you guys wanta hear stupid ?!?!?

let me tell you this one from Tennessee!!!


I am the manager at the local Western Auto and we have a Home Decor store next to us with ajoining parking lots. well our sign sits in the edge of the parking lot next to the curb and is held up by 2, 1 foot diameter poles about 30 feet high. last year we had 5 different female drivers in such a hurry to get to look at the home decor supplies next door they all hit the sign pole in the same spot, needless to say the sign is still there less a little paint and a few bulbs. but not one of the cars were driveable. in fact 3 of them were totaled and they were newer SUV's. sorry to say one was a ford. but i find it funny that we put banner signs in between the poles after the first one hit the sign and still they hit it with all the bright colored signs. i guess you could say they were asking for it and at least it was a pole and not a child or someone else.
makes you wonder how they would drive if your kids were in the car with them. And we wonder why our children are dying in car accidents these days. look at what we show them. especailly when we brag sometimes about how we rough-housed our vehicles when we were growing up, but we all say " we all did it when we were kids " and we get mad a the drivers who kill our families.
Oh well, sorry for the ranting but i have worked some accident sences with too many kids who didn't have a chance because of what they were taught or had seen their parents do. I just wish the drivers who do these things would be able to be caught and feel the pain of a family who lost someone due to the stupid things many in the nation take for granit.
just my 2 cents. mirage820

 

I did some reckless things when young, but never at the risk of anyone else's life or property. I was always careful about it when I went on speed runs, would wait until there was no traffic and would slow down when some showed up. I was playing around with a guy basically playing cat and mouse, well I cam around a corner to find him facing me from someone's lawn as he had lost it. I just kept on going, saying that was the end of that game. I wouldn't run with him again, he took it too far.

 

While my 16 year old was learning to drive, I hammered him with the admonition that he should "always expect the other guy to be a complete bonehead at all times". I've told him many times that people are stupid in cars, and he should expect them to do things that can cause accidents.

It's a gross overgeneralization, but somebody does something to prove it's true every time we go out on the road. I figure if he always expects the other guy to do dumb things, at least he'll be on his guard at all times.

The ricers around here are horrible. I swear I'm gonna go out front and throw a garbage can in front of the next one that comes roaring down the street in my residential neighborhood. When he gets out of the car, and after I beat him bloody, I'll ask him what he would have done if that was a child he just ran over. Maybe the jail time will be worth it..................

 

I have a solution to it all....

simple and cheap....

put every new driver on a motorcycle for 90 days....

those that survive will be defensive drivers - I promise

back in the day when I rode them...
it got to be a mind reading game to try and figure out what that doofus was going to do
I'd watch the drivers eyes and head and front wheel as I came up on them and ALWAYS left myself an "out"....
if I didn't have an "out" I'd get REAL nervous

 

I know what you mean by losing you r out being a bad feeling, that's what I hate about city driving, give some cushion to the vehicle in front of me and some speed demon with a death wish always comes and fills it when there is hardly enough room to be safe in, if the front vehicle had to hit the brakes, he'd be right up their tailpipe.

 

I dont want to call it any special gift or say Im the best driver out there. But I have a knack for reading other drivers and knowing what their intent is before they do it. Its kinda like what jdadamsjr was saying. You can just tell with slight unsure movements of vehicles or the people that randomly brake for no reason. You get an idea of what kind of driver your dealing with by watchin their movements going down the road.

Hey I am right there with you AeroPA on the ricers. I never follow one at night without my highbeams on, Im always a really stubborn a-hole and never let them speed around on the surface roads, I do whatever I can to make driving miserable for them. I have done some pretty brutal and destructive things to those cars and their owners, and have been praised for every one of them!
My best story though has to be the time I had a few buddies over for a few brews. Its about 2:30am and in the neighborhood we hear this rediculosly loud ricer flying down the road. I have heard this guy in the past, so the 4 of us walk the neighborhood and find this car. We all get on one end and put the car on the its roof. This makes the alarm go crazy and the owner runs out knife in hand. A minute later, the owner is running into the house crying with his own knife stuck 1/2 way in his leg, police show up because a neighbor called about the noise of him comming home arrest the kid because... what falls out of the car sitting on its roof? A bag of weed. We all of course had left by this time and were told of what happened the next day by a neighbor that couldnt be more happier.

 

Murphy"s Law ---- " for every action there is an equal reaction."

Picture this one ----


Your the guy ****ed at the "Ricer" and you are the one following him around with your lights on high, blinding him in the mirrors. Around the curve comes a car and he can't see it, because of your lights blinding him.

Next, your seeing a head on collision,,,, death or severe injuries involved. As you stop to be the "Good Samaritain" you claim to be. You realize that your teenage daughter/son, or family member is the car and near death.

and now

WHO IS THE IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I went night skiing a couple years ago with a buddy of mine, and on the way home, we were being severly tailgated. So severely, I don't think I could have slowed down. And not only that, he was following us.

As we got closer to home, he backed off a bit. As it turned out, this particular moron just happened to be my friend's neighbour. I imagine his thoughts going through his head were "how do these guys I've been tailgating for the last 5 miles know where I live?"

So, we get to my buddy's house, get out of the car, and watch the idiot drive into his open garage door. As we walk over to his house, the garage door closes. We hear the car door open, then shut. Then the inside door open and shut. We ring the doorbell, about 5 times, waiting about a minute between each try, before we give up.

Mind you, my buddy had problems with all his neighbours, (he lived in a cul de sac) but after that night, he had problems with all the neighbours except that one. The neighbour just turtled, and my buddy could never catch the guy to wring his neck either.

 

I can't advocate being a bigger jerk *on the road* than that ricer is. There can be no excuse for acting just as bad or worse than they do.

Out of the car, on foot, however, is another matter. A simple plastic trash can that finds its way into the middle of the street, with no cars parked anywhere close, and no pedestrians on the sides, is as far as I would be willing to go. And I still would not be in the right.

Doing dumb stuff in your own car, out on the public hiway, is just plain wrong, no matter how much they tick us off.

I taught both my kids to expect the other guy to do the dumbest thing possible thing, at any given moment. So far, they've remembered it.

 

mirage820 - You post is describing a place that I dont live. Its completely flat, no tall obstacles to block any view, all strait line grid style roads. People drive around here with high beams all the time and it doesn't effect on-comming traffic.

And your right, for every action there is an equal reaction. If your an obnoxious ***** that speeds through neighborhoods with children, your going to get a guy like me beating your head into your POS car. THAT is the REaction not the action.

You know, the reason we have so many idiot drivers is because we let them get away with everything. Seriously, think about this for a minute. Suppose every time some idiot driver did something stupid and dangerous, they get a big punch in the face. How many times do you think someone will get punched in the face before they start driving responsibly?? Honking your horn or flipping someone off doesn't effect idiot people. Idiots know exactly what they are doing and they do it all the time because they ALWAYS get away with it.

I don't want to hear any of this "what goes around comes around" or "it will catch up to them eventually" crap. That's just a sorry excuse for someone who stands back and never wants to fix any problem. You want to talk about a family member or a loved one dying from some other idiot driver, yet you see it happen every day and do NOTHING!

BTW, Calling the police wont do a thing. They have to see it themselves to issue any tickets. That's WAS plan A, I have tried that numerous times.

 

year ago, my neighbor and I were in the front yard talking...
we lived on the main road into our subdivision and were the second and third house before the wooded area going out the subdivision...
even with the speed bumps they would go about 50 thru there and just leave the ground on the speed bumps at times...

the neighbor was an ex nose guard for a large college and had knee surgery about 3 weeks earlier and still on crutches....
we hear this LOUD car turn into the neighborhood and come blasting thru....
I yelled as I walked out to the street to slow him down and he gives me the one finger salute...

about 15 minutes later we hear it crank up in the back of the neighborhood and come tearing around the corner about 4 blocks away...
the neighbor on crutches hobbles down to the corner to flag them down and seeing they weren't going to stop, drops his crutches ...
tears up a 4 foot landscape timber around his mailbox bed and throws it at the car !!!!!

I cracked up as it bounced of the driver's hood then top !!!!
the idiot goes sliding down the ditch trying to avoid it...
puts it in gear and hauls outta there...

we never heard that car in the neighborhood again !

now days we'd probably be sued for embarrasing their child

 

GREAT STORY!!
What are people going to do? Call the police because they were being careless and running a high risk of putting others lives in danger??

Its like the time at the lake I caught someone throwing a glass bottle and breaking it on the rocks. I picked up the broken pieces of glass and layed in out right where he was walking. He cut it foot up pretty bad and when he went to the hospital and wrote the report on what happened, nothing was ever mentioned about me... I wonder why?

 

Why did he walk right through it? Doesn't seem like this feller was the "sharpest tool in the shed" if you know what I mean...
Scott

 

It was kind of trial and error for me. I had to lay it out a few times before I was able to catch him off guard and put it in his walking path. He was carrying a cooler and other stuff so he couldn't see where he was walking.

 

i understand what you mean about not doing anything about it, there are lots of people that say they wish someone would do something and yet they don't even try themselves.
but... i live in the same conditions you talk about.... and i work side by side with the local EMA.
2 houses from me, across the street is a ricer. i have a 5 yr old and 8 mth old, next to me is a 1 yr old and across the street is 7 kids ranging from 1- 9. we aren't the only ones on the 10 house long street that have small children. the street is just wide enough to have 2 cars to pass without touching mirrors (at least my 2 4x4 fords wont). but, i can't say i haven't done stupid things in my vehilces.
i wasn't trying to get anyone rowled up just want to make a comment on how we can say things on the other idoit drivers and not lay claim on anything we've done ourselves. we have all done something that could cause harm at some point. what you think may be in your control and nothing should happen, could in a split second. a trash can in the street could cause the driver to swerve and lose control running into your neighbors house or yours. then how would you feel, knowing that if you had let them act a fool and not done what you did, maybe just maybe your house repair bill wouldn't be on you since most of the fool drivers don't have insurance. plus we don't want to think we cause our family member or anyone elses to be hurt. we sit back and say we thought it through but did we really. the fool WILL get his someday, just maybe not that day.
i have seen it happen. i worked a scene where this teenager ( before ricers) pulled a stunt and got off with a slap on the hand, the very same day when he left the court with his light probation, he pulled another stunt to show off and got himself killed along with his girlfriend. just goes to show that he didn't learn his lesson and still took someone else's beloved one with him. it was all in the papers because of the judge letting him off so lightly, but they say give em a chance right. well he did and nothing learned.
But like i said I DON"T WANT TO MAKE ANYONE UPSET JUST VOICING MY 2CENTS. thats why this thread was started for right. just think about it and you might see where i was going with it. many other read this and some are young'uns who might think about it a little more before they show off next time.

oh yeah here is an idea for the problem you are referring to that would solve the racing by problem. and it does work. get an inexpesive camera system and place it to where you can get the drivers acts and license number on tape while he is doing his stupid act. then the cops can't say no to it. it is no different than a camera in a conveince store. the cops aren't there while the robbery is going on and they aren't there while this dumb$$$ is racing by. no chance of anything thing else happening. problem solved.