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TotalLossBrain posted:You get into more traffic "situations" than most people do in a lifetime, jfc. If "situation" means "Nothing really happened but there was a funny idiot who did a dumb thing or someone stupid happened to be around and did something dumb" I guess. I'm on the road every single rush hour in Pittsburgh, it gives me lots of opportunities to see idiots. http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/04/26/pittsburgh-drivers-worst/ quote:PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Pittsburgh is used to making “best of” lists, but this is one list Pittsburghers probably don’t want on top of.
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To be fair, I live in a smaller suburban area (~150k people) so it's really not too bad around here. I also don't drive very much. My commute happens via bicycle (on a bike path along a river, highly recommended low stress commute!) So I guess I'd be at the very low end of the "situation" occurrence spectrum 
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:http://jalopnik.com/the-bmw-addiction-that-completely-destroyed-this-man-s-1794882542 Think I said this on slack but this is me in 20 years but with lovely 90s Japanese coups.
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May 4, 2017 13:18
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PCOS Bill posted:I don't even know where he came from. Turned in from a side street? Going fast as gently caress flying up behind me? Now you know how everyone else feels when you go double the posted limit on your motorcycle.
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May 4, 2017 13:36
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Don't even start.
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May 4, 2017 17:28
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I know many handicapped people were dealt a bad hand in life. But why is every car with a handicapped plate driven poorly 10 miles below the limit?
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May 4, 2017 17:53
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Because most handicap plates belong to elderly people
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May 4, 2017 17:58
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:http://jalopnik.com/the-bmw-addiction-that-completely-destroyed-this-man-s-1794882542 So what the gently caress happened to all those cars?!?!?!
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May 4, 2017 18:25
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I imagine they got impounded and auctioned off for pennies on the dollar
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May 4, 2017 18:29
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:So what the gently caress happened to all those cars?!?!?! Cash for Clunkers! 
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May 4, 2017 18:37
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:http://jalopnik.com/the-bmw-addiction-that-completely-destroyed-this-man-s-1794882542 What is a reasonable amount of car money to keep secret from friends and family? Asking for a friend
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May 4, 2017 18:56
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:So what the gently caress happened to all those cars?!?!?!
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Holy gently caress people are loving pyschopaths. So I got to watch someone intentionally cause an accident and wreck their own truck today. I was driving down a 4 lane road, heavy traffic, in the left lane. There's two cars ahead of me, a bro-truck and a new-ish Nissan. Still had temp tags on it. The Nissan had it's flashers on and was driving very slow. So, I pull in to the right lane and passed her. She had just pulled out her phone. Dickhead in the truck pulls into the median, floors it past her, get in front of her, and slams on his brakes coming to a full stop. She stops, but the car behind her slams into her at like 40mph, and pushes her into the back of his truck. All this is in front of a school too mind you, which the third car had just pulled out of. So I'm assuming the microdick haver in the truck had some great point in his head he was gonna make, but what the gently caress? Why do people let themselves get so worked up over traffic poo poo? Now at least two people have their day, and probably a good amount of time after ruined. I mean, yeah, the girl in the Nissan should have pulled off the road if she had an issue with her car or whatever, but goddamn is that taking poo poo too far.
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I hope you have a statement to the cops, cause king microdick needs to have their license taken away
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May 4, 2017 23:43
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Yeah, at least stop and give your name and phone number to the victims - assuming you don't have time to hang around and wait for the police to arrive. Had two raging assholes on my drive home from work today. First one was in a Forester and got pissed when I passed him on the right (while he was doing 5 under the limit) through a gap long enough for a semi to change lanes. Got on my rear end, pulled his phone out and started recording while following my every move until I started recording him back, then he backed off and exited the interstate. Then when almost home I changed lanes into another fairly long gap in stop and go traffic while approaching a red light to make the right turn off of the highway onto my street in front of some old guy talking on his cell phone. Guy behind me went into full-on rage mode, dropped his phone and started screaming into his windshield and eventually hung his head out the window to yell. When I continued to ignore him he pulled onto the shoulder next to me with his window down, then after realizing I wasn't going to acknowledge him he proceeded to fly up the shoulder to the intersection (maybe 8 car lengths?) before cutting someone off to get back into the right lane on the other side of the intersection. Geoj fucked around with this message at 00:19 on May 5, 2017 |
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May 4, 2017 23:46
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"intentionally cause an accident" - oxymoron. They intentionally caused a collision. Because they are insane.
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Repo Man posted:"intentionally cause an accident" - oxymoron. They intentionally caused a collision. Because they are insane. "collected"
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May 5, 2017 08:07
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It's weird how you people run into all these raging assholes just when you change lanes I wonder why that never happens to me. I'm sure no info has been left out at all!
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May 5, 2017 14:11
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1. People generally don't post things in which they had liability to the crash on the internet. 2. There are a lot of eyes from this thread on the road, so less likely events to happen to any one individual will more likely be witnessed by someone who posts in here. 3. What were you trying to even prove with that snarky comment?
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May 5, 2017 14:58
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So you're basically claiming that this thread is pointless and wrong and then attacking me for low content posting in it. We all hate ourselves so much.
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May 5, 2017 15:17
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I forgot to signal yesterday when I changed lanes once. Does that count?
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May 5, 2017 15:40
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I forgot to signal yesterday when I changed lanes once. Does that count? For the guillotine? Absolutely.
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May 5, 2017 15:45
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Shared the road with this garbage this morning:
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May 5, 2017 15:55
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I come to a T intersection, three way stop sign. I'm continuing straight, and Mr. Oblivious is turning left to get where I'm going. I come to a stop, and this person is still coming to the stop sign. I continue on. You know, getting there first, I've got the right of way. I'm going straight vs them making a left gives me right of way. Which I guess only counts if the other person isn't on their phone not paying attention and if they also don't just coast straight through the intersection. I sped up and pulled right into what little shoulder there was to avoid having Oblivious hit my rear quarter panel. I laid on the horn and this guy looks up from his phone panicked. Fucker should've been paying attention, and should've come to a stop. But I guess I should also not just assume everyone will obey traffic laws.
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May 5, 2017 16:09
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FancyMike posted:Shared the road with this garbage this morning: Charlie's Produce is indeed pretty terrible.
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May 5, 2017 16:45
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Sudden glance read that at Charlie's Proguce
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May 5, 2017 16:49
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Pryor on Fire posted:It's weird how you people run into all these raging assholes just when you change lanes I wonder why that never happens to me. I'm sure no info has been left out at all! Next post you make in this thread should probably have some content in it.
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Some people in my neighborhood really need to learn how stop signs work. The other day I come up to a 4 way stop. I stop first, then the guy going the opposite direction from me stops second, and the guy to the right who wants to turn left onto my road stops third. As I move my foot from my brake to the gas pedal and start moving through the intersection the guy going in the opposite direction, number 2, waves to the guy to my right, number 3, to go ahead. Luckily, the guy to the right was either paying attention or does understand how stop signs work and didn't go.
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Murphys Law posted:Some people in my neighborhood really need to learn how stop signs work. Yeah, never did quite understand that. I roll up to a stop sign, guy to my right on the other street was clearly stopped first and should have the right away. Then you get into a standoff with the inching forward thing. Fortunately it mostly solved itself. Anytime you see a minivan at a four way stop, look out.
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I came to a stop sign crossing a two lane one-way street with no stop sign for them. There was a car coming down in the right lane, the lane closer to me, who decided to be "nice" and stopped at the intersection and tried to wave me through. I shook my head at them and waited for them to go, and as they started rolling a car came flying down the left lane past them. If I HAD been dumb enough to go when they waved at me, I likely would have been t-boned, and been rightfully at fault.
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The disturbing development with how people treat four way stop signs that I've noticed is that some people treat the fact that you choose to come to a complete stop as a concession of right of way. At least a couple of times this has resulted in my having to stab the brakes just as I started forward because the guy to my right just rolled through rather than stopping as I was expecting him to just as I was starting across.
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Repo Man posted:The disturbing development with how people treat four way stop signs that I've noticed is that some people treat the fact that you choose to come to a complete stop as a concession of right of way. At least a couple of times this has resulted in my having to stab the brakes just as I started forward because the guy to my right just rolled through rather than stopping as I was expecting him to just as I was starting across. You also run the risk of getting rear ended because people assume you're going to roll through and are intending to do the same thing. I'm pretty resolute about coming to a complete stop and without fail I will end up with someone's license plate filling my back window. Though it is kind of funny to keep an eye on the evolution of their awareness as the front end dips lower and lower to the ground as they realize they aren't going to stop in time and start to bury the brake.
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PCOS Bill posted:I came to a stop sign crossing a two lane one-way street with no stop sign for them. There was a car coming down in the right lane, the lane closer to me, who decided to be "nice" and stopped at the intersection and tried to wave me through. I shook my head at them and waited for them to go, and as they started rolling a car came flying down the left lane past them. If I HAD been dumb enough to go when they waved at me, I likely would have been t-boned, and been rightfully at fault. I've taken to crossing my arms or picking up my hands palm forward when people try waving me through an intersection. I don't trust the judgment of a numbnuts who wave people on.
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I got rear-ended by a kid on his bike at a stop sign once. He and his friend were riding up behind me. He apparently decided to take his shirt off just as I was coming to a stop. As I started rolling again I feel a thump and hear the kid fall over. And then his friend started laughing his rear end off.
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um excuse me posted:1. People generally don't post things in which they understand and accept that they had liability to the crash on the internet. There are a lot of people who have posted videos proving they were at fault while believing that they showed another party to be at fault. Either through not understanding the law or in some cases just being so convinced of their own narrative that they don't even realize the video contradicts it.
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May 5, 2017 19:33
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I turn left here (all unprotected lefts) against almost non-stop oncoming traffic, of which about 5% goes straight. About half of the oncoming cars won't use their signal, so I can either make assumptions and play the T-bone lottery or sit halfway into the intersection until I see I'm clear. It's a short light and people stack up behind me and get pissed, but what else can I do? I need to make some "We buy ur home! $$$"-type corrugated plastic signs to plant at the intersections around here saying "Turning at the light? Use your turn signal!" 
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May 5, 2017 20:02
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NoWake posted:I turn left here (all unprotected lefts) against almost non-stop oncoming traffic, of which about 5% goes straight. About half of the oncoming cars won't use their signal, so I can either make assumptions and play the T-bone lottery or sit halfway into the intersection until I see I'm clear. It's a short light and people stack up behind me and get pissed, but what else can I do? Recognized the street names and I had to check. That's about 20 minutes away from my house.
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The t-bone lottery was one of those things I yelled about the most teaching my kids how to drive. Never trust a turn signal...especially if the gas station you are pulling out of has a Burger King entrance twenty feet from it.
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I hate when people wave at me to go at an intersection. I will go when it is my turn. It's your turn, loving go you old bag.
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