good thread. on sunday a friend and i were driving here in atlanta and some jerkarse sat on his horn while tailgating us. after looking in the rearview mirror, i noticed that it was a pizza delivery guy. we slowed down to about 5 mph in a 40 mph zone, turned around in my seat, and just stared as his dumbarse. what did he do next? he turned on his bright lights. what an idiot! did he not realize that on top of his car was the sign that said, "pizza hut" and the number to call for delivery? well... after jotting the number down (while my friend was driving) i called the number and spoke with the manager for a couple of minutes giving him the color, model, and license plate number of the car driver that was being rude. i also had to bring to his attention that one of the driver's front headlights was out. i have terrible road rage, so it's wise not to f*** with me while driving. under those circumstances, i would have slowed down, let him pass, get within a foot of his bumper, turn on the bright lights, and give him the finger for the next couple of miles. as you can see i've gotten better, but i wasn't the one driving anyway.
This fellow was a real a-hole, bobrek. If this was in Houston, however, you need to be careful. Many of those idiots have pistols in their glove box and you were on foot. Having said that, however, I go ballistic whenever I see someone run a red light. I flash my lights and lay on the horn for a long time... waving my finger out the window. Someone running a light and ****ing you up can have that effect. It did to me.
bobrek: There is something you can do. You can call the nearest police substation and give them the intersection. Generally, they will assign someone to check it out. If you can get enough people with you, they will organize a time to sit there and bust people who run it. This happened in my neighborhood when I was growing up. We had a through street and a TON of traffic used our neighborhood to avoid main traffic. Our civic organization had the county put up "no through traffic" signs and it didn't stop. After a couple months, the sheriff sent out officers to check every car and ticket anyone who didn't live in the neighborhood. After several months of random checks, it stopped.
That is a dumbarse jerk to me! But maybe he didn't realize those bottles were from July 4th after you put them on his side a few weeks later.....anyways....good idea filing complaint. Just make sure that guy isn't crazy with a gun!
good question. i see those "no through" signs during certains times of the day in my neighbourhood. can they really give you a ticket if you're just passing through?
Unfortunately it is a widespread problem in the entire neighborhood. Regardless of where my route takes me, folks will run stop signs. They will also neglect to look to their right when they are turning right. I've sent the police department my thoughts on the matter and hopefully they will do something to impress upon people that the stop signs are there for a reason. This is in Minnesota by the way. Once when I was running in Houston a couple of guys pointed a water gun rifle out their car window. Luckily, it was one of the green and yellow super soakers and I got a good look at it and didn't feel the need to dive for cover. I would really like to hear what the guy told his wife (providing he has one) about our encounter. It would be interesting to hear him try to make himself sound like he wasn't being a jerk.
Yes, however, when street signs say "no through traffic," and they use the neighborhood as a through-way, they can be ticketed for failing to obey the street sign. This is actually fairly common in small neighborhoods that have streets that connect major thoroughfare's. In this case, my neighborhood was rather unique. It had a major street in a busy area that dead-ended into my subdivision. That street crossed another street in my neighborhood prior to the dead end that connected to a freeway. People would use it to avoid going through the big intersections where traffic builds up. The problem was that from 4:30pm to 6pm, dozens and dozens of cars would line up and parade through our neighborhood, which had been really quiet up until then. It got particularly bad at one point when a kid was nearly hit while riding his bike near his house. The county actually put out those counters to see how many cars were coming through and found that several hundred would pass through this 4 block radius every afternoon. They considered it a safety risk, which it was, and first posted notices at the entrance of the neighborhood, then NO THRU TRAFFIC signs and then had to begin citing people because they still didn't stop.
Yeah, that kind of crap is getting bad up here. I had some guy on the 400 near Buckhead tailgate me in the left lane when I didn't pass someone at 150 mph rather than simply 90 mph. This guy in an old Oldsmobile was almost surgically attached to my back bumper he was so close. I was in my Scout pickup and when I tapped the brakes and he saw the trailer hitch on a beeline for his radiator, he slammed on his. b*stard was so close he nearly hit me. He passed me when I moved over after passing the car on my right and I think he was about to do something when he noticed my NRA sticker on window. He sped off and thankfully, that was the end of it. Another guy cut me off sans turn signal after cutting across three lanes of traffic trying to get over to a turn lane that went to a on-ramp onto I-85. I honk the horn (I was in my 928) and give him the bird as I pass by the turn lane. The sonuvabitch feints and pulls out a bit in front of me out of the turn lane suddenly, causing me to slam on brakes and flatspot my front tires. I saw the driver, a scumbug, mullet-wearing, Rebel flag tag on the front of the car numbnuts and his wife laughing as if it were some funny joke. I had to fight my temptation to chase them down and put a .40 cal slug through their empty heads. It scared me more than anything, because a person behind me nearly hit me because of those idiots.
We had a UPS truck that would speed tdown the street and make turns on two wheels. Calling UPS did no good so we called the police department and they sent a radar unit out. two tickets in two days got us a new driver!
Damn Codell, I thought for sure you would go with "Well the jerk store called, and they're running out of you"
I thought about it, but Jerk Store is weak and allows the classic response of "well, you are their all time best seller". There is no response to "I slept with your wife", other than fisticuffs of course. PS - Sorry Madmax. Jerk Store was available until PGrabriel took it.
Our 'conversation' should have gone as follows: "You ran that stop sign back there" "Are you a policeman?" "No, but I slept at a Holiday Inn last night."
This is classic. If you said that to me, I wouldn't have been able to hold in my laughter before I ran you over.
can someone please explain the "holiday inn" thing to me? i've seen it said several times, but i have no idea what you guys are talking about. also, what does "IMO" mean?
I wouldn't do that. He probably didn't realize the bottles were his. Since it is a neighbor of yours, unless you are a transient renter, I'd play nice. It's not fun being at odds with your neighbors. I would throw the bottles away myself and go talk to the guy; tell him the bottles were his from the July 4th but you've thrown them out.
There are several Holiday Inn commercials out where a the character is an expert in certain fields because he "stayed at a Holiday Inn Express". Example: I think there is one where an ordinary guy is taking a tour of a nuclear plant when a meltdown starts happening. He calmly tells the techs what to do and the meltdown is averted. Someone asks him "are you a nuclear scientist?" and he replies "no, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night". IMO = in my opinion . . . . . . JV, The guy knows they are his because there were about 10 cans or so that were sitting on the back ledge of his fence when I put the one that was on my side back onto his side. There is no doubt that he knows the cans belong to him and/or his guests. This guy is constantly having loud parties till the wee hours in the morning in his back yard. At least 2 or 3 times a month. They are always loud, vulgar and play loud music. The thing is, my neighbors on either side of me have infants and I am about to have one too. So, well have to see how all that goes.
