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5 inches of snow today, and within about 40 feet, I saw a Passat high center on the median from the other direction, and the HHR in front of me (with no lights on) slam into the median at 25mph and proceed to turn her wheels toward the obstacle and FLOOR IT to high center herself. Snow in PA is a many-times-a-year occurrence...
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Eskaton posted:You can't actually control the bowel movements of a horse. Also, where do you live that people are riding horses on trafficked roads? I live so deep in Amish land that Verizon won't run fiber optic cable out here because I'm literally the only person on the road requesting internet service. The worst is trying to avoid 10lb of fresh damp horse poo poo when you've just washed your car. I had a guy smash into an Amish shed-wagon at 55mph roughly in front of my house and drag his hosed up crippled Prius into my yard instead of stopping at the top of the driveway like a sane person. You can see the wagon-shed in the background of the first picture, facing the wrong way after the incident and with Amish guys collecting their bits and pieces from the side of the road.  
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Jan 30, 2016 20:54
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Geirskogul posted:
The wife and I just re-watched that gif a couple dozen times in a row trying to make sense of the whole thing. There's SO MUCH collateral damage as he takes cars out and then they bounce into other cars or barriers.
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Feb 27, 2016 13:20
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Phanatic posted:loving yay. The PA Turnpike has finally raised the speed limit to 70 across most of the state. Apparently they were given permission to do it but had to do a safety study first, and the results of the study in the areas they'd previously raised it to 70 were no increase in fatalities, and a decrease in crashes. I'm gonna guess because people are less inclined to putter along in the passing lane and so the speed differential between drivers and idiots is lower Some sections of Rt. 80 in PA are up to 70 as well. It surprised me when I was driving west from my house and came into a 70mph zone. I didn't actually go any faster though, since now I'm an old.
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May 3, 2016 11:25
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Sunny clear day, driving 35mph. Lady at the stop sign decided that the "stop" part was optional and accelerated into the road in front of me. No time to stop. This is the second time I've been in a red vehicle in the spring and gotten hit by a woman in a Ford SUV who ignored a stop sign... light abrasions to my legs from the lower airbag, and a bunch of soreness everywhere else but I'm generally ok. Now to deal with the insurance cluster gently caress.    I was driving forward in this view and she was where the grey Fusion is 
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Apr 20, 2017 22:05
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Dave Inc. posted:Clear day? Perfect visibility? Big red car? Still pulled out? The last time it happened I was on a bike...that resulted in a shattered pelvis and broken ribs, broken nose etc. As far as colorblindness, it was a woman so it's unlikely to the point of being improbable.
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Apr 20, 2017 22:47
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Imperador do Brasil posted:Sunny clear day, driving 35mph. Lady at the stop sign decided that the "stop" part was optional and accelerated into the road in front of me. No time to stop. This is the second time I've been in a red vehicle in the spring and gotten hit by a woman in a Ford SUV who ignored a stop sign... light abrasions to my legs from the lower airbag, and a bunch of soreness everywhere else but I'm generally ok. Now to deal with the insurance cluster gently caress. I know it was a week ago but I just got an update on this situation yesterday afternoon. Initial estimate on Monday was $12,300 in damage and the body shop found another $5k then just stopped looking. It passed the threshold for a total loss at that point. I wonder how she will feel knowing she totaled out a brand new WRX just to try and get away from that stop sign ten seconds sooner. Who am I kidding, she will never think of this again or learn a lesson from it.
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Apr 27, 2017 11:32
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bolind posted:How many miles on the WRX? 8200 miles. Had just gotten back from a 2500 miles road trip with no incidents despite driving to Florida (!) and back. I will have to go down to the body shop and get my exhaust off the car at some point in the near future. The Cobb intake is mangled so that's a loss but I am getting an invoice from Cobb to get reimbursed for that.
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Apr 27, 2017 14:14
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BigPaddy posted:If an insurance company totals a car then take the money and get a new one. Yes yes all of us at some level have some emotional attachment over what a normal consumer does but it is not worth the hassle of the repairs being poo poo and you being left to foot the bill later. I have had my fingers crossed all week that the body shop was going to find more stuff to push it over the threshold (which was $16790+$8900 = $25690) of a total loss, from the initial estimate of $12290. Today the appraiser called and made it official that they are punting me over to the total loss dept. I will go get my exhaust off the car this afternoon and call it done. I unmarried the Cobb last week in anticipation of this outcome but I didn't have any tools with me to take the exhaust off. I really really loved the car but as you said, there's no way that it's worth possibly having questionable repairs on a 5-month-old car. Better to just scrap it and start over.
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Apr 27, 2017 17:14
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Michael Scott posted:What's the reasoning again for why it sucks to have major repairs done to a new car, as opposed to major repairs done to an older car? For me personally, I didn't want to be paying a new-car payment on a car with very significant damage repairs (greater than 50% of the car's value). It just feels like a big loss. As much of a pain as it is to go out and buy another one so soon, to me it's better than driving around in a brand new R-title car.
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Apr 27, 2017 17:24
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FogHelmut posted:Did you have Gap insurance? Does that even apply here? I don't know how it works. I never bought it. I did not have gap insurance, but her insurance company is paying me more than I owe on the car. In addition, they are looking into payment for the aftermarket stuff I wasn't able to salvage on the car such as the intake.
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Apr 27, 2017 21:24
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Repo Man posted:Probably the most confusing thing there was the van driver running the guy over. How oblivious can you be? Love how the Terminator just walks up and looks to start a casual conversation with the van driver.
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May 16, 2017 20:59
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https://www.google.com/amp/wnep.com/2017/05/17/one-child-airlifted-to-hospital-after-school-bus-crash-near-lancaster/amp/ This accident happened in Lancaster, PA a few days ago. My father-in-law was driving the oversized load mentioned in the article (he pulls houses) when the jackass in a chevy Malibu decided he didn't want to be stuck behind the house trailer and passed on the left, smashing the escort car and flipping a loving school bus with a ton of kids in it. My father-in-law and the other people he works with had to use one of his trailer jacks to lift the school bus off the 6-year-old. How much of a rush do you have to be in to pull a wackadoo stunt like that?
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May 20, 2017 12:03
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Colostomy Bag posted:There are quite a few buggy accidents/deaths around here. The big stores close to my house have Amish parking for their horsies. Not a year goes by, NOT A YEAR, where I don't hear about some accident where a buggy horse gets spooked and goes through a windshield or darts out into traffic and fucks poo poo up, or kicks some poor fucker and breaks his legs. Working in the OR with trauma surgery I see a ton of Amish guys getting hurt falling off silos and roofs and whatnot but the horses are definitely dangerous. You never know when a buggy with seven Amish kids will just leap out into the road and wreak havoc.
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Jun 13, 2017 15:58
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Adiabatic posted:No thread pull up This is brasil where it's pretty common knowledge that you don't gently caress with the guys on motorcycles in the cities. Most couriers/deliveries are dudes on bikes and at least in São Paulo they will actively gang up on you and ruin your physical well-being if you gently caress with one of them. The gif cuts out early but when I drive down there I just give those duded mega space even compared to American bikers.
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Jul 10, 2017 15:17
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Powershift posted:yeah, right. You call the cops, they show up, next thing you know you've got 6 warning shots in your back. Wooooooooooooooow! Oh my mama! I thought I was a fool!
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Aug 5, 2017 12:14
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Video removed already...
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Sep 12, 2017 22:36
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I got into a low-speed (25mph) accident with a seventeen year old girl who blew a stop sign while she was on her cell phone and hit me while I was on my Buell. I was wearing a full-face helmet, padded jacket, armored gloves, knee/shin guards and good riding boots and I still ended up with a concussion and broken nose, many broken ribs, a damaged shoulder and a shattered acetabulum. I was off work for six months and couldn't walk for three. If I hadn't been wearing the helmet I might have had serious brain damage as well from flying over her Ford Explorer and smashing into the pavement. Moral of the story: helmet good.  
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Sep 17, 2017 11:44
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spog posted:Did you mean to post a picture of your penis? It's a medical image! But thanks for noticing.
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Sep 17, 2017 13:14
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Echoing the “find a friend with one” sentiment for learning manual. It’s so simple I taught my then-9-year-old son to drive stick in my Protegé two years ago.
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Dec 25, 2017 14:24
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These are the people you share a 55mph zone with, at 40-45mph max. Taken on the way home from work. 
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Dec 30, 2017 01:52
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:That’s Ohio, right? Pennsylvania
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Dec 30, 2017 12:30
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Mein Kampf Enthusiast posted:In NJ they mail you a bill for the toll, plus like a $45 administrative bullshit fee. I know they waive the fee if you can provide them with a valid EZ-Pass account, not sure if you can get out of it otherwise. This is the same in PA. I was following my GPS to a location and the exit was EZ-Pass only. I don’t have an account because I live in a super rural part of the state and might use it once every two years. Got a bill for $75 for getting off the exit.
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Dec 31, 2017 13:44
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Phanatic posted:So much for the notion that people who live in areas that get a lot of snow know how to drive in it: I do really enjoy and admire this guy’s enthusiasm when every car hits or flies past. I am completely baffled as to the sheer number of gently caress-ups in this location though. I live in PA and of course we get some snow and some fucktards screw it up every year but I haven’t seen anything like that...worst I ever saw was last year driving up 180 and a Volvo wagon directly behind me had a tank slapper and flipped over like something gout of F&F and up onto the median hill.
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Jan 2, 2018 16:08
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I’ve had to rescue several people from my driveway this winter because of their poor choice in tires: Mail woman, wife’s cousin, and the kids’ van driver all got stuck. My driveway isn’t even a 45 degree angle or anything; it’s just long and has got a slight uphill curve before you get to the road. Even on my AWD cars I still run dedicated snow tires in the winter and I’ve literally never had even a slight slippage issue going up and down. I live in PA - it snows EVERY WINTER, people. Trust me you’ll get your money’s worth out of a set of winter tires. I know of people running around on summer-only tires this winter and we’ve had below-zero days and a fair amount of ice. It truly bottles the mind.
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Feb 9, 2018 20:23
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Driving to one of my hospitals this morning behind a Pontiac G6 cruising along at like 70mph in a 55, passing folks, with brake lights on pretty much the whole time. What causes that? Hovering your foot on the pedal all the time? Made me want to stay WAY back from them the entire time.
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Mar 1, 2018 19:27
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Geoj posted:In most cars it's possible to push the pedal lightly enough to actuate the brake lights without applying any braking force. There's usually a plunger switch on the brake pedal set up to illuminate the brake lights as soon as the pedal leaves its "home" position. Yeah that what I was picturing. Cruise wasn’t even a consideration since it’s a rural road. I just didn’t want to be anywhere near someone who can’t even keep their feet off the wrong pedals while driving.
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Mar 1, 2018 20:52
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Continuing old-car/high mile chat: I usually do have one new car in the fleet but I love having older cars that I can be less paranoid about and just drive. Although having said that, my 212k mile FXT is my favorite car in the group right now and I’m doing everything in my power to keep it nice. It definitely doesn’t look like it’s got the miles it has; it was a one-owner car for 12 years and obviously someone loved it very much. I’m not sure why people have this mentality that more miles=bad car. I’ve had plenty of 200k+ mile cheap cars and have had nary an issue with them other than regular maintenance stuff. I like cars with character.
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Mar 2, 2018 13:45
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Flint Ironstag posted:Condition/maintenance counts for a lot more than mileage in modern cars, especially when buying vehicles with known reliability. Cheap is good, when you take your time and check out a car thoroughly before buying it. My '02 Accord is the most I have ever spent on a car, at $3k, but I knew the car had been maintained, and was a good purchase. Most of the cars I have owned have been under $1k. I drove one for 9 years, quite happily, until I got my Accord. Yeah I’ve had a ton of $500 cars that were great, starting with my first one. It’s getting hard in PA to find stuff quite that cheap that isn’t a rusted poo poo heap but occasionally you find some gems (although running/inspected = at least $1500 anymore). I don’t keep most of my cars for many years, but I keep everything up to date and fix all the little cheap niggling poo poo that doesn’t bother most people or they’re too lazy to get fixed and usually turn a small profit when I sell, which keeps my habit supported. I suppose in that regard i am a good person to share the road with because it’s highly unlikely I’ll have random wheels or bit of car falling off or failing while going down the road.
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Mar 3, 2018 12:36
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Alkydere posted:All you guys talking about driving your cars forever is really making me rethink the deal my parents are offering me. In a few months they plan to do a car reshuffle/refinance which will get rid of one of their cars (they don't need two cars since mom rarely drives anywhere anymore). Meanwhile they keep ragging on me for having a 12 year old PT Cruiser. It's visibly beat up due to some bad luck (and idiot moments by me), rattles because about 4 months after I drove it off the lot I got rear-ended (fuckwit came to a full and complete stop in front of me on a highway onramp, then drove off when I was making sure the girls in the car behind me were alive. I was so lucky I was young and had excellent reflexes or it would have been a 3-car pileup) and I recently had the damned break rotors replaced because a few months ago I told the shop to do a full inspection and they just did a visual one so they didn't catch it in time (I was understandably pissed). Regardless of anything else, a CR-V will always be better than a PT Cruiser. If you can’t afford to buy another car, obviously don’t, but the Honda will be better in every appreciable measure. Reliability, build quality, resale value, comfort...
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Mar 3, 2018 20:37
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Deteriorata posted:I owned a PT Cruiser for a dozen years, as well. It was a good, solid car. It's still going strong at 150k miles for the guy I sold it to. It's de rigueur around here to bash them at every opportunity, so don't take it personally. I owned a PT once as well so I’m not just on the bandwagon blindly. Mine had just shy of 90k when I got rid of it and it needed 4 new struts, 2 springs, plus the clutch and all the hydraulics; and that’s just the mechanical stuff. The interior was appalling as well. Traded it in on an 09 Civic in 2009 and amazingly the dealer gave me $3500 for it despite it being undrivable. The wife and I had said we would take anything over $1500 and laughed all the way to the bank on that trade...
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Mar 3, 2018 23:29
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Powershift posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D34d_2oTKA8 What the unholy gently caress is wrong with these meth-addled idiots?
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Mar 11, 2018 02:09
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Craptacular posted:Dashcam video of the recent Florida pedestrian bridge collapse. These are the bridges you share a road with.
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Mar 18, 2018 23:42
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Fermented Tinal posted:Glasses are more likely to go flying off your face instead of being smashed into it if the airbag is doing its job. They are generally not aimed directly your head to avoid breaking your neck. Can confirm. When my driver side bags blew in my last WRX, my glasses ended up between my feet in perfect condition. I was already disoriented and that was the last place I’d have expected them to be.
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May 4, 2018 17:03
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InitialDave posted:Bunch of twats act like twats at a twat gathering: I’m confused by this video. Does the author like it or dislike it? Are there cameras on this property/road like I assume there are everywhere in the greater London area? Don’t you guys have crazy strict MOT standards that would fail most of these cars?
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May 5, 2018 03:49
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InitialDave posted:I don't know, I don't watch his channel or most like it. I suspect he doesn't entirely love it, but doesn't see anything wrong with it and does like the views he gets from featuring it. I don’t have a problem with burnouts and skids per se, but in a parking lot like that with that type of Group-B-closeness crowd it’s so sketchy. We have a nice burnout contest at the annual big local car show but it’s approved and safety measures are taken. I guess maybe it’s cause I’m getting close to 40 but I am with you 100% on the “wrong type of attention”.
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May 5, 2018 11:42
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anyone wants to put into tracking them down, and ultimately, they probably aren't a resource priority for the police. I think they should have turned up and done something too, but they end up getting used for too much other poo poo and are stretched thin.
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I actually saw a cop where I wanted to see one today. Blue is a big rig, red it the dumbass who decided to block 2.5 lanes of the intersection in his minivan because he couldn’t wait for another cycle of the light. Green arrow is the cop who swung out around to light the minivan up, and pulled him over in the parking lot in the lower right while I was waiting to turn left on the other side of the rig. People block this intersection all the time and it sucks because it’s a hugely busy intersection of two main roads, even though it’s in a tiny town in bumfuck PA. Just to the NE is one of the biggest hospitals in the state so the area gets a ton of traffic. It’s a well-designed intersection with left-turn signals , doesn’t take too long between cycles etc. but people always do this dumbass poo poo and ruin it for everyone else. 
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May 7, 2018 20:21
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Mein Kampf Enthusiast posted:Unsure, still breaking. I'm local to the area (live in the town next to the school the bus came from) and local news doesn't seem to have much more info. Other than the horrible crash and tragic injuries, this brought back so much nostalgia. Waterloo Village field trips were pretty awesome when I was growing up in North Jersey.
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May 18, 2018 11:29
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Maker Of Shoes posted:I was walking through a walmart parking lot yesterday and some guy nearly pizza'd me. I didn't react all that much other than to have the wide googly eyes and mutter "slow the gently caress down gat dang" under my breath. He rolled down his window and my heart sank. I thought 100% he was just gonna gun me down for making him use his brake pedal. He smiled at me and shouted "I'm so sorry about that!" and drove off. I had the exact opposite experience the other day. My son and I were walking through a local pizza place parking area when some dude who was not even in a parking spot decided to flatten us when we were behind him then get REALLY angry when I tapped his window for him to stop so he wouldn’t run over my kid (who is adult-sized and would not have been invisible due to window height). I’m not normally confrontational because of the reason you stated but the complete disregard for mine and especially my son’s existence threw me into a rage and it admittedly felt good to yell at him as he sped away in his Kia Sorento with his wife also screaming at him (because, you see, she saw us). My kid never lets that kind of stuff bug him and he never curses in front of me but when we got into the car he even said “what the poo poo was that guy’s problem?”
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Stop sign on an on-ramp for the highway, which is undergoing construction. Clear travel lanes. GMC truck in front of me stops, then accelerates to about 25 and stops again. Pulls off the road, and proceeds to cut in front of me when I go around the now-on-shoulder vehicle. Accelerates to 45 in a 65. Awesome, guy!
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