[ghodlur]

Saw yesterday in Eastern express highway while travelling to Thane from office a car with the driver inside making faces and throwing up hands in the air. He was obviously on a call and was pretty visibly mad with the conversations happening. On two occassions he let go off the steering and moved between the lanes. No signalling/honking deterred him from driving sanely. Caught him up at the Mulund toll and appraised him of the dangerous driving and all I got back was the choicest verbal volleys. God save him and others from him when the chap is driving.

[SDP]

Originally Posted by ghodlur

Saw yesterday in Eastern express highway while travelling to Thane from office a car with the driver inside making faces and throwing up hands in the air. He was obviously on a call and was pretty visibly mad with the conversations happening. On two occassions he let go off the steering and moved between the lanes. No signalling/honking deterred him from driving sanely. Caught him up at the Mulund toll and appraised him of the dangerous driving and all I got back was the choicest verbal volleys. God save him and others from him when the chap is driving.

One primary reason for bad drivers being bad drivers is that they simply don't care - definitely not for others. Its absolutely not worth one's time and effort to try to 'teach' them the right behavior. They don't care about your 'life'! Do you really believe that they would give a rat's behind for our 'views' about 'how to drive'?

Life (and death) is the best teacher for suck folks. Let them learn 'how to drive right' the hard way. I give them a wide berth. May be we all should.

[Milestone]

Originally Posted by mallumowgli

Sorry to hear about that, Manu. The dent doesnt seem very visible - maybe you have to live with that.

The pic is not doing justice, that's okay. I have to live with it and move on :-)

[Warwithwheels]

Mod Note: Moved to Bad Drivers Thread
Don't know where this photo would belong. An accident waiting to happen!

[deetjohn]

Originally Posted by Warwithwheels

Don't know where this photo would belong. An accident waiting to happen!

That's insane! I hope it was just posing and they really dint take the car underneath the JCB.

[motomaverick]

Originally Posted by Warwithwheels

Mod Note: Moved to Bad Drivers Thread
Don't know where this photo would belong. An accident waiting to happen!

Lol now is this is a trick question on who is the bad driver? Or bad spectator, that guy seems too close to the JCB

[Thad E Ginathom]

Obviously a stunt, so, although it might be a stupid thing to do, it's not really a case of bad driving. Unless it's the JCB driver's idea to let someone pass!

[Warwithwheels]

Seriously hope it was just a stunt.

But I don't see any operator sitting in the JCB cockpit. That makes me think that it could be a case of genuine case of foolishness too!

Just like this

this

[binaiks]

Today, in the afternoon, I was driving from Kadavanthra towards South Railway Station (in Ernakulam). There was one BMW 525D in front of me. This fellow had stopped on the extreme left lane at Pallimukku signal. As the signal turned green, this fellow turned extreme right, and kept crawling right in the middle of the road, hogging both the lanes of MG Road, heading towards Jos Junction. He had both his ORVMs closed, and kept crawling throughout, even as traffic was building up behind and people were honking madly.

He finally reaches Jos Junction signal - guess what? He stops right in the middle of the road - atleast 50mts before the signal! There was enough space for a few buses to go ahead of him and stop - he would not budge even as people behind him honk asking him to move forward. The end result - all the lanes jammed. The typical, "I have a big car, I own the road" attitude was evident from the way the guy was behaving.

The fun part - there was a traffic police constable at the junction. He did NOT bother to check what was the issue, even as the entire road jammed up!!

[rajeev k]

Originally Posted by binaiks

As the signal turned green, this fellow turned extreme right, and kept crawling right in the middle of the road, hogging both the lanes of MG Road, heading towards Jos Junction. He had both his ORVMs closed, and kept crawling throughout, even as traffic was building up behind and people were honking madly.
He stops right in the middle of the road....he would not budge even as people behind him honk asking him to move forward. The end result - all the lanes jammed.

Last Sunday around 1600 hrs, there was a black BMW 5 doing exactly the same thing at the same place blocking even the free left. One change was that this bloke had his right ORVM open. I had seen many such creatures at the bypass running through the centre of the road. Perhaps the adage own the road had pampered him.

[noopster]

Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom

Obviously a stunt, so, although it might be a stupid thing to do, it's not really a case of bad driving. Unless it's the JCB driver's idea to let someone pass!

Bad driving extends to what you do outside the driver's seat as well. Things like bad parking, making the road less safe for others etc. certainly fall in my book of bad driving!

[Thad E Ginathom]

I completely agree. I'm thinking this was set up, maybe even on a private track rather than a public road. The car might even belong to a worker!

On the other hand, if I were stupid enough to do this, as a stunt, I'd take the pic with the car under the JCB, so perhaps it isn't a stunt.

All wild conjecture...

[carzone]

A new guest of honor on the thread here.
Was planning to go for a temple visit, but this guy has some other plans in store for me.
I get down at 12:12 PM and see this optra parked bang in front.



Wait there for some time hoping that this guy might be around and come seeing me near his car.
Finally give up standing there in the hot sun due to some idiot making me sweat there and return up.
The time of returning up, i click one more pic, and its 12:29PM and no clue of that guy.



Sometimes I feel I should myself scratch their cars, but then I gain my cool.

It is a frequent phenomenon occurring in front of my building's gate, but this time, there was lot of space beside where the car is parked. Some may argue that there might be another car parked there before which is now moved.
At this time of the day, there is ample pf space available for parking if you go just about 50 meters ahead.

When are these morons going to learn?

[Warwithwheels]

Originally Posted by carzone

....When are these morons going to learn?

That's absolutely ridiculous. On top of blocking your exit, he has occupied almost 1/4th of the public road. It would have served him right if some heavy vehicle had knocked his boot down.

BTW.... from the first image the gap appears wide enough for a hatchback to sneak out. Were you planning to set out on a larger vehicle?

[carzone]

Originally Posted by Warwithwheels

That's absolutely ridiculous. On top of blocking your exit, he has occupied almost 1/4th of the public road. It would have served him right if some heavy vehicle had knocked his boot down.

BTW.... from the first image the gap appears wide enough for a hatchback to sneak out. Were you planning to set out on a larger vehicle?

Yes, I agree that my car (WagonR) would have sneaked out, but as it was nothing urgent, I returned home. My building houses a Xylo as well and just like me, he too is fed up of these kind of people. Blocking 1/4th of the road is common in this part of Mumbai as there is lack of parking space.
If it was evening time, I can bet all my money that there would have been another car behind this Optra with the driver waiting in probably. But nonetheless, it does block half of the road leaving just enough gap for a bus to pass.