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cupid_stunt
Where's the bloody sun?
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Motorcyclist shows off amazing skills, gets 8 months inside for his efforts...
Biker jailed for M6 wheelies
Biker jailed for M6 wheelies
cupid_stunt
Where's the bloody sun?
What a complete twat, although jail seems a bit OTT when no one was harmed, should have been a suspended sentence IMO.
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Failsworth
Audi driver, what a surprise.
Not to mention Tesco's.
weltweit
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Not very impressive skills actually.
Can I just say I really hate it when you're in an outside lane and the car on the inside starts indicating to come out even though they can't because you're right next to them with nowhere to go. It seems to be quite a common thing to do now, I thought mirror then signal was day one stuff.
I know why people do it but it always shits me up because I think I must be in their blind spot and I'm about to be crashed into at speed. Lazy, pushy, crap driving.
I know why people do it but it always shits me up because I think I must be in their blind spot and I'm about to be crashed into at speed. Lazy, pushy, crap driving.
weltweit
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Your post causes me to want to ask questions about the circumstances by which you found yourself in someone's blind spot? because that is a dangerous place to be.
BigTom
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Every time you overtake a vehicle on a motorway or dual carriageway.
weltweit
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Where you don't stay in the other vehicle's blind spot for moment longer than necessary.
weltweit
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I do sometimes experience it.
But I was also in the other situation where a queue of cars had overtaken me, I thought they had all gone past so not only checked my mirrors but also turned my head to see a lagging car stuck in my blind spot not really going much faster than I was. They weren't visible in my mirrors, I only saw them because I turned my head and looked out my side window.
What BigTom said.
Also though in the urban environment it is not unusual to have 2 or 3 lanes on roads where the speed limit may be 30 or 40. You might find yourself in the outside lane but just keeping up with the flow of traffic. You're in their blind spot because there is literally nowhere for you to go or by going any faster you would exceed the speed limit.
Anyway it's their fucking job to check their blind spot if they want to change lanes. In the vast majority of times they know you are there but want to move into your lane after you have passed. I get that but by indicating before you have passed they imply that they are coming out that moment. Its just plain inconsiderate and bad driving.
Sapphireblue
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people indicate before changing lanes? on my journey to and from work they mostly just move over and expect you to get out of the way magically.
although the other day i had someone on the left indicate and then beep at me for being in their way. they genuinely expected me (alongside / slightly ahead of them as overtaking) to slow down and let them out in front of me because they didn't want to slow down themselves and apparently hadn't seen the parked cars coming up in the left hand lane even though it was clear conditions and they're always on that bit of road.
although the other day i had someone on the left indicate and then beep at me for being in their way. they genuinely expected me (alongside / slightly ahead of them as overtaking) to slow down and let them out in front of me because they didn't want to slow down themselves and apparently hadn't seen the parked cars coming up in the left hand lane even though it was clear conditions and they're always on that bit of road.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
You should have just let them through. That kind of shit really used to get up my nose and I'd close the gap to punish the dickhead for, a) being in the wrong lane, and b) expecting me to make way for his fuck up. Nowadays I smile and let them in and life's a lot less stressful. I see it as being within my power to forgive, and to help people significantly less able and intelligent than me.
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Sapphireblue
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at the time i was literally alongside and the first parked car in his lane was imminent, there was no gap for them, i would have had to practically do an emergency stop for there to have been room to let them out. i frequently have to let in the non-indicators unless i want them to actually drive into me, so it's not a point of principle or anything.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Yeah indicating and moving at the same time is basically the same as not indicating. Checking my blind spot is always the last thing I do before moving, but if I've indicated in plenty of time then there probably won't be anyone there.
chemn
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mauvais
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A few thoughts:
- some people apparently do this because they view their planned manoeuvre as a right, rather than something they need to seek invitation/accommodation/whatever for
- some people apparently do this because they have no situational awareness beyond the fact that they can't currently go, i.e. they have no ability to plan for how they'll find a good point to fit into traffic so just dumbly wait hoping for someone to help em out
- some people (me sometimes) do this because there is no good reason for the other vehicle to be sat there in the way or because they could have seen it coming - e.g. very slowly overtaking me alongside as I rapidly close on something that I'll need to overtake
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This was Battersea Park Road, yesterday evening at peak of rush hour. I don't understand how this can happen when there is so much traffic around in a built up area.
I will not make judgments about the balloons being in the car.
Woman taken to hospital after car flips in Battersea crash
I will not make judgments about the balloons being in the car.
Woman taken to hospital after car flips in Battersea crash
mauvais
on reddit or something
The weight distribution is all towards the front - heavy engine. If you removed the rear hatch it would sit roughly as it was there.
It's not as hard as you might think to flip a car. You just need something to serve as a ramp, like mounting another car via its bonnet.
It's not as hard as you might think to flip a car. You just need something to serve as a ramp, like mounting another car via its bonnet.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
TBF, and not to excuse the driver in any way, but sitting on the bonnet wasn't ever going to de-escalate the situation.
He deserved the sentence, but...well, is that how the teacher deals with conflict in his classroom?
Plumdaff
joy in people
TBF, and not to excuse the driver in any way, but sitting on the bonnet wasn't ever going to de-escalate the situation.
He deserved the sentence, but...well, is that how the teacher deals with conflict in his classroom?
Probably not, I doubt most of the kids are such intransigent wankers.
That's mad but yes sitting on his bonnet was never going to win any friends.
I don't see why the driver was that bothered to get into the car park. I've lived near several schools in my time and I've come to the conclusion that no road rules apply if you are on the school run. Chap should have just stuck it on the double yellows or across someone's driveway like everyone else does.
I don't see why the driver was that bothered to get into the car park. I've lived near several schools in my time and I've come to the conclusion that no road rules apply if you are on the school run. Chap should have just stuck it on the double yellows or across someone's driveway like everyone else does.
On second viewing you are right there is a very gentle nudge there, although at that point I think I would have been stepping away rather then staying there. He could have taken a step away rather than rest on the bonnet. Anyway, the driver is a mad fucker who can't even manage to take his kid to school without getting banged up.
not-bono-ever
meh
fuck him. teachers get a hard enough time without having to deal with shitcakes like this.
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