Shell-shock... gatso style
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I seem to have devloped a condition in which any sudden bright flash when I'm driving - sun reflecting on a windscreen, camera being used, headlamp suddenly in rear view mirror, causes me to flinch and experience sudden feelings of dread. All to do with my having "form". My wife has started it now and she don't even have any points.
Anyone else get this?
Anyone else get this?
I think I know the feeling you are talking about. Last time it happened to me though I was late for an appointment and was just about to pass an unmarked plod at 110 when I realised who he was (sat in the middle lane in a brand new 535i, good to see where the fines go 
) slowed down a tad without braking and had to painfully pass him at 90 right next to him (LHD) before pulling over and prtending I'm an 
The tosser still followed me, even into the inside lane, all the way to my junction.
) slowed down a tad without braking and had to painfully pass him at 90 right next to him (LHD) before pulling over and prtending I'm an The tosser still followed me, even into the inside lane, all the way to my junction.
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Yup - and violently braking just because there's a car sitting on a bridge over a motorway...
Yes that's me too. I always think to myself what a fool I've just been, driving too fast for the conditions etc... And lately imagine you lot deriding me for not being sufficiently aware, etc...
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I seem to have devloped a condition in which any sudden bright flash when I'm driving - sun reflecting on a windscreen, camera being used, headlamp suddenly in rear view mirror, causes me to flinch and experience sudden feelings of dread. All to do with my having "form". My wife has started it now and she don't even have any points.
Anyone else get this?
One can have so much fun with 2 Cameras flashes at night on a country road 
There’s a construction site just off M1 Junc 16 which had (maybe still has) security spotlights with a blue hue to them. When I used to come off the M1 in the middle of the night (normally at warp speed), as I drove past the site, breaks in the hedgerow would cause the blue coloured light to flicker in my mirror. The first time this happened I really thought I was about to get pulled.
Even when I’d worked out what it was, it occasionally used to scare the S
t out of me for a split second when sometimes I forgot it was there. I think there’s a part of the brain that reacts to things that could be dangerous far faster than the part of the brain that retrieves information from your memory to tell you they’re not really a threat.
I've done that more times than I care to remember.
Even when I’d worked out what it was, it occasionally used to scare the S
t out of me for a split second when sometimes I forgot it was there. I think there’s a part of the brain that reacts to things that could be dangerous far faster than the part of the brain that retrieves information from your memory to tell you they’re not really a threat. quote:
I have had this condition for years. Any flash in the car brings that horrible feeling and I often drive back to the location of the flash and just check there is no camera.
Deester...
I've done that more times than I care to remember.
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Why do people stop and park on Bridges?? I mean of all the places you could stop, why a busy, often narrow bridge? - anyone know???
Is it not obvious? It's just because watching the motorway is so damn interesing
Either that or someone saying to his mate "watch these guys slow down now we're parked here"
A few years ago I had a run of bad luck, getting flashed quite a few times. The horrible feeling of immediate shock, going boiling hot, feeling sick then praying that the camera was in the percentile that had run out of or had no film.
This was always playing on my mind, so much so that walking down a corridor at work one day a faulty strip light flashed on and off and I nearly sh*t myself!! Try explaining that one, jumping a good few inches off the ground in sheer terror for no reason, people thought I was nuts
This was always playing on my mind, so much so that walking down a corridor at work one day a faulty strip light flashed on and off and I nearly sh*t myself!! Try explaining that one, jumping a good few inches off the ground in sheer terror for no reason, people thought I was nuts
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A few years ago I had a run of bad luck, getting flashed quite a few times. The horrible feeling of immediate shock, going boiling hot, feeling sick then praying that the camera was in the percentile that had run out of or had no film.
This was always playing on my mind, so much so that walking down a corridor at work one day a faulty strip light flashed on and off and I nearly sh*t myself!! Try explaining that one, jumping a good few inches off the ground in sheer terror for no reason, people thought I was nuts
I think quite a few of us PH’ers could to sue the government for compensation: Post Speed Trap Stress Disorder
People or cars on bridges, tree shapes that look like cars on bridges, sirens on the radio/songs
sun reflections, any van at the side of the road,
Post trumatic stress disorder. Got to be a runner.
even if you are under the limit, you still c@ap yourself for that nano second and try and brake and your leg trembles as you try to stop doing an emergency brake when your brain says no danger not going to get eaten.
whats it called? conditional muscular reflex action. Must have casued a few accidents. It people or cars on bridges that really do it for me.
the radio/songs sun reflections, any van at the side of the road,
Post trumatic stress disorder. Got to be a runner.
even if you are under the limit, you still c@ap yourself for that nano second and try and brake and your leg trembles as you try to stop doing an emergency brake when your brain says no danger not going to get eaten.
whats it called? conditional muscular reflex action. Must have casued a few accidents. It people or cars on bridges that really do it for me.
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