Crap drivers

we knew brisbane would get like sydney eventually. its an everyday occurance down here. like the people on the roads where you have to turn either left or right at the end, the left turn's banked up so they go up the right lane and push into the left near the end.
but i did see some justice for an idiot the other day. a bloke on a motorbike overtook about 500m of stopped traffic on the wrong side of the road. one of those cars happened to be a cop car, haha sweet justice.
i don't mind if bikes sneak up a little bit between the cars, that's why you ride a bike, but i can't take stupidity.

cheers all

I hate people that do this, especially at road works where there are signs a long way before advising of closed lane. If they try and merge infront of me I make sure they don't get it. I have waited patiently so they can as well.

Maybe you should take a Valium

Or move out here to the country 'where the atmosphere is great' (with apologies to the late Slim Dusty)

What's worse is that these people have an expectation to be let in when they do this - in fact get pretty narcy if you don't let them. The rules say that when merging on a marked lane you must give way but if it is not marked then the car in front has right of way. A lot of people think that they have right of way on a marked road. Made sure of this because we are faced with this issue in a couple of places and want to make sure of where I stand should we have a prang. There are some days when I wish I was driving my old landrover (solid and mean bullbar) to force my rights sure would make a mess of those beemers.

Kind regards

Couldn't agree more, the whole standard of driving has lowered over the past few years, with selfishness being a major problem.
Why don't most people even make simple turns properly any more? We were taught if making a left turn, indicate, then slow & move to the left, then turn, if making a right turn, indicate, then slow & move just to left of centre, then make your turn.
Why is it now, that most drivers just stop in the main driving lane & make all the vehicles behind wait until he/she can turn???
Also you will notice that I included the word 'indicate', drivers now use them as if they will get a bill at the end of every month charging $1 per blink.
The whole object of indicating is to warn the vehicles behind that you will be slowing to make a turn, but now drivers just jam on the brakes, start their turn, then indicate.
Also how many times do you jam on the brakes to let someone in to your lane on a country road, then look in your mirror & see a clear road behind ........ some people are obviously in a hurry ------ to die!

Totally agree with Willem. In fact generally do. Probably the best view of any city is in the rear view mirror.

mike

Back in the dim dark past when I got my License the rule was that you could change lanes when "it is safe to do so". NOT just put the indicator on and move over when you feel like it.
I try to be accomdating but sometimes !!!!

whats wrong with old and cranky? :-)
A little feel good story here:
A while back I got cut off by one of those real Dh%$%$#% bad and had to hit the anker hard to avoid him. As a thank you he gave me a finger and laughed.
What he forgot was that his companies phone number was all over the van so I rang his boss. It was a plumber in Enoggera here in Brisbane. I told his boss what he just did and what he is doing with his Vans. The boss told me that the lad had two accidents in the last 12 month and he will call him in right now to pick up his papers. He said he wanted to get rid of him anyway.

What goes around comes around....most at the times not that quickly but in the end they do shoot themself in the foot.

Stop taking those pills Dave and just be cranky........it's good fun :-)
cheers
Reiner

What about bloody tailgaters.

No wonder we get these horrendous jams at peak hour due multiple accidents, (everybody following too close soooo- multi vehicle prang!)
Had a B Double about one metre off my bumper the other day despite me being 10k's over the limit to get past slower traffic.
I have never even HEARD of cops booking someone for following too close!
All they target is speed! (Revenue raising, as it's so easy to point a radar at someone, often on roads where a few extra kays is not a real safety issue.)
Any other disgusting and dangerous behavior is acceptable.

Yes Riener sometimes is does feel good to be cranky , must come with age . I also agree with Willem , I have vowed not to retire in Brisbane after living here all my life . I have a place in Tin Can Bay where I will unwind at the end of my working life. But that will change like everywhere else I suppose . Last time I was up there I was watching the neighbour cleaning his car on the road and chucked chip packets and the like onto the road and simply watched them blow away!
rsoles are everywhere . Might contact that pommy crowd that produced "cranky old men" I reckon I am over qualified for that show.

Cheers Dave L.

I liked the sticker I saw the other day ....

"Drive carefully ... my passengers are all suicide bombers".

Jack

I like the young tailgater on the freeway, yes the intercooler on the front of the Mazda the size of a 4 burner barbecue. Flies up behind the Patrol, im doing the speed limit, the freeway is peak hour and weaves in an out onto the breakdown lane with an agro look on his face, trying to see if i am keeping up with the traffic. Yes i am but If you leave more than two car lengths in front of you, you get the flashing headlights or the horn. Ignoring them is just the best feeling!!!!

Time for a pill allright

I suggest you take a trip to a major city in SE asia like Bangkok for example where people put up with traffic 10 times worse then here, where the only rule is "there are no rules" and you'll find hardly any road rage at all. I guess people there just learned to accept that road rage doesn't acheive anything it just creates more traffic problems which causes more delays so why bother. whatever it is you'll come back with a completely different view of driving I can assure you.

I recently drove across the Nullarbor to Perth.
Going both directions East and West I would say I had no hassles with the road trains etc doing the same trip, generally very courteous, gave you a wave and almost all sat pretty consistently on the speed limit.
Coming out of Adelaide to Melb different story, trucks right up my a$$ flashing lights etc and generally behaving very badly.
I was sitting on the speed limit and used the overtaking lanes to pass slower vehicles when they came up not these blokes double white meant nothing to them.

The best part, an hour later I would pass them parked in a truck stop having dinner etc. What did they achieve?

I always remember those trucks years ago that would grind along all day on 80 km's per hour. you would pass them and later on your stopped for lunch and they would pass you still doing 80 K's the old slow and steady wins the race.
Not anymore.

GDay
My kids had a great laugh not long back when i was booked for doing 53 km at about 5/45 am in the pitch dark. I never drive fast and it p155es them rit off.
Muzbry3175

Rigor,
Nothin' wrong with gettin' old and cranky, I'm young and cranky(Jeez the missus has a lot to look forward too:))
What comes around, goes around ( I think?). I was driving home one day and came up to this car, and then he sped up, then I caught him about 3-4k up the road, then he took off again, and you get my drift. He even sped up when I went to overtake him in an overtaking lane. Well after about half an hour of this, I really had the S$#@'s ( I drive along at a set speed and just cruise along usually around 105-108kph with the cruise control turned on, if the road is crap then I will slow down according to the conditions {my speedo is out around 5-7 kph as well}) Anyway I eventually got around him only to have him sit up my butt, then he would back off a bit, then he would catch up and sit up my butt again( I think he liked my rear), He did this for a little while,as he wanted to re-overtake? me( probably for passing him in the first place) so what I did, which I probably shouldn't of done because it was just plain nasty, I would see him catch up, and when I knew he couldn't over take I would slow down to around 85-90kph, then when I knew he could overtake and was up my butt, I just sped up to the same speed I always sit on and then he couldn't overtake me and would have to sit there for a little longer, well after a bit, this must of got the better of him and when he did pass me on an overtaking section he was fairly hookin' in. I just waved, and remembered something I read in a caravan book, that is to picture them naked with their finger up their bum. This left me with a smile I didn't seem to lose for awhile.

Have to go now my wine glass is empty and it needs to be refilled

Greg

Lighten up a bit Bill,,,get the bee out of your ass...have you never done anything wrong?