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[webofevil]

Drivers! If you insist on reinforcing my prejudices about what hunching over a steering wheel does to people ("You don't understand what it's like to drive," an old friend of mine keeps saying, but I understand only too well: it's like being a seven-year-old allowed to play with a power tool) by driving obliviously and recklessly, then realising too late that you're protruding into oncoming traffic and trying to reverse into me at speed as I'm legitimately using a pedestrian crossing, expect me to smack your goddamn car. Your frenzied honking and swearing in response is misplaced. I'm not the c*nt here.

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[nudejournal.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it be brilliant if one morning you woke up and looked out the window to see that during the night someone had turned all the cars upside down?

[strictlytrue.livejournal.com]

We're doing the Road Safety Bill at the minute, and the Tories are gamely trying to resist the creation of an offence of causing death by careless driving. Something to bear in mind the next time you see the Daily Mail railing against the Government being soft on crime.

You know how motorists' organisations like to talk of the Government victimising motorists, or the "war" on the motorist? Well I say you may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb. We *should* actively victimise motorists. Make them pay money for every metre they travel. Equipment should be installed into cars that give people electric shocks every time they jump lights or refuse to stop at zebra crossings. Buses should have the right to destroy cars that park in bus lanes. My patience is now at an end...

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

Make them pay money for every metre they travel.

By taxing the fuel, for example?

[strictlytrue.livejournal.com]

No, that's not enough. A pound a metre, I say, and not a penny less.

[psychonomy.livejournal.com]

Driving is a form of consensual insanity.

Case in point: you're waiting to get on to a multi-lane roundabout. A battalion of very hard and heavy high-speed death machines is approaching from the right, under the control of people who are statisticaly likely to be more stupid than you.

Do you:

(a) wait for an appropriate gap in the traffic and pull out, carefully manoevering yourself into the correct lane

or

(b) get out and walk.

Walking. It's the only sane choice.

[gideondefoe.livejournal.com]

If I don't get into at least one scrap with an idiot driver per day I don't feel I've accomplished anything. A while ago I kicked in the back of a BMW that almost ran me down on tottenham court road, and got a bit annoyed when a watching tramp told me off for it. “If I had a BMW I'd be really unhappy about you doing that” he said. I pointed out the situation wasn't likely to come up.

[nudejournal.livejournal.com]

My friend once got into an argument with a man outside Sainsburys in London Bridge. It was claimed the tramp my friend had just given change to might well own a BMW parked nearby, as well as one or more nearby houses. So think on!

[(Anonymous)]

Aww, honey. Personally, I blame "Undercover Love" for causing excessive speed on this nation's highways. Consider yourself contrib. negligent.