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Mr Burns

I was driving in Tullamore at 1.30am this morning. I was stopped at the lights at the railway station waiting to turn right for Birr. There was a Seat Toledo in front of me. The light turned green and he took his sweet time moving so i gave a small beep of the horn. He then moved off and proceeded to give me a 1 fingered salute. He then speeded away and proceeded to throw fag butts out the window.

Should i report him?

Horeb

Yes, Ignorant ba5tard :mad:

Trizo

A father, who worked away from home all week, always made a special effort with his family at the weekends. Every Sunday morning he would take his daughter out for a drive in the car.
One particular Sunday however, he had a really bad cold and he really didn't feel like driving at all. Luckily, his wife came to the rescue and decided that for this week she would take their daughter out.
They returned just before lunch and the little girl ran upstairs to see her father.
"Well" the father asked, "did you enjoy your ride with mummy?"
"Oh yes Daddy" the girl replied, "and do you know what... we didn't see a single bastard!"

Horeb

eh okay

Our man in Havana

Trizo wrote:

A father, who worked away from home all week, always made a special effort with his family at the weekends. Every Sunday morning he would take his daughter out for a drive in the car.
One particular Sunday however, he had a really bad cold and he really didn't feel like driving at all. Luckily, his wife came to the rescue and decided that for this week she would take their daughter out.
They returned just before lunch and the little girl ran upstairs to see her father.
"Well" the father asked, "did you enjoy your ride with mummy?"
"Oh yes Daddy" the girl replied, "and do you know what... we didn't see a single bastard!"

and what relevance has this got to the original post?

impr0v

Surely that's obvious.

In answer to the original question, no, I wouldn't bother. If that's the worst behaviour you encountered going through Tullamore then you've gotten away lightly.

Rabies

Mr Burns wrote:

I was driving in Tullamore at 1.30am this morning. I was stopped at the lights at the railway station waiting to turn right for Birr. There was a Seat Toledo in front of me. The light turned green and he took his sweet time moving so i gave a small beep of the horn. He then moved off and proceeded to give me a 1 fingered salute. He then speeded away and proceeded to throw fag butts out the window.

Should i report him?

I'm sure you must have something better to do with your time than reporting someone over something so trival. He gave you the finger, so what. Get over it
:rolleyes:

Our man in Havana

Well if a motorcyclist was following behind him then he could have been blinded and crashed as a result of this tossers ignorance. I say report his ass. MAke it the most expensive smoke he has ever had!

DukeDredd

Ah for feck sake - if thats the worst you come across on the road you're lucky. The cops wouldn't be bothered acting on something like this. Most smokers put their fags out the window. Chill out man.

How the hell could a motorcyclist be blinded by a fag butt?

Chalk

i see cops throwing ciggies out there window all the time
im on a bike and have never been blinded.

Our man in Havana

Chalk wrote:

i see cops throwing ciggies out there window all the time
im on a bike and have never been blinded.

Where is Seamus when you need him?

DukeDredd

Mr Burns: "Hello is that the guards?"
Guards: "Yes it is, how can we help?"
Mr B: "I want to report a serious incident i witnessed on the road..."
Guards: "Go on..."
Mr B: "Well, someone was very slow taking off from a green light and then the threw his fag butt out of the window afterwards..."
Guards: "...we'll send a unit out straight away, and i suppose the boys from forensics better go out there too and find that fag butt and test it for DNA - we'll catch this crazy psycho don't you worry sir..."

Maybe on Craggy Island.

Our man in Havana

Roffle!

Canis Lupus

Don't bother... Gardai have better things to be doing like fining drivers for driving at 1 mile an hour faster than the allowed limit and so on

echomadman

DukeDredd wrote:

Ah for feck sake - if thats the worst you come across on the road you're lucky. The cops wouldn't be bothered acting on something like this. Most smokers put their fags out the window. Chill out man.

How the hell could a motorcyclist be blinded by a fag butt?

I've been hit in the visor by ****heads lobbing cigs out the window, in summer there's a good chance i'd have my visor open and the same cig would have hit me square in the face.
Use your ****ing ashtrays arseholes

D!ve^Bomb!

there was someone who posted here a month ago or so who got a letter in the post and it was a fine for throwing a ciggy out the window of his car.. and there was a witness to prove it...

I say report the little fúcker!!

seamus

Bond-007 wrote:

Where is Seamus when you need him?

Oh, sorry I'm late. There was trouble at the lab with the running and the exploding and the crying when the monkeys stole the glasses off my head....

As echo said. I've had cigarette butts bounce off my jacket before. A foot higher and they'd be in my face. It's not so much the idea of being blinded, but getting burnt anywhere on my face would be even less so desirable while I'm driving a bike.

seamus

Canis Lupus wrote:

maybe you motorbicyclists shouldn't drive so close to cars in front then

Nothing to do with it. The closer you are to the car, the more likely it is to miss you. The cigarettes are carried along on the airstream for at least 100m.

Canis Lupus

maybe you motorbicyclists shouldn't drive so close to cars in front then

D!ve^Bomb!

Wtf!?

FX Meister

How did Seamus reply to a post from Canis Lupus before he made it?
As regards Seamus and his 100m. are you sure that's accurate? I've seen plenty of dudes through fag butts out their windows and it has never travelled for 100m from what I can see.

seamus

FX Meister wrote:

How did Seamus reply to a post from Canis Lupus before he made it?
As regards Seamus and his 100m. are you sure that's accurate? I've seen plenty of dudes through fag butts out their windows and it has never travelled for 100m from what I can see.

Sorry, not actually travel 100m, I should have made that clearer. It will certainly remain in the air until a vehicle 100m behind catches up with it, at above 50mph.

FX Meister

Diggit, should have copped that myself.

Canis Lupus

seamus wrote:

Sorry, not actually travel 100m, I should have made that clearer. It will certainly remain in the air until a vehicle 100m behind catches up with it, at above 50mph.

**deletes my point... its not really relevant and in fairness I was only pulling the piss**

and how did yur post jump in ahead of mine????

seamus

Canis Lupus wrote:

Any cig I've ever chucked tends to go straight to ground....

and how did yur post jump in ahead of mine????

Depends on which way you throw it. In slow-moving or stopped traffic people tend to just drop it on the ground. At speed, this can extremely rarely come up, but usually just hits the ground.

At speed though, most drivers tend to put their hand up and release the butt over their roof, to prevent it going into an open rear window, or maybe for the novelty of watching it fly backwards.

No idea how my post got in ahead of yours. Glitch in the matrix.

Canis Lupus

oh and I personally open the window and aim down....

FX Meister

have you ever though of leaving the window closed and aiming down to the ash tray?

DukeDredd

echomadman wrote:

I've been hit in the visor by ****heads lobbing cigs out the window, in summer there's a good chance i'd have my visor open and the same cig would have hit me square in the face.
Use your ****ing ashtrays arseholes

Use your ****ing visor arsehole!

Would you also blame a car driver for a stone chip flying up from behind a car and smacking you in the face because your visor wasn't closed?

DukeDredd

And don't tell me you motocyclists are saints - if everyone reported you guys for speeding, breaking off wing mirrors of cars, driving without helmets, driving in between 2 lanes of traffic at high speed etc etc there would be none of you left on the road.

seamus

DukeDredd wrote:

Use your ****ing visor arsehole!

Would you also blame a car driver for a stone chip flying up from behind a car and smacking you in the face because your visor wasn't closed?

No, that'd be chance. It's much more likely for a discarded butt to hit a biker than a stone flying out. It has to do with airstreams and mass.

Visors aren't mandatory nor lifesaving devices. My visor goes up and down constantly while I'm riding depending on how cold it is, how fast I'm going, what the visibility is like. You can't leave your visor down all the time. It's not safe.

And don't tell me you motocyclists are saints - if everyone reported you guys for speeding, breaking off wing mirrors of cars, driving without helmets, driving in between 2 lanes of traffic at high speed etc etc there would be none of you left on the road.

No-one said we were. I wish you would report motorcylists for all but the last - it's not illegal. It's only little knackers who break off wing mirrors and drive without helmets. I wish they were taken off the road. They're more of a danger to other bikers and pedestrians than they are to cars. Bikers don't speed any more than other vehicles...

D!ve^Bomb!

god i want a bike!!! mmmm

Canis Lupus

FX Meister wrote:

have you ever though of leaving the window closed and aiming down to the ash tray?

What and fill my ashtray up with cigarette buts and make car even smellier than it already is???? Anyway I'd have nowhere to keep my spare change and emergency money if I did that

puntosporting

Eh there was no cyclist behind the car or motrobike for that matter so whats your point in saying what if?
It does not matter there was not!
Who is to say he would have thrown out the cig if there was a cyclist/motorbike behind him?
I think its rediculous if people ring up an already sgretched police force with such childish complaints,get over yourselfs the word is not s perfect state of utopiah where nothing bad ever happens! :rolleyes:
One last thing do i have no physical evidence in my opinion 80% of bikers break the speed limits in all area's daily ****ing lunatics in my opinion!

D!ve^Bomb!

no you're wrong, 100% of EVERYONE on the road breaks the speed limit

puntosporting

Your probably right i have broken the speed limit

D!ve^Bomb!

anyone who says they have never broken the speed limit is a liar;)

seamus

puntosporting wrote:

One last thing do i have no physical evidence in my opinion 80% of bikers break the speed limits in all area's daily ****ing lunatics in my opinion!

Stand at the side of the road with a speed gun all day do we?

Most drivers haven't a clue how fast bikes are going. This is a common reason for accidents when cars pull out in front of them.

Most drivers have difficulty separating speeding with quick acceleration. Just because a bike burns away from you, doesn't mean they're speeding.

DukeDredd

seamus wrote:

Just because a bike burns away from you, doesn't mean they're speeding.

When you're already doing 60 it does...

puntosporting

I appreciate your point on the judging speed and the genreal noise of bikes etc!
But im mainly talking about driving in 30/40 mph area's everyday and granted it is a bit of " tarring all with one brush " talk!
In limerick there is id say a small concentration of motorbikes compared to cars but for every 10 bikes i meet on inner city routes or suburban routes there are 6-8 fecking gunning it im talking about 50-80 mph in built up areas.
I dont stand with a speed gun i accept i am generalising a bit but there is a hell of a lot of undetected speeding going on with motorbikes they flaunt the law much more than motorist do!

seamus

In fairness, that's just an Irish attitudes thing. Bikers only seem to speed more because they can. If cars weren't stuck in traffic, they'd be just as bad.

Anytime I've found myself speeding on motorways or dual carriageways, I'm almost certainly in the left hand lane, being overtaken by another vehicle.

FX Meister

Have to agree with dread, many times I've been driving at the limit when bikes overtake at speed. I presume they prefer to overtake as swiftly as possible but they still drive pretty fast after that. Maybe it's just people notice the bad bikers more than the ones obeying the rules of the road?

EKRIUQ

If you report the person that through the butt out the window I'm sure if any prosecution is going to occur you'll have to appear in court, and is this nubskull worth the hassle. I'm sure you mad at been given the finger but if a little patience was shown and instead of beeping maybe none of this would happen.
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Ah what the hell report him tell us how you get on.