Forget cell phones - Ban nail polish

[Mom]

Thought my eyes were deceiving me today. Overtaking a vehicle I spotted the driver steering with her left hand, which was also holding a bottle of nail polish. Her right hand was painting the nails ever so carefully. Now this was not creeping along in slow traffic, this was 100km area. She must have been on her way somewhere important that required her nails to be prettiful before she got there I guess. So folks, do not stress about texting drivers, seems it is nail polish applying ones that we need to be looking out for as well.

No doubt you will have seen other amazing feats being done while driving, want to share?

[p.dath]

One day she'll (I hope it was a she) spill the nail polish all over herself, and then hopefully wont do it again. :-)

[YellowDog]

Never mind the distraction of applying nail polish; what about the intoxicating chemicals being ommitted in such a small enclosed area. She would have been on a real high after a couple of minutes in that environment. Great for emergency situations.

Decisions decisions: Squash the biker OR ruin my clothes with nail polish stain...............

[Hitcher]

Some years ago, gentle readers, I lived in Auckland. My daily communt took me from Forrest Hill ont Shore to the bowels of Pakuranga. Nuff said.

Each day me and my trusty Hiace sallied forth down the Southern Motorway where, roughly about the Ellerslie off ramp I would encounter this female thing driving a Fiat. Her usual go, upon passing the last on-ramp before Mt Wellington, was to wrench around the rear vision mirror to apply her mascara.

Which begs another question to which I suspect there is no answer: Is it possible to apply mascara with one's mouth closed?

[Pussy]

Which begs another question to which I suspect there is no answer: Is it possible to apply mascara with one's mouth closed?

That's a bloody STUPID question, Hitcher!

Of course it's not!

I have observed this ritual several times

[Swoop]

I happily observed a chap having his morning bowl of cereal, whilst "controlling" his automobile last week.

Spoon was in hand and he appeared to be enjoying his cereal of choice.

[gwigs]

I followed a woman a 120ks doing her make up on the motorway....a bloke reading...possible a map and of course the txters....maybe Im paranoid but I think they,re out to get me :bash:

[R6_kid]

The interesting thing is that in a situation where they have to choose between staying on the road, or avoiding spilling the nail polish/food/whatever - they tend to chose avoiding the spillage.

[Maha]

The interesting thing is that in a situation where they have to choose between staying on the road, or avoiding spilling the nail polish/food/whatever - they tend to chose avoiding the spillage.

As all good women should....:shifty:

[YellowDog]

That's really bad and should be outlawed.

However: Shaving whilst driving is perfectly acceptable; especially if you are late and also AND ONLY if it is your face you are shaving.

[Slyer]

What's with all these people looking into everybody's car to see what they're doing. Focus on the task at hand!

Your inability to mind your own business is going to cause an accident some day.

[Maha]

That's really bad and should be outlawed.

However: Shaving whilst driving is perfectly acceptable; especially if you are late and also AND ONLY if it is your face you are shaving.

Now that I have done, enroute from Rotorua to Te Atutu many years ago..maybe 18-19 at the time.
I have seen a female riding and eating an apple, she must of had huge teeth?

[Maha]

What's with all these people looking into everybody's car to see what they're doing. Focus on the task at hand!

Your inability to mind your own business is going to cause an accident some day.

I think a pillion can look where ever the hell they want to....:eek:

[martybabe]

It can be anything eh. I remember sitting in the passenger seat of an ambulance as my driving instructor ploughed into the back of a van.

The reason for his lack of due observation...anybody?

He was counting how many turns of the window winding handle it took to take the Window from fully open to fully closed :no:

In the interest of road safety, should you ever find yourself driving a 1960s bedford ambulance and be hit by the sudden desire to count how many times you need to wind the handle to close the window, I think the answer was thirteen and a half before the bang. :laugh:

[Slyer]

I think a pillion can look where ever the hell they want to....:eek:
I saw that one coming, but this applies generally as well. :bleh:

[Grahameeboy]

What's with all these people looking into everybody's car to see what they're doing. Focus on the task at hand!

Your inability to mind your own business is going to cause an accident some day.

It's a hazard which we should be focusing on surely....what people do in cars is a factor...like watching hands movement telling you the driver may be deciding to change lanes etc

[peasea]

Thought my eyes were deceiving me today. Overtaking a vehicle I spotted the driver steering with her left hand, which was also holding a bottle of nail polish. Her right hand was painting the nails ever so carefully. Now this was not creeping along in slow traffic, this was 100km area. She must have been on her way somewhere important that required her nails to be prettiful before she got there I guess. So folks, do not stress about texting drivers, seems it is nail polish applying ones that we need to be looking out for as well.

No doubt you will have seen other amazing feats being done while driving, want to share?

I often trim my pubes while driving, what's the problem?

[Edbear]

Or the young lady talking animatedly on her cell-phone while doing over the 100km/h mark reading her A4 papers spread on the steering wheel...

[Dave Lobster]

I regularly see truck drivers driving along while reading a book.

I've seen people attempting to control unruly children running loose in the car. An Indian woman just the other day in Epsom, about ten thousand children loose in her paki wagon... didn't see the motorcyclist coming the other way.

[Swoop]

What's with all these people looking into everybody's car to see what they're doing. Focus on the task at hand!

Your inability to mind your own business is going to cause an accident some day.
My "spidey-senses" are attuned to fuckheads who are doing small things which are peculiar. A cage moving in an odd way, the waft of beer from an open window, etc.

What you see when you don't have a camera or a gun, eh?:spanking:

[sunhuntin]

this accident [?] happened earlier this month in the states. i think i may have posted it already, but it seems suitable for this thread.

Motorcyclist fatally struck by car; cops say other driver painting nails By Russell Lissau |
Daily Herald Staff Published: 5/3/2009 4:02 PM | Updated: 5/3/2009 9:01 PM

As she rode her motorcycle in the Lake Zurich area Saturday afternoon, Anita Zaffke stopped for a yellow light.
The motorist behind her didn't, police said, because she was painting her fingernails.
Zaffke, 56, of Lake Zurich, suffered fatal injuries when she was struck by a car about 5:30 p.m., Lake County Coroner Richard Keller said.
The accident happened on the southbound side of Rand Road after Zaffke stopped her 2007 Honda Shadow for the light at Old McHenry Road, Lake County sheriff's police said.
Lora L. Hunt, 48, of Morris, also was headed south and crashed into Zaffke, police said.
Hunt told police she was painting her nails as she drove and didn't see Zaffke until after the crash, police reports indicate.
Lake County Sheriff's office spokesman Sgt. Christopher Thompson confirmed Hunt was charged with failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident. Additional charges are possible.
Zaffke and her motorcycle were pushed forward a few hundred feet by the force of the crash, Keller said.
Hunt and other people stopped to help Zaffke, but she could not be saved. She was pronounced dead about 6:30 p.m. at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital near Barrington.
Zaffke had been wearing a helmet and likely died of chest and abdominal injuries, Keller said. An autopsy is scheduled to be conducted today.


Charges mulled in fatal nail-polish crash May 4, 2009 10:39 AM | 176 Comments | UPDATED STORY
The Lake County State's Attorney's office says it's looking into criminal charges against a woman who allegedly was painting her fingernails while driving and fatally struck a stopped motorcyclist over the weekend.

"We are looking into charges in the case," Assistant State's Atty. Patricia Fix said this morning. "But we are waiting for results of blood and urine tests and waiting for the results of an accident reconstruction, as well as any other technical evidence we can derive from the scene."
Authorities say Anita Zaffke, of the 1500 block of Eddy Lane in Lake Zurich, stopped at the intersection of Route 12 and Old McHenry Road at around 5:45 p.m. Saturday as the traffic light turned from green to yellow.

The driver of a Chevrolet Impala behind Zaffke, Lora Hunt, 48, of Morris, told police "she was painting her nails as she drove and did not see [the motorcycle] until contact was already made," according to a Lake County Sheriff's Department incident report. Zaffke, who was wearing a helmet, was thrown a distance from her Honda motorcycle, according to Lake County Coroner Dr. Richard Keller. Her son, Greg, said this morning his mother was also wearing a bright yellow cycling jacket.

"It appears to be a tragic accident and it appears [Zaffke] did nothing wrong," Lake County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Scott Morrison said Sunday. "She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and she could not have done anything to avoid it."
Zaffke died about an hour after the crash at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington, Keller said. An autopsy was scheduled for this morning.

Hunt was cited with failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident. She could not be reached for comment this morning.

-- Dan P. Blake and Andrew L. Wang

pic is of zaffke.

[Slyer]

"It appears to be a tragic accident and it appears [Zaffke] did nothing wrong," Lake County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Scott Morrison said Sunday. "She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and she could not have done anything to avoid it."
Fucking bullshit. Nothing wrong with the time or place just the silly BITCH behind her!

[sunhuntin]

Fucking bullshit. Nothing wrong with the time or place just the silly BITCH behind her!

o yeh, and that same thought is echoed by all americans on 2 wheels. some car drivers managed to twist the blame onto zaffke by saying she shouldnt have stopped for the yellow, as that light is often run when its red. :no:

as far as known, the cager has not yet been charged, despite admitting fault.

[Skyryder]

I often trim my pubes while driving, what's the problem?

It's the flossing afterwards................it takes both hands. :jerry:



Skyyrder