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40inches - 20/9/13 at 10:08 AM

jps - 20/9/13 at 10:21 AM

quote:
Originally posted by 40inches


Incompetent?
Unaware?
Drunk?
Jealous?
Wasn't cuddled enough as a child?
Turning right at the roundabout?

Take your pick really...

40inches - 20/9/13 at 10:33 AM

Or just being a Pr**k?

Not Anumber - 20/9/13 at 10:53 AM

I had someone do that the other week on an urban dual carriageway, when i caught up with them they claimed not to have see me at all..

Some drivers are just so thick in the head they fail to see cars that sit lower on the road.

Guaranteed though they are probably just as much of a hazard near motorbikes, horses, pedestrians, well actually pretty anything that moves except similar German made cars.

imp paul - 20/9/13 at 11:11 AM

what a cloth head!!!! not much more to say about that

iank - 20/9/13 at 11:21 AM

To my eyes that's clearly driving without due care and attention* if you could get the police interested.

* or dangerous driving if they preferred to say they saw you and pulled out anyway.

Grimsdale - 20/9/13 at 11:45 AM

I really wouldn't get wound up about that, it's not as if that sort of thing is unusual. Lets face it, you're in a high power/weight vehicle accelerating hard, which is often quicker than the expectations of others. You know what your car can do, they do not.

mcerd1 - 20/9/13 at 12:11 PM

if I see a personal plate on a new(ish) A3 - I assume they are going to do that to me or worse
the A3's seem to attract more than the average number of w*******s at the moment


this guy lives in a new flat in edinburgh (~next door to my GF's old flat), the car park has major issues with a lack of spaces and the ones that are there are mostly very small

so this t*** parks every day in the middle of 2 of the biggest ones - "incase he gets scratched" (his words by the way - I'm not just guessing)

there are guys that live there with brand new M5's, 911's and even a F430 that park in a single space!

A3
A3 a3 again
a3 again



[Edited on 20/9/2013 by mcerd1]

MikeRJ - 20/9/13 at 12:48 PM

quote:
Originally posted by mcerd1
so this t*** parks every day in the middle of 2 of the biggest ones - encase he gets scratched
(there are guys that live there with brand new M5's, 911's and even a F430 that park in a single space!)

A3
A3 a3 again
a3 again



Complete knob jockey, he's just inviting someone to cause damage to that. "Jefey" clearly believes owing a German bland mobile makes him more important than anyone else.

loggyboy - 20/9/13 at 01:03 PM

quote:
Originally posted by mcerd1
if I see a personal plate on a new(ish) A3 - I assume they are going to do that to me or worse
the A3's seem to attract more than the average number of w*******s at the moment


this guy lives in a new flat in edinburgh (~next door to my GF's old flat), the car park has major issues with a lack of spaces and the ones that are there are mostly very small

so this t*** parks every day in the middle of 2 of the biggest ones - encase he gets scratched
(there are guys that live there with brand new M5's, 911's and even a F430 that park in a single space!)

A3
A3 a3 again
a3 again

[Edited on 20/9/2013 by mcerd1]
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Leave a note, saying 'i understand you are parking like this to avoid car park dings and scratches, but as this spaces are limited, please park sensibly. or you may find that your car gets more than light scratch from a door opening on it. thanks.'

Slimy38 - 20/9/13 at 01:08 PM

quote:
Originally posted by mcerd1
if I see a personal plate on a new(ish) A3 - I assume they are going to do that to me or worse
the A3's seem to attract more than the average number of w*******s at the moment


Whilst I try not to colour owners of a specific car with a particular brush, my view of A3 owners is similar. To be honest, even as I watched the video I thought 'yep, that's standard driving'...

Had I been in my tintop, they would have got full beam lights and perhaps a horn... if I had been on the bike, I'd have just gone round them in the 100 yards of space they left behind the car in front.

Mr Whippy - 20/9/13 at 01:09 PM

Tbh this is perfectly normal driving on the roads here, was waiting for something exciting to happen in the clip

Mr Whippy - 20/9/13 at 01:12 PM

quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
quote:
Originally posted by mcerd1
so this t*** parks every day in the middle of 2 of the biggest ones - encase he gets scratched
(there are guys that live there with brand new M5's, 911's and even a F430 that park in a single space!)

A3
A3 a3 again
a3 again



Complete knob jockey, he's just inviting someone to cause damage to that. "Jefey" clearly believes owing a German bland mobile makes him more important than anyone else.


Hee hee that's my kind of parking though in the empty parts of Asda carpark, I hate folk who squeeze their car next to mine then bounce their door off my cars side

mcerd1 - 20/9/13 at 01:17 PM

quote:
Originally posted by loggyboy
Leave a note, saying 'i understand you are parking like this to avoid car park dings and scratches, but as this spaces are limited, please park sensibly. or you may find that your car gets more than light scratch from a door opening on it. thanks.'

several folk mentioned him on the development's forum/message board thing, and someone did joke that he'd find it one day with a giant scratch on it...

he owned up actually owned up, stated his 'reason' for doing it - and threatened legal action against anyone even threatening to accidentally damage his car - what a first class p***

one day a car got broken into (inside the 'secure carpark' ) and stripped to a base chassis - I was hoping it was his, but it turned out to be one of the M5's


I was wondering what the legal situation would be if he just found it moved one day... I've been thinking a couple of pairs of these would come in handy for my other cars anyway




anyway enough of my hijack - the GF has sold that flat now so he's someone else's problem now...

mcerd1 - 20/9/13 at 01:23 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
Hee hee that's my kind of parking though in the empty parts of Asda carpark, I hate folk who squeeze their car next to mine then bounce their door off my cars side

empty asda car parks are one thing...

this is a site with 300 flats, 300 spaces (inc the ones above ground) and I guess about 1.2 - 1.25 cars per flat

and to cap it off some of the spaces are too small for most new cars (i can just get a mk1 focus in the smaller ones with the mirrors folded in, but sometimes I'd need to climb out the boot

Mr Whippy - 20/9/13 at 01:46 PM

quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
quote:
Originally posted by mcerd1
so this t*** parks every day in the middle of 2 of the biggest ones - encase he gets scratched
(there are guys that live there with brand new M5's, 911's and even a F430 that park in a single space!)

A3
A3 a3 again
a3 again



Complete knob jockey, he's just inviting someone to cause damage to that. "Jefey" clearly believes owing a German bland mobile makes him more important than anyone else.


Looking at the width of the space you may be able with a dolly rotate the car 90 degrees in between the two pillars then watch as he does a 100 point turn to get back out

Mind when I was a kid watching some builders bounce a woman's car out the way of an entrance she'd blocked so they could get their van past. She came back and drove straight into a concrete bollard now infront of her car and was completely confused where it had appeared from

r1_pete - 20/9/13 at 01:59 PM

Dave its surprising how often that happens on that stretch of road, some numpty did it to me a few years ago, so I followed him till he stopped, he was about to give me verbal till he saw I'm 6'4 and 17st, then politely appologised and said he thought I was his mate as he had the same sort of car!!!

kj - 20/9/13 at 02:05 PM

Because they drive an Audi??? or they don't like 7s i have had a few just pull out in front of me in the past.

Mr Whippy - 20/9/13 at 02:21 PM

I have recently had a lot of folk in modern cars scream off at the traffic lights when I'm along side or appear to be trying to race or show off how fast their car is now that I have done the bluebird in camo. Tbh it's a waisted effort as I'm not interested whatsoever and my car has 95bhp of sluggishness and doesn't know the meaning of haste. Perhaps they are trying to compensate for the blandness of their car? Not sure

40inches - 20/9/13 at 03:06 PM

quote:
Originally posted by r1_pete
Dave its surprising how often that happens on that stretch of road, some numpty did it to me a few years ago, so I followed him till he stopped, he was about to give me verbal till he saw I'm 6'4 and 17st, then politely appologised and said he thought I was his mate as he had the same sort of car!!!


To be honest Pete, it doesn't bother me to that extent. However, I did follow him into Beighton (I was going to Aston) just for the hell of it , he ended back at Crystal Peaks before I let him go

Canada EH! - 20/9/13 at 03:18 PM

As a retired Police Officer I would march that video right into the local Traffic office and let them have a look, perfect case of Improper Lane Change.

Daf - 20/9/13 at 03:25 PM

Probably hadn’t seen you, I’m a biker myself and can’t count high enough to tell you the number of times I’ve had exactly that happen! It amazes me how people just don’t look where they’re going.

mcerd1 - 20/9/13 at 03:47 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
I have recently had a lot of folk in modern cars scream off at the traffic lights when I'm along side or appear to be trying to race or show off how fast their car is now that I have done the bluebird in camo. Tbh it's a waisted effort as I'm not interested whatsoever and my car has 95bhp of sluggishness and doesn't know the meaning of haste. Perhaps they are trying to compensate for the blandness of their car? Not sure

I used to get that with my last car - a 16 year old 106 with a '1.0' badge on the wing (and probably covered in mud too)
but it weighed less than a bag of sugar and had no rev limiter - so if I was in the mood the thing could sometimes catch them out and leave them for dust off the line (mind out it ran out of puff at 40 mph) some of these audi drivers looked physically angry that they had been beaten off the line by a car like that
(its not like I was even blocking them from overtaking, they would have a whole lane to themselves)

dave - 20/9/13 at 04:58 PM

Because YOU have no right to be in their lane.

liam.mccaffrey - 20/9/13 at 05:04 PM

If I'm honest, that and worse happens so frequently to me It doesn't even raise my pulse any more. Sad times

jacko - 20/9/13 at 06:23 PM

I bet he was on the phone
So how many on here do things like that not me sir

myke pocock - 20/9/13 at 06:25 PM

Poor quality training of drivers these days and minimal policing of driving standards. Makes my blood boil.

Mr Whippy - 20/9/13 at 06:51 PM

quote:
Originally posted by jacko
I bet he was on the phone
So how many on here do things like that not me sir


Still see so many people on the phone while driving often in very expensive cars, you can get a hands free kit for peanuts in Asda!

It's also very easy to spot someone using one even from a distance

[Edited on 20/9/13 by Mr Whippy]

nick205 - 20/9/13 at 07:58 PM

Had that all the time when I had my Indy. Combination of drivers just not looking and even when they do, they're just not aware that you might be travelling quicker. Easiest/safest for all concerned to wait, blat past when you can and "notify" them of their error.

kj - 21/9/13 at 08:05 AM

We have a few police who live on our estate and i have seen one female office drive to work while txting with a brake light out for over 2 weeks.
Another her husband rides round the street and up to the local shops on a mini moto and comes back with cans of beer in a bag and drinking one, did she say anything to him when she got out the car no.
Rules for one, slightley of the subject but i think some police pick and chose who and what they do

[Edited on 21/9/13 by kj]