Dumb stuff you see out there.....

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 6:19 pm

Reading one of Bennies posts gave me the idea ....

Lemme see, in the past few weeks I have seen:

Commodore just drifting out of her lane into the breakdown strip so starting to dust up the gravel and crap, picking out a few raised reflectors and heading straight for a few decent size light posts , then suddenly a wake up correction and back on the road again. Stiff if there was a pushy in the breaksown lane

Coupla kids on hols, about 14 yo, can't wait for a break in the traffic to cross two lanes on their BMX and just missed being skittled by a funeral directors car!

Another kid, similar age, same sorta bike, rode right across my path as I slowed for a give way sign. He was in a world of his own (no head phones) I gave him a gentle wake up blast on the new air horns. Woke him up for sure, poor bugger nearly fell off his bike.

Saw a decent size mobile crane drifting off into similar breakdown lane at a decent rat of knots. Likely not at all related to the smaller crane driver I saw rolling through a school zone school car park at 3.00pm on a school day with a mobile phone in hand !!

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:30 pm

I saw a lady the other day walk across a rode in the middle of town on a busy street without even looking. She wasn't on her phone either! Lucky I was pulling out of a car park and not passing at the speed limit! Oh, and now there are councils around melbourne that are dropping the residential speed limit to 40km/h.

Also just the usual "I'm not dipping my head lights" action as usual. 3x 130watts of driving light usually has them change their mind pretty quick!

Bendigo police are having a blitz on driver behaviour - it'll be interesting to see what the results/outcomes are!

Cheers

Bennie

taza · Post by **taza** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:53 pm

Ford Laser on 2 wheels going through a round about at over 70km/hr!

Hilux(rolelux) trying to drift in the wet almost loosing control through a set of lights... red P-Plate up. lol

Cop car with green P-Plates up. Pulled up next to it to find a young bloke in the drivers seat with 'In Training' writting on his sleeve and a real copper in the passenger seat. That was certainly interesting.

Ford Falcon tray back ute doing a burnout on the spot at a set of red lights in Mandurah (last weekend). Really smoked it up, the funny thing is he slipped off the brake and almost went into the guy infront with a trailer on!

thunder039 · Post by **thunder039** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:46 am

having a lady driving towards me reading the paper...

Silverbullet · Post by **Silverbullet** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 6:18 pm

Amazingly the road I drive on every day is supposed to be one of the worst, but I never see any really stupid drivers. Worst on that road is a little old asian man in a tiny ford driving like the car is stolen i.e, tailgaiting everyone, changing lanes aggressively without indicating, he even ran a red light once I think.

Worst thing I've ever seen though was a dumb blonde in a brand new black luxury BMW pull out of a side street into a 2 lanes wide 60 zone at peak hour without looking...literally just drove straight out without even slowing down or looking to see what was coming

The worst drivers are always in commodores or tradies in their loaded up 4x4 utes, and ones like that I just try to put as many cars between me and them as possible

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 11:19 pm

Glad you said the Commode thing first, sems to be that and WHS fluro clad

Also had to pass a dude in an Econovan doing 60 in an 80 - engrossed in a friggin novel - I could see it was not a map as I went by him.

An old bloke in a panel van steering with his inside of elbows while trimming his nails with a pair of scissors in his dash lights !!