There's one reason never to go near cottage country.

More than half the charges laid during the weekend have been for speeding, the vehicles detected from as far as a kilometre away by hand-held lasers.

That's cheating.

Mad...MAD Props for Officer Wooley on the Walter Mitty reference.

One of my favorite on screen punches...

I wonder how long before some genius comes up with an ablative paint that doesn't reflect lasers.......
that will show the cops.....

Show me a "good" reality show.

/redundant

A "good" reality show? The Amazing Race. Highly watchable.

you mean they were able to put there radar/lazers down long enough to stop people who were actually driving recklassly. Remarkable! They might get diciplined for it though. Constructive ticketing is such a waste of resources.

I'd eat cereal while driving on the interstate.

And I'd DEFINITELY go 124 mph if I owned a Black Maserati. I'd consider framing the ticket and hanging it up too.

I knew a woman who would drive with her knees while rolling a joint.

I rode with her exactly once.

GrapeShasta: That's both stupid and selfish.

In my experience, reckless drivers that I see turn out to be cops much more often than random chance would predict.

I'm not talking about when they're driving with their lights on.

When I see someone driving way too fast, changing lanes without using blinkers, changing multiple lanes in one shot without pausing in intermediate lanes, weaving wildly, et cetera, it seems that it is invariably one of two types:

(1) Dumb kid - male, late teens to early twenties, excess testosterone.

(2) An officer of the law.

well I don't know about THAT guy's, but MY maserati does 185. Then again, I lost my license and now I can't drive.
But over all, i'd think life's been good to me. So far.

A 38-year-old man from Oakville in a black Maserati was clocked at 200 km/h on Friday.

My Maserati does 125. I lost my license, now I don't drive.

This is nothing. I can't wait for winter - when a fresh snowfall yields a half dozen SUV's wrapped around telephone poles and guard rails.

Comedy gold.

Gonna hafta quit fapping while driving. . .

Speaking of SUV driving idiots...

I was driving through a parking lot in January...the lot was for a strip center that had a Starbucks. An SUV came out of the drive thru (an SUV at a Starbucks drive-thru? Nooooooo.....) It was behind me, but took advantage of the relatively empty lot to sleaze past me, going too damned fast. The guy thought he'd be slick in his idiot mobile, zooming past the guy in the Honda Civic. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your viewpoint) he spun just far enough out of control to slide sideways down the incline of the parking lot...he must have slid 30 yards, only to slam, sideways, into the concrete barrier that divided the lot from the street.

Since he was driving one of the macho-sized compensator mobiles, his wheel clearance was well above the barrier. Which means both tires, upon slamming into unyielding concrete, simply folded under the car.

I drove past him calmly. Well, as calmly as I could while laughing hysterically and thanking God for finally giving one of those dipshiats their just deserts...

So, here's a story, and it's true.

A buddy of mine has a brother who was street racing. He hits a 'for sale' sign (at over 100 mph in a 35), damaging his car. He thinks "uh-oh, I don't want to get in trouble." Then he decides the best thing to do would be to put his car in nuetral and push it down a ravine. So he does it. The cops arrive, find out he is lying in short order. He was 16-17. His parents replaced his car.

What's going on around Toronto? Last time it was a guy cooking a dinner in a crockpot and tossing a salad while driving. This time it's a bowl of cereal ... Weird!

Where have the days where when somebody saw a police officer they felt safe and happy. Now when I see a cop i seriously have a sinking feeling in my stomach, and get very very nervous, even though 99% of the time i'm doing absolutely nothing wrong. Traffic cops need to go away, the only people who should get a ticked for going 78 in a 70 mph zone should be semi's (who should get a ticket for going 71 in a 70) and suv's. Small cars (like my eclipse) have the ability to slow down VERY rapidly, and also have handling capabilities that greatly exceed that of an SUV or semi, vehicles the laws, in my opinion, were designed to keep under control.

blhack

Then he decides the best thing to do would be to put his car in nuetral and push it down a ravine.

There's a sentence I never imagined.

Knew a guy once. Going down the road on his Maxim 1100 (Yamaha)about 50mph, minding his own business. This suburban turns left in front of him and he bundles into the rear wheelwell, almost losing his head. Now, once the police and EMTs arrive on the scene it is discovered that the broad driving has had her license permanently suspended for moving violations. She has a fake Drivers Lecense, forged tags and needless to say no insurance. Her husband was a prominent area surgeon. Needless to say, that when the motorcyclist got out of the hospital he sued and sent these stupid farkers straight to the poorhouse. Now, I'm not a litigious man, but that dumb broad and her husband deserved the bastinado, let alone the lawsuit. Just thought I'd share. The painted on license plate made me think of this.
Rev

"What's going on around Toronto? Last time it was a guy cooking a dinner in a crockpot and tossing a salad while driving. This time it's a bowl of cereal ... Weird!"

Marijuana legal because of court action is whats happening in toronto

Only in Canada.

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n721/a08.html

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beer151 Was said kid high? I mean C'MON! pushing his car into a ravine? IF the car still ran i would at least stash it in a public parking garage, or head straigh home or SOMETHING! Pushing the farking thing into a ravine my god that kid needs an intense blow to the testicles. And as to the two of your farkers with maserati's fark you but not really. I think that anybody with a high end sports car (corvette, viper, lambo's, ferrari's, etc.) should be able to take a class, then a test that allows them to go faster than everybody else. Face it, if your car is designed to go over 150 mph, and you are on a straigh flat road that you can see for 10 miles on, you should not have to go 55 farking miles per hour, 120 is not that big of a deal to your car.
/bows before maserati owners.
blhack

Said Fisher, "you know, if I had a suspended licence I'd be trying a lot harder to drive carefully."


That's awsome.

Blhack

He wasn't high, just a dumbass.

You know the fact that somebody gets in an accident, is put in the hospitol, and then sues somebody because of it is not even remotely awesome The guy(or girl) obviously got hurt very badly, if you think that because he/she was monetarily (is that a word?) compensated it makes this a good thing you have something wrong with you.

Blhack

Blhack:

My Maserati does 185.

Yeah, driving in SE Ontario is a real adventure. The overall arrogance bleeds thru to the driving. Still, they're not as reckless at Montreal drivers, or as clueless as Vancouver drivers...they're stupidly selfish.

They have these giant trucks which pull over semis. Last time I was in ON, I was coming into Ajax and one of those guys tried to pull a semi over, and the semi driver flipped him off and kept going. Another one of those trucks...vans, actually had to come along along with OPP to force him off the road.

Unreal. They rules apply to everyone but me, eh?

I was out near Marathon on 17/TC-1...it's 90 kph speed limit. Some dude was TAILGATING OPP (police) who was going 110. When there was a breakaway lane (because it's a 2 lane road), this guy passes OPP and goes on his merry way. Didn't get pulled over.

So you have my 1st story, then you have my 2nd story. Do you see how Ontarians could possibly not take traffic cops seriously?

beer151 Do you know what he told his parents happend? ANd what kind of car he trashed/then got?

blhack

Lets see Blhack. Said rider used the proceeds to pay for his lengthy hospital stay and physical therapy and replace his bike, things his insurance was unable/unwilling to completely pay for. This woman was a menace as was her husband. Both of them deserved it, she's lucky she didn't kill the biker. That said, not everyone who gets bitten by a dog or slips on some ice is entitled to millions of dollars. This collision was obviously her fault and she needed to be made to pay.

oh it's a song
/feels really ignorant

blhack

Rev Alright just checking to make sure you weren't one of those, walks into wal-mart, slips, and sues for tonz. I swear my neighbor does that for a living, he's had 3 houses burn down, and "fallen" several times. He is being investigated for insurance fraud right now. I just hate pricks like that SOOOO much

blhack

'S cool Blhack. The Reverened hates the lawsuit sonsabiatches in this country and the ambulance chasing scumbag lawyers (Not all lawyers are like this mind you) that enable these leeches. Like I said. I think this biker was justified. Slipping and falling makes you a clutz, it shouldn't make you rich.

[B]beer151[/B]

His parents replaced the car? Yeah, that'll teach him not to be a dumb fark ...

The best examples of crazy drivers they can come up with are someone eating a bowl of cereal (which should leave one hand free to steer anyway!), someone looking over at his laptop, a guy going 125, and someone tailgating?!

Perhaps the fact that I commuted 50 miles a day on the DC Beltway skewed my perspective a bit, but I am not at all impressed. I'd expect to see all four things happen numerous times by observing traffic in any metro area for about 10 minutes.

Ahh. The trip to the "cottage up north" every long weekend.
These cottage owners work their 9-5 ratrace jobs with average 90-min commutes each way not only to pay for the mortgage on their monster home in Toronto, but on their "cottage" too.

The long weekend approaches. They rush home, load up their SUV or Dodge Caravan with beer, significant other, kids, tools and paint and join several million other sheep on the 400. Now, these people are already stressed from a week of work. They have to fill up with 80-cent-a-liter gas (price just went up again!). They are then confronted with bumber-to-bumber traffic of the millions of other sheep on the 400.

After only ninety minutes on the highway, going perhaps one or two kilometers, the kids are screaming "are we there yet?". The wife is busy unloading all the frustrations of the office politics of her own job on him.

The driver tries to cheer up by thinking of crashing in a lounger with a can of sweet, sweet beer on his dock. But then he remembers that before he does this he has to paint the cottage, fix the roof where that $#$^*& raccoon got in last weekend, repair that dock.

THEN he remembers that the township where his cottage is located just jacked up the taxes on his cottage 200% (but he isn't a resident in the township so he can't vote against it!) A nice big tax bill he never counted on awaits him!

It's no wonder these guys start behaving crazily on the drive up there!

Me, I stay home and drink that sweet, sweet beer on my porch, laughing at the "cottagers" on their insane long weekend ritual!!

Rearden

I used to have a 99 Ford Dually. That thing is huge. Anyway, the bumper is eye-level. Whenever I was on the 5/805 merge in San Diego, I'd always make sure to ride in front of those people who read while driving.

Then, if I had to slam on my brakes and someone hit me, it would be someone who deserved it.

Peter hook why would you intentionally do something that would increase the chances of somebody getting hurt. Granted the people who read and drive are doing just that, but why wouldn't you stay away from that person so that hopefully they would have a lot of room between themselves and the other cars around them?

blhack

You want a sight, drive in Jersey. Reading papers, eating, putting on makeup, and the two that take the cake, changing diapers and putting on pantyhose

Question: What wrong with owning a SUV? I have read many other times in regards to SUV bashing in other FARK rooms? I can see were some people think.. just because I have a SUV I can drive anywhere. I own an SUV, a 4x4 Trailblazer 2003. I don't have that mentality. Bought it to haul the family around... trying to get away from the mini-van look, even though i still own the mini-van... just wondering.

I don't know other farkers wannafark but I hate suv's because they are unmanuaverable (sp) vehicles, that guzzle gas like mad, and can't stop very quickly. I don't necessarily have a prob with people like you who get them to actually haul things (people) but when i see a single guy or a couple driving a hummer it pisses me off because they don't need the thing. And when I say suv I don't mean something like a blazer, i'm down with that, i mean stuff like suburbans, escalades, navigators, hummers, etc. Stuff thats obnoxiously huge.

Blhack

Some idiots even yak on their mobile phones while driving.

No, seriously.

Blhack My obnoxiously huge Suburban.

5 dogs totaling about 400lbs. "Portable" 12x18 kennel. Camping gear. People.

The "obnoxious" comes from people that judge on appearance instead of actions.

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