The "S**t Driving Caught On Cam" Thread (Vol 5)
Discussion
donkmeister said:
Back in 2002 I had a neighbour who drove like a DCW but there were no dashcams then. My first encounter with her angry persona was when I was doing a three-point turn (we lived in a cul-de-sac where cul-holes were using the turning area as parking), and she floored it out of her drive just so she could blast her horn at me. I thought it was a joke as we were neighbours, but I started to notice her driving when I was out and about... usually flooring it onto roundabouts so she could blast her horn at people, and general "I'm in the right" situation-creating like we see in "cam-ruh" videos.
She was like this in all aspects of her life, for instance she complained to another neighbour who was modernising his house because she objected to the noise (normal house renovations noise, during normal daylight hours) but refused to tell him what time would be acceptable because her comings-and-goings were "none of his business".
There have always been people who are a pain in the backside, it just happens that now those people have dashcams (and mobile phones, and access to YouTube) so they can now tell the rest of the world that they are in the right. These are the same people who fall out with their neighbours over the correct way to put the bins out, or for having a barbecue when everyone should know it's the day they hang the laundry out, or because a visitor parked on "their" bit of the road, or for mowing the lawn at the wrong time of day. In short, sad b
ds.
Which is why i've been saying that DCWs don't drive like they do just because they have a dashcam, they've been increasing in numbers for decades. They're people who like to play the victim, they like to find a reason to be offended and they'll create situations if they have to.She was like this in all aspects of her life, for instance she complained to another neighbour who was modernising his house because she objected to the noise (normal house renovations noise, during normal daylight hours) but refused to tell him what time would be acceptable because her comings-and-goings were "none of his business".
There have always been people who are a pain in the backside, it just happens that now those people have dashcams (and mobile phones, and access to YouTube) so they can now tell the rest of the world that they are in the right. These are the same people who fall out with their neighbours over the correct way to put the bins out, or for having a barbecue when everyone should know it's the day they hang the laundry out, or because a visitor parked on "their" bit of the road, or for mowing the lawn at the wrong time of day. In short, sad b
ds.The Spruce Goose said:
blueg33 said:
For me it’s orobab because I don’t get Belgian humour.
So speaking Belgium is he?, easy mistake to make, but gets the pedants hard.a) he is speaking one of the official languages of Belgium; or
b) he is demonstrating a wacky French sense of humour by registering the car in Belgium?
Camelot1971 said:
They should show a lot of those to idiots who say “I just buy cheap tyres, they’re all the same..” and those who never check their tyres as that happens at service/mot time.Dracoro said:
Camelot1971 said:
They should show a lot of those to idiots who say “I just buy cheap tyres, they’re all the same..” and those who never check their tyres as that happens at service/mot time.Well I say cheap they are the cheapest that I can get from work, I'm sure there are cheaper alternatives, they are certainly towards the budget end.
Edited by HTP99 on Sunday 19th July 11:15
Camelot1971 said:
The clip at 2:00 had me saying.. There's lights under the van! Don't go!
Camelot1971 said:
Indeed. Looks like that corner where the Jag went off is a troublesome one, the railing was ready bent and cones had been placed too.
Laurel Green said:
The red Disco Sport joining the motorway, boils my piss. So often you see traffic joining from sliproads, often a stream of cars and inevitably one of them will try to go from the sliproad to L2 or L3 in one fell swoop, just shouts out selfishness, impatience and a disregard for anyone else. Not only do they "crowd" the car infront of them that's joining L1, they don't have the opportunity to look in the mirrors and adequately assess what's going on with traffic already established on the motorway. Even more selfish when they can't be bothered to move their head to check their blindspot, incase there's traffic in L3 which may be returning to L2, such as in the clip. When I join a motorway, I join L1 and don't immediately push to move out into L2 or L3. I remain in L1 and allow myself a period of time to establish what traffic is around me, who's already established on the motorway I've just joined, what those that are established are doing and what they're likely to do next. Once I've anticipated the moves of all the other vehicles around me, only then do I start my planning for lane changes and such like. Not just gun it into an apparent gap in the outer lanes straight from the sliproad.
Muddle238 said:
The red Disco Sport joining the motorway, boils my piss. So often you see traffic joining from sliproads, often a stream of cars and inevitably one of them will try to go from the sliproad to L2 or L3 in one fell swoop, just shouts out selfishness, impatience and a disregard for anyone else. Not only do they "crowd" the car infront of them that's joining L1, they don't have the opportunity to look in the mirrors and adequately assess what's going on with traffic already established on the motorway. Even more selfish when they can't be bothered to move their head to check their blindspot, incase there's traffic in L3 which may be returning to L2, such as in the clip.
When I join a motorway, I join L1 and don't immediately push to move out into L2 or L3. I remain in L1 and allow myself a period of time to establish what traffic is around me, who's already established on the motorway I've just joined, what those that are established are doing and what they're likely to do next. Once I've anticipated the moves of all the other vehicles around me, only then do I start my planning for lane changes and such like. Not just gun it into an apparent gap in the outer lanes straight from the sliproad.
Absolutely spot on. I agree with everything you said there. When I join a motorway, I join L1 and don't immediately push to move out into L2 or L3. I remain in L1 and allow myself a period of time to establish what traffic is around me, who's already established on the motorway I've just joined, what those that are established are doing and what they're likely to do next. Once I've anticipated the moves of all the other vehicles around me, only then do I start my planning for lane changes and such like. Not just gun it into an apparent gap in the outer lanes straight from the sliproad.
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