some texas redneck posted:

e: meanwhile, on my way home last night with the cruise set at 85 (70 mph road where traffic normally does 80-85)

Murphys Law posted:

Even worse are the assholes who won't bother to brush however many inches of snow off their car after a heavier snow storm. They just clear their windows, sometimes not even completely, then hit the roads and highways still covered in a thick layer of snow. gently caress these lazy assholes.

Edmund Honda posted:

Geirskogul posted:

659-SVJ is the license plate of the fucker that tried (honestly tried) to kill me while I was on my motorcycle a few weeks ago. Never forget

kastein posted:

gently caress everyone who doesn't clean their roof off, I hope they die of cancer.

xzzy posted:

Parking on a slant in the sun or using a truck wash seems like it would take care of situations where snow does build up.

Failing that, a ladder and a snow rake should be sufficient right?

rcman50166 posted:

I have been posting nearly exclusively in GBS recently. It's hard to adjust.

I'm glad to see so many people getting mad over that though, it is the correct response.

Edit: my lovely L200 isn't fast enough

Terrible Robot posted:

The new GBS was irritating at first, and I still miss the spaceflight megathread, but I'm starting to warm up to it. It definitely gets more laughs out of me than the "old" one did. The "Adventures of Satan" CYOA in particular was an incredible(y disgusting) thread.

gileadexile posted:

State trooper rode in the left hand lane for more than 6 miles. There wasn't any traffic until I was about to snap the pic, but I just couldn't believe it, couldn't stop giggling.

Snowdens Secret posted:

We have a law against driving while on the phone and I see cops doing it all the time.

some texas redneck posted:

The last time I drove back from Austin, I had the cruise set at 90 most of the way back to DFW, except through Waco.

Three goddamn times, I looked in my mirror and saw a statie hauling rear end behind me and catching up really fast. Thought for sure I was getting a ticket, so I moved to the right lane and was ready to pull over. Every time, the trooper blew past me like I was standing still. Different people each time, so it's not like I blew past them again once they'd stopped. No lights or siren, they just had to be somewhere I guess.

xzzy posted:

gently caress parking at schools stuffed to the brim with young drivers.



Of course the nimrod that did it left no note or stuck around.

So I guess I don't actually know if it was a kid that did it, but the probability is pretty high.

Cage posted:

Why bother finding the guy? Call the police and get it towed.

InterceptorV8 posted:

Huh?

What's wrong with idling while you fuel?

Seat Safety Switch posted:

I'm really worried because they're building a highway flyover near one of my favorite backwoods driving roads, and I know it's only a matter of time before I have to contend with more than just bicyclists and the occasional Camry driver on it.

Savington posted:

(I am stopped in the left-most of two left-hand turn lanes, just behind the limit line.)

0rganDonor posted:

I was 18 or so in Atlanta and had just purchased an AK47 clone (WASR10), and being a stupid teenager I had it out of the box messing with it, no ammunition around of course, just playing with my new "toy" in the backseat of my brother's XJ. No one could see because of the hackjob tint my brother had in the back at the time, unless you were looking in from the front. My older brother, being another stupid teenager, somehow managed to piss someone off. I don't know how as my attention was elsewhere. Next thing I know dude gets out of whatever he's driving and comes up yelling and my brother is rolling the back windows down. As soon as dude sees it he calms down, gives a quick "Sorry, man" and books it back to his car. I didn't point it at him and had a pretty surprised look on my face too but hey, I think we taught the guy a lesson.

xzzy posted:

I don't lay into it, it's a short honk to let them know I think they're being dumb. My hope is that it makes them feel ashamed of their behavior and next time they think about how their decisions effect people around them.

InitialDave posted:

This evening I saw someone back out of a parking space into a van's front bumper, and there was something about the way he did it that screamed a sense of "yeah, well, he should park all the way into the bay, shouldn't he?" righteous indignation. Never mind that there was no way that thing was going to be able to get any deeper into the space, they were being distinctly miserly when they laid out the carpark. Told the van's driver, but all they'd done was dislodge a reflector, and he clearly wasn't bothered about it.

atomicthumbs posted:

sorry about bad photograph. click for more large

Tha Chodesweller posted:

Re: Light chat:

I don't truly know how hard it is for some people to turn their lights on, but I would imagine if you really need your lights (i.e. it's super dark) it's pretty loving obvious if they aren't on.

xzzy posted:

Maybe a chemical factory leaked some stupidity drug into the water last night.

Tha Chodesweller posted:

Going to the DMV today since I turned 21. Took the highway. Lady in a blue Corolla trucking down a water-covered highway at 85 mph, or 10 over the speed limit.

Tha Chodesweller posted:

Fun drive home.

I'm within like 2 minutes of my house. Dude in a Cadillac is riding my rear end, finally gets his chance to pass and floors it past me. Doesn't get very far, cuts me off when he gets to his turn. Cool, I guess. Honk at him, of course, continue on my merry way. I come flying up on a cop's rear end - keep in mind I'm only going 5 over the limit, and he was going way under, but he's in the lane I gotta be in for my turn. I don't really know why he was going slow - the last turn onto the road was the one the Cadillac went down, and that was a solid 700 yards back. But I signal, and a second after I signal, he does too. Weird, I guess, but alright. We turn, and the turn into my neighborhood is right after this turn. So the cop almost cuts me off as soon as I signal and get into the turn lane for that, gets in front of me, turns in front of me, then makes a U-turn out of my neighborhood.

Cops are weird. I guess that's part of the joy of owning a red Honda in a neighborhood full of riceburners.

BraveUlysses posted:

If those lights are timed, you mean. Cause it's not really the norm in most places.

Protocol7 posted:

I've been pulled over for speeding once on that road, and it's because a cop felt like flying up on my rear end at 70+ mph and saying I was speeding (I was going 5 over.) They clocked me anyway and I didn't bother fighting it because I was technically speeding and I have no proof they were going extremely fast (not that it would affect the verdict of my ticket.)

dissss posted:

The one on my car leaves the lights off for far longer than I think is prudent - it has to be really quite dark before they kick in which isn't great on grey sedan.

Also there are plenty of other reduced visibility situations where you should have the lights on but there is still quite a lot of ambient light.

Sagebrush posted:

If you're in the intersection when the light is yellow and it turns red before you're out, you will also fail.

Uthor posted:

Went for a bike ride on a trail along the road. Went to cross a street in the crosswalk with both the green light and walk signal in my favor and got stranded in the middle of the intersection by a long line of oncoming cars turning right in front of me without slowing. Not even the nun in her habit gave me a second look as she sped by!

I don't commute on my bike or anything and I stick to the trail (converted old rail road that crosses some streets as it goes through town), but I've become hyper aware of all the people that blow past the stop line and stop in the crosswalk without looking to see if there is anybody walking or riding there.

DEAR RICHARD posted:

Yeah, I probably had enough time in between cars to make that right turn on red, but I didn't because you honked at me 3 times and you were flipping out in your car about it. I opted to just wait for the green light. Oh, and the look you gave me when you did eventually pass me. Priceless.

GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:

I hate State Fair time in my city. On my route to and from work, they just swap the 40 MPH signs by the fairground with 25 MPH signs and do nothing else to warn people about it. I got a speeding ticket there last year because I'd just come back from a month-long trip and wasn't on the lookout, so now I notice the signs and drive down that stretch at 25 MPH.

Of course everyone else is still driving at 50 MPH and road raging like loving crazy at me, tailgating and cutting me off. What the hell do I even do besides go miles out of my way to take a different route?

PaganGoatPants posted:

Only thing I hate about this is the people who leave this much room NEVER come to a complete stop. They slowly roll until the light turns green ONE MINUTE LATER. I give up most of the time and stop and let them roll however long they want to. By the time they come to a stop there's 1.5 car lengths between us.

xzzy posted:

That's easy to deal with, all it takes is staying aware of your surroundings. Even if no one uses a blinker you can read what they want to do and adjust your driving to try and keep everyone happy.

I stop/start significantly slower if no one is behind me. I'll drift to the left side of the lane if it's clear the person behind me wants to turn right too, just to give them as much room as I can.

KozmoNaut posted:

I generally don't, because then some dick will blow by with barely any room to spare.

Unload My Head posted:

Come to a real city with medians everywhere and you'll see legal u-turns every block unless there is a roundabout.

a primate posted:

While we're on rants:

Dear everyone who lives in my city: the middle turning lane is for TURNING! Imagine that!