after being reminded of a lorry on a recent episode of road wars, it brings me to ask;
with the combined years of motoring everyone here has, you must have seen drivers do some bizarre things, but what is the most stupid thing you have ever seen a motorist do?
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I was on a coach going throuh London inthe 70'sand the coach wa cut up by a car driver. The coach driver left his seat walked up to the car which was waiting for the lights and indicated to the driver to lower his window. The guy did this and received a punch in the face for his trouble. I reckon that was two stupid things in one incident!
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In almost 35 years of keeping a clean licence probably the most bizarre is seeing a local elderly resident tootling along in his Renault 5 with the back seats removed and in their place a portable gas fire and cylinder which he used to heat the car in winter (as he was driving I might add). Never did trust Renault electrics myself......
Anyway, Plod eventually put paid to this enterprise.
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The guy I just saw riding a big bike in shorts, T shirt and no gloves..
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And here's what happens if you do decide to use gas cylinders in the car.....
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See how the following (!) two drivers get on! They must have been pretty stupid, as well!
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A past gf's Mum stopped to ask advice of a copper some years ago. She had been clearing out the house of a recently deceased relative who had years before been caring for a relative with breathing difficulties. Said relative was a gamekeeper, and used to make his own shotgun cartridges and so forth.
Anyway, the reaction to the question of where to take the two bottles of oxygen and a barrel of gunpowder that said Mum now had in the boot of her car was apparently somewhat comical. I believe that the army bomb squad were being actively considered at one point :-).
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Motor bike in shorts, ouch. A good way to lose a few pounds of unsightly flesh, have it scaped of by the road surface.
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Always the no gloves thing that gets me because of course I did it and I know what I it feels like when you instinctively put you hands out to break your fall...
OOOWWW!
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The guy I just saw riding a big bike in shorts T shirt and no gloves..
You left out the flip-flops, oilrag.
In my area, often sighted.
And then there is the &%^#!%*() (&^$@#& - and that is all I can say about him - who turns up on his 750 to pick up his kid at school in ther afternoon.
HE'S in full leathers, SHE - all of 8 yrs old - is on the pillion in gymslip, shirt and helmet.
License to own kids....?
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this is something ive seen quite often near where i live. It really, really winds me up. It is totally irresponsible.
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During the evening rush hour, a guy in a Mercedes convertible was reversing back down the fast lane where the A3(M) peels off the A27 at Farlington, near Portsmouth, because he'd taken the wrong turning. If you've ever been on this bit of road you'll know how busy it gets......this image has stuck with me for years!
Just proves that money can't buy common sense.
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Coming home from work last Tuesday I followed a Rav4 with a double mattress on the roof. It was travelling pretty slowly which made me think the driver must have had very little confidence in the security of his load. All became clear when he pulled over to let the queue of following traffic pass. The mattress was secured solely by the driver's hand holding on through the sun roof. I now wonder whether his slow speed was a result of his left hand not being free for the purpose of changing up to second gear.
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Two black cab drivers outside Harrods trying to spit at each other whilst both in their cabs. Distance too far and not enough propulsion didn't stop either from trying for what seemed like ages. A lot of phlegm though.
I couldn't stop laughing.
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I was once waiting (and signalling right) for a gap in oncoming traffic to make a right turn from a single carriageway 60 limit into a minor road. Gap appears, I am ready to go and must have made one final check in my offside mirror to see to my horror a car driven by a young woman holding a phone to her ear overtaking my car and the couple of vehicles waiting behind me at very high speed. If I had failed to check or moved out she would have T-boned my car on my side..............
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Ah SS i had exactly the same thing at Shrewsbury a few weeks ago, waiting to turn right into a dealership, several vehicles incl trucks behind, gap appears i'm about to turn, white astra van comes blasting past the lot of us; never a large unamused plod when you want one....
I've seen some bad driving over the years, but the worst overtake was on the A41 i think going south to Banbury, must be 25 years ago, but i can still see it.
Bedford CF van overtook me and several vehicles in front of on hill on blind bend, and as is always the case the unfortunate coming the other way had to nearly ditch it to save lots of lives, vaux victor towing trailer IIRC, I couldn't catch him, but i was incenced by the sheer gross stupidity..criminal negligence from him at the very least.
Why is it always a car with family in that comes the other way at times like that, if there was any justice it would have been a 80 ton mobile crane.
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Not counting errors, the stupidest thing I've ever seen a road user do is:
On an A road a motorcyclist was overtaking a line of cars in the face of an oncoming car, whose driver flashed his headlights. Provoked by this, the biker took his hands off the handlebars and streched his arms out horizontally to the sides and sat up straight.
He kept going towards the car with this 'crucifix' pose at about 50 mph, swerving back to his own side of the road at the last minute, just missing the car, still with his arms outstretched. This was on a downhill stretch, so presumably the bike was just rollling as the rider was not touching the throttle. I just couldn't believe my eyes.
The next stupidest thing was similar, on the M25 some years ago. A battered old car drew alongside me and kept pace. The driver appeared to be sprawled sideways across the car - he was looking at me from by the passenger window and holding up some copies of 'Loot' magazine. I think he was trying to sell me one on the move.
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2 more good ones.
I was a passenger on a restored Bedford VAL coach. On a winding road with double white lines, a VW Golf GTI overtook almost blind, the driver chatting on a hand-held mobile as he diced with death.
Locally there used to be a very frail elderly couple who crawled round in an equally frail Austin A30. The man drove this car at a randomly varying speed between 20 and 30 mph on main A roads, weaving from side to side as he did so. I was held up in a queue behind this car two or three times. Then it dawned on me what the likely scenario was. The husband's eyesight was probably failing and he relied on his wife, who probably couldn't drive, as a pair of extra eyes.
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In front of me one Sunday morning, about 8 years ago on a roundabout half a mile from the local tip.
wreck of a car pulling a `trailer` made from the bottom half of an old caravan, sawn off at about 4 foot, absolutely stuffed with rubbish including an old sofa and chair.
Went into roundabout, left suspension gave way followed by the other side. `Trailer` pancaked onto the road blocking the roundabout.
I never laughed so much on the road, before or after.
Edited by oilrag on 04/07/2008 at 19:14
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I'm still grateful to the little old lady who chose to drive the wrong way round the large roundabout above the A1M and M25.
I'm grateful to her stupidity as I was driving a Fiesta that was somewhat sideways thanks to some very spirited driving. I'd also got a police traffic car catching me up and who would doubtless have pulled me without the timely arrival of the stupid old lady.
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A little old lady down the road would, I swear:
Step out of her front door, walk to the curb and look up and down the road. She'd then go back and lock her front door. She'd unlock her car and get in it, taking her time to make sure she was properly settled, and everything was arranged as she liked it. She would then start the car and reverse into the road..............
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About a year ago on the A12 heading to Ipswich. Two transit trucks snail-racing. Chap in a Golf GTI became increasingly impatient and ended up overtaking the two of them through a busy lay-by. By busy I mean there was a caravan selling food, all that stuff. Even worse, the guy took the next turning. I learnt the meaning of the word "gobsmacked" that day.
There's something about the A12 that seems to bring out the worst in people.
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