I had a nice one yesterday, too:
It was at this crossing, which is part of my daily drive back home from work:
1 = Me, waiting at the redlight to turn left, and the opposite traffic, waiting to go straight across.
2 = A bus, turning left and thus having driven into the middle of the crossing, waiting for a gap in the opposite traffic.
3 = A guy in an Audi A4, who also wants to turn left and has squeezed himself behind the bus into the crossing way beyond the stop line.
Finally lights turned red for the cars at
4 and the bus could make its left-turn. Slowly, like buses are. At the same time of course, cars waiting at
1 get green.
Now you have to know, that at this crossing, at that time of the day, the greenlight for the cars at
1 only lasts about 10 seconds. So everyone is very keen on setting off immediately.
Unfortunately, the guy in the Audi A4 at
3 didn't realize the situation and still stood there. He remained standing in the middle of the crossing, while the lights showed red for him again and traffic from left and right was coming in.
Knowing about the 5 second time window and having about 25 cars waiting behind me, I and the driver opposite of me accelerated. I let him pass and did my turn, which of course meant further blocking the guy in the Audi A4, who was now on my right, had finally grasped the situation and started moving. But because I (and the folks from the other direction) didn't want to wait any longer, he was now trapped in the middle of the crossing, with cars passing in front and behind him.
Next thing that happens and what I saw through my rear mirror, is that
1 gets redlight again and cars there stop. But again the Audi A4 driver doesn't react fast enough and is again forced to stop, because the traffic from
4, which has now green again, sets off.
The beauty of this was, that not a single car got all "Christian driving" and left that guy some space. It was like about 20 drivers unspokenly decided to let that idiot cook in his embarrassment there in the middle of the crossing.
So what's the lesson from this story?
When you want to turn left and have a bus in front of you, then for heaven's sake
wait at the stopline, instead of squeezing yourself into the crossing!!! That bloody bus won't move fast enough out of your way to prevent you from getting stuck in in the middle of the crossing, when the cars from left and right get green!!!