Crash at Griffith Shops

I dont know how the driver in this case can be a P plate wanker.

As I understand it they where arriving at a stop sign when a bus clipped a car (that was in the wrong) and the car got airborne and landed on the bonnet of the Volvo.

Maybe we should be describing the driver of the red car as a middle to senior aged “raffia hat and box of tissues on the parcel shelf” type of driver.

Sheet – the guy looks up to his brother for potentially saving him a lot of pain.

Let him call his brother what he wants – I thougth the facts of this story would have been pretty indicative that no one in teh volvo was at fault.

Talk about a bash up ofer a few words.

PS vg – I would have given up golf by now….

The wanker part is the ninja/wu shu crap that I hear on an all too regular basis.

I play golf twice a week, spending more time on the golf course in that week than most ‘martial artists’ spend training in a month. I am marginally above being shithouse. Most ‘samurai’ are completely shithouse. I’ve found most ‘ninjas’ expectations far exceed their abilities

J Dawg

It would behove you to read my posts with some degree of comprehension. At no stage did I say everyone on their P’s are wankers. The punctuation of that part of the post should make the mutual exclusivity of the the statement quite clear…but I’ll remind you:

“No, your brother is a wanker…on his P’s.”

The “…” part means that I think he is a wanker who is also on his P’s. I never said nor implied that everyone on their P’s is a wanker.

Perhaps your comprehension should also carry P plates.

Silly person

I was never a ninja or a wanker behind the wheel. But feel free to defend your samurai brethren

You say you weren’t a wanker, but how can you justify that everyone on their P’s are? We aren’t, no matter how much experience you’ve had with P-plate drivers (I’m sure it is sufficient). Don’t let (quite) a few bad eggs spoil the bunch.

And I am not the same person as Frankenstein/necrocelia

Shintaro’s gonna come in the night and get all you tough guys who don’t believe in the power of Shinobi. You won’t feel a thing.

Seriously though, one benefit of some martial arts – namely grappling martial arts where you practise breakfalls on the ground every time you train – is that you have a much better chance of landing well. I fell off a motorbike in the wet going about 60km/h and onto my side, with no protective clothing besides a helmet, and didn’t get a scratch. Maybe I was just lucky, but my jujutsu teacher had a similar experience when he tripped and fell down a flight of stairs and also didn’t hurt himself at all. Again, could be coincidence.

I don’t know what sort of breakfalls you learn in kung fu, but I’m fairly certain that it won’t improve your reaction time by much, particularly in situations unrelated to unarmed fighting. But who knows?

The crashed vehicle has its headlights wrapping around the side – Toyota Yaris I suspect.

I know what it is – it’s a Wreck.

Quite right, it’s not a Corolla on closer inspection – only 2 doors, which is a bit of a giveaway. I’d guess a Colt, but it might be an Echo or a Yaris…

The ACT government are changing the P driver test so that if you can’t catch a fly with chopsticks, you can’t get your P’s.

any truth that this car has featured elsewhere on riotacts pages, and that an Alpacca is being sought, after being spotted fleeing the scene??

Everybody looks at Johnboy’s last comment, shakes their collective heads and walk away, muttering to themselves.

of course any of these Martial arts things are going to improve your reaction time. I say leave the poor kid alone.

Oh c’mon he could embrace radical islam, join the jihad and become a warrior right here without leaving home.

Which just goes to show being a “warrior” isn’t much of an end in itself.

Do only good, that is, rather than goos.

Perhaps I need to do some good to rebalance the universe’s energy.

Looks to me like a Toyota Echo, rather than a Corolla.

Oh, and wouldn’t a wushu master have trapped the flying vehicle with his mind, set it gently down in it’s wheels, and reminded the occupant to do only goos to rebalance the universe’s energy?

“NTP and VG refuse to acknowledge that anyone can be a hero to anyone else until they get their capes.”

I borrow my nephews capes.

“I’m sure you were the same once, however you seem to not have grown past the ‘wanker’ stage.”

I was never a ninja or a wanker behind the wheel. But feel free to defend your samurai brethren

“he took the time to relax every part of his body”
…starting at the bladder and ending with the bowels… ;->

Just kidding, glad everyone’s OK.

Haha ok thanks Nik.

crap. still haven’t worked out that italic thing. how embarrassing…

NTP and VG refuse to acknowledge that anyone can be a hero to anyone else until they get their capes.

Nice little Napoleon Dynamite reference there, LlamaFrog.

Re: safe driving skills. Certainly Nik_The_Pig is right about the importance of careful observation, but there is one more obvious thing to do and that is to drive slowly.

And while we’re at it: stop picking on the young Wu-Shu fella and his hero-worshipping, blogger brother. Spare the young and innocent from your tired cynicism!

necrocelia/frankenstein how meny log ons do you have? And yes your brother may be getting a bit of undeserved stick but that’s aminly due to your comment that he is into “Wu-shu” and is a bit of a ninja, which could make him a bit of a wanker if he is full of himself but it is more likely that you just weren’t prepared for the fact that if you hero worship someone on Riot both are going to cop heaps. Which from your later comments sounds like what you were doing.

BTW, unless your brother is on the front line in the military he isn’t a warrior. He may participart in a full contact sport like a martial art, may have “the heart of a warrior” but unless he’s fighting a war he ain’t a warrior. You should really just be happy if he’s not a goose.

“No, your brother is a wanker…on his P’s.”

best laugh I have had all day.

You know, like nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills… Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills.

VG- My god. You don’t even know him!
And even if he had put the car in reverse, I don’t know if that would have stopped it from hitting us.

your brother is a wanker…on his P’s.

I’m sure you were the same once, however you seem to not have grown past the ‘wanker’ stage.

Ignoring all the ‘Teenage Ninja Driver’ chat for a moment, what model car is the red one? Someone mentioned Corolla, but I’d run money that it is a new model Mitsubishi Colt…

My brother is a warrior?

No, your brother is a wanker…on his P’s.

I glad there was no injuries, but if he was such a ninja his reactions would have been to throw the car in reverse.

2 days of ‘martial arts’ end everyone thinks they’re Jet Li

VG+WestKambah- No way. My brother is a warrior. Besides, he’s my brother so only I’m allowed to pay him out. And I never said he was a wushu master! Except he’s pretty special. Excpet maybe I only think that because he’s my brother.

Sheer- It happened at about 10 to 9 on tuesday.

Nik- I was commenting at that time because I had the first line off.

Seepi- Well, I saw her upside down in her car. And she was hanging there for a while. Technically you’re not meant to get them out. But some guy crawled in there and got her out. He then later told us he was really scared because he was claustrophobic!
Then later, she came to our house (just around the corner) for a cup of tea! She was really shaken up.

Did the driver walk away from the red car?

I’m glad no one was seriously hurt. Never ceases to amaze me how little regard people seem to have for a stop sign, especially when a big bus is coming. They must think they are put up for fun and you get to decide whether you will stop or not.

That looks like a red Corolla – I own a red Corolla! Good thing it was stated up front that this happened yesterday or I would have been on the phone in an instant. Those clothes don’t really look like her style, though.

At least now I know what the bottom of my car looks like…

Modern cars smash up nicely, but they do a surprisingly good job of protecting the occupants. That said, this just goes to show what can happen when you lose concentration for a second. When two large chunks of metal strike each other at speed the energy has to go somewhere.

FWIW, I know what it’s like to have something land on your bonnet – I once had a boat come in through my windscreen.

VG is right. Your brother is wanker. A lucky wanker. If he was some wu-shu ninja master he would have gone super-saiyan on their arses.

Holy Moley… lucky no one was seriously hurt…

“Nik- We were about 4 metres from the stop sign. My brother is really in Wu-shu so I asked him what he did when he realised what was going on and he said that he took the time to relax every part of his body. I didn’t see what was happening because I was talking to a friend in the back seat so I just saw the car flying and hitting us. And, I think my brother is a bit of a ninja so he probably reacted fast.”

I’m glad no-one got hurt but what a load of shit. Ninja my bum! He did what everyone did in a prang, froze solid

Red Car driver seems to live out of her car somewhat… or DID until she destroyed it. She was very lucky!!! Signs aren’t just there to beautify the world…

And Ms Stein, I take it your commenting on this from school atm? How things have changed, it’s making me feel old.

holy crap that’s my bus stop you can see in the pic. I must have just missed this – what time did this happen Frank?

A red car flying upside down right in front of you is a little hard to miss though

Especially if it happens in slow motion, with an appropriate soundtrack playing in the background.

Good to hear. For those of us who aren’t ninja masters it pays to remember that good observation skills can make up for slightly slower reactions, more often than not giving you those few extra fractions of a second to react. A red car flying upside down right in front of you is a little hard to miss though 😉

Ninja drivers, hell yeah!

Nik- We were about 4 metres from the stop sign. My brother is really in Wu-shu so I asked him what he did when he realised what was going on and he said that he took the time to relax every part of his body. I didn’t see what was happening because I was talking to a friend in the back seat so I just saw the car flying and hitting us. And, I think my brother is a bit of a ninja so he probably reacted fast.

I think “F*CK” is the right reaction.

Glad to hear you’re all OK.

GY, I think Frankenstein means her car. Second photo, gray car, minor damage to bonet.

Haha, not the red car. The volvo that you can just see on the left in the second picture.
She was flipping in the air and then landed on our bonnet.

Your brother may have been involved in a crash but he didn’t cause it. It’s also good to see you rate driving a safe over a flash car and from the sounds of it your brother was aware of his surroundings and a fraction of a second tap on the brakes may have saved you both, and the driver of the car, some far more serious injuries. If he had time to swear he probably acted even if he doesn’t remember doing so.

Having said that, from the second photo it looks as if your vehicle may have been stopped already at the stop sign on the opposite side of the road? Is that correct?

I can’t believe how relatively unscrathed the car was. Does that make sense?

???? it looks pretty beat up to me!?