Waiting at lights driving the work cage in the Auckland CBD after work tonight. I am in High St at the Victoria St. East, Lorne St. intersection, having just exited the car park building.
Two lanes of traffic are bumper to bumper downhill from Albert Park in Vic St. The lights were green for this traffic, but the Queen St. lights were at red, so everyone was sitting going nowhere, when a bike comes down on the wrong side of the road. As he is about a car length from Lorne St. the traffic starts to move downhill.
What does our hero do? He shoots past the car just entering the Lorne/Vic intersection AND THEN TURNS LEFT INTO LORNE STREET, across the two lanes of now moving cages.

Luckily the driver in the right hand lane had quick reactions and hit the anchors, missing the bikes rear wheel by around 15cm.

The guy in the left lane was a little further back, so had a bit more time to stop.
If your rego is BUGSY and you are reading this, you are a f**kwit of the first order. Bikers have enough image problems with the average cager without that sort of dumb shit.
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