Road rage fail: Aggressive NZ driver who hates cyclists

[bogan]

one doesn't need to be either thick or wide to recognise an irate hippopotamus blundering along through - well, a brick shithouse if that's where you currently are ...


I really DO seem to have upset you, don't I? It's probably a bad mark on my report that I'm enjoying it so hugely ... you really are such a soft target.

So how thick do you need to be not to recognise the way my sledgehammer blunders?

Hey, I'm not upset enough to go blabbing on about it on the walls of some random pleb : Nor am I upset enough to moronically place the value of 'telling' higher than that of 'showing'. But as long as you're happy, you keep showing what you show sunshine

[R650R]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6533...-serious-crash

I wonder if the cops also got OSH involved with the organisors of this event as well, you know like how they have when there have been incidents at motorsports events on closed public roads....????
Its high time these events went to proper closed road status. The competitor here clearly made a bad decision influenced by fatigue and the red mist of race conditions, why is the general public still allowed to be exposed to this risk.

[nzspokes]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6533...-serious-crash

I wonder if the cops also got OSH involved with the organisors of this event as well, you know like how they have when there have been incidents at motorsports events on closed public roads....????
Its high time these events went to proper closed road status. The competitor here clearly made a bad decision influenced by fatigue and the red mist of race conditions, why is the general public still allowed to be exposed to this risk.

So the rider thought he had the right to use the whole road and the driver was impatient. Both thought they were in the right. Odd.

[nzspokes]

I rode my Bicycle to work this week. Only 45ks there and back but I enjoyed it. Will be making it a regular thing.

Great thing is with cycleways most of my time is a way from traffic. Its even a little scenic.

[R650R]

So the rider thought he had the right to use the whole road and the driver was impatient. Both thought they were in the right. Odd.

Did you read the article???

Under what circumstances is it acceptable for a vehicle of any kind to overtake on the right a vehicle ahead that is indicating a right turn???
The cops would not have charged the cyclist if there was any hint of fault on the car driver.

[nzspokes]

Did you read the article???

Under what circumstances is it acceptable for a vehicle of any kind to overtake on the right a vehicle ahead that is indicating a right turn???
The cops would not have charged the cyclist if there was any hint of fault on the car driver.

Yes I read it. How do you know the driver was indicating? I doubt the Police will know this as a fact. Easy enough to turn it on after the crash.

The Police dont always get it right. Will be interesting to see how this plays out.


I had a truck driver enter a roundabout that I was already on so he had entered illegally. At least he was nice enough to give me and the other cars a big finger out the window while laughing.

[neels]

I had a truck driver enter a roundabout that I was already on so he had entered illegally. At least he was nice enough to give me and the other cars a big finger out the window while laughing.

Drive down memorial ave to the airport any day of the week, you'll see it pretty much every time you drive through the russley road roundabout. Not usually a finger, just looking straight ahead and not making eye contact.

[nzspokes]

Drive down memorial ave to the airport any day of the week, you'll see it pretty much every time you drive through the russley road roundabout. Not usually a finger, just looking straight ahead and not making eye contact.

I work out by Auckland Airport and its shocking for Taxi's and truck's.

[RDJ]

If there had've been a farm tractor and trailer,or a milk tanker having driven back out onto the road, this idiot would have still been in the same frame of mind.

that's a pretty much awesome psychic ability you have there.

[R650R]

I had a truck driver enter a roundabout that I was already on so he had entered illegally. At least he was nice enough to give me and the other cars a big finger out the window while laughing.

Not much of a near miss if he's actually seen you and had time to give you the finger. Sounds like a classic case of dithering motorist who has stopped or near stopped entering the roundabout when they didn't need to, meanwhile truckie has established he has safe gap and committed to transiting the roundabout. Then in righteous indignation at someone having faster thought processes you've proceeded to accelerate as fast as your vehicle allows before fake emergency braking and tooting.

So someone cut you off at one of Aucklands most busiest junctions, get over it. Hardley enough data there to judge an entire industry, is it ok for us to judge cyclists based on similar encounters with the inner city cycle couriers???

It's quite funny looking in the rear view mirror at a certain busy junction I negotiate daily. You can see the shitty annoyed glare of people thinking I'm taking too long to pull out, but you can bet the same people would be the first to scream blue murder if I pulled out in front of them in a hurry to try and keep traffic flowing... Its a busy world out there and humans will make mistakes no matter what they are operating/riding. Hardley worth the high blood pressure to be remembering it any longer than five mins after it happened....

[nzspokes]

Not much of a near miss if he's actually seen you and had time to give you the finger. Sounds like a classic case of dithering motorist who has stopped or near stopped entering the roundabout when they didn't need to, meanwhile truckie has established he has safe gap and committed to transiting the roundabout. Then in righteous indignation at someone having faster thought processes you've proceeded to accelerate as fast as your vehicle allows before fake emergency braking and tooting.

So someone cut you off at one of Aucklands most busiest junctions, get over it. Hardley enough data there to judge an entire industry, is it ok for us to judge cyclists based on similar encounters with the inner city cycle couriers???

It's quite funny looking in the rear view mirror at a certain busy junction I negotiate daily. You can see the shitty annoyed glare of people thinking I'm taking too long to pull out, but you can bet the same people would be the first to scream blue murder if I pulled out in front of them in a hurry to try and keep traffic flowing... Its a busy world out there and humans will make mistakes no matter what they are operating/riding. Hardley worth the high blood pressure to be remembering it any longer than five mins after it happened....

I didnt stop as I had clear entrance to the roundabout. No safe gap as I had to stop smartly as did the silver SUV behind me.

[bogan]

So someone cut you off at one of Aucklands most busiest junctions, get over it. Hardley enough data there to judge an entire industry, is it ok for us to judge cyclists based on similar encounters with the inner city cycle couriers???

Jeezus tinkerbell, so much for the tough guy truckie image; I can't see anywhere in his post where he implies judgment on an entire industry. Are you having a bit of a tanty cos there is fuck all prostitutes left to murder?

[R650R]

Jeezus tinkerbell, so much for the tough guy truckie image; I can't see anywhere in his post where he implies judgment on an entire industry. Are you having a bit of a tanty cos there is fuck all prostitutes left to murder?

Sweet Jesus aunty Doris, layoff the stereotypes aye... tough guy image lol... where do you get that from, another example of how people outside the industry have no idea of the diversity of its members.
Hardly a tantrum... you've got the wrong country btw that's not a problem in NZ. I do love how people reveal their own insecurities in insults. So why do you have these fantasies and thoughts in your head about murdering prostitutes? Did you have a bad experience? ;p

[bogan]

Sweet Jesus aunty Doris, layoff the stereotypes aye... tough guy image lol... where do you get that from, another example of how people outside the industry have no idea of the diversity of its members.
Hardly a tantrum... you've got the wrong country btw that's not a problem in NZ. I do love how people reveal their own insecurities in insults. So why do you have these fantasies and thoughts in your head about murdering prostitutes? Did you have a bad experience? ;p

Golly you do get antsy about your truckie image doncha.

Were it a fantasy, I'd hope to be more articulate about it, that is for sure. And any country where even one prosti is murdered by a trucky is a problem, or do you value them so little there is a threshold?

[R650R]

Golly you do get antsy about your truckie image doncha.

Were it a fantasy, I'd hope to be more articulate about it, that is for sure. And any country where even one prosti is murdered by a trucky is a problem, or do you value them so little there is a threshold?

LOL not even close to antsy.... I don't care what people think about truckies, I do slightly care about people talking utter shite so often about stuff they don't know about that there is a danger when such shite is repeated often enough the masses start believeing it.

I've never stopped to think/value the social status or contribution to society of prostitutes but obviously its an issue close to your heart. When was this murder, haven't been following the news too closely lately.
Any stats on murders of prostitutes by cyclists? Everyone is a cyclist at some stage in their life so as a group their prob over represented in crime stats just like Maoris are...