Seeing an idiot get their just desserts
Discussion
On my narrow country lane commute, I frequently encounter a fat idiot in a Rover 75 going way too fast in the other direction, let's say 50% faster than would be safe. He never gives way, he's honked at me for failing to swerve into the hedge sufficiently fast when he's made no effort to do the same, and I once saw him do an insane overtake, only made possible by the overtakee veering into the verge and me more or less stopping.
This morning a lorry stopped to let me and the van in front through a slightly tight section. As I drove past I saw that the fat idiot had driven straight into the back of the lorry.
We've all thought "they are going to have an accident if they keep driving like that".
Anyone actually been right?
This morning a lorry stopped to let me and the van in front through a slightly tight section. As I drove past I saw that the fat idiot had driven straight into the back of the lorry.
We've all thought "they are going to have an accident if they keep driving like that".
Anyone actually been right?
ferrariF50lover said:
On an early morning airport run from Devon to London, I decided on the 303 being the better route. I wasn't hanging about at all, but got overtaken by some kid in a Civic Type R. It was a shonky overtake made at pointless speed by a driver with absolutely no talent. I said so much to my passenger and professed that he'd stack it before too long. Lo and behold, we come to a nasty, off camber, downhill, 120° right hander which is partially blocked by... You guessed it, a badly mangled Type R.
Bloke was a total cocksprocket.
Simon.
There's only one corner like that on the A303, think I know exactly where you mean.Bloke was a total cocksprocket.
Simon.
Back in the nineties I had a somewhat boyed up mk1 Fiesta. I was driving through an estate in my local town having just dropped a mate off when this mk1 Escort comes screaming up behind me and overtakes at about 50.
Just outside town I spot the same car jammed sideways across a dead end lane. I assume matey has attempted a handbrake turn and got stuck. The icing on the cake is that his female passenger is walking away from the car, shaking her head.
Just outside town I spot the same car jammed sideways across a dead end lane. I assume matey has attempted a handbrake turn and got stuck. The icing on the cake is that his female passenger is walking away from the car, shaking her head.
Pebbles167 said:
crofty1984 said:
A vehicle is trying to pass me! HE MUST BE SUGGESTING MY PENIS DOESN'T WORK!!!!
We used to do this to BMW's and Audi's in the works transit and see how long it would take for them to come flying back past us. Not long in most cases!
I'll catch someone up on the mway and they'll gradually speed up so I can't get past, or wait until I've past then re-overtake.
Had a good one this AM.
On a narrow lane (in an area of Dorset with its share of happy-go-lucky caravan dwellers) the other night I encountered a P38 Range Rover with trade plates on driven by a scruffy looking bloke driving far too fast.
This morning I encountered the very same sat in the same lane with his hazards on, surrounded by a halo of broken glass and trim. What he'd crashed into I don't know.
On a narrow lane (in an area of Dorset with its share of happy-go-lucky caravan dwellers) the other night I encountered a P38 Range Rover with trade plates on driven by a scruffy looking bloke driving far too fast.
This morning I encountered the very same sat in the same lane with his hazards on, surrounded by a halo of broken glass and trim. What he'd crashed into I don't know.
OK I better put a merge related example in.
I was once driving our firm's horrid Luton van along a DC. For some reason L1 was closing rather than L2, and even though this was a road littered with roundabouts (with one still to come) people were merging at the 800 yard mark.
So I just sailed merrily along L1, until some tit in a people carrier swerved out to block me. But rather than doing the a
hole lorry driver trick of blocking both lanes, he swerved right out of his place in L2.
Which I promptly stole.
Then no one would let him back in.
I was once driving our firm's horrid Luton van along a DC. For some reason L1 was closing rather than L2, and even though this was a road littered with roundabouts (with one still to come) people were merging at the 800 yard mark.
So I just sailed merrily along L1, until some tit in a people carrier swerved out to block me. But rather than doing the a
hole lorry driver trick of blocking both lanes, he swerved right out of his place in L2.Which I promptly stole.
Then no one would let him back in.
Centurion07 said:
SuperchargedVR6 said:
Some suited moron in a Lexus behind me on a DC, clearly frustrated at being at the back of a long queue of outside lane hoggers, decides to undertake the queue at great speed, only discover the reason why everyone else was in the outside lane soon after. We had all seen the tractor way back.
Having to slam his brakes on and then have his right indicator ignored by the entire queue must have been utterly humiliating, but he deserved it!
Lexus guy isn't the moron in this story, sorry to burst your bubble.Having to slam his brakes on and then have his right indicator ignored by the entire queue must have been utterly humiliating, but he deserved it!
Centurion07 said:
Johnnytheboy said:
Centurion07 said:
SuperchargedVR6 said:
Some suited moron in a Lexus behind me on a DC, clearly frustrated at being at the back of a long queue of outside lane hoggers, decides to undertake the queue at great speed, only discover the reason why everyone else was in the outside lane soon after. We had all seen the tractor way back.
Having to slam his brakes on and then have his right indicator ignored by the entire queue must have been utterly humiliating, but he deserved it!
Lexus guy isn't the moron in this story, sorry to burst your bubble.Having to slam his brakes on and then have his right indicator ignored by the entire queue must have been utterly humiliating, but he deserved it!
But if you stay in L1 in this situation you either get blocked out and and up several cars back from where you would have been, or you end up just cruising along in L1 parallel to the point in L2 that you would have occupied earlier.
Or you end up undertaking people and everyone hates you.
If you are in L1 and catch someone in L2 who can go no faster because they are following a line of people trying to pass something slow in L1, IMHO the correct thing to do is join L2 behind them.
Normally I am fanatical about lane discipline, but I can't see how anyone's best interests would be served by staying in L1.
Normally I am fanatical about lane discipline, but I can't see how anyone's best interests would be served by staying in L1.
Centurion07 said:
Logically though, where do you extend that to? 3 cars back, 10, 30, 100? At some point you have to make a decision that joining the back of that queue is not the right thing to do.
You're right. If I can see what we are queuing to get round, and it is a queue rather than just slow moving traffic; that's my criteria.
Overtaken, along with the car in front of me, as I exited Corfe Castle today, by an erratically driven Peugeot 106 GTI, utterly filthy, with "safety" written in the dirt on the rear window. Still in the 30 limit, but it didn't seem to bother the driver as he passed me ~50.
What annoyed me was that he overtook on a chevroned bit of tarmac covered in gravel and caused two stone chips in my window, right in my line of sight, so there's an MOT fail straight off.
I then watched the car being driven like a complete chopper (lots of random slowing down and accelerating) until it pulled over the far side of Wareham.
One of the occupants (amazingly a rather chavvy looking young man) jumped out, popped the bonnet and started peering at the engine.
I'd hate to think they'd just broken down....
What annoyed me was that he overtook on a chevroned bit of tarmac covered in gravel and caused two stone chips in my window, right in my line of sight, so there's an MOT fail straight off.
I then watched the car being driven like a complete chopper (lots of random slowing down and accelerating) until it pulled over the far side of Wareham.
One of the occupants (amazingly a rather chavvy looking young man) jumped out, popped the bonnet and started peering at the engine.
I'd hate to think they'd just broken down....
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