You can't fix "STUPID"

[Gentle Ben]

I was on the QEW Toroto bound from Niagara today,, traffic was moving very well, in Hamilton at the Red Creek/Centenial exit, all of a sudden there was traffic chaos,, everyone hard onto the brakes....
Turns out, there was a young lady in the center lane, dead stopped, right turn signal on, looking over her shoulder wanting to make a right turn, appeared she missed her exit & was wanting to turn onto Red Creek /Centenial exit......
Can we say DUMB?????

 

[MuffinMuncher]

Saw something similar on the 427 South at the Gardiner split. Some asshat is in the left lane, realized he wanted to go West, and stopped .... he got CREAMED from behind by a truck who could not stop in time (obviously didnt anticipate the stupidity). I was passing it merging onto the Gardiner East as it happened, you could hear the squeal and the crash.

The truck was big enough to probably survive with minimal structural damage, but that idiot in the Malibu undoubtedly went to the hospital. Who teaches these people how to drive?

 

[JohnLarue]

I was once in the left lane of the QEW and suddenly I had to slow down as the clown in front of me was only driving at about 60- 70kms per hour.
Needless to say the traffic to the right of me whizzed by & it was a good 10-15 km before I got a brake & could pass this asshole.

I gave him the finder as I drove by. (Big Mistake)
Turns out he was a very fresh immigrant (New Delhi perhaps, Karachi - he never said, his turban provide the general global origin)

A couple of minutes later he had figured out how to drive fast & pulled in front of me, his whole family cursing and shouting at me like I was the devil

Then the fucker slowed down and then stopped completely (middle lane on the QEW). Again no way out as the traffic was whizzing by on both sides. I had no choice but to stop & hope there was not a chain reaction.

Then this fuck gets out of his car , shouting and screaming at me.
I thought about grabbing the tire iron, but it was in the trunk, I just locked the door and watched as he went ballistic on me.
I rolled down the window enough to plead with him to move before someone gets killed.
This prick did not speak a word of English and cursed me for 5 mins without any realization or concern for my safety, his or his families or the 3 mile traffic jam he caused

Finally he gave up and drove away.
I made for the nearest exit to calm down and ensure I did not run into this nut again. I probably should have noted the license # and reported him , but I was so stunned at his actions I did not think of it until later.

Lets just say, I do not give anyone the finger anymore

Twice as many half as far

 

[smiley1437]

Is 'the finger' some sort of international sign language?

 

[Fiona Fox]

Then this fuck gets out of his car , shouting and screaming at me.
I thought about grabbing the tire iron, but it was in the trunk, I just locked the door and watched as he went ballistic on me.
I rolled down the window enough to plead with him to move before someone gets killed.
This prick did not speak a word of English and cursed me for 5 mins without any realization or concern for my safety, his or his families or the 3 mile traffic jam he caused

Omg!! Please tell me you are kidding!!! Thats just unbelievable!!!!!

 

[JohnLarue]

100% true
I was just stunned an idiot like that was allowed to drive on our highways

I need to take some of the heat, because it was a rude gesture, but that does not warrant the risk this moron put my life in
Believe me, I keep my finger on the driving wheel at all times now

 

[333conan]

It's too bad we can't drag crappy drivers like the ones described and kick the shit out of them. Then maybe they will learn. I had an idiot get out of the car and threaten me after he almost caused an accident, he's just lucky there were plenty of witnesses around.

 

[smiley1437]

100% true

Sorry, didn't mean to give the impression that I doubted your story! It's just interesting that some gestures are pretty universal

On the other hand (har har) when I was in France I had to remember that when signaling a maitre d' for a table for two, to resist the urge to hold up my index and middle finger because that's giving the bird over in Europe (I learned quickly that the polite way to indicate 'two' is thumb + index finger, like miming a gun)

I wonder how they hand-signal 'two' at a bank?

 

[y2kmark]

Probably ...

Is 'the finger' some sort of international sign language?

the only "English" the guy knew! Do Canadian driver's licenses come as prizes in boxes of Cracker Jacks??

 

[RayFinkel]

This is what I do when people cut me off.

.

 

[landscaper]

This is what I do when people cut me off.

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Thanks for the warning I will make sure to stay away from grey cars at stop lights

 

[lewd]

Saw something similar on the 427 South at the Gardiner split. Some asshat is in the left lane, realized he wanted to go West, and stopped .... he got CREAMED from behind by a truck who could not stop in time (obviously didnt anticipate the stupidity).

Unfortunately, the truck would be the one charged with failing to stay a safe distance behind.

I had a similar incident happen to me where I couldn't stop in time because the idiot in front stop suddenly. According to the officer, I had to have enough space between to stop safely, regardless of the other driver's actions.
They don't take stupidity into to law I guess.

 

[ROGER O. THORNHILL]

Unfortunately...

Too bad stupidity isn't physically painful.

 

[landscaper]

years ago I was in the armed forces in New Brunswick, a major highway runs through the base . We had a set series of theings to do before moving armoured vehicles across the road. Specific places ( concrete replaced ashphalt tanks weigh a lot) warnings M.P.s with lights vests etc, flashing lights the whole shooting match.

We were actually on the crossing pad when a young blond lady( sorry about the steretype but it is true in this case) in a V.W. rabbit swerved around the guards past the flashing lights and ran into teh side of my tank( 7 metres long 3.5 metres high great big canon on the front painted a dirty green colour). It was a clear day , the Sgt Maj arrived as we were straightening things out and the young lady pops up with I DID NOT SEE IT.

Another candidate for the Darwin awards

 

[danmand]

We were actually on the crossing pad when a young blond lady( sorry about the steretype but it is true in this case) in a V.W. rabbit swerved around the guards past the flashing lights and ran into teh side of my tank( 7 metres long 3.5 metres high great big canon on the front painted a dirty green colour). It was a clear day , the Sgt Maj arrived as we were straightening things out and the young lady pops up with I DID NOT SEE IT.

Another candidate for the Darwin awards

Darwin does not give a shit about eyesight or intelligence when it comes to
young blond girls.

 

[Mencken]

The law says that you always must be able to stop in time...i.e. you must be following far enough back that you have time to stop, under any conditions. However, that is almost never the case on the 400 highways in medium or heavy traffic. If you suddently encounter someone or something not moving, or there was a head on right in front of you, in most cases you are going to plow right into it.

 

[RTRD]

That is scary....

I was once in the left lane of the QEW and suddenly I had to slow down as the clown in front of me was only driving at about 60- 70kms per hour.
Needless to say the traffic to the right of me whizzed by & it was a good 10-15 km before I got a brake & could pass this asshole.

I gave him the finder as I drove by. (Big Mistake)
Turns out he was a very fresh immigrant (New Delhi perhaps, Karachi - he never said, his turban provide the general global origin)

A couple of minutes later he had figured out how to drive fast & pulled in front of me, his whole family cursing and shouting at me like I was the devil

Then the fucker slowed down and then stopped completely (middle lane on the QEW). Again no way out as the traffic was whizzing by on both sides. I had no choice but to stop & hope there was not a chain reaction.

Then this fuck gets out of his car , shouting and screaming at me.
I thought about grabbing the tire iron, but it was in the trunk, I just locked the door and watched as he went ballistic on me.
I rolled down the window enough to plead with him to move before someone gets killed.
This prick did not speak a word of English and cursed me for 5 mins without any realization or concern for my safety, his or his families or the 3 mile traffic jam he caused

Finally he gave up and drove away.
I made for the nearest exit to calm down and ensure I did not run into this nut again. I probably should have noted the license # and reported him , but I was so stunned at his actions I did not think of it until later.

Lets just say, I do not give anyone the finger anymore

Twice as many half as far

...because as you surely know, you could have been rear ended.

Just insanity....he pulls in front of you, and stops dead in the middle of the road. Given that, there was nothing you could do of course, but too bad it wasn't a situation where you could have pulled over to the side of the road and asked him what his concerns were face to face....if you're that type of guy (I am).

Remotely similar situation..with me as the bad guy (at least in this guys' eyes)...

Approaching the office park where I work to pull into the lot when a Mississauga transit bus in front of me stops fairly suddenly to pick up passengers. I don't go around because right in front of the bus / bus stop is the drive way to the lot I want to pull into, and I don't want to pull in front of the bus just as he is pulling off, and have him broadside me (with my luck). So...I stop behind the bus.

Guy behind me...either following too closely or not paying attention...slams on his brakes to keep from rear ending me. I look in my rear view mirror, and the guy has a "look" on his face, but I figure "whatever", and assume life will go on.

Bus pulls off, I pull into lot, get out of car, grab my briefcase out the back, turn around, and here is this guy, getting out of his car, talking shit about me slamming on my brakes and other gibberish.

For the longest time, I am transfixed. I literally cannot believe what is happening. It just does not compute. Finally...after what was probably at least 30 seconds and could have been longer, I gathered my wits, put down my attache, walk up to the guy and ask him if he was planning to do anything other than run his mouth, because if he was, we should get on with it, but if not, I had a meeting to get to. That's when it became HIS turn to be stunned, and as he responded with just mumbling, I said "thought not", turned, picked up my brief case, and walked away.

When I get upstairs...still amazed...I ask a couple guys about what happened. I explain to them that this is the second time something of this ilk has happened to me (the first is when a guy stood around to wait to see if I'd hit his car while I was parallel parking, and even though I didn't, thought to wait until me and the then pregnant wife got out of the car to start his commentary) and the experience is completely foreign. I ask if this is a "Canadian thing", as at that point I'd only been in the country for a bit over two years. When they say that yes, it sometimes happens, but no, they hadn't thought of it as uniquely Canadian, I explain that I'd never seen it, or heard of it in the U.S....that if you got out of your car to confront someone in the U.S., it was WITH the intentions of fighting, not talking, because you'd have no way of knowing who the person you were confronting was, or what they would do, or what they might be packing.

I swear, people like to take their life into their hands in this city...there was a time when BOTH those guys would have caught an ass beating...

 

[JohnLarue]

You are so right.
For a second I thought about grabbing the tire iron and rearranging his turban
however
1. I probably would have made the front page of the SUN for all the wrong reasons. Headline: REDNECK BEATS IMMIGRANT WITH TIRE IRON ON QEW
2. You never win if an altercation becomes physical, police, lawyers etc
3. I would have deeply regretted hurting someone in a serious way
4. He might have pulled out his ceremonial dagger & I did not have a ceremonial Magnum 45

Most importantly
5. The tire iron was in the trunk & I could not get it in time, before Turban guy was up close and personal

 

[Gyaos]

Lots of stupid white people to!

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh..............to where?

Gyaos.

 

[Gyaos]

Gimme a break. That is a totally racist, uncalled for remark. This country is full of moronic drivers of every colour, ethnicity, shape, size, etc. If only we had the civility of European drivers who, although somewhat agressiver, adhere to the rules of the road. At least you know what to expect. North American driving is consistent with our perspective on everything else... we are self indulgent with little concern for others.

Confucius say "Never use big set of words in a "stupid" thread to the man in charge of shutting down Satyam Computers!"

Gyaos Baltar.