Just seen incident - so enraged!

[betty swollocks]

Little old lady with stick struggling to cross road. Lights for vehicles go green while she's halfway across and a woman driver blasts with the horn and accelerates past just missing her.
I call through the motorist's open window 'You miserable git!" (sorry, best I could think of in a second) and get the finger.
Such deliberate unkindness.
Some people lose the right to be called human beings.
Little old lady unfazed by it - maybe she's used to it.
I'm still fuming.


I'm sure this you tube video was staged.
If only such instant and inspired retribution was possible.

 

[mr_cellophane]

That's fake.  There would be a loud bang when the bag went off and some smoke from the charge.

 

[HLaB]

I hate that too. As well as being inconsiderate IMO the old lady would have priority as she has already started to cross; when will tw@t in cars realise that could be them in 20 years time

I like that video though

 

[Arch]

when will tw@t in cars realise that could be them in 20 years time

They won't. They're invincible, innit?

Until they are too fat to walk, or all the constant stress of impatience brings on a heart attack.

Betty, I think 'miserable git!' just about hits the nail on the head, well done.

 

[downfader]

Little old lady with stick struggling to cross road. Lights for vehicles go green while she's halfway across and a woman driver blasts with the horn and accelerates past just missing her.
I call through the motorist's open window 'You miserable git!" (sorry, best I could think of in a second) and get the finger.
Such deliberate unkindness.
Some people lose the right to be called human beings.
Little old lady unfazed by it - maybe she's used to it.
I'm still fuming.


I'm sure this you tube video was staged.
If only such instant and inspired retribution was possible.

Saw similar stupidity from a driver some years back when walking past a zebra crossing where an old gent with a stick was halfway across. Some plonker in a BMW gets impatient and shoots in front of the guy. The old boy just ran his stick down the side of the car leaving a fair scratch from the brass stud.

 

[hackbike 666]

It's common out there here...something happened this morning at some traffic lights which delayed a car...I can't remember what it was now but I wanted to get close enough to film some idiots behaviour of hanging on the horn just because they couldn't move within two seconds...

The car rules the road.Stupid people

 

[ColinJ]

Saw similar stupidity from a driver some years back when walking past a zebra crossing where an old gent with a stick was halfway across. Some plonker in a BMW gets impatient and shoots in front of the guy. The old boy just ran his stick down the side of the car leaving a fair scratch from the brass stud.

Last year, I came that close (finger and thumb 3 mm apart) to throwing a bag of shopping through the windscreen of a car which tried to force me back off a zebra crossing. I was already on the crossing before he even reached the zig-zag lines at the side of it but the driver just accelerated towards me. I glared at him and carried on walking so he put his foot down and overtook 0.5 metres in front of me on the wrong side of the road into oncoming traffic, swearing at me as he went past!   

 

[Arch]

Last year, I came that close (finger and thumb 3 mm apart) to throwing a bag of shoping through the windscreen of a car which tried to force me back off a zebra crossing. I was already on the crossing before he even reached the zig-zag lines at the side of it but the driver just accelerated towards me. I glared at him and carried on walking so he put his foot down and overtook 0.5 metres in front of me on the wrong side of the road into oncoming traffic, swearing at me as he went past!

The moral being to make sure that every bag of shopping you carry contains a nice hard edged heavy object, like a big can of something. A bag of tomatoes and crisps isn't going to make much impact.

Or champagne bottles. Those are really very robust, I can say, from extensive experience of throwing them into the skips.

 

[ColinJ]

The moral being to make sure that every bag of shopping you carry contains a nice hard edged heavy object, like a big can of something. 

I had a 6-pack of baked beans - that would have done nicely!   

 

[Arch]

I had a 6-pack of baked beans - that would have done nicely!

Oh yes! Add in a fragile bottle of tomato ketchup too, so the driver thinks someone is bleeding all over his/her car...

 

[PaulB]

I saw someone get run over on a zebra crossing today. It was in a hospital too! A man in a Ford Focus immediately in front of me in the grounds of Broadgreen/Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital (formerly the CTC) ran into a man who was part way across the zebra crossing that goes to/from the multi-storey car park. The driver seemed oblivious (certainly was to my honking my horn to alert him) and then drove up to the barrier and pressed the button for a ticket as if nothing had happened! I jumped out to help the man, in his 50s, who'd been hit but didn't seem too badly hurt while I yelled at the blert in the Focus who was pretending not to have seen anything! I told the poor victim to sit down on the verge while I called an ambulance and demanded the divvy get out of his car and come and face what he'd done. He actually told us he was looking for the button to open his window to get the ticket from the barrier and didn't see the man he'd hit! I laughed in his face and told him it looked like he was in a lot of trouble. Despite the fact I was running late for my appointment, I stayed with the guy until the ambulance came and took him off for treatment and gave a verbal description of what had occurred to the policeman who'd come to observe the fall-out of the incident.

 

[Arch]

Good on you for helping out. It's shocking how so many people are either unaware (which is bad) or pretend to be (which is worse).

And it's not just in cars either, it's people barging into you on pavements, and reaching across you in shops. At least in those cases, they're unlikely to kill you.

 

[Fiona N]

Or champagne bottles. Those are really very robust, I can say, from extensive experience of throwing them into the skips.

Are these the extra ones you don't put out in the recycling collection

 

[Arch]

Are these the extra ones you don't put out in the recycling collection

Yeah, I get through 6 or 7 a week...

No, just to make it clear, I collect the recycling for a job, so I have a lot of opportunity to study the various characteristics of smashing booze bottles... Sometimes I like to aim little beer bottles at a big tough wine bottle and see how many impacts it can take before smashing....

Glass is actually quite resilient to being accidentally dropped on concrete too, until the time you haven't got the dustpan and brush with you.

 

[Fiona N]

To combine pedestrian crossings and RLJs - on my run (by bike, of course) into town, there's a sequence of: fast downhill to mini-roundabout with those mini-refuges dividing the 'on' and 'off' lanes in my direction, short rise (<100m) with blind summit then shorter downhill to traffic lights with pedestrian/cycle path request buttons. It's quite a regular thing that cars which can't overtake me in time before the mini-roundabout (and a lot of them try stupidly, including going the wrong side of the refuge and around the roundabout in the wrong direction ), then whizz past on the wrong side of the road over the blind summit and straight through the traffic lights even if they've just changed to red. Twice now, I've seen pedestrians - once a women with a pushchair - literally have to leap out of the way to avoid being hit, despite the fact they were crossing legally on a green for the pedestrian crossing. It's only a matter of time before someone is hurt and it's difficult to see what more could be done - the signals have those raised second set of lights so that cars approaching on the uphill can see where they are in the sequence, so it's not as though drivers don't realise they're approaching lights.

And despite what people say about youths in noised-up Imprezas or (more likely Fiestas), it's more often people in flash, new BMWs, Volvos and RangeRovers - the 'get out of my way, I'm so important' crowd