Call to arms.... $#%* drivers on the phone

Hi all,

It takes a bit to rattle me but today I was rattled by a moron (in a suit)
who proved the female POV that men can't do 2 things at once. He certainly
couldn't drive and talk on his phone at the same time, almost killing me as
he attempted to do so by swerving all over the place on a 3 lane road (Ryde
Rd) this afternoon travelling much faster than the ave. traffic speed.

I was in the LH land about to move to the middle lane. Fortunately yours
truly noticed a blue Falcon flying up my bum, half in my lane and half in
the next. Nice thing about a bike that has grunt and handles reasonably
well, is that you sometimes have choices, so I moved to the left of my lane
and powered on a little to give dickwad some space to right his wrongs and
slow down before nailing my sorry arse. When he appeared next to me I
looked squarely at him and made sure he knew I wasn't impressed by his
actions, including the phone against the ear hand action. He actually
looked a bit frightened... hehe

Time after time I see these bloody fools careering all over the place trying
to handle a phone while driving, posing a threat to my life while they do
so. The best is always the P-plater engaging in SMS heaven and being
blissfully ignorant of the chaos evolving around as a result of their car
(often a shitbox) wandering all over the place.

I can't change people's behaviour but I can do my bit to perhaps shake some
sense into these people - my padded leather jacket makes me look a lot more
intimidating than I actually am. At the same time I'm not interested in
creating road rage with me + bike vs. moron + car, so some judgement must
prevail.

So when you stop in traffic next to someone gassing on the mobile, gain
their attention, stick your hand against your ear (helmet) as if you're on
the phone and shake the head with conviction - make it known that they are
not appreciated. Many ausmotians amongst us are pretty scary looking
bastards, likely to make a real impression.

So it's off the soapbox and time to hit the sack I think!

Cheers,
Dave ZZR600 => ST2 (stolen) => '03 XX

 

I couldnt agree more... I saw some L Plater get run off Cranbourne
road (Full of road works) few days ago by some **** in a hurry to SMS
his dealer in his lowered yellow VL commodore with his cap on, and
sittin so low you could only see his nose and peak.. looked like a
cross between Mr Squiggle and Dicky Knee..

I stopped she was ok, but shit scared by what had happened. She had
her license 5 weeks, and was only out on her around dozenth ride. Poor
bitch.

I think there should be some way to dob cunts like this in.. Dave
almost gets wiped out by 1, this learner now thinking of selling her
bike, even if it wasnt him, cops could make more out of busting pricks
for this than any speeding blitz...

 

I couldnt agree more... I saw some L Plater get run off Cranbourne

Hehe - nice. They are everywhere here, often seen in really cool looking
Geminis eminating a rich quality stereo sound pulled up outside flash
restaurants (Maccas) etc... but I digress... and stereotype...

I hope you *consoled* her...

Totally agree. Now if only I was a world-class Ninja...

Cheers,
Dave ZZR600 => ST2 (stolen) => '03 XX

 

Oh come on now Marko, we can fix that problem! All we need to do
is correlate telco billing records with e-tag or safe-t-cam
aquired vehicle location data, cross reference with insurance
company "authorised drivers" information, and just send the fines
out automatically... It shouldn't take more than a couple of
dozen lines of perl... For extra points, we'll just get the fines
added to the mobile phone bill, and pay the telco's commission
for collecting them for us...

Well, he's _not_ a Ninja, so he shouldn't be riding a bike with
it emblazoned down the side, right?

big (not a ninja, but waiting for accusations of being a monster)

 

Perl? How's the winner of the tender supposed to make any money if the
development work is to comprise a couple of script files? Do you want the
drag-and-drop programmers to starve? Think of their children...

Gotta start somewhere...

Wtf's a Spada, anyway?
(I've got a sneaking suspicion, based on, of all things, an obscure Wog card
game, that it might be Italian for "sword" or "sabre"...)

 

....no mention of ISO9002? Synergy? Y2K compliance?

....and there goes all hope of product support revenue.

 

Sorry, I was all buzzworded out...

Get serious! its 19103, nobody worries about that any more!

Feh - I hate doing support anyway... "we _gave_ you the source
code, what more support do you need???"



big

 

In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 06 Aug 2003 14:12:50 +1000

Dunno what the Japanese think it is, but the Italians indeed call a
sword a spada.

Spada di Latto is "sidesword", a sword you carried at your side. I
don't know what Spada di Latte is though.

Zebee

 

A sword with a short, broad, stubby blade, whose scabbard can fit under a
waist-length jacket, and which can be easily swung in the tight confines of
a cafe's kitchen, as encountered in the pursuit of the barista who made the
limp-wristed cup of dishwater you've just been insulted with... just
guessing...

 

Its a small concealable sword (usually carried inside your riding
boot) used for chopping fingers off incompetent barristas...

big (I'll have to get JohnL one for xmas now!)

 

Zebee Johnstone wrote;

A very cutting remark about coffee?
Porkospada

 

Nah it's too easy for them to ignore you if you do that. My preferred method
of assaulting the problem is to make as much noise as possible. Drive
alongside them about 3 gears lower than is necessary. Hold your finger on the
horn if they're chatting away at the traffic lights and give the bike lots of
big throttle blips.

Nev..
'02 CBR1100XX #2

 

OK, Im a newby in the Riding world so things like this scare me...
especially since I had my uncle meet a big drunk truck which ended it
all.

I was on the M2 riding from Chatswood (work) to Kellyville (home) and
this idiot on a mobile was (as you all said) driving in both lanes.

He was doing about 110kms/h so my little 250 would have had a hard
time getting away (or am I wrong?)

Fortunately for me, the guy actually clipped another car and they both
stopped (close to the tunnel)
I stopped too, thinking I could help like a witness or something and
had the shock of my life... the guy that was on the phone jumps out
and starts abusing the guy he hit!!!

Well, unlucky him (and the reason I bring this story up is the Ninja
comment below) the other guy (who got hit) within like 2 seconds
flattened his ass and took his mobile and stomped on it...

I couldnt help but laugh, and quickly jumped back on my bike and
left...

Never forget that trip.

Peter.

PS: If you really want to get some of these drivers, just note the
number plate, street and time and report it to the police. you MUST go
to the police station and file it (in writing) otherwise it will be
ignored. Then they actually follow up on them (in time)

 

hmmm?...all i want is a matlab script to calculate e to 10 places

 

Iain Chalmers wrote:

All right, ye're a Monster.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

Sorry I don't do matlab - here it is in perl tho...

it seems to stabilise at 10 places with 12 or 15 iterations...

I'd guess this would be even easier to implement in matlab - I'll
bet you don't have to go and make your own factorial function...

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $iterations=15;
my $e=0;

for my $n (0..$iterations){$e+=(1/fac($n))}
print "e=~ $e\n";

sub fac{$_[0]==0? return(1) : return $_[0]*fac($_[0]-1)}

big (wondering just which newsgroup he's posting this to???)

 

[...]

I'd _pay_ to see that!

j

 

"Convergent".

-----sharks (ooh, classic sig)

 

Intact Kneeslider wrote:

Sounds good to me.

Can we get an aus.moto run of them?

I _know_ that I need one. ;-)

regards,
CrazyCam

 

So when you stop in traffic next to someone gassing on the mobile, gain

Now this is possibly a better idea than that which I had in traffic
today, spying a ditzy splodger on his phone, with an open window...
instinct said that yes, I could reach in, rip it out of his hand and
toss it far down the road... but perhaps the finger on the horn
option is equally satisfying and less legally reprehensible.
Alternatively, just ride on by and let them eventually come to their
own grief preferably by the time I'm far away.

Kate
SV650S