Car Drivers on Mobile Phones (still)

Originally Posted by scorpion

You'll love this one. Coming up to traffic lights at the weekend, Young lad in his red fiesta pulls out of his lane without looking into mine 'cos it's got a shorter queue. I slam on the ancors and ask the usuall question as I pull up by his door, "Don't you use your F###ing mirrors mate?" "Er um er um er yeah ok" Then I noticed the the huge cone of a spliff he had in his hand! OMG I let rip at him. I didn't know whether to punch him, take his spliff, take a mirror or take all three

After loosing my voice at him and getting the attention of everyone in the High street, I carried on down the road and got the attention of Plod on foot. I told him what happened and he pulled the F###wit over and said "Thankyou Sir I'll take it from Here"

Good deed for the day. 1 less F###wit on the road.

So it was you that grassed me up

Originally Posted by scorpion

You'll love this one. Coming up to traffic lights at the weekend, Young lad in his red fiesta pulls out of his lane without looking into mine 'cos it's got a shorter queue. I slam on the ancors and ask the usuall question as I pull up by his door, "Don't you use your F###ing mirrors mate?" "Er um er um er yeah ok" Then I noticed the the huge cone of a spliff he had in his hand! OMG I let rip at him. I didn't know whether to punch him, take his spliff, take a mirror or take all three

After loosing my voice at him and getting the attention of everyone in the High street, I carried on down the road and got the attention of Plod on foot. I told him what happened and he pulled the F###wit over and said "Thankyou Sir I'll take it from Here"

Good deed for the day. 1 less F###wit on the road.

Quality story! And well done to the police for listening, being useful and on hand!

Originally Posted by ASM-Forever

So it was you that grassed me up

I'm sure you're not that ugly mate. This guys was fresh out of Deliverance. Squeeeeeeel Piggy!

Originally Posted by Warthog

Quality story! And well done to the police for listening, being useful and on hand!

Yeah, what a bloody surprise that must have been.

There's never a sodding copper around when I need one, but they spend a hell of a lot of time sat on the hard shoulder of the A1 at the moment pointing their stupid ANPR cameras at me - although sat in a car by themselves, what the hell good it is I don't know.

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Originally Posted by scorpion

I'm sure you're not that ugly mate. This guys was fresh out of Deliverance. Squeeeeeeel Piggy!

I believe it was the driver stopped that was grassed up :P

Im not sure if I read it on here or somewhere else, as regards the phone issue. If you see someone on their phone whilst driving simply hold your horn down until they take note and stop, this is more effective if you are in a car as their horns tend to be louder, but surely us guys on bikes can have a go too. Simply beep continuously until they cease their call, if they look round as if they dont know whats going on simply point at them and make a phone symbol with ure hand, only if it is safe to do so ofcourse. This tactic normally embarasses people into stopping or if you have a loud horn they wont be able to hear their call! I think this is a great idea however I take no responsibility to car drivers who get violent or other daft things!

I've started doing a hand gesture that's basically followed by the hand sign for a mobile phone at drivers who are using phones.

Now, I'm not endorsing this kind of criminal behaviour. It's not big. It's not clever. It is however, very funny

Many moons ago I did a short (and very wet) stint as a bike courier in Nottingham. One of the lads that worked the same area had a tactic for dealing with cretins who cut him up: he had a can of spray paint taped to the side of his bike (can't remember for the life of me if it was an NTV650 or that shaft drive 500 kawasaki that every other courier rode). Every time he was cut up, he'd keep his cool and just filter alongside at the next set of lights, lean down and "tag" the offender. All round nottingham for a while you saw cars with bright yellow spots on their doors and you knew to give them a wide berth Perhaps if you could incorporate some sort of cut out mobile phone template then the police could go round and pick up everyone with a mobile phone graphic on their doors at their leisure

Was on my way to Paignton bike night last week and was in a queue of traffic being held up by someone slow on the back roads, cop car about 2 or in front of me...then a minibus comes the other way, driver very obviously talking into his mobile, you'd have to have been blind not to notice.

Copper did nowt

knowing my luck if i was to sound my horn intill the driver on the phone pulled over ther be a copper to bizzy tryin to pull me over for sounding my horn???

i puch off mirrors on cars if they cut me up and i no i was in line of sight with the morors on the car basicly dont use them y have them.

mobile phones no some one that see them on the phone at the lights he takes it from there hand and chucks it or puts it on the roof of the car??

or just pull along side of them get really clse move there mirror out of place so they look at u and do the look of ya on ya phone with ya hand and see what happens maybe???

jon