Red light runner.

[Squeak the Rat]

Car in front of me ran a red light today. Red light runners give me the hebbies. General duties cop was waiting at the intersection to turn right so i pointed and all the dude did was look resigned and shrug.

Looks like the message is getting through that there are more important crimes to deal with than traffic offences.....

[avgas]

makes you just wanna throw rocks

[boomer]

you should have jumped it yaself and when he pulled you up just shrugged and give him a look of resignation.

On a brighter note, i passed a General Duties car on the southern motorway yesterday with Speedy, i was frantically splittin and thought fuck it.. he can't catch me. Well the bikey cop did that he'd called.. ahhahahaha.

what a top geeza, nice and polite, told me what he does when the bastards try and block his splittin, i.e use the fast lane hard shoulder and asked me if it was a good deal if he let me of with a warning re splitting and commented on the fact my rego plate should 'ideally' be at 90'.Top geeza...


*555 the bastads bro

[bobsmith]

I got caught a few days ago doing 103km/hr on the open road with a trailer (the trailer had 1 bicycle securely strapped to it and was a small 6x4 trailer.

right after I stopped with the cop behind me, a large truck flew passed us doing about 120km/hr... Hmmmm

[KLOWN]

Car in front of me ran a red light today. Red light runners give me the hebbies. General duties cop was waiting at the intersection to turn right so i pointed and all the dude did was look resigned and shrug.

Looks like the message is getting through that there are more important crimes to deal with than traffic offences.....

palmy is the capital of the red light runner. I think its because everyone is soo slow at going on the green. You can sit through a whole green light and no one will beep, laughed my ass off at this. So I tried to bring a little bit of auckland to this town and when ever the light goes green I beep straight away its quite funny people look around like they have never heard a horn before. Which brings me to my point of red light runners, I saw one the other day, he was turing right, went through red, marked cop car nearly t-bones him and still they didn't bother pulling him over. If i could have got the rego of the cop car I would have gone and complained.

[Gremlin]

pfffft, I regularly see cars on the other side enter the intersection as it goes green for us. Indeed, the worst I have seen, it went green for us, and the fuckers just kept coming through, until I launched myself at them.

Wish there was a BC for all the intersections out east

[KLOWN]

pfffft, I regularly see cars on the other side enter the intersection as it goes green for us. Indeed, the worst I have seen, it went green for us, and the fuckers just kept coming through, until I launched myself at them.

Wish there was a BC for all the intersections out east

the guy who went right through the intersection when light was red was previously stationary at the white lines, waited till light went red then proceded through. I was also suprised that the cop almost t-boned him because he was easy to see. I thought they were ment to be taught to drive well.

[bikemike]

One reason there is such impatience at the lights here is that there are so many automatic vehicles. Drivers of these vehicles press GO as soon as the lights change (ok, apart from the 4 or 5 false starts, incorrectly anticipating the lights incompetent tossers!) Folks in proper manual gearbox vehicles may well have the handbrake on, and be in neutral. Any delay in getting away is not tolerated at all. I have found my self riding the clutch in the car a few times, especially on short-lived filter lights, so as to avoid harassment from behind, though I don't think it's good practice.
If I'm on the bike, and do my shoulder checks and my left and right light-runners check after the lights are green, there is traffic all around me before I get going, even if I'm in gear... So it's not just the red light runners, it's those that think Green is Go. So yeah, I'm looking all around like there's a bee in my bonnet just before the lights are due to go - on home turf.

As to running red lights, I too have seen plenty of cops at the front of the queue ignore those that go through on the red across them. That's especially worrying because it's blatantly clear those drivers are not looking and not seeing .

[KLOWN]

my biggest worries when riding are red light runners, people who cross the white line and people who dont look/stop at intersections

[scracha]

Folks in proper manual gearbox vehicles may well have the handbrake on, and be in neutral. Any delay in getting away is not tolerated at all. I have found my self riding the clutch in the car a few times, especially on short-lived filter lights, so as to avoid harassment from behind, though I don't think it's good .

I was taught that if I was one of the first 2 or 3 cars at the lights I should keep the car in 1st with the clutch in and use the handbrake. Similar to the bike really (except use the rear brake).

Any fule knows a manual is way faster from the lights than an automagic.

[Mr. Peanut]

[Guitana]

If I was a civil engineer for the local council I would design large steel posts that shoot out of the ground when the lights turn red at an intersection!!!
This would definitely stop arseholes running red lights,can't run a red light when your cars impaled on a steel post.Intersections would then be safer places, red light runners would be spending the best part of their day in hospital or doing P.D.
Fuckers!!!!!

[ManDownUnder]

I have to admit I play wiht the red light runners... hey ALWAYS run the light at the top of the NW motorway as they continue straight down H'ville Road.

You see them coming, the light goes green (for me) to I pulse/ease forward a bit and hit the (air) horn...

It gives me a laugh and every now and then they get this great look of "OH SHIT"

Yeah - I'm cheap... and some of my thrills are free

[Finn]

Red light running is obviously dangerous, however I find using the Give Way rule works good when commuting to and from work. I just don't want to sit at uncontrolled lights for minutes for no reason at all. THERES NO TRAFFIC!!! GO!!!

It saves me at least 10 minutes each day which gives me more time to post informative, educational posts on KB, like this one for example.

Red lights are for conformists.

[Sniper]

Just had a red light runner hit a car on the cnr Lichfield and Madras this morning. Now I have to get blood off my pants, bloody flesh bags cant handle a bit of an accident. And they had the audacity to thank me. PAH!

At least the ambulance guys gave me some hand cleaner stuff and a cool towel.