Caution: Driver doesn't give a shit

R Philip Dowds wrote:[color=blue]
> PS: Statistics tell me that I am most likely to be harmed, not by either
> terrorists or global warming, but rather by other drivers. So, if I
> wanted to save American lives, would my best shot be spending a
> kerjillion billion dollars on invading Iraq? Or on a nationwide highway
> safety program?[/color]

Yesterday I saw this bumper sticker on a Hummer: "Caution: Driver
doesn't give a shit"... :(

And soon enough he cut off another car.

I wonder if the authorities know about this kind of terrorism, of if
they too give a shit about it.

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
[url]http://webspawner.com/users/nolionnoproblem[/url]

Sounds like all the damn drivers here in AZ.

Yesterday, I had to lay my bike down to avoid hitting a little b%tch (about
17 years old) who cut me off.

"donquijote1954" <nolionnoproblem@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>R Philip Dowds wrote:[color=green]
>> PS: Statistics tell me that I am most likely to be harmed, not by either
>> terrorists or global warming, but rather by other drivers. So, if I
>> wanted to save American lives, would my best shot be spending a
>> kerjillion billion dollars on invading Iraq? Or on a nationwide highway
>> safety program?[/color]
>
> Yesterday I saw this bumper sticker on a Hummer: "Caution: Driver
> doesn't give a shit"... :(
>
> And soon enough he cut off another car.
>
> I wonder if the authorities know about this kind of terrorism, of if
> they too give a shit about it.
>
> WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
> [url]http://webspawner.com/users/nolionnoproblem[/url]
>[/color]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:06:04 -0800, donquijote1954 wrote:
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> R Philip Dowds wrote:[color=green]
>> PS: Statistics tell me that I am most likely to be harmed, not by either
>> terrorists or global warming, but rather by other drivers. So, if I
>> wanted to save American lives, would my best shot be spending a
>> kerjillion billion dollars on invading Iraq? Or on a nationwide highway
>> safety program?[/color]
>
> Yesterday I saw this bumper sticker on a Hummer: "Caution: Driver
> doesn't give a shit"... :(
>
> And soon enough he cut off another car.[/color]


Bet he lives in Massachusetts and wonders why his insurance costs so much...
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>
> I wonder if the authorities know about this kind of terrorism, of if
> they too give a shit about it.
>
> WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
> [url]http://webspawner.com/users/nolionnoproblem[/url][/color]

--
A young girl I know told me I drive like an old man

I told her, actually, I drive like Mario Andretti.
It's just that too many other people on the road
drive like Paul Tracy...

Venture Rider wrote:[color=blue]
> On 13 Feb 2006 15:59:15 -0800, donquijote1954 said:
>[color=green]
> >And soon enough he cut off another car.
> >
> >I wonder if the authorities know about this kind of terrorism[/color]
>
> Is this the new American thing, now? Everything is "terrorism"?[/color]

Yep, anything that terrorizes another is terrorism, particularly if it
is intentional and totally preventable, for example a lady in L.A. who
called 911 over someone pulling a gun on her.

I would call this terrorism ROAD TERRORISM.

"Road rage (also road violence, road terrorism) is the common name for
deliberately dangerous and/or violent behaviour under the influence of
heightened anger, by any motor vehicle operator, affecting the safety
of one or more other operators or bystanders."

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_rage[/url]

"donquijote1954" <nolionnoproblem@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>R Philip Dowds wrote:[color=green]
>> PS: Statistics tell me that I am most likely to be harmed, not by either
>> terrorists or global warming, but rather by other drivers. So, if I
>> wanted to save American lives, would my best shot be spending a
>> kerjillion billion dollars on invading Iraq? Or on a nationwide highway
>> safety program?[/color]
>
> Yesterday I saw this bumper sticker on a Hummer: "Caution: Driver
> doesn't give a shit"... :(
>
> And soon enough he cut off another car.
>
> I wonder if the authorities know about this kind of terrorism, of if
> they too give a shit about it.[/color]

"Hello 911? This asshole just pulled a really dangerous move, and I could
swear I saw her swigging from a Budweiser bottle. She's going west on
route..."

A lady was watching TV when a news bulletin came on stating a car was
driving in the wrong direction on the interstate. Her father was coming to
her house via that interstate so she called him on his cell phone to warn
him. She said, 'Dad be careful there is car going the wrong way on the road
you are on. He said 'One car, are you kidding, there are a whole bunch of
them passing me going the wrong way.


mike hunt


"Doug Kanter" <ancientangler@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "donquijote1954" <nolionnoproblem@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1139875564.575278.195190@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>
> "Hello 911? This asshole just pulled a really dangerous move, and I could
> swear I saw her swigging from a Budweiser bottle. She's going west on
> route..."
>[/color]

"Mike Hunter" <mikehunt2@mailcity.com> wrote in message
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>A lady was watching TV when a news bulletin came on stating a car was
>driving in the wrong direction on the interstate. Her father was coming to
>her house via that interstate so she called him on his cell phone to warn
>him. She said, 'Dad be careful there is car going the wrong way on the
>road you are on. He said 'One car, are you kidding, there are a whole
>bunch of them passing me going the wrong way.[/color]

<drum crash!>

"Is this an audience, or an oil painting?"
-Henny Youngman

"Doug Kanter" <ancientangler@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "donquijote1954" <nolionnoproblem@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1139875564.575278.195190@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...[color=green]
>>R Philip Dowds wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> PS: Statistics tell me that I am most likely to be harmed, not by either
>>> terrorists or global warming, but rather by other drivers. So, if I
>>> wanted to save American lives, would my best shot be spending a
>>> kerjillion billion dollars on invading Iraq? Or on a nationwide highway
>>> safety program?[/color]
>>
>> Yesterday I saw this bumper sticker on a Hummer: "Caution: Driver
>> doesn't give a shit"... :(
>>
>> And soon enough he cut off another car.
>>
>> I wonder if the authorities know about this kind of terrorism, of if
>> they too give a shit about it.[/color]
>
> "Hello 911? This asshole just pulled a really dangerous move, and I could
> swear I saw her swigging from a Budweiser bottle. She's going west on
> route..."[/color]

Actually, we have in NJ a special phone number exactly for that. *77 (star
77) is the 'Aggressive Driver Hotline' specifically for reporting aggressive
drivers.
Tomes

"Tomes" <askme@here.net> wrote in message
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> Actually, we have in NJ a special phone number exactly for that. *77
> (star 77) is the 'Aggressive Driver Hotline' specifically for reporting
> aggressive drivers.
> Tomes
>[/color]

If NJ still has some of those insane rotary intersections, it's no wonder
there are aggressive drivers. :-) I wonder if those were a contribution by
Robert Moses during one of his civic engineering hallucinations.

No question about that. More American die in three days in motor vehicle
accidents in the US than have been killed, fighting for our county in Iraq,
in over three years of war. The number killed in 2005 exceeded 43,000
The problem we have in this country is we allow drivers that do not know how
top drive to teach others to drive, sad.

mike hunt


"Tomes" <askme@here.net> wrote in message
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> "Doug Kanter" <ancientangler@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:KXlJf.376$kg.276@news02.roc.ny...[color=green]
>>
>> "donquijote1954" <nolionnoproblem@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1139875564.575278.195190@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...[color=darkred]
>>>R Philip Dowds wrote:
>>>> PS: Statistics tell me that I am most likely to be harmed, not by
>>>> either
>>>> terrorists or global warming, but rather by other drivers.[/color][/color][/color]
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>
> Actually, we have in NJ a special phone number exactly for that. *77
> (star 77) is the 'Aggressive Driver Hotline' specifically for reporting
> aggressive drivers.
> Tomes
>[/color]

Mike Hunter wrote:[color=blue]
> No question about that. More American die in three days in motor vehicle
> accidents in the US than have been killed, fighting for our county in Iraq,
> in over three years of war. The number killed in 2005 exceeded 43,000
> The problem we have in this country is we allow drivers that do not know how
> top drive to teach others to drive, sad.
>
> mike hunt[/color]


And then we put cell phones in their hands. :(

dennis
in nca

"Doug Kanter" <ancientangler@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Tomes" <askme@here.net> wrote in message
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>[color=green]
>> Actually, we have in NJ a special phone number exactly for that. *77
>> (star 77) is the 'Aggressive Driver Hotline' specifically for reporting
>> aggressive drivers.
>> Tomes
>>[/color]
>
> If NJ still has some of those insane rotary intersections, it's no wonder
> there are aggressive drivers. :-) I wonder if those were a contribution by
> Robert Moses during one of his civic engineering hallucinations.[/color]

Yep, we still have them, lol. I live right near the 3 of them in
Flemington. At least they have now put up yield signs up in the
non-dominant flow directions. I remember when I was a kid the drivers'
manual said regarding circle rules: 'local custom'. If you did not know the
local custom it was an adventure indeed. Having grew up with them I see
them as no problem at all, but I need to watch out for those that have less
experience with the adventure. There is now a slow moving program to
eliminate the large circles, some in total, some in part.
Tomes
- from the land of the first jughandle, NJ

Tomes wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
>> If NJ still has some of those insane rotary intersections, it's no
>> wonder there are aggressive drivers. :-) I wonder if those were a
>> contribution by Robert Moses during one of his civic engineering
>> hallucinations.[/color]
>
> Yep, we still have them, lol. I live right near the 3 of them in
> Flemington. At least they have now put up yield signs up in the
> non-dominant flow directions. I remember when I was a kid the
> drivers' manual said regarding circle rules: 'local custom'. If you
> did not know the local custom it was an adventure indeed. Having
> grew up with them I see them as no problem at all, but I need to
> watch out for those that have less experience with the adventure. There is
> now a slow moving program to eliminate the large circles,
> some in total, some in part. Tomes
> - from the land of the first jughandle, NJ[/color]

The last time I was in NJ, 1977 I think, the first car in the left turn lane
went before the cars coming in the opposite direction through lane. The rest
in line in the turn lane had to wait for the through lane to clear before
making a left turn. Caused some unique reactions from the locals when I
forgot this custom. Also, a local company merged with a company in NJ and
quite a few NJersians were transplanted here. Took a while for some of them
to get over this same habit.
davidj92

"davidj92" <davidj92REMOVE@sigecom.net> wrote in message
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> Tomes wrote:[color=green][color=darkred]
>>> If NJ still has some of those insane rotary intersections, it's no
>>> wonder there are aggressive drivers. :-) I wonder if those were a
>>> contribution by Robert Moses during one of his civic engineering
>>> hallucinations.[/color]
>>
>> Yep, we still have them, lol. I live right near the 3 of them in
>> Flemington. At least they have now put up yield signs up in the
>> non-dominant flow directions. I remember when I was a kid the
>> drivers' manual said regarding circle rules: 'local custom'. If you
>> did not know the local custom it was an adventure indeed. Having
>> grew up with them I see them as no problem at all, but I need to
>> watch out for those that have less experience with the adventure. There
>> is now a slow moving program to eliminate the large circles,
>> some in total, some in part. Tomes
>> - from the land of the first jughandle, NJ[/color]
>
> The last time I was in NJ, 1977 I think, the first car in the left turn
> lane went before the cars coming in the opposite direction through lane.
> The rest in line in the turn lane had to wait for the through lane to
> clear before making a left turn. Caused some unique reactions from the
> locals when I forgot this custom. Also, a local company merged with a
> company in NJ and quite a few NJersians were transplanted here. Took a
> while for some of them to get over this same habit.
> davidj92[/color]

Yep, this is how it works here for a regular stop light with a left turn
lane, or even at a stop light without a special left turn lane. This is
just common sense here in NJ (from an NJ perspective, lol). The lights turn
green in both directions and the first in the left turn lane easily and
without any problem just darts through to make his left turn before the
oncoming traffic even has a chance to get within the intersection. Easy as
cake. I do this everywhere out of NJ and never found it to be a problem
anywhere else. Actually, most times if it has a left turn lane, it has a
green arrow that makes the left turn go in protected mode before oncoming
traffic goes green (although in rare cases it allows the left turn to go
last instead of first).
Tomes

"rigger" <dgrup@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Mike Hunter wrote:[color=green]
> > No question about that. More American die in three days in motor[/color][/color]
vehicle[color=blue][color=green]
> > accidents in the US than have been killed, fighting for our county in[/color][/color]
Iraq,[color=blue][color=green]
> > in over three years of war. The number killed in 2005 exceeded 43,000
> > The problem we have in this country is we allow drivers that do not know[/color][/color]
how[color=blue][color=green]
> > top drive to teach others to drive, sad.
> >
> > mike hunt[/color]
>
>
> And then we put cell phones in their hands. :(
>
> dennis
> in nca[/color]


if you ask me they should totally outlaw the use of a cell phone by a motor
vehicle operator while the vehicle is in motion...the "hands free" stuff is
a joke.

--
-Chris
05 CTD
99 Durango

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