defrost a windscreen but a split second to cause a serious accident."
An "impaired winscreen"? Nothing wrong with the windscreen execept its covered in snow.
Ten minutes to defrost a windsceen? Yeah that'll persuade people to do it. 2 minutes maximum.
A quieter than average couple of days, though this morning I stumbled across, or rather they stumbled across me, the perennial second lane moron that I've previously mentioned on here.
Coming up to the Fishburn junction I glance in my mirror to make sure there's nothing coming up the second lane in case a vehicle wants to join (if people didn't move over the poor buggers could be sat there all day) and I see a pair of circular headlights. Fine, no issues only all of a sudden they've stopped gaining on me and are sat there in at my rear quarter, I slow a touch to aide in their overtake, nope they slow, we pass the junction and still no movement. We are now coming up to a slower moving vehicle so I accelerate to get a bit of distance between us so I can pull out safely and they seem to almost try and keep up.
If it's the same person I've stumbled across this muppet before while in the Rover tickling along at an indicated sixty so I wasn't gaining and there was plenty of road between us (an easy 50m), they seem to get on the A689 and make a beeline for the second lane and sit there for the entire length between Sedgefield and Wynyard roundabout (turning off at Wynyard) doing sixty and, it seems, no faster. On that occasion I watched as a BMW and Merc caught up with them and, having sat there a good while and frustrated about them not moving over into a clear lane, undertake (kind of forgiveable I feel in this case).
Coming up to the Fishburn junction I glance in my mirror to make sure there's nothing coming up the second lane in case a vehicle wants to join (if people didn't move over the poor buggers could be sat there all day) and I see a pair of circular headlights. Fine, no issues only all of a sudden they've stopped gaining on me and are sat there in at my rear quarter, I slow a touch to aide in their overtake, nope they slow, we pass the junction and still no movement. We are now coming up to a slower moving vehicle so I accelerate to get a bit of distance between us so I can pull out safely and they seem to almost try and keep up.
If it's the same person I've stumbled across this muppet before while in the Rover tickling along at an indicated sixty so I wasn't gaining and there was plenty of road between us (an easy 50m), they seem to get on the A689 and make a beeline for the second lane and sit there for the entire length between Sedgefield and Wynyard roundabout (turning off at Wynyard) doing sixty and, it seems, no faster. On that occasion I watched as a BMW and Merc caught up with them and, having sat there a good while and frustrated about them not moving over into a clear lane, undertake (kind of forgiveable I feel in this case).
alpha channel said:
A quieter than average couple of days, though this morning I stumbled across, or rather they stumbled across me, the perennial second lane moron that I've previously mentioned on here.
Coming up to the Fishburn junction I glance in my mirror to make sure there's nothing coming up the second lane in case a vehicle wants to join (if people didn't move over the poor buggers could be sat there all day) and I see a pair of circular headlights. Fine, no issues only all of a sudden they've stopped gaining on me and are sat there in at my rear quarter, I slow a touch to aide in their overtake, nope they slow, we pass the junction and still no movement. We are now coming up to a slower moving vehicle so I accelerate to get a bit of distance between us so I can pull out safely and they seem to almost try and keep up.
If it's the same person I've stumbled across this muppet before while in the Rover tickling along at an indicated sixty so I wasn't gaining and there was plenty of road between us (an easy 50m), they seem to get on the A689 and make a beeline for the second lane and sit there for the entire length between Sedgefield and Wynyard roundabout (turning off at Wynyard) doing sixty and, it seems, no faster. On that occasion I watched as a BMW and Merc caught up with them and, having sat there a good while and frustrated about them not moving over into a clear lane, undertake (kind of forgiveable I feel in this case).
The undertaking question is an interesting one. On the one hand, it is so very tempting. But on the other (and aside from the Highway Code), if some has got so little awareness of what's around them (ie the faster cars behind), you're gambling that they won't decide to change lanes without checking their mirrors first...Coming up to the Fishburn junction I glance in my mirror to make sure there's nothing coming up the second lane in case a vehicle wants to join (if people didn't move over the poor buggers could be sat there all day) and I see a pair of circular headlights. Fine, no issues only all of a sudden they've stopped gaining on me and are sat there in at my rear quarter, I slow a touch to aide in their overtake, nope they slow, we pass the junction and still no movement. We are now coming up to a slower moving vehicle so I accelerate to get a bit of distance between us so I can pull out safely and they seem to almost try and keep up.
If it's the same person I've stumbled across this muppet before while in the Rover tickling along at an indicated sixty so I wasn't gaining and there was plenty of road between us (an easy 50m), they seem to get on the A689 and make a beeline for the second lane and sit there for the entire length between Sedgefield and Wynyard roundabout (turning off at Wynyard) doing sixty and, it seems, no faster. On that occasion I watched as a BMW and Merc caught up with them and, having sat there a good while and frustrated about them not moving over into a clear lane, undertake (kind of forgiveable I feel in this case).
cootuk said:
Blue Golf GTD YC63YCY - thanks for taking off my wing mirror but not stopping.
Even when you drove back along the road and completely ignored me pointing to the stub that was left hoping you might stop, but instead you stubbornly just looked forward hoping no-one had seen.
I'm pretty sure that's an offence? And given you've got his reg you could put a claim in for a new mirror and him leaving the scene of an accident without stopping and providing details. Even when you drove back along the road and completely ignored me pointing to the stub that was left hoping you might stop, but instead you stubbornly just looked forward hoping no-one had seen.
Depends how mad you are and how much it'll cost for a replacement.
I could also be talking nonsense.
RyanTank said:
I'm pretty sure that's an offence? And given you've got his reg you could put a claim in for a new mirror and him leaving the scene of an accident without stopping and providing details.
Depends how mad you are and how much it'll cost for a replacement.
I could also be talking nonsense.
Nope, it's illegal to leave the scene of an accident.Depends how mad you are and how much it'll cost for a replacement.
I could also be talking nonsense.
Europa1 said:
The undertaking question is an interesting one. On the one hand, it is so very tempting. But on the other (and aside from the Highway Code), if some has got so little awareness of what's around them (ie the faster cars behind), you're gambling that they won't decide to change lanes without checking their mirrors first...
I know, I've come across this car a number of times, and the total oblivion that the driver exhibits is frankly scarey. All the times that I've stumbled across them, all bar one, they're pottering along in the second lane with cars barreling up behind them only for witless wonder to sit there and cars stat on their tails. Mind you I think something must've happened to their car, as the first time I came across them they were driving a (tidy looking) Ka, now it's a Micra.Cliftonite said:
Knob on motorway with windscreen blocked by snow:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-30...
Includes video from rear dashcam.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-30...
Includes video from rear dashcam.
(Sorry about image size (it is linked to the image in The Independent.)
It looks like the snow on the roof has slipped down over the windscreen. Even if it has, it's still knobbish behaviour, and the reason why I sweep my arm over the roof as well.
jogger1976 said:
This 
Which seems to have replaced this
as the default choice of chariot for blokes like this
For the past few weeks, the vast majority of tailgating, lane-hogging and generally aggressive driving I've encountered has been perpetrated by angry Phil Mitchell lookalikes driving a VW Amarok. Is it just me?
No, it's not just you.Which seems to have replaced this
as the default choice of chariot for blokes like this
For the past few weeks, the vast majority of tailgating, lane-hogging and generally aggressive driving I've encountered has been perpetrated by angry Phil Mitchell lookalikes driving a VW Amarok. Is it just me?
'Round my way, (heavily bucolic and agricultural) there are dozens of these things charging along single track country roads and menacing town and village.
A lot are used for transport to go 'shooting' and gather in fields and woodland hunting in packs.
I think I have seen the gentleman in the photo driving one, or someone very much like him.
TankRizzo said:
Maybe he drives using the "pimp lean" with his hand firmly gripping the wheel at 12 o'clock...
This is thE kid with a £10k car loanStarted with a clc then sold that to buy a cooper s which had suspension issues so he got rid for another clc which he sold for a c30 diesel. Which he sold for a a3 sport and proclaimed he had "made it" then got rejected for the finance on a CLA sport 220 cdi. And now leases this golf.
and yes he does drive it like a pimp, oh and he has a Chihuahua called BENTLEY that wears a coat with a Bentley badge on it
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