NZ drivers' road rage?

[Smifffy]

Really?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10716141

http://courtnews.co.nz/2015/06/10/ps...#axzz3dZbmfHDm

http://courtnews.co.nz/2015/01/14/ro...#axzz3dZbmfHDm

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crim...d-rage-dispute

Is it really road rage? Or the mealy-mouthed lazy NZ media latching on to another over-used cliche in the grand PC social engineering experiment that is NZ?

[JimO]

when im in the work ute i always let people in from side streets etc, i even let buses out into the flow of traffic, its not the end of the world to let someone in and who knows somebody may let you in one day

[R650R]

[QUOTE=rocketman1;1130875573]
I am determined not to be like this.

[QUOTE]

Don't worry the feeling will pass and you'll be just like the rest of us pricks out there.

I blame the All Blacks and our rugby mad sideline/armchair referee culture. We're raised thinking we all know best and a bit of biffo served up fixes everything.

Wouldn't say NZ is much worse than UK where I drove for several years, just we have more ferals as a percentage of population here. Funnily enough the last two road rage fights outside my house (and I'm talking about parking up and getting out of cars) have both been by woman drivers with the foulest mouths I've heard outside of a feminist convention. To their credit the guys bailed up in both situations didn't raise a hand although one must have been close to it...

Best thing I ever seen though was a fatty in a little 3 door hatchback go nuts at me for being about to sneak down the wrong way of a one way service lane at 5am in the truck. He was jabberwocky septic slobbering so much his car was rocking side to side. I couldn't help but laugh which didn't improve the situation lol

[R650R]

Re trucks/vans slowing on the motorway, in the UK you will see many artics move to the middle lane as they approach a junction without even checking if anyone needs to join. No skin off their nose - helps the people joining.

This happens lots in NZ to if there isn't a heap of lemmings in the fast lane doing 80k in their cages...

[Night Falcon]

Best thing I ever seen though was a fatty in a little 3 door hatchback go nuts at me for being about to sneak down the wrong way of a one way service lane at 5am in the truck. He was jabberwocky septic slobbering so much his car was rocking side to side. I couldn't help but laugh which didn't improve the situation lol

Its inappropriate to refer to people of a robust weight as "fatties" in 2015.....another throwback to that armchair rugby culture you were talking about?

[scumdog]

Its inappropriate to refer to people of a robust weight as "fatties" in 2015.....another throwback to that armchair rugby culture you were talking about?

A fat bastard is a fat bastard, how else can they be described?

I'm sure some PC twat will enlighten me in due course...

[RDJ]

Meh, only in the main centres during commuter rush hours really, other than that our so called road rage is quite timid by international standards.

Quite correct. Road rage here exists but is in its pure form, rare. You wanna see road rage? Visit West Africa and ride up to an intersection where you have the right of way but it is about to be contested by a bunch of ganja-smoking trigger-happy teens with AK47s. Let's just say - no contest. Y'all win, and have a good day now.

Rule Two of overseas postings; never argue with a man with an AK47. (Rule One is of course: never argue with a woman with an AK47.

[Delerium]

Its the shit standard of driving that causes it. And now the plebes moan that the driving test is too hard. go figure.

[Swoop]

Rule Two of overseas postings; never argue with a man with an AK47.

Except if you have the RPG solution to the issue...

[RDJ]

Except if you have the RPG solution to the issue...

Then, they'll likely show up with an Oerlikon WWII-era AA gun mounted on a technical. (No I don't have pix... we were too busy accomplishing an rapid U-turn... as one does in these circumstances).

[rocketman1]

Coz everybody drives like a cunt.....

except for me.....

I am perfect

now get out of my fuckin way....

You have a BMW cannot believe you are like that!!!!

[rocketman1]

The attitude of "this is my road" has long been part of the New Zealand psyche - nothing new there. What has changed is the extent that some will go to to defend their road space - it gets uglier as time passes.

I had a good one a last week. Turning left at an intersection, an oncoming car did a right turn across my path (in contravention of the new give way rules). Rather than get all road-ragey about it, I slowed a little and let them go through. This outraged the guy behind me, who flashed his lights, hit his horn, and screamed abuse out of his window. He was still hurling abuse at me at the next intersection. And all because he had been held up for a couple of seconds.

Laugh it off, take his number and report him.

[rocketman1]

Or the wanker with the trailer could have waited two seconds for the van to go past.
Its one of the most frustrating things that can happen on the road IMO - a person is in such a hurry that they cant delay there trip for a few seconds so they pull out of a side road or driveway in front of you causing you to brake hard and slow considerably and then they amble down the road at 70 or 80 ks. Cunts - every last one of them.

- oh, beat me to it bmws1r

Wow , you wouldnt be one them? aye

[scumdog]

Its the shit standard of driving that causes it. And now the plebes moan that the driving test is too hard. go figure.

Yep, losers sure whinge a lot about the 'too hard' driving test.

Answer? Send 'em to Germany to do their driving test.

[DamianW]

A bloke in a van cut across me on the shore a few months ago then stopped and pulled out a claw hammer. Stupid shite was wearing a photo ID badge so I called his rego and ID. A few days later the boys in blue paid him a visit - he probably shat himself since there was a heap of eyeballs on him when he thought about having a go.
Funny as hell.