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One man's message to left-lane slow pokes
King 5 News ^
| Wednesday, June 27, 2007
| KEELY CHALMERS / KGW.com and KING5.com Staff
Posted on 06/27/2007 1:43:32 PM PDT by Sopater
CAMAS, Wash. Among the things you can't avoid in life death, taxes and the slow driver in the fast lane.
Oh, you can try passing them in the HOV lane, but if youre driving solo, the State Patrol will likely make you pay for it. You can tailgate, but risk getting into a wreck. You can honk or give the one finger salute, but then you're dealing with potential road rage.
Now a Camas man has come up with a passive-aggressive way to make those slow drivers in the passing lane move over, and it's apparently working.
J.A. Tosti came up with the idea of putting a thin vinyl strip on the top of the windshield with an arrow pointing to the right lane that literally tells drivers to "Move Over."
The words are spelled backwards on the sticker, so a driver looking in their rearview mirror will see it spelled correctly similar to how emergency vehicles spell out "ambulance" backwards on the hood.
(Excerpt) Read more at king5.com ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: moveover; roadrage; transportation; wa
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To: dfwgator
Nothing like breaking the law to piss people off. Why don’t you just shoot them? Break their windows? Slash their tires? One law, another law... same thing, really.
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posted on
06/27/2007 2:57:51 PM PDT
by
coloradan
(Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
To: doorgunner69
Subaru drivers here are without question the most notorious for driving too slow in the passing lane.
I won't take your comment personally since you don't know me ... and I don't know you ...but I'll bet I drive 99% better than you AND the other drones out there.
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posted on
06/27/2007 3:01:30 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Label Warning: Formerly known as "rainbow sprinkles")
To: dfwgator
Do people with Kerry bumper stickers also offend you?
43
posted on
06/27/2007 3:03:27 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Label Warning: Formerly known as "rainbow sprinkles")
To: Daffynition
Volvo drivers are without doubt the worst drivers on the planet.
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posted on
06/27/2007 3:06:51 PM PDT
by
Dinsdale
To: Grunthor; Sopater; Ramius
But somehow the loudest complaints about “slow” left lane drivers always seem to come from speeders who are pissed off that the person in front of them in the “passing” lane is only going 10-15 miles over the speed limit, thus preventing pissy driver from exceeding the speed limit by an even greater margin. These same pissy drivers do not use the left lane as a “passing” lane either. They drive exclusively in the left lane, except for brief passing/weaving swoops of a few seconds at a time through the right lane, in order to zip by aforementioned left lane drivers who are already going 10-15 over the speed limit.
To: dfwgator
If I see a car with this sticker, Ill intentionally slow down to the same speed as the car in the right lane. That would get you an aggressive driving ticket in California.
46
posted on
06/27/2007 3:16:51 PM PDT
by
SmithL
(si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: GovernmentShrinker
But somehow the loudest complaints about slow left lane drivers always seem to come from speeders who are pissed off that the person in front of them in the passing lane is only going 10-15 miles over the speed limit, thus preventing pissy driver from exceeding the speed limit by an even greater margin. These same pissy drivers do not use the left lane as a passing lane either. They drive exclusively in the left lane, except for brief passing/weaving swoops of a few seconds at a time through the right lane, in order to zip by aforementioned left lane drivers who are already going 10-15 over the speed limit. You make it sound soo wrong, LOL.
47
posted on
06/27/2007 3:21:29 PM PDT
by
doodad
To: Dinsdale
LOL ...we have our fair share of those ...do you want some more? I’d be happy to send you some of ours.
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posted on
06/27/2007 4:59:25 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Label Warning: Formerly known as "rainbow sprinkles")
To: HOTTIEBOY
Around here that would be “Backie”! As in toe-backie! Wer u frum Boay?
49
posted on
06/27/2007 6:14:18 PM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: GovernmentShrinker
“But somehow the loudest complaints about slow left lane drivers always seem to come from speeders who are pissed off that the person in front of them in the passing lane is only going 10-15 miles over the speed limit”
It is expected that traffic in the left lane moves faster than other traffic. If someone wants to do the speed limit, they ought to be in the right-hand lane.
If I was in the left lane at ten over and someone came up behind me going obviously faster, I’m getting over at the first and safest possible time. I do not feel that I have a God given right to impede the flow of traffic. Nor is it my responsibility to “hold him up” like some kind of self appointed traffic cop.
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posted on
06/27/2007 6:23:29 PM PDT
by
Grunthor
(Once a cobra bit Fred Thompsons' leg. After five days of excruciating pain, the cobra died.)
To: Sopater
I just get annoyed when I'm going the speed limit, or even slightly over, and have an irritated cowboy in my rear-view-mirror that thinks I'm in the wrong lane. I'm amazed at the intense powers of perception you have to discern the irritation and thoughts of someone located behind you and surrounded by sheet-metal (or fiberglass if the cowboy is in a Corvette).
One might think you'd use all that vision to see the 3 open lanes to your right. (:^D)
51
posted on
06/27/2007 6:56:24 PM PDT
by
bikerMD
(Beware, the light at the end of the tunnel may be a muzzle flash.)
To: Grunthor
That’s the way I think about it.
Nice tagline too.
52
posted on
06/27/2007 9:28:14 PM PDT
by
jwh_Denver
(In the Rise and Fall of United States I hope the Fall part is more than one chapter.)
To: Sopater
Surrender your license, you are a rolling impediment to safe highways.
53
posted on
06/27/2007 9:31:10 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
To: dfwgator
You must be related to Nancy Pelousey
54
posted on
06/27/2007 9:34:08 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
To: AzaleaCity5691; The Old Hoosier
"
The speed limit is not irrelevant." Many learned studies have shown that speed limits make highways less safe, and less functional. They are a product of socialism.
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posted on
06/27/2007 9:37:57 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
To: jwh_Denver
56
posted on
06/27/2007 9:46:49 PM PDT
by
Grunthor
(Once a cobra bit Fred Thompsons' leg. After five days of excruciating pain, the cobra died.)
To: dfwgator
Your statement shows me you are not a native Texan.
57
posted on
06/27/2007 9:48:17 PM PDT
by
TheMom
(Dix, TexasCowboy and Flyer all now live in the next best place to Texas . . . Heaven!)
To: dfwgator
More evidence of the problem. People whose driving goal is to teach lessons to others. Thanx for stepping up.
To: Grunthor
59
posted on
06/27/2007 9:51:44 PM PDT
by
jwh_Denver
(In the Rise and Fall of United States I hope the Fall part is more than one chapter.)
To: Sopater
I rarely see anyone in the number 1 lane (the so called passing lane by some) that is not speeding. Their are those who feel 10-20 mph over the speed limit is not enough. Many of these mainly men I am sure must lack confidence in their masculinity and must make up for their lacking with a powerful car. Some women to fit into this category but that would be a different thread.
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