Where do some people get off....

[legrandefromage]

On the way home from my Dad's, dog in boot... noticed a van right up our bum, i mean right tight up 2-3ft behind at 50-60mph... traffic in front, me being a passenger looked at him and shrugged my hands as if to ask why? and also noticed a young lad as a passenger, driver just waves back as if to say "what". moments later he decides to overtake on a single carriageway... cars approaching the other way at 60mph, we had to brake and let him in otherwise there would most certainly have been a head on accident, it was a total "i'm a prick" overtake manoeuvre.

We join the dual carriageway on our way home and he's just driving normally then, we go to overtake as he's not driving that fast and he winds down his window and shout abuse of such sorts of "i can overtake you in my van" "you in that piece of shit" :shock: A
WTF is he on? He's got a kid as a passenger FFS. Does he really think we were trying to race him with a dog in the boot?? What a total and utter prick. All I can fathom is because we are in an old car, that he think we are poor and that the car is a piece of shit slow thing (which it aint, its a nice sleeper which was fast asleep today)

Van sign marked "Storm zip karting"

stay well clear, prick alert.

In this case, I would have slowed down without using the brakes - scares the shit out of anyone being deliberately stupid.

Mr. towbar is a good deterant.

Given my job and a 'hows my driving' number on the side I get complaints that I'm too slow/fast/ clean/ dirty/ shiny etc so I just ignore the great unwashed, stay well away from other taxi drivers ( I really recommend this, knowing how they drive, I really really recommend this).

The Police consider me a 'professional' driver, they said so to me when handing me my first ever set of points, I consider myself a very bad angry self righteous **** who sticks to limits and swears at the people who break the speed limits excessively.

I now do my shifts in the evenings and nights to avoid all the idiots in the day time.

 

[Kestonian]

During the day you can use the James Bond trick (if it wasn't him then I claim as my own) of putting on your headlights so the rear lights come on and get mistaken for brake lights ....

 

[Neil G]

I wouldn't have let him back in either.

 

[brocklanders023]

Hate it when idiots drive like the w@nker van driver. See it all the time on my way to work and have seen more very near misses then anyone would believe.

Have also been to many RTC's where it's obvious one of the drivers has been driving lick a di*k. Heart breaking when someone just driving along gets seriously injured (or worse) by one of these pr*cks. :evil:

 

[lewis1641]

just recently had an encounter in our work van. driving out of town doing 40 ina 40 with a motorbike behind. had l plates on very skinny tyres, one gear and sounds like a wasp so assume it to be a 50. anyway bike is so close i cant see it on mirrors, only hear it.

cruising at around 55, bike drops back. approacha 90 degree left hander, 100 metre straight then a 90 degree right hander. overgrown hedges on the bends and double white lines so no overtaking.

anyway bike comes past us as we accellerate out of first corner. around the corner in front comes a line of cars. now probably 40 metres away on a very narrow road. have to slam on brakes to let the idiot back in. around the next bend and he's got his foot out for some reason. then have to sit behing him because he's maxed out at 40 again.

loser!

 

[haggis]

I was driving along the acle straight in norfolk in my jag the other week and was stuck behind an hgv that was doing about 35 mph in a sixty :x The acle straight is a two lane road about 9 miles long and I was only about two miles along it so I want to overtake :!: is this wrong :?: I think not.So I pull out and give it a bit of large and the tosser speeds up to about his limit about 60mph and this means I have to break the speed limit so I put my foot down (can't pull in as the gap has now closed) and notice that there is now oncoming traffic :shock: I am stranded in the wrong lane and oncoming traffic because a fat tw*t wants me to play chicken :shock: :evil: I end up doing 125mph to get in before I am dead :shock: Who is at fault here then :?: As I pass the cab I see that the idiot is laughing :twisted: Is this funny then :?:

i did almost the same as this. w@nk doing 35 in a 60 i overtake on a short (but long enough) straight and the prick speeds up so i end up doing nearly 70. i get in just before the corner. just my luck an unmarked police car was behind and i got 5 points?!?!?

 

[uktyler]

I worked as a driver for over 15 years, regularly clocking up over 80,000 miles a year, both in the UK and Europe.

Its safe to say I've seen more than my fair share of god awful driving.

However comments like these really annoy me:

I wouldna slowed to let him in...

I wouldn't have let him back in either.

Yes, he may well learn his lesson when he ploughs headlong into an oncoming vehicle, and may not do it again. But what about the other driver? The innocent party?

These comments seem to advocate dangerous driving, and attempting to cause accidents.

Driving like that IMO is worse than the driver first mentioned.

 

[Easy_Rider]

he's got his foot out for some reason...

thats biker for "thank you"

he probably cacked himself on that one

 

[IDB1]

However comments like these really annoy me:

I wouldna slowed to let him in...

I wouldn't have let him back in either.

Yes, he may well learn his lesson when he ploughs headlong into an oncoming vehicle, and may not do it again. But what about the other driver? The innocent party?

These comments seem to advocate dangerous driving, and attempting to cause accidents.

Driving like that IMO is worse than the driver first mentioned.

Driving like what, exactly??

His journey is not my responsibility.
I wouldn't have sped up or slowed down to keep him out, I just would have maintained my journey, at my pace, as I had probably been doing previously.
That is not bad driving or worse than some dumb cnut who gets a kick out of this kinda stuff.

 

[legrandefromage]

the middle pedal cures all sins...