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bazza
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PostPosted: 00:38 - 14 Mar 2007    Post subject: This >< close. Reply with quote
Riding in to work this morning, dopey bitch stops 50m before traffic lights to let someone pull out of a driveway on the right of the road. Neither is aware of the bright yellow bike with the headlight happily filtering towards their chummy little meeting.

Matey boy pulling onto the road has his mind in neutral and doesn't bother looking left as he prepares to T-bone me. I brake and stop as he finally sees me and stops literally millimetres away from my front fork. His bumper is so close that I can't actually see past the fairing if he's hit me or not.

I gesture to him to back up and point to the side of the road where I want him to pull over (in my best "You've just narrowly avoided hitting an off-duty copper" manner.") and pull up behind him to inspect the damage.

There isn't any. Not a scratch.

I give matey boy a rundown of the phrase "due care and attention" and advise to be more observant in future and send him on his way.

I am not, nor have I ever been plod, and at no time did I ever say I was. But he thinks it was his lucky day today. Laughing Laughing
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PostPosted: 00:47 - 14 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Pretending to be a cop will get you 27 years in Strangeways, it will also prevent you twating the pratt.
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bazza
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PostPosted: 00:49 - 14 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
1930 Ariel wrote:
Pretending to be a cop will get you 27 years in Strangeways, it will also prevent you twating the pratt.


I've had my strange ways for a lot longer than 27 years...
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PostPosted: 00:53 - 14 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
I was in a similar situation the other day... but i just gave a less than constructive hand gesture, and rode away Rolling Eyes Twisted Evil

1930 Ariel wrote:
Pretending to be a cop will get you 27 years in Strangeways...

bazza wrote:
I am not, nor have I ever been plod, and at no time did I ever say I was.

To be fair, he never said he was plod.... He's not responsible for whatever the driver may have assumed Wink
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PostPosted: 00:53 - 14 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
There is no way any one would mistake me for a cop. Short arse with big bushy beard and Irvine flying jacket does not say Mr Plod. Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 02:14 - 14 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well I've got rather a convincing donut-fuelled tum, but apart from that I'm no plod either Laughing
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PostPosted: 07:59 - 14 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
would have been classic if the other guy was a copper
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bazza
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PostPosted: 13:01 - 14 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
DEN MONKEY wrote:
would have been classic if the other guy was a copper


Why?
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PostPosted: 17:11 - 14 Mar 2007    Post subject: Re: This >< close. Reply with quote
bazza wrote:
Riding in to work this morning, dopey bitch stops 50m before traffic lights to let someone pull out of a driveway on the right of the road. Neither is aware of the bright yellow bike with the headlight happily filtering towards their chummy little meeting.

Matey boy pulling onto the road has his mind in neutral and doesn't bother looking left as he prepares to T-bone me. I brake and stop as he finally sees me and stops literally millimetres away from my front fork.


Why did you not stop or slow down as soon as you saw them? Would have saved alot of trouble to let the car pull out and be on his way, then filter past him later.https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/finglonga/Finglonga%20Inc/ne_nau.gif
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PostPosted: 18:28 - 14 Mar 2007    Post subject: Re: This >< close. Reply with quote
Finglonga wrote:
Why did you not stop or slow down as soon as you saw them? Would have saved alot of trouble to let the car pull out and be on his way, then filter past him later.https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/finglonga/Finglonga%20Inc/ne_nau.gif


Exactly, sounds completely avoidable and the sort of thing you see about to happen every day. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 18:55 - 14 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
good on you Bazza. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 18:56 - 14 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
good on you Bazza. Thumbs Up
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bazza
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PostPosted: 20:41 - 14 Mar 2007    Post subject: Re: This >< close. Reply with quote
Finglonga wrote:
Why did you not stop or slow down as soon as you saw them? Would have saved alot of trouble to let the car pull out and be on his way, then filter past him later.


Do you stop and let every car pull out of driveways, turnings, slip roads, alleys or paking bays in front of you? If not, there's your answer.
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PostPosted: 21:24 - 14 Mar 2007    Post subject: Re: This >< close. Reply with quote
bazza wrote:


Do you stop and let every car pull out of driveways, turnings, slip roads, alleys or paking bays in front of you? If not, there's your answer.


Of course I do if traffic ahead has already stopped to let someone out, its called being curtiouse to other road users. It would be dangerous to try and barge through as you have found out.
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PostPosted: 22:01 - 14 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Shouldn't reverse onto a main road anyway.
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PostPosted: 22:04 - 14 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Skudd wrote:
Shouldn't reverse onto a main road anyway.


So true....

Bit like many car parks where people pull straight into a space then create mayhem as they cannot see properly when reversing out....

Their excuse...

I'm not very good at reversing.... Mad
FFS its far easier to reverse in and then be able to pull straight out, but i guess that requires a bit of fore thought that many driver seem to lack.
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PostPosted: 22:20 - 14 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Skudd wrote:
Shouldn't reverse onto a main road anyway.


So what happens if you live on a main road and your drive backs out onto it?
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PostPosted: 22:28 - 14 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
reverse onto your drive?
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PostPosted: 22:32 - 14 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
ncrn wrote:
reverse onto your drive?


Feck off ya clever sod! Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 09:45 - 15 Mar 2007    Post subject: Re: This >< close. Reply with quote
maurice wrote:
Finglonga wrote:
Why did you not stop or slow down as soon as you saw them? Would have saved alot of trouble to let the car pull out and be on his way, then filter past him later.https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/finglonga/Finglonga%20Inc/ne_nau.gif


Exactly, sounds completely avoidable and the sort of thing you see about to happen every day. Rolling Eyes



mayb he wants a new teapot.... I've been quite tempted to not stop when all the prats pull out on me.. thinking mm shiny new bike for your stupidity.. but decide it's hassle and pain to get it...
other driver probably be uninsured too Rolling Eyes


will just have geeperz for now then
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PostPosted: 10:58 - 15 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
The people that have most commonly pulled out infront of me are women in BMWs and old people in small hatchbacks Confused Evil or Very Mad

is there some sort of correlation?? (no offence intended) Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 13:22 - 15 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Blackwolf wrote:
The people that have most commonly pulled out infront of me are women in BMWs and old people in small hatchbacks Confused Evil or Very Mad

is there some sort of correlation?? (no offence intended) Mr. Green


non other than you're taking too much notice of the driver and not the large lump of metal you're approaching Wink


..nah am kidding, I don't get cut up by a gender/age just a type, the type that creep while looking left as you're approaching from the right, they see a space and go for it.. without looking right once... happens soo many times
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PostPosted: 13:32 - 15 Mar 2007    Post subject: Re: This >< close. Reply with quote
Simple wrote:
mayb he wants a new teapot....


I was on the Ducati. (Enough of an aural and visual symphony that even a single-cell amoeba couldn't fail to notice it, I would have thought.)
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PostPosted: 17:02 - 15 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
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non other than you're taking too much notice of the driver and not the large lump of metal you're approaching


Hehe true at least i see the large lumps of metal Razz
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PostPosted: 17:20 - 15 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
iooi wrote:
FFS its far easier to reverse in and then be able to pull straight out, but i guess that requires a bit of fore thought that many driver seem to lack.


Not much good if you need to put a trolley full of shopping in the boot. I guess that requires a bit of fore thought that some people lack.

It's safe enough to reverse out of a parking space and most drive ways anyway.

Rick.
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