Scary shit on the road

**PrincessBandit** · 30th March 2011, 21:46

Traveling home from training college yesterday (been working my arse off on an assignment due tomorrow afternoon so didn't post this straight away like I normally would) was coming down the South Western motorway and spied a blue lightweight tarp lying against the concrete median barrier. I was in the "fast" lane and watched to see if it would move. Seemed quiet as a mouse. Suddenly a p.o.s. Nissan hared out of the lane on my left (far enough up ahead that he himself wasn't a problem) but he stirred up the tarp and it flew into the front of my bike. I couldn't believe the impact it made! Bike wobbled for a couple of seconds then thankfully the bloody thing blew off to my right and went f@ck only knows where - all I was interested in was it wasn't stuck on my bike any more!

It hit so hard that I had to check my indicator to see that it was still there.

Just goes to show that things aren't always as placid as they seem. I know that things like that can easily get caught in a sudden gust, but having been watching it (and moving into the lane on my left wasn't really an option with a number of cars there - didn't think it was that essential) I'm convinced that it was only that car which stirred it up by suddenly moving through the lane like it did.

Oh, and had two fricken drivers flick ciggie butts out their windows with me behind them. Never forget a friend of mine telling me years ago that it happened to him once where the butt caught the breeze and landed on his jacket. It started to smoulder as he was riding with him furiously batting at it to get it off. What the hell is wrong with these people that they can't use the fricken ashtray in the fricken car?

Aaaarrrrghgghh.

**baptist** · 30th March 2011, 23:00

Good news is you are ok... as for fag butts

any rubbish thrown from a car is dangerous...

**GPXchick** · 31st March 2011, 00:45

Ugh I have had 2 incidents now, today was the worst, i had just flipped my visor up and WHAMMO straight on my nose i actually have a little red dot burn mark. Luickly the lights changed and i pulled right up to this guus window and told him his butt hit me and he should be more careful he told me to F*&K off and did his window up. I don't know what came over me and i just wanted to kick, punch spit and hurl things at him, I DID NOT. the lights changed and i sped off hoping this guy wouldn't be a dick. To my relief (and i can't believe i'm saying this) the cops were around the corner and he had to merge in behind me like a good little boy. I saw the lights moving ahead and just as they changed to orange i flipped the bird and zoomed through. Pffff some people are just arseholes.

**Mom** · 31st March 2011, 05:27

Originally Posted by PrincessBandit

What the hell is wrong with these people that they can't use the fricken ashtray in the fricken car?

Aaaarrrrghgghh.

Believe it or not a lot of cars dont have ashtrays anymore.

Gubb tells an interesting tale of what happens when people flick ciggy butts at him, I will see if I can find it for you, well worth a read

**JimO** · 31st March 2011, 05:35

the world is a ashtray if your a smoker

**Mom** · 31st March 2011, 05:36

here it is...

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...0-Ciggie-butts

**hellokitty** · 31st March 2011, 05:38

Originally Posted by Mom

Believe it or not a lot of cars dont have ashtrays anymore.

Ridiculous isn't it? My new car doesn't have one either!! Where am I supposed to put my iceblock wrappers and small bits of crap?

As for smokers - how dumb, as the butts will end up on the road and then in the stormwater drain out to the ocean.

**hellokitty** · 31st March 2011, 05:40

Originally Posted by Mom

here it is...

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...0-Ciggie-butts

Thats awesome Mom!

**oneofsix** · 31st March 2011, 06:57

Originally Posted by Mom

here it is...

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...0-Ciggie-butts

Bloody Awesome!. Often wished I was in a position to do that. I used to toot drivers that flicked butts however as the other comments show they don't give fig or they wouldn't be smoking. Most smokers have had to grow a hard shell with all the pressure to give up and are very defensive, usually restoring to the so called best form of defense.

**Maha** · 31st March 2011, 07:33

Originally Posted by hellokitty

Thats awesome Mom!

Aint it just, I never saw that the first time around (I dont think) but I see Gubb has been repped 51 times for that first post... just added one extra.

**James Deuce** · 31st March 2011, 07:47

I once caught a ciggie butt and hurled it back in through the open window only to find it was the wife of a workmate who'd thrown it.

The next morning I waited until he finished shouting at me and then explained that I was going to be billing him for some new cordura trousers as his wife's casually discarded butt (not her real one, that's too big to be casually discarded) had burned a hole in the thigh. Morning tea time came and I went and bought some new trou and gave him the $399 bill to pay. Never heard another word about it.

**cbfb** · 31st March 2011, 12:18

Can't you report the wankers? For one it's littering, it's dangerous to other road users (mainly cyclists & bikers) and it's also a fire-risk in dry areas like Central Otago where I used to live (Palmy rains too bloody much doubt it would make any difference here). I hate to see people chucking shit out of cars, seen glass bottles, maccas wrappers, all sorts of stuff. Some beautiful roads in NZ don't need it to look like we're driving through a landfill.

**admenk** · 31st March 2011, 13:26

A ciggie butt in the face is one downside of my open face helmet - but that's a whole different thread I'm sure

(has happened a few times)

**monkeymcbean** · 31st March 2011, 14:14

I find wandering sheep and hares seem to do this down here on our rural roads.
Especially if your travelling with bikes that are ahead that have a noisey pipe by the time you have got to the animal, a once placid creature feeding on the side of the road, is now bouncing around backs and forths all over the road in front of you.

Of course my TB pipe is NOT NOISEY!