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    Dad told me this story tonight. It's from about 8 years ago or so.

    He and Mom were in the Ford Temporary (the family vehicle at the time) and were on the freeway going home.

    They were in the right lane. Dad, being a putz, was probably going 55-60.

    A semi was in the left lane, most likely going to pass him.

    Out of nowhere, this crotch rocket comes roaring up dad's rear end, and just as Mom was saying "Is he going to........?" the idiot in the rocket went in between Dad's car and the semi, (Dad claims there was hardly any room to pass in front of him) and nearly laid down his bike making a sharp curve to weave back into the righthand lane.

    Dad said, "I'm glad he was a good enough driver to keep his bike on the road. If he'd spilled there, there would have been no way to avoid running him and his bike right over."
    You really need to see a neurologist. - Wagegoth

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    The problem is he wasn't a good enough driver.
    Just very lucky. if he was a good enough driver he would never tried such a suicidal move anyways.

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    • #3
      I saw a number of bikers like this on my way to my sister's house one weekend. Dumbass bikers.
      Driver Picks the Music, Shotgun Shuts His Cakehole.
      Supernatural 9-13-05 to forever

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      • #4
        It's this kind of idiot that makes my wife not want me to get a bike. I'd like to find some statistics to show the ages of riders and the kinds of bikes involved in most accidents - I'll bet the majority turn out to be 20-25 males on crotch-rockets.

        (Me, I'm actually trying to justify my middle-age crisis of lusting after a Piaggio MP3 400. It's actually a 3-wheel scooter, but at 400 cc and with the patented front end it rides like a full-fledged roadster and only needs a regular driver's license in California!)
        I will not be pushed, stamped, filed, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own. --#6

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        • #5
          Quoth Captain Trips View Post
          It's this kind of idiot that makes my wife not want me to get a bike.
          Show her this website: TRA, and tell her that DSLOL's and DSLOM's ride.

          (The motorcycle gang my parents started)

          *DSLOx = Dear Sweet Kil Ol x
          I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
          Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
          Derails threads faster than a pocket nuke.

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          • #6
            I'm sorry, but people like the guy in the OP are the reason I've heard them called donorcycles by some in the medical profession. It's not always the motorcyclist's fault, mind you. Two recent motorcycle crashes around here were entirely not the fault of the motorcyclists, but the motorcyclists were injured pretty badly. It's just guys like in the OP that give the rest of them a bad name.
            "And though she be but little, she is FIERCE!"--Shakespeare

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            • #7
              There's a guy at my work that rides. He's a real level-headed type, and rides with caution and thought.

              His brother, however, rides his bike like one of those assholes you know will end up being a statistic, eventually. He's probably a hint Aspie with a lower tolerance for bullshit than I have (which is saying something) and it shows in the way he rides. >_<

              ^-.-^
              Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden

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              • #8
                i hate when ANYONE tries to do that - car or bike. like wtf.

                and the bikes... nothing against bikers but always remember, they can stop a lot faster than we can. actually the guy in this story sounds like he needs to remember that too...,

                cos just because the bike can stop fast does not mean the other cars can

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