Idiot driver totally owned

[Lace Neil Singer]

This sort of thing only ever happens once in a blue moon. I'm still laughing at it, even a week after. XD We had an unmarked police car on the forecourt at the time, with the plain clothes policeman filling up his motor. Enter the idiot. He drove into the petrol station at speed, with a phone clamped to his ear. Even the most unobservant policeman could not have missed such a blatant display of law breaking, and this copper certainly did not. The idiot was nicked in moments; and as the icing on the cake, was hauled into the police car by the other cop in the car. He stayed with the idiot while the other policeman came in and paid.

The moral of the story; don't break laws driving into the petrol station. You never know who might be watching.

[morgana]

Ain't karma purty?

[Argabarga]

Now watch him whine all over Facebook about how the cops ain't got nothing better to do than "hassle him for no reason".

[Pixelated]

Now watch him whine all over Facebook about how the cops ain't got nothing better to do than "hassle him for no reason".

Oh, of course, Because he's a GREAT driver and the rules are there for the not-great ones. (Seriously, that's a close approximation of an argument used by a long-ago coworker of mine ... he was SUCH a good driver that rules shouldn't apply to him.)

[skeptic53]

Many years ago I frequently drove a stretch of freeway and got to know where the cops would lie in wait. Was in the fast lane, had a jerk tailgating me, flashing his lights, etc but there was no safe opening in the next lane over. I put on my signal to let him know I planned to move over but he kept up the harassment. I waited a bit more than I needed to and moved over just before the speed trap. He roared by, waving his middle finger, even had a carved wooden hand permanently flipping the bird in the rear window. I had the deep satisfaction of watching him get pulled over, of course I gave him a cheery wave. That's the one and only time in almost 50 years of driving I've actually seen karmic justice served. Youtube has lots of videos from dashcams, though.

[MoonCat]

Oh, of course, Because he's a GREAT driver and the rules are there for the not-great ones. (Seriously, that's a close approximation of an argument used by a long-ago coworker of mine ... he was SUCH a good driver that rules shouldn't apply to him.)

I once read a local survey done by a small newspaper, in which they questioned drivers about tickets, driving technique, etc. The final question was, how do you rate yourself as a driver? Every.Single.One said "above average."

[csquared]

I once saw an article on a survey that had something like 75% of the people claiming to be in the top 10% of drivers.

[EricKei]

Well, yeah -- as with many other things: It's always the other guy who's the incompetent asshole.

[Argabarga]

To be fair, I've avoided a LOT of accidents over the years by assuming that's the case...

[Slave to the Phone]

As an almost life long biker (couldn't ride until I was big enough to reach the controls), I always assume that everyone on the road is either drunk, blind or actually trying to kill me.

When I was working in the valley, I was able to watch karma in action re: known speed traps on a weekly basis. It was almost worth making the drive to see it happen.

[earl colby pottinger]

Blind

As an almost life long biker (couldn't ride until I was big enough to reach the controls), I always assume that everyone on the road is either drunk, blind or actually trying to kill me.

When I was working in the valley, I was able to watch karma in action re: known speed traps on a weekly basis. It was almost worth making the drive to see it happen.

Please always assume we are blind. On more than one occasion I could hear the motorbike beside me, but no matter where I looked including in my mirrors I could not see the bike and with my windows closed I could not tell by ear either.

I knew the bike was there, but I could not tell where.

[nutraxfornerves]

A 2013 study of US college stdents found that most did indeed think they were above average. One interesting finding was that participants said that others would probably rate their skills lower, because everyone has different ideas of what makes a good driver.

Here's the scary finding:
“For a portion of drivers, their ability to text message while driving might be one of the characteristics that they believe makes them a unique and superior driver."

[Sparklyturtle]

I've seen karma hit someone right between the eyes a few times, the last time not too long ago. There were a bunch of us waiting for a school bus to offload some students, and as we were supposed to by law traffic was stopped on both sides of the road. Well, someone either didn't notice the bus or didn't feel they should have to wait, because they drove right down the left-turn lane and passed the bus, to be promptly pulled over by the local deputy who was waiting with the rest of us. The deputy passed close enough to my car that I could see the big grin on his face. That particular gaff cost the driver $600.

[wordgirl]

Please always assume we are blind. On more than one occasion I could hear the motorbike beside me, but no matter where I looked including in my mirrors I could not see the bike and with my windows closed I could not tell by ear either.

I knew the bike was there, but I could not tell where.

Oh, preach.

I live in a biker town (motored and people-powered alike.) I get it that both kinds of bikes have a right to use the road. But some of them don't seem to understand how incredibly vulnerable they are, and they are riding like they are the only people on the road. It's insane. Just this morning there was a young motorcyclist riding on the local interstate. I know he was young because no helmet; the rest of his ensemble comprised T-shirt, shorts, flipflops. FLIPFLOPS, people.

Traffic was moving at about a 75 mph pace and the road was pretty crowded. But he had apparently somewhere to be. So he was aspiring to go about 10 mph faster, and he was lane-splitting and riding in the breakdown lane. I felt like flagging him down and saying, "Dude. The person who kills you and the people who have to scrape your smeared bits and bones off the roadway are going to be so bummed."

[dalesys]

... saying, "Dude. The person who kills you and the people who have to scrape your smeared bits and bones off the roadway are going to ...

... say 'Score! Tell the transplant team we've found some abandoned parts!' ..."