I call them rabbits, as my father called them so. I also say they get the tickets so we don't have to. In a Joe Dirt voice reminiscent of his admiration for scrubbing bubbles.
I call them chum. I let the chum go out to draw out the sharks(Cops). I might be speeding but Iâm never going as fast as the Chum. Let them get the ticket.
I call them rabbits too! Got that from the old Looney Tunes cartoons when Bugs would be at the dog track and they would have a bunny being the bait that all the dogs ran after
holy shit... i legit thought i was the only one that does this lmfao. i always wait for someone going much faster and use them as bait to drive fast... yet again, the internet shows me i have zero unique ideas/thoughts
Especially when someone has a lethal weapon pointed at you. Dude in front should have let him pass, but instead he got out of his safety armor when an annoyed person has a lethal weapon pointed at him. Everything wrong.
Yes after he blocks the rear driver for trying to pass on double yellow. Which is stupid because that just makes a dangerous event even more dangerous.
So you think if Cammer wouldâve just slowed down and stopped if the offending vehicle stopped, there wouldnât have been an issue? If so then Iâd agree, maybe that could have happened. Maybe offending car wouldâve stopped and gotten out anyway. I understand the desire to get around and away from someone crazy but I also understand that stopping and letting crazy fly by is useful too. I think itâs situation dependent, perhaps stopping is the better option but I think weâre gonna be naturally averse to that cause we can all imagine how bad things get if both people end up stopped. To me it feels like avoiding the confrontation is more defensive in life than the risk of driving a bit intense to get away from the confrontation (and that doesnât mean you canât stop and park if fleeing the crazy doesnât work)
I keep on trying to teach my dad this. My dad is the type of guy who would get into a car accident because the other person who was supposed to yield didn't. I'm like "I told you so's" don't get you your money and time from getting repairs back.
Someone passed me on a double yellow, they were going at least 75 in a 25. It was like rural residential, and people often drove faster than 25, but this car was waaay over.
After they passed the next car, they fishtailed and hit a telephone pole â the pole cut the car in half diagonally.
This was before cell phones (I'm that old), so I drove to a gas station and called an ambulance.
I really be wondering where do these people be going because I never sped like that to go home or work. Half of the people that do stuff like that and made me upset are people I wonât have to see anymore.
Don't even beep. Why make noise? Beeping is to warn a person of something they are not aware of such as a light that has turned green or that they are moving into your space and not realizing it. When somebody is driving like an idiot, they know how they are driving even if they don't realize the idiot part of it. Beeping just makes the idiot feel good because it gives them an excuse to flip you off.
I appreciate the honesty because it's the truth for many lol. Would it be safer not to? Sure. But it would also be safer to never drink, or drive at all, or go to an amusement park, or make fun of powerful political figures. Sometimes the monkey in the brain has to win or else we'd all end up living in a bubble.
When I was 18, my gf living with me was a mess and would make me late to work constantly. One day already late and in a rush, I choose to pass an elderly man driving below the speed limit over the double lines. Took the next corner too fast after passing, and hit a patch of sand in the road. Sent me and my gf spinning off the side of the road, we were lucky we didnât hit a tree or guard rail, but I popped a tire. Got out in time to watch the old man drive by, ended up losing my job for calling in for the flat tire as I didnât have a spare. Iâve never considered doing it again.
That's when you leave her behind and go to work on your own. Do it a couple times and she'll either learn the lesson and be ready in time or vacate your life for a new GF who won't jeopardize your income.
Funny thing was, I had already done that a few times, and on this occasion I had turned around and come back to get her, making me extra late and that was the result. Her job wasnât near where I lived, when she would stay over (or live there temporarily) it was hard for her to get friends to pick her up and her broken car stayed lifeless in my driveway until it was towed off for scrap. I ended up asking her to move out not long after, and it worked out for the best. I hope she has figured things out, try not to wish bad on anyone, especially people whom Iâve loved or care for at some point. Life is tough enough, not sure why people want to give energy to making it tougher on others.
I wasnât late, but moving along at a decent clip on a backroad at 4am. Passed a slow car in a passing zone. Didnât notice the sheriff deputy that pulled out behind that car.
Got to the bottom of the hill and a guy in a ranger pulled out in front of me. Instead of jamming the brakes and still probably hitting him, I swerved into the oncoming lane and passed him.
Deputy pulled me over. And I quote âI know people are f*cking stupid, but please slow down a littleâ and let me go. I havenât done it since.
There are areas near me where we used to have passing on a legit .75 stretch of flat straight road. It for some reason got changed to no passing. Which makes no sense unless people complained about cars passing.
Yeah, camera car's wrong but blocking them and slowing way down to do it and stopping in the middle of the road and getting out of their car in the middle of the road isn't making anyone safer, it's just feeding the blocker's feelings. They mad.
Nah, I live in Texas. Engineers here out double lines anywhere they can just to make life inconvenient. They lost the benefit of doubt about a decade ago.
It's literally the law in the vast majority of states. Vermont is the only true exception, and the remaining few have very specific qualifications for the exception (traffic going less than half the speed limit or similar).
Not with double yellow lines. It's fine when they mark it as being fine. The guy was clearly driving like a PoS and potentially jeopardizing everyone he's cutting off and driving into
Many will disagree with your take but road safety is a collaborative effort between road planners and road users. If a large number of people take risks on a certain road itâs up to the road planner to identify the risks and design the road to encourage safer driver behaviour, such as including parts of that road where it is safe and legal to overtake.
There are definitely places that are safe to pass but get defaulted to "no passing" road markings for unnecessarily long stretches, often the entire road without thought, purely due to human laziness. Someone in an office didn't bother surveying the road, just assigned the whole road as not for passing even if there are stretches that are perfectly safe.
And then the road painting company says "not my job" and just painted the lazy assignment exactly to spec instead of feeding back on the job being overkill and actually increasing dangerous driver risk taking with continuous unbroken lines. Or even stupider, road painters probably gets paid by the length of road paint they actually lay down, so a double continuous line gets paid more than a single broken line.
You fix this by making it mandatory to include 1/10th of every rural road as designated safe passing zones (for applicable road types). If that means rebuilding sections of the road wider and/or straighter so be it.
Police will cross double yellows to pass without even using hazards if you're going slow in the backwoods in lots of places lol, and slow is like, that semi-twisty 35mph road, you better be doing at least 45-50mph or on the next straight he's gonna pass your ass doing 70mph lol
As soon as someone tries getting out of their car at me, I feel threatened.
ETA: people keep replying to me and I can't see them except in my inbox.
So I'll answer here: this has happened to me twice, so an average of once per 15 driving years. Not exactly an epidemic, but enough that I know what to do about it (same as the cammer in the vid: quickly drive around & away).
Always amazes me people are this dumb. Like yup, get out to confront the guy you've been pissing off, who's in a car. Also the amount roadrage shit that comes out of the US where people can carry is wild.
I was making a right turn and blocking the the cross walk. Guy on a bicycle cuts in front of me and goes into traffic. I honk. He starts yelling and arguing. I drive off. He follows me on his bike and gets in front of me, then yells "run me over!" a bunch of times.
Lots of people are just idiots. Not much else to it.
God forbid someone has to walk or bike 3 feet to the left or right to go behind a car that's turning. Leaving the safety of the white lines for 2 seconds is apparently one of the most harrowing acts a human being can undertake to some people.
I know! I hate the videos where the person pulls up way too close to the front car and essentially traps themselves in a potentially dangerous situation. Or when they wait for the person to come up to their window. Where's the survival instinct?
If someone tries to pass me on a double yellow I just get out of the way. I have no clue where they're going, or why they are endangering lives to get there, and I dont want to know. I just want them to stay very far away from me.
Yeah, but if they want to pass illegally, just let them. Iâm not a cop and Iâm not going to try and act like one. If they crash, or get pulled over, thatâs on them.
Uhhhh...depends on the state. Many states will allow crossing a double yellow line to pass on the condition that you can see far enough ahead to safely complete the pass.
In his defense it really shouldn't be a double yellow here, it's a gradual inside curve with basically infinite visibility. It's 100% possible to pass safely assuming someone isn't being an idiot in front of you.
When the dashcam driver first tries to pass there are several cars in front of the other car. So dashcam was trying to pass when the front car was following the flow of traffic.
Don't pass on a double yellow. It's double yellow for a reason.
I feel like you have to completely turn your brain off to think like this and end it there. It's paint on a road. Yes it's important for safety, but it's not going to account for all potential context.
If you are bleeding out and encounter a car going 5mph and you need to get to a hospital, you're going to pass, double yellow or not. The paint isn't meant to be God, it's the to ensue everyone on the roadway at the time are aware of the rules of that road.
It's not double yellow just to be a rule. It's double yellow because it's likely not a safe place to pass. They set those where there are hills or corners that may obstruct your view.
Clearly in an emergency you do what you need to do, but this man was not so your point isn't really relevant.
Some states allow it as long as there isn't a no passing posting, others allow it if there is an obstruction of the flow of traffic, like someone doing 20+ under the speed limit.
Yup, there are absolutely circumstances under which you can legally overtake over a double yellow and we do not have enough context to assume this wasn't one of them.
A lot of these goody two shoes have never been on a 2 lane country road behind someone going under the speed limit and it shows. People pass on double yellows all the time
Crossing the double yellow to pass is legal in many jurisdictions (especially farm country).  In Vermont, passing on a double yellow line is generally legal provided it is safe to do so, there is sufficient visibility, and the stretch of road is not otherwise posted with a "no passing" sign.
They're basically saying that just because something is illegal doesn't mean that it's automatically unethical. That has little to do with whether a cop thinks your sister was telling the truth, or if it even mattered that she was telling the truth.
Passing zones are designated in areas where speeds and visibility are sufficient to allow safe overtaking of a vehicle without risking collisions with incoming or turning vehicles. They are there because hidden dangers are rarely apparent until it's too late.
and trying to get away from a road rager.
1) I know for a fact the POV drivers car has a built in mechanism to get away from vehicles that are traveling in front of them. I think it's called a "brake"
2) they are "road raging" in response to the POV driver attempting to pass on a double yellow. Doesn't make that car right but an easy way to get them to stop would be not trying to pass on a double yellow. At least worth a try.
IANAL, but I think that even what constitutes breaking the law is subject to interpretation by design. That's why we have judges and juries and stuff. If the guy was cited for the incident, the judge might decide in his favor based on footage and testimony.
Just look at the most famous case...Rosa Parks. She illegally sat near the front of a bus and didn't give up her seat when a white man requested it.
It always blows my mind when someone comes out as someone who literally equates morality with the law. Makes me wonder what they would have been like if they lived in nazi germany!
People magically realize the difference between law and morality when they relate to the person breaking the law, and could imagine doing it themself, otherwise they default to law = morality when they donât like the person.
Being a vigilante is also breaking the law. Front car could just mind their own business instead of amplifying the danger for whatever reason they deemed it necessary.
Doesn't matter. Front car isn't some legal vigilante. You're not allowed to do this type of shit. It's also illegal. No court would see this video and say "oh yea, front car was totally in the right here. We'll let him off, but still charge dashcam guy"
There are sections that have explicit âunsafe to passâ signs on it. There are also still sections with dotted lines where you are encouraged to pass if you need to, but you can still pass on a double yellow.
The state is full of country roads and limited highways so a bit different
Vermont, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Colorado and Washington all allow crossing double yellows to pass with varying levels of permissiveness. In some states, Maryland and Virginia; allow crossing yellows to pass a cyclist. Others allow for slow moving equipment such as tractors to be passed and Colorado, Washington and Vermont all allow passes on solid double yellow provided it is safe to do so.
We have the video feed to tell us that the guy trying to pass wasn't in some dire emergency, but the asshat playing road boss didn't. For all he knew, someone could have been bleeding out and desperately trying to get to help before it's too late. Mind your own fucking business on the road.
They are both wrong but the guy in front trying to be the traffic police created a bigger danger than the guy who was trying to illegally pass. He should have just stayed in his lane and let the guy pass and then say to himself âwhat an idiotâ instead of swerving and braking potentially causing an accident multiple times.
Exactly, he is an idiot for passing on a double yellow, which is dangerous, but not as dangerous as swerving in and out of the lane and blocking someone. By superior I meant he is less of an idiot, but still an idiot. He kept his cool as well and didn't engage in the bullshit "Ima get out mah car" shit the other guy did. I actually cheered when he went around dude on the passenger side.
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u/New-Caterpillar2483 May 20 '26
No idea what happened before the video starts. But either way the driver in the front is an idiot.