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Road issues that irritate me.......

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  • #632
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 43,817 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    SixSixSix wrote: »
    No parking within 5 metres of a junction according to RotR
    Unless you're going to mass in which case the parking laws don't apply!


  • #633
    whoopsadoodles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    _Jamie_ wrote: »
    It was such a selfish move on their part. In a busy car park, be happy with the space you get!

    I did a kind of opposite of that the other day.

    Queue of traffic coming into the shopping centre, I was reversing into a spot and the person behind me drove out, there was noone over that side waiting for a space so I reversed all the way back to make room for the person waiting behind me. Good deed for the day.

    People who don't move to the middle of road when turning right.

    People who don't indicate around cyclists/runners etc.

    People who don't indicate or can't keep in a lane on a roundabout.

    People who don't follow the zipper rule when merging in traffic.

    People who drive in the middle lane of the M50 when there's nothing for miles in the left hand lane.

    People who block cycle lanes.

    I hate you all. Equally. Middle lane drivers more equally though.


  • #634
    MeatTwoVeg
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 861 ✭✭✭MeatTwoVeg


    Ted111 wrote:
    Etiquette and tradition dictate that you let the air out of their tyres after they've gone into the shops.

    I've often wondered about this.
    Is it illegal?
    You're not actually stealing anything other than air and you're not damaging anything.
    What would you be charged with if you were caught letting the air out of someone's tyres?


  • #635
    whoopsadoodles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    MeatTwoVeg wrote: »
    I've often wondered about this.
    Is it illegal?
    You're not actually stealing anything other than air and you're not damaging anything.
    What would you be charged with if you were caught letting the air out of someone's tyres?

    From the irish statute.....

    2.—(1) A person who without lawful excuse damages any property belonging to another intending to damage any such property or being reckless as to whether any such property would be damaged shall be guilty of an offence.

    One could probably argue that letting air out of tyres could subsequently cause damage if the driver drives the vehicle with flat tyres.


  • #636
    MeatTwoVeg
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 861 ✭✭✭MeatTwoVeg


    whoopsadoodles wrote:
    One could probably argue that letting air out of tyres could subsequently cause damage if the driver drives the vehicle with flat tyres.


    Maybe.
    Wonder if you left a note on their windscreen explaining you've let the air out of their tyres would it address this.


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  • #637
    _Jamie_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 603 ✭✭✭_Jamie_


    whoopsadoodles wrote: »
    I did a kind of opposite of that the other day.

    Queue of traffic coming into the shopping centre, I was reversing into a spot and the person behind me drove out, there was noone over that side waiting for a space so I reversed all the way back to make room for the person waiting behind me. Good deed for the day.

    Ah yeah, that's grand, you knew nobody was waiting for the space you reversed into. And rolling into the adjoining spot is something lots of people do when the carpark isn't very full, easier for pulling out of. The guy who rolled into our spot couldn't see if anyone was waiting for it but it was one of those very busy times in a car park where each lane of the carpark had a car or three trying to get parked so it was safe for him to assume that someone was waiting for the spot!


  • #638
    robarmstrong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭robarmstrong


    Absolute eejits that decide to dart out last second while you're already half way/3 quarters of the way through your turn and don't even acknowledge they're in the wrong.

    Also when people do the same but they have seen you and give you "the wave". Don't wave at me you tosser you nearly caused an accident.


  • #639
    Commotion Ocean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Commotion Ocean


    Another issue :P A few days ago, I was sailing along at about 180-200 km/h. Fast, yes, but nothing insane. I was driving down the inside lane, and move into the overtaking lane to overtake ... and as I was overtaking, suddenly a UK-Reg (so obviously a confused tourist) car pulls out on front of me and sits at 80-100 km/h ..morons. So, my issue is lack of mirrors, lane hogging and general idiocy.

    This fella was probably a lost tourist confused on foreign roads, still no excuse for reckless behaviour.


  • #640
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 43,817 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    dfeo wrote: »
    Another issue :P A few days ago, I was sailing along at about 180-200 km/h. Fast, yes, but nothing insane. I was driving down the inside lane, and move into the overtaking lane to overtake ... and as I was overtaking, suddenly a UK-Reg (so obviously a confused tourist) car pulls out on front of me and sits at 80-100 km/h ..morons. So, my issue is lack of mirrors, lane hogging and general idiocy.

    This fella was probably a lost tourist confused on foreign roads, still no excuse for reckless behaviour.
    Your judgement is completely wrong here.
    180 to 200km/h in lane 2 is far too fast for a road where other users are doing 80km/h in lane 2 and/or lane 3!


  • #641
    Commotion Ocean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Commotion Ocean


    kbannon wrote: »
    Your judgement is completely wrong here.
    180 to 200km/h in lane 2 is far too fast for a road where other users are doing 80km/h in lane 2 and/or lane 3!

    Say that to the other 2-300 people on the road at the time, I was over in Germany taking my uncle's new 5 series for a spin on the A13 between Berlin and Dresden. :P


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  • #642
    MadDog76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    dfeo wrote: »
    Another issue :P A few days ago, I was sailing along at about 180-200 km/h. Fast, yes, but nothing insane. I was driving down the inside lane, and move into the overtaking lane to overtake ... and as I was overtaking, suddenly a UK-Reg (so obviously a confused tourist) car pulls out on front of me and sits at 80-100 km/h ..morons. So, my issue is lack of mirrors, lane hogging and general idiocy.

    This fella was probably a lost tourist confused on foreign roads, still no excuse for reckless behaviour.
    kbannon wrote: »
    Your judgement is completely wrong here.
    180 to 200km/h in lane 2 is far too fast for a road where other users are doing 80km/h in lane 2 and/or lane 3!

    It was a "baiting post" Kbannon ......... you took the bait!!! :D


  • #643
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    dfeo wrote: »
    Another issue :P A few days ago, I was sailing along at about 180-200 km/h. Fast, yes, but nothing insane. I was driving down the inside lane, and move into the overtaking lane to overtake ... and as I was overtaking, suddenly a UK-Reg (so obviously a confused tourist) car pulls out on front of me and sits at 80-100 km/h ..morons. So, my issue is lack of mirrors, lane hogging and general idiocy.

    This fella was probably a lost tourist confused on foreign roads, still no excuse for reckless behaviour.

    180-200 km/h down the inside lane = may I suggest that might be a tad too fast Sir.

    ....and as regards 'foreign UK tourists' the UK rules of the road are pretty much the same as the ones here in the ROI. I do agree with you re slow coaches hogging the overtaking lane/middle lane + morons who don't use their mirrors and/or don't indicate.


  • #644
    Commotion Ocean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Commotion Ocean


    LordSutch wrote: »
    180-200 km/h down the inside lane = may I suggest that might be a tad too fast

    ....and as regards 'foreign UK tourists' the UK rules of the road are pretty much the same as the ones here in the ROI. I agree with you re slow coaches hogging the overtaking lane/middle lane + morons who don't use their mirrors and/or don't indicate.
    dfeo wrote: »
    Say that to the other 2-300 people on the road at the time, I was over in Germany taking my uncle's new 5 series for a spin on the A13 between Berlin and Dresden. :P

    ᶋ


  • #645
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Ah, you were on ze Autobahn doing 180-200 km/h.

    Thats ok then :)


  • #646
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 43,817 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    dfeo wrote: »
    Say that to the other 2-300 people on the road at the time, I was over in Germany taking my uncle's new 5 series for a spin on the A13 between Berlin and Dresden. :P
    200 to 300 other people on the road? Across what kind of distance? 1km? 100km?
    Were these doing 80-100km/h or 180-200km/h?


  • #647
    Bananaleaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Bananaleaf


    Bananaleaf wrote: »
    But seriously, I seem to witness something mental pretty much every day. .

    Well today it finally happened. One driver took it too far and there was an almighty accident this morning. By the time I had approached the scene help was already at hand. It's awful that my very first thought was "The only thing that surprises me here is that it has taken this long for something like this to happen"

    No injuries (I can't believe it from the damage done to the cars) Hopefully some attitudes towards speed and spacial awareness have changed though.

    Small country road, regularly used by solo cyclists and cycling groups. If there had been a cyclist on that road this morning they would definitely be (at best) in a very bad way tonight.


  • #648
    gammygils
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,567 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    Ignorant bollixes who drive in a street lit area with full lights!


    I walk the mutt now in the dark and I'm gonna need shades! Just because there's no cars coming doesn't mean you don't have to dim your lights.


    And it's not like they can't see me, I'm wearing Hi-Vis. This is becoming more & more common. Totally fukkin annoying! This is Ignorant and Dangerous! :(


  • #649
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    bodice ripper wrote: »
    Anyone with a horse box. Jerks.

    How the fuq are you supposed to move horses around? They won't fit in the back seat.


  • #650
    Colser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭Colser


    Jimmy Garlic wrote:
    How the fuq are you supposed to move horses around? They won't fit in the back seat.


    On a roof rack?


  • #651
    The flying mouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭The flying mouse


    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    How the fuq are you supposed to move horses around? They won't fit in the back seat.

    Does it not go on the horsepower of the car...:D


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  • #652
    Gwynplaine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Gwynplaine


    Lad in front of me stopping at the roundabout, when you can very clearly see that there's nothing coming, then he does it again. Will you go on ffs.


  • #653
    Rave.ef
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭Rave.ef


    Cyclists....... the vermin of the road iv scrubbed more valuable dog s%@t off my shoe... the old lad cycling to the shop or mass no problem they'll keep in or just get outa the way but the moron who watches too much Eurosport and thinks he/she own the road in full spandex taking the 5 year old kid out for a "spin" idiots.

    So ya cyclists. Dopes that use fog lights at night even tho I'm clearly behind you and have been for miles.. front fogs and it's raining clearly an ignorant idiot.
    Round abouts but from Everything iv read hear over the years and every day I spend on the road there's a whole lota bluffers ere. Everyone can't clame to know how to use them and I can guarantee as soon as I come into the next one someone will use the wrong lane indicate the wrong way or just be a w@#<#r and cut me off.

    Rant over


  • #654
    sjb25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,417 ✭✭✭sjb25


    Gwynplaine wrote: »
    Lad in front of me stopping at the roundabout, when you can very clearly see that there's nothing coming, then he does it again. Will you go on ffs.

    This I HATE this normally goes like this

    coming up to a roundabout obviously nothing coming
    brake brake brake brake still nothing coming---STOP look both ways---- AGGGGGH hate these people

    Also lane 2 or 3 on a motorway hoggers idiots if the cars behind you are traveling faster that you move out of the way you idiots
    I feel better now :)


  • #655
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Rave.ef wrote: »
    Cyclists....... the vermin of the road iv scrubbed more valuable dog s%@t off my shoe... the old lad cycling to the shop or mass no problem they'll keep in or just get outa the way but the moron who watches too much Eurosport and thinks he/she own the road in full spandex taking the 5 year old kid out for a "spin" idiots.

    So ya cyclists. Dopes that use fog lights at night even tho I'm clearly behind you and have been for miles.. front fogs and it's raining clearly an ignorant idiot.
    Round abouts but from Everything iv read hear over the years and every day I spend on the road there's a whole lota bluffers ere. Everyone can't clame to know how to use them and I can guarantee as soon as I come into the next one someone will use the wrong lane indicate the wrong way or just be a w@#<#r and cut me off.

    Rant over


    You sound positively delightful.


  • #656
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    Rave.ef wrote: »
    Cyclists....... the vermin of the road iv scrubbed more valuable dog s%@t off my shoe... the old lad cycling to the shop or mass no problem they'll keep in or just get outa the way but the moron who watches too much Eurosport and thinks he/she own the road in full spandex taking the 5 year old kid out for a "spin" idiots.

    Rant over

    poor kids


  • #657
    Rave.ef
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭Rave.ef


    I like to think I am delightful:)

    Kids don't stand a chance


  • #658
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,982 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    Gwynplaine wrote: »
    Lad in front of me stopping at the roundabout, when you can very clearly see that there's nothing coming, then he does it again. Will you go on ffs.

    Probably hoping you go into the back of him.


  • #659
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,210 ✭✭✭pablo128


    lertsnim wrote: »
    Probably hoping you go into the back of him.

    People don't just forget how to use a roundabout all of a sudden. I find if you come across one of these clowns, once you keep your distance, after a while they start driving properly again. Certain nationalities seem to do it more than others too.


  • #660
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,575 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    How the fuq are you supposed to move horses around? They won't fit in the back seat.

    It's sometimes the attitude of the horsebox driver. I was stuck behind a horsebox once for absolute miles and miles in Sligo. There were plenty of places to pull in safely, no problem. But not only did that idiot trundle on for absolute ever, he had a chaser vehicle behind him whose job it was to block anyone from overtaking. We're talking about more than 30 kilometers here. At a speed between 40 to 60 km/h. This was during the height of the boom where a lot of idiots suddenly discovered their love for horses. The same people who abandoned them later...
    On another occasion I overtook a horsebox on a country lane where the knobhead sped up to way over 100 km/h to block me. On another occasion, going from Gort to Ennis (on a wide section) again, the chase vehicle nearly rammed me off the road.
    Back then you could easily spot them. Brand new top of the range 4x4, brand new top of the range box and the horse surely wasn't just any horse, no idea about horse breeds, but it certainly wasn't some piebald.
    It's by no means every horse box, the people who have been doing this for a long time and know what they're doing are grand at this, but it was nouveau riche boomers with an "I'm more important than you" attitude that were an absolute nightmare.


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  • #661
    longshanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    It's sometimes the attitude of the horsebox driver. I was stuck behind a horsebox once for absolute miles and miles in Sligo. There were plenty of places to pull in safely, no problem. But not only did that idiot trundle on for absolute ever, he had a chaser vehicle behind him whose job it was to block anyone from overtaking. We're talking about more than 30 kilometers here. At a speed between 40 to 60 km/h. This was during the height of the boom where a lot of idiots suddenly discovered their love for horses. The same people who abandoned them later...
    On another occasion I overtook a horsebox on a country lane where the knobhead sped up to way over 100 km/h to block me. On another occasion, going from Gort to Ennis (on a wide section) again, the chase vehicle nearly rammed me off the road.
    Back then you could easily spot them. Brand new top of the range 4x4, brand new top of the range box and the horse surely wasn't just any horse, no idea about horse breeds, but it certainly wasn't some piebald.
    It's by no means every horse box, the people who have been doing this for a long time and know what they're doing are grand at this, but it was nouveau riche boomers with an "I'm more important than you" attitude that were an absolute nightmare.

    The height of the boom eh?
    Been carrying this grudge awhile chief?


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