good luck everyone

I think people who do this should be beaten in the public square.

/semi-joking

Two ways this thread will go:

1) Must have been a woman driver; oh, how women drivers suck!
or
2) Cop was to busy eating a donut and/or doing something corrupt so it served him right.

/Somewhere, someone will try to insert a legalize marijuana statement into the story and/or it's Obama's fault and/or some sort of anti-healthcare comment.

I know I hate it when I nearly hit the speeding cop car that is passing on the right with no lights or signals as he cuts through multiple lanes of traffic.

Almost as much as I hate the cop effect where one cop car turns a 55mph road into a 30mph traffic jam as people panic brake.

Typical Boston Driver.

iaazathot: I think people who do this should be beaten in the public square.

/semi-joking

I don't think Toronto has enough squares to pen all of the violators until its their turn to be beaten. But I do agree with you 100%. Zip over 4 lanes to get off the express onto the collectors. Sometimes they aren't even in the lane, and cut across the median if they figured it out 100' too late.

I've always been of the school of hitting the next exit and doubling back. But I guess that's just me.

Typical Boston cop.

"No trial, no jury. Straight to execution!"

Don't you hate it when you read a headline and it makes your head hurt?

going on the headline, I hate when people swerve three lanes over so they don't "miss" the exit they want to take. Trust you me, you do get a chance for a "do-over" because you can always take the next exit and turn around and try again. The exit you wanted to take doesn't dissapear Langolier style, it's still going to be there.

"A spokesman said he was unsure of the trooper's injuries but called them 'potentially serious.'"

...hit him so hard he landed in the Schrodinger box...

Tom_Slick: Typical Boston Driver.

Yes. Although it's not clear from TFA whether the driver cut across multiple lanes or not (despite the headline) doing that is definitely a common Boston driver move. But it's is better than the pull-into-the-breakdown-lane-and-back-up trick that you sometimes see. There are some days that I am convinced that most Boston driver learned to drive in Greece.

"You're good."

Langdon Alger: going on the headline, I hate when people swerve three lanes over so they don't "miss" the exit they want to take. Trust you me, you do get a chance for a "do-over" because you can always take the next exit and turn around and try again. The exit you wanted to take doesn't dissapear Langolier style, it's still going to be there.

Driver probably did not "miss the exit lane." Driver probably just felt, in their self absorbed selfish way, should not have to be delayed by 15 seconds in their life being stuck behind a slow moving vehicle and decided to pass at the last possible instance and cut over. Probably so they could make it to the pizza parlor just in time as they were also calling on their cell phone ordering said pizza.

Maybe he was watching Madagascar in his SUV.

How brain-dead do you have to be to smash up the car IN FRONT OF YOU while you are changing lanes.

dr_iacovone: Langdon Alger: going on the headline, I hate when people swerve three lanes over so they don't "miss" the exit they want to take. Trust you me, you do get a chance for a "do-over" because you can always take the next exit and turn around and try again. The exit you wanted to take doesn't dissapear Langolier style, it's still going to be there.

Driver probably did not "miss the exit lane." Driver probably just felt, in their self absorbed selfish way, should not have to be delayed by 15 seconds in their life being stuck behind a slow moving vehicle and decided to pass at the last possible instance and cut over. Probably so they could make it to the pizza parlor just in time as they were also calling on their cell phone ordering said pizza.

Hey, she is maximizing her productivity. CEO of that girl should be proud.
/yes it's a woman; i'd bet on it
//holy crap, i used a semicolon

I've always assumed these people had zero imagination. Same with the db's who get in the wrong lane at a light and just sit there with their blinker on waiting for someone to let them in, while everyone behind them misses the light. No clue that they could go up a bit and turn around, they would rather inconvenience and/or injure other motorists with their daftness.

Farking New England drivers... That shiat happens constantly around here, I am surprised there are so few accidents as a result.

He had to make that exit.....there was a sale at Penny's!!!

What do you expect when you got a dumb ass woman driver and a cop too busy eating doughnuts to actually pay attention. Obama had a chance to sign legislation that would have required every car to have a system that detects an impending collision and auto-corrects but he was too busy forcing the poor health insurance companies to cover illegal aliens to be bothered.

/Oh, if the woman could buy pot from the corner store, she would not have been driving across hells half-acre looking for a dealer.

TheWizard: I know I hate it when I nearly hit the speeding cop car that is passing on the right with no lights or signals as he cuts through multiple lanes of traffic.

Almost as much as I hate the cop effect where one cop car turns a 55mph road into a 30mph traffic jam as people panic brake.

Didn't read the artical, did you.

JohnAnnArbor: "You're good."



That guy is so creepy. I wonder if this ad campaign has been successful. He creeps me out, and would "drive" me away from buying whatever brand of insurance that is.

Langdon Alger: going on the headline, I hate when people swerve three lanes over so they don't "miss" the exit they want to take. Trust you me, you do get a chance for a "do-over" because you can always take the next exit and turn around and try again. The exit you wanted to take doesn't dissapear Langolier style, it's still going to be there.

You've never driven in the bay area. Exits there wink in and out of existence at the whim of a malevolent freeway god.

Nick Nostril: I've always assumed these people had zero imagination. Same with the db's who get in the wrong lane at a light and just sit there with their blinker on waiting for someone to let them in, while everyone behind them misses the light. No clue that they could go up a bit and turn around, they would rather inconvenience and/or injure other motorists with their daftness.

My personal fave is the people who don't want to wait in line at a backed-up freeway entrance ramp, so they get in another lane, move up a bit, and then try to nudge back in further up the line. I'm generally a "let assholes be assholes" type, but I make damn sure I'm right up the ass of the car in front of me when I see someone pulling that crap.

We're heading in this direction anyway so we may as well get the ball rolling...

iaazathot: I think people who do this should be beaten in the public square.

/semi-joking

I'm not.

Seems like a typical Boston/Rhode Island driver, I see this all the time -- Without the crashing into a cop part.

tothekor: Two ways this thread will go:

1) Must have been a woman driver; oh, how women drivers suck!
or
2) Cop was to busy eating a donut and/or doing something corrupt so it served him right.

/Somewhere, someone will try to insert a legalize marijuana statement into the story and/or it's Obama's fault and/or some sort of anti-healthcare comment.

Well if the cop wasn't too busy calling in an order for donuts on his cell phone, he probably would of seen the asian woman cut across three lanes to catch her exit. She also wouldn't even of been on the road if she could of used her insurance card to pick up the marijuana she needed to help with her agonizing IBS. But since it's still an illegal substance, she had major exacerbation and had to quickly run out to her dealer to pick up her medication. If only Obama actually followed through with his hope and change, we wouldn't be in this situation.

This time of year? I'd wager that car had Quebec plates.

Subby knows me too well.

BalugaJoe: Maybe he was watching Madagascar in his SUV.

This made me LOL.

NightOwl2255: What do you expect when you got a dumb ass woman driver and a cop too busy eating doughnuts to actually pay attention. Obama had a chance to sign legislation that would have required every car to have a system that detects an impending collision and auto-corrects but he was too busy forcing the poor health insurance companies to cover illegal aliens to be bothered.

/Oh, if the woman could buy pot from the corner store, she would not have been driving across hells half-acre looking for a dealer.

THANK YOU!!

I hate when this happens to you while you are riding a motorcycle at 11:30PM, and the car driver is a 79 year old man who, after he clips you, has the gall to ask, "Why did you hit me?"

CSB
Also true

tothekor: Two ways this thread will go:

1) Must have been a woman driver; oh, how women drivers suck!
or
2) Cop was to busy eating a donut and/or doing something corrupt so it served him right.

/Somewhere, someone will try to insert a legalize marijuana statement into the story and/or it's Obama's fault and/or some sort of anti-healthcare comment.

From just reading the headline, I would have gone with
3) Florida.

Having seen a car do this across 4 lanes of traffic to make the I-95 North exit off of the Maryland Beltway (east-bound) I would help build the platform for a public hanging.


// not fun having a car turn 90 degrees in front of you. TAKE THE NEXT DAMN EXIT.

keylock71: Trivia: It's the same actor who plays Liz Lemon's ex-boyfriend on 30 Rock.

And about 30 other roles. He's not exactly an unknown actor.

New York is full of asshole drivers. And asshole bike riders. And asshole pedestrians. It's very frustrating.

/CSS

Julieahni: New York is full of assholes drivers. And asshole bike riders. And asshole pedestrians. It's very frustrating.

/CSS

Wow, I'm so glad I'm not the only one who has noticed how AWFUL Toronto drivers are. It's not unusual up there to see fifty cars in the left lane, stretching for two kilometers, but there's one bus or truck way up there in the right lane that they're all angling to pass...eventually. Move over? No way, I'm passing, eh?

When I'm up there, I get rid of all courtesy and good road etiquette--I used to try to be good, but Toronto drivers don't notice or care, and they ignore the rules too. Now I don't let anyone in, sometimes I go fast, sometimes I go slow, sometimes I move out of the left lane when I go slow, sometimes I don't. I pass on the right. I don't yield to the guy with the blinker on trying to make his exit at the last minute, I remain willing to let him hit me (which is shocking to every single Toronto driver, and they violently swerve away angry at ME for not getting out of their way). I don't let you merge if there have been signs for the last two kilometers warning you that you're in the lane that's ending. Enough of you guys are awful drivers that I feel no pity for those of you who aren't. You're all fair game now.

Sorry Canada, your drivers suck ass.

keylock71: PsiChi: JohnAnnArbor: "You're good."

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That guy is so creepy. I wonder if this ad campaign has been successful. He creeps me out, and would "drive" me away from buying whatever brand of insurance that is.

It's a fairly successful campaign. I believe they even sell action figures of Mayhem.

Trivia: It's the same actor who plays Liz Lemon's ex-boyfriend on 30 Rock.

Oh, wow, I did not know that. I've been trying to catch up on all those shows lately, but musta missed him.

Active introvert: TheWizard: I know I hate it when I nearly hit the speeding cop car that is passing on the right with no lights or signals as he cuts through multiple lanes of traffic.

Almost as much as I hate the cop effect where one cop car turns a 55mph road into a 30mph traffic jam as people panic brake.

Didn't read the artical, did you.

Whar artical?

Tom_Slick: Typical Boston Driver.

Typical New Orleans driver, too.

/people here drive like they got their license in a cracker jack box
//only thing I actually don't like about this city