Re: OK Drivers, What Gets Your Goat?
Been a while since someone bumped this thread. Yesterday, on my way to the outback, i passed through a small town and two events took place. One was this J walker that didn't look for oncoming traffic and walked out in front of me. I hit the anchors and he didn,t even look to see how close i was to ending his life:eek:!! This caused vehicle behind me to nearly customise my ute's rear end. Second, a vehicle pulls out from island parking without checking, AGAIN, i have to hit the chocks hard. What was this.. Idiots day out?? For the record, my ute is orange colour and sticks out well in a crowd + i had headlights on !!
Re: OK Drivers, What Gets Your Goat?
Hi,
Living down in devon, caravans, tourists really do my head in, weekend drivers when i'm on call trying to get somewhere, and Mr and Mrs old decide to drive at 20mph even though it 06-30 on a sunday morning, school kids cause so many problems, with mummy and daddy driving billy and johny 5 minutes to school in the range rover.
Foggy weather when drivers don't put there lights on and you can't see them, normally the people who only drive at weekends, in fact it'd be easier to ask what doesn't p*** me off
Think thats covered it all
j.j.
Re: OK Drivers, What Gets Your Goat?
Anyone who uses the roads & pays no tax or insurance.
So that's cyclists (who all seem to think that the rules of the road don't apply to them anyway) & horse riders. A few years ago I had a spooked nag & rider who reversed it's arse up to the front of my car & took a dump on my bonnet!! it also dented the front of the car with it's hoof. Try explaining that to the insurance company. Of course the horse & rider had no insurance either.
Motor bike riders - especially in 50mph average speed camera checked road works. Because they have no front number plate they seem to think that they can tank along at 70-80 weaving in & out of traffic with inpunity.
Brewery deilvery lorries. A couple a years ago one took off my rear bumper when it pulled over from the outside lane to the left hand lane. Driver said he didn't see me. I pointed pout that the damage to my car proves I was in front of him when he hit me. He shrugged his shoulders, gave me his companies card & muttered something about accidents come in 3's & this was his 3rd in two weeks.
Grrrrrr.
Re: OK Drivers, What Gets Your Goat?
It would have to be a truck.
I wouldn't try to procure goats in anything else.
Can you imagine goats in the back of a van or wagon? No way, after all they'll try eat anything! Plus they may smell...
Re: OK Drivers, What Gets Your Goat?
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Originally Posted by
Greengrocer
A few years ago I had a spooked nag & rider who reversed it's arse up to the front of my car & took a dump on my bonnet!!
Bet you weren't amulesed.
Groan,
Andy.
Re: OK Drivers, What Gets Your Goat?
Here i was, cruising along the highway, when i caught up to a fully loaded cattle truck. In the time i had to sit behind it, one or more of the animals decided to take a leak which washed out the (being nice now).. mud! Oh the joys of country life.. And, reading Paul h's post above, while at a fuel station watching the $ tick over much faster than the litres, the passenger car in the other lane had this ugly dog sitting in the back seat..... but it was actually a goat! Wonder how much of interior would be left intact when driver arrived home.
Re: OK Drivers, What Gets Your Goat?
Can't be as bad as the drunk I saw last night, tried to cross the road and decided to run across without looking.......... Think he did a double somersault across the car about 10 in front of me, and when I passed the scene he did not look too good, not even moaning - called Metro and asked them to send an ambulance to take him up the road to A&E, or more likely the room behind there....
As to the livestock in cars, does having a cow in a sedan count? Then there was the guy stopped with 5 stolen goats in a stolen car, and the guy I saw taking cabbages to market in a Peugot 504, loaded up inside, in the back, on top in an insanely high net and with a couple on his lap.
Not as bad as coming around the side of a mountain pass, rock one side, 100m of near vertical the other side and only thing between you and the drop being a white line and a tiny bit of dirt. Come round the corner into a herd of cattle, who were not initially interested in moving, even after getting driven into.Persuaded them to move off the road and continued down the mountain. Reversed for the hippo though, seen what they can do to anything that annoys them.........
Re: OK Drivers, What Gets Your Goat?
Nice one SeanB, can't imagine what i would have done when confronted with a hippo:eek:!! I have had many encounters in the isolation of our outback roads, that just go on forever, however these don't usually involve other drivers so they are not relevant to this thread:).
Re: OK Drivers, What Gets Your Goat?
Cows are bad, but not as common as drunk pedestrians. Especially on a freeway at night, when they tend to run like jackrabbits.