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Originally Posted by MaxPower
I disagree with this, in my experience, speeders are more attentive than the average driver. Granted you still have the occasional massive D-Bag with a primer-colored front fender and a coffee-can muffler weaving through traffic like a drunk, but that guy is a lot more rare than than the butthole talking on his phone who hasn't looked in his mirrors for the last five minutes, or the teenager on their third car who figures that text message is more important than looking at the road.
Then there's still those people that just can't drive. They don't understand why someone might be mad at them after they've been doing 95 in the left on Deerfoot. They signal when they're already in an exit lane with no choice of direction to go and they don't signal when changing lanes. When turning right, they go directly into the left lane and when turning left, they go directly into the right lane. They stop to merge in free-flow lanes. They don't plan their route, when it comes time to turn they have to make an emergency double-lane change. Yet I'm the one with a bunch of demerits on my license for breaking a speed limit that's outdated by a couple decades? Yahoo.
Between these dinks behind the wheel and driver inattentiveness (i.e. including anything phone related), you have the true source of a large majority of traffic accidents. Why don't the laws change to reflect this? Because these dinks and inattentive drivers account for a lot of votes (unfortunately), and votes, not public safety are what matters.
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Spectacular post. So very, very true. The text messaging thing got me riled up just this morning. Some chick in a white celica on 16th ave (I hope you're reading this you oblivious c-word) is poking along doing 40 and text f-ing messaging at 8:30 in the morning. So I give her the quick double honk and when she looks in her mirror, I give her the 'lets go' hand motion. She looks at me like I'm an alien and gets back to her precious text message.
It's people like that that make me want to pin it and ram in to them.
Then there are the strugglers that slam on the brakes anytime there is a cop in the vicinity. The cop could be going the opposite direction on friggin deerfoot and these tools will hammer the brakes to 10 under the limit. Same thing when the cop already has someone pulled over. What goes through these morons' minds? "OMFG!@!!!! THERE'S A COP!!!!!!!!!!!! HE MIGHT DROP WHAT HE'S DOING AND CHASE ME AND PUT ME IN JAIL UNLESS I SLAM ON MY BRAKES RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!"
######s.
I'm sitting at a light the other day. I'm in the right lane, waiting to turn right, behind a car that is also signalling to turn right. Why didn't the moron in front of me go? There was a cop in the left lane beside us. The guy kept creeping a couple inches at a time... Then aborted the whole idea of turning right on a red and waited until it was green. ARGH....
Then you have the losers that pull up when they see you signalling to get into their lane. Saturday I'm driving down 9th in the right lane. As I approach the Palliser, I see a bus parked in the lane, so I signal to switch a lane and the buttsteak in the lane beside me pins it so that I can't get in front of him. What gives, a-hole? So I turned into Mr. Agressor and started changing lanes anyway. Wanna play chicken? Dick.
Then there was the guy that tried to keep me out of the northbound crowchild traffic just before the bow trail interchange. I came off 17th and went to merge into the bumper to bumper traffic and this guy probably figures I came from all the way back and am trying to jump the line. No way can he conceive that I'm actually coming from 17th and have no choice but to butt in to this wall of traffic. He pulls up and tries to keep me out? Nice try. I will win this battle every time. I will pull in whether you like it or not.