Road RageLast week I had to stop a guy attacking another one in the middle of the road - one had run the lights whilst on the phone and the other had objected. I actually had to take the attacker's car keys out of their car and tell him he wasn't getting them back till he calmed down.
Looking back on it, I was lucky I was feeling all parental and in control or the situation could have panned out very differently.
Have you lost it on the roads, or have you been on the recieving end of some nutter?
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chthonic, Thu 12 Oct 2006, 21:31)
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American DriversIndicators? what are they? seriously, half of the drivers in the Northeast USA don't bother with the blinker and the other half have left it on since they accidentally hit it 3 miles back up the road. Nobody trusts people signaling because they might as well just go straight instead of turn.
In the US (most places except NYC and where posted) it is legal to make a right-turn-on-red. It turns the red light into a stop sign (in the UK you would be able to make a left turn on red). The RULE is, after coming to a COMPLETE STOP, AND checking that the traffic that has the green is clear you can make a right turn even if the light is red. It speeds things up again. So what do people do? they come screaming up to a red light, see that if they whip around the corner they can BEAT the oncoming traffic and to add insult to injury they then proceed to go slow so you have to wind up grabbing a handful (on the bike) of brakes or a foot load in the car. It boils my blood.
Another thing is LEFT TURN ONLY or RIGHT TURN ONLY lanes. Thats what they mean ONLY. Well the US equivalent of chavs decide that rather than wait in the "straight ahead" lane they will go up to the head of the queue in the must turn lane and then punch it from the light and pass everyone. I had some sod in a brand new Saab try that while I was on the way home in my shitty pickup truck. I kept him to a point where he either had to brake or hit me, he chose the latter. We pulled over and I called the coppers. He was yelling and screaming that I did it deliberately. I quietly said, "well the police will be here soon, you can tell them" Two cars roll up, one takes my information one takes his. I never got out of the truck, he was standing in the road waving his arms, pointing at the lights, pointing at his car (now not looking quite so new and lovely). Another word with me, they both go back to him. MUCH more frantic arm waving. Next thing I see is him driving away (assuming he was pissed off) and I get an accident report number and wished a good day. I went to the cop shop later in the week to get the report and it turns out not only did he get a nice dent on his brandy new Saab he also got a $78 ticket and 3 points for the violation. Ahhh Sweet.
(, Tue 17 Oct 2006, 2:03, Reply)
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