Zigzagging: Most Dangerous Driving

Don't ask me for a study that backs up such a statement, it's just
obvious. Every time you get on the road you see these wild vehicles
(usually SUVs and larger vehicles) zigzagging all around playing a
game of Russian Roulette --a game they always win since they are
bigger...

So there I was last night riding my scooter with my girlfriend
(sitting ducks, so to speak), taking the middle lane on a three lane
road, when a beat-up van with three terrorist rats* cut me off almost
to the point of making catastrophic contact (*forgive me my jungle
talk referring to the small time predators, unlike the big time
predators in SUVs).

WHY? Well, I know that if I had had a gun I would have emptied it in
his head and so feeding the ROAD RAGE ESCALATION, but I didn't and I
wouldn't have caught up with him anyway. So I was left to cope with my
rage and impotence, if only having the consolation to be alive. But
still that hasn't answered my question. WHY? I guess it may have do to
with the instinct in "Natural Born Killers,"** but there's some deeper
cause, one that points at the system that doesn't crack down on them,
and that simply fails to implement some basic RULES OF THE ROAD.

This dawned on me later: They were provoked into this reckless,
criminal driving (no excuses for that) by a road that was completely
blocked by a few cars, oblivious to that basic rule of "slow vehicles
keep to the right." And there's lies the problem: When there are no
rules of the road, then you get the Law of the Jungle...

** NATURAL BORN KILLERS, the movie

REVIEW
Why not kill them at birth, or even before
By Jacques COULARDEAU

This is Apocalypto in the all-American modern version. Our society
produces, be they born or not born, a whole fringe of killers that
absolutely know what is wrong or right, good or bad, but who do not
care a fig about it, even if at times they do not find any pleasure in
murdering. The film explores the destiny of a couple of two young
people who meet by accident but find in themselves so many common
alienations and frustrations based on about the same social, cultural
and personal environment : sexual abuse and violence from parents,
rejection from society, total lack of care and help in education that
is inexistant or social counselling that is just impotent. They end up
taking what they want by force since it is not provided to them free.
But the film goes a lot further. It analyzes the role of the media
that systematically sell paper and prime time advertising with this
showing of violence and with fake or unfake interviews of murderers
and other criminals. The lower, the better. The nastier, the more
profitable. The bloodier, the tastier. Then the film also shows that
the prison system is a system of incarceration and containment, in no
way of reform, education and improvement. These prisoners are there to
survive because no one dares execute them all. They are the
sacrificial victims of society that needs them to regenerate its lost
virginity, purity and morality. They are the sacrificial victims of a
god that has nothing to envy the Maya gods. This god is the god of
selfish greedy consumerism. Till it explodes. And the official end of
the film shows that such criminals can disappear in society forever,
and they are then living among us unknown and unseen. The alternative
ending shows that you need the intervention of an angel to execute
these criminals. The film preaches and advocates that these criminals
are natural born killers, hence that they will never be anything else,
hence that they have to be purely and simply executed as soon as they
are noticed and as fast as possible to avoid as many victims as
possible, why not at birth ? This vision of crime in our society is
criminal in itself because it produces the criminals concerned by
considering there is no other way, it is their fate and ours.


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Enough said...


--
Dan L

http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/
1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7)
X-FOT#000
DIAABTCOD #26
BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11

 

Then why are you filling up space by stating the obvious.

I can't imagine why anyone would ride a motorcycle let along a motor
scooter in heavy traffic. Two wheeled vehicles turn vehicular safety
on it's head. Instead of the vehicle providing some semblance of
safety and protection for the driver and passenger, riders straddle
the motorbike and protect it in crashes! Amazing!!

It would appear that you are the one who should be removed from the
highway. Next time you might be behind a larger vehicle or have a
firearm in hand.


The remainder of your post is not even worth commenting on so I
deleted it.

 

a) Because when the heavy traffic grinds to a halt you don't have to.

b) It's fun

c) Because you sit higher than car occupants you can pull up alongside cars
with attractive young women in and peer down in the hope that they're
driving wearing black stockings, and that the clutch action has caused their
short skirt to ride up, exposing a creamy white thigh and then, when they
see you looking, they start unfastening the buttons of their blouse and ...
ahem.

<Shrug> It's not all about safety.

--
AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas)
Kawasaki ZX-6R J1, Aprilia RSV-1000R (10th August), Fiat Coupe 20v Turbo
BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL)
BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, DS#5, COSOC# Suspended, KotTFSTR#
The speccy Geordie twat.

 

In the USA they do. Dem der yanks ain't allowed to filter.

--

Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird (Buen mueble de patio)
And a pushbike of some sort.
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24
OMF #15
UKRMMA #30

 

donquijote1954 wrote:

<nada>

I find Sancho Panza a much more interesting character.

--

Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird (Buen mueble de patio)
And a pushbike of some sort.
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24
OMF #15
UKRMMA #30

 

*Another* reason not to live in America, eh?

--
AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas)
Kawasaki ZX-6R J1, Aprilia RSV-1000R (10th August), Fiat Coupe 20v Turbo
BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL)
BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, DS#5, COSOC# Suspended, KotTFSTR#
The speccy Geordie twat.

 

LEARN TO FUCKING DRIVE.

 

Yeap, they miss all that excitement. That's why I left my girlfriend's
stupid Lexus home.

Though being next to her, I can only catch a passing glance at those
creamy white thighs...

 

Well, it's not a 49cc either. Would 150cc impress you?

Anyway I was caught myself (cc or no cc) in the bottleneck caused by a
few cars.

 

Sancho, my good friend Sancho. He became a couch potato and is
currently watching TV. He doesn't believe in heroic acts anymore.

 

Yeah, but what to do with the 300 million that are already living here?

 

I guess I'm gonna need to learn to fly.

 

Presumably, you're one of the poor cage drivers who are
reading this courtesy of rec.autos.blabbingonmycellphone or
some other such group, but you would REALLY be amazed
at the number of us who believe that motorcycling is actually
the far better choice. Imagine the improvement in both
safety AND the environment if everyone you see when next
you encounter "heavy traffic" was on a bike...

(Hint: you actually have to stay awake/alert to ride a
motorcycle, and it's MUCH harder to ride a motorcycle
if you're trying to talk on your phone, juggle a hot cup of
coffee, and fix your makeup all at the same time.)

Bob M.

 

I know your sympathies lie with the Natural Born Killers in the van,
but remember you too ride a bike, right?

Or maybe you are part of one of those bike gangs that terrorize...
well, cats and dogs.

 

Very true, that's why I *always* make sure that I leave a few minutes in the
morning to fix my make-up before I get on the bike. Then I only have to
worry about my phone and the coffee.

I don't get it, though - loads of tank bags have a clear plastic pocket at
the top you can put your phone in, so that you can text as you ride along,
but none of them seem to have a cup holder. It was really just luck that I
found you can easily wedge a plastic cup between the throttle and the front
brake lever. Without that my coffee would go *everywhere*

--
AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas)
Kawasaki ZX-6R J1, Aprilia RSV-1000R (10th August), Fiat Coupe 20v Turbo
BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL)
BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, DS#5, COSOC# Suspended, KotTFSTR#
The speccy Geordie twat.

 

Another scooter-riding total wanker.

 

Was it the wedding ring that gave it away?

--
AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas)
Kawasaki ZX-6R J1, Aprilia RSV-1000R (10th August), Fiat Coupe 20v Turbo
BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL)
BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, DS#5, COSOC# Suspended, KotTFSTR#
The speccy Geordie twat.

 

That's it. **** off.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

I don't see that every time I get on the road - but then this is the UK.