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That sort of poo poo pisses me off so much. Regardless of whether it's legal or not, if you aren't a cop, it's precisely none of your loving business if someone else is breaking the law. If it makes you upset, or you think it's actually dangerous, get a license plate number and phone it in.
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Or cough up the dough for a dashcam pointed in both directions and send in video for anything that offends you. Actual proof is a thing police can act on (no guarantee they will, but your odds improve).
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xzzy posted:Looks to be fresh scrapes on the left barrier, probably tapped it and the tire grabbed on. That's the Schuylkill Expressway in Philly. gently caress that road. Two lanes each way, built between a mountain and a river. It needs 4 or 5 lanes each way. It's basically a huge traffic wall separating NJ and PA. I've seen cars crash. Cars on fire. Fallen trees blocking the highway. People doing 20 below the speed limit. People doing double the speed limit. Deer, dogs, and rats. I live in Southern California now, traffic is much more relaxing here.
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FogHelmut posted:That's the Schuylkill Expressway in Philly. gently caress that road. Two lanes each way, built between a mountain and a river. It needs 4 or 5 lanes each way. It's basically a huge traffic wall separating NJ and PA. And there's no rain for those tears to be lost in
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wolrah posted:That's a user problem, not an equipment problem. Properly used they won't affect you. Jumping jesus on a pogostick. I'd be ESTATIC if I was blinded by people with high beams. All i ever loving see are people with their DRL's on all night.
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Speaking of high beams, I had to drive through Orlando at 4 AM a few days back and some rear end on a motorcycle had his highs on the entire time. During the day? Sure, it makes you more visible and doesn't matter to my eyes. Before sunup? Just use your normal headlights, you're just blinding and annoying the poo poo out of everyone else.
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sleepy.eyes posted:Speaking of high beams, I had to drive through Orlando at 4 AM a few days back and some rear end on a motorcycle had his highs on the entire time. During the day? Sure, it makes you more visible and doesn't matter to my eyes. Before sunup? Just use your normal headlights, you're just blinding and annoying the poo poo out of everyone else. So, I'm confused... why would someone have their high beams on in a position where you could observe them continuously? Either they're oncoming, but not close enough to turn them down, or in front of you with no further traffic in front or oncoming, in which case I don't understand why it would bother you if they used high beams. Obviously you shouldn't ever use your high beams when you're behind someone, or if there's oncoming traffic close -- it's against the law in both cases. What does time of day have to do with anything?
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PT6A posted:So, I'm confused... why would someone have their high beams on in a position where you could observe them continuously? Either they're oncoming, but not close enough to turn them down, or in front of you with no further traffic in front or oncoming, in which case I don't understand why it would bother you if they used high beams. They were behind me. I was moving faster than the other cars and they were happy to stick behind me. As to the time of day, if it is light outside high beams don't do much. When it is 4 AM the Sun is yet to rise they are very loving bright.
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If you're behind someone, unless you're very far behind, you shouldn't be using your high beams at any time of day or night, though. Being near dawn has nothing to do with that.
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PT6A posted:If you're behind someone, unless you're very far behind, you shouldn't be using your high beams at any time of day or night, though. Being near dawn has nothing to do with that. That was the root of my complaint. Dude was very close to me for about 20 minutes. sleepy.eyes fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Sep 7, 2016 |
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Sep 6, 2016 22:23
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sleepy.eyes posted:That was the root of my complaint. Dude was very close to be for about 20 minutes. Oh, yeah, I misread the initial post, I thought you were talking about using high beams in the middle of the night versus near dawn, because there's no reason why anyone would ever use their high beams in the middle of day intentionally unless they're terminally stupid.
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PT6A posted:Oh, yeah, I misread the initial post, I thought you were talking about using high beams in the middle of the night versus near dawn, because there's no reason why anyone would ever use their high beams in the middle of day intentionally unless they're terminally stupid. Motorcyclist keep them on so they are more visible during the day.
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A motorcyclist passed me this morning and was speeding and weaving in and out of traffic and I barely got triggered at all. I didn't even honk or call the cops try to kill him. Send my award to ...
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Atticus_1354 posted:Motorcyclist keep them on so they are more visible during the day. Why high beams, though? They're still bright enough that they can impair vision if they hit your eye just right; low beams or DRLs should make you plenty visible. If people can't see that, they should have their driving license pulled and their car crushed into a cube before they kill someone. EDIT: Is this another "loud pipes save lives" unsupportable bullshit habit that motorcyclists love because they're Just That Special? It sounds like it is, frankly.
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PT6A posted:If people can't see that, they should have their driving license pulled and their car crushed into a cube before they kill someone. I think you're severely underestimating the number of people meeting this criteria.
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a Police-man on parking lot duty told me I needed to use my blinker while making the only turn I could make at the time (like everyone else). I almost told him he needs to lose weight but I didn't because apparently he likes harassing people trying to get an education so they don't have to direct traffic in college parking lots. Thanks and god bless
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PT6A posted:That sort of poo poo pisses me off so much. Regardless of whether it's legal or not, if you aren't a cop, it's precisely none of your loving business if someone else is breaking the law. If it makes you upset, or you think it's actually dangerous, get a license plate number and phone it in. Same. If you're not a sworn law enforcement official within his or her legal jurisdiction, don't try to make others abide by the local traffic laws. That's not your loving job.
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PT6A posted:Why high beams, though? They're still bright enough that they can impair vision if they hit your eye just right; low beams or DRLs should make you plenty visible. If people can't see that, they should have their driving license pulled and their car crushed into a cube before they kill someone. Well a lot of bikes have pretty weak lights so it isn't to bad. As for high beams vs regular I don't know that it matters. But having lights on during the day will actually increase visibility and lower your chance of a crash.
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I realised today that it might be almost an entire month since the last time I was able to merge onto a highway at actual highway speed. Look, I understand if you're driving a big truck or a crappy old car and can't get up to 100kph in time, nothing you can do about that. But if you're in a brand new Ford Falcon you can dam well do better than 70.
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:Same. Say that all you want but I'm still gonna heckle self centered douchebags who abuse the handicap spot right by the front door of a local business juuuust enough that they melt the gently caress down and make themselves look like complete fools in line. I really need to start the camera rolling first, they say some really hilarious poo poo to try to sound like they are in the right. E: the last one I asked if she was mentally handicapped because she had no tag and clearly wasn't physically handicapped, and was treated to a tirade involving statements like YOU DONT KNOW ME SO YOU SHOULDNT BE TALKING TO ME and threats of calling the cops were made. Somehow she didn't understand why I thought her calling the cops on me for words I said while she was blatantly illegally parked in a handicap zone was so funny. Oh well. kastein fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Sep 7, 2016 |
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Sep 7, 2016 04:59
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kastein posted:Say that all you want but I'm still gonna heckle self centered douchebags who abuse the handicap spot right by the front door of a local business juuuust enough that they melt the gently caress down and make themselves look like complete fools in line. I hope you're not doing that for people with placards who look non-handicapped (I note the person you mention did not have a placard). There are a fair number of truly handicapped people who do not appear handicapped but may have certain conditions (back pain, joint pain, etc) that prevent them from walking longer distances without pain.
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Goons have a clear eye for physical handicaps I trust him. BRB, headed to go watch some justice porn
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nm posted:I hope you're not doing that for people with placards who look non-handicapped (I note the person you mention did not have a placard). There are a fair number of truly handicapped people who do not appear handicapped but may have certain conditions (back pain, joint pain, etc) that prevent them from walking longer distances without pain. I got bitched at once when I parked in a handicapped spot to pick up my father. The old lady had to park a whole 2 spots farther along and decided that I was just some rear end in a top hat taking the spot to make her life harder. I actually thought it was a little funny, but I would have felt terrible if I was disabled and had someone scolding me like that and telling me I didn't deserve to park there.
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Where and how people park is pretty low on the spectrum of "that was kind of dumb" to "your negligence caused multiple deaths and injuries" This is pretty great though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZAwDAdyvpU jamal fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Sep 7, 2016 |
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I almost got T-boned by someone who paid attention to a nitwit waving them out into traffic that I couldn't see last night. That was fun.nm posted:I hope you're not doing that for people with placards who look non-handicapped (I note the person you mention did not have a placard). There are a fair number of truly handicapped people who do not appear handicapped but may have certain conditions (back pain, joint pain, etc) that prevent them from walking longer distances without pain. Nope. Placard or plate, or hell even vet plates I keep my dumb mouth shut. If anything's hanging from the mirror that is blue, even. Doesn't matter if they look handicapped or not, that's not my business. Or for that matter obviously handicapped people with no placard or plate, that's even douchier than what I'm making fun of. They might be breaking the law technically, but they obviously need the close parking and no one in their right mind would think otherwise. I reserve my heckling for the 20something dickbags in fashionable clothes who casually park in the handicap spot right in front of a crowd and strut in like they own the place. They provide the most entertainment when called out. Some even leave the car running, the windows down, and their music blasting so we all get to enjoy it. And there are a significant number of incredibly old people who come there for breakfast and actually need the goddamn spot. It's not your stereotypical "six legally mandated handicap spots at a rock climbing gym" or "two dozen handicap spots at a walmart" type spot. nsaP, bugger off, I'm not biting on your troll 
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jamal posted:Where and how people park is pretty low on the spectrum of "that was kind of dumb" Good, gently caress people who abuse handicap placards just to park a little closer. My mom has hemiparesis and needs a handicap spot much more than your lazy, fraudulent rear end does.
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nm posted:I hope you're not doing that for people with placards who look non-handicapped (I note the person you mention did not have a placard). There are a fair number of truly handicapped people who do not appear handicapped but may have certain conditions (back pain, joint pain, etc) that prevent them from walking longer distances without pain. I remember reading a story (I think on Jalopnik) of a young guy getting bitched out by a blue hair for parking in "her" handicap spot. So he walked to his car, got in, and removed his double amputee prosthetic legs.
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I got a handful of snotty looks taking my wife's grandmother to hockey games.. 80+ years old, bad hip, gently caress making her walk half a mile to her seat. People see this healthy 30-something wheel into a handicap spot and hang the tag, give me stinkeye. Then I walk around to the passenger side and help this frail old lady get to her feet and suddenly their shoes were super interesting. The arena staff owned bones though, they'd spot us walking her and a wheelchair would just pop out of nowhere for her to sit down.
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Uthor posted:I remember reading a story (I think on Jalopnik) of a young guy getting bitched out by a blue hair for parking in "her" handicap spot. So he walked to his car, got in, and removed his double amputee prosthetic legs. Yeah, exactly. It's no one's goddamn business why you or someone in your car has a placard. If the person to whom the placard is assigned is in the car, no one should say poo poo, and it should only ever be the business of law enforcement to check that the handicapped person is actually in the car while the placard is in use (that YouTube video of Sonoma is amazing!).
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Placard or visible disability and I don't care. Swing into a disabled space and walk your rear end into a building with no visible indication that you're entitled to that space, gently caress you. I worked for a guy who broke his leg and was on crutches for two months. No paperwork but he just used disabled spaces for the duration and nobody ever said poo poo. Cunty parking isn't life or death, no, but people occupying >1 space contributes to general congestion and seems not entirely inappropriate for this thread.
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Now to be honest, there is massive placard fraud here (becausr you get free unlimited street parking) and those people are loving assholes. My entire building is ringed with employees' card who don't want to pay $65 bucks (a bargain, frankly) to use the parking garage. I'd bet 50% actually are using their own placards (or got it from a loving chiropracter, which is allowed here) particularly as many of them park way further away than the disabled spots in the garage (which is attached by a covered ped walkway). But it isn't my job to call them out, and I can't magically tell who the 50% are.
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Once I was leaving the supermarket when a car with a bogan couple pulled into the disabled spot right in front of the doors and the guy walked in to the bottle shop. No disabled sticker, so I took a photo with my phone causing his girlfriend to lose her poo poo and start screaming at me. Contacted the local council to see who I could send the photo in to to get these fuckwits fined, but they didn't care. Wouldn't even give me an email address to pretend they gave a poo poo. My mother has severe mobility issues after a heart attack combined with arthritis and osteoporosis and struggles every time she leaves the house to find a park close enough so that she able to make the distance with her walker. gently caress anyone who takes a disabled park. And gently caress all local councils too while we're at it.
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Javid posted:Placard or visible disability and I don't care. Swing into a disabled space and walk your rear end into a building with no visible indication that you're entitled to that space, gently caress you. Agreed. Hell, I saw some guy roll up in a silver BMW with no plates or placard right after posting that this morning and was thinking "oh you gotta be kidding me..." just before he hobbled off with a cane, so I didn't say poo poo. He needs it, whether or not he's actually got the legal stuff filled out I don't give a gently caress. But you can bet I'm gonna tweak overly self centered dickheads who clearly have no disability nor legal justification except for being spoiled shitheads and then enjoy the enraged explosion and spluttered half excuses and bad justifications. Oh yes.  People like that just... rankle me. Mostly because at least once a morning I see some really, really old person gingerly get out of their car in the handicap spot and slowly shuffle inside. They need it, there's only one at this place, and far too often some dickhead is abusing it. Also, the guy in front of me got cut off by some oblivious twat this morning who decided they needed to be in front of him in an exit ramp instead of sitting at the light going the other way. Then the same idiot slammed on the brakes at the bottom of said entrance ramp... even though they had like 500' of empty merge lane in front of them to get up to speed in. Do they hand out licenses in crackerjack boxes at the MassRMV now or something?
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Atticus_1354 posted:I got bitched at once when I parked in a handicapped spot to pick up my father. The old lady had to park a whole 2 spots farther along and decided that I was just some rear end in a top hat taking the spot to make her life harder. I actually thought it was a little funny, but I would have felt terrible if I was disabled and had someone scolding me like that and telling me I didn't deserve to park there. I had an old fart complain a couple years back because I parked in a handicap spot outside a Walgreens. He shut his stupid loving mouth pretty fast when I helped my grandma out of the passenger door with her walker and flipped him off.
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I was waiting at a red light when a guy got sick of waiting and just slowly ran it. His license plate? CYA 716 (or something). See ya, indeed!
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It's okay if you do it slowly.
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TotalLossBrain posted:It's okay if you do it slowly. No, that's so you can pretend your foot just slipped off the brake if the cop sees you.
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kastein posted:Agreed. Hell, I saw some guy roll up in a silver BMW with no plates or placard right after posting that this morning and was thinking "oh you gotta be kidding me..." just before he hobbled off with a cane, so I didn't say poo poo. He needs it, whether or not he's actually got the legal stuff filled out I don't give a gently caress. Last I knew they weren't even hard cards, but flimsy pieces of vinyl so this is not too far off.
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I'm going to admit here that there is a left turn light that goes onto a freeway on-ramp near where I work. This left turn light does not trigger for my bus, for whatever reason. It's broken and only triggers if there is a car behind you. I have sat, waiting, for more than ten full minutes for it to change to a left arrow. Even worse, the road doesn't continue past the freeway, so there's not even a chance any cars could be coming the other direction! I've notified the city months ago, and nothing changes about it. During the day, it's always on a left arrow, but for some reason, after 2200, it changes to a full red stop with green arrow when it switches. Also, if you wait one car length back to trigger the rear coil, you can't see the light (or any reflections of it - it's very badly designed). In addition, there is no freeway off-ramp to the right, so there are no cars that could be turning in front of you - it's just a dead end. So, every night at around 2 AM when I finally get to go home, I drive to the onramp, and sit for maybe 30-60 seconds. If there are no cars behind me, I go. If there are, I wait for them to stop. If they don't stop behind me (it's two left turn lanes, both operate the same), I wait another minute or so, then just go. The impotent rage of the people waiting as they honk at a 40 year old bus fuels my laughter. Sometimes I even honk back. Since the intersection has been like this (about six months), fewer and fewer people are angry that I "run" the broken red. Even better, a few people come up next to me, and we suicide pact through together, because we both know that it's broken as poo poo.
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kastein posted:Agreed. Hell, I saw some guy roll up in a silver BMW with no plates or placard right after posting that this morning and was thinking "oh you gotta be kidding me..." just before he hobbled off with a cane, so I didn't say poo poo. He needs it, whether or not he's actually got the legal stuff filled out I don't give a gently caress. How about really obese people?
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