Drive by splashing

karlog

Got splashed on the way home a few days ago. Something you wouldn't expect during this lovely summer were having. The worst thing was this driver actually went out of his way on the road in order to soak me. I cant remember the time i felt so pissed off, i was almost homicidal.

I guess if i was in the same situation as the driver i'd laugh but you just don't know how bad it is until your the victim. I know i'd never drive through a puddle again with someone nearby. Thats after already being splashed. Not saying i used to soak people with my car on rainy days. Sometimes its unavoidable.

Anyone else been a victim of a drive by splashing?

If so did you manage to get revenge on the **** that did it?

orourkeda

I just finished splashing on a piece of tissue. Amazing it was

KeithM89_old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCulgnJaDAE

Worse than this cnut???

Armin_Tamzarian

karlog wrote: »

Got splashed on the way home a few days ago. Something you wouldn't expect during this lovely summer were having. The worst thing was this driver actually went out of his way on the road in order to soak me. I cant remember the time i felt so pissed off, i was almost homicidal.

I guess if i was in the same situation as the driver i'd laugh but you just don't know how bad it is until your the victim. I know i'd never drive through a puddle again with someone nearby. Thats after already being splashed. Not saying i used to soak people with my car on rainy days. Sometimes its unavoidable.

Anyone else been a victim of a drive by splashing?

If so did you manage to get revenge on the **** that did it?

I once splashed a girl in her Deb's dress with a monster puddle.
Whenever I feel sad I think about it to cheer myself up.

Professional Griefer

Never quite happened to me before, but someone did shoot me with a pellet gun, a few times.:mad:

Mrmoe

Keithm89 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCulgnJaDAE

Worse than this cnut???

She got her comeuppance eventually.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Puddle-Splashing-Driver-Charged-For-Splashing-School-Kids-In-Plymouth-Devon/Article/200910215405349?chooseNews=Showbiz_News

A female motorist is facing court action for deliberately driving through a puddle and splashing a group of school children.


Police received a number of complaints after a 24-second clip of the incident was posted on YouTube.
In the footage, her partner gives a commentary as she motors down a road in Plymouth, Devon.
"Puddle at the bottom of the hill coming up, kids at the bottom of the hill - come on!" he shouts with glee.
The clip, filmed from inside the car, shows the vehicle splashing several children standing at a bus stop.
Officers said the 29-year-old woman had voluntarily contacted them and was interviewed on Sunday.
She has been reported for careless driving and a file is being sent to the Crown Prosecution Service.
A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall Police told Sky News Online: "Deliberately splashing people by driving through a big puddle could mean that the motorist was driving without reasonable consideration for other road users.
"There is also the real danger that by driving through standing water this could cause the driver of the vehicle to lose control and could result in a road traffic collision.
"People involved in this practice could find themselves prosecuted and points put on their licence."
Driving through a puddle to splash bystanders is an offence of "careless, and inconsiderate, driving" under the Road Traffic Act section 3 and carries a fine of up to £2,500.
Four years ago, a driver who admitted soaking a workman by driving through a puddle was fined £150 and given three penalty points by magistrates in Yeovil.

Did you get the car reg OP?

NoHornJan

It's illegal to deliberately soak someone...

Armin_Tamzarian

NoHornJan wrote: »

It's illegal to deliberately soak someone...

Under what law?
If I spray someone with a garden hose is it assault?

SV

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

Under what law?
If I spray someone with a garden hose is it assault?

It is indeed.

JohnnyChimpo

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

Under what law?
If I spray someone with a garden hose is it assault?

Yep. And I personally know someone who was brought to court for shooting people with a SuperSoaker from a moving car. Yeah, he was an idiot anyway.

jill_valentine

Funny enough, I have had this happen to me.

phill106

Drive by splashing is horrible!
I think i remember someone posting a similar story, where he always used to love splashing people. One day he was driving along and saw a huge long puddle, right next to a guy walking along the puddle, in the same direction the car was going.
The perfect target!
So he went flying through the puddle, absolutely soaking the guy head to toe, and as he looked in the rear view mirror to delight in his handiwork, he saw the man had stopped in confusion.
Looking closer he noticed something not apparent from the rear. The soaked pedestrian had down syndrome. And the driver felt like the biggest pr*ck the world has ever known!
Cue driver reversing back, picking him up, driving him the soaked pedestrians house and explaining what happened before he drove off. (Not sure if the end was exactly like that, but he definitely drove him home).

Now hopefully he never soaked anyone on purpose again!


And before someone says it, no it is not me that was the driver!

Yakult

I feel for ya op! Happened to me when I was 6 years old. My life was never the same after that drive by splashing.

Minstrel27

NoHornJan wrote: »

It's illegal to deliberately soak someone...

I guess it could be considered driving with undue care or whatever the equivalent is in this country.

Those guys in South Central L.A have nothing on the Irish..
Drive by shootings? Pfft..

billy the squid

You can get done for it in the UK, driving without due care and attention. don't know about here though.

Run_to_da_hills

billy the squid wrote: »

You can get done for it in the UK, driving without due care and attention. don't know about here though.

It could come under careless or dangerous driving if they wanted to get you.

fabbydabby

You'd love to hide a police stinger in the puddle and dress up as a helpless ould woman and stand beside it.... waiting.

WindSock

I did it unintentionally about a year ago. I was driving along in the rain and himself called me a bitch.
'Huh'?
'You completely soaked that girl there'
Looked in the rearview mirror and a girl walking along the the path had stopped and looked really pissed off and wringing. Couldn't stop laughing, it was funny to see. Felt terrible though of course....

Krusader

karlog wrote: »

Got splashed on the way home a few days ago. Something you wouldn't expect during this lovely summer were having. The worst thing was this driver actually went out of his way on the road in order to soak me. I cant remember the time i felt so pissed off, i was almost homicidal.

I guess if i was in the same situation as the driver i'd laugh but you just don't know how bad it is until your the victim. I know i'd never drive through a puddle again with someone nearby. Thats after already being splashed. Not saying i used to soak people with my car on rainy days. Sometimes its unavoidable.

Anyone else been a victim of a drive by splashing?

If so did you manage to get revenge on the **** that did it?

This wasn't at the waterside pub on the 9th lock road, clondalkin by any chance

stovelid

Keithm89 wrote: »

Worse than this cnut???

Another reason to dislike Ben Elton.

robbie_998

Crosáidí wrote: »

This wasn't at the waterside pub on the 9th lock road, clondalkin by any chance

was it you ? :P

445279.ie

billy the squid wrote: »

You can get done for it in the UK, driving without due care and attention. don't know about here though.

Saw a guy convicted of it in court about 10 years ago. Was charged with driving without reasonable consideration (Section 51A Road Traffic Act). He got a nice hefty fine too

NoHornJan

fabbydabby wrote: »

You'd love to hide a police stinger in the puddle and dress up as a helpless ould woman and stand beside it.... waiting.

Nah! We should be out there every chance we get, with our bucket and sponge, to save as much water as we can, so as not to piss off our midlands Shannon swimmers...

January

Used to happen to us all the time in secondary school. School was on a badly kept back road from Finglas to Blanchardstown, you can probably guess which one if you know the area. If it had rained or was raining and we were waiting for a bus you could be sure we were going to get splashed. It was necessary to stand at the bus stop though because the bushes hide oncoming traffic from view if we stood in the gate from the bus stop.

Wore a lovely new white coat to school one day, pissed rain during the day, got out and it was ruined two minutes after by a truck.

Caliden

That'll teach you for trying to be healthy and walking

sligopark

Mrmoe wrote: »

Did you get the car reg OP?

445279.ie wrote: »

Saw a guy convicted of it in court about 10 years ago. Was charged with driving without reasonable consideration (Section 51A Road Traffic Act). He got a nice hefty fine too

failing this report it kerb crawling at a children's park thats bound to get the guards on the move

bonzodog2

Personally, when I'm walking along the road, if there are big puddles that could cause this, I look at the traffic, and wait before walking past the offending puddle !

Celly Smunt

i'm guilty and proud

hbr

NoHornJan wrote: »

It's illegal to deliberately soak someone...

Yes. Road Traffic Act 1961. Section 52:

52.—(1) A person shall not drive a vehicle in a public place without due care and attention, or without reasonable consideration for other persons using the place.
[GA]

(2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) of this section shall be guilty of an offence.


IIRC, the old Rules of the Road book interpreted this as:

"due care and consideration for the safety and convenience of
other road users"