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  • Holy Crap!

    I really want to know what possesses some people when they get behind the controls of a wheeled, high-speed vehicle.

    While driving home yesterday, we were approaching a T-intersection along the top crossbar (so we're on the main road and the intersection involves a side road that ends at the main road). The main road has the right of way (no lights, no signs), while the side road has a stop sign. Both streets are two-way, one lane each direction.

    I was looking at our backseat, talking to someone we'd given a ride to, while Hubby was driving. He suddenly hits the brakes and swerves toward the center line a bit, yelling in surprise. I turned around to see a guy in t-shirt and jeans on a motorcycle coming from the side street right in front of us, turning to drive the wrong way down our side of the street. That's right, he made a super-wide right turn from the side street (probably not bothering to stop properly, as fast as he was going), cut us off, and drove down our shoulder before merging back into the correct lane and heading off. If Hubby hadn't hit the brakes when he did, the guy would've been road pizza, and if Hubby hadn't swerved a bit, the guy would've hit either the curb or us and most likely wiped out (not a pleasant prospect when he's not wearing any protective gear).

    Picture included because I'm not sure I quite explained his insanity well enough. Blue box is the crazy motorcycle guy, red box is our huge Jeep. Blue arrow is the guy's path of travel.

    Near as I can figure, he was just super-entitled and felt that the rules of the road didn't apply to him. His face looked determined, that kind of "I'll sue if you hit me" face we see on so many jaywalkers. He didn't look scared at all despite the close call.
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  • #2
    Wtf?... That's all I can think of.
    Driver Picks the Music, Shotgun Shuts His Cakehole.
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    • #3
      "Double yellow lines mean ONE WAY!1! Move it, lawbreakers!!!"

      I am glad that nothing happened and you are okay, though. Close call!
      "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't."

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      • #4
        Sounds like a future Darwin Award winner.

        We get those kinds of antics around here in the summer time, too. A few years back there was a guy who decided to slalom his motorcycle between cars by going back and forth across the double yellow line, at night, in the rain. I was doing 45 MPH and he whipped by me like I was standing still.

        A few miles down the road he managed to wipe out near the fire station. At least medical attention was handy. I heard it made the paper and he lived through the experience.

        Mostly we get groups of motorcycles using the right hand lane to pass traffic at red lights/stop signs then getting upset if you refuse to let them merge back into the lane.

        I saw a group of 20+ motorcycles try that once. Too bad for them traffic was stopped for an equestrian group using the main road and there was a group of cops at the intersection that had stopped all vehicle traffic and watched them pass illegally. 20+ riders each getting a ticket for illegally passing at least 15 cars (I don't know how far back they started, but I know where I was in line.) Must have been a good day for the cops who were writing the ticket$.

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