What people do when they\'re driving!
 

How i wish i was AndyB at times, hmmm maybe not after all.

When using the bike geting to work i've noticed drivers in cars doing all sorts of mad things recently.

Not just using hand held mobile phones (question, why if you've spent £50,000 on a top of the range motor why haven't they got a hands free kit
:flame: Can't afford it?)

Or girls doing their make up whilst driving, these 2 are quite common, but in the last few days i've seen someone reading a magazine, looking at an A to Z, doing a feckin crossword at the steering wheel whilst in traffic, and using a laptop.

Some of these instances have been in slow traffic whilst i'm filtering (safely on one wheel at 70 mph of course) others have been at motorway speeds.

OK i can hear someone say i should be keeping my eye on the road ahead and not the cars at the side of me, but when the car is wandering about you tend to have a look at what the danger is.

Its absolutely barmy what some drivers get upto, really wish i could nick some of them. Sorry rant over.

Anyone else spooted some really dodgy practices as well?

"(safely on one wheel at 70 mph of course)"

:puzzled:

I went past a total moron on the M4 last week who was in an M3 - READING THE PAPER whilst undertaking me - he had the whole thing out in his lap holding it with both hands!!!

What a tosser!

Totally agree Shaun. I notice it so much more when on the bike.

The worst thing I saw this week on the way to the Quay was a driving instructor - teaching our kids the right way to drive - happily driving along on the mobile and weaving all over the road.

A police friend of mine agrees with the law I think should be brought in:

If you see someone on the mobile you can drag them out of the car, ram the phone up their arse and if they can still carry on the conversation then they get to keep the phone......

I was driving back home, northwards past Junction 8 on the M1. It was around 7pm in the middle of the Friday evening rush and the weather was so bad that it was one of those torrential downpours where your wipers are on full speed and still fighting a losing battle. It was also dark. Just seeing where you were going was a white knuckle job. The traffic was the typical stop-go traffic that gets up to about 40mph and then comes to a sudden halt.

A guy in a Rover came past me in the outside lane with the interior light on and I saw that he had a book on his steering wheel and was reading it. It wasn't just a glance, he was intent on reading and flipping the pages over as if he was in his armchair at home. He must've been driving just on his peripheral vision and his concentration in those conditions was just about zero. It was one of the only times that I've taken someones number and pulled into the nearest police station to report them.

The thing that really gets me is how lazy people get with their indicators. I got carved up by a Mercedes convertible by a guy that didn't use his indicators once in a journey of 30 miles. I wasn't following him, we were both going the same route by coincidence. It was a warm day and I had the roof down on my car as well as he did.

Just by chance, we reached some traffic lights where our route was obviously diverging. He was in the right turn lane as I wanted to go left, but by chance we were queued up side by side. So I looked across at him and said "Nice car mate, how much did it cost?", "About 35K" he replied. So I said "You know, on cars that cost that much you'll find there's a stalk near the steering wheel and if you flip it up or down it'll make lights flash on the side of your car that let other drivers know where you're going instead of haveing to use fecking telepathy"

Hello

the best one's I have seen,

somebody going around a roundabout on the phone! stearing with feet:o

or texting while doing 50 MPH

not great I know . .

I think using a laptop, is winning so far.


regards


TopiToo

PS I added the feet bit . . :P

I've seen a few people in the mornings with cups of tea/coffee in their hands. The cups weren't even plastic, they were china ones.
My favorite was someone eating a donner kebab at the wheel.:puzzled:

Sorry my sense of humour..............i was really doing 90 mph but didn't want to be seen to be irresponsible or breaking the law.........

It was safe because he was doing it on the back wheel and could still control his forward progress.
Had he been doing it on the front wheel that could be considered dangerous.

Here in Denmark its not unusual to see ppl drinking beer that they have bought duty free over the German border, some days dodging empty beer cans thrown from car windows is a full time hobby :( the kerbsides show testement to this some farmers have actualy collected the emptys and stuck them on poles at the side of the road to show ppl its not acceptable.

filtered thru some heavy traffic recently which had built up due to an accident, got to the pile up and the fire crew were cutting a guy out of his car, looked bad.....little further (approx 100yds) and some dopey bird was driving along texting on her mobile not even looking ahead...and she had just passed a serious pile up ! i think its the "it`ll never happen to me" mentality thats one of the problems....or try driving, or riding at the speed limit for a week and count how many people look at you with complete hate in their eyes.....

This thread is useless without pictures.................:D

:lol::lol::lol: Priceless

That's the sort of thing I think of saying, ......but in my case it's allways about twenty minutes after the incident:(

Used to regulary see a black cab driver on the M11 in the morning shaving.

Mind boggling. I've seen most of the above(with the execption of the self service pleasure seeker!)

But I did think the it was a myth about Volvo drivers, But no. They really are complete tw@ts.

Are they like this before they buy the car, or did the car make them cretins?

I don't know, since I bought a Volvo 5 years ago I've become too cretinous to remember whether I was a cretin before I bought it ;)

Leaving St.Neots the other morning, still in a 30-bus coming the other way with the driver drinking a cup of tea/coffee-whatever, it was hot cause I could see the steam coming off the top of the cup. Best thing was he had passengers on board, he was sat up there so visible-I wished I was a traffic cop-I think we may have 'had words'.:mad:

John

:smug::ninja::D:pig:

Lit blo*dy cigarettes! Been hit twice by them after they have been lobbed out a car.
Years ago it happened to a mate of mine. Cigarette out the window, hit the visor and instant fireworks.
Lucky for him and unfortunate for the bloke my mate is also a smoker, so at the next traffic lights he pulls up alongside. Has enough time to light up a match and put it in with the rest of a box of live swanvesta. Waited a couple of seconds for the smoke to appear then dumped them in the lap of the car driver through the still open window. Gloves back on and then drove off.
So :cool:

Ains.

One of the best I saw was a guy "driving" an old Vauxhall on the M25 just before the M4 turn off when all the lanes were full of traffic but moving at around 60mph. Geezer was wandering around a bit but holding his position about 3 feet behind a white van perfectly, seemed to be fiddling with something like string then proceeded to use it with both hands to floss his teeth !!!!

Next best was a **** on the M23 who had a mobile phone in one hand and an electric razor in the other, admittedly the traffic was light at the time of this incident so his weaving across all the lanes was only of minor irritation to other road users.

Still, at least neither of them were over the speed limit so I guess it must have been safe enough innit ???:D:D

Oh man - the indicators !! That bugs me so much :mad: It's as if it's not fashionable to use them these days. It's such a selfish thing not to use them.

I've done the same thing as you Jools - "nice £50K Jag mate but shame it didn't come with working indicators"

Seems to be the people in flash cars who don't use the indicators; merc and beemer drivers seem to be the worst offenders, as for Volvo drivers at least you are expecting them to do "unusual" things :lol::P

Best one I saw was a lorry driver in Belgium with a tray on his steering wheel making sarnys & a coffee pot steaming away on the dash all at 60mph.:o:o

[Edited on 10-5-2006 by chass]

I followed an old woman in a Metro round a round about and up the slip road onto the M27 while knitting.

Mike

Can you do me a nice scarf for next winter Mike? :lol:

Jacko.

I saw someone eating a yoghurt, both hands off the wheel, on the A127. Traffic was moving steadily at 60. Again, not speeding so whats the problem?

M60, Anti clockwise, BMW, light blue, being driven by a 30~40ish bald fella.
He's weaving a little and his speed is up and down.
In his right hand is the steering wheel and....an upside down bottle of what looks like johnsons baby lotion or sun cream.
Left hand is catching the dispensed cream and rubbing it into his microscopic brain container called a head - trouble is the road bends slightly and it's upsetting his rhythm. What a tosser!:mad:

Teddy1 - I\'m offended !
 

I'm takin' offence at the Volvo quip ! (below)

I drive the current model S40
as a company car, and as a Rep !
even ordered it in bright red to keep the garage lookin' tidy !!
even got a Ducati Corse logo on the boot !!!

It dosent make me drive like a tw@t,
but does protect me a little more from those that do !!!

why stereotype people !?

us poor "hooligan" bikers who get stereotyped all the time should know better eh ?:D


"But I did think the it was a myth about Volvo drivers, But no. They really are complete tw@ts.

Are they like this before they buy the car, or did the car make them cretins? "

Nah, they do their CBT in Austin 2200 land crabs before being allowed to drive Vol*o's. Old farmers in flat hats...
Driving their bloody cars like they droive thar tractur.

Ains. :lol:

20 yrs ago early one morning just as the sun was rising (song)
I was traveling down in a truck to Bristol on the M5, I saw two headlights approaching ! as i got closer i realised they were coming north bound in lane 3 ! nothing unusual there then I hear you say !!!!
But they were on the south bound carridgeway :o:o:o:o
It was two old ladies in a moggy 1000 heading up the M5 the wrong way!



mmmm is blood brown?????????:o:o:o:o