stupid accidents

**Devil** · 10th September 2004, 16:25

Originally Posted by jazbug5

By choice-

I figure it's only fair to warn people...!
(For now, anyway; just had the bike a couple of weeks..)

Heh ok. I just find that my L plate is like a red flag to a bull. Godamn tailgaters, people passing me in 50 areas when im doing 55????
Restricted in two weeks

Cant wait to get rid of it

**vifferman** · 10th September 2004, 16:35

Originally Posted by Devil

Heh ok. I just find that my L plate is like a red flag to a bull. Godamn tailgaters, people passing me in 50 areas when im doing 55????

I wonder if "The Authorities" are aware of that? I noticed this when teaching my two older sons to drive - a lot of other motorists were desperate to pass (this is in 50 km/h areas!), to the point of doing so dangerously! And like, this one time, at band camp, er... this one time, when I drove the car without taking the plates off, I had to put up with all sorts of arsehole driving from other motorists (even more than normal for D'Auckland). AND I wasn't driving slowly. Grrrrr...
I thought the point was so that other motorists could drive carefully when encountering an L-plated driver/rider and show some consideration and make some allowances, not go, "EEEK!! A looner driver/rider!! Must pass at all costs! Must avoid!" and escape from the immediate vicinity as rapidly as possible, lest the looner slow them up for a nanosecond or three.
Even had one inconsiderate/inattentive dork drive into the back of Dave when he was on his way to his driving test! Shook him up so much he couldn't sit the test. Fortunately, the examiner applied for a special waiver for him, and scheduled a retest. (And the car blew a hose, but that's another episode...)

**thehollowmen** · 10th September 2004, 16:36

Hope you get well soon, and you've done your quota of wierd accidents for the year.

I think my worst was when I managed to cut my hand with the tab on a can of shoepolish and I needed 4 stitches for it.

I went home afterwards, my boots were still scuffy ... wanted to polish them ... so I managed the same thing on the other hand... didn't go back to the doctor though

**Blakamin** · 10th September 2004, 17:38

Everytime I open a pull-tab bottle (bundaberg ginger beer) I cut the tops of my fingers... tried heaps of different ways but always the same result!

**marty** · 10th September 2004, 17:44

Originally Posted by thehollowmen

Hope you get well soon, and you've done your quota of wierd accidents for the year.

I think my worst was when I managed to cut my hand with the tab on a can of shoepolish and I needed 4 stitches for it.

I went home afterwards, my boots were still scuffy ... wanted to polish them ... so I managed the same thing on the other hand... didn't go back to the doctor though

ooh that sounds terrible.

**marty** · 10th September 2004, 17:47

pepper spraying myself was my best trick

**Blakamin** · 10th September 2004, 17:49

Originally Posted by marty

pepper spraying myself was my best trick

how did you manage that???
I've "CRC'd" myself but i'd be a tad more careful with pepper spray!

**marty** · 10th September 2004, 18:06

running after a bad guy, around a corner to find he was waiting for me. 'deployed' my spray in his direction, then realised that i had run around the corner into a head wind.

**Blakamin** · 10th September 2004, 18:13

Originally Posted by marty

running after a bad guy, around a corner to find he was waiting for me. 'deployed' my spray in his direction, then realised that i had run around the corner into a head wind.

owwww... bugga! shoulda had these :cool2:

**toads** · 10th September 2004, 18:24

my stupidest accident, was last year, when I was checking on my cows and noticed one of the neighbours sheep with both it's front legs tangled in 2 wires in the fence, so I decided to untangle it, realising it would most likely die anyway, but I went home and got the wheel brace out of the van and used it to pry the extremely hi tensile wires apart sufficinently to pull the legs of the sheep out, when this happened of course all the tension went onto the wheel brace which spun around rapidly and clonked me on the nose, breaking it of course, then the sheep went away slowly and died under a tree! All week I kept thinking I was even dumber than the sheep!

**Ghost Lemur** · 10th September 2004, 18:37

Originally Posted by marty

running after a bad guy, around a corner to find he was waiting for me. 'deployed' my spray in his direction, then realised that i had run around the corner into a head wind.

Let me guess. The bad guy still got caught. When back up arrived, he was still rolling around the ground pissing himself laughing so badly he had been unable to continue running away?

**Posh Tourer :P** · 10th September 2004, 20:10

Originally Posted by jazbug5

Oh, does anyone know how to change the bit at the top with the profile? I seem to have become a scooter boy...!
I don't remember swapping my bike for a vespa, and I CERTAINLY don't remember the operation..!

How about we ask Spankme to change it to "Scooter Person"?

Or even better, "Scooter human" (do you see where I'm trying to go here?)

**Madmax** · 10th September 2004, 20:11

on a different note the guy
i made snort out the coffee
kas an OSH history that would
make a nun blush
have seen him knocked out
4-5 times if your interested
will post

**Posh Tourer :P** · 10th September 2004, 20:14

Originally Posted by DebK

Must join a Sunday ride one Sunday soon & see if I can keep up with the bikes. I think the scooter can but not sure if I can... Do you attend?

There is always someone who is happy to ride at any pace. Don't worry, not all of us hoon all the time...

Not only that, but it'd be cool to see a scooter being ridden for fun, rather than just commuting....Not that I'd see it, being in Akl, but I'm sure I'd see the piccies...