Please stop flashing your lights at me

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SagaLore

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Dec 18, 2001
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Originally posted by: sisq0kidd
Forget regular HID lights. Truck lights are far worse. Especially raised trucks. There is either no law enforcing how high these stupid trucks can be raised with the proper headlamp adjustments or cops just don't enforce it.

I fvcken hate raised trucks.

Oh yeah and the light in my eye thing...

What about raised trucks with hid lights?
 

sisq0kidd

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Originally posted by: SagaLore
Originally posted by: sisq0kidd
Forget regular HID lights. Truck lights are far worse. Especially raised trucks. There is either no law enforcing how high these stupid trucks can be raised with the proper headlamp adjustments or cops just don't enforce it.

I fvcken hate raised trucks.

Oh yeah and the light in my eye thing...

What about raised trucks with hid lights?

I love em!
 

murban135

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Apr 7, 2003
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Originally posted by: Mill
This has to stop. It doesn't happen every night, but it happens enough to be annoying. Some moron in a POS shitbox will flash their lights as I pass them because they think I have my brights on. Nope. Just HIDs. My lights are LESS likely to blind someone because they auto-balance and aim even when going around a curve or taking a turn. Flashing your lights at me because you are an idiot redneck is getting old. Now, please die. :)

Is this really so hard? Quickly flash your high beams to show the oncoming car you are not using them. It always gets the message across to the other driver.
 

Beev

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Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
Originally posted by: Sraaz
Originally posted by: virtualgames0
Originally posted by: Sraaz
People flash their lights at me all the time. I think it's because my lights are aimed slightly too high, but I can see fine so I don't care.

moron.
You're blinding others. It's a huge annoyance having a bright fvcking light right in your face. Fix your fvcking lights.

No.

One of these day's you will blind someone and they will crash into you head on. Karma's a b!tch.

I hate people with HID's - it doesn't matter how they self level if they crest a hill coming towards you, or are on some giant truck so even aimed down they catch you in the face. They are so much brighter than normal lights that all it takes is a flash to give you momentary blindness and/or a headache.

fvck HID lights and the people that own them.

I don't use HID's.
 

archcommus

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Sep 14, 2003
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So because they're blinded by your HIDs that means they're a redneck who doesn't understand new technology? Riiight....

Obviously those headlights are awesome for the one driving the car with them, but the fact is, regardless of how incredible and adjustable you think they are, the other drivers are still fvcking blinded! So if they want to flash you they have every right.
 

Ninjja

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Sep 4, 2003
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Originally posted by: daniel49
Originally posted by: Mill
This has to stop. It doesn't happen every night, but it happens enough to be annoying. Some moron in a POS shitbox will flash their lights as I pass them because they think I have my brights on. Nope. Just HIDs. My lights are LESS likely to blind someone because they auto-balance and aim even when going around a curve or taking a turn. Flashing your lights at me because you are an idiot redneck is getting old. Now, please die. :)

since so many people are flashing you perhaps they are not as great as you think they are.
People are being blinded by them, so they flash .
I sometimes forget and leave my foglights on and peeps will think its my brights. I just turn them off to help them see, no big deal?
Its called realizing your not the center of the universe.


yup.

 

Ninjja

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Sep 4, 2003
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Originally posted by: Shawn
I will continue to flash your fvcking ass for as long as you continue to blind me with your fvcking headlights. I don't care if they are HIDs are not, you're gonna get flashed.

hehehehe
 

xboxist

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Jun 25, 2002
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HIDs are horrible. Fvck people that think it's ok to use something that mildly benefits themselves, but completely fvck over everyone else. Everyone gets blinded by those bastard lights.
 

GeneValgene

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Sep 18, 2002
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Originally posted by: Shawn
I will continue to flash your fvcking ass for as long as you continue to blind me with your fvcking headlights. I don't care if they are HIDs are not, you're gonna get flashed.

QFT
 

KK

Lifer
Jan 2, 2001
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I just drive around with my high beams on all the time. Fvck everyone. :p
 

Eeezee

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Jul 23, 2005
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You're calling people morons because they are blinded by your lights? Uhm...
 

dullard

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May 21, 2001
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Your lights ARE blinding them. Thus they ARE flashing you. Then you deny they are being blinded. There is a moron present in that transaction, but I'm not saying which one is the moron.
 

Cattlegod

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May 22, 2001
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dude, your lights are probably not aimed properly. take the flashes as a hint that something is effed up. i've passed millions of ppl with HIDs and they aren't any brighter than normal lights.

your system is jacked up, probably from the factory or if it is not a new car, someone may have been in a fender bender and they didn't fix it properly.

either way, you have a problem that needs to be addressed.
 

tfinch2

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Feb 3, 2004
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Originally posted by: dullard
Your lights ARE blinding them. Thus they ARE flashing you. Then you deny they are being blinded. There is a moron present in that transaction, but I'm not saying which one is the moron.

I think it's pretty obvious... :p
 

lokiju

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May 29, 2003
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I've had this just because I have a Tahoe and people in lower cards thing my brights are on since they're lined up with their eyesight more.
 

Ika

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Mar 22, 2006
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Haha, this thread is pretty good pwnage. Here's to more "who's the idiot?" threads! :beer:
 

AMCRambler

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Jan 23, 2001
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My friends has a Dodge Neon with standard halogen head lights, but the damn things are aimed horribly wrong. You can see it when you're riding in the car and the tops of the trees going by are illuminated. As a result people are always flashing their high beams at him thinking his brights are on. Rather than get it fixed, he likes being a jerk about it and flashes his high beams back at the person, further blinding them! One of these days the other person is gonna swerve into his lane and give him a nice head on, lol.
 

jlbenedict

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Jul 10, 2005
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Originally posted by: Sraaz
People flash their lights at me all the time. I think it's because my lights are aimed slightly too high, but I can see fine so I don't care.

You are indeed a prick

 

AnitaPeterson

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Apr 24, 2001
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every time someone blinds me on the highway with one of those friggin' ultrabright lights, i wish my car was equipped with rocket launchers, or at least a sniper rifle to take those bastards out. I wish someone would sue all the companies and after-market shops which put these on cars.
 

Fenixgoon

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Jun 30, 2003
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one night i had some dumba$$ SUV behind my flashing his lights at me... we were going down a pretty curvy road, and i was going faster than the speed limit. i ended up pulling over it was getting so annoying, and the SUV just went straight by... w-t-f mate?
 

cKGunslinger

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Nov 29, 1999
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Originally posted by: murban135
Originally posted by: Mill
This has to stop. It doesn't happen every night, but it happens enough to be annoying. Some moron in a POS shitbox will flash their lights as I pass them because they think I have my brights on. Nope. Just HIDs. My lights are LESS likely to blind someone because they auto-balance and aim even when going around a curve or taking a turn. Flashing your lights at me because you are an idiot redneck is getting old. Now, please die. :)

Is this really so hard? Quickly flash your high beams to show the oncoming car you are not using them. It always gets the message across to the other driver.

Nah, too simple. The proper solution involves a brick and several tubes of KY, quickly followed by yet another ATOT rant.
 

Ika

Lifer
Mar 22, 2006
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Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
one night i had some dumba$$ SUV behind my flashing his lights at me... we were going down a pretty curvy road, and i was going faster than the speed limit. i ended up pulling over it was getting so annoying, and the SUV just went straight by... w-t-f mate?

He was telling you that you had an axe murderer on your roof, but when you pulled over the murderer lost his balance and fell.