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    Why do they just stop on the motorway

    Farkin idiots. Cages who stop in the middle lane because they want to get into the left or right hand lane piss me off. None more so than those who do it trying to get onto the Terrace off ramp. The motorway bends left and goes over a rise so it's a blind corner. The right hand and middle lane here is always doing a hundred so it's a real menace.

    The danger here is immense because people who get stuck behind these idiots try to get round them, swerving into the right hand lane.

    Now the snakes know this happens, they see it every day. But I guess the revenue to hassle ratio is too small. So the law is now in my hands.

    I've had enough. Every prick I see (about 1-2 a day) is getting there mirror smacked. Please join me in my crusade.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fatjim View Post

    I've had enough. Every prick I see (about 1-2 a day) is getting there mirror smacked. Please join me in my crusade.
    Hit up or down, mirrors aren't designed to take force in this direction.......


    or a decent heavy boot will remove.

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    Why do they just stop on the motorway

    Not just that either...
    What about the dorks who have a free left onto their own left lane, where there is a straight through right lane? ie a single lane becomes two after the feeder.
    Dorks give way - who to???
    Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fatjim View Post
    I've had enough. Every prick I see (about 1-2 a day) is getting there mirror smacked. Please join me in my crusade.
    I'm in. I'll follow anyone who can beat me through the traffic in Welly.

    I love smacking mirrors...
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    That whole Terrace off-ramp set-up is pox. Cars come off at Hawkestone Street, flip up and over Bowen Street onto the motorway on-ramp so they can short-cut onto The Terrace off-ramp queue, where there is a de facto two-lanes operating. The lane markings at the top end of The Terrace off-ramp are wrongly done too, exacerbating the tail-back. What's needed are those flexible plastic pegs to keep cars in their lanes and to stop them merging too early -- another problem created at the Bowen Street on-ramp for traffic wanting to get across into a lane to go through the tunnel. I'd also put a barrier up on Bowen Street either to stop traffic exiting and then immediately re-entering the motorway, or close off the Hawkestone Street exit entirely.
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    I am personally a fan of those clowns that just decide, without the courtesy of indicating, that they will change lanes into the smallest gap. Then realise thathere isn't actually a gap there and sit partway into the other expecting all to move out of their way...
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    Quote Originally Posted by MSTRS View Post
    Not just that either...
    What about the dorks who have a free left onto their own left lane, where there is a straight through right lane? ie a single lane becomes two after the feeder.
    Dorks give way - who to???
    I hate tossers that do that, I all ways make sure they know I hate them.
    SHIT whats that noise.

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    Yeah how hard is it to plan your journey, ie. if you want to take the next turn off 2kms away, start getting into the left lane, rather than cutting across 3+ lanes at the last minute.
    OMFG theres my turnoff, vroommm, shit theres 3 lanes of cars in my way

    Another thing that pisses me off are people who don't know how to indicate at roundabouts?
    It really isn't that hard, if your going straight through put left indicator on before entering desired road, NOT your right indicator then your left one. FFS this just confuses the shit out of me & the other 3 million road users.

    Another thing people who overtake you then turn off into side street/driveway/mcd less than a minute after overtaking, why overtake? Does the extra 0.3 of a second really matter? Pride? Bitterness?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sAsLEX View Post
    or a decent heavy boot will remove.
    I've got some steel caps you can borrow fatjim

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    Quote Originally Posted by LXS View Post
    ... rather than cutting across 3+ lanes at the last minute.
    See it on the khyber pass offramp in Auckland on a daily basis.

    The best by far was me going onto the offramp, the dotted line turns solid... out of the corner of my eye I see this shape come screaming along, cutting through 2 lanes of traffic and starts to merge into me.

    I hit the brakes to find this old man piloted nana-wagon jumping in front of me as I'm sitting on the horn. He looks into his rear view mirror, glares and starts shaking his head.

    So I shake my head to return the gesture. Upon seeing this disapproval he follows in suit.... this head shaking ping-pong continued for a good 5 minutes until I got bored and took the turn left.

    Love it!

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    I love it when you give someone a questioning look or raise your hands to question to their foolish driving antics, then they have the sodding cheek to flip you the bird, when they are in the wrong.

    I keep needling away at them until the fist shaking starts then I larf, my job is done. Have a nice day chodeboy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fatjim View Post
    Farkin idiots. Cages who stop in the middle lane because they want to get into the left or right hand lane piss me off. None more so than those who do it trying to get onto the Terrace off ramp. The motorway bends left and goes over a rise so it's a blind corner. The right hand and middle lane here is always doing a hundred so it's a real menace.
    because there stopid

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    Quote Originally Posted by Deano View Post
    I love it when you give someone a questioning look or raise your hands to question to their foolish driving antics, then they have the sodding cheek to flip you the bird, when they are in the wrong.

    I keep needling away at them until the fist shaking starts then I larf, my job is done. Have a nice day chode boy.
    What am i supposed to do if i finish a monover realizing it was stupid and wanting to say sorry?

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    Take what ever you can out....weather its mirrors, doors, denting a bonnet or the driver!

    Why not just hop off the bike when the car stops and yell at them?!

    I've done that once to a bunch of guys in Manukau...prob not the best thing to do as Im female and was alone...they were islanders

    But they threw a glass bottle onto the motorway which almost hit me..

    Aww just do what ever feels right hun...

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