A traffic question - you must think about your answer!!!

[BillyVance 34]

The Question

You are driving along a narrow, twisty two lane road with a NO PASSING sign posted.

You come upon a bicycle rider.

Do you follow this slow-moving rider for the next 2 miles, or do you break the law and pass?

Which is the correct choice? What was your answer?

Why take unnecessary risks and get a ticket???

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[cocheese 0]

You know me... safety first.

[popsjumper 2]

I'd follow. I can drive with one hand.

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[ChangoLanzao 0]

I'd follow and pray for it to rain before the dashed lines come.

[airtwardo 7]

I'd rear end her.

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[JohnRich 4]

I think tail-gating would be appropriate.

[asmund 0]

Are bicycle riders considered vehicles?

Excuse me for not knowing the American rule of traffic law...

I'd look around real good for a cop, and then drive by.

I like subway.

[turtlespeed 226]

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Are bicycle riders considered vehicles?

Excuse me for not knowing the American rule of traffic law...

I'd look around real good for a cop, and then drive by.

Hand over your Guy Card!

NOW!

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[fpritchett64 0]

I'd ask her for a ride, I mean I'd ask her if she wants a ride, I mean....dammit, I'd just wait for the dashed line

[Rick 67]

Hopefully Hapythoughts will reply to this. Bill's picture was in the Z-Hills newspaper a couple of weeks ago for an incident with a bicycle rider.
I would have posted it then but could not find anything on line to link to.

I'll let him tell the story

You can't be drunk all day if you don't start early!

[chaoskitty 0]

Billy.. thats a photo of a DUDE!!!

[happythoughts 0]

Man, I wish people would quit posting pics of my wife.


Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, a teenager on a bike pulled out in front of my car on the state road at the main intersection in town. Right in the middle of the car lane. (There is a bicycle lane provided.) He was going 5 mph and 25 cars backed up behind me.

I honked the horn and told him to move out of the way. He started screaming that he was a "professional bicycle rider" and he knew his rights.

When the light changed, he threw his bicycle down, stood 6" in front of my car, and called the police.
I couldn't move my car. It is against the law to "move" someone out of the way, with witnesses.

The police showed up, and explained to the jerk what "impeding traffic" meant and why it was against the law.

This all happened in front of the local newspaper office.
As I was explaining things to the police officer, someone snapped a pic and put it on the front page of the paper. The caption said that I had got out of my car and stopped traffic. They never talked to me.

I think that he engineered the whole scene. He wanted some attention and an excuse to scream at the world.
One day, we'll be reading about him in a mall, wearing a black trenchcoat.

[turtlespeed 226]

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Man, I wish people would quit posting pics of my wife.


Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, a teenager on a bike pulled out in front of my car on the state road at the main intersection in town. Right in the middle of the car lane. (There is a bicycle lane provided.) He was going 5 mph and 25 cars backed up behind me.

I honked the horn and told him to move out of the way. He started screaming that he was a "professional bicycle rider" and he knew his rights.

When the light changed, he threw his bicycle down, stood 6" in front of my car, and called the police.
I couldn't move my car. It is against the law to "move" someone out of the way, with witnesses.

The police showed up, and explained to the jerk what "impeding traffic" meant and why it was against the law.

This all happened in front of the local newspaper office.
As I was explaining things to the police officer, someone snapped a pic and put it on the front page of the paper. The caption said that I had got out of my car and stopped traffic. They never talked to me.

I think that he engineered the whole scene. He wanted some attention and an excuse to scream at the world.
One day, we'll be reading about him in a mall, wearing a black trenchcoat.

So why did you need to impede traffic? Were you feeling a little EMO?

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[happythoughts 0]

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So why did you need to impede traffic? Were you feeling a little EMO?

I wanted to impede the flow of air to his tiny brain.

He's just one of those jerks that does whatever he thinks that he can get away with.
That all works as long as people are playing with a set of rules. That just isn't the case though.
This place is overstocked with rednecks.

Some day, they'll find him in the Crystal parking lot with some bodily perforations and no one will miss him.
Most people have an oversupply of irritating buttheads in their lives already.

[AggieDave 6]

I would most definitely have to stop and ask her if she was ok and suggest that due to the road conditions and for her safety that she let me put her bike in the bed of my truck so I can give her a ride.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[mx757 4]

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I would most definitely have to stop and ask her if she was ok and suggest that due to the road conditions and for her safety that she let me put her bike in the bed of my truck so I can give her a ride.

I'd love to see what your Wife thinks about that Idea Dave....

[AggieDave 6]

She would kick my ass, no doubt in my mind. Since this was a hypothetical question, I gave a hypothetical answer.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[happythoughts 0]

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She would kick my ass, no doubt in my mind. Since this was a hypothetical question, I gave a hypothetical answer.

Ah, yes. What would the world be like without hypothetical questions?

[turtlespeed 226]

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She would kick my ass, no doubt in my mind. Since this was a hypothetical question, I gave a hypothetical answer.

Ah, yes. What would the world be like without hypothetical questions?

What would it be without rhetorical ones?

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[happythoughts 0]

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She would kick my ass, no doubt in my mind. Since this was a hypothetical question, I gave a hypothetical answer.

Ah, yes. What would the world be like without hypothetical questions?

What would it be without rhetorical ones?

I really don't have an answer for you on that one.

[turtlespeed 226]

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She would kick my ass, no doubt in my mind. Since this was a hypothetical question, I gave a hypothetical answer.

Ah, yes. What would the world be like without hypothetical questions?

What would it be without rhetorical ones?

I really don't have an answer for you on that one.

None needed really.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[dannydan 5]

In Puerto Rico along the coastal two lanes............................................HELL NO

In the USA.....maybe, but I would error on the side of caution and wait it out!

In my younger days HELL YEAH!!! But not anymore... Hell I dont even like to pass on open straight two lane flat county highways here in the midwest.... WHY? Because EVERYONE else drives so unpredictable, it's hard to judge their oncoming speed... and then what the vehicle that I am passing is going to do.

[Richards 0]

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I think that he engineered the whole scene. He wanted some attention and an excuse to scream at the world.

I won't say all bycicle riders (because someone on this forum will rip my head off) but many (99.9999%) bycicle riders seem to act like arseholes with a hardon for car drivers. Stunts like the one you just described where they needlessly cause a confrontation just for the opportunity to get indignant about their rights on the road and basically say "I am bycicle rider..hear me roar".

Love to see one of these dickheads get squashed just once.

My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

[chinagirl 0]

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I'd rear end her.

Ditto!

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[The_Don 0]

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In Puerto Rico along the coastal two lanes............................................HELL NO

In the USA.....maybe, but I would error on the side of caution and wait it out!

In my younger days HELL YEAH!!! But not anymore... Hell I dont even like to pass on open straight two lane flat county highways here in the midwest.... WHY? Because EVERYONE else drives so unpredictable, it's hard to judge their oncoming speed... and then what the vehicle that I am passing is going to do.

#1 Can you see the pic?
#2 Doesn't matter.. LOOK AT THE PIC!!!!

I am NOT being loud.
I'm being enthusiastic!