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Turning the diagram of a delivery van into an airplane is the slam dunk.
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Hope they had uninsured motorist coverage. . .
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Oct 22, 2016 17:45
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I'm pretty sure a replacement car for the guy would be a rounding error to DHL after losing an entire jumbo jet, and probably best simply paid out rather than taking negative press.
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Oct 22, 2016 18:05
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wrt to "idiots trying to force-merge their way into traffic by counting on others to avoid crashes" chat, the one thing I completely loved about my old beater craiglist car was that I never had to back down to idiots trying to shove their way in. Having a bumper held on with duct tape, paint peeling off, and more dings than you could count really gets the message of "loving hit me, idgaf" across in a way that yelling or profanity never does. I'd just keep going the exact same speed regardless how likely they were to hit me, and 100% of the time the rear end in a top hat would slam their brakes. Calling their bluff is seriously stupid (its me, I'm the idiot you share a road with) but goddamn is it loving satisfying.
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Oct 22, 2016 18:25
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So, I have a question. I turned left onto a one-way street, and as such was in one of the left lanes. How the street is, there's a left lane that eventually becomes a turn only lane in a couple blocks, there's 2 lanes that go straight, there's a bike lane, and then on the far right is a right turn only lane. I had turned into the 2nd lane from the left since I wanted to go straight ahead. After I turned, I noticed there was an ambulance coming about 1/2 block back in the same lane I am, not yet to the intersection I just went through, so I moved to the far left of the road, since I was on the left side of the road. The ambulance then pulled left into the lane behind me, stopped, and laid on his horn. I was like what the gently caress, so then I moved all the way to the right, then he went and immediately went back right a lane so he could go straight towards where the hospital is. I checked Wisconsin law and on a one-way street you can move to the left if you feel it's the safest side to move to. As this is on a college campus in Madison, WI, and bikes are frequently in the bike lane, I moved left since I knew 100% that it was safe to do so. I obviously could have checked and moved right, but I didn't see why. Was I in the wrong on this one? Or is the ambulance driver just a cock? I hadn't seen the ambulance when I was turning because it was behind a semi from my view. It went through the red and then moved a lane left to get to where I had stopped. There was no other traffic in either of the 2 straight lanes to my right, and there presumably wasn't a bike either since there weren't any when I went right.
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Oct 24, 2016 14:52
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I think the ambulance driver was just being an rear end. Even without knowing for sure whether or not you're only supposed to pull over to the right, if you were clearly getting out of the way you'd think his priority would be getting his patient to the hospital, not playing traffic cop.
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Oct 24, 2016 15:03
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I think each driver has a personal opinion and/or adjusts to the capabilities of their vehicle. I was mired in a traffic jam around an ugly wreck on the interstate last month, and emergency vehicles were trying to get through traffic behind me. The police and ambulance came through first riding the left shoulder, each with a tire in the dirt. Then the fire engine came up and he went straight down the middle of the two lane road, forcing people to split to the shoulders to make room. This was in Wisconsin too. 
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Oct 24, 2016 15:14
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grumplestiltzkin posted:wrt to "idiots trying to force-merge their way into traffic by counting on others to avoid crashes" chat, the one thing I completely loved about my old beater craiglist car was that I never had to back down to idiots trying to shove their way in. Having a bumper held on with duct tape, paint peeling off, and more dings than you could count really gets the message of "loving hit me, idgaf" across in a way that yelling or profanity never does. I'd just keep going the exact same speed regardless how likely they were to hit me, and 100% of the time the rear end in a top hat would slam their brakes. Calling their bluff is seriously stupid (its me, I'm the idiot you share a road with) but goddamn is it loving satisfying. For some reason, over here in Sweden people tend to be more aggressive toward people with traffic dings or damage in general. Anecdotal like everything, but still.
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Oct 24, 2016 15:46
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Protocol7 posted:Well if you were in Denver two days ago, you shared the road with my car, but not me driving it. Yay, vehicle theft! I've known people to stop using jiggle keys in lieu of OEM keys because they function the same. I have 3 Hondas (90,96,00) and they can all be opened with the key for the 96' Accord and a bit of gumption. Glad to hear you got your car back, when my Prelude got stolen I didn't even bother getting it from the impound it was so trashed and the great state of Massachusetts suspended my license as a result.
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Oct 24, 2016 18:50
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It should be legal to ram someone off the road if they remain in your blind spot after you've adjusted speed three times to try to get them to either pass or stay properly behind you so you can actually change lanes. Seriously, what the gently caress is wrong with these people?
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Oct 24, 2016 19:36
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shortspecialbus posted:So, I have a question. I would consider trying to contact the ambulance company to file a complaint, if the ambulance driver could have gone around you without stopping then that would be really unethical to stop and play traffic enforcement during an emergency. Ambulance drivers know that 90% of traffic just goes crazy when they see lights, it's why they are not allowed to use the lights unless absolutely necessary. Even if you were legally supposed to pull to the right, it would be stupid and far more dangerous to have you swerve across the street in front of an ambulance.
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Oct 24, 2016 20:19
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PT6A posted:It should be legal to ram someone off the road if they remain in your blind spot after you've adjusted speed three times to try to get them to either pass or stay properly behind you so you can actually change lanes. I had some fuckwit do that to me on the highway the other day. In the rain. While I was on my VFR. And then when I sped up to get in front of them because there was a truck in the right lane in front of me I was coming up on quick-ish but not at an emergency lane change speed (We were doing about 68-70 in a 65) they sped up to close the gap first, I got behind them a few car lengths back because bike in the rain isn't accelerating like a rocket without possibly taking a nap, and they slammed on their brakes and kept even with the truck for three miles before passing and flipping me off as I went by. I don't know whether it's the bright red bike, the hi-viz gear, riding in the rain, or I just give off an aura, but even when I'm just going the speed limit on the highway in the right lane is enough to get people's hackles up every day.
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Oct 24, 2016 20:51
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You're supposed to wear urban camo gear so people don't notice you, duh!
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shortspecialbus posted:So, I have a question. I had a similar situation happen when I was on a fairly big road (2 lanes plus a long right turn lane). I was in the left lane and, since there wasn't any traffic around besides the ambulance coming up in the middle lane, I kinda wasn't sure what the safest option would be. I mean, I could stay in my lane and slow up, pull left into the suicide lane and stop, or cut across 2 lanes to pull all the way to the right and stop. Ambulance wouldn't pass until I dove across the lanes and stopped. Also, last night, I accidentally ran a freshly turned red light. I was lucky there wasn't anything around. 
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Oct 24, 2016 22:18
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Gay Weed Dad posted:I've known people to stop using jiggle keys in lieu of OEM keys because they function the same. I have 3 Hondas (90,96,00) and they can all be opened with the key for the 96' Accord and a bit of gumption. Glad to hear you got your car back, when my Prelude got stolen I didn't even bother getting it from the impound it was so trashed and the great state of Massachusetts suspended my license as a result. wait, what the gently caress? I know Mass is retarded (I live there) but why did they suspend your license because of that? I thought impounded cars that weren't retrieved just got sold at auction and usually went to the junkyard if they were beat.
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Oct 24, 2016 22:24
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Just got back from Texas. I forgot how suicidal all the drivers are down there.
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kastein posted:wait, what the gently caress? I know Mass is retarded (I live there) but why did they suspend your license because of that? I thought impounded cars that weren't retrieved just got sold at auction and usually went to the junkyard if they were beat. Probably unpaid fees added up to something really high + government "gently caress you"
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Just got back from Texas. 
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MrOnBicycle posted:For some reason, over here in Sweden people tend to be more aggressive toward people with traffic dings or damage in general. Anecdotal like everything, but still. I anecdotally beg to differ. I have driven a few cosmetically challenged cars in Sweden, and I feel way fewer people try to pull poo poo on me than when I'm driving "normal" vehicles.
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Today I saw an idiot on a pitch black highway hogging the left lane, and when I passed him on the right it turns out he had one working DRL and his foglights on instead of headlights.  E: oh yeah and this morning some idiot in an empty right lane abruptly cut me off to wedge themselves between me and the person I had been behind. Good loving job, you win a prize. kastein fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Oct 26, 2016 |
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Oct 26, 2016 00:14
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Ran an errand that took me 16 miles 45 minutes ago, and about half was highway. 16 cars running just DRLs and no other lights. Zero responded to a high beam flick and a honk. Well, one did, but it was with a middle finger out the window.
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Oct 26, 2016 02:17
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kastein posted:Today I saw an idiot on a pitch black highway hogging the left lane, and when I passed him on the right it turns out he had one working DRL and his foglights on instead of headlights. So many Commodore drivers in Australia used to do this a few years ago. Just put on their parking lights so they could have their fog/driving lights working. Thankfully the cops have come down hard on that.
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Oct 26, 2016 02:24
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You Am I posted:Thankfully the cops have come down hard on that. I wish they would here to. People without lights is seriously one of my top pet peeves regarding other drivers. When it's getting dark enough to not see poo poo most people remember how to turn their lights on proper, but well before then (dusk, or just an overcast autumn day) there is a huge difference in how easy it is to spot a car with drl/tail lights on versus no loving lights whatsoever.
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Here is a truck driver that gets cut off, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLGPrF0uSMY mirror on vidme too, https://vid.me/yif3 Some guy films an intersection with biting commentary, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72zI7eV4WzA Lime Tonics fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Oct 26, 2016 |
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Oct 26, 2016 07:17
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Lime Tonics posted:Here is a truck driver that gets cut off, 
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truck driver video got taken down
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Oct 26, 2016 17:58
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Mirror still works. That second truck driver made a great save.
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Oct 26, 2016 18:48
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If only the dashcam footage in such a scenario guaranteed a zero-blame outcome for just hitting the fuckwit.
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You know what's really fun? Trying to pull onto a 110 km/h highway at 70 km/h because the halfwit in a Hyundai right in front of you fears his gas pedal. There's not even a merge lane, it's a yield, so you only get one shot at it. I've seen loaded dumptrucks use that exit more effectively... Oh, and on the way out to the place I was coming back from, we got to sit and wait as a stupid gently caress in a semi going 30 under the limit passed an even stupider gently caress in a dumptruck going 40 under the limit. gently caress you TransCanada, you horrible poo poo highway full of horrible poo poo drivers.
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InitialDave posted:If only the dashcam footage in such a scenario guaranteed a zero-blame outcome for just hitting the fuckwit. If only. This has got to have made the news somewhere.
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loving cocksuckers that start in the left turn lane and decide "aww hell no, I want to go straight now!!" and wedge their fat rear end across two lanes, forcing my fuming rear end to miss an entire light cycle because they won't creep forward a couple more feet to make room and allow me to turn. I hope they die in agony. Sooner the better.
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xzzy posted:loving cocksuckers that start in the left turn lane and decide "aww hell no, I want to go straight now!!" and wedge their fat rear end across two lanes, forcing my fuming rear end to miss an entire light cycle because they won't creep forward a couple more feet to make room and allow me to turn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VAsiC5a02U I yelled and honked a lot at some stupid dickhead sitting at a green straight-only light with his left blinker on a few years ago, next to a completely empty left-only lane with a red light, and he got mad and told me to gently caress myself because well he had to go that way!!!!!!  gently caress you buddy, you screwed up, go straight and pull a U turn at the next intersection in a half a mile instead of leaving me stuck behind you at a goddamn green light waiting to get rearended by some dipshit who can't be arsed to take their eyes off their phone.
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Lime Tonics posted:Some guy films an intersection with biting commentary, "My balls are sticking to my leg!"
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xzzy posted:loving cocksuckers that start in the left turn lane and decide "aww hell no, I want to go straight now!!" and wedge their fat rear end across two lanes, forcing my fuming rear end to miss an entire light cycle because they won't creep forward a couple more feet to make room and allow me to turn. Lime Tonics posted:Here is a truck driver that gets cut off, solarNativity fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Oct 27, 2016 |
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Oct 27, 2016 17:57
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kastein posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VAsiC5a02U But that's not his favorite way! It only satisfies 99% of his requirements!
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ebc_1477452082
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Yea.. don't scroll down through the comments unless you want to see a clearly dead 8 year old kid.
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Had some douche fly up my rear end when I was already speeding on a divided 2 lane road. He just tailgated me with his highs on even though there was clearly a car doing the same speed I was in front of me. I flipped him off and he strangely backs up a reasonable distance and stops being an rear end. As soon as the road widened I moved over so he could get past me and do some lunatic speed on a crowded road. I got away from him and he got in front of one more person; everyone won.
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