Volvo drivers heart operation.

[FROSTY]

On my way to work this morning I had an encounter of the VOLVO kind.
Normal situation really-Car driver doesn't look ,biker alongside him,car driver changes lane--ya know YAAAAWN
Heres the fun bit.
I saw said Volvo pulling towards me so I looked to my right and in front. I saw I had a tonne of room.Mr Volvo had his window down so I had a lil bit of fun with him.
Just as he had almost finished changing lanes into the spot formerly occupied by the ol XJ I lifted My Visor and In a freindly tone of voice Bellowed "GOOOD MORNING,NICE DAY ISN'T IT??'
i think its safe to say said volvo driver fair shit himself being as my head was about 300mm from his earole .
Tomorrows newspaper headlines ----Volvo driver found dead from heart attack on northern motorway"

Ohh and children--this stunt was preformed by trained professionals do not try this at home etc etc

[MSTRS]

fine print......do not try this at home. It will be a waste of time as it is unlikely that there will be a Volvo driver to hand.

[crashe]

did you not have enough coffee this morning....
or maybe you had too much..... lol.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Pwalo]

You mean he hadn't heard the air cooled four cylinder, four stroke engine outside his open window. Don't think loud pipes would have done much then.

I would love to have seen that.

[erik]

:laugh:
Nice one :niceone:

[ManDownUnder]

bravo that man BRAVO!

A fine example of time making you grow old... but NO-ONE can make you grow up.

Nice one :rofl:
MDU

[eliot-ness]

Excellent example of how to be polite to our fellow road users, (and reduce the opposition at the same time). Who said bikers are anti-social.

[FROSTY]

You mean he hadn't heard the air cooled four cylinder, four stroke engine outside his open window. Don't think loud pipes would have done much then.

I would love to have seen that.
Ohh I missed the odvious to avoid confusing the story He was yakkiin away on his cellphone -of course

[DingDong]

well done, :clap: couldnt have done it better myself :devil2:

[Odin]

Brilliat brilliant brilliant. I wish i had a video of it. (6)

[myvice]

I love it!
Always fanced droping a handgrenad in the window myself.
Always that old lady in the back of my mind tho, saying:
"Oh yes, all fun and games throwing grenads at each other till someone looses an eye!"
Sounds like Eric Idol for some odd reason...

[John]

Nice one frosty, most of the time the smallest things cause the biggest damage... (thats funny on so many levels I think I might "LOL")

[sels1]

Good one Frosty. Rode out from the city in commuter traffic tonite, something I fortunately never usually have to do. If I did it more often I think I would invest in air horns of some type - wake a few people up (or disract them from their phone conversations)

[FROSTY]

Nice one frosty, most of the time the smallest things cause the biggest damage... (thats funny on so many levels I think I might "LOL")
gee john Im sure that made sense--just not to me :devil2:

[ManDownUnder]

Good one Frosty. Rode out from the city in commuter traffic tonite, something I fortunately never usually have to do. If I did it more often I think I would invest in air horns of some type - wake a few people up (or disract them from their phone conversations)

There are some good ones out there too... smallish, not too pricey and LOUD!

I'm thinking of doing the same...:devil2:

For 'safety' reasons of course!
MDU

[Slingshot]

The other day a similar incident happened to me. A car changed lanes into my spot, as I was taking evassive action around him I put my gloved hand out and tapped his wing mirror (bending it back).

My plan was for him to think he had actually clipped me but looking back he probably thinks I was splitting and being a dick and just got too close.

[Beemer]

I like it! My husband has air horns on his bike and I've seen people almost run off the road in fright when he uses them when they pull out in front of him!

Not on the bike, but my mother hates driving with me if a pedestrian walks out in front of me - I open the window and yell "have you got a deathwish you stupid prick?" She never knows where to look!

On the bike I am usually almost speechless at people's stupidity so tend to make the tosser sign or just shake my head. I'd love to be confident enough to ride up to their window and tap on it. Not hard enough to break it though, oh no, that would be naughty... :whistle:

[Oscar]

I did a similar thing, except when the car was still moving.
Having been carved up by a primer painted RX2 at the lights, I followed him down Galloway Street in Ham East. At the lights it had appeared that the Mazda was being driven by a beanie and two sets of knuckles, but as I caught up I see it was driven by a spotty little oik with his oikfriend in the passenger seat.

I pulled up alongside them at about 60km/h and his window being open (and me having a open faced lid on), I suavely enquired "What the f#@& do you think you are f#@&ing doing you f#@&ing spotty c*%$....?"

It would appear that when you cut yer drivers seat down, mirrors become useless, so the appearance of a large hairy angry man leaning in his window surprised him somewhat. His reposte was along the lines of "...(gurly scream)..Eek! oogle urgle!!..."

Having then paused to promise him what would happen if I saw him again (which involved his beanie being inserted into his fundemental orifice), I bid him a final farewell....

[vifferman]

Ohh I missed the odvious to avoid confusing the story He was yakkiin away on his cellphone -of course
Interesting article in The Harold this morning:

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=copy vAlign=top>Brains can't cope with cellphones while driving</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=copy vAlign=top>29.06.05 </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>Using a cellphone - even with a hands-free device - may distract drivers because the brain cannot handle both tasks, say US researchers.

Imaging tests show the brain directs its resources to either visual input or auditory input, but cannot fully activate both at the same time, the team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found.

"Our research helps explain why talking on a cellphone can impair driving performance, even when the driver is using a hands-free device," said Steven Yantis, a professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences who led the study.

"Directing attention to listening effectively 'turns down the volume' on input to the visual parts of the brain," he added in a statement. "When attention is deployed to one modality - say, in this case, talking on a cellphone - it necessarily extracts a cost on another modality - in this case, the visual task of driving."

Writing in the Journal of Neuroscience, Yantis and colleagues said they tested people aged 19 to 35 by showing them a computer display while they wore headphones playing voices.

At the same time, the volunteers' brains were scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging.

They were told to look for specific numbers, for instance, on a computer screen, while hearing recorded voices saying a stream of numbers.

When the volunteers paid attention to visual tasks, the auditory parts of their brain recorded decreased activity, and vice-versa.

"It's as if the participants were changing the volume on visual input and auditory input depending on where they were supposed to be directing attention," Yantis said.

This is like driving and trying to talk on a cellphone.

"You are sharing attention between vision and audition and doing the best you can," Yantis said.

- REUTERS </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

[Wolf]

Interesting article in The Harold this morning:

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=copy vAlign=top>Brains can't cope with cellphones while driving</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=copy vAlign=top>29.06.05 </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>Using a cellphone - even with a hands-free device - may distract drivers because the brain cannot handle both tasks, say US researchers.

--Snip--

- REUTERS </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
So who's going to ram a copy of the Herald up a few politicians' fundamental orifices until they get the message?

[sels1]

So who's going to ram a copy of the Herald up a few politicians' fundamental orifices until they get the message?


ummm.....a fundamentalist? :rofl:

[Wolf]

ummm.....a fundamentalist? :rofl:
Hope you're not accusing me of being a fundamentalist :p

[Lou Girardin]

Around Auckland, a lot of drivers brains can't cope with driving.

Now I know why fundamentalist christians/muslims are called that.

[ManDownUnder]

Around Auckland, a lot of drivers brains can't cope with driving.



hmmm - it seems to me it's the other way around - they "cope" with the driving without their brains...

This morning was a classic for it... the number of idiots doing dumb thing (juist turn... hmmm... HERE! - oopsie... nearly hit someone... aaa no matter"

EEEEJUTS!

[ManDownUnder]

Interesting article in The Harold this morning:

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=copy vAlign=top>Brains can't cope with cellphones while driving</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=copy vAlign=top>29.06.05 </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>Using a cellphone - even with a hands-free device - may distract drivers because the brain cannot handle both tasks, say US researchers.


Imaging tests show the brain directs its resources to either visual input or auditory input, but cannot fully activate both at the same time, the team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found.

"Our research helps explain why talking on a cellphone can impair driving performance, even when the driver is using a hands-free device," said Steven Yantis, a professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences who led the study.

"Directing attention to listening effectively 'turns down the volume' on input to the visual parts of the brain," he added in a statement. "When attention is deployed to one modality - say, in this case, talking on a cellphone - it necessarily extracts a cost on another modality - in this case, the visual task of driving."

Writing in the Journal of Neuroscience, Yantis and colleagues said they tested people aged 19 to 35 by showing them a computer display while they wore headphones playing voices.

At the same time, the volunteers' brains were scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging.

They were told to look for specific numbers, for instance, on a computer screen, while hearing recorded voices saying a stream of numbers.

When the volunteers paid attention to visual tasks, the auditory parts of their brain recorded decreased activity, and vice-versa.

"It's as if the participants were changing the volume on visual input and auditory input depending on where they were supposed to be directing attention," Yantis said.

This is like driving and trying to talk on a cellphone.

"You are sharing attention between vision and audition and doing the best you can," Yantis said.

- REUTERS
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

No surprises there then...

I remember seeing something on TV illustrating the difference between taling on a cell phone (DISTRACTING and dangerous) and talking to a passenger... compare what happens in the two modes of conversation in an emergency.

Passenger, sees body language of driver change and shares sense of urgency re the situation and SHUTS UP

Cell phone... blah blah blah blah BANG

MDU

[Wolf]

Passenger, sees body language of driver change and shares sense of urgency re the situation and SHUTS UP

Never been in a car with my father's mother, have you, MDU

:devil2:

[FROSTY]

Guys n gals Just a point here. Yea It was bloody funny but if you're thinking of doing summat similar just keep in mind.
I was on a motorway so only One way traffic to worry about.
There were NO cars to my right or behind me to cut off my escape route.
I was covering my front brake and had shifted down a gear so I could get outa there fast if I needed to.
I'd hate to seee one of you llot come a cropper

[myvice]

No, yorv got it all wrong, cell phones are safe, just like haveing a t.v. in your car (now NOT a WoF fail) But those dangeros exaust noise levels... Well thats another story!