"Awesome" driving by a Silver VN Commodore @ Chisholm...

What canwe do?

Execute them during half-time at Raiders games thus setting an example to other shit drivers.

Sammy said :

Oddly I was walking through Chisholm a few hours ago and a silver Commodore drove past with an idiot in the drivers seat, and proceeded to beep his horn as he drove past me. Odd. Not sure what model it was.

Are you female? If so, there’s your answer. Bogans seem to think that beeping at members of the opposite sex will cause them to become attracted to them.

You can buy a fully functioning VN for about a grand and they go like cut cats. that’s why they are the choice of young bogans.

Hehe this guy was an old Bogan. Perhaps he had just had a bad week and one too many sherbets before getting behind the wheel to drive home.

I forgot to mention the I saw the same driver cut off people trying to merge from the Mugga Lane turnoff earlier on up the Monaro.

It was a shame that the speed van wasn’t there that day on Isabella Drive as it quite often is.

What do Rioters suggest we do with such moronic Canberra drivers on our roads?

whinge about them on the intarnets!!!1

that’ll solve everything!

rosie_bubz said :

cranky said :

Pity the AFP’s latest toy wasn’t in the area.

Black VE Commodore UTE, with all the bling – and a lot of red and blue lights.

Probably pay for itself in a month.

swear ??
cant wait to see that

Yep I saw it the other day at night… holy hell it’s lit up like a christmas tree…. even alternating red and blues on the rear view mirrors.

Well, I’ve implemented measures against night-time tailgaters. I put some of those reflectors on my spare tyre mount. Boy, they’re effective! The tailgaters roar up, stuff their nose in for a few hundred metres, then drop back in annoyance as their headlights are reflected back at them. Why is it that tailgaters haev those new, over-bright headlights?

As for road-ragers, you can wait for them to have to stop for a traffic light, get out and pull them out of their cars and kick them a bit, or you can laugh at them and shoo them on their way. And put them on rate the plate, I guess, as it’s a bit of a release, pity it can’t be a bit more official.

There’s also a Green VE SS ute with red and blue lights optioned on it…

VN Commodore must be the weapon of choice for bogan drivers, I’ve seen so many lately doing stupid things (possibly even seen this specific one but you tend to lose track after seeing so many). It’s not just confined to VNs, I did see a guy in a late model Ford Fiesta I think complete with “racing” stripes on the roof/bonnet trying to spin the wheels in the dirt carpark at Stromlo MTB track (obviously the safety of the pedestrians and cyclists in the carpark were of no concern to this mental midget) and also a Gemini whose driver had obviously got his ambitions mixed up with his abilities and managed to smash into the side of the mountain and then into a large drainage ditch as he (presumption of gender here) was attempting to descend Honeysuckle Creek. Maybe the latter was Mr CAPITAL LETTERS that posted on here the other day about how misunderstood car hoons were.

cranky said :

Pity the AFP’s latest toy wasn’t in the area.

Black VE Commodore UTE, with all the bling – and a lot of red and blue lights.

Probably pay for itself in a month.

swear ??
cant wait to see that

Get or it do or do not… there is no try… Anger is the path to the dark side. Anger leads to RiotACT. RiotACT leads to hate. Hate leads to ridicule.

On he topic of the road . . .
yesterday, coming back from woden heading towards Tuggeranong, we got caught up in a very long pile up which is unusual for the weekend And it was a one lane road.
At the front it was a white Ute, which was going 10km/hour or so. because it was so slow, We thought it was going to breakdown or had something fragile in the back. after a long time, we got to a set of traffic lights and the Ute stopped at the lights. We changed lanes and so when we got up to it we saw that in the back of the Ute was . . .

6+ SO INDIAN CHILDREN SITTING CALMLY AND HAVING THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES
wth?
i thought they would have caught public transport like normal people would do
i wonder if they got caught?

Zig
As a truck driver on Canberra roads all day I see shit like this all day everyday
as mad as it makes you all you can do is accept it and get on with life you can call the cops they will do nothing there useless you can get mad and rage them back all that does it make the want to rage more then it can turn real nasty and also involve other innocent people
If you just pay them no mind and ignore them they will just feel stupid
Maybe my advice wont help you but it too me years to find inner peace on Canberra roads !!!

The other thing you can do is grow a goatee shave your head and wear a eye patch see if you can intimidate them before they try anything LOL

wot said fred said :

or you can join rate the plate – http://www.ratetheplate.com.au/ACT/
and get some smug satisfactiion at dobbing them in!!!

Result. Nice webbie

I find saying “you c*nt” out loud but not to the person’s face can release a lot of frustration…

I just smiled and clapped at the dude after he gave me the finger
Any hands on the steering wheel while you were clapping?. That sounds a tad dangerous.

Or was it just the sound of one hand clapping.

Zig, if you want to meet all the idiot drivers in Canberra buy a vespa. They all seem attracted to my scooter and want to share the same piece of road.

Carry a brick next time?

Pity the AFP’s latest toy wasn’t in the area.

Black VE Commodore UTE, with all the bling – and a lot of red and blue lights.

Probably pay for itself in a month.

You have 3 options, as I see it:
1) Forget it.
2) Note their number plate and report to the cops for menacing driving or threatening.
3) Follow them home and leave a message on their car such as “please give more consideration when driving, as your actions may be interpreted as offensive” (although it takes ages to inscribe that on their bonnet with your house key…)

A pile up would have been hilarious?

Wouldn’t have been much of a pileup considering how far apart people stop from each other on the roads these days…!

Aurelius said :

Zig,
The best way to deal with roid ragers at the wheel is to blow them kisses

hehe could throw a bit of tongue in there too lol

Zig,
The best way to deal with roid ragers at the wheel is to blow them kisses

Granny said :

A pile up would have been hilarious?

Well not for the people who could have been injured by the idiot.

If people are now questioning my story I can draw them a schematic/diagram.

I’m just curious as to how one should handle roid raging losers on the road.

I just smiled and clapped at the dude after he gave me the finger.

A pile up would have been hilarious?

JC said :

I-filed said :

When you pulled ahead of him, how come he could pull up next to you in the left lane? If he was behind you travelling fast, why didn’t you move over into the left lane so he could overtake you? Why didn’t you stay in the left lane in any case? Sounds very much as though you overtook aggressively in the left lane and then moved into the right lane to annoy him. Full story please!

Yeah good point, what were you doing back in the right lane?

Because I was going straight and there was traffic in the left lane banked up ahead that was all turning left. Hence the guy in the VN Crommodore had to stop rather abrubtly after pulling up beside me after giving me the finger from the left lane. Would have been hilarious if he had slammed into the cars in front of him causing a huge pile up!!!!
I would have hung around too and given the coppers a full run down on his antics.

i concur with aurelius’s sentiment, though it is a little harshly pronounced. when we experience incidents that make our hearts beat faster and question our own actions, it is natural to seek solace in gathering the views of others and ensuring we aren’t bottling it up and becoming that which we hate, nor over-reacting to something that maybe didn’t happen as we thought, or just wanna talk about it as is our wont. and a public forum like the riot should be a place to vent. ‘get over it’ is a rash way to say what aurelius really meant, which is to harden the fark up… no just kidding – a. means you should breathe in, let it out and let it go, and be reassured that you should be comfortable being a sane, rational and engaged member of the community who has had the misfortune to chance upon someone who is none of these things. life is like that.

shoot them all and let god sort them out.

sorry, couldnt resist simpsons quote.

people driving slow in the right hand lane is my pet peeve. if i had a gun…

that rate a plate site is hilarious! who would bother?!?!

I-filed said :

When you pulled ahead of him, how come he could pull up next to you in the left lane? If he was behind you travelling fast, why didn’t you move over into the left lane so he could overtake you? Why didn’t you stay in the left lane in any case? Sounds very much as though you overtook aggressively in the left lane and then moved into the right lane to annoy him. Full story please!

Yeah good point, what were you doing back in the right lane?

When you pulled ahead of him, how come he could pull up next to you in the left lane? If he was behind you travelling fast, why didn’t you move over into the left lane so he could overtake you? Why didn’t you stay in the left lane in any case? Sounds very much as though you overtook aggressively in the left lane and then moved into the right lane to annoy him. Full story please!

heh heh heh

Granny said :

“I can feel your anger. It gives you focus. It makes you stronger.”

Such a dark comment from someones Granny !

H1NG0 said :

VN Commodore eh? Thats the big Buick V6 block. Same as my VR Calais. Nice. You sure you just weren’t jealous of the “whhhhhoooooooaaaaaarrrrrr!!!!” noise?

meh.

Mediation.

Meditation is also good.

VN Commodore eh? Thats the big Buick V6 block. Same as my VR Calais. Nice. You sure you just weren’t jealous of the “whhhhhoooooooaaaaaarrrrrr!!!!” noise?

Ignore it.

By the sounds of it, he is hung like a “big buck field mouse”.

or you can join rate the plate – http://www.ratetheplate.com.au/ACT/
and get some smug satisfactiion at dobbing them in!!!

Get your own hectic VN and exact revenge
VL Calais would be better tho..

Zig, grab a hammer, chisel and some gold leaf and go add your name to the honour roll: ‘Canberra Drivers Who Have a Red Hot Whinge About “Canberra Drivers”‘.

“I can feel your anger. It gives you focus. It makes you stronger.”

Oddly I was walking through Chisholm a few hours ago and a silver Commodore drove past with an idiot in the drivers seat, and proceeded to beep his horn as he drove past me. Odd. Not sure what model it was.

Maybe you ziged when you should of zaged.

write down their license plate and dob them into the police for reckless driving.. driving while talking on a mobile… throwing rubbish out the window… follow them home, borrow their license plates and run through some speed cameras..

or just let it be and take solace in the fact that your a better person than they.

personally i’d be tempted to do something to their car. 🙂

The problem with this is that we only hear one side of the story.

Stay angry, hold that feeling inside, alienate your family and friends with your rage and then die a slow painful death from some stress related illness.

OR

As Aurelius said… get over it.

he was just upset by being beaten by another car. Watch out for the ones that swerve at you as you overtake them – I never move, they obviously think I will…

Bugger it, slam on your brakes and let him buy you a new car.

Zig,
You have one option – get over it.