Stupid people, and those whom defend them.

1st off let me explain something. Whenever I see someone doing something wrong while driving I toot my horn at them to try to get them to desist. At least long enough for me to pass them by safely.

two weeks ago I saw a semi-truck driver reading while driving. Now mind, its rush hour and at sunset and we're driving INTO the sun through construction zones.

This once I failed to honk at him and he hit a retainer wall at over 60 MPH.

I dunno why I didn't honk. I just get tired of people giving me the finger sometimes but this once I feel guilty.

I keep thinking that if I had done something, anything he'd not have gotten hurt.

Anywhos, That's my beginning rant.

Feel free to contribute and please leave poor Money alone... OR NOT!

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The best things in life, aren't things.

You guys need to get over the foreplay and get down and dirty already.

I've seen some crazy stuff on US26 in the afternoon.
There was some dude in a truck who kept harassing a gardener truck. Like, kept swerving in front of him, then driving all over the place ... I've never seen anything else like it, the guy was acting psychotic.

Another time during rush hour two cars were stopping in a lane and the two dudes driving them were having a fist fight right in the middle of the freeway. The fat one lost.

A couple years ago when I was going to visit my friend who was in the hospital from failed kidneys, this guy in a completely beat up early 80s Honda sedan cut me off, sped up ... and his rear bumper detached from his car and went under mine! He sped off, no body in my car bothered getting his plates. Thankfully, nobody was injured, because I'm awesome at driving.

I saw one pretty bad accident one time, and it was from, of course, someone being a moron. It was on Murray and Hwy8, this dude, to the left of my friend and I (buddy was driving), he started going ... and he was sitting at a protected turn light ... that was red! On coming car smashed right into him and they both slide away from us and further "left" and hit a car that was waiting at the light. It was very sudden too ... I'm not sure if the guy was confused or what because our lane had a green light. We pulled over and called the police to report it.

People are just stupid, there's not much you can do about that. People make bad decisions, especially during complacency, which I would argue is one of the main reasons for some of the nastier accidents that don't involve drug or alcohol influences.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Fortunately this doesn't happen every day but only several times a month but you'd never guess how many morons cut me off and then put on their brakes in front of me daring me to hit them. Most times I'm in excess of 70,000 lbs.

I wish I had a camera that required no human assistance since I'm in a truck by myself and aiming just isn't practical but I'd dearly love to show you guys some footage of things I've seen out here. You could prolly name it and I've seen it. Seeing it on video though would be great.

I suppose the worse was two gay guys, doing gay things. The best was a girl with her naked backside hanging out the passenger window.

I see reading a dozen times a day, phone usage a 1,000 times a day. Watching some sort of video a couple times a week and almost anything else you can imagine at least once a month.

whatever happened to driving, while you're behind the wheel? shrugs

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The best things in life, aren't things.

This reminds me of something I witnessed a few weeks ago.

I was waiting at the light when this old ford pulls along side me, to my left. At first I pay no attention to it until a second car, a white BMW, if I recall, pulls up behind it and starts honking incessantly. Now, i'm not sure how drivers in other countries are, but in Soviet Romania norm dictates that you use your psychic abilities to foresee the moment the light will turn green several minutes in advance so that when it does you'll have already raised the clutch and crushed the accelerator.
After all, Romanian drivers are far too busy to waste precious seconds over crap such as traffic safety, not to mention politeness. So the white BMW keeps honking and honking, as if to tell the driver in the ford to 'move his ass already'. Indeed, the intersecting street seemed quite clear, so the guy timidly begins to advance, in spite of the red light. He begins to accelerate... and is slammed from the side by a speeding taxi that had the green light...

Gave up his position to be in the right and got thwacked. Goes to show you I suppose.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

I was out getting some food at night and some old, obviously drunk, guy drives out of the pub driveway and almost hits me, then about 5 seconds later smashes into some standing cars at a set of red traffic lights.

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aaron_da_killa said:
I was out getting some food at night and some old, obviously drunk, guy drives out of the pub driveway and almost hits me, then about 5 seconds later smashes into some standing cars at a set of red traffic lights.

I bet if it was your dad it would have been the most badass accident you ever saw.

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Orpheus said:
1st off let me explain something. Whenever I see someone doing something wrong while driving I toot my horn at them to try to get them to desist. At least long enough for me to pass them by safely.

two weeks ago I saw a semi-truck driver reading while driving. Now mind, its rush hour and at sunset and we're driving INTO the sun through construction zones.

This once I failed to honk at him and he hit a retainer wall at over 60 MPH...

I don't see a problem here. We can only hope he never reproduced.

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Reality has become a commodity.

I work in computer repair. There will be people sometimes who "just need their computer back right away." So their computer is blue screening or not booting for one reason or another (and a OS reinstall is out of the question because they don't have their program disks for the program they run on it), and they tell me that they will be by in an hour to pick it up. I always say I can't promise that it'll be fixed, then they respond "well I just can't be without my computer." So why are they stupid? Its because their computer is not booting, if they take it back it still wont work, what are they going to do? Stare at the non-booting screen and "will" it to work. The repair is going to take as long as it takes to complete.

Driving tales.... Out in california here there are a lot of them. Mainly people in SUVs. I have people merge into the 2-sized car space in front of me on the free-way to get off on an exit thats 100 meters (~300 feet away) (being an SUV it leaves apox 1/4 of a car space in front of me and them), so I honk, pass them, and move on with my life. One guy actually started following me and tailing me. So I played the game and drove past the local sheriff's office and the sherif pulls both of us over. He stops to talk to the SUV, then comes to me and says im free to go because he saw the guy tailing me. I also mention he cut me off and I go about my business.

That's interesting, the content of this thread is not what I expected to be. What a pleasent surprise

If this is what I think it is (close encounters of the traffic kind) that I would be pleased to contribute my rather interesting story. I was driving home from college, a few miles from home (40 mile journey from college to home) when I decide I am to go the alternate quiet country road which is slightly less distance and avoids going through the town. This is the road I took:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Lympne,+Hythe&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=9.219336,27.817383&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Lympne,+Hythe,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.07112,1.031427&spn=0,0.054331&z=14&layer=c&cbll=51.071033,1.031452&panoid=eHeACcTWPBTwmXAdmtsAvw&cbp=12,186.23,,0,14.91

Rounding one of the bends, I see that the cops have stopped the traffic for what looks like a minor accident. The cop was telling one side to go while he stops the other side, much like regular traffic lights do. It was my sides turn to stop, so I stopped as instructed.

The next thing I know, this cop is approaching me and telling me to stop and only go when he says to do so. I had the windows up but I could still hear him through the glass and said 'Yes'. I guess he couldn't hear me so he asks again, this time close to the drivers' side window. I answer again with an assertive 'Yes' and a nod of the head.

The next thing I know, this cop has opened my drivers' door and practically shouts, 'DO NOT MOVE UNTIL I HAVE TOLD YOU TO DO SO. DO YOU UNDERSTAND!?' I answer 'Yes' for the third time and leave quite dazed and confused. I guess he could have done with a hearing aid, although he wasn't particularly old.

I could have insulted him for his rudeness but that would have only landed me a record and get me 'known' to the cops which I really would rather not be as that leads to a lot of hassle. You are never able to reason with these types of people and they will find a way to escalate things and land you in jail, even though they are the ones that initiated the confrontation. I rest in the knowledge that they will one day get what's coming to them Also I wouldn't want to jepodise future job prospects by having a record with the cops just for the sake of one rude jerk.

As for near accidents, I haven't got anything above you're usual close encounters, but then I have been driving for a lot less time than you guys have.

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omegaslayer said:
I work in computer repair. There will be people sometimes who "just need their computer back right away." So their computer is blue screening or not booting for one reason or another (and a OS reinstall is out of the question because they don't have their program disks for the program they run on it), and they tell me that they will be by in an hour to pick it up. I always say I can't promise that it'll be fixed, then they respond "well I just can't be without my computer." So why are they stupid? Its because their computer is not booting, if they take it back it still wont work, what are they going to do? Stare at the non-booting screen and "will" it to work. The repair is going to take as long as it takes to complete.

I worked for a few months in the same field. There's this one customer that i'll never ever forget who brought in a computer that had 'bad ram'. I open the thing up and reach for the ram boards and after literally having to pry them out I realize that the lunatic had forced DDR3 ram into a DDR2 socket, and as if that wasn't bad enough the ram was actually jammed in backwards. I can't understand for the life of me how he managed to force them in or why he didn't stop when it should have been obvious they didn't fit

Knew this dude who came over to a LAN through another person's invitation (not exactly friends with that guy anymore) and he kept saying "I can't play insert game" and he would constantly have to restart his machine ... so I was like ... what the hell?

I opened up his box and the graphics card was sandwiched between two other cards and was literally pushed into the card in front of it. It was nearly impossible to get out. I asked him who built his machine he said, "I don't know", which meant him, I guess. Needless to say the card was pretty much fried.

I've also known people who have yanked ram out of a running system to "see what would happen" then complain that the system was toast.

And I can't even count the number of times people have complained their computers don't work after seeing what the voltage switch does on the power supply.

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