Stupid Driver Stories

Seen yesterday:

Incoming twat of the day, aka left indicator man. But he only does about 5km/h more than me and the others around. So let's see how that indicating will help him to clear his path...
https://pic.armedcats.net/l/li/lipadier/2009/09/02/1_incoming.JPG

Even when he's only a tiny bit faster, he stamps hard on the breaks and flashes the car infront with the headlights to show he really means business.
https://pic.armedcats.net/l/li/lipadier/2009/09/02/2_breaking.JPG

But of course, and understandable, nothing happens. So he has a look if an undertake may be the possible. Nope, there's a lorry.
https://pic.armedcats.net/l/li/lipadier/2009/09/02/3_have_a_look.JPG

The people are on the left lane because of slower traffic. So back to tailgating then
https://pic.armedcats.net/l/li/lipadier/2009/09/02/4_push.JPG

Zoomend him in. Permanent left indicator but hanging on the right side of the lane. Genious.
https://pic.armedcats.net/l/li/lipadier/2009/09/02/5_zoom.JPG

It just doesn't work that way, stupid
https://pic.armedcats.net/l/li/lipadier/2009/09/02/6_typical_hanging.JPG

Now he really has enough and gets dangerously agressive
https://pic.armedcats.net/l/li/lipadier/2009/09/02/7_agressive.JPG

Really hard bumper shoving there. The Passat finally makes room.
https://pic.armedcats.net/l/li/lipadier/2009/09/02/8_out_of_my_way.JPG

And you see, here is the meta problem: The guy doesn't go like a rocket as soon as the way is clear, instead he only drives a fraction faster after tailgating like a maniac. *facepalm*
https://pic.armedcats.net/l/li/lipadier/2009/09/02/9_problem.JPG

So of course the next victim doesn't jump away instantly, because the twat creeps up only very slowly.
https://pic.armedcats.net/l/li/lipadier/2009/09/02/10_next_victim.JPG

On the contrary, it seems two idiots have found eachother once more. https://pic.armedcats.net/l/li/lipadier/2009/09/02/11_shoving.JPG

The Audi is clearly blocking now. And it seems the other twat can see a middle lane on a two lane autobahn.
https://pic.armedcats.net/l/li/lipadier/2009/09/02/12_room_between.JPG

I now go on the right lane in expectation of the typical breaking war.
https://pic.armedcats.net/l/li/lipadier/2009/09/02/13_right_lane.JPG

Sure enough, the fight is on. *second facepalm*
https://pic.armedcats.net/l/li/lipadier/2009/09/02/14_no_stop.JPG

This pride rubbish goes on for a few kilometers. The roles of agressor and victim are changing constantly.
https://pic.armedcats.net/l/li/lipadier/2009/09/02/14_war.JPG

Finally the Audi gives up.
https://pic.armedcats.net/l/li/lipadier/2009/09/02/15_the_end.JPG

And so the twat slowly goes, still with his left indicator running...
https://pic.armedcats.net/l/li/lipadier/2009/09/02/end.JPG
The end.

:?

Greetings, lip
 
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^The problem with such guys is that they make me really agressive. I ususally let them go by and then I start to tailgate them badly, just to show what it feels like. A very bad and dangerous habit, I know, but I just can't help it! :(
 
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I like it how, even here, people with cars that aren't made for highway speeds are the most aggressive. In your case that Corolla, here we have Clio Symbol drivers that are utter crap and always overtake.
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the Interceptor said:
^The problem with such guys is that they make me really agressive. I ususally let them go by and then I start to tailgate them badly, just to show what it feels like. A very bad and dangerous habit, I know, but I just can't help it! :(
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I brake check em
 
ChelsDS said:
I have the itch to put a train horn in my car. People will really hear me then :thumbsup:
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I'm tempted as well. The Buick (if it ever runs right again) could seriously use an upgrade from it's current "I'm miffed, if that's okay with you" horn.

Re: Brake Check

I've done that to tailgaters as well. They rush up on me, then I tap the brakes. I've had a couple of geniuses in full panic.
 
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A switch that lights up the brake lights without actually braking would prove itself useful in deterring this kind of behavior
 
maxtortheone said:
A switch that lights up the brake lights without actually braking would prove itself useful in deterring this kind of behavior
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You don't konw how many times I wanted such a device...

As for tailgaters, I usually take my foot off the accelerator, perhaps while overtaking a lorry; I slow down, the tailgater slows down as well, until the lorry clears the way (being increasingly faster than me) and then I turn on my indicator and start to slowly move into the slow lane, still without accelerating. At the end, the tailgater gets free road while he's doing 80-90 km/h on a 130 km/h road (55 mph on a 80 road), and can't complain, because I haven't pressed the brake pedal and I haven't lingered in the lane before him.

Quite a nice way to upset him while never doing anything wrong, or competitive, or dangerous.
 
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maxtortheone said:
A switch that lights up the brake lights without actually braking would prove itself useful in deterring this kind of behavior
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Would be simple on an older car that uses a brake light switch on the actual pedal. Just wire in an auxiliary momentary switch. Newer ones maybe not so easy.
 
Use the hazzard lights switch just don't fully engage it.
 
maxtortheone said:
A switch that lights up the brake lights without actually braking would prove itself useful in deterring this kind of behavior
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I used to have a trailer brake controller on my old truck that did just that. There was a lever on it for checking the trailer brakes and if you touched the lever without towing a trailer the brake lights just came on.

I used it quite often with assholes tailgating me on the highway. More than once did somebody lock up the brakes and swerve onto the shoulder.
 
God, what a douche. I had an idiot behind me in roadworks in wet conditions who obviously thought 40 k/hr was too slow and he had to try and force me to go faster.

I hate brake checking people, because I worry I will actually brake a bit and they will go flying up my rear bumper. People over here aren't that attentive.

And I've been known to do that too, Interceptor. Except I have a red P on my car which makes me a massive target for abuse so i tend to just silently (or loudly if i am really annoyed) rant and swear and move on. I cop enough road rage as it is.
 
I had a somewhat funny one yesterday. A dude in an M3 :D trying to go fast on the highway. I was on the same highway in my little 4 banger. He couldn't read traffic for shit because I was driving pretty relaxed and switching lanes with quite a bit of room. He was trying to Wangan and what was funny was that I went into the fast lane when it cleared up quite a bit head of him. Saw him in my rear view and moved over to the middle to let him pass. For all of his aggressiveness it took him a minute to realize that way has been made for him and to pass me. Then we hit denser traffic so I pretty much just stayed in my lane since the traffic was just slow no matter what lane. That dude was going nuts. It was pretty funny to observe, I was far enough back to not care what he does and just enjoy the show.

I don't understand why people can't figure out that when traffic is dense (not bumper to bumper but all 3 lanes about the same speed and not much overtake room). You are not gonna get there much faster, save your gas!
 
I had a good one a few years ago. I was on the highway on the return leg of a ski trip with friends (so two friends with me in the car), it was night time, heavy traffic and rain, ideal conditions really. So I was on the fast lane of the dual-carriage highway, overtaking kilometers of lorries, going with the flow of cars in the lane. Sometimes you could see the usual guy blocked in the "loser lane" between lorries. When you are in the loser lane, you try to wait for a big gap to insert yourself in the fast lane so you don't bother anyone and provoke a big accident right? Well, not this cock in an Alfa estate (a 159 I believe), I was about to pass him when I think he got fed up with waiting, swerved into my lane and braked... at less than a fucking meter of me... I remember jumping of the brakes and screaming CONNARD (dumbass in French ;-))... Really, hadn't I braked in time I rear-ended him and would have caused a HUGE accident as there was a lot of traffic (end of holidays)... And I was lucky as well that the guy behind me (and everyone else behind) braked as well...

I think I may have blasted past him quite vigorously after to calm my nerves and nearly got caught by a speed camera :-D
 
I had a good one a few years ago. I was on the highway on the return leg of a ski trip with friends (so two friends with me in the car), it was night time, heavy traffic and rain, ideal conditions really. So I was on the fast lane of the dual-carriage highway, overtaking kilometers of lorries, going with the flow of cars in the lane. Sometimes you could see the usual guy blocked in the "loser lane" between lorries. When you are in the loser lane, you try to wait for a big gap to insert yourself in the fast lane so you don't bother anyone and provoke a big accident right? Well, not this cock in an Alfa estate (a 159 I believe), I was about to pass him when I think he got fed up with waiting, swerved into my lane and braked... at less than a fucking meter of me... I remember jumping of the brakes and screaming CONNARD (dumbass in French ;-))... Really, hadn't I braked in time I rear-ended him and would have caused a HUGE accident as there was a lot of traffic (end of holidays)... And I was lucky as well that the guy behind me (and everyone else behind) braked as well...

I think I may have blasted past him quite vigorously after to calm my nerves and nearly got caught by a speed camera :-D
 
This one is all me.
Was in the fast lane behind some dillholle going 10 under and braking for every curve in the road on a highway.... Anyways the traffic in the middle lane was a bit thick so I had to wait for it to clear a bit finally I have an opening and put my foot down and get into the middle. Except the dude in the middle lane decided that he HAS to get into the left RIGHT now and slowed down to a crawl to get in there. I couldn't really brake stop in time so I went into the right lane very quickly w/o looking (didn't have much of a chance to look) causing a dude behind me to lock up his brakes. I felt very bad for nearly causing someone else to crash but we both got lucky.
 
Today, I did the most stupid thing I've ever done in a car...I am not proud.

I was painting my calipers red (proper painting, masking the rotors). All was going pretty well...


...until the car fell from the jack. It landed on the disc :(
I called a friend, and we jacked it up with another jack, because this one was stuck under my car. Both him and me couldn't figure out how the jack fell on its side (the car was in Park), but it happened.
I was gutted. Thinking that I need to buy new rotors now, because I was pretty sure I bent this one. Well, once the car was up in the air again we examined the disc...there seems to be no damage, except a scratch on the side where it landed. After all, it did only fall from 6-7 inches.
I took the car for a short and slow drive to see what damage have I done to the disc. It seems to be ok - no grinding, no pulling, the car stops straight.
I might have gotten away with this one.
But it was the most stupid thing I've done...I should've used jackstands.
 
Never ever work on a raised car without jackstands! Sheesh....
 
Thank God, I wasn't under the car.

Now that I think about it...the car wasn't resting solely on the rotor. The jack was still under the car, sideways, but still pressing on the frame. The suspension strut was also wide open, so the car wasn't resting that hard on the rotor. The body of the car never touched the ground.
 
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