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Stupid drivers
2010-07-15, 2:18 AM #41
Originally posted by Steven:
Many cyclists fail to understand that bicycles are considered vehicles, and are subject to most of the same rules (at least in CA, where Thrawn and I are from). Other than the bike lane, they get no special privileges. They still have to stop at stop signs, signal turns, and stay in their lane. Many cyclists fail to do so; they act as if they have special privileges.


Fair comment. Whilst I and the people I ride with follow the road rules I guess there are just as many other cyclists out there who don't. Don't get me started on the videos I've seen of Critical Mass events. :argh: Doesn't promote understanding and road safety if you ask me.
During our bunch rides if we seem to be holding up traffic we always try to be courteous and wave the cars around. Much of the time there are no issues. Then you get the 5% of drivers who act like the 5-10 seconds they spent behind you waiting for the opportunity to pass were an eternity, or are worth knocking you down for. Surely nothing could be that important, short of delivering a donated organ to a hospital.
I guess it's not just about cars and cyclists... some people are just like that with other cars too.
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2010-07-15, 7:39 AM #42
There's an intersection on my drive home from work every day that makes me so angry. There's a 4 lane road that intersects with a 3 lane road. The 4 lane road consists of, from left to right, two left turn only lanes, a straight + right turn lane, and a right turn only lane. I'm always on this road trying to make a right turn onto the 3 lane road, and I'm always in the straight + right turn lane because I need to turn into the middle lane of the 3 lane road. The rightmost lane of that 3 lane road is a right turn only lane onto the onramp onto the interstate going south. The middle lane becomes the right lane after the onramp's branched off and then after 1 red light, that lane turns on to the interstate going north, where I need to go. Logic and traffic laws dictate that you turn right into the same lane you're in, so if you're in the rightmost, you turn right into the rightmost. If you're in the second rightmost, you turn into the second rightmost, etc. Well, the dumb****s around here always try to turn into the middle lane of the 3 lane road from the rightmost turn lane of the 4 lane road, when the people in the straight + right turn lane are the ones who turn into that lane. Needless to say, on a daily basis I am dodging people trying to turn into my lane...
2010-07-15, 7:40 AM #43
This should be called: "Don't be a dick"

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2010-07-15, 8:04 AM #44
http://www.wlky.com/news/16992761/detail.html <-- These 2 little girls were the nieces of a friend of mine.
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2010-07-15, 8:05 AM #45
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2010-07-15, 8:35 AM #46
Don't **** with the Duch.
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2010-07-15, 8:46 AM #47
Originally posted by Wookie06:
So I'm driving my '00 WS6 Trans Am home yesterday, I'm in the right lane, behind another car, getting ready to take an exit. I notice in my rear view a late model Mustang GT in the left lane over taking me. Assuming the guy is going to be an ass, I close to about two car lengths as the car in front and I travel normal speed at the exit. Of course this guy squeezed in front of me, didn't surprise me, I just shook my head. He traveled down to the intersection and turned right, the same way I was going. He goes, I wait patiently for a truck to pass. I moved into the left lane, to pass the truck after I complete the turn. Of course he is ahead of me just sort of lurking. We're on a road that is 30 mph then 40 mph. I'm mostly doing the speed limit + up to 5 over. So when I get next to him he matches me, it's a black car with dark windows so I couldn't have seen him if I wanted to. He's surging a little, obviously wanting to race. Did I mention I'm on a road where the speed limit maxes out at 40 mph? Oh, and going past houses, churches, schools, etc? Even if stomping on a slow Mustang (Mustang GTs up until the current year really aren't too quick compared to even 8-12 year old ('98-'02) GM LS1 F-Bodies) appealed to me, why in the hell would I do so in such conditions? Eventually his turn came up and I was rid of him.

Post more stupid driver stories. I think many of us should have several and I bet we even have some where we're the stupid driver!



WS6, the last decent firebird.

You should have revved at him, usually if you can get them to take off, there's a cop lurking near by, then you could have just turned left and made him look like an ass.


edit: Damn you mb. I used to do fire-rescue. Ran on a kid once, side swiped a tree doing 70+. Probably killed him on impact, if not, then he probably died from shock and cold. I think he was 16. Hit the tree so hard his engine launched out of the car and landed about 60 feet away.
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2010-07-15, 9:48 AM #48
damn you MB that video makes me never want to leave my house again. thanks a lot.
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2010-07-15, 10:55 AM #49
Originally posted by Darth:
There's an intersection on my drive home from work every day that makes me so angry. There's a 4 lane road that intersects with a 3 lane road. The 4 lane road consists of, from left to right, two left turn only lanes, a straight + right turn lane, and a right turn only lane. I'm always on this road trying to make a right turn onto the 3 lane road, and I'm always in the straight + right turn lane because I need to turn into the middle lane of the 3 lane road. The rightmost lane of that 3 lane road is a right turn only lane onto the onramp onto the interstate going south. The middle lane becomes the right lane after the onramp's branched off and then after 1 red light, that lane turns on to the interstate going north, where I need to go. Logic and traffic laws dictate that you turn right into the same lane you're in, so if you're in the rightmost, you turn right into the rightmost. If you're in the second rightmost, you turn into the second rightmost, etc. Well, the dumb****s around here always try to turn into the middle lane of the 3 lane road from the rightmost turn lane of the 4 lane road, when the people in the straight + right turn lane are the ones who turn into that lane. Needless to say, on a daily basis I am dodging people trying to turn into my lane...


Let them hit you.

Act hurt.

Call the cops.

Get police report saying it was their fault.

Settle with insurance company.
2010-07-15, 11:23 AM #50
Originally posted by Mentat:


:neckbeard: Well he deserved it
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2010-07-15, 12:53 PM #51
All this just makes hurtling ourselves at 60 mph in steel cages an even better idea.

Seriously. How many times did people die when some idiot rode a horse into them?
2010-07-15, 12:54 PM #52
I don't have a steel cage. :colbert:
2010-07-15, 12:58 PM #53
I bet riding a horse drunk was totally awesome.
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2010-07-15, 12:59 PM #54
Originally posted by JM:
All this just makes hurtling ourselves at 60 mph in steel cages an even better idea.

Seriously. How many times did people die when some idiot rode a horse into them?


Horse trampling was not exactly an uncommon injury.
2010-07-15, 1:47 PM #55
Also a car doesn't kick you in the chest when you grab his cock.
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2010-07-15, 1:50 PM #56
Yeah but a horse's cock doesn't have access to an accelerator.
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2010-07-15, 2:54 PM #57
Just minutes ago, some ****ing maniac pulled out right in front of me to turn left. I was in the left lane of a four-lane road (two lanes each way), and the right lane was stacked up but had left the guy an opening. There was no oncoming traffic and I was able to get around him, but Christ.
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2010-07-15, 2:54 PM #58
Originally posted by BobTheMasher:
I bet riding a horse drunk was totally awesome.


Strap yourself in and keep drinking, he'll find his own way home!
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2010-07-15, 8:52 PM #59
A couple more good ones. Several years back I was driving a Dodge Stratus government car. I was stopped at a red light and some lady totally ran into the back of my car. I was pretty impressed at the minimal, mostly cosmetic damage to both cars. A few months later I was driving a government 15 passenger fullsize Ford van on a two lane road. A ways ahead of me I saw a small pickup do a u-turn back towards me. A yellow Mustang was following him and pulled over to the right looking to do the same thing. He was creeping slowly and I assumed he was waiting for me to pass him before he turned around to head the opposite direction. Well, right when I was almost on top of him (and passed the point of no return) he made a hard left right in front of me. I swerved to the left but I still hit him broadside in the front left fender area. The front of the poor little Mustang virtually exploded into pieces. I pulled over and immediately went to check on him. He was fine but seemed shaken up and intimidated by the uniform. I then went back to look at the front of the van. It had a softball sized dent in the sheet metal between the bumper and headlight. The cops came, he had no ID, the car was not his, he spoke no English, and, just because it is funny, he had a cute little AK47 pendant hanging on a chain around his neck.
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2010-07-16, 3:13 AM #60
I got hit by a Subaru on my bicycle last month on my way into work. Didn't do much but gimme back pain for... well, till now really. ***** driving wasn't looking (my way) as she exited a business plaza. I looked down at oncoming traffic, and thought "nah, she doesn't have an opening." She disagreed, and attempted to take what she thought was an opening. Unfortunately, my front tire was in front of her closest front tire when she gunned it. I ended up denting the crap out of the car directly above the passenger side wheel as my torso rolled across it.
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2010-07-16, 9:42 AM #61
When driving home from work last summer, I was at an intersection on a two lane road (two lanes each way). The right lane just turned into a right turn lane, leading to a freeway on ramp. A head of the light, it merged to a single lane. Realizing that I was in the turning lane at a red light, I put my left turn signal on to indicate that I ****ed up and would need to merge quickly. I looked at the traffic ahead and decided that I would rather take the freeway home, so I switched to my right turn signal. I go to turn (right turn on red) and nearly hit some dunce lady that was using the shoulder as a turning lane, also trying to get on the freeway. She honked her horn and had a horrified look on her face. Now, sure it was inconvenient of me to change my mind, but if she had been driving on the road there wouldn't have been a problem. If you're going to drive on the shoulder you really need to pay more attention.
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2010-07-16, 9:47 AM #62
It doesn't matter if you kept the left signal on then turned right; any accident would be her fault.
2010-07-16, 9:50 AM #63
Right. Even so, I switched to my right turn signal and waited a few seconds to give anyone around me enough time to notice.
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2010-07-16, 11:43 AM #64
haha so yesterday (those of you who have facebook will have read this already) I was walking on the road, like a foot from the curb. The road was empty, so there was plenty of room to go around me. I was on the road because there was no sidewalk on the side I was on. So some dumb lady honks at me, even though she has plenty of room to go around me. I step off the road for her, and she yells as she passes me "get off the f***ing road!" so I flip her off. She screeches to a halt, gets out, and yells "you got something to say to me??" and her scrawny husband with no shirt gets out and tries to stare me down (musta been 40 years old). Now, my 6'3" friend with a beard and a very heavy longboard is like 10 feet away the whole time, so if they tried to fight me, we could have easily taken them. But basically I just said that I was just crossing the road and didn't want any trouble, and that she should leave. Her stupid mute husband continued to try to stare me down, and she was like 'get in the car steve, I can handle my own s***!"

Overall, it was pretty funny, but what irritates me most is how unbelievably wrong she was, but how there was nothing I could do about it because I and my friend would have been arrested. :downswords:
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2010-07-16, 12:01 PM #65
Zell, were you walking with traffic or against it? I see people walking with traffic all the time, you're supposed to walk against it.
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2010-07-16, 12:04 PM #66
I hate it when i see bicyclists riding against traffic like they're pedestrians. Basically I hate people on bicycles because around here they never do anything right and are basically the ultimate wild card. Is this guy on his bike riding on the sidewalk going to suddenly curve across the street at this crosswalk? Let's find out...at the last possible moment! Is this guy going to stop at this stop sign? Probably not!
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2010-07-16, 12:09 PM #67
Originally posted by Emon:
Zell, were you walking with traffic or against it? I see people walking with traffic all the time, you're supposed to walk against it.


I was walking with it, but there was literally just that one car on the road, and I had been walking there for maybe 10 feet and had just crossed the road to where I was when she honked. Her reaction was completely unwarranted.
DO NOT WANT.
2010-07-16, 12:12 PM #68
Wow, Zell is like the ULTIMATE OUTLAW these days

(I'd prefer ultimate NAR(LAW)MAKER *cough* :ninja:)
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2010-07-16, 12:13 PM #69
Haha jesus christ, I just live in a town of dumb hicks so I get a lot of crap for my hobby. I'm no outlaw. Leave the outlawin' to Gold and his mexican gang.
DO NOT WANT.
2010-07-16, 12:20 PM #70
Originally posted by BobTheMasher:
I hate it when i see bicyclists riding against traffic like they're pedestrians.


God, why would you do that? The wind in your face would slow you way down.
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2010-07-16, 2:27 PM #71
Originally posted by JediNeo:
I assume from your emoticon that your stories are against us :colbert:

The roads where I live are windy and narrow, with no bike lanes (unless you count a foot of crumbling asphalt with a line next to it as a bike lane). It's in the forest, and most corners are blind. There aren't many straightaways--any time you want to pass a cyclist on this road you're basically putting yourself in a certain amount of danger. So basically ANY cyclist is a hassle at best.

So when some of them do stupid ****, it's pretty frustrating. Like when they ride right in the middle of the lane, going as fast as they possibly can (which is usually like 20mph), making it almost impossible to pass them with a modicum of safety. Or the people who can't even bike well or aren't paying attention, who fumble and start weaving as people try to pass them.
2010-07-16, 2:37 PM #72
holy **** mb

disgusting
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2010-07-16, 2:58 PM #73
Our town is where the stereotype of old people not being able to drive comes from.
Going up hill, left blinker flashing with no indication or possibility of turning, and going up in the very middle of the road (yes, driving over the centre line).
I kid you not, that is basically an everyday scenario where a friend of mine lives.

Also there was this one time I was walking my bike across the road, and by across the road, I mean I was going from the bottom to the top in the following awesome diagram:
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The old bloke had stopped his car and waited for road traffic to pass, but the moment there was no cars he began driving forward... directly into me. He obviously heard the bump (thank gods) and stopped as I was knocked down. I got up and dragged the bike out of the way, turned to say something and he had driven away.
I suck majorly at car recognition and I never got the license plate, so I can only hope someone else got him for something else stupid he did before he did some real damage.
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2010-07-16, 3:05 PM #74
I don't really worry about hitting people.

Most people worry about hitting me. My truck is already really beat up, its a pretty good reason to not try ****.

I'm still considering a bumper sticker advising people not to tail gate me, because it pisses me off.
2010-07-16, 5:52 PM #75
Originally posted by 'Thrawn[numbarz:
;1092895']The roads where I live are windy and narrow, with no bike lanes (unless you count a foot of crumbling asphalt with a line next to it as a bike lane). It's in the forest, and most corners are blind. There aren't many straightaways--any time you want to pass a cyclist on this road you're basically putting yourself in a certain amount of danger. So basically ANY cyclist is a hassle at best.

So when some of them do stupid ****, it's pretty frustrating. Like when they ride right in the middle of the lane, going as fast as they possibly can (which is usually like 20mph), making it almost impossible to pass them with a modicum of safety. Or the people who can't even bike well or aren't paying attention, who fumble and start weaving as people try to pass them.


Yes, I see your point.
Most of the roads around here aren't like that. If they were we'd always look to hold them up as little as possible. Half the time people don't need to do dangerous things to overtake us... they just do anyway:argh:
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2010-07-21, 10:45 AM #76
Yeah, generally I don't get frustrated with the cyclists themselves unless they're doing something really dumb or dangerous, like cycling on a one-lane road in the rain, or in a dark forest wearing all black :psyduck:

So Massassi, today I almost had a head on collision with a CalTrans truck. I was going 10 over, but he was way over the yellow line. I think that makes him a bigger douchebag.
2010-07-21, 5:27 PM #77
Originally posted by JM:
Nah. Old people aren't that big a problem; most of them drive slow.


...which can be extremely dangerous. Old people driving 50 in a 75 on the I-10 are a constant threat to me.
2010-07-21, 6:38 PM #78
I was driving down the highway and was behind an SUV that kept on drifting ever-so-close to the lane divisions before suddenly pulling back. I got around it and, as I passed the SUV, I saw the driver was a short woman who was stretching her neck to peek over the dashboard.

Big cars for small people! Smart!
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2010-07-21, 6:46 PM #79
Originally posted by Trigger Happy Chewie:
...which can be extremely dangerous. Old people driving 50 in a 75 on the I-10 are a constant threat to me.


If you're keeping your eyes open, and not maneuvering in ways that would be risky regardless, it shouldn't really be a problem.
2010-07-21, 7:31 PM #80
Chiming in on how much I hate bicyclists.

I can count on one hand the number I've seen that actually obeyed all road laws. Stop signs? Traffic lights? Indicating turns? Ironically, speed limits? Ignore at will!
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