Once in a while

[BeeLine]

Have to pass this one on.

The other day while riding up to a stop light some a-hole in a Mercedes “C” blasts past me within a couple of feet of my rear wheel as he changes to the right hand lane. Normally I don’t take this very lightly but that day I decided to stay cool and just let it go.

I rolled up next to him at the stop light and figured I’ll just put some distance between us when the light changes. Fine, the light goes green and he turns into a spec in my mirror and I proceed onto the freeway which is pretty congested. I start merging and I see in my mirror this same guy coming onto the freeway weaving in and out of traffic really fast (70-90) and very close to everyone he passes. He gets ahead of me and I see him weaving in and out of the car pool lane (his driving solo) to pass other cars. Just as I think ‘what a @$%’ a highway patrol blasts past me with lights flashing and both cars disappear into the congestion. About a mile up the freeway there they are, parked on the shoulder having a ‘chat’.

Yea, every once in a while :yahoo:

 

[Toecutter]

I'd bet that's gonna be an expensive chat. I'm thinkin' three or four violations, depending on the driver's attitude.

 

[madmike2]

I'd bet that's gonna be an expensive chat. I'm thinkin' three or four violations, depending on the driver's attitude.

+1. I'm guessing that someone was on their cell phone reporting an unsafe or wreckless driver. Oh dang!

 

[FJRottie]

Make sure you beep your horn and give a big thumbs-up while he gets his well deserved ticket.

 

[black mamba]

I'm tooling along at about 70 mph on a local expressway the other day....sparse traffic as it was early in the day on a Saturday. I see, in the mirror, this car coming up on me REALLY FAST. I'm in the left lane of the two going in my direction. The car coming up on me appears to be in the same lane. I don't know whether to jump to the right lane, hoping the car stays in it's current lane, or stay where I am and hope the driver has seen me and made up his mind to go around me to the right. At the speed this car is traveling, there is only seconds to make this decision. I jump quickly to the right lane....the car blows by me at a blur no more than a foot away.

About the time I can draw my breath and curse the fact that a cop is never around when something like this happens, some flashing blue lights come up behind me and blow past, seemingly at the speed of light. About four miles down the road, I come upon the scene where the cop has pulled the offender over. I'm so pissed at nearly being run over that I stop and volunteer to testify, if the cop needs it, to the reckless nature of the driver. The cop says not to worry....the woman driver had been clocked at 130 mph and had about as much trouble as she was going to be able to handle for awhile.

 

[Silver Penguin]

+100

That makes my day. An idiot gets their just desserts, without any other party being harmed.

On Thanksgiving morning, I rode to work in the wee small hours, on a near empty freeway. It sure was tough to rein in the FJR to 65mph but I did it, knowing that there was 'heavy enforcement' in place. Sure was. I saw two of the drivers that flew past me, pulled over later, having a little chat with the officers.

Jill