Incompetent Drivers

ZC-Cruiser · 09-08-2005, 04:21 PM

Well, here we go again.

Sunday just gone, we took the ZC Cruiser for a run - about an hour and a half each way.

Just out of town on a dual carriageway, there was a POS Sigma wagon in front of me and a Landcruiser in front of that - we were all in the right lane.

The Landcruiser pulled into the left lane and then some clown pulled out of a side road in front of him, causing him to perform a fairly serious braking maneuver to avoid piling into the back of the clown.

So what did the POS Sigma driver do?

Jammed on his brakes, even though our lane was empty for a kilometer ahead - UNBELIEVABLE!!!

Instead of gunning it to get past where the accident might be soon, this knobhead slows down to make sure that if there was a crash, we could all be involved...

So, on we went until, in the outskirts of Innisfail, there was a Toyota Tercel creeping along at 30km/h in the 80km/h zone.
Sitting behind it, when it's right hand indicator comes on, and it continues to creep along.
Next thing, the Tercel pulls completely off the LEFT side of the road, so I proceed to start to go past when this MEGA knobhead pulls STRAIGHT ACROSS IN FRONT OF ME!!!!!

Luckily, the XF brakes fitted to the ZC were up to the task and I skidded to a stop just short of T-Boning her.

When she had completed her U-Turn, she stopped and rolled her window down and looked over, smiling at me, I assume because I was stopped and had wound my window down - perhaps the F**K Knuckle thought I had stopped for a chat.

I gave her a wave with less than the usual number of fingers, explained to her in no uncertain terms what I thought of her and drove off - slightly shaken but otherwise OK.

These are the sort of drivers we see on current affairs shows horrified at the level of road rage out there....

People who demonstrate this level of prowess behind the wheel need to proceed to the nearest Police Station, hand their licence in and explain to the cops that they need to be put on the list of people who are just too F*****g stupid to hold a driver's licence....

SunDrifter · 09-08-2005, 05:23 PM

What? another cairns forum member?

tha hell?

I nearly got intentionally taken out by a silver r32 nissan skyline. Some ******** was showing off to his friends.... I was on my way to work, so instead of following him, I just called the cops.

ZC-Cruiser · 09-08-2005, 05:32 PM

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What? another cairns forum member?

Yep!!

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I nearly got intentionally taken out by a silver r32 nissan skyline. Some ******** was showing off to his friends.... I was on my way to work, so instead of following him, I just called the cops.

HAHAHAHAHA!!! - I was thinking, as I wrote that highly theraputic rant that, instead of venting on the ******** at Innisfail, I should have taken her number plate and reported it to the cops - probably nothing would happen tho' so I probably did OK.

Also, I think I know the flogmobile skyline you are talking about...

Going to the Swap Meet/Car Show this weekend??

what suburb you in?

R0bb0 · 09-08-2005, 07:49 PM

Innisfail......That says it all

ZC-Cruiser · 09-08-2005, 08:23 PM

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Innisfail......That says it all

Good old Innis-failure....

I should be a bit careful - we just bought a property at Mena Creek - we'll practically be Innisfail locals...

Quadcams · 09-08-2005, 10:44 PM

Should come to Sydney we have thousands of them! Bloody mayham on our roads.

R0bb0 · 09-08-2005, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by ZC-Cruiser

Good old Innis-failure....

I should be a bit careful - we just bought a property at Mena Creek - we'll practically be Innisfail locals...

Watch out you don't grow a second head :evil3:

SunDrifter · 10-08-2005, 10:43 AM

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Yep!!

HAHAHAHAHA!!! - I was thinking, as I wrote that highly theraputic rant that, instead of venting on the ******** at Innisfail, I should have taken her number plate and reported it to the cops - probably nothing would happen tho' so I probably did OK.

Also, I think I know the flogmobile skyline you are talking about...

Going to the Swap Meet/Car Show this weekend??

what suburb you in?

There's a car show / swap meet this weekend?? Whereabouts?

I'm in Manoora. You?

(I thought i had seen your car before!)

ZC-Cruiser · 10-08-2005, 11:12 AM

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There's a car show / swap meet this weekend?? Whereabouts?

Showgrounds - Sunday - entry via Scott st - gates open 6am - $3 to get in

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I'm in Manoora. You?

(I thought i had seen your car before!)

HA!
Manoora - me too!

pauljh74 · 10-08-2005, 01:00 PM

I recently helped a friend buy her first car - at 29. Living in the inner city she didn't really need a car up to this point. She just got her licence and having a solid financial position was looking at $10,000-$15,000. Looked at a 2001 Astra but ended up getting a 2001 Mazda 323. Tidy car. But in the test drive - I just hope she doesn't drive half as bad on the road normally. Driving someone else's car with the owner in the back can make you a bit nervous, but she was wandering a bit far left, spending alot of time with her left wheels in the lane next to her and I had to remind her to shift up to 4th in a 70 zone. Even after I reminded her of what she was doing wrong, she still didn't correct her error. In the end I just hoped the cars in the next lane would give her a wide berth.

Feathers · 09-08-2005, 11:16 PM

My friend classifies for this thread. I had the misfortune of being a passenger in her Echo on the weekend, and I lost count of the number of times she got honked for doing something stupid, or not looking. She doesn't pay attention to her driving, she won't listen when we try to point out things she does wrong.
I'm sure she thinks the mirrors are for checking your hair and make up in, and that the windows don't wind down, as she was constantly turning the aircon on and off.
She slows down to change lanes, and asks her passengers to check if it's ok to move left.
I had to point out 3 red lights she wasn't intending to stop for, and mention again when they had turned green.
I have no idea how she passed her driving test.

myxr6 · 09-08-2005, 11:24 PM

Jacobs well , nothing there when i lived there in 64/65.

ZC-Cruiser · 10-08-2005, 07:13 AM

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Jacobs well , nothing there when i lived there in 64/65.

You should see the joint now!
Huge residential development, new luxury stinkboat factory - all kinds of stuff going on.
This is Jacobswell, QLD we are talking about - between Brisbane and the Gold Coast - just near Dreamworld...

gtfpv · 10-08-2005, 12:33 AM

gotta remember you are in cairns . only about 50% of people over 14 have a licence there don't they . and isn't the safest vehicle there to drive besides a road train ; a 4 wheel drive.

Biggoggs · 10-08-2005, 01:18 AM

It's stupid because it `****es you off'? :P
Yea motorbikes can be insane, it's the ones that are all over the place that take 1/2 a second to go from the lane on your right to the lane on the left you checked and are about to change into.

pauljh74 · 10-08-2005, 03:19 AM

Sometimes you get people who consciously or unconsciously just sit in your blind spot - not far away enough to let you change lanes, but close enough to not be easily visible either. Sometimes you get tools who will sit in the right lane in your blind spot, while you are stuck behind a car in the left or vice versa. The guy in the right has 100m to the car in front of him and all you want to do is change lanes to make use of that clear road ahead, you speed up a little to squeeze into that gap and the guy next to you speeds up, you slow back down to let him pass as you think he's found the accelerator, but he slows down again, leaving you stuck. These knuckleheads can't drive to a fixed speed and unneccessarily hold up traffic. If I see a guy clearly moving quicker and coming up behind a slower car and alongside me in light traffic, I'll back off to give that guy room to get past both cars. It's inevitable you'll both be passed.

ZC-Cruiser · 10-08-2005, 07:26 AM

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Sometimes you get people who consciously or unconsciously just sit in your blind spot - not far away enough to let you change lanes, but close enough to not be easily visible either. Sometimes you get tools who will sit in the right lane in your blind spot, while you are stuck behind a car in the left or vice versa. The guy in the right has 100m to the car in front of him and all you want to do is change lanes to make use of that clear road ahead, you speed up a little to squeeze into that gap and the guy next to you speeds up, you slow back down to let him pass as you think he's found the accelerator, but he slows down again, leaving you stuck. These knuckleheads can't drive to a fixed speed and unneccessarily hold up traffic. If I see a guy clearly moving quicker and coming up behind a slower car and alongside me in light traffic, I'll back off to give that guy room to get past both cars. It's inevitable you'll both be passed.

Hear, Hear!
Some of the driving you see is so bad that that the perpertrators couldn't do a better job of obstructing traffic and safe driving if they tried - it often makes me wonder if they are doing it deliberately...

Racecraft · 10-08-2005, 07:55 AM

The weekend drivers are the most dangerous... Considering the difference in the volume of traffic midweek to weekends, I am amazed the Sunday specialists don't kill themselves or someone else... They use public transport all week then go for a drive on the weekend... They can't merge, they have nfi how to read traffic, they brake on the approach for GREEN lights, change lanes without looking, panic stations when on a roundabout, the list of fundamental flaws is mind boggling.. It goes to show to me anyway, being competent and physically driving the car is one thing but awareness, understanding basic road rules, your observation and forward thinking, courtesy and consideration of other road users is paramount to being a safe driver.

Some people just don't drive enough in a diverse range of traffic conditions to be considered safe imho…

A prime example happened to me on Sunday just gone. In the space of 500mtrs he drifted into my lane when taking a right hand corner, I beeped him, he gave ME the bird.. He then proceeded to turn right from the far left lane across me as I was going straight thru the intersection, causing us to both come to a shreeching halt feet apart from a T bone.. He then gets out of the car loudly abusing me.. He gets to my passenger window and thumps his fist onto my windscreen.. I just put it in reverse and clipped his fat *** with my wing mirror. All this trauma when his 'wife' and kids were in the car even though he was in the wrong not once but twice! If I could of raised my adrelin levels to agro similiar to his I might of got out, he was wild with rage haha whereas I was just in mind numbing shock.. What a nice show to put on infront of your family...

Heeno · 10-08-2005, 10:48 AM

im not going to get involved in this one you'll be here for days with the stories i have, but all i will say is incompetent drivers deserve and will get road rage and if you a person that gets it.....F@#KIN WAKE UP TO YOURSELF

GreenMachine · 10-08-2005, 01:32 PM

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A prime example happened to me on Sunday just gone. In the space of 500mtrs he drifted into my lane when taking a right hand corner, I beeped him, he gave ME the bird.. He then proceeded to turn right from the far left lane across me as I was going straight thru the intersection, causing us to both come to a shreeching halt feet apart from a T bone.. He then gets out of the car loudly abusing me.. He gets to my passenger window and thumps his fist onto my windscreen.. I just put it in reverse and clipped his fat *** with my wing mirror. All this trauma when his 'wife' and kids were in the car even though he was in the wrong not once but twice! If I could of raised my adrelin levels to agro similiar to his I might of got out, he was wild with rage haha whereas I was just in mind numbing shock.. What a nice show to put on infront of your family...

Yeah, sorry about that... i was having a REALLY f-ing bad day!

Lightning Strike GT · 10-08-2005, 04:04 PM

Ah Brisbane the home of the f**kpig drivers
This morning going along Lutwytch Rd at Bowen hills / Windsor we were stopped at the intersection of Butterfield St and Lutwytch rd there is a right turn lane and 3 going straight - the right turn lane was full and I was the only car in the next lane going straight and there was a fire engine picking its way thru the cars (lights siren) and it noticed I was the only car in the queue so he came up behind me and the light was still red and the few cars coming out of the side street seen the fire truck and stopped and so I moved slowly forward and to the left infront of the cars next to me thru the red light to let him thru very cautiously of course and the moron at the front of the line that I moved into jumped on the accellerator as soon as the light turned green missing me just and in the process giving me a full lipful for cutting him off then proceeded to cut the fire engine off in his haste to be the king and be infront again and blocked the path of the fire engine from going into the bus lane to use to get a clear go
BUT justice prevailed as there was a red unmarked traffic Commodore in the queue of stationary traffic and I do not think the boys in Blue were to impressed as one ran from the traffic to his car - the last I seen was an angry copper ripping his door open to have a polite word :togo: by the way the moron has a new XR8 falcon - now I feel embarrased

NAK302 · 10-08-2005, 04:09 PM

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Ah Brisbane the home of the f**kpig drivers
This morning going along Lutwytch Rd at Bowen hills / Windsor we were stopped at the intersection of Butterfield St and Lutwytch rd there is a right turn lane and 3 going straight - the right turn lane was full and I was the only car in the next lane going straight and there was a fire engine picking its way thru the cars (lights siren) and it noticed I was the only car in the queue so he came up behind me and the light was still red and the few cars coming out of the side street seen the fire truck and stopped and so I moved slowly forward and to the left infront of the cars next to me thru the red light to let him thru very cautiously of course and the moron at the front of the line that I moved into jumped on the accellerator as soon as the light turned green missing me just and in the process giving me a full lipful for cutting him off then proceeded to cut the fire engine off in his haste to be the king and be infront again and blocked the path of the fire engine from going into the bus lane to use to get a clear go
BUT justice prevailed as there was a red unmarked traffic Commodore in the queue of stationary traffic and I do not think the boys in Blue were to impressed as one ran from the traffic to his car - the last I seen was an angry copper ripping his door open to have a polite word :togo: by the way the moron has a new XR8 falcon - now I feel embarrased

nice story.........tell me, have you ever heard about commas and full stops? i ran out of breath reading it

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ZC-Cruiser · 10-08-2005, 04:17 PM

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nice story.........tell me, have you ever heard about commas and full stops? i ran out of breath reading it

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HAHAHAHAHA!
good one NAK but havent you herd that since emale and internet cam in that we dont haf to wory about stuff like punchooashun an spelin and gramer an all that over boorin skool stuf :hihi: