well, its clearly all her fault
Even though he admits to breaking the speed limit, driving like an idiot, and has turkeys illegally strapped to him.
(Burt Burt, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 16:20, 1 reply)

What's the charge officer?
"Well sir, these turkeys appear to be illegally strapped to you."

Fair point.
( gareth_alien will be human again at, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 16:36, closed)

Turkeys illegally strapped to him?

Maybe, MAYBE, you could get him through some kind of unsecured load rule. But really, if they only fell of in a crash, and not during regular travel, I doubt they were unsecure.

Glad you escaped with your life...but hell, if there's anything that's a lesson that you should expect every single other road user to be a complete idiot until proven otherwise, this is it. Drive as if every car ahead of you is going to do something stupid...which probably means going a bit slower, to be honest, especially on a crappy two-laner, where your escape routes are a bit limited.
(Musuko, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 16:50, closed)

My first driving lesson
The instructor and I were sitting in the car at the kerb.

"Right Jim" he said, jovially. "Tell me about the cars that pass and come towards us, makes, who's driving etc."
So I did, for about two minutes. It was a very quiet road and only a few cars passed.

He then turned to me and said "Every single one of those drivers woke up with the express intent of killing YOU! It's the only reason they came out today and they won't be satisfied until you are dead".

I sat in stunned silence.

"Drive with that in mind and you'll live longer".

True words. not that I took a blind bit of notice once I'd passed, but who does?


Oh yeah, *click*.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 16:58, closed)

Fair do's, that much more diplomatically put
...However blaming ALL women drivers for something only one did (would he really be blaming ALL male drivers if the same accident occured, when the male driver was on his mobile, for example) really gets my back up.

Phew, rant over.

As you were...
(Burt Burt, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 17:01, closed)

Safe Driving now !!
hence why I am now the VERY proud owner of a Stebel Nautilus Airhorn !!! The fucker is 139Db and draws 18amp !!
see this !!
www.xrv.org.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=21998
(shagbolt, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 17:25, closed)

Stebel Nautilus
And on the note of the nautilus, I drove back from London the other week on my 2nd ZZR and had to use it 8 times !! Most aggressive time was a few miles naorth of guildford, this woman (and i will prove that) was in the middle lane whilst i was slowly going past her in a normal safe way, just indicated WITHOUT looking and drove into my side !! She was so ingrossed in singing that she didn't look and only knew i was there when i gave her a full BLAAAART on the airhorn AND kicked her drivers door when i was almost in the central reservation !! Shows how close she was. She got such a fright that she swerved back so much she almost took out 2 other cars in the 1st lane !!
(shagbolt, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 17:34, closed)

Dutch..
they all drive like that. Weirdly though, at roundabouts you have to give way to joining traffic, yes, it jams up, and if you are on a main road and there is a small lane that joins it, you have to give way to that too if it has no markings....and everything has to give way to bicycles...
( Jimbuktu See? Right here, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 20:16, closed)