Motorists still useless bastards

[hirez]

I am generally in favour of people with disabilities having adapted cars and getting on with their lives.

However, I am seriously not in favour of oh, anyone, deciding that even though I've taken primary position, a width-restriction is the ideal place to overtake that tiresome cyclist. Away and fuck yerself you gormless bastard.

Meanwhile, on the way home I discover two learny-learny cars being directed to 'overtake' cyclists in the teeth of oncoming traffic. Well, I say 'overtake'. I mean 'meander towards the crown of the road and push that uppity lycra-botherer into the ditch. Ha-ha it will serve him right he is probably a socialist.'

Fuckers.

I would still like an EMP cannon for use as a panic button for urban cyclists. Or some other ECM rig that can 0wn the engine-management computers within (say) Bluetooth radius and thus bring traffic to a lurching halt should some bollix in a skip-wagon decide on a careless left turn. Or some bollix in a white van (an important white van because he is delivering your Precious Things from AmazonBay-a-Porter) ditto. Or some send-em-'ome-it's-the-only-lingo-vey-unnerstan merchant in a cab spot a fare going up west.

Comments

[aoakley.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel any better (it won't), I was failed on my first driving test *solely* on my inability to correctly wait for the right moment to overtake a cyclist.

[lee-chaos.livejournal.com]

Re: EMP cannons, this may be relevant to your interests:

http://timsutton.tumblr.com/post/41958335283/for-cluub-zarathustra-our-dadaist-cabaret-of-the

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Ha!

Although I'm not sure that firing a big xenon strobe in traffic would reduce accidents...

[lee-chaos.livejournal.com]

As long as the *right* people crash, it's a victory though, yes?

(I'm not going to go any further down this moral rabbit-hole...)

[oryctolagus.livejournal.com]

I've discovered a new trick that people are beginning to do when overtaking a cyclist. Instead of waiting until the right moment to overtake they do it anyway. They give the cyclist plenty of room (as they should) but they seem to entirely forget that there's a bloody great Volvo on the other side of the road! So not only is the cyclist now at risk, but so is the driver of the car on the other carriageway.

Twats - the lot of them!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

That's a weird mix of passive-aggressive self righteousness there. They're actively endangering the rest of the road users around them and making damn sure everyone knows its the cyclist's fault.

"Now look what you made me do..."