A car, a pedestrian, and a really big puddle.

cournioni · 04-01-2007 11:34PM

It was me, I did it because you are from Meath... Mwahahahahaha!

Zapp Brannigan · 05-01-2007 12:42AM

There was a massive flood round where I live 4 years ago and me and my mate were walking home from school in the torrential rainfall. We were walking along the path of a pretty busy road and both getting splashed by cars, we didnt mind cos we were already soaked.
But then I spotted a massive truck coming at a fair whack up the road. I distracted my friend and slickly pushed him towards the side of the road whilst talking with him so he'd maintain eye contact with me. The truck bombed along and absolutely drenched my friend, the puddle actually rose around 3 feet above my mates head! Ah, they were good times!

Judt · 05-01-2007 01:17AM

I'm laughing at the revenge / payback people - "Someone soaked me, so then I soaked someone else to get revenge." That's called domino

Dudess · 05-01-2007 01:19AM

Yeah, someone earlier said they were pissed off about getting a soaking so the next time they were driving, they soaked a bunch of strangers.

Caliden · 05-01-2007 01:50AM

thats why you should have kept the old 2p coins and bring some with you for nights like that.
if they soak you, you let one fly at their rear window.

maxi-twist · 05-01-2007 02:28AM

Deleted User wrote:

It can be a criminal offence. There are three categories of illegal driving, dangerous, careless and inconsiderate. The last is more technically defined as driving a vehicle in a public place without reasonable consideration for other persons using the place. Driving in a manner to cause water to drench a pedestrian has resulted in convictions in the past, certainly in the UK anyway. Think it would be a hard one to prove though. If you feel strongly enough, get a reg no next time...

Driver can quite easily say there was danger of a car coming the other way and didnt want to vhance it.I do it al the time,unless theres traffics lights on amber ahead!

smallpaws · 05-01-2007 02:38AM

While walking down Appian Way in the mid 1990s I saw a guy around ten yards in front of me get splashed by a taxi driver who deliberately drove full-force through the puddle. However the pedestrian gave chase, caught up with him at the lights and pulled him out of the car. A scuffle ensued and the taxi driver came off badly.

That is totally feckin awesome. That man is my hero. I hate it when people drive into puddles on purpose, it's happened to me and it Sucks The Big One, baby. :mad:

05-01-2007 05:54AM

This used to happen to me at least once a week when I was walking home from school. I thought it was normal tbh.

mikedragon32 · 05-01-2007 09:53AM

archeron wrote:

I hadnt noticed the big long deep puddle on the road beside me

If you, as a pedestrian, going considerably slower than a car didn't notice this puddle, don't you think it's reasonable to suggest that perhaps the driver also didn't see it, thereby removing any question of you having been splashed intentionally?

I know a couple of peope who drive as far to the left as they reasonably can, not because they are looking for puddles but because they are totally paranoid about oncoming traffic!

There's a bus stop in Churchtown, it's the first stop for the 16A, that used to have a very large puddle in front of it when it rained. Locals know not to stand in the shelter at times like that, but behind it, as you get less wet in the rain, but there's still people who will shoot funny looks at those of us who might stand in the rain rather than shelter from it. But it never takes long for them to be drenched by someone driving into the puddle. It must be a local pass-time for drivers!

JaysusMacfeck · 05-01-2007 10:25AM

zippy28 wrote:

A few years ago I was driving along a road, it was dry but had been raining heavily so lots of surface water. On the footpath ahead to the left of me were a group of girls. When they saw me approaching one of them jumped out to the edge of the path right next to a huge puddle. I guessed they were playing dares or something like that so I gladly obliged. Hit the water so hard I managed to soak all the girls not just the one that jumped out. Best driving experience of my life

Maybe she jumped into the puddle to stop you from driving through it!

05-01-2007 10:37AM

maxi-twist wrote:

Driver can quite easily say there was danger of a car coming the other way and didnt want to vhance it.

True, but say there are two pedestrians who swear there was no car coming the other way, or there is a cctv in the area, or some other evidence to suggest that not only did the driver commit the offence but that he lied afterwards. I think the matter would get ever so slightly more serious then.

Stephen · 05-01-2007 11:46AM

Anyone who ever went to Carlow IT knows about the massive puddles that form on both sides of the road between the college and the town centre whenever it rains. The bastards are impossible to avoid, and the road is long, straight, wide and full of trucks -- ideal conditions for pedestrian soakage -- so I used to just leg it when I got to the puddles, which usually got me past them quick enough to avoid a soaking, but not always

I've never deliberately splattered pedestrians but I did do it accidentally once.

de5p0i1er · 05-01-2007 11:52AM

Some ppl are just cruel like that. It sucks but thats life.

heyjude · 13-07-2007 01:03PM

muppetkiller wrote:

Yip it is illegal ...if you get the reg you can have them done for driving without Due Care etc...

Thats excellent news, got soaked by some **** today, on a wide section of road(start of a turn filter lane and with no cars beside or behind them). They didn't even slow down.

If I could've caught them :mad: still as they say the pen is mightier than the sword, next time I'm going out on a wet day, I'll slip a pen in my pocket.

Pity I didn't have a pen today, the junction is covered by a cctv camera, so a excuse of being forced to drive through a deep puddle by other cars wouldn't have worked.

KamiKazi · 13-07-2007 01:47PM

why bump a 6 month old thread??!?!?!?

ffs

January · 13-07-2007 01:55PM

Hey, he got soaked, so it's relevant!

I used to get soaked all the time outside my school. Wearing my lovely new white coat one day and got soaked by a truck, had to throw it out...

Thrill · 13-07-2007 02:01PM

I really hate it when I get soaked by someone driving at speed through puddles. Bloody annoying.

oneweb · 13-07-2007 02:03PM

It's not a nice thing to have done to you. But hands up who wouldn't even give it a thought while driving along??

KamiKazi wrote:

why bump a 6 month old thread??!?!?!?

ffs

You'd rather the OP posted a brand new thread? And then have loads more posts saying WE DID THAT MONTHS AGO _LINK_?

ffs, threads don't HAVE to fade into obscurity if they're kept OT!

eve · 13-07-2007 02:06PM

I was trying to cross a road a few days ago at a zebra crossing (no lights) that had puddles either side of it on the road. There were a number of cars coming on my side of the road and I stepped away from the puddle to let them pass. I had already checked the other direction and crossed behind the last car. Unfortunately the b***h decided to turn in a housing estate entrance only about 50 feet up the road. I had just crossed when I realised shew was coming back at me on the same side as I was now on. Despite such a short lead up space to the crossing, and that she would have had to slow down anyway as the crossing was raised, she still sped up as fast as she could and splashed me to the waist as she passed.

Some people just don't think. After that I took to lowering the umbrella when a car was coming so that it was between me and any puddle. But I was so mad with her and that she just didn't think about what she was doing. I hope that any driving testers in the roads at the moment are taking 'courtesy' into consideration when they decide to pass/fail someone

DarkJager · 13-07-2007 02:09PM

I've only done it once, but it was a group of scumbags I caught with it so I was delighted. I've never seen a puddle create a wave as big as the one I caused that day. All those lovely white tracksuits soaked through and turned a **** brown colour. It was awesome..

pred racer · 13-07-2007 05:04PM

the best bit is when they are mid-puddle and they see you coming, knuckles white on the wheel and a huge grin on your face, they try to make a run for it ............ splassssssh.:p

passive · 13-07-2007 11:05PM

Awh... someone else used my trick

. In the Gaeltacht one year myself and some friends were stuck walking along a footpath that was entirely bordered by a puddle that a car was definitely about to fly through. everyone else ran, i opened my umbrella, crouched and hid behind it. The perfect shield :cool:.

13-07-2007 11:29PM

Archeron wrote:

Somebody driving by had manouvred into it in such a way as to send a nice big mucky tidal wave straight over me.

Surf was up and nobody told us?

patrickolee · 13-07-2007 11:57PM

...and this one time, at band camp....

Mossy Monk · 13-07-2007 11:58PM

KamiKazi wrote:

why bump a 6 month old thread??!?!?!?

ffs

Is it off topic?

ffs

yabadabado · 14-07-2007 12:20AM

under the dart bridge on junction of abbey st and gardiner st must be a dream location for drivers wanting to splash people always flooded after rain and a really busy path have seen people splashed many times.need to time it right or u get done a few times

arybvtcw0eolkf · 14-07-2007 10:14AM

Guy's you don't need poodles of water to drown people.

A few year's ago I use to turn the wiper jets on my car towards the footpaths and hit the washer as I was going past, its hilarious!.

Archeron · 14-07-2007 10:54AM

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

Surf was up and nobody told us?

If only I'd known in advance, it could have been, but I would have ended up in somebodys garden had I tried it, and I think they had a big dog.

Have to say though, I still smile at the thought of both being soaked, and doing the soaking. Its like seeing someone slip in the snow, you just kind of have to laugh.

FX Meister · 14-07-2007 06:28PM

I've soaked people a few times, I feel bad both before I do it and after. I can't help myself. It's happened to me a few times too. One time it was a BMW driver who swerved to do it on purpose, I caught him at the nearby lights and kicked a nice dent in his door.

Kalashnikov_Kid · 14-07-2007 08:35PM

At work today overheard some scrub boasting out loud to his mate (in the thickest Dundalk accent)

'Aww mwan I was drivin down the Ecco Road and saw dis puddle and a guy walkin past it so I flewww thru it so I did, fcukin soaked him. It was claaaass. Then me and one of me mates were spinnin down the road later lookin for more peolpe. Whahaha'

what makes it more sad was this scumbag was at least midtwenties

A car, a pedestrian, and a really big puddle.

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