Saw a SWEET car accident at lunch today!!!

Stuxnet

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90% of my commute is freeway driving. Busy freeway driving. I went home for lunch today and was driving a section of the freeway that is 3 lanes wide.

So I'm in the cruising lane (that's the middle lane for you idiots who think all the lanes are the same) and notice a couple cars behind me just weaving in and out of traffic (though not competing with each other) without signaling. Whatever. I'm a stationary object as far as they're concerned so no big deal. Anyway, one car passes me on the left while the other car passes by me on the right. They both settle at a speed about +5MPH of my speed. One car is ahead of me in the fast lane, the other is ahead of me in the merge lane.

Now the fun part...

TOTALLY UNAWARE of their surroundings - especially each other - they both slowly drift into my lane right in front of me. I'm thinking "SWEET! Front row seats!" as they both enter the cruising lane and COLLIDE.

Now what did we learn, kids?

USE YOU STUPID FSCKING BLINKERS!!!! LOOK FOR OTHERS USING THEIR STUPID FSCKING BLINKERS!!!!

I see stuff like this *almost* happen just about every day, but this is the first time it actually resulted in an accident. It was a minor accident - no one was hurt - they just scared the living piss out of each other I'm sure.

Sorry, I don't know the demographics of the cars' occupants, though I can only assume that one car was full of wiggers and the other was full of soccer moms.

You see, kids, the problem with not using your blinkers is that when you start drifting all over the goddamn road, no one knows WTF you're doing. You're unpredictable. When two of you idiots occupy the same general space on the road, you have a recipe for disaster. Because not only do you twats not like to use blinkers, you also think that it's "girly" to look around you before you just drift from lane to lane with no warning to other drivers.

I know some of you think that you're asserting yourself as the Alpha Male on the road by making a statement that you can take whatever lane you please, whenever you please, with no prior warning to anyone. I know that others are simply brain dead behind the wheel. Your lame excuses are irrelevant. You're a liability to yourself and everyone around you.

Learn how to drive or don't.
 

LordMorpheus

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I blinker, and whenever I change lanes I'm always afraid the guy on the other side of my target lane is going to meet me halfway, so I'm generally on the lookout for that kind of thing.
 

mitchelt

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Saw a SWEET car accident at lunch today!!!

A car accident is NEVER sweet!

I think it's sad that you would think two people getting into an accident is "sweet". What if thier accident caused a bigger accident in which innocent people got hurt, including yourself.

What would have been "sweet" is if you honked your horn in hopes of grabbing one of the drivers attention.

I remember watching some animal show that showed how each member of the pack always watched out for each other in case a predator was approaching.

I guess you would be the one that hid behind a tree and did not warn the others something bad was about to go down because you wanted to see something "sweet" happen.
 

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Originally posted by: jbourne77
90% of my commute is freeway driving. Busy freeway driving. I went home for lunch today and was driving a section of the freeway that is 3 lanes wide.

So I'm in the cruising lane (that's the middle lane for you idiots who think all the lanes are the same) and notice a couple cars behind me just weaving in and out of traffic (though not competing with each other) without signaling. Whatever. I'm a stationary object as far as they're concerned so no big deal. Anyway, one car passes me on the left while the other car passes by me on the right. They both settle at a speed about +5MPH of my speed. One car is ahead of me in the fast lane, the other is ahead of me in the merge lane.

Now the fun part...

TOTALLY UNAWARE of their surroundings - especially each other - they both slowly drift into my lane right in front of me. I'm thinking "SWEET! Front row seats!" as they both enter the cruising lane and COLLIDE.

Now what did we learn, kids?

USE YOU STUPID FSCKING BLINKERS!!!! LOOK FOR OTHERS USING THEIR STUPID FSCKING BLINKERS!!!!

I see stuff like this *almost* happen just about every day, but this is the first time it actually resulted in an accident. It was a minor accident - no one was hurt - they just scared the living piss out of each other I'm sure.

Sorry, I don't know the demographics of the cars' occupants, though I can only assume that one car was full of wiggers and the other was full of soccer moms.

You see, kids, the problem with not using your blinkers is that when you start drifting all over the goddamn road, no one knows WTF you're doing. You're unpredictable. When two of you idiots occupy the same general space on the road, you have a recipe for disaster. Because not only do you twats not like to use blinkers, you also think that it's "girly" to look around you before you just drift from lane to lane with no warning to other drivers.

I know some of you think that you're asserting yourself as the Alpha Male on the road by making a statement that you can take whatever lane you please, whenever you please, with no prior warning to anyone. I know that others are simply brain dead behind the wheel. Your lame excuses are irrelevant. You're a liability to yourself and everyone around you.

Learn how to drive or don't.

You're the stupid fvcker here. Why are you driving in the center lane when you aren't passing anyone? You should have been in the right lane so it was easier for faster traffic to get past you. Good chance this accident could have been avoided.

So YOU learn how to drive before trying to be such a smart ass (and failing horribly).:roll:
 

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Originally posted by: mitchelt
Saw a SWEET car accident at lunch today!!!

A car accident is NEVER sweet!

I think it's sad that you would think two people getting into an accident is "sweet". What if thier accident caused a bigger accident in which innocent people got hurt, including yourself.

What would have been "sweet" is if you honked your horn in hopes of grabbing one of the drivers attention.

Exactly. This is real life people, not a passive aggresive ATOT world where you can watch something and do nothing about it so you can then later post about it and have others compliment you on your rant. Some of you guys need to wake up and see reality.
 

athithi

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Originally posted by: F22 Raptor
Wow how are you not banned yet?

Yeah :confused: Especially considering everything he said is 100% true. Drivers that don't use their blinkers while turning or changing lanes are morons and obviously incapable of processing successive, related information - like 1. lift a finger to turn on the blinker, 2. look over your shoulder to check the blind spot, 3. vary speed according to the lane you are trying to switch into and 4. ease into the lane without killing yourself and others. This is such a complicated sequence that these morons are not capable of following it so they do the next best thing, which is yank the wheel in the general direction of where they want to go :| Only monkeys would do that and IMO these drivers are nothing more than monkeys when they are in the driver's seat.
 

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Originally posted by: mitchelt
Saw a SWEET car accident at lunch today!!!

A car accident is NEVER sweet!

I think it's sad that you would think two people getting into an accident is "sweet". What if thier accident caused a bigger accident in which innocent people got hurt, including yourself.

What would have been "sweet" is if you honked your horn in hopes of grabbing one of the drivers attention.

I think he's saying its sweet because in a sense it was the perfect accident: no injuries, minor damanges, but two assclowns hoepfully learn a lesson about signal usage and being mindful that there are other cars and drivers they have to share the road with.
 

Demon-Xanth

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I've used my blinker, start to move over, only to have someone two lanes over and a car length or so behind me (too close to safely finish the lane change) move into the lane I'm moving into and effectively push me back out of the lane. Seems to happen almost regularly at one particular spot. If I didn't check my blind spots regularly I know I would've been nailed by one.
 

Kalvin00

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Originally posted by: mitchelt
Saw a SWEET car accident at lunch today!!!

A car accident is NEVER sweet!

I think it's sad that you would think two people getting into an accident is "sweet". What if thier accident caused a bigger accident in which innocent people got hurt, including yourself.

Meh. In my opinion if you're driving like an idiot/recklessly/etc, I couldn't care less if you crash and your car explodes into a fireball.
 

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Originally posted by: athithi
Originally posted by: F22 Raptor
Wow how are you not banned yet?

Yeah :confused: Especially considering everything he said is 100% true. Drivers that don't use their blinkers while turning or changing lanes are morons and obviously incapable of processing successive, related information - like 1. lift a finger to turn on the blinker, 2. look over your shoulder to check the blind spot, 3. vary speed according to the lane you are trying to switch into and 4. ease into the lane without killing yourself and others. This is such a complicated sequence that these morons are not capable of following it so they do the next best thing, which is yank the wheel in the general direction of where they want to go :| Only monkeys would do that and IMO these drivers are nothing more than monkeys when they are in the driver's seat.

Umm, the fact that he thinks it was a sweet accident is something that makes me curious as to why he is still allowed on the road.
 

Stuxnet

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Originally posted by: mitchelt
Saw a SWEET car accident at lunch today!!!

A car accident is NEVER sweet!

Put away the Kleenex for a second. Let's dissect this:

Originally posted by: mitchelt
I think it's sad that you would think two people getting into an accident is "sweet".

It's sweet because they both learned a very valuable lesson without anyone getting hurt. I've learned a few lessons like that on the road, and I've never forgotten them.

Originally posted by: mitchelt
What if thier accident caused a bigger accident in which innocent people got hurt, including yourself.

But it DIDN'T. Again, very valuable lesson learned @ very little cost.

Originally posted by: mitchelt
What would have been "sweet" is if you honked your horn in hopes of grabbing one of the drivers attention.

Why? So I could get the bird flipped at me, a soda can thrown at my car, or shot at? No thanks. That's one of those "very valuable lessons" that I've learned. I don't honk at anyone unless MY LIFE is in danger.

Besides, people don't remember getting honked at. They DO, however, reflect back on situations like this and think "damn... I NEVER look around me when I'm driving... maybe I better do that before I get t-boned by a Mack truck".
 

QED

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Originally posted by: Britboy
Originally posted by: jbourne77

You're the stupid fvcker here. Why are you driving in the center lane when you aren't passing anyone? You should have been in the right lane so it was easier for faster traffic to get past you. Good chance this accident could have been avoided.

So YOU learn how to drive before trying to be such a smart ass (and failing horribly).:roll:

Sorry Britboy... it sounds like you don't know how to drive either. Just because you are in the middle lane doesn't mean you are supposed to move over everytime someone comes up behind you.

In any case, this whole sequence happened so fast I doubt the OP had any time to move over or honk or otherwise warn either driver of their impending doom.

So, please, kindly STFU....
 

athithi

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Originally posted by: Britboy
You're the stupid fvcker here. Why are you driving in the center lane when you aren't passing anyone? You should have been in the right lane so it was easier for faster traffic to get past you. Good chance this accident could have been avoided.

So YOU learn how to drive before trying to be such a smart ass (and failing horribly).:roll:

So you are the idiot that sticks to the right lane not letting anybody merge in to the highway. And passing is what the left lane is for. I always stick to left-1 lane at speed limit + 4. Anybody that wants to go faster can go around me. I don't use the right lane unless I am exiting the highway (or if it is a 2-lane highway).
 

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Originally posted by: QED
Originally posted by: mitchelt
Saw a SWEET car accident at lunch today!!!

A car accident is NEVER sweet!

I think it's sad that you would think two people getting into an accident is "sweet". What if thier accident caused a bigger accident in which innocent people got hurt, including yourself.

What would have been "sweet" is if you honked your horn in hopes of grabbing one of the drivers attention.

I think he's saying its sweet because in a sense it was the perfect accident: no injuries, minor damanges, but two assclowns hoepfully learn a lesson about signal usage and being mindful that there are other cars and drivers they have to share the road with.

No that is not his mindset, and I quote

TOTALLY UNAWARE of their surroundings - especially each other - they both slowly drift into my lane right in front of me. I'm thinking "SWEET! Front row seats!"

Yeah, he was happy to see them get into an accident. :confused:
 

Kelvrick

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Originally posted by: Britboy
You're the stupid fvcker here. Why are you driving in the center lane when you aren't passing anyone? You should have been in the right lane so it was easier for faster traffic to get past you. Good chance this accident could have been avoided.

So YOU learn how to drive before trying to be such a smart ass (and failing horribly).:roll:

Sarcasm meter, confused... Don't know... To flame or not.
 

NatePo717

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Originally posted by: Britboy

You're the stupid fvcker here. Why are you driving in the center lane when you aren't passing anyone? You should have been in the right lane so it was easier for faster traffic to get past you. Good chance this accident could have been avoided.

So YOU learn how to drive before trying to be such a smart ass (and failing horribly).:roll:

Umm... The center lane is for crusing/travel. Right is for merging and left for passing. OP did nothing wrong.
 

mitchelt

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Originally posted by: Kalvin00
Originally posted by: mitchelt
Saw a SWEET car accident at lunch today!!!

A car accident is NEVER sweet!

I think it's sad that you would think two people getting into an accident is "sweet". What if thier accident caused a bigger accident in which innocent people got hurt, including yourself.

Meh. In my opinion if you're driving like an idiot/recklessly/etc, I couldn't care less if you crash and your car explodes into a fireball.

Hopefully you and no one else is consumed in that fireball.