Thread: It's gotta be a long week end = idiots

Full moon this weekend, all the loopies are out there!!!

Long weekend? Don't go near a highway.

It is frustrating to hear about this driver.
Unfortunately driving in Melbourne as changed over the years and we have brought this on ourselves IMO.

The bigger picture to explain...
The pink car driver has been tought to drive to the conditions.
Maybe driving on a unfamiliar road looking for a turn( and not knowing if it's left or right) is quite possibly why they aren't driving like a mad person at 80km/h.
(Nothing in the rule book about driving AT the posted speed limit, only up to).
Of course people should only overtake on the right, sounds like that didn't happen.
It also would have taken only one courteous driver to slow down enough to let the pink car do his turn earlier and free the road up for everyone.

My job requires me to plan my right turns well in advance.
I know I'm slow off from the lights(57->63ton) but have found even if I've let 10 cars pass before trying to get into the right lane those behind won't allow me to, even when at the same speed.
Unfortunately it's safer to be in the right lane from the start thus holding up the traffic.
This then frustrates the cars behind who start trying to undertake.
I was tought undertaking will lead to an undertaker if you do enough of it.

In our local village letting people out of car parks and side streets was the normal thing to do.
Now people don't give a thankyou wave for letting them in or they look the other way while blocking the road, yes, even on the painted clear zones.

I blame the Television!
People seem to be in a rush rush home for the news, keep it up and they'll be on it.
The mad driving folk at 6:00->6:30pm can only be the Home And Away addicts who need a 7:00pm fix.

Well im driving along at exactly 60 kmh by my gps along churchill rd in Kilburn this morning, and a copper on a motorbike went by me at over 80 kmh...in a hurry i thought for some job. Nope. As i was driving along watching him he pulled into the local maccas... obviously late for his half priced brekky with his mates, parked there waiting for him. Yanks have doughnuts, aussies have maccas... What would ur explanation be?? Sorry officer i was late for brekky with my mates, thats why i was speeding....:banghead::banghead::banghead:

Cheers Rod

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I've noticed, Mario, that this is not your first post of this nature. In fact, you have posted a number of times about road behavior such as this.
I'm beginning to get the feeling you are living on the wrong side of town.

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

Driving along Burwood today in the 80 kph speed zone, I noticed the traffic was banked up , 6-7 cars stuck behind an idiot in a hot pink coloured Hyundai in the middle lane doing 60kph!. the reason they were stuck behind this idiot was that all the other heavy traffic was doing 80kph either side of the idiot.
Then Idiot is almost at the intersection of Ferntree Gully road and stops 10 metres in front of the green light and holds up all the traffic behind them, and has their left turn indicator going!. So pardon every other road user Idiot!, they'll just wait at your beckon and call for you to make your missed left turn.

I imagine idiot was listening to a GPS that instructed turn left, and was repeating it to turn left. Idiot missed the slip lane to turn left.

Idiot probably couldn't think for itself and drive through the intersection and maybe use it's small brain and do a U turn and come back to the intersection.

These are the idiots that cause accidents and road rage of other drivers.
You sort of want jump out of my car and rip the ignition keys out and throw them down the nearest drain hole. This idiot shouldn't have a licence, cause they can't drive.

Rant over..... I feel better now.

Until next weekend when the day trippers frequent our local roads

When I read posts like that I'm glad that I don't have any stickers on my car that associate me with any Land Rover forums or clubs . .W.

Don't forget to factor in the effects cheaper fuel will have as well. The price comes down and more get out on the road.

This place is pretty well full of morons trying to get themselves killed whether its a public holiday or not. I hardly get to drive without seeing some kind of lunatic behaviour which by pure luck or other peoples avoiding actions sees the moron get away with it. Sooner or later of course tragically, the luck runs out.
cheers,
D