Some people really don't care...

[Dog Star]

This morning I pulled up at some lights on the left of a quite beat-up looking Focus - blokey in front and girl driving, two child seats in back with toddlers in. There are two of the four wheel nuts missing on the front wheel!

So I beeps the horn and waves at bloke. I point out that he's missing a pair of nuts (fnarr!) and am treated to "What the fk has it got to do with you?"

That'll be the last time I bother trying to do someone a good turn

There are obviously differing standards of car care about; I (and I suspect most people on PH) get worried about having my tyre pressures a couple of psi out. I dare say most people just don't care.

[Benmac]

Just hope they get thir comeuppance (safely of course). Someone up my road wih a freelander drove round with no brakelights at all for about a month. I saw this and that evening wandered up the road and tapped his door to tell him. He wasn't rude but was just utterly utterly disinterested. Few weeks later I saw the local traffic BiB had stopped him and when I passed they had him at the back of the car and were pointing dissaprovingly at the light clusters. He saw me grinning as I drove past.

[MattyB_]

Benmac said:

Just hope they get thir comeuppance (safely of course). Someone up my road wih a freelander drove round with no brakelights at all for about a month. I saw this and that evening wandered up the road and tapped his door to tell him. He wasn't rude but was just utterly utterly disinterested. Few weeks later I saw the local traffic BiB had stopped him and when I passed they had him at the back of the car and were pointing dissaprovingly at the light clusters. He saw me grinning as I drove past.

Sometime soon, he'll smash both of your rear lights, knock on your door and say "Excuse me, I was walking past and noticed that your rear lights don't appear to be working..."

[Gun]

Darwinism in action.

[ShadownINja]

MattyB_ said:

Benmac said:

Just hope they get thir comeuppance (safely of course). Someone up my road wih a freelander drove round with no brakelights at all for about a month. I saw this and that evening wandered up the road and tapped his door to tell him. He wasn't rude but was just utterly utterly disinterested. Few weeks later I saw the local traffic BiB had stopped him and when I passed they had him at the back of the car and were pointing dissaprovingly at the light clusters. He saw me grinning as I drove past.

Sometime soon, he'll smash both of your rear lights, knock on your door and say "Excuse me, I was walking past and noticed that your rear lights don't appear to be working..."

[annodomini2]

Dog Star said:

This morning I pulled up at some lights on the left of a quite beat-up looking Focus - blokey in front and girl driving, two child seats in back with toddlers in. There are two of the four wheel nuts missing on the front wheel!

So I beeps the horn and waves at bloke. I point out that he's missing a pair of nuts (fnarr!) and am treated to "What the fk has it got to do with you?"

That'll be the last time I bother trying to do someone a good turn

There are obviously differing standards of car care about; I (and I suspect most people on PH) get worried about having my tyre pressures a couple of psi out. I dare say most people just don't care.

Round the estate where I live there are a number of roads without white lines, many of the 'don't care' muppets have taken to driving down the middle of the road and blatantly cutting corners, the number of close calls I've had with these morons in the last few weeks is getting out of control.

[ShadownINja]

annodomini2 said:

Round the estate where I live there are a number of roads without white lines, many of the 'don't care' muppets have taken to driving down the middle of the road and blatantly cutting corners, the number of close calls I've had with these morons in the last few weeks is getting out of control.

Might be worthwhile contacting local PCSOs who might then show their faces in the area.

[anonymous-user]

I know exactly what you mean. My house mate, the one I dont get on with very well, had pretty much bald tyres on the back of his 1 series. So I thought I would point this out incase he hadn't realised.
All I got back was some bks about how it was 'skid' (I have no idea what he was trying to say it was)and he flat out refused to believe they needed replacing. In the end I just left the room saying 'well its 3 points per tyre'. I hope the gets pulled and done for how rude he was to me.

[stoocake]

I followed a woman for 2 miles the other night, driving a Shogun, with 4 toddlers strapped in, in the dark, with no lights on whatsoever. I was flashing my headlights and hazard lamps at her...don't think she even noticed, eventually overtook her, stopped my car in front of hers at a junction (no other cars around so was safe) and had to verbally explain to her what she was doing.

She was grateful to be honest, but she must have had the concentration of a fish. Does worry me how uninterested in their cars safety some people are.

[stoocake]

stoocake said:

I followed a woman for 2 miles the other night, driving a Shogun, with 4 toddlers strapped in, in the dark, with no lights on whatsoever.

Just realised how dodgy that could sound...SHE was in the Shogun with the kids and no lights on - not me :P

[bazking69]

Male pride. Blokes don't like being made to look like a in front of their missus, even if they are in the wrong or are a .

[ScottishSamurai]

stoocake said:

stoocake said:

I followed a woman for 2 miles the other night, driving a Shogun, with 4 toddlers strapped in, in the dark, with no lights on whatsoever.

Just realised how dodgy that could sound...SHE was in the Shogun with the kids and no lights on - not me :P

[fathomfive]

ScottishSamurai said:

stoocake said:

stoocake said:

I followed a woman for 2 miles the other night, driving a Shogun, with 4 toddlers strapped in, in the dark, with no lights on whatsoever.

Just realised how dodgy that could sound...SHE was in the Shogun with the kids and no lights on - not me :P

Have another

[Robert060379]

Did you report it as a dangerous vehicle or to social services as dangerous parents?

[stoocake]

I'm glad I corrected myself before anyone else picked up on that haha.

[okgo]

Yep darwin.

Sooner or later he'll plow his family into an oak tree when the overstressed bolts sheer and they'll all die. He will regret telling you to fk off.

[TheCarpetCleaner]

I once came round a blind corner on a dark country road one night to see a police car blocking the road where they were just setting up blocking a road after two cars had seemingly had an accident.

I was turned around, and on the way back up the road, I flashed a few times at a road user coming the other way to warn them.
They waved me down, and I was just about to explain about the road accident round the corner, when I got a torrent of abuse about how I am I , and how dare I flash them, andp that they would break my legs if they saw me again.

I don't bother any more. Too many fkwit meathead neanderthals out there these days.

[PHmember]

okgo said:

He will regret telling you to fk off.

If only that were true, he'll probably still remember his ignorant attitude to the OP & deem the encounter to be a 'win' in his socially retarded, government funded, sad little life.

[Animal]

Let some woman pull out of a petrol station in front of me and she hadn't put her filler cap back on. I managed to pull alongside and tell her: "Oh, OK. I'll put it back on later." Shouldn't have fking bothered.

[choading]

lots of judges about today