Morons on the road

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2004-04-01 04:05am

I was going to work this morning, as usual, the route takes me around 10km of rural road where there is just forrest and fields and a lake, anyway I am coming at this particular 90% curve and I see a car infront of me, it's doing 30kph in a 80 zone, what the fuck?

I have to drive past this dumb, slow fuck I am thinking, but the bastard is almost in the middle of the road, I use the horn so he'll know I wish to get past, he then proceeds to drive absolutely in the middle of the road!

Well fuck that motherfucking piece of anal lube, I squeeze myself in to the right of the road and drive past him on the inside whilst waving the universal fuck you sign through the window, I really wanted to stop across the road, go up to him and beat his fucking face in, fortunately I have work to get to.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2004-04-01 05:57am

Note, the pace at which this took place was below 30km/h, so don't get any images of gone in 60 seconds or too fast too furious or whatever.
Secondly there wheren't any traffic or other people around for a mile in each direction, I am not stupid enough to drive past someone in such an area.

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » 2004-04-02 03:09am

Ugh, kinda like people doing 50mph on the freeway in the left lane here. The rest of the traffic is doing at least 70 and that one person is causing an inordinate amount of mayhem in the traffic pattern.

The people crawling up an onramp to the freeway at like 30-40mph when everyone on the freeway is doing 60-70 is probably more annoying and unsafe. We had someone get creamed out here a while back doing that, it was a really nasty wreck from what I heard as well.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-04-02 12:57pm

Isn't 30kph slower than you go through a residential neighborhood?

*calc* Indeed, that's freaking 18 miles per hour. That's crazy slow.

Oni Koneko Damien · Post by **Oni Koneko Damien** » 2004-04-02 02:51pm

I don't really mind people doing 50 on the freeway, they're easy enough to spot and pass. It's the fuckwits that come in pairs, both doing fifty, and both KEEPING PARALLEL WITH EACH OTHER SO NO ONE CAN PASS. They're the kind of people that make me glad my horn doesn't work because I'd probably cause an accident with the amount of leaning I do on it when I'm stuck behind them.

-Damien

Kintaro · Post by **Kintaro** » 2004-04-02 03:17pm

Oni Koneko Damien wrote:I don't really mind people doing 50 on the freeway, they're easy enough to spot and pass. It's the fuckwits that come in pairs, both doing fifty, and both KEEPING PARALLEL WITH EACH OTHER SO NO ONE CAN PASS. They're the kind of people that make me glad my horn doesn't work because I'd probably cause an accident with the amount of leaning I do on it when I'm stuck behind them.

-Damien

Yeah, those fucking idiots

I also hate those assholes who mother fucking drive on the shoulder of the highway to get out of traffic jams! Why don't the jackass police concentrate on these mother fuckers instead of being so obsessed with speeders?

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-04-02 04:31pm

Stop complaining. When I visited China, it was like visiting Driver's Hell.

Typically I don't like to make broad sweeping generalizations, but there in the entire nation of China there is no ethnically Chinese person capable of operating a motor vehicle. It must be something in the water.

People merge across oncoming traffic. People attempt to pass each other on one-way streets by going up on the sidewalks. Traffic signs are basically ignored and intersections are essentially chaotic free-for-alls. If you see two cars all alone on a barren stretch of highway, 95% of the time one car will be tailgating the other. People swerve into oncoming traffic in order to cut ahead, cut through narrow alleys clearly not designed for automobiles and blaze through the city streets, utterly heedless of pedestrians and bicyclists who similarly pay absolutely no attention to anything that's going on around them.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2004-04-02 04:51pm

HemlockGrey wrote:Stop complaining. When I visited China, it was like visiting Driver's Hell.

Typically I don't like to make broad sweeping generalizations, but there in the entire nation of China there is no ethnically Chinese person capable of operating a motor vehicle. It must be something in the water.

No, its because until recently private cars where banned and few existed for government use. So really it is a nation of untrained and unseasoned drivers.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-04-02 05:00pm

aren't chinese roads also very narrow as well?

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-04-02 06:17pm

Probably, and probably for the same reason.

Tribun · Post by **Tribun** » 2004-04-02 06:29pm

That reminds me of a question in JA2:

"You are on the highway, and before you there is a idiot who seemingly drives with -5km/h. What do you wish you could simply do?"

a)Push the button "R" for "Rocketlauncher".

Cornelius · Post by **Cornelius** » 2004-04-02 07:44pm

Ugh, kinda like people doing 50mph on the freeway in the left lane here. The rest of the traffic is doing at least 70 and that one person is causing an inordinate amount of mayhem in the traffic pattern.

What is the speed limit on your freeway?

Guardsman Bass · Post by **Guardsman Bass** » 2004-04-02 08:16pm

Oni Koneko Damien wrote:I don't really mind people doing 50 on the freeway, they're easy enough to spot and pass. It's the fuckwits that come in pairs, both doing fifty, and both KEEPING PARALLEL WITH EACH OTHER SO NO ONE CAN PASS. They're the kind of people that make me glad my horn doesn't work because I'd probably cause an accident with the amount of leaning I do on it when I'm stuck behind them.

-Damien

I feel your pain; I see assholes like this on the 40 mph road that takes me from school to home and back again. For some reason there seem to be a LOT of jerks who think driving is like a fucking competition, so when I speed up to pass in front of them, they speed up too, and sit in my fucking blindspot! Thus, I can't make the left turn to my house, have to take a mile long detour . . . . :

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-04-02 10:26pm

Cornelius wrote:
Ugh, kinda like people doing 50mph on the freeway in the left lane here. The rest of the traffic is doing at least 70 and that one person is causing an inordinate amount of mayhem in the traffic pattern.
What is the speed limit on your freeway?

70MPH outside of the city, 55 - 65MPH in....though most everyone does 70 anyways.

MarkIX · Post by **MarkIX** » 2004-04-02 11:13pm

HemlockGrey wrote:Stop complaining. When I visited China, it was like visiting Driver's Hell.

Typically I don't like to make broad sweeping generalizations, but there in the entire nation of China there is no ethnically Chinese person capable of operating a motor vehicle. It must be something in the water.

People merge across oncoming traffic. People attempt to pass each other on one-way streets by going up on the sidewalks. Traffic signs are basically ignored and intersections are essentially chaotic free-for-alls. If you see two cars all alone on a barren stretch of highway, 95% of the time one car will be tailgating the other. People swerve into oncoming traffic in order to cut ahead, cut through narrow alleys clearly not designed for automobiles and blaze through the city streets, utterly heedless of pedestrians and bicyclists who similarly pay absolutely no attention to anything that's going on around them.

They have rules they aren't your rules, and I don't know if they are the official rules but they work, and they work quite well. It only looks chaotic from an american perspective because Cars do not automatically have right of way, and people aren't afraid of them.

Dennis Toy · Post by **Dennis Toy** » 2004-04-02 11:49pm

is it true that people in NYC don't drive?

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2004-04-03 10:18am

HemlockGrey wrote:Stop complaining. When I visited China, it was like visiting Driver's Hell.

Typically I don't like to make broad sweeping generalizations, but there in the entire nation of China there is no ethnically Chinese person capable of operating a motor vehicle. It must be something in the water.

People merge across oncoming traffic. People attempt to pass each other on one-way streets by going up on the sidewalks. Traffic signs are basically ignored and intersections are essentially chaotic free-for-alls. If you see two cars all alone on a barren stretch of highway, 95% of the time one car will be tailgating the other. People swerve into oncoming traffic in order to cut ahead, cut through narrow alleys clearly not designed for automobiles and blaze through the city streets, utterly heedless of pedestrians and bicyclists who similarly pay absolutely no attention to anything that's going on around them.

I noticed this same shit in Korea...

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2004-04-03 10:22am

Oni Koneko Damien wrote:I don't really mind people doing 50 on the freeway, they're easy enough to spot and pass. It's the fuckwits that come in pairs, both doing fifty, and both KEEPING PARALLEL WITH EACH OTHER SO NO ONE CAN PASS. They're the kind of people that make me glad my horn doesn't work because I'd probably cause an accident with the amount of leaning I do on it when I'm stuck behind them.

-Damien

The few times I was behind idiots like this I was glad there was a shoulder to pass on.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-04-03 12:13pm

Actually, at least in Beijing, there were numerous large, wide streets that could easily serve as two-way, four-lane road, which would make driving much less congested. However, the government is forced to erect barriers seperating the lanes because if they don't, people simply cross the road in the middle of traffic.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2004-04-03 12:57pm

HemlockGrey wrote:Actually, at least in Beijing, there were numerous large, wide streets that could easily serve as two-way, four-lane road, which would make driving much less congested. However, the government is forced to erect barriers seperating the lanes because if they don't, people simply cross the road in the middle of traffic.

Take the barriers down and let natural selection work - Get rid of the people who wont use their brains.

MarkIX · Post by **MarkIX** » 2004-04-04 12:19am

HemlockGrey wrote:Actually, at least in Beijing, there were numerous large, wide streets that could easily serve as two-way, four-lane road, which would make driving much less congested. However, the government is forced to erect barriers seperating the lanes because if they don't, people simply cross the road in the middle of traffic.

What part of beijing where you in. The roads I saw in Beijing had 4 lanes two each way the outer lanes are seperated from the inner lanes by a nature strips the outer lanes are for bicycles and the inner lanes for cars and buses etc. That seems to be standard across most Chinese cities from what have seen.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2004-04-04 12:49am

MarkIX wrote:They have rules they aren't your rules, and I don't know if they are the official rules but they work, and they work quite well. It only looks chaotic from an american perspective because Cars do not automatically have right of way, and people aren't afraid of them.

Theoretically, pedestrians also have the right of way in the US.

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » 2004-04-04 12:51am

Don't start me up about the morons who pace at 50-55 on the freeway and can't seem to notice the 2 mile backup behind them, or the lack of *any* cars on the same side of the freeway in front of them.

The speed limit on the freeways here in Washington is 60mph, on Hwy16 (the one I commute on daily), the average speed is 65-67 in the right lane and as high as 75-80 in the left. So it gets really ugly when some fuckwit does 50 in either lane.

The Aliens · Post by **The Aliens** » 2004-04-04 12:34pm

I've heard people saying proudly that they do 85 km/h up the 401 to Toronto, as if it's some kind of virtue to go slowly enough to cause accidents.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-04-04 02:00pm

They have rules they aren't your rules, and I don't know if they are the official rules but they work, and they work quite well. It only looks chaotic from an american perspective because Cars do not automatically have right of way, and people aren't afraid of them.

Bullshit. There was a traffic accident every six blocks, and every single driver seemed to THINK he had right of way, judging by the number of times I was nearly run over by cars while crossing a street at the fucking crosswalk.