Another close call today, another dinkette in a SUV yakking on a mobile phone. Here ‘s an idea: since most of us have phones with cameras, how about snapping pictures of these dorks and posting them on a website? Something along the lines of Distracted Douchebag Drivers. Obviously it would have to be passengers or pedestrians doing this, not other drivers. —Bikerguy
This article appears in Aug 22-28, 2013.
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OB, carry a sling shot, when you see this, Aim and Fire.
Great idea, OP! I’d love to shame those fucktards before they cause more tragedies on our roads thru their sheer stupidity and selfishness.
I had the same idea op. Need a web developer?
smileandwave i’d like that idea except that getting hit with a pebble while you’re driving could cause you to go insane momentarily and injure even more people. Otherwise? On board.
It would be just that time you see them yakking or texting away on their phone when they swerve into you by being distracted. Bikerguy, I hear you loud and clear as I’m a biker too…… Valid Bitch.
By far my biggest fear while riding a bike is being taken out by some asshole on a phone. I could be dead in a ditch and they wouldn’t even know it. People close to me know what to do if this happens and the person is caught.
I sit lower than many adult men stand, so I try and make eye contact when I cross a crosswalk, but there sfa I can do about people swerving from the road. I need portable force field and a small missile defense system.
We could all have helmet cams attached…but it seems to bring the bears out to hit as well as motorists texting or yakking… one bad accident is all my body can take in a lifetime.
i’ll be a regular contributor to the site but I would have to train molly to use the camera phone, as I am the only human in the car. I do wish we had plates on the front of cars.
I report everyone I see doing stupid things while driving on prospect bay road. one idiot middle aged woman in a dark green suv used to come out brennans road just before 830 holding her cell phone to her ear & reading from a sheet of paper she had tacked to her rearview mirror. haven’t seen her lately so I guess my constant complaints worked.
p, ivan, if we could declare ourselves a smallish country, could we enter the arms race and get some nifty anti-idiot devices?
THE VIRTUOUS CYCLIST (II)
“Obviously it would have to be passengers or pedestrians doing this, not other drivers.” Bikerguy
Well, the Virtuous Cyclist has already attacked drivers and pedestrians and now its the turn of drivers with mobile phones. It isn’t the mobile phone so much which can be dangerous while driving but rather the smug, priggish and virtuous tone of Bikerguy himself which is so off-putting. So who’s left?
What about the car passengers, those lazy, environmentally noxious slugs? “Get a bike, get fit, be virtuous like me!” Bikerguy crows. “Today it’s the streets of Halifax, tomorrow the world!”
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
What if drivers honked at drivers that are on cell phones?
1 honk wouldn’t get through to the person, but frquent and ongoing honks from every other car for the full length of their conversation would get the message to them.
Was almost hit walkin down the sidewalk from a textin’ fool pullin out of a driveway with his face in his phone. He only got a fist print on his hood. But, I’m getting really good at my rebounding. Learned to jump on a stump. Dis jelly has become abs of steel you could bounce a quarter off of, but my ghetto booty be still in tact to leave a generous imprint on ya hood, bitch. Be warned.
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