Might as well run it

[Summerfly413]

So the other night I went with my friends to see the midnight showing of Harry Potter. On the way we had to stop at numerous red lights.

Twice as we came up to red lights, this one car would pull up...further...slowly...further. Until they were literally sitting in the middle of the intersection. The road we were on was the main road, and the roads that had the green light were just from neighborhoods and it was late so no one was coming.

But still....if you're going to make the decision to pull into the middle of an intersection while you have a red light, you as well go all out and run it. Was their mentality "Well, as long as I don't run it, cops can't do anything to me!"?

Then last night we were driving on the same road and saw someone different do the same exact thing.


Made nice little picture.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...fly/driver.jpg

[Mottom24]

i get this all the time in philly, which is very annoying in a city. people inch up and inch up to the point where they block the pedestrians from crossing. sometimes people just walk around them and force them to be stuck there as they get dirty looks by pedestrians. we have sensor lights in the city, which is activated when traffic goes over a magnetic sensor, but most of them are timed, and i just don't understand how people think they are getting anywhere any fast by inching into the middle of traffic.

[mikoyan29]

I see this alot when I drive in Detroit.

[d962831]

I see this happening here all the time, even way out way I live on the very outskirts of the city, surrounded on all sides by fields.

[Stormraven]

I think you get the same no matter where you are. The ones who annoy me are the idiots stopped behind me who feel the need to get within inches of my bumper, constantly creeping up if I so much as move six inches.

[Sheldonrs]

I bet when that driver was a kid, he would put his finger close to his little brother or sister saying "I'm not touching you! I'm not touching you!".

[d962831]

or the ones in front of you who come to a full stop, leaving space enough for three cars between them and the car ahead of them, and then when they finally realize that they're so far back they need binoculars, move up....inch.....by....inch...by.....inch, rather than covering the whole distance at once.

[Pagan]

I'm always thinking, "Creeping is not going to make it change faster!" (Except for the very few that are on demand.)

or the ones in front of you who come to a full stop, leaving space enough for three cars between them and the car ahead of them, and then when they finally realize that they're so far back they need binoculars, move up....inch.....by....inch...by.....inch, rather than covering the whole distance at once.

That. Drives. Me. Insane! It seems like, in their twisted reasoning, that by doing this they don't actually have to stop for the red light.

There's a light near my grandparents old house that was on demand for the cross street. One day on the way over, this guy is sitting there, waiting for it to change, but he's not close enough to be sitting on the loop detector. I'm sitting behind him, can't go around him, honked at him about 5 times before he pulled his head out and pulled up. And this was before cell phones so Goddess only knows what he was doing....and I'd rather not know! Bonehead.

[blas]

People do that around here all of the time. It's pretty entertaining to watch some impatient jerkoff who thinks he can "trip the sensor" sit there and wiggle forward and forward and forward until he's almost so far into the intersection that traffic with the right of way is nearly hitting him.

Haha, trip the sensor....most of the lights around here are on timers, especially the ones down by the busier areas. There's a possibility after a certain time that it goes to sensors.....or that some may be sensors...

[edible_hat]

There used to be a kind of sensor that sometimes didn't detect cars so you had to do the back-and-forth on it, but they haven't been used since the 70s.

[Mottom24]

it's so easy to spot sensor lights. its the only ones with weird wirelike crossings in the road just before the line you're suppose to stop at... that doesn't stop people from creeping though. it sucks when you're on a scooter though, because they don't give off a strong enough magnetic signal to set off the light lol.

I think I hate people who don't pull up at all, as mentioned above, more than creepers. they stay 3 cars away from the line and I just look back at them in the other lane... looking at them slowly so they see me looking, then look at allllllll the empty space they aren't taking up. some get the hint, others just stare blankly as if this is how you're suppose to drive...