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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / January 2007Is there any way to stop line jumping a.sholes?
Through lane backed up about 1/2 mile at the light.. Left turn only lane full of a.sholes who run up to the light and then try to cut in front of the line.. If it were a cop, I'd camp out at this intersection and ticket every a.shole who cut into the line instead of turning left as directed by the arrows. Alternatives: 1. Stand between the lanes with a steel-framed sign on an 8-foot length of 3/4" pipe. The sign says: " If you cut into the line, I'll smack your car with this sign!". 2. Stand nearby with my camera, telephoto lens. Photograph the face of each line cutter and show a sign that says "Line cutters: See yourself on www.AtlantaAssholes.com" (available domain name..) 3. Stand by the intersection with a screw gun and and a collection of screws threaded through heavy metal washers, stamped with the text: "This is for being a line-jumping a.shole" Run up to each car as it cuts into the line and screw a disk into a tire sidewall, creating a severe imbalance (reminder to replace the tire.) 4. Nail & glue spike strips between the lanes late at night. 5. Shoot them. (Unfortunately, this would clog up the through lane even more than the line cutting does, so it's not a viable option.) -- Email reply: please remove one letter from each side of "@" Spammers are Scammers. Exterminate them. > Through lane backed up about 1/2 mile at the light.. > Left turn only lane full of a.sholes who run up to the light and then [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > Email reply: please remove one letter from each side of "@" > Spammers are Scammers. Exterminate them. How about just accelerating briskly when one attempts to cut in front of you? If everyone did this, they'd catch on right quick. nate  Signaturereplace "fly" with "com" to reply. http://home.comcast.net/~njnagel >How about just accelerating briskly when one attempts to cut in front of >you? If everyone did this, they'd catch on right quick. That just opens up a space behind me, which they jump into. If I match speed with them, they just stay put, and I end up blocking the through lane. -- Email reply: please remove one letter from each side of "@" Spammers are Scammers. Exterminate them. > Through lane backed up about 1/2 mile at the light.. > Left turn only lane full of a.sholes who run up to the light and then > try to cut in front of the line.. There is a similar situation on my commute home each day. The right turn lane backs up into the right lane... ok, np, just drive in the left lane. Except someone decides to use the left lane to pass those that are queued up and then tries to cut in front of as many drivers as he can, usually blocking both straight lanes at least in part after clearing the first part of the backup. > If it were a cop, I'd camp out at this intersection and ticket every > a.shole who cut into the line instead of turning left as directed by > the arrows. Cops rarely bother with MFFY drivers. > Through lane backed up about 1/2 mile at the light.. > Left turn only lane full of a.sholes who run up to the light and then [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > Email reply: please remove one letter from each side of "@" > Spammers are Scammers. Exterminate them. A thought: the last two words of your post could be solution #6 though with the same results as #5. Doug Warner <dwarner22@ccharter.net> said in rec.autos.driving: >Through lane backed up about 1/2 mile at the light.. >Left turn only lane full of a.sholes who run up to the light and then [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >a.shole who cut into the line instead of turning left as directed by >the arrows. I have seen cops do precisely that. It doesn't stop the MFFYs for long; the moment the cop goes away, the MFFYs are right back at it. SignatureI'm a wreckless driver and damn proud of it! I used to do something similar--but I would actually turn left (on arrow), make a U turn, and turn left again. Amazingly, it was significantly faster than going straight. >I used to do something similar--but I would actually turn left (on > arrow), make a U turn, and turn left again. Amazingly, it was > significantly faster than going straight. Yup. The town I used to live in, you could NOT turn left on the main drag without waiting for a half hour or more. But you could -immediately- turn right, left into parking lot, U-turn in parking lot, then right out of parking lot... :) I must have done that at least once or twice a ek. -Dave > I used to do something similar--but I would actually turn left (on > arrow), make a U turn, and turn left again. Amazingly, it was > significantly faster than going straight. Last time I ran into that situation, I turned onto a side street, then took the next through street parallel to the main drag. It made a good bypass. The situation was the run at the gas pumps on the afternoon of 11 Sept. '01, and I was headed home from work. I needed gas, but decided to wait a couple of hours. By 1900 hours I just had to wait for one motorist at the pump. Kirksville was one of the very few places in MO that day that did not use the event as an excuse to gouge the drivers. > I used to do something similar--but I would actually turn left (on > arrow), make a U turn, and turn left again. Amazingly, it was > significantly faster than going straight. I've done that. A series of *LEGAL* movements that accomplished the same end. Nothing wrong with it because it doesn't impact anyone else. Through lane backed up about 1/2 mile at the light.. Left turn only lane full of a.sholes who run up to the light and then try to cut in front of the line.. If it were a cop, I'd camp out at this intersection and ticket every a.shole who cut into the line instead of turning left as directed by the arrows. Alternatives: 1. Stand between the lanes with a steel-framed sign on an 8-foot length of 3/4" pipe. The sign says: " If you cut into the line, I'll smack your car with this sign!". 2. Stand nearby with my camera, telephoto lens. Photograph the face of each line cutter and show a sign that says "Line cutters: See yourself on www.AtlantaAssholes.com" (available domain name..) 3. Stand by the intersection with a screw gun and and a collection of screws threaded through heavy metal washers, stamped with the text: "This is for being a line-jumping a.shole" Run up to each car as it cuts into the line and screw a disk into a tire sidewall, creating a severe imbalance (reminder to replace the tire.) 4. Nail & glue spike strips between the lanes late at night. 5. Shoot them. (Unfortunately, this would clog up the through lane even more than the line cutting does, so it's not a viable option.) -- Email reply: please remove one letter from each side of "@" Spammers are Scammers. Exterminate them. It's simple. Walk up to them and tell them to get out of the car, you're going to kick their a.s for cutting in. Then do it. Caution, only do this if you can. If you can't, just sit back there and stew like you're doing. Steve > Through lane backed up about 1/2 mile at the light.. > Left turn only lane full of a.sholes who run up to the light and then [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > a.shole who cut into the line instead of turning left as directed by > the arrows. Do people really do that? I ain't never seed it. >>Through lane backed up about 1/2 mile at the light.. >>Left turn only lane full of a.sholes who run up to the light and then [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Do people really do that? I ain't never seed it. That's because you don't really drive. I know this, because if you are as dumb as you post, you'd be dead by now if you actually drove. nate Signaturereplace "fly" with "com" to reply. http://home.comcast.net/~njnagel > >>Through lane backed up about 1/2 mile at the light.. > >>Left turn only lane full of a.sholes who run up to the light and then [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > nate If i'm so dumb why do you respond to every one of my posts.?? What does that make you?? Ted Kennedy - President of DDDAMM (Drunk Driving Divers Against Mad Mothers) - 21 Jan 2007 16:58 GMT >> >>Through lane backed up about 1/2 mile at the light.. >> >>Left turn only lane full of a.sholes who run up to the light and then [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >If i'm so dumb why do you respond to every one of my posts.?? What >does that make you?? Someone who likes poking fun at the mentally retarded. I know that's why I respond to your inane, errant, hypocritical, and delusional babbling. =)) Don't ever change, Aunt Judy, you're far too entertaining!!! Signaturegpstard (gpsman@driversmail.com) demonstrates his inability to comprehend the simple differences of the definitions of the monosyllabic words "time" and "chance:" (Message-ID: <1167151218.287827.24230@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com>) Why don't you argue that the faster one drives the less time spent driving and available to be involved in an accident? GPSboi demonstrates he doesn't understand the concept of "zero velocity": : http://groups.google.com/group/rec.autos.driving/msg/4b00dc234d5fd559 Please explain how you concluded a vehicle with a velocity of zero might be -the- contributing factor to a collision due to driver inattentiveness. "Laura Bush Murdered Her Boyfriend" 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 "Laura Bush Murdered Her Boyfriend" 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 Joshua Calvert <joshua_l_calvert@hotmail.com> demonstrates his lack of understanding of the terms "sarcasm", "irony", and "hypocrisy": Poor rightard, forced to whine about an 40 year old event. Message-ID: <Xns970A68202F1C5joshualcalverthotmai@68.6.19.6> >> >>Through lane backed up about 1/2 mile at the light.. >> >>Left turn only lane full of a.sholes who run up to the light and then [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >> >>a.shole who cut into the line instead of turning left as directed by >> >>the arrows. I love it at the big car races in Las Vegas, like NASCAR. Highway patrol does camp out there, and grab everyone who goes outside the lines and passes on the shoulder. They then have them pull to an area where they have to wait to get a ticket. Usual time, thirty minutes. They are then sent back on the freeway in the opposite direction and have to go back to the next exit, and get in line again. You would think these people would get it by now. But they don't, and NHP writes a ton of tickets every race. I love it when everyone else who DID wait in line passes the ticket queue and waves and points and honks and shouts comments. Priceless. Steve |
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