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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!s28g2000vbp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <9006eb82-d652-4155-ae72-c582b1e0172c@s28g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: How to get speeding drivers to slow down. Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 16:09:21 -0700 (PDT) References:    Lines: 60 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.145.66.20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1242169761 20805 127.0.0.1 (12 May 2009 23:09:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 23:09:21 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s28g2000vbp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.145.66.20; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 4239 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:829216

On May 11, 11:25=A0am, Sir Jeremy  wrote: > On 11 May, 10:52, Toom Tabard  wrote: > > > > > On 11 May, 10:45, "Simon Mason"  wrote: > > > > This works every time. A car coming towards you is obviously speeding= and > > > you, being a responsible law abiding citizen, wish it to slow down le= st it > > > kills someone down the road. All you do is point behind you and shout= "speed > > > trap", then watch as they slam on their brakes and stick to the limit= . Some > > > even thank you! > > > > -- > > > Simon Masonhttp://www.simonmason.karoo.net/ > > > What's equally interesting is that, when I'm driving within the limit, > > I get drivers coming the other way, flashing their lights to warn me > > that there *is* a mobile camera or police check just down the road. > > Some drivers apparently don't think they should co-operate with > > measures to make the roads safer for them and others. > > > Toom > > French drivers are especially good at this. Do you also object to > being overtaken? I was flashed by some woman doing 35mph in a 40mph > zone when I overtook her. Clean overtake, nothing coming, didn't cut > her up, but got the "dickhead" sign. Obviously I had to accelerate > over the speed limit to complete the overtake safely, but that's none > of her business. Interesting when I got out of the car to discuss the > matter at road works a few miles down the road she declined to engage > in conversation.

Of course she did. Such people know damn well that they don't have a leg to stand on, and that there's nothing rational about their objection to being overtaken: they simply like to control and impede others, and they don't like anyone else to benefit from going faster than them. She's hardly going to admit that.

I overtook someone at night a few weeks ago, without doing anything remotely wrong or even breaking The Holy Speed Limit, and they decided to leave their full beam on thereafter (it definitely wasn't a mistake since they dipped for an oncoming car and then put it back on again). After a minute or so I'd had enough, so I stopped my car, got out and waited for them to catch up. Straight away, the full beam went off, and they hung back and waited for me to get back in and go on my way. Cowardly scum, the lot of 'em.

I really wish such parasites, who delight in holding people up and whose attitude problem causes so much collective irritation to so many other motorists day in day out, would be dealt with properly by the authorities; unlike most drivers, these people have shown that they really can't be trusted to act reasonably and actually do need robust enforcement to be carried out against them (if you believe the car- haters, it's the "speeders", i.e. all motorists, who are in that category).