Translation:
"If yer goin' faster-n-me
YER GOIN' TO G@%#$&@% FAST!!
Posted on 12/10/2008 8:53:48 AM PST by Smogger
In these days of longer commutes and simmering tempers, nothing seems to set off already-testy motorists like the left-lane camper -- the guy or gal who drives in the passing lane and bars faster drivers from easily passing. Web sites have cropped up to educate other drivers, or to vent. There's a (somewhat painful) YouTube song called "Keep Right."
Even bigwigs get frustrated. Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell, weary of having his limo slowed down by such left-lane pokies, ordered an aide to have the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission install signs a few years ago reading "Keep Right, Pass Left. It's the Law."
And now some states are cracking down on left-lane campers, both to keep traffic moving and to tamp down the road rage that goes from zero-to-60 faster than ever before.
That's not just a pretext. Last year, a driver was arrested on Interstate 79 outside Pittsburgh after allegedly brandishing a semiautomatic pistol at a driver who was on his tail.
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You must be me posting to myself. ;)
Been there, done that except for the old people story.
In fact, that is how I got into the issue with the two guys in Montana at 130 mph. In eastern monatna, they would pass me, but as they got closer to a truck they would slow down. My cruise control would allow me to pass them but it was tighter and tighter every time. Finally, they were so overt about it, and I was so overt about making sure I passed them that they “teamed” me (I didn’t know they were together until then). They created a two lane road block at 50 mph (eastern montana, I-90, middle of nowhere, 75 mph limit). I didn’t even slow down and passed on the shoulder. The chase ensued.
But my governor is at 140 while theirs was considerably lower - Jeep Cherokee and Grand Cherokee with Minnesota plates. I kept losing them and then when I slowed down to 90 they would soon catch up again. I finally got a couple of miles between us and pulled into a small town. I didn’t want to get a ticket for doing 130+...
“After 5 miles of me driving on their ass, flashing my high-beams, traffic backed up for 1/2 mile behind us, they finally manage to get ahead of the convoy and I still had to switch to the right lane to pass them.
Finally after me and about a dozen others pass on the right, the idiot moves back over to the right lane.’
One that I see a lot of in So. Cal. is when the anal-retentive loser kills traffic flow by occupying the left lane for miles wreaking havoc on everything behind him and around him, and then he seems to be moving out of the lane but actually crosses the entire freeway to make a desperate, dangerous, last minute exit.
My dad, God bless him, used to do that....he was just too lazy to re-set the cruise control on his DeVille.
What if the person that called the cops was a nut and lying? Are they still supposed to pull someone over and “lecture” them? The whole reason that people blocking the left lane is a problem is that certain people think it is their job, no, their MANDATE to enforce the law as they see it. They usually seek this anonymous sort of power because they feel worthless in some other part of their life.
Why not just be courteous to other people as best we can and leave it at that?
I love it in construction zones with a lane closing down, that you will often see two semi’s running side by side to keep people from waiting until the last second to merge.
try that with someone in a Hummer or ‘Burban.
You might get flattened like an empty beer can.
It always makes me laugh when I hear one of our northern friends make fun of Atlanta drivers, with the implication that all the bad drivers are the southern-born ones. I always think, how do you know the bad drivers are not transplants?
Another successful technique for the troopers to pull over a lot of people at once is one of these “large operations” that they get going on the freeways. One time in Washington State, on I-5 North, a bit past Vancouver, WA, there was one trooper with radar on his rig, and he was getting everyone’s speed. (there might have been two, spaced out, but I didn’t see...).
Up over the next rise, there were about 15 troopers (cars), over to the side of the road — some parked and waiting, some “rolling out” with lights on, and others down the road a ways, having pulled over some people.
They were radioing ahead for the cars that were speeding and pulling over every last one of them. They were nailing them left and right. I’ve never seen such a massive pulling over like they were doing... LOL..
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Then there was another time I was in Arkansas, somewhere past Little Rock, on the way to Memphis (I-40) and I saw a trooper on an overpass (on foot) and he had a laser gun. You have to be closer with those than a radar unit and he was “popping up” over the concrete edge on the overpass, and shooting the traffic, then popping back down again... LOL.. Down the road a bit were the trooper cars, a bunch of them waiting to pick up whomever he tagged...
i brought that up also...(the pulling over and talking to) even asked if they kept any kind of record of complaints against drivers doing this so they could maybe see a pattern repeating....nothing at all....he was free to do what he was doing until they caught him or he caused an accident and God forbide killed or maimed someone....
but yet if you run a red light they can take a picture of the car and send the owner of the car a ticket to pay even if he wasn’t driving it at the time of the infraction....
That happens in Dallas as well. Traffic might be somewhat heavy, but flowing at or above the speed limit. One idiot gets in the left lane and is going 20 mph slower than everyone else. What they don't know is that slowing traffic down 15-20 mph brings those a mile behind you TO A DEAD STOP! For no reason other than the slow driver is a sanctimonious idiot.
I know exactly what you are saying. My initial “gut reaction” to anyone flashing their lights to get past me (hardly ever happens for obious reasons) is, “why do they think they are better than me and can go faster than me”. It is very brief though. My intellect knows they are doing the right thing and I will either speed up to pass someone before pulling in, or just pull in.
That is assuming I was not following someone else or I actually AM passing someone (at a speed significantly greater than theirs).
I hope the engineer who designed that bridge calculated all the dead weight load into it........
You and my wife must be twins!
Yep, that’s what I’ve noticed, too — some people just don’t want to be passed, no matter what... LOL...
Translation:
"If yer goin' faster-n-me
YER GOIN' TO G@%#$&@% FAST!!
The biggest problem with driving through Atlanta is that there way too many cars, and way too little road. And there's no viable way around it.
I frequent Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida - each region has its own unique set of problem drivers. Tennessee seems to have more than its share of left-lane bandits, Ohio has slow drivers, and that ridiculous 55 MPH truck speed limit (which creates a rolling roadblock every time a truck passes another truck on I-71), Florida has some very old drivers that enjoy traveling at 50 mph with the turn signal on for miles before driving past their exit, stopping, and backing up on the freeway.
It seems that the biggest problems occur when in heavy traffic. An occasional idiot can be passed, and doesn't present a problem to most drivers. But in the city, they seem to congregate in such a way that traffic flow is significantly impeded for no legitimate reason.
Oh yes, it happens here as well. Then once they cross several lanes, they almost kill themselves and their passengers, barely making the exit without hitting the barriers.
Oh..., one more thing about this, that I forgot...
You were saying — “No cop has ever successfully pulled me over while he was also trying to pull over someone else.”
I’ve been personally involved in a “two-car pullover” by a trooper. I was behind another guy and we both were barreling down the freeway. There wasn’t any traffic and it was in the middle of the country (maybe out there somewhere in Utah or Montana (can’t remember now...).
But, anyway..., I was the second car and the trooper comes “out of nowhere” and roars up behind me and pulls me over — he came to a stop with me, but still out on the road and told me, “You stay there and I’ll be right back!”
He roared off like a “bat out of hell” and went to chase down the other guy. Well, I waited and waited and he didn’t come back. I waited for about 20 minutes and then I finally figured that he wasn’t coming back and I just drove off... LOL...
I never heard anything else from it... :-)
Legal chicanery (thank you, lawyers) allows them to mail you a "civil penalty" for allegedly running a red light in which the complainant is a camera. The rules are different for civil penalties than they are for law violations. There is still an avenue for fighting a traffic ticket, but I don't think the "reasonable doubt" standard exists in such cases.
In California we have a lot of self appointed traffic regulators that go 5 - 10 mph under the posted speed limit. This ties up traffic and creates long backups. We also have what is loving referred to as “Lexus lanes” where hybrid autos can drive in the HOV lanes with only one person on board.
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