insomniac, I doubt it was you or your friend. This was far from chatsworth.

 

I work in Richmond Hill and the drivers here are nuts!! We have an intersection here (16th Ave and Mural) that I can see from our shipping docks and on summer days all the warehouse guys eat their lunches and watch the accidents. Last month I actually watched some silly nine iron drive right into the back of a police car while he was writing up another accident. Yep, she did it, hit a parked cop car with the lights and everything going.

The cop just sat there like it was no big thing which makes me think it happens all the time!!

Thats the reason I bought a big red truck...I was considering a 1972 Continental with tires hung off the sides and front and rear push bars but that wouldn't pick up as many honeys....

 

friend lives in beverly hills, but travles between me and irvine on the 405....but who knows

 

I figured I would get blasted, so apologies for grouping the ladies into a stereotypical group. My bride also rides a Harley, and in her previous job, had the touch for maneuvering a 700 ton ship section into the drydock with 1" clearance.

As an accident investigator though, it seems the vast majority of SUV accidents are involving women. Then too, the vast majority of motorcycle accidents involve young males on sport bikes.

I would love to drive an SUV, but just can't see spending the cash for a big station wagon. Got my HD SCrew, the bride has her Corvette, (which you could say is a guy's car, with some woman driving it.)

So, to BillP, and ZoranC, my biker bros', apologies to you and your fine ladies.

 

PhillyRube,

No apology needed, I didn't take it in bad way.

ZoranC

 

So I'm cruising home from work and I get on the 5 freeway north from Oceanside right at the 78. Anyone familiar with the area will know that those on ramps suck, because people drive way too slow to merge with traffic properly.

I see an opening to merge and gun it (I'm driving my wife's Nissan 200SX). The car in front of me gets over as well. No biggie. I drive for a bit, and decide to go around this car as they are slow to get up to my normal driving speed (around 85). I start to pull over and just as I do, a car in the lane left of me pulls over in front of the car directly in front of me.

That car decides to get over just as I'm starting to go around her. I check my blind spot and safely move over a second lane and speed up to get away from all this. As I'm passing this blonde idiot, she starts to get over again, nearly side swiping me in the process! She realizes her mistake, makes a stupid grin that says "Whoops, I'm stupid" and I pass with no problem.

Now I should say, that back in the day, I would have gotten all mad and cursed at this person, and followed them around. But I'm older (hopefully wiser) now, so I don't do anything. After all, nothing happened that I wasn't prepared for. No harm, no foul.

About 20 minutes later, I'm cruising along past Camp Pendleton doing 85 with the cruise control on in the 3 lane. There's a car I'm coming up on in the 2 lane that's about 1 1/2 car lengths ahead of me. Out of nowhere, a car in the fast lane, cuts across two lanes, right behind that car and in front of me. By the time they get in front of me, they literally missed both cars by an inch front and back. I laid on the horn for about a minute following the car to the next lane. We cruising up to the border check and the car starts hauling *** to save some face. I gun it again and pull up and realize that it's the same freaking stupid blonde!

We slow through the border patrol and she never looks back. I know she knows I'm there because she was practically in my front seat a few minutes ago!

Once we're through the border, she decides to get back over in the fast lane by cutting across the same two lanes. I gun it just to give her a "What the hell?" look. (Note: according to my wife, my "What the hell?" look is just like my "I'm gonna cram my fist down your throat!" look). I pull up along side her, still in my same lane, and she flips me off and laughs.

This sets me off. Doing about 75 I check my blind spots across the two lanes to my left, see it's clear, and swerve over, right next to her. I give her the mad dog, call her some fitting obscenities and she just laughs a little. She speeds up in her Volkswagen b*tch box like she's gonna cut me off again. I floor it and box her in. She looks over again, this time, realizing I might be serious and the grin disappears. I roll down my window, speed up and pull over a little. My tires riding the lane dividers, my left hand gesturing for her to pull over, just to yell at her. I know she won't and even if she did I probably wouldn't, because you can't be too careful!

Again, back in the day I would have pulled in front of her and thrown some nickels out the window, but alas, I'm older and wiser (latter hasn't been proved yet) and settle for spitting my gum and a nice loogie on her windshield.

She never looks over again...which makes me feel a lot better. She had b*lls to stick up her middle finger at me, but none to find out if I was serious or not. I'm not serious, but like to prove my point that I (or anyone else) could be.

I just find it amazing, how stupid some people can be. I mean, she flipped ME OFF, because SHE almost hit ME!!!

It's been a long time since I've had any incident of "road rage", but stress at work, etc. and one middle finger from some stupid blonde bimbo in a b*tch box set me off today. Guess I needed to vent a little.

I wished I had the HD with me today!

 

Are you guys for real, come take a ride through North Jersey. That sort of thing happens several times a day around here, probably 'cause all of the foreigners. It's insane, I can't believe it myself. Everyone around here has a cell phone stuck to their face, or they are watching thier dashboard TV's. I'm not even exagerating, not a bit. One moron after another. Riding my softail in rush hour traffic really tests my defensive driving skills! You have not experienced ROAD RAGE until you drove down route 17 in Paramus,NJ. I'm gettin' pissed just writing about it.

 

What's really scarey is you could give someone the "glare" or the "finger" and they return the gesture with a couple of caps (gunshots). In my own car, I just let them go by. On the bike, I ignore them (more mass=more injury).
The beauty is, if I'm working and some knucklehead does something, I light them up and chew 'em out. rarely do I put a summons on them. Virginia just passed an Agressive Driver Statute. It pretty much mirrors reckless driving but if it also involves gestures, yelling, etc. then it becomes agressive. The big difference is our judges are locking people up more for agressive while reckless pretty much gets you a fine or community service.

Motor safe!

 

Something happened to me two days ago, but not on the freeway. I pull up to a light with a double left turn lane, next to a Vette so new the window sticker glue was still on the window. I'm in the right side lane waiting for the light to change, and it finally does. The "person" driving the Vette pulls forward at the same rate I do, then begins to move over in to the right hand lane in the middle of the inersection(right into me I might add)!! Almost as if I was waiting for this to happen, I lay into a nice loooooong blast of the horn, LOL! Just before doing some body work on their door(and my front fender), they figure out what is going on in the real world, and move back over. The thing that gets me is.......... During what part of the nearly five minutes waiting for the light did they not notice the six foot tall F-150 sitting next to them. After this incident, they hung way back and made no attempt to pass or anything. That's a good thing, LOL!

 

Apology accepted, PhillyRube.

There are a lot of women driving bug SUVs and pickups these days for sure and I be a lot of them aren't use to the size. I also see a lot of guys driving big vehicles these days that are also morons not to mention idiots driving their hot rod vettes, stangs, etc.

Hell, these days you got a lot of morons riding big bikes who have no experience. Ever gone on a run where it's open to anyone? You get some scary folks riding these bikes. Makes you wonder if they even have a motorcycle license.

Like I said before, just because you got the money to buy a nice and/or fast car doesn't mean you automatically got the knowledge to drive it right.