Weird stuff you see while driving...

Envi XR8 · 03-10-2009, 08:49 AM

I was driving home yesterday afternoon when I stopped at a set of lights. Coming through the lights from the other direction was guy in an old Valiant windows down and with a set of big head phones on. Not talking iPod or walkman style, but a set like a DJ would wear!

I have seen some stupid stuff over the years; a fourby drive into a new mini due to road rage, a guy trying to do a u-turn on the Gateway bridge, causing almost a head on accident etc. but this guy took a big slice of the 'Idiot cake' and happily munched away. This seems to be a scary trend lately, as it has happened more than once that I found myself driving behind someone, thinking "what the hell is he/she doing?"

Left me wondering what others have seen while trying to commute.

rancidpunx · 03-10-2009, 09:55 AM

95% of people dont know how to indicate around a roundabout, and will slow right down start to make a turn and then flick on the indicator. Weird how these people got their license.

Destroyer XR8 · 03-10-2009, 10:21 AM

A while ago i was with my brother and we seen a combi in the distance that looked to have a cannon and when we got closer it turned out to be a milo tin strapped onto the exhaust.

CHEETR · 03-10-2009, 10:38 AM

i saw a lady escaping from hospital in dandenong, running down teh road in her blue hospital nightie and a walker with the drip behind her on a stand on wheels and all the tubes still in her arms.. with bare feet

she was running down the middle of the road

AWD Chaser · 03-10-2009, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by rancidpunx

95% of people dont know how to indicate around a roundabout, and will slow right down start to make a turn and then flick on the indicator. Weird how these people got their license.

This issues is not so weird as it is frustrating. This really annoys me, seeing as most people here in newcastle dont know how two lanes of traffic merge either...

Or the fact that a roundabout has two lanes that go straight ahead, they for some reason think that it means, left goes left, right straight ahead.
/vent

Seen a two tone pink/black VN the other week

VN wagon yesterday with a canon and matt black (possibly spray can) paint job

A guy at work had all his rear side and rear windows smashed, so he put cardboard over them for 2 weeks!!

**TUF_302** · 03-10-2009, 12:06 PM

Seen an old crown/cressida with big gold chrome rims, that wasn't the weird bit though, it had a plastic bonnet scoop and big drift type rear wing lol!

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Dezza · 03-10-2009, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by rancidpunx

95% of people dont know how to indicate around a roundabout, and will slow right down start to make a turn and then flick on the indicator. Weird how these people got their license.

I nearly hit one the other day. I was approaching a small roundabout going straight ahead, and an Excel was coming from the other side appearing to go straight ahead. Instead he turned right with no indicators meaning I had to jump on the anchors to avoid him. He just looked at me, no apology, wave or anything. How hard is it to flick a little lever just behind the steering wheel?

I also see an old woman (probably around 80) around the Clayton area who always walks around with fairy wings on her back.

Geez Louise · 03-10-2009, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by CHEETR

i saw a lady escaping from hospital in dandenong, running down teh road in her blue hospital nightie and a walker with the drip behind her on a stand on wheels and all the tubes still in her arms.. with bare feet

she was running down the middle of the road

Yeah but they finally caught me...

There is some crazy stuff happening out there at the moment. I witnessed a man shaving in his car on Fern Tree Gully Road a few weeks ago...and no! Wasn't an electric razor...I am talking full on going the Santa beard with the shaving cream

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Yellow_Festiva · 03-10-2009, 01:33 PM

Heard this on the radio just yesterday.

Chap saw a red Rav4 driving at 25km/h on the Hume Hwy in Bankstown. The person passed the car, did the stare and saw a lady (??) of a certain faith fully covered head to toe, had socks on the hands for gloves, and she was holding a wide brimmed sun hat across her face so other could not see her face.

I work in the area, not surprised in the least.

The roundabout thing drives me up the wall. People STILL have NFI about the 'new rules' regarding who has right of way, and the procedure for indicating during the entry and exit.

Also, regarding roundabouts, when it isn't a perfect 90 degree intersection, people indicate like their turning even though they are essentially going straight through...

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BIGJB · 03-10-2009, 01:41 PM

Oh where do I satrt the list.
Many years ago I use to commute over the Story bridge in peak hour everyday.
I use to follow the same car every other day from Mt Gravatt all the way over the bridge.
This guy always seemed a little erratict about how he was driving, anyway one day
I overtook him on the way over the bridge and worked out why he was always all over
the road. He was "relieving" himself.

Guessing it was an everyday occurance.

One of the best but was driving down Ipswich Rd through the Magic Mile only
to spot a(I cant spell) Sudinease chick with full grocery bags all the way from wrist to shoulder
kid on each hand baby strapped to her back and a 30pack of Pepsi Max on her head.

290v · 03-10-2009, 02:36 PM

Saw a Gemini go speeding passed me on the Main Nth Rd under the back you could see the vice grips hanging on the rear brake line (so he could do his little burn-outs)

Keepleft · 03-10-2009, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by rancidpunx

95% of people dont know how to indicate around a roundabout, and will slow right down start to make a turn and then flick on the indicator. Weird how these people got their license.

MOST people DON'T indicate properly, or at all *deliberately*, driving poorly IS a national pastime when you have so few highway patrol.

Besides, "show me the figures/stats - that say indicating saves lives and prevents crashes", or, that not indicating causes trauma et al. Told to me by a roads fella once. Speed is it you see.

RedHotGT · 03-10-2009, 02:47 PM

The other day I was following a small hatch back when the front passenger door swung open, and a guy kinda fell out of the car....
He actually got a little tangled in the inner door handle and kinda tumbled out underneath the back wheels...
The car bounced over him like it had just been over a speedhump... and he tumbled down the road cartwheel style (his phone flew out of his pocked and smashed to pieces)... while all this happened, he managed to hold a cigarrette in his mouth (one of those special ones that are rolled with the oregano/parsley flakes)...
He got straight up, picked up his phone pieces... and stormed up the LH shoulder of the road, while the hatchback that just ran him over slowly crawled next to him...
he yelled something into the STILL open front door at the woman driver, and then he climbed back in and continued to whichever MENTAL INSTITUTION was closest...

I was gobsmacked and didn't know what to say to my 5 year old son who was in the back asking "why did that man just get run over dad???"....

We overtook them not long after, and as I browsed the front seat, it was all pretty normal.... like nothing had happened...

EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT HE'D JUST BEEN RUN OVER!?!??!?

Weird....

tankclare · 03-10-2009, 02:53 PM

There has been a few weird things happen when driving..

Driving home with mates about 9pm out of no where a giant bright flash on the side of the road where it drops off an edge. Was clear sky and no other cars around for at least 15-20km. Was kinda freaky.

Not weird but annoying, Little old asian woman rides her scooter up the middle of the road. She is so small her feet can't touch the ground and she has to sit right on the handle bars. She always seems to be racing another old bloke in a scooter.

Once seen a fairly good looking young woman getting dressed while driving

Driving along in a mates commodore..all lights go out..SCARY

paule11 · 03-10-2009, 02:57 PM

I remember seeing a datsun 180b at the Cloncurry railway station back in about 1986 people were picking up a heap of relativesthey had about 10 people of different sizes took them a while to work out they couldnt fit everyone in ended up with 3 kids on the roof rack and about 7 in the car

onfire · 03-10-2009, 02:57 PM

Only days after owning the xr, pretty sure the old lady driving next to us fell asleep, the girlfriend even commented " is that lady awake? " next thing you know she's within inches of my car and we're bracing for impact.. no hit, lucky.

sarrge2001 · 03-10-2009, 03:03 PM

There was a report (with pictures) on the front page of the NT news yesterday about a woman following a police paddy wagon. Pulled up at the lights behind it and took a pic of the bloke and the woman in the cage having sex on the way back to the station!!!

Only in the territory........

BPXR6T · 03-10-2009, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by tankclare

Once seen a fairly good looking young woman getting dressed while driving

An ex used to do that all the time. We'd be going to the pub and she'd say she wanted to wear a dress instead of jeans so without a second thought would get her gear off right there in the middle of traffic. She certainly wasn't the shy type.

SLYXT · 03-10-2009, 03:41 PM

Prob the worst thing i ever seen was pulled up at the traffic lights next to this daihatsu charade lowered with wheels and the whole body kit happening, looked over and there was this young very hot looking blonde chick driving picking her nose so we watched her and she rolled it around in her fingers for a second and without hesitation she put it in her mouth and i near threw up lol.. my mate was ****ing himself laughing

FordFalconBF · 03-10-2009, 03:53 PM

Weirdest thing I saw lately was a couple of weeks ago I was driving to work in the morning about half past 6.

I saw this guy run in front of all these moving cars and he he continued to almost get hit and then ran over to a bus station advertising of a "Picture of a woman". and proceeded to to bash the cr@p out it.

I just said "WTF and started to laugh".. was very funny.

BPXR6T · 03-10-2009, 03:57 PM

I just remembered something from a few years ago. Waiting in the Safeways carpark at Seaford on the Nepean Hwy for my sister to get some groceries and a black commordore ute goes cruising down the hwy horn blaring with a dude standing up in the back totally naked. I'm thinking he lost a bet.

**SSD-85** · 03-10-2009, 03:58 PM

Oh dear, if theres a world record on a book with the most pages, this would be its topic....

Addz08 · 03-10-2009, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by rancidpunx

95% of people dont know how to indicate around a roundabout, and will slow right down start to make a turn and then flick on the indicator. Weird how these people got their license.

Or pull up and stop, have a look to see whats coming and then drive away, beats me why they can,t look as their pulling up to the round about...

jcxr · 03-10-2009, 04:15 PM

On a return trip from working at Heathcote Park drags one late arvo, a bit of road rage going on in front of me, 2 cars pulling up next to each other, swearing, screaming, etc. All of a sudden passenger throws an axe at the other combatants car. Hit the D/S door with a huge whack. Found out a few weeks later when i mentioned it at our monthly meeting of our drag club, that was one of our own members who threw the axe. He didnt last long in the club after that.

pauljh74 · 03-10-2009, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by jcxr

On a return trip from working at Heathcote Park drags one late arvo, a bit of road rage going on in front of me, 2 cars pulling up next to each other, swearing, screaming, etc. All of a sudden passenger throws an axe at the other combatants car. Hit the D/S door with a huge whack. Found out a few weeks later when i mentioned it at our monthly meeting of our drag club, that was one of our own members who threw the axe. He didnt last long in the club after that.

His membership was "axed" you could say

BlackLS · 03-10-2009, 06:38 PM

Heading towards the Shire on Princes Hwy, a guy in the shoulder was unloading a new fridge from a trailer onto a box trolley. I was driving past as he started wheeling the fridge in, the camber of the road caused the fridge to topple off the side of the trolley, fridge face first onto the concrete gutter. PMSL

kircher · 03-10-2009, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by paule11

I remember seeing a datsun 180b at the Cloncurry railway station back in about 1986 people were picking up a heap of relativesthey had about 10 people of different sizes took them a while to work out they couldnt fit everyone in ended up with 3 kids on the roof rack and about 7 in the car

Several years ago, just after I had finished my HSC, a whole lot of the people in year 12 in my town went out to the lake just out of town to have BBQs and celebrate. I went for a drive in my 180b around the lake on a rangers track or walking track, whatever it was. I got it stuck in mud, and a heap of the guys I was with had to help push it out. Since it was a fair way away from the bbq area, we decided to fit everyone who helped on and in the car. We managed to get 14 in and on it. 5 in the car, 2 sitting on the rear window sills with their legs in the car, 3 sitting in the boot with legs dangling out the back, 2 on the bonnet and 1 on the roof. It was a first gear walking pace crawl all the way, but the car didn't complain.

SLYXT · 03-10-2009, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by FordFairlaneAU

Weirdest thing I saw lately was a couple of weeks ago I was driving to work in the morning about half past 6.

I saw this guy run in front of all these moving cars and he he continued to almost get hit and then ran over to a bus station advertising of a "Picture of a woman". and proceeded to to bash the cr@p out it.

I just said "WTF and started to laugh".. was very funny.

This is gold lol.. reminds me so much of Crown St in wollongong haha!!

vztrt · 03-10-2009, 07:26 PM

Recently was driving down Springvale Rd and there was a 4WD with the fuel cap open, when I was stopped at the lights I noticed the fuel screw cap wasn't even on and was hanging by the side of the car.

Yellow_Festiva · 04-10-2009, 01:08 AM

Someone find that pic of the guy wearing the 3-4 burner BBQ roll cage style while riding a motorbike lol...

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