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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / October 2007Today's MFFY Sloth
So I'm driving on a 4-lane street; speed limit: 45 MPH. I'm in the left lane because I have a left turn coming up. Ahead of me is a MFFY in an Accord going 35 MPH. I briefly considered passing the Sloth on the right, but other Sloths in the right lane were positioned such as to make this impossible. So I grit my teeth and hold my course. We pass a big orange wanring sign: there is road work ahead, and the left lane is about to close. The MFFY Sloth makes no attempt to change either her pace or her lane. We reach the stop sign at the end of the block. As I pull into the left turn pocket, I can clearly see that there are orange cones closing off the left lane about 100 feet into the next block. Ahead of me, the MFFY apparently sees them, too, and *floors it*, running through the stop sign at over 50 MPH. This draws a long honk from the SUV that was just beginning to make a left turn across the MFFY's path, but he managed to stop in time to avoid a collision. >So I'm driving on a 4-lane street; speed limit: 45 MPH. I'm in the >left lane because I have a left turn coming up. Ahead of me is a MFFY [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >SUV that was just beginning to make a left turn across the MFFY's >path, but he managed to stop in time to avoid a collision. I predict her death in an automobile "accident" at some point in the future, proceeded by a ve3ry brief period of time in which her hands are not on the steering wheel, but on her face, much like the Caulkin in "Home Alone". =))  Signature"Speeders And Drunk Drivers Are MURDERERS" brags of it's homosexuallity: the guys at the bath-house stopped laughing at my 3 inch weenie. : http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.autos.driving/msg/168e8e621dd649fb?hl=en "Speeders And Drunk Drivers Are MURDERERS" brags of it's ability to operate a vehicle: I must be doing something right to go 3 1/2 years without a fatal crash. : http://groups.google.com/group/misc.transport.road/msg/a376114ee8a61824?hl=en Murderous Speeding Drunken Distracted Driver (Hector Goldstein): > >So I'm driving on a 4-lane street; speed limit: 45 MPH. I'm in the > >left lane because I have a left turn coming up. Ahead of me is a MFFY [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > are not on the steering wheel, but on her face, much like the Caulkin > in "Home Alone". =)) Followed by a lecture from a berieved relative posting to r.a.d from a web forum lecturing us on our insensitivity when we celebrate another kill for Mr. Darwin. Signature"Eat sh.t, you criminal coddling psychopath.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" -- Speeder & Drunk Drivers Are Murderers (a.k.a: LBMHB/lb-VH/aunt millie/AJ etc...) 10/12/07 Ref: http://tinyurl.com/ywcept Msg ID: Xns99C7D0318B986riemann1850yahoocom@216.168.3.70 >> I predict her death in an automobile "accident" at some point in the >> future, proceeded by a ve3ry brief period of time in which her hands [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >web forum lecturing us on our insensitivity when we celebrate another >kill for Mr. Darwin. You know, for some reason I always forget this constant. Thanks for picking up my slack. :-) Signature"Speeders And Drunk Drivers Are MURDERERS" brags of it's homosexuallity: the guys at the bath-house stopped laughing at my 3 inch weenie. : http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.autos.driving/msg/168e8e621dd649fb?hl=en "Speeders And Drunk Drivers Are MURDERERS" brags of it's ability to operate a vehicle: I must be doing something right to go 3 1/2 years without a fatal crash. : http://groups.google.com/group/misc.transport.road/msg/a376114ee8a61824?hl=en > We reach the stop sign at the end of the block. As I pull into the > left turn pocket, I can clearly see that there are orange cones [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > SUV that was just beginning to make a left turn across the MFFY's > path, but he managed to stop in time to avoid a collision. This reminded me of something.... so I quickly as possible got the video put together and made myself an account on your favorite video site, blip.tv. This SUV driving sloth sits at a green signal not moving in typical we-have-all-day so long as we are in front style. Once awakened with a couple horn taps to remind the driver the light isn't green forever, the SUV driver slothly gets moving only to encounter people turning left on the other side of the light. The SUV driver then decides that he/she has places to go and people to see and passes illegally on the gravel shoulder. http://blip.tv/file/454385/ > This reminded me of something.... so I quickly as possible got the video > put together and made myself an account on your favorite video site, > blip.tv. > > This SUV driving sloth sits at a green signal not moving in typical > we-have-all-day so long as we are in front style. It's a little difficult to tell from the video, but wasn't there a car in front of the SUV before it started moving? If so, did that car move well before the SUV started moving? >> This reminded me of something.... so I quickly as possible got the video >> put together and made myself an account on your favorite video site, [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > in front of the SUV before it started moving? If so, did that car move > well before the SUV started moving? By the time the redish SUV got moving, there was nothing but dailylight between it and the far side of the intersection. Camera can't see it because I lined up so I could see beyond the SUV. Watch the silver car... it is in front of the SUV at the light... when we see it again, it is turning right. The silver SUV was in front of the silver car. The silver car entered the turn lane immediately. When I move to the left slightly to see what was going on, that's when the light had been green for a bit and I saw nothing remaining in front of the SUV. >http://blip.tv/file/454385/ The video isn't playing for me for some reason. I see the thumbnail, but the main screen is just a big black rectangle. Other videos on the site play fine. WTF? >>http://blip.tv/file/454385/ > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > WTF? I have no clue... I am newbie to that site. I had to select windows media in the little Play video in alternate format: select box to make it work in firefox. It works in IE fine... I just uploaded it in wmv format dunno what's with the site itself. Another thing, to get an idea of when the light went green, notice the oncoming traffic... (including the slow to move garbage truck) >>>http://blip.tv/file/454385/ >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >I have no clue... I tried downloading it and then it played fine. First time I've ever had a problem with blip.tv. Go figure... > I tried downloading it and then it played fine. First time I've ever > had a problem with blip.tv. Go figure... I downloaded the .flv, it played ok so I re-uploaded it... works fine. I dunno. >> I tried downloading it and then it played fine. First time I've ever >> had a problem with blip.tv. Go figure... > >I downloaded the .flv, it played ok so I re-uploaded it... works fine. I >dunno. Technology: What we call stuff that doesn't work yet. Signature"Speeders And Drunk Drivers Are MURDERERS" brags of it's homosexuallity: the guys at the bath-house stopped laughing at my 3 inch weenie. : http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.autos.driving/msg/168e8e621dd649fb?hl=en "Speeders And Drunk Drivers Are MURDERERS" brags of it's ability to operate a vehicle: I must be doing something right to go 3 1/2 years without a fatal crash. : http://groups.google.com/group/misc.transport.road/msg/a376114ee8a61824?hl=en >> I tried downloading it and then it played fine. First time I've ever >> had a problem with blip.tv. Go figure... > >I downloaded the .flv, it played ok so I re-uploaded it... works fine. I >dunno. I also liked your "Road Blocking Truckers" video. Two more fine graduates of the GPSTroll Trucking Institute. One suggestion: find some way to raise the height of your camera mount. The picture is already low-res enough without half of the usable picture being taken up by your Mustang dashboard. :) > On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:43:21 -0500, tetraethylleadREMOVET...@yahoo.com > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > mount. The picture is already low-res enough without half of the > usable picture being taken up by your Mustang dashboard. :) Agreed on both counts: the outstanding nominations for the GPSTroll Award, and the point about the dashboard display that makes my Jeep hood look good. I use a FlexPod Pro flexible tripod, which is quite easy to adapt, and when flexed just right, provides an amazingly stable platform for the cam but is a quick-swipe removal process. It brings better results than my use of non-keyboard text in newsgroup subject headers. :) >I use a FlexPod Pro flexible tripod, which is quite >easy to adapt, and when flexed just right, provides an amazingly >stable platform for the cam but is a quick-swipe removal process. Sounds like a great setup, but my camera has too much glass in it for that guy to support. Guess I now have an excuse to buy a new camera. :-) Signature"Speeders And Drunk Drivers Are MURDERERS" brags of it's homosexuallity: the guys at the bath-house stopped laughing at my 3 inch weenie. : http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.autos.driving/msg/168e8e621dd649fb?hl=en "Speeders And Drunk Drivers Are MURDERERS" brags of it's ability to operate a vehicle: I must be doing something right to go 3 1/2 years without a fatal crash. : http://groups.google.com/group/misc.transport.road/msg/a376114ee8a61824?hl=en > One suggestion: find some way to raise the height of your camera > mount. The picture is already low-res enough without half of the > usable picture being taken up by your Mustang dashboard. :) I'm still playing with things... some videos are better than others. It depends on how I get the camera set up each time. To get the dash out of the pic, I have to zoom in, which means less of a field of vision. Higher up was getting me the headliner... but I'll keep trying to find a better way. Sometimes I am running short of memory so I record in low-res, also there is some loss converting from avi to wmv (much worse on the earlier videos I did but haven't posted). Stupid microsoft movie maker crashes editing avi's. Scott in SoCal: > >http://blip.tv/file/454385/ > > The video isn't playing for me for some reason. I see the thumbnail, > but the main screen is just a big black rectangle. Other videos on the > site play fine. The video played fine on my end..... > WTF? Dunno. Signature"This town needs an enema!" --The Joker > Scott in SoCal: >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > The video played fine on my end..... I figured out how to default it to wmv instead of flash.... something is still fubar with the flash version the site created. On Oct 30, 12:24 am, tetraethylleadREMOVET...@yahoo.com (Brent P) wrote: > This reminded me of something.... http://blip.tv/file/454385/ > This SUV driving sloth sits at a green signal not moving in typical > we-have-all-day so long as we are in front style. Once awakened with a > couple horn taps to remind the driver the light isn't green forever, the > SUV driver slothly gets moving only to encounter people turning left on > the other side of the light. The SUV driver then decides that he/she has > places to go and people to see and passes illegally on the gravel shoulder. Pfft, you were tailgating. Stones/glass houses, etc. And we can easily see you have no evidence to support you claim that the SUV driver was a "sloth". Your video might as well be still pictures, unless your dash is the intended primary subject. And, we can easily see if the driver -was- a sloth it made absolutely no difference in the length of your trip, so your "complaint" is without foundation. I recommend you concentrate on your own "at-fault "accident" looking for a place to happen" driving style, preferably to and from a videography course. ----- - gpsman > So I'm driving on a 4-lane street; speed limit: 45 MPH. I'm in the > left lane because I have a left turn coming up. Ahead of me is a MFFY [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > SUV that was just beginning to make a left turn across the MFFY's > path, but he managed to stop in time to avoid a collision. I foresee a future Darwin Award? nominee in that Accord driver. No surprise; here in KC I have seen way too many MFFY types jockey for position in a lane-ending area, causing the traffic in the continuing lane to crush the brakes. I'd bet that most of the traffic backups would be eliminated if that practice were discontinued. Scott in SoCal: > We reach the stop sign at the end of the block. As I pull into the > left turn pocket, I can clearly see that there are orange cones > closing off the left lane about 100 feet into the next block. Ahead of > me, the MFFY apparently sees them, too, and *floors it*, running > through the stop sign at over 50 MPH. More proof that drivers licenses are too easy to acquire. > This draws a long honk from the > SUV that was just beginning to make a left turn across the MFFY's > path, but he managed to stop in time to avoid a collision. Good situational awareness on the part of the SUV driver to recognise the potential hazard and to react to it when it could have become an emergency.... Signature-- "Take off that silly a.s hat!" --Chris Rock > So I'm driving on a 4-lane street; speed limit: 45 MPH. I'm in the > left lane because I have a left turn coming up. Ahead of me is a MFFY > in an Accord going 35 MPH. I briefly considered passing the Sloth on > the right, but other Sloths in the right lane were positioned such as > to make this impossible. So your lack of situational awareness bit you in the a.s, again. What a surprise. > So I grit my teeth and hold my course. > We reach the stop sign at the end of the block. O M G! You had to drive 35 in a 45 for almost a whole block?! It's simply a wonder you have any teeth left. ----- - gpsman |
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