Thank you Grand Theft Auto!!

[Ext User(Moses Lim)]

My son has just started to learn how to drive and within his first coupla
lessons he met up with a real life fuckwit in a 2005 Merc, unknown model,
who was trying to do a 3-point turn in the E-way lane at the M4 tollgates,
Sydney!! Yes, said fuckwit did not have an E-tag and seemed to think that
everybody should stop and let him do the 3-pointer so that he could get
into the manned tollgates.!!

So, here we were doing 80kph in the lefthand lane and coming around what is,
essentially a blind corner and being presented with this fuckwit about 40
metres ahead in the leftlane!

I was shitting myself and was lost for choices for a sec - should I tell my
son to slowdown to a stop (but what about the traffic following us)? Should
I tell him to move into the right lane (but what about the traffic in that
lane)? Would my son panic if I try to give him too many instructions
(slowdown, hit the brakes, keep to his lane, check his mirrors for
following traffic??) Well, I was literally paralysed for that split sec
which was crucial for decision making with a learner driver :(

Of cos, my son had already decided to slowdown with his brakes and push his
way into the right lane (I am not sure if he used his righthand indicators
- I think he didn't and he said he didn't remember). Fortunately the cars
in the right hand lane had seen the fuckwit doing the 3-pointer and my son
pushing his way into the right lane and were kind enuff to let him into the
lane. We managed to to miss the dickhead with about 5 metres to spare.

I later commended my son for his fast thinking actions and he casually said
that he was quite used to doing the same thing in GTA!! :) He wasn't quite
sure why Dad looked a bit pale. :)

[Ext User(Charlie)]

Moses Lim wrote:

> I later commended my son for his fast thinking actions and he casually said
> that he was quite used to doing the same thing in GTA!! :) He wasn't quite
> sure why Dad looked a bit pale. :)

gah. Here's me thinking he got out and blew the fker away with a rocket
launcher...

Charlie

[Ext User(RodP)]

In article <A3hJe.74029$oJ.52850@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
Moses Lim says...

> So, here we were doing 80kph in the lefthand lane and coming around what is,
> essentially a blind corner and being presented with this fuckwit about 40
> metres ahead in the leftlane!

Blind corner?! While I don't travel through those gates all that often
anymore, if someone were to do a 3 point turn (wot a wanker) at the
E-Way gates, I'd suspect I'd have a chance to come to a stop, make it
back to 80 and come to a stop again.

Cheers,
Rod.

[Ext User(Mark jb)]

> > I later commended my son for his fast thinking actions and he casually
said
> > that he was quite used to doing the same thing in GTA!! :) He wasn't
quite
> > sure why Dad looked a bit pale. :)
>
> gah. Here's me thinking he got out and blew the fker away with a rocket
> launcher...

great minds think alike...

-mark

[Ext User(Scott Howard)]

Moses Lim <hyspeed@zeta.org.au.no.spam.pls> wrote:
> My son has just started to learn how to drive and within his first coupla
[...]

> So, here we were doing 80kph in the lefthand lane and coming around what is,
> essentially a blind corner and being presented with this fuckwit about 40
> metres ahead in the leftlane!

Lesson 1 - Always drive at a speed such that you can stop within the visable
distance in front of you.

Scott

[Ext User(Moses Lim)]

RodP wrote:

> In article <A3hJe.74029$oJ.52850@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
> Moses Lim says...
>
>> So, here we were doing 80kph in the lefthand lane and coming around what
>> is, essentially a blind corner and being presented with this fuckwit
>> about 40 metres ahead in the leftlane!
>
> Blind corner?! While I don't travel through those gates all that often
> anymore, if someone were to do a 3 point turn (wot a wanker) at the
> E-Way gates, I'd suspect I'd have a chance to come to a stop, make it
> back to 80 and come to a stop again.

Well, I am exaggerating :) cos it probably wasn't that blind a corner, but
the bend in the road just as the road barriers start made it very difficult
to see. We actually drove by there again today just to check out how close
we came to having a prang.

[Ext User(Moses Lim)]

Charlie wrote:

> Moses Lim wrote:
>
>> I later commended my son for his fast thinking actions and he casually
>> said that he was quite used to doing the same thing in GTA!! :) He wasn't
>> quite sure why Dad looked a bit pale. :)
>
> gah. Here's me thinking he got out and blew the fker away with a rocket
> launcher...

Ooooyy, don't give the kid ideas :) I am pretty sure he wouldn't mind!!!

[Ext User(Moses Lim)]

"Mark jb" <jbauer at internode dot on dot net> wrote:

>> > I later commended my son for his fast thinking actions and he casually
> said
>> > that he was quite used to doing the same thing in GTA!! :) He wasn't
> quite
>> > sure why Dad looked a bit pale. :)
>>
>> gah. Here's me thinking he got out and blew the fker away with a rocket
>> launcher...
>
> great minds think alike...

Bloody hell!!! :)

[Ext User(reg-john)]

how boring


"Scott Howard" <scott@hunterlink.net.au> wrote in message
news:1123397167.656061@docbert...
> Moses Lim <hyspeed@zeta.org.au.no.spam.pls> wrote:
>> My son has just started to learn how to drive and within his first coupla
> [...]
>
>> So, here we were doing 80kph in the lefthand lane and coming around what
>> is,
>> essentially a blind corner and being presented with this fuckwit about 40
>> metres ahead in the leftlane!
>
> Lesson 1 - Always drive at a speed such that you can stop within the
> visable
> distance in front of you.
>
> Scott

[Ext User(RodP)]

In article <9kiJe.74099$oJ.72369@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
Moses Lim says...

> RodP wrote:
>
> > In article <A3hJe.74029$oJ.52850@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
> > Moses Lim says...
> >
> >> So, here we were doing 80kph in the lefthand lane and coming around what
> >> is, essentially a blind corner and being presented with this fuckwit
> >> about 40 metres ahead in the leftlane!
> >
> > Blind corner?! While I don't travel through those gates all that often
> > anymore, if someone were to do a 3 point turn (wot a wanker) at the
> > E-Way gates, I'd suspect I'd have a chance to come to a stop, make it
> > back to 80 and come to a stop again.
>
> Well, I am exaggerating :) cos it probably wasn't that blind a corner, but
> the bend in the road just as the road barriers start made it very difficult
> to see. We actually drove by there again today just to check out how close
> we came to having a prang.

I'm assuming East bound? Considering there's plenty of signs coming up
on the side of the road and in the lane, anyone dumb enough to continue
to travel up it, have to stop and do a 3 pointer should be fined out of
principle.

There's normally 1 person milling around that area when I used to go
through it daily. They should take down licence plates and issue fines.
I travel the M5 mainly now, and if someone were to do that it would
definitely end in disaster.

Cheers,
Rod.

[Ext User(FuTAnT)]

"Charlie" <askme@nospam.org> wrote in message
news:42F5A274.1A6ABED2@nospam.org...
> Moses Lim wrote:
>
>> I later commended my son for his fast thinking actions and he casually
>> said
>> that he was quite used to doing the same thing in GTA!! :) He wasn't
>> quite
>> sure why Dad looked a bit pale. :)
>
> gah. Here's me thinking he got out and blew the fker away with a rocket
> launcher...
>
> Charlie

Does he ask chicks for coffee and shag em too?

[Ext User(Hotman Paris Hutapea)]

On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 07:39:20 GMT, "reg-john" <mcflyyyyyyy@keke.com>
wrote:

>how boring
>
but then you are a fuckwit, advice doesn't apply to you!

>> Lesson 1 - Always drive at a speed such that you can stop within the
>> visable
>> distance in front of you.
>>
>> Scott
>


--

Attorney at Law
5/37 Paknabiel Way
Denpasar, Indonesia.

[Ext User(Hotman Paris Hutapea)]

On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 05:34:24 GMT, Moses Lim
<hyspeed@zeta.org.au.no.spam.pls> wrote:

>My son has just started to learn how to drive and within his first coupla
>lessons he met up with a real life fuckwit in a 2005 Merc, unknown model,
>who was trying to do a 3-point turn in the E-way lane at the M4 tollgates,
>Sydney!! Yes, said fuckwit did not have an E-tag and seemed to think that
>everybody should stop and let him do the 3-pointer so that he could get
>into the manned tollgates.!!
>
<snip>
>
>I later commended my son for his fast thinking actions and he casually said
>that he was quite used to doing the same thing in GTA!! :) He wasn't quite
>sure why Dad looked a bit pale. :)

your son has shown some good skills here but to advance to Expert
level he would have recognised the rare opportunity to t-bone a late
model mercedes in the blissful knowledge there wasn't a damned thing
anyone could have done about it except pay you out for the damages.

you'd have walked it in in court.

i'm not advocating unsafe driving here, 'managing' to brake to a speed
at which injury wouldn't have resulted would have done the trick ;)

--

Attorney at Law
5/37 Paknabiel Way
Denpasar, Indonesia.

[Ext User(ant)]

Charlie wrote:
> Moses Lim wrote:
>
>> I later commended my son for his fast thinking actions and he
>> casually said that he was quite used to doing the same thing in
>> GTA!! :) He wasn't quite sure why Dad looked a bit pale. :)
>
> gah. Here's me thinking he got out and blew the fker away with a
> rocket launcher...

....and then rooted him.


--
ant

[Ext User(atec)]

ant wrote:

> Charlie wrote:
>
>>Moses Lim wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I later commended my son for his fast thinking actions and he
>>>casually said that he was quite used to doing the same thing in
>>>GTA!! :) He wasn't quite sure why Dad looked a bit pale. :)
>>
>>gah. Here's me thinking he got out and blew the fker away with a
>>rocket launcher...
>
>
> ...and then rooted him.
>
>
that would be node ( who said poofter)

[Ext User(kevcat)]

RodP wrote:
>
> In article <9kiJe.74099$oJ.72369@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
> Moses Lim says...
>
> > RodP wrote:
> >
> > > In article <A3hJe.74029$oJ.52850@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
> > > Moses Lim says...
> > >
> > >> So, here we were doing 80kph in the lefthand lane and coming around what
> > >> is, essentially a blind corner and being presented with this fuckwit
> > >> about 40 metres ahead in the leftlane!
> > >
> > > Blind corner?! While I don't travel through those gates all that often
> > > anymore, if someone were to do a 3 point turn (wot a wanker) at the
> > > E-Way gates, I'd suspect I'd have a chance to come to a stop, make it
> > > back to 80 and come to a stop again.
> >
> > Well, I am exaggerating :) cos it probably wasn't that blind a corner, but
> > the bend in the road just as the road barriers start made it very difficult
> > to see. We actually drove by there again today just to check out how close
> > we came to having a prang.
>
> I'm assuming East bound? Considering there's plenty of signs coming up
> on the side of the road and in the lane, anyone dumb enough to continue
> to travel up it, have to stop and do a 3 pointer should be fined out of
> principle.
>
> There's normally 1 person milling around that area when I used to go
> through it daily. They should take down licence plates and issue fines.
> I travel the M5 mainly now, and if someone were to do that it would
> definitely end in disaster.
>

of course if the bleeding imbociles went through the Etoll gate, got the
flash and then called the toll companies number and tell them they could
then just pay the toll at a later date

fuckwits are always doing the same on the Gateway, for over 500metres
there are big yellow "ETOLL ONLY" signs above the road and painted on
the roadway yet they still manage to drive on in then stop and want
everyone behind to stop and let them back up, or if they do go through
the then want to stop on the exit and run over to the booth in the next
lane to pay money

Kev

[Ext User(Clockmeister)]

"Hotman Paris Hutapea" <legal@eagle.com> wrote in message
news:bvrbf19unlln9gl96i3b9srp2l9levb6u3@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 05:34:24 GMT, Moses Lim
> <hyspeed@zeta.org.au.no.spam.pls> wrote:
>
> >My son has just started to learn how to drive and within his first coupla
> >lessons he met up with a real life fuckwit in a 2005 Merc, unknown model,
> >who was trying to do a 3-point turn in the E-way lane at the M4
tollgates,
> >Sydney!! Yes, said fuckwit did not have an E-tag and seemed to think that
> >everybody should stop and let him do the 3-pointer so that he could get
> >into the manned tollgates.!!
> >
> <snip>
> >
> >I later commended my son for his fast thinking actions and he casually
said
> >that he was quite used to doing the same thing in GTA!! :) He wasn't
quite
> >sure why Dad looked a bit pale. :)
>
> your son has shown some good skills here but to advance to Expert
> level he would have recognised the rare opportunity to t-bone a late
> model mercedes in the blissful knowledge there wasn't a damned thing
> anyone could have done about it except pay you out for the damages.
>
> you'd have walked it in in court.
>
> i'm not advocating unsafe driving here,

Yes you are, numbskull.

[Ext User(Mark jb)]

> i'm not advocating unsafe driving here, 'managing' to brake to a speed
> at which injury wouldn't have resulted would have done the trick ;)

Nar, just make sure you're pointing straight and lock 'em up. My starlet
takes a fair bit longer to stop on lockup than it does 'hard' braking, esp.
from high speeds.

Wouldn't work in the forester though, can stop from higher speeds in less
road. It is very twitchy on the ABS though, give it the slightest rain or
dirt on the road, and it'll activate without fail under anything more than
light-medium braking.

Probly why I prefer cars without all the "helping" shit... If you can't
catch an RWD car using opposite lock, say you've hit oil halfway round a
corner, you probably shouldn't be driving. Forget the electronics, always a
chance they'll fail.

-mark

[Ext User(Michael C)]

"RodP" <rodp@hotmail.com.nothere> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d606b5ed64f3993989a76@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> There's normally 1 person milling around that area when I used to go
> through it daily.

Doesn't that indicate that the current system is confusing to it's users?

Michael

[Ext User(Michael C)]

"Hotman Paris Hutapea" <legal@eagle.com> wrote in message
news:bvrbf19unlln9gl96i3b9srp2l9levb6u3@4ax.com...
> your son has shown some good skills here but to advance to Expert
> level he would have recognised the rare opportunity to t-bone a late
> model mercedes in the blissful knowledge there wasn't a damned thing
> anyone could have done about it except pay you out for the damages.
>
> you'd have walked it in in court.

My understanding is that you can park your car sideways in the middle of a
freeway and if someone hits you then it's their fault and they will pay you
out. You might get a fine (if you didn't have a valid reason like breakdown)
but because you were stationary and the other driver failed to stop in time
it is their problem, not yours.

Michael