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Offline 78 k550

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Rant on drivers
« on: May 26, 2008, 01:14:38 PM »
Hey All,
Just putting along to turn on to the highway from my sisters BBQ. This  mini van get's right up next to me and try's to squeeze in between me and the car in front of me. Lay on the horn she moved back into her lane. she start drifting over again lay on the horn. one more time laying on the horn she and her litttle one year old in the back wanted over. So she just keeps on drifting over. I know she knew I was there. Guy in the none turn lane rolled down his window also and was surprized she did that. I said did you see that he said yea. I start yelling at this lady at the light and she doesn't blink an eye. so comeing down the ramp 2 lanes into one and im way ahead of her then all of a sudden as the lane is changing into one and she come wizzing by my and cuts me off. Well she is going the same way i was and though I was following her so she got on the phone with the cops or so she say's. I yell out tell them how you almost ram me off the rosd 3 times and laughing about it.
I don't understand what goes through people's head when they do this on purpose. Laughing when you almost run someone over with a car.
I should of stuck around for the cops and explained my end of it.

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Re: Rant on drivers
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2008, 02:18:35 PM »
I had a guy force me off the road in stop and go traffic.  From the shoulder I pulled up next to him and he yells through the window "you got a f*cking problem"   I said "yeah, you just ran me off the road"  he just flipped me off.  I said"F*ck me?  no, F*ck you!" and kicked a dent in the door of his new F250.  Then I went down the shoulder to the next exit.  My plate was kind of hidden.

I wouldn't do this today, I was younger and dumber.  But it felt good to see the look on his face when I kicked his truck with my big ass boots.   ;D
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Re: Rant on drivers
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2008, 02:26:37 PM »
Havent had anything like that happen lately but when i was younger and still had my old D300 van some idiot in a superduty tried to cut me off thinking that since his truck was jacked up i would just back off and let me through...No such luck and we both got to explain to the cops why his 60g off road toy was on its side in the ditch...When i encounter drivers like that and im in a vehicle im not gonna get #$%*ed up in if i go through them for their mistake...sorry...im going through!
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Re: Rant on drivers
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2008, 09:21:50 PM »
had a lady pull out of the toy store parking lot at the top of our street right in front of me. i KNEW she wasnt going to stop as the numbheaded twit in her bmw suv never looked in my direction, i almost got hit anyways. i pulled next to her at the stop sign and she rolls her window down and yells at me to watch where the #$%* I'M going. bet it cost her 300-400 bucks to get a new mirror put on after the old one was torn off the passengers side door.

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Re: Rant on drivers
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2008, 10:01:53 PM »
Nothing recent, thankfully.

I sold a GS250 because it seemed to have a cloaking device that I couldn't turn off - I would watch the cagers look both ways, look me right in the eye,(or so I thought) then pull out right in front of me. That grew tiresome really quick.

Revenge??

I was driving my Dart along a 2-lane one-way street that ended at a freeway onramp, which went from 2 lanes to 1. Some twit in an ancient Civic cuts in front of me with a millimeter or two to spare, a block or so from the stop sign. I move to the other lane and we stop for cross traffic. The 1200 Civic is no match for the 5200 Dart. He's stuck behind me at the top of the ramp as I slow to about 5 mph. I see a decent gap in traffic and the drat easily accelerates into it, leaving dumba$$ to mess his drawers as he tries to get on the freeway doing 20 in a tin can.


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Re: Rant on drivers
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2008, 11:55:56 PM »
I was driving my Dart along a 2-lane one-way street that ended at a freeway onramp, which went from 2 lanes to 1. Some twit in an ancient Civic cuts in front of me with a millimeter or two to spare, a block or so from the stop sign. I move to the other lane and we stop for cross traffic. The 1200 Civic is no match for the 5200 Dart. He's stuck behind me at the top of the ramp as I slow to about 5 mph. I see a decent gap in traffic and the drat easily accelerates into it, leaving dumba$$ to mess his drawers as he tries to get on the freeway doing 20 in a tin can.

I like your style.  Nonviolent drivers education is always fun.

I enjoy slowing WAAAY down when people tailgate me (after I flash my hazards at them and tap the brake lights several times).  You feel a need to kill yourself by following me too closely?  Well at least when you rearend me you're only going to be going 15mph  ;D
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Re: Rant on drivers
« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2008, 04:58:11 AM »
i was run off the road twice in hawaii
last guy who tried was in a van i jamed my foot in his side door twice leaving two nice dents
he backed off
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Re: Rant on drivers
« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2008, 01:06:57 PM »
the most recent incident i had was about a month or so ago...riding with the group and this young chick in a lexus starts swerving towards the group due to being distracted by her cell phone..rides going good for a moment then im feeling like my right leg is about to be closed in..glance over heres the lexus inches from my side..boot to the door..she backs off a bit..then a moment later gets even closer then before...basicly wound up reaching to the throttle with my left hand to maintain speed and went to make the mirror fold back on itself and scare her...yea well the scaring part worked..only i didnt make the mirror fold..i hit it at such an angle it sheared it off of its mount. ooops...mind you the look on her face was priceless..
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Re: Rant on drivers
« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2008, 02:01:39 AM »
wow, such violence. (yeah like I'm one to talk).

been there done that thing w the chain to  the hood thing....

Now I 've realized, in a car vs bike thing, the car always wins, no matte rhow I feel.
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Re: Rant on drivers
« Reply #9 on: May 28, 2008, 04:18:17 AM »
These kind of incidents happen to me on a daily basis....riding in Boston is no fun  :-\ On Sunday Im 2-up, coming off a 280 degrees on-ramp and traffic is in front so I cant lean into the corner like I usually do...i get onto the 2-lane road and a big fat people carrier driver wants to switch lanes (Im in the outside lane)...drifts right into my path ensuing hard braking on my part....I get past him eventually and give him an earful to the usual "what did I do" shrug...
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