Anyone know this ****?
Anyone know this ****?
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ecain63

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10,604 posts

191 months

Tuesday 6th August 2013
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On the way home tonight on the northbound Bournemouth Spur there was a red Peugeot 306 intentionally holding up the whole dual carriageway pretty much from B'mth to Ashely Heath. I got caught about 5 cars behind it as we left the 50mph limit at the Bournemouth end heading toward Ringwood. It continued at about 50mph in the outside lane, sat along side another vehicle (not linked) all the way to the bottom of the big hill up toward Ashley Heath before the car on the left got the message and made a break to let people undertake and get past.

I managed to negotiate my way past the 4 cars in front of me (who were beeping and flashing lights at said car) and came up behind the 306 which looked to have either 2 young blonde girls in the front of the car or a young blonde female passenger and young, long haired blonde lad.

The shocking thing i saw was a sticker on the boot that said, 'The Closer You Get. The Slower I Go'. What a fking prick! I think it was a T reg 306 with black plastic bumpers. At rush hour too! Thats how people get into serious bother with road rage!!

If anyone recognises the sticker and the car feel free to abuse it where possible.


Dolittle

1,256 posts

174 months

Tuesday 6th August 2013
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Whats wrong with that? If some fool feels the need to tailgate me, i'll slow down too.

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

271 months

Tuesday 6th August 2013
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Perhaps she'll stop this idiocy now plod can give her £100 and three points. The sooner the better.

ecain63

Original Poster:

10,604 posts

191 months

Tuesday 6th August 2013
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Dolittle said:
Whats wrong with that? If some fool feels the need to tailgate me, i'll slow down too.
??? You if youre doing below the speed limit then surely you'd need to get out of the way. Nobody was tailgating. The driver was intentionally holding up traffic for no reason. The sticker on the boot gives the intention away. Kind of advertises the fact that he's / she's a dick!

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

271 months

Tuesday 6th August 2013
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Ignore the troll.

Dolittle

1,256 posts

174 months

Tuesday 6th August 2013
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ecain63 said:
Dolittle said:
Whats wrong with that? If some fool feels the need to tailgate me, i'll slow down too.
??? You if youre doing below the speed limit then surely you'd need to get out of the way. Nobody was tailgating. The driver was intentionally holding up traffic for no reason. The sticker on the boot gives the intention away. Kind of advertises the fact that he's / she's a dick!
I was referring to the sticker. If I get tail gated, which I do an awful lot usually with some idiot balancing a camera on his steering wheel, I would slow down.

ecain63

Original Poster:

10,604 posts

191 months

Tuesday 6th August 2013
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mybrainhurts said:
Ignore the troll.
Difficult when your stuck behind a dickead like that on a very long stretch of road with little room for release. Not easy to 'keep calm and carry on'.

Dolittle

1,256 posts

174 months

Tuesday 6th August 2013
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ecain63 said:
mybrainhurts said:
Ignore the troll.
Difficult when your stuck behind a dickead like that on a very long stretch of road with little room for release. Not easy to 'keep calm and carry on'.
Are you sure that you should be driving at all if things like that make you see red?

ecain63

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10,604 posts

191 months

Tuesday 6th August 2013
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Dolittle said:
ecain63 said:
Dolittle said:
Whats wrong with that? If some fool feels the need to tailgate me, i'll slow down too.
??? You if youre doing below the speed limit then surely you'd need to get out of the way. Nobody was tailgating. The driver was intentionally holding up traffic for no reason. The sticker on the boot gives the intention away. Kind of advertises the fact that he's / she's a dick!
I was referring to the sticker. If I get tail gated, which I do an awful lot usually with some idiot balancing a camera on his steering wheel, I would slow down.
I think we are referring to different scenarios. You get pissed at people getting close behind in order to take pics of your very nice car. A lot of us get that from time to time and its not normally meant to cause you greif. Thats not the same as somebody deliberately holding up traffic in order to enrage the masses. Thats how 'accicents' happen.

ecain63

Original Poster:

10,604 posts

191 months

Tuesday 6th August 2013
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Dolittle said:
ecain63 said:
mybrainhurts said:
Ignore the troll.
Difficult when your stuck behind a dickead like that on a very long stretch of road with little room for release. Not easy to 'keep calm and carry on'.
Are you sure that you should be driving at all if things like that make you see red?
So being stuck beind somebody like the above would leave you cool and calm? Somebody who is actually trying to ruin the day of those behind them by making them wait longer to get home?

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

271 months

Tuesday 6th August 2013
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ecain63 said:
Difficult when your stuck behind a dickead like that on a very long stretch of road with little room for release. Not easy to 'keep calm and carry on'.
WHOOSH

ecain63

Original Poster:

10,604 posts

191 months

Tuesday 6th August 2013
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mybrainhurts said:
ecain63 said:
Difficult when your stuck behind a dickead like that on a very long stretch of road with little room for release. Not easy to 'keep calm and carry on'.
WHOOSH
Oh,i see! Very nice thank you! Noted!

Dolittle

1,256 posts

174 months

Tuesday 6th August 2013
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The sticker you said they had said "The Closer You Get. The Slower I Go" In other words, don't tailgate me. I cant see a problem in that. I wasnt talking about how the car was driving. Actually I might buy some of those stickers and put them on all my cars.

ecain63

Original Poster:

10,604 posts

191 months

Tuesday 6th August 2013
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Dolittle said:
The sticker you said they had said "The Closer You Get. The Slower I Go" In other words, don't tailgate me. I cant see a problem in that. I wasnt talking about how the car was driving. Actually I might buy some of those stickers and put them on all my cars.
Ah, got ya! If it hadnt been for the driving i could see the point of the sticker as a deterrant. The fact that the two were being combined is what really got me. If it had been the driving on its own i dont think i'd have been so enraged. The sticker and driving mix just shouted, 'I'm a dick and im going to wind you the fk up by making you all late!!'.


normalbloke

8,101 posts

235 months

Tuesday 6th August 2013
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I find a gentle nudge up the backside makes them want to pull over in a hurry.....

ecain63

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10,604 posts

191 months

Tuesday 6th August 2013
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normalbloke said:
I find a gentle nudge up the backside makes them want to pull over in a hurry.....
Unimog is ideal for that i suppose.

doorman

1,539 posts

207 months

Tuesday 6th August 2013
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There is absolutely no doubt about it, there are drivers out there who do that kind of thing just too be bloody minded, happens a lot on Hayling where 2 lanes go into one at Langstone, they'll try and race you to the single lane at 40 plus and then slow down to 25. Re tailgating those idiots who slow right down are the type who will likely to brake test you, if you don't like being tailgated make normal progress to suit varying road conditions or pull over and let the idiot go, I treasure my back end more than my ego to dictate what some other idiot wants to do. Chances are these people who do this kind of thing have underpowered cars, small dicks and no friends. laugh


New POD

3,851 posts

166 months

Tuesday 6th August 2013
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There are people who don't know the speed limit, don't know that their speedo is reading a higher speed than they are travelling, and are sitting in the 'overtaking lane' of a DC, because in 12 miles they intend to turn right.

These people wonder why they get a) undertaken, b) tailgated c) 'gestures', beeps and flashes.

So what to they do ? Buy a fking sticker.

If the OP is a troll, well, who cares, he's got a valid point.

ecain63

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10,604 posts

191 months

Tuesday 6th August 2013
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Im amazed that somebody with over 37'000 posts saw fit to call me troll. All that time sat tapping at the keyboard is a bit trollish in itself. As said, it's been noted.

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

271 months

Tuesday 6th August 2013
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ecain63 said:
Im amazed that somebody with over 37'000 posts saw fit to call me troll. All that time sat tapping at the keyboard is a bit trollish in itself. As said, it's been noted.
Holy bloody snot...banghead

I was supporting you and telling you to ignore the troll having a go at you.

You appeared to miss that, so I offered you the WHOOSH, by way of hint.

Are we there yet...?