My ride report - or why not to punch mirrors off cars when they cut you off

[Langanobob]

I'm not trying to criticize anyone here or be an ass. sorry for expressing my observations.

You're not being an ass and don't be sorry.  I tend to agree that Corndog was just relating his observations, but I also think that you were on the right track in keeping us on the right track. 

[Oldfisti]

As far as I'm concerned, everyone on the road is trying to kill me with their every action. Since that's my norm anytime someone doesn't screw up is a little bonus.

The bigger question is how do we go about changing the driving culture in this country? Better driver awareness and courtesy would most surely decrease accidents and increase the flow of traffic. I know it's a really tall order but there's a chance.

[killaimdie]

My observations.........prejudice. I wasn't a jerk about it but reread his post.
Really? just observation?
I didn't say this wouldn't make me really pissed.......it would, and I don't care for the way the immigration situation in this country stands, but I don't express it in this forum. I lose tens of thousands of dollars of work yearly because of it and have for a decade but this isn't the place for it. I'm not trying to criticize anyone here or be an ass. sorry for expressing my observations.

Stop crying.

And for the rest of you that are concerned about guns or criminal charges, stop being pussies. The whole point of violent actions is to cross the line between civil actions and uncivil in an attempt to deter further retard actions from the opposing party. If you disagree with me then you can go report this post to the police, see what they'll do for you.

[ducpainter]

Let's not get this locked due to racism, politics, and cop talk....

OK?

[Popeye the Sailor]

Look, some of this is just being silly.

We're all aware that the majority of the time, the idiot in the cage who just cut you off didn't even see you-hence they pulled the idiot move in the first place.

Consider that scenario from the cager perspective. You looked, didn't see anything, pulled out, then some crazed motorcyclist zoomed from out of nowhere and knocked my mirror off! Wtf?!

It should not be news that on a bike, we are invisible to cars. Getting pissed off because they should see us is an exercise in futility.

Anyone who does it to us on purpose is a different matter, but how can you be sure?

[corndog67]

OK, I received a PM from someone, maybe a mod (?), maybe I went too far in my description.  But, it's a fact, there is a very, very large, illegal, undocumented, unlicensed, uninsured motorist population in this area.   We have the highest hit and run level, for the population, in the United States, due to the population mentioned above.   Maybe he is 5'2", it doesn't matter, but he came across the line twice, trying to either hit me or block me from passing.   

We have 28 guys at the race shop where I work.   According to the guys, in the past 4 years or so, 3 of the guys have been in major accidents on that road, 50 mph plus, all with illegal, undocumented, unlicensed, uninsured field workers, all due to them pulling out in front of cars going straight down that road.   Does that make me prejudiced?   How about when the cops pulled a drivers license/seat belt checkpoint out there, and towed 137 unlicensed, uninsured vehicles in either 6 or 8 hours?  Does that make the cops prejudiced?  We did have some snivelers in the newspaper crying that it was racial profiling.   Now if those were Canadian illegal immigrants, without insurance or a license, would that be racial profiling and prejudice on the cops part? 

What makes my post prejudiced, the 5 foot nothin' remark?  Most of them are.   Calling them little shits?  Should I have said little rat bastards instead?  I just had an electrician come over and do some wiring.   He was Hispanic.  Legal.  Makes approx. 3 times what I do, no problems.  Now if I would have said, I don't think so, no Hispanics in my house, that would have been prejudiced.  But I do have a major problem with the illegal aliens here.  Of course Agribusiness is making big dollars off of them, so they are of use to them anyway, and it's only going to get worse.

By the way, my wife is from South America. 

And that's about all I have to say about that. 

[Statler]

OK, I received a PM from someone, maybe a mod (?), maybe I went too far in my description.  But, it's a fact, there is a very, very large, illegal, undocumented, unlicensed, uninsured motorist population in this area.   We have the highest hit and run level, for the population, in the United States, due to the population mentioned above.   Maybe he is 5'2", it doesn't matter, but he came across the line twice, trying to either hit me or block me from passing.   

We have 28 guys at the race shop where I work.   According to the guys, in the past 4 years or so, 3 of the guys have been in major accidents on that road, 50 mph plus, all with illegal, undocumented, unlicensed, uninsured field workers, all due to them pulling out in front of cars going straight down that road.   Does that make me prejudiced?   How about when the cops pulled a drivers license/seat belt checkpoint out there, and towed 137 unlicensed, uninsured vehicles in either 6 or 8 hours?  Does that make the cops prejudiced?  We did have some snivelers in the newspaper crying that it was racial profiling.   Now if those were Canadian illegal immigrants, without insurance or a license, would that be racial profiling and prejudice on the cops part? 

What makes my post prejudiced, the 5 foot nothin' remark?  Most of them are.   Calling them little shits?  Should I have said little rat bastards instead?  I just had an electrician come over and do some wiring.   He was Hispanic.  Legal.  Makes approx. 3 times what I do, no problems.  Now if I would have said, I don't think so, no Hispanics in my house, that would have been prejudiced.  But I do have a major problem with the illegal aliens here.  Of course Agribusiness is making big dollars off of them, so they are of use to them anyway, and it's only going to get worse.

By the way, my wife is from South America. 

And that's about all I have to say about that. 

PM was from me (you can read that in the 'from' line by the way).   one public posted warning from an admin and one pm from another obviously wasn't enough.