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Offline chewbacca5000

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RE: Don't play chicken with cars
« on: April 12, 2016, 09:55:37 AM »
This guy bumped into a a cars mirror and it quickly escalated into the guy driving the car trying to kill the guy on the motorcycle.  Instead of pulling over the MC rider kept playing chicken with the car.  He is lucky to be alive.

I would have pulled over and called the cops and/or tried to sort things out without putting my life at risk.

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Re: RE: Don't play chicken with cars
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2016, 10:28:52 AM »
What a couple of morons.  The cager was nuts, but the motorcyclist put a significant number of innocent people at risk the way he was riding (wrong side of the road, splitting traffic at HIGH speeds, including another two-wheeled rider who probably lost bladder control). 

The motorcyclist had all kinds of options.  Hit the brakes and turn around, out accelerate the car and lose it (he kept on slowing down to allow the car catch up!), "pull over" with the car and then leave the car behind.  Stupid stupid stupid.
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Re: RE: Don't play chicken with cars
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2016, 11:21:35 AM »
Yeah my point exactly.  I would have just pulled over and called 911 or confronted the driver.  I did not see him slowing down to let the car catch up, and you are right they both put lots of people's lives at risk.

People need to learn how to keep their stuff together.  Now if someone upsets someone else they think they have a right to act badly.  Not so.
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Re: RE: Don't play chicken with cars
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2016, 11:45:12 AM »
They both got arrested. The biker for cited for reckless driving, and the driver for vehicular assault, or something like that.
Too lazy to find the article.
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Re: RE: Don't play chicken with cars
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2016, 01:11:17 PM »
Excellent! And glad they didn't hurt anyone else.

Chewie - I don't think the motorcyclist hit the brakes, but he could have EASILY outran the car. He kind of lollygagged and allowed the cager to catch up.
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Re: RE: Don't play chicken with cars
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2016, 02:30:08 PM »
I wouldn't have stopped, too many people with guns on your side of the pond..... ;D
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Re: RE: Don't play chicken with cars
« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2016, 02:34:06 PM »
Quote from: Terry in Australia on April 12, 2016, 02:30:08 PM
I wouldn't have stopped, too many people with guns on your side of the pond..... ;D

So true. Will Smith got shot and killed the other day after an auto accident.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/10/sport/will-smith-former-saints-player-killed/
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Re: RE: Don't play chicken with cars
« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2016, 05:02:34 PM »
Really? I loved "Independence Day", what a shame! ;D
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Re: RE: Don't play chicken with cars
« Reply #8 on: April 12, 2016, 05:59:13 PM »
Quote from: Terry in Australia on April 12, 2016, 05:02:34 PM
Really? I loved "Independence Day", what a shame! ;D

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Re: RE: Don't play chicken with cars
« Reply #9 on: April 12, 2016, 11:16:13 PM »
 I did notice a middle aged lady at the salad bar with a significant bulge where there shouldn't be one. Either a growth or she was conceal and carrying. That's a near first for me.
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Re: RE: Don't play chicken with cars
« Reply #10 on: April 13, 2016, 01:17:10 AM »
Quote from: Don R on April 12, 2016, 11:16:13 PM
I did notice a middle aged lady at the salad bar with a significant bulge where there shouldn't be one. Either a growth or she was conceal and carrying. That's a near first for me.

Was she born a woman Don? She wasn't one of the Williams sisters was she? Those girls are big fellers! ;D
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Re: RE: Don't play chicken with cars
« Reply #11 on: April 13, 2016, 02:14:25 AM »
#$%*ing stupidity, what more can you say, except both of them should be neutered so they don't screw up the gene pool any worse than it already is.
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Re: RE: Don't play chicken with cars
« Reply #12 on: April 14, 2016, 12:11:03 PM »
Quote from: Don R on April 12, 2016, 11:16:13 PM
I did notice a middle aged lady at the salad bar with a significant bulge where there shouldn't be one. Either a growth or she was conceal and carrying. That's a near first for me.

Is that a roll of quarters in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
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Re: RE: Don't play chicken with cars
« Reply #13 on: April 14, 2016, 02:31:12 PM »
Sick puppies.  Grannie would have probably capped you if she knew what you were thinking, especially if she was in Texas!
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Re: RE: Don't play chicken with cars
« Reply #14 on: April 14, 2016, 03:05:22 PM »
Quote from: Don R on April 12, 2016, 11:16:13 PM
I did notice a middle aged lady at the salad bar with a significant bulge where there shouldn't be one. Either a growth or she was conceal and carrying. That's a near first for me.

Just see which bathroom she walks into...oh wait, nope, with all this LGBT nonsense going on, that wouldn't be definitive...unless it's in Mississippi or NC...
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