Annoying Merc driver

[BushTuckerNed]

Today i saw a smart arse in a Merc do something really annoying

Ten cars back at the lights, the lights turn green, everyone takes off except him. He sits there being a DH holding about the 20 cars up untill the lights turn orange and he makes it through.

Just wondering what everyone would do in this situation

A. Put your bullbar to good use
B. Stand on the horn with spotlights ablaze
C. Get out and ask what the hell he is doing
D. Try to pull out with the other flowing traffic and keep driving

Personally id like to put the bullbar to good use, but then id get in trouble :(

[Fenring]

Probably try to get around him. Tempting to do all kinds of things tho....

stand on the horn, lights ablaze then tellhim what i realy think of him and his big lump of shyte

[evil_hitman]

Today i saw a smart arse in a Merc do something really annoying

Ten cars back at the lights, the lights turn green, everyone takes off except him. He sits there being a DH holding about the 20 cars up untill the lights turn orange and he makes it through.

Just wondering what everyone would do in this situation

A. Put your bullbar to good use
B. Stand on the horn with spotlights ablaze
C. Get out and ask what the hell he is doing
D. Try to pull out with the other flowing traffic and keep driving

Personally id like to put the bullbar to good use, but then id get in trouble :(


Well i'd be on the bike so i'd pull up next to him, tap on the window and yell move or lose your mirror ;D

Matt

[slowlux]

give him a s******d of horn and spotlights, then pull right up behind him (like 20 centimetres) stick the clutch in and give the 3Y some, then i'd try and get infront of him and i'd slow right down to about 30 kph. Real mature i know...

Horn and spotties, then drive past and yell shit at him.

but what a bloody loser. WTF do something like that??? he gets nothing out of it, except a whole bunch of people who wouldnt care if his car got cleaned up by a bus.

[Patrolman Pat]

Today i saw a smart arse in a Merc do something really annoying

Ten cars back at the lights, the lights turn green, everyone takes off except him. He sits there being a DH holding about the 20 cars up untill the lights turn orange and he makes it through.

Just wondering what everyone would do in this situation

A. Put your bullbar to good use
B. Stand on the horn with spotlights ablaze
C. Get out and ask what the hell he is doing
D. Try to pull out with the other flowing traffic and keep driving

Personally id like to put the bullbar to good use, but then id get in trouble :(


I would ask did he do it deliberately or was he just distracted, stuck in neutral etc.
Annoying either way but we all make mistakes. Maybe a polite toot on the horn to "wake him up" and we'd all be on our way and no road rage.

Just a thought.

[Nemesis]

Hehe funny if he had stalled or something, might be a poor bastard, not a bastard.....

[cuttin loose]

yeah he might not have bin able to find 1st gear on the auto stick shift!!.. ;D ;D ;D

[grimbo]

yeah you should have hit him with your bullbar whilst honking the horn, flashing your spotlights and swearing at him. While your at you might as well get out and give him a kicking too.

That is just the behaviour that fuels the whole anti 4WD sentiment out there already.

Maybe his car had stalled, maybe he was trying to get it started. Maybe you should take a chill pill, I know I'd rather put up with someone sitting there than an idiot hitting me with their bullbar, honking their horn and swearing at me

sometimes you drift off in thought about something...... i know i have done it before, as have lots of other people..... it is rather embarassing :-[ Just because he drives a Merc, doesn't mean he has had an attitude by-pass.....

[BushTuckerNed]

yeah you should have hit him with your bullbar whilst honking the horn, flashing your spotlights and swearing at him. While your at you might as well get out and give him a kicking too.

That is just the behaviour that fuels the whole anti 4WD sentiment out there already.

Maybe his car had stalled, maybe he was trying to get it started. Maybe you should take a chill pill, I know I'd rather put up with someone sitting there than an idiot hitting me with their bullbar, honking their horn and swearing at me

Hey, I never said i did anything to him, i just said i saw him doing it. And no he wasnt stalled or taking a chill pill. He was being annoying, you could tell by the expression on his face and the cheeky looks he gave in the rear-vision mirror to those behind

[mrZ]

i'd get over it :P

[baby_troupe]

I usually give them about 5 seconds to move, then I guve a coutesy beep on the horn.

[Reddo]

Meh, usally sit next to them at the next set of lights and just keep look at them. they usally know if they have done something wrong.

[Mental MU]

And life goes on......

[Snofox]

Meh, usally sit next to them at the next set of lights and just keep look at them. they usally know if they have done something wrong.


I've had people do that to me, and that doesn't bother me in the slightest.



As for the original question:
Simply follow the rules, and always give people benefit of the doubt. We all make mistakes.

However, should the other person be "deliberately" trying to annoy you.., pull the brick out from under your seat and gently tap on their window. ;D

Disclaimer: I do not have anything under my seat.

[baby_troupe]

Disclaimer: I do not have anything under my seat.

Probably because you have already used it :P

[cockles]

The joys of city living. ;D ;D

But really why bother doing anything. He is possibly trying to annoy the bloke behind him who has been sitting on his backside for the last 5ks.

It amazes me when we go to a city to see the idiots in their 4wds flashing their spotties at people, like its supposed to intimidate people.
I drove a truck aroud Sydney for quite a few years and mate I loved it, the bigger the traffic jam the better. Because it took me longer to get back to the depot. More overtime for me. :)

[FJ60]

yeah you should have hit him with your bullbar whilst honking the horn, flashing your spotlights and swearing at him. While your at you might as well get out and give him a kicking too.

That is just the behaviour that fuels the whole anti 4WD sentiment out there already.

Maybe his car had stalled, maybe he was trying to get it started. Maybe you should take a chill pill, I know I'd rather put up with someone sitting there than an idiot hitting me with their bullbar, honking their horn and swearing at me



Why bother, you have to remodel your car, if he is a merc driver if something happens to it he will just by another one. So you lose and he wins. There are a lot of people like that especially old farts going around the round abouts the wrong way....... they say P platers are bad.

ALL OLD PEOPLE ARE THE SAFEST DRIVERS ON THE ROAD NEVER HAD AN ACCIDENT JUST CAUSED 10 OTHERS!!!!!!!!! >:(

[ferremit]

i dont mind sitting on 5kph over the posted limit, which is enough to keep most people happy- tho if they keep tailgating me, i brake and lose 5kph, they keep it up, i drop another 5kph..


Was down to 35kp the other day before the prat behind me worked it out, they backed off, i was back up to 65kph ;D

If it's during the day time and i have an idiot on my ass...... i just turn my parking lights on..... they are usually too stupid to work out they aren't bright enough for brake lights and you often get them standing on the brakes :o hehehe funny shit to watch. :D

[Mental MU]

i dont mind sitting on 5kph over the posted limit, which is enough to keep most people happy- tho if they keep tailgating me, i brake and lose 5kph, they keep it up, i drop another 5kph..


Was down to 35kp the other day before the prat behind me worked it out, they backed off, i was back up to 65kph ;D


My mate in his old 2.8 Sr5 Lux was being 'gated by a P plater with 3 mates in a done up shitbox Lancer, up a hill on the freeway- really, really close. Stopped traffic ahead, mate's still keeping speed and pulls into emerg lane with about 50 metres to the cars ahead. P plater locks up and crashes.
Poor person that got rear ended :-\

Bet that taught the little prick an invaluable lesson.

instead of lights on just use the handbrake to slow down a bit & watch them shyte bricks

[ferremit]

i was being tailgated by a convertable saab up a hill- so i decided to teach the prick a lesson.....


He who sits 2 meters off the tailpipe of a diesel hilux shall suffer when driver of said hilux decides to go from 3rd to 4th and boot it.... and fills cab of saab with black diesel smoke ;D

just another good thing about diesels

i don't know........ the Deo doesn't blow smoke :P :-* Ask Lachie..... he followed me home from RP without any problems

only on the old ones that are in need of a good tune.

[FREAK]

If it's during the day time and i have an idiot on my ass...... i just turn my parking lights on..... they are usually too stupid to work out they aren't bright enough for brake lights and you often get them standing on the brakes :o hehehe funny shit to watch. :D


LMFAO i like that one Roe i think i may have to borrow that idea one day 8)

Do you expect royalties or is it under a trademark i wouldn't want to step on anyone's toes, especially if it was a camel toe ;) ;D

If it's during the day time and i have an idiot on my ass...... i just turn my parking lights on..... they are usually too stupid to work out they aren't bright enough for brake lights and you often get them standing on the brakes :o hehehe funny shit to watch. :D


LMFAO i like that one Roe i think i may have to borrow that idea one day 8)

Do you expect royalties or is it under a trademark i wouldn't want to step on anyone's toes, especially if it was a camel toe ;) ;D


LOL!! mate you have my permission to use that technique as often as you like without paying any royalties 8) ;D

[FREAK]

Thanks Roe i am very thankful to you for that, i am glad to be associated with such a caring sharing group of people and it goes without saying that if any queries about this technique are asked of me, i will be sure to redirect them to yourself ;)

Think of it as a reference system ;D

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! yer a funny guy! ;D 8) i nearly spat my coffee out!! can't waste the morning coffee!!

[FREAK]

FREAK stands and takes a bow ;D

No worries Roe glad you got a chuckle mate, tell me about the coffee issue. I have just started my 2nd last night shift before i go home from this stint, been at work for 4hrs now i'm still sucking the coffee down and it's just not helping at all. ::)

Oh well only another 8hrs to go and then i can take some xxxx sleeping tabs and nod off for the day ;D

[p38arover]

On Monday I was driving another bloke's Exploder.

It has a dragging clutch and can be a real mongrel to get into gear. I was caught a few times unable to get it into gear to start off from the lights.

Not deliberate I can assure you. I'm surprised I didn't get a few blasts from cars behind me.

Ron

[HnM]

Bloody exploder drivers ;D

[4x4x4d]

you`all thought paint ball guns were only for war games ;D

hehe one of those would be handy sometimes!!

[Huge Black Lux]

you`all thought paint ball guns were only for war games ;D


I gotta get me 1, I always look for something to throw at people when they P*** me off but I don't want to hurt the Idiots, so a paintball on the windscreen would be just the perfect thing to P them off :D (Revenge is sweet and heapsa fun ;) )

[Devilish]

I've always wanted an automatic paintball machine gun mounted to the centre roll cage bar in my TJ, have mates in the back standing up and using it at idiot cars and morons in japcrap one inch off the road. Or a water bomb gun... that would be cool too!!

[LANDCRUSHER]

HAVENT WE GOT A COLOR YOU LIKE DICKHEAD would of been heard from the green 80 series at the end of the queue
Today i saw a smart arse in a Merc do something really annoying

Ten cars back at the lights, the lights turn green, everyone takes off except him. He sits there being a DH holding about the 20 cars up untill the lights turn orange and he makes it through.

Just wondering what everyone would do in this situation

A. Put your bullbar to good use
B. Stand on the horn with spotlights ablaze
C. Get out and ask what the hell he is doing
D. Try to pull out with the other flowing traffic and keep driving

Personally id like to put the bullbar to good use, but then id get in trouble :(

id drive in front of him then reverse back into his car and push him back over the line

[baby_troupe]

id drive in front of him then reverse back into his car and push him back over the line

Not a good practise, even if joking can be taken the wrong way.

There have been a few nasty incidents of road rage recently, including one that cost a man his life yesterday........

my patience wears very thin on the road these days........ i get crankier as i get older :-[ I have no time for slow drivers or people who tailgate.........if you can't at least attempt the speed limit.... get off the road!!

[baby_troupe]

my patience wears very thin on the road these days........ i get crankier as i get older :-[ I have no time for slow drivers or people who tailgate.........if you can't at least attempt the speed limit.... get off the road!!

Is that because you have less time to live???????????


Remember this is the silly season & it is better to get there a few minutes late, than be dead on time.

I know it is frustrating when you have to be somewhere at a certain time & there always seems to be someone slowing you down.
My advice is to not let it get to you, concentrate on the drive itself & where you need to go, not how the other person has made a few seconds / minutes slip by.

I have heaps of driving to do over the next few weeks (eg xmas day, brekky at Dad's at Newcastle, lunch at Peats Ridge & Dinner at Blacktown) & I know I am going to have plenty of this type of incident.

[HnM]

You callin us Newcastle people slow?

my patience wears very thin on the road these days........ i get crankier as i get older :-[ I have no time for slow drivers or people who tailgate.........if you can't at least attempt the speed limit.... get off the road!!

Is that because you have less time to live???????????


Remember this is the silly season & it is better to get there a few minutes late, than be dead on time.

I know it is frustrating when you have to be somewhere at a certain time & there always seems to be someone slowing you down.
My advice is to not let it get to you, concentrate on the drive itself & where you need to go, not how the other person has made a few seconds / minutes slip by.

I have heaps of driving to do over the next few weeks (eg xmas day, brekky at Dad's at Newcastle, lunch at Peats Ridge & Dinner at Blacktown) & I know I am going to have plenty of this type of incident.


ummmm no it's not cuz i got less time to live...... and i don't take risks trying to get past them..... i just get really really cranky hehe :P It's a bit better in the Statesman though..... cuz i now have a bit more get up and go........ and i can get past when it is SAFE to do so ;)

[taziiy]

You callin us Newcastle people slow?


I would look how long its taken to get that pos going ;D

[baby_troupe]

You callin us Newcastle people slow?

I haven't been yet, but if the shoe fits..................

What I was saying is that between the drive to Gosford to Newcastle, then back to Gosford, then to Blacktown, then again back to gosford, I am sure I will encounter at least one slow driver.

BTW I will be in the ute, so I don't think passing will be a huge problem where there is sufficient room. I would prefer the cruiser though, to keep the d...head driver factor at bay & with double demerits, the chances of straying the wrong side of the speed limit are going to be substantially more in the ute (cruise control will be used heaps).

[slowlux]

yeah i get really, really frustrated with people whilst driving and do allot of uimmature things. But if someones tailing me, i get real pissed off. Once this old guy was so close he almost crashed into the back of the ute like 6 times headin down a long windy road. I kept on doin the warning "hit the skids" he still persisted with it. So i pulled over, he went past, i then followed him. At this point i realized what i was doing is quite stupid so i stopped. I was seriously about ready slam my axe through his wondow and give him a good yelling at.

Though i love when someone does it to me, cause i usually slow down to about 25km/h right where they cant pass so they get more pissed off, then they feel like the idiot!

yeah i get really, really frustrated with people whilst driving and do allot of uimmature things. But if someones tailing me, i get real pissed off. Once this old guy was so close he almost crashed into the back of the ute like 6 times headin down a long windy road. I kept on doin the warning "hit the skids" he still persisted with it. So i pulled over, he went past, i then followed him. At this point i realized what i was doing is quite stupid so i stopped. I was seriously about ready slam my axe through his wondow and give him a good yelling at.

Though i love when someone does it to me, cause i usually slow down to about 25km/h right where they cant pass so they get more pissed off, then they feel like the idiot!


hehe i did that to a tailgater once...... he was up my ass..... so i slowed down to about 50kph..... when the traffic cleared the other way, i moved to the centre of the road so he couldn't get past ;D might sound petty.. and childish..... but DAMN it was as funny as hell!! hahahaha 8)

[slowlux]

hahahahahahhahah, thats the way roe!!!

[BushTuckerNed]

Saw a guy in a commodore yesterday sitting up the arse of another both doing bout 115km in a 100 zone. They guy in front was trying to move ova but couldnt becasue of traffic. Wen the commodore finally got past i saw the finger go up. DH. Wish he was behind me, could of had sum fun ;D

[mudnut1]

yeah you should have hit him with your bullbar whilst honking the horn, flashing your spotlights and swearing at him. While your at you might as well get out and give him a kicking too.

That is just the behaviour that fuels the whole anti 4WD sentiment out there already.

Maybe his car had stalled, maybe he was trying to get it started. Maybe you should take a chill pill, I know I'd rather put up with someone sitting there than an idiot hitting me with their bullbar, honking their horn and swearing at me


maybe he was polishing his rocket...

[mylesjohn]

I would bash the f%&k out fo him with my wheel spanner!!!!!!!!!!

What is with the ever groing trend of other drivers seeing an indicator then speeding so as to not let the car move across in front of them??????????????????????????????????????

Have had this happen twice in two days trying to merge 2 into 1 in heavey traffic, just can't work it out?

[Nemesis]

Thats one of the main advantages of my new Claws sticking out of the flares by about 2 inches. They see them babies merging and you always get right of way ;D

[ferremit]

hilux will know this roundabout....

Black road roundabout goes from 2 to 1 lanes soon after exiting...

had a doof doof car try to slip up the inside of the lux between the concrete wall and the truck...

When he saw that a hilux with 31" duelers poking an inch out of the guards wasnt going to yield (couldnt see him properly anyway!) he had a choice... go into me, or go into the wall... he hit the wall, took most of the side of his car off, removed all the body skirts on one side and rooted his car...

Pulled over in front of him after hearing the crash, walked back, checked he was OK (CFS member here, duty of care) and just said "well arent you a wanker" and drove off ;D

[slowlux]

hilux will know this roundabout....

Black road roundabout goes from 2 to 1 lanes soon after exiting...

had a doof doof car try to slip up the inside of the lux between the concrete wall and the truck...

When he saw that a hilux with 31" duelers poking an inch out of the guards wasnt going to yield (couldnt see him properly anyway!) he had a choice... go into me, or go into the wall... he hit the wall, took most of the side of his car off, removed all the body skirts on one side and rooted his car...

Pulled over in front of him after hearing the crash, walked back, checked he was OK (CFS member here, duty of care) and just said "well arent you a wanker" and drove off ;D


Hahaha, yeah i know that roundabout, it just up from my place.

Everytime i go through there, people feel the need to cut across two lanes to go straight through and almost hit me >:(

Have just read this post for the 1st time, & as grimbo said, "no wonder 4wds get a bad name". Whilst I'm sure some of the comments were said in jest, or at least I hope so, there are some out there who may do some of these things. Maybe there are other people who dont own a 4wd & visit this forum & others, see these & similar comments & think "yeh these people who bag 4wds must be right".
I don't mean to sound like a 'goody 2 shoes' but no one is perfect & we all make mistakes. In most cases, just chill out & let them go & wreck someone elses day. The minute we starting playing their games, whether it be tailgating etc, it can all turn pearshape. Sure it's annoying getting tailgated, but by breaktesting them etc, you may make an aggressive driver more aggressive causing more agro. If someone tailgates me & I cant move over, I have this remedy.
I just put on my windscreen washes. Water flys over the back onto vehicle making them turn on the wipers & they always slow down.

Cheers
Allan Mac

[Jys5428]

I have this remedy.
I just put on my windscreen washes. Water flys over the back onto vehicle making them turn on the wipers & they always slow down.

Cheers
Allan Mac

HEY YOU DID THIS TO ME on the way home from the high country trip, I've got your number pal and i'm gonna use it!

















to say thanks for aa great trip.
Seriouse, I love it when other drivers go ape shit at me on the road, cause i'm just cruisin along. They get agro and I just sit back and maybe wink... I hate violence ;)

But you weren't tailgating Jamie. ;D. In all seriousness, give it a try, it works a treat.
Also agree with ya other comments; no point getting all agro etc, it doesn't solve anything.

Cheers
Allan Mac

[cpt-mud]

what we would like to do:: ;D
hit him with all spotlights and air horns
give him a helping hand with a bit of a push
extend arm , raise finger and say *#%*@# Merc Driver

But what we should do is be pantent because the driver is
Most likely :
stuck up
senile
and drives a merc to compensate for certain departments
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/cpt-mud/1154toyota.gif

i have the best thing for this although id get in deep shite for doing it!!
being in the cfs my fourby often gets used as a crew viehcle and i have a siren and a red and blue light and magnetic cfs decals id love to be able to flick it on and let her rip but if i got caught doing this and not going to a call out id be in serious shite

[taziiy]

i have the best thing for this although id get in deep shite for doing it!!
being in the cfs my fourby often gets used as a crew viehcle and i have a siren and a red and blue light and magnetic cfs decals id love to be able to flick it on and let her rip but if i got caught doing this and not going to a call out id be in serious shite


But it would be fun to do though

[BushTuckerNed]

a guy i no used to have red and blue flashing lights on his rear view mirror (like unmarked cop cars), he used to pull ppl over and drive away ::)

a guy i no used to have red and blue flashing lights on his rear view mirror (like unmarked cop cars), he used to pull ppl over and drive away ::)





bahahahahahahhahahaa thats great

[BushTuckerNed]

even funnier is coz he does it in a riced suzuki swift :-\

a guy i no used to have red and blue flashing lights on his rear view mirror (like unmarked cop cars), he used to pull ppl over and drive away ::)


tsk tsk tsk.... big BIG fines if you get caught with red and blue beacons of any description on yer vehicle...... they frown upon impersonation of emergency services

[tony61]

all of our vechicles involved with explosives run with a blue flashing light the replacements are locked up every thing else has amber and there would be 20 on the shelf (slow moving machinery has green). it never evan occured to me it was to stop ppl impersonating emergancy services.

[arfaname]

I used to be a hot head jumping out of cars at lights etc. I spend all day on the road and see many DH's. I now just kick back and move on most of the time. I can be real moody and impatient and if im driving in this mood I can carry on a little but generaly the carry on only effects me and my car.

Yrs ago I did one similarly mentioned earlier where I was travelling down a rd near home with a wanker tailgating. We were in the far left lane, me in a troopy and him in a celica. I waited until the last few meters then swung across into the middle lane causing this dick to plow straight up the arse of a parked bus. Troopy 1 celica 0. In hinesight I now feel for all those people going to work on the bus. Things we do when young and inconciderate.

Must say though the merc on the way home from gemby last night was shittin me. Just wasnt in the mood. lol

Blow the big scary guys a kiss.. they go nuts.

lol

[swaddo]

I was recently going thru a roundabout near my joint and this chick tried to go around the outside of me. just as the lanes merged i saw the roof of her little camry appear out the passenger window, she went 2 wheels up the kurb (nice sloping one thank god) and then she planted her foot ... she still wanted to get round me http://flytyingforum.com/html/emoticons/eek.gif.

I lifted my foot off the gas as she fish-tailed half in the dirt. When she finally got it back on the road she gave me the obligatory finger out the window. Scary thing is I could see her kid's in the kiddie seats in the back. http://flytyingforum.com/html/emoticons/cursing.gif

Why is it the when someone sees a fourby in front of them they just have to get past.

[arfaname]

cos WE ARE a pain in the butt to see around. Same reason you and I go around trucks.

[swaddo]

arfaname

we are only a pain in the butt to see around if they have their front bumper under our tailgate. If they drop back 50 feet there is no problem.

The reason you and I go round trucks (well me at least) is that they are hill detectors and I dont really like going up hills in 3rd. also I object to cleaning cow cr@p off my car when following stock trucks ;)

Cheers
Blake

[BushTuckerNed]

if they wanna get around you, let them. i just hold my line, if i have a bonnet in front i mean