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I drive a metro bus and the crap seen in average week is scary
I have soo many stories it's not funny but learnt quickly the best reaction is no reaction don't give the nuts the satisfaction of having jolted you
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This guy should know not to drive next to trucks.
I always speed up and past them as quick as possible. Passing one a few weeks ago I had one start to change lanes on me. Holding on the horn and flipping the truck off was good enough for me, no need to stop in middle of road and kick the truck. |
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I tend to just move over and let the nuffies go past... but sometimes, if they are extra aggressive with tailgating, I may reduce my speed to give a hint.
If you maintain a relaxed state of mind, the drive is so much more enjoyable, rather than being on edge, 'ready for anything', pumped up the whole time... that's too tiring for me. I am, however, inclined to assist someone in the public if they are being faced with a 'situation'. I will get myself hurt one day I'm sure, but it'll be worth it. Road ragers are nothing but school yard bullies in a car. Much more dangerous, but just as weak and pathetic. |
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People are nutty. Too many of these nutty people become bullet proof when in the safety of their cars and are silly enough to antagonise the other nutty guy who may or may not have accidentaly or purposefully impinged on the second nutty guys head space.
One nutty guy is always a bit nuttier than the other and we end up with road rage. My wife wonders how I can let someone cut me off and not blast the horn or go a little nutty - it's just not worth the agro when the odds are they just had a little brain fade. |
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@ Brazen
Absolutey mate it's usually one extreme or the other, people are often too courteous to buses and forget basic road rules and just stop anywhere to let the bus out, this also comes with it's own dangers too, oldies are the best for over corteous, bless em lol
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there was a guy not far from us who woke up early one morning as his crappy vn or vp commodore was having the crap beat out of it by guys with baseball bats. He was all over the local news crying about his pride & joy, couldn't understand why this had occured & encouraging anyone with information to contact police ..... So very early into the phone conversation with the poor copper on desk duty that day, advised me that they had received call after call all day reporting this idiot for all his daily inapproiate driving antics etc. I still don't think the understands Karma. But his uninsured commodore sat unloved & not woth repairing on his front lawn for months until he moved elsewhere
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It is understandable the driver of the car being upset but his actions were not the smartest.Out of curiosity was the 2 month old baby still in the car when he was trying to block a 20 ton truck? |
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Yes I'm sure he'd be annoyed, yes take down the rego, go to the cops and vent your anger there. Seriously, if someone had been coming along that road none the wiser and hit his car, injured / killed his baby, would it of been worth it? God no.
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Speaking of idiots on the road, I lobbed up to a job site last week and one of the blokes was telling me that a random drugs test had been done the day before on site. 9 out of the 16 workers had drugs in their system. And most of those workers had driven to work. Needless to say they all got the flick from the job site. And these buggers are on the road !!!! At the scond jobsite the got 6 out of 13 workers.........scary thinking the car coming at you could be one of these buggers..........
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Alls good and well, coming up with all these scenarios of what he should have or shouldn't have done AFTER the fact. But that's too late AFTER it's done and dusted.
Yeah, he shouldn't have been driving next to a truck and should have sped up and hoped like crazy there wasn't a speed camera around at the time (The road is a known speed camera hot spot). We won't mention that the road the incident first occurred on, is a throughafair for trucks, in the Northern burbs of Adelaide. So you can't always not drive near a truck. Yeah, he could have taken the rego number down of the truck and reported it to the cops, but didn't at the time. Yeah, he shouldn't have pulled the truck over and went troppo on it. However, put yourselves in the same situation and see how you react. Of course you'll do things differently, because you've had time to think about it, whilst writing in this thread, or you've read about this sort of incident, so you'll do something different. Then we'll go to the otherside of the story, which the coppers nor the media will report. What happened to the truckie in this incident? Yeah, he got charged with driving under the influence of drugs, but the outcome for him? A poor innocient victim of roadrage. ![]()
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A wheel alignment fixes everything, when it comes to front end issues. This includes any little noises. Please read the manual carefully, as the these manufacturers spent millions of dollars making sure it is perfect.....Now why are there so many problems with my car, when I follow the instructions to the letter?....Answer, majority rules round here Lock me up and throw away the key because I'm a hoon....I got caught doing 59 in a 60 zone |
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Alls good and well, coming up with all these scenarios of what he should have or shouldn't have done AFTER the fact. But that's too late AFTER it's done and dusted.
Yeah, he shouldn't have been driving next to a truck and should have sped up and hoped like crazy there wasn't a speed camera around at the time (The road is a known speed camera hot spot). We won't mention that the road the incident first occurred on, is a throughafair for trucks, in the Northern burbs of Adelaide. So you can't always not drive near a truck. Yeah, he could have taken the rego number down of the truck and reported it to the cops, but didn't at the time. Yeah, he shouldn't have pulled the truck over and went troppo on it. However, put yourselves in the same situation and see how you react. Of course you'll do things differently, because you've had time to think about it, whilst writing in this thread, or you've read about this sort of incident, so you'll do something different. Then we'll go to the otherside of the story, which the coppers nor the media will report. What happened to the truckie in this incident? Yeah, he got charged with driving under the influence of drugs, but the outcome for him? A poor innocient victim of roadrage. ![]()
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A wheel alignment fixes everything, when it comes to front end issues. This includes any little noises. Please read the manual carefully, as the these manufacturers spent millions of dollars making sure it is perfect.....Now why are there so many problems with my car, when I follow the instructions to the letter?....Answer, majority rules round here Lock me up and throw away the key because I'm a hoon....I got caught doing 59 in a 60 zone |
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I was making a right turn in the melbourne cbd a while ago and there was an old bloke crossing the road anyway there was a small tip truck a few cars back and he was beeping and going nuts anyway i see this idiot catch me and start yelling at me with a thick pommy accent saying where i got my license yada yada anyway when i informed this gentleman that there was an old bloke crossing the road and that we drive with our eyes open in oz he then went red in the face and spend of out of embarasment.
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Quick question.... just how far past the traffic lights did you want to turn right into ???? Because if it wasn't overly far - then maybe you should have positioned yourself in the right hand lane , behind said driver. I see lots of drivers wanting to have "pole position" - only to then merge into the other lane to make a turn etc & it can raise your blood pressure a bit when you get stuck behind them. I'm not trying to justify the other drivers subsequent actions in any way - he was out of order. |
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Car filming has a young girl in it. Somewhere round the age of 10. And the bloke filming wasn't on the phone to the cops. He was using the phone to film the incident. And the final thing about the "film maker". He got his 2 minutes of fame, so he was happy. When this incident occurred, the bloke that did all the filming was on another forum I used to frequent and was boasting big time about his feats. There were the same sort of mixed responses to him, that are occurring in this thread.
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A wheel alignment fixes everything, when it comes to front end issues. This includes any little noises. Please read the manual carefully, as the these manufacturers spent millions of dollars making sure it is perfect.....Now why are there so many problems with my car, when I follow the instructions to the letter?....Answer, majority rules round here Lock me up and throw away the key because I'm a hoon....I got caught doing 59 in a 60 zone |
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If i had my two month old child in the car i be pulling over and settling down before continuing on my trip, With a two month old in my car i wouldn't be displaying violence and i sure as hell wouldn't be brake testing a truck. WHat kind of a bogan condones this sort of behavior and what kind of thinking process can someone have to think "hey that guy almost but didn't injure my family, i better go out of my way to put them in the path of a moving truck to teach him a lesson" Seriously god help the planet with people like that on it |
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![]() Road Transport (Safety and Traffic Management) Act 1999 No 20Current version for 19 April 2010 Section 43 43 Menacing driving (1) Offence—intent to menace A person must not drive a motor vehicle on a road or road related area in a manner that menaces another person with the intention of menacing that other person. Maximum penalty: 30 penalty units or imprisonment for 18 months or both (in the case of a first offence) or 50 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years or both (in the case of a second or subsequent offence). (2) Offence—possibility of menace A person must not drive a motor vehicle on a road or road related area in a manner that menaces another person if the person ought to have known that the other person might be menaced. Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months or both (in the case of a first offence) or 30 penalty units or imprisonment for 18 months or both (in the case of a second or subsequent offence).
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I experienced a road rage incident earlier in the year by some creepy looking traidie driving a crappy late 80s/early 90s Lancer with a wrong coloured bonnet.
I was simply driving down a 50km/h street when I noticed an old neglected looking Lancer tailgating me when I was doing the speed limit. I have been told that if someone is pushing you from behind that you do not go faster for them, so I continued to do 50. He then started yelling from inside his car, I was about to pull over to where I was wanting to go, so I pulled over when the freaky looking bogan pulled up parallel to me and started screaming at me so quickly that I did not understand a single word he said (other than that would have been swearing a lot). I tried to drive off, but he moved forward to block me off. He continued yelling out words that I still cannot understand. I was getting annoyed that he was still blocking me off and wasting my time. I gave him the finger and then he stormed out of his ****box car and allowed me to escape. He came about an inch from touching my car as he ran after me on foot. I was simply going to the next roundabout to to a U-turn and come back to my destination knowing that he would be gone. As I came back he had gotten into his car and started driving down the opposite side of the road trying to intimidate me but I held the horn as I headed straight towards him and he got onto his side of the road. When I got to where I wanted to go, I was approached by some people who were at a cafe across the street who stuck up for me and abused him as he returned to his car, they gave me incorrect details about his number. I knew what the real number was and I was told to report him to the police. Not surprisingly they didn't give a ****. He said he can find out who the guy is to tell him to pull his head in, but I said not to worry about it as he'd know who reported him. I found out where he lived too. He lives (not sure if he still lives there though) in a unit and he keeps the car parked on the street overnight. I could have taken a picture of the car and posted on the Epic Fails thread because the car is one of those pathetic ricer burners. |
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You are a champion. I would do the same thing. I was approaching a crossing on foot, a cyclists was coming, it was clear he was not going to stop, my girlfriend stopped at the side of the road and was going to let this idiot cyclist pass, but I just kept walking right out in front of him and he just hit his brakes and went around me. I have a major hate for any cyclists who does not obey basic road rules. |
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