Pick up truck tries to kill biker

[kopfjäger]

I'm baffled by some of the comments in this thread.  The riders are at fault?!?  Huh?!? 

Really??? In the land of "Snobby McDoocati"   

[ducpainter]

I'm not sure that's true as the last ticket I ever got in VT was for "limitations on passing" Then again, I was doing a lot wrong at the time and only by being extremely apologetic and polite to the state trooper did it get knocked down to just that. Might explain the fact that there are double yellows in addition to "No passing zone" signs. I dunno.

I don't fault the bikers at all. Maybe they shouldn't have stopped, maybe they shouldn't have told the guy they were calling the cops or had a video. But I doubt I'd have behaved any smarter.

There are places that the exception is revoked if it's posted.

As I said, the law was designed for getting around tractors running the road. If you pass another car while going 20 over and cross the double yellow you will get ticketed.

[Raux]

There are places that the exception is revoked if it's posted.

As I said, the law was designed for getting around tractors running the road. If you pass another car while going 20 over and cross the double yellow you will get ticketed.

tiicketed, not put to death.

[ducpainter]

tiicketed, not put to death.

like I said earlier,

after the original pass there was a whole lotta stupid going on.

[thought]

The very last thing I would want my buddy doing is chasing the one-tooth wonder in order to get footage of the event

See... I don't see how everyone sees the camera guy as chasing down the truck.  I mean, if it happened to me, I would basically have to do the same actions... By that meaning, follow the psycho trucker because I can't pass, hope that my friend stops ahead somewhere soon so I can meet up with him because if I stop and call him, he won't get it until he stops anyway.

Dunno how it seems to everyone else he's chasing him.

[RAT900]

Well at the very least, by following the lunatic his buddy could call in EMS with a location if Toothless caught up with him and finished running him down or into the shrubs or a ditch

that way they wouldn't have to spend a few critical hours searching for him in the foliage while he bled out

because Gomer sure wouldn't have stuck around if he succeeded in killing the guy or sent him off the road



but I am probably all wrong about this,

stopping and calling 911 in the middle of nowhere is probably a much more effective strategy

in a moving life-or-death situation when someone is trying to kill your friend

and following crazy Gomer might make him madder/crazier than he already is

[Spck31]

I'm baffled by some of the comments in this thread.  The riders are at fault?!?  Huh?!?  What'd they do other than cross on a DY?  If that's all it takes to ride like an asshole, then I'm a gazillion times more of an asshole then I'd ever imagined.  So they followed the guy.  Who gives  make the beast with two backs?  That's not riding like an asshole.  That's following someone to get the ID of the dude who tried to kill your friend.  As for confronting him afterward, how's that an asshole move?!?   Look, normally I'm all for unfair Monday-morning-quarterbacking on the interwebs, but that's just nutty.  I just don't get it.  Those guys were just out for a ride and Mr. NoTeeth McSistermake the beast with two backser tried to put them in a ditch.

Yup, pretty much.  Just don't get caught.   

[Privateer]

I love when a law makes no sense.
Either you can cross it or you can't

There should be a break in the double yellow for legal left turns

how much sense would it make to paint a broken line every 100 yards or so for a driveway on either side of the road?

http://forums.13x.com/showpost.php?p=3554715&postcount=690

Jim FischerThe pickup driver was arrested for reckless driving, DUI and the DA is using the video to consider reckless endangerment and possibly attempted murder charges. If convicted of all charges the pickup driver could get up to 24 years in jail. That's unlikely but he will likely see a felony conviction and jail time for his life threatening antics. Jerk.

As of May 29, the guy who originally shot the video said no arrests had been made:

http://www.assfaultjunkies.com/showthread.php?12459-KY-10-22-Riders-WARNING&p=303444&viewfull=1#post303444

[bevel]

There are places that the exception is revoked if it's posted.

As I said, the law was designed for getting around tractors running the road. If you pass another car while going 20 over and cross the double yellow you will get ticketed.

We had a run-in with an LEO up in VT just this past weekend, and the clarifications given to us were "legal except where 'no passing' signs are posted, or near intersections, or bridges."

The advice we were given was to "just slow it down when we hit the villages."

[Veloce-Fino]

We had a run-in with an LEO up in VT just this past weekend, and the clarifications given to us were "legal except where 'no passing' signs are posted, or near intersections, or bridges."

The advice we were given was to "just slow it down when we hit the villages."

What state? I'd love to know if passing on double yellow was legal in my area. Some back roads don't have the passing zones but safe passes could certainly be made.

[DRKWNG]

We had a run-in with an LEO up in VT just this past weekend.

What state?

Fail

[Veloce-Fino]

Fail

SHHHIIIIIITTTTT

[ducpainter]

We had a run-in with an LEO up in VT just this past weekend, and the clarifications given to us were "legal except where 'no passing' signs are posted, or near intersections, or bridges."

The advice we were given was to "just slow it down when we hit the villages."

That pretty much sums it up.

If you're in town 30 mph is the rule.

If you're out in the boonies go for it.

[il d00d]

The very last thing I would want my buddy doing is chasing the one-tooth wonder in order to get footage of the event

#11 I followed him cause it was the way home,to call authorities when he wrecked or killed an oncoming individual,I knew rider one would be waiting at the stop.he waited not to leave me alone with psycho blueboy.

All good reasons.  +1 to Spidey's comments. Engaging in conversation with Deliverance at the stop was a poor choice, though.

[Mother]

#11 I followed him cause it was the way home,to call authorities when he wrecked or killed an oncoming individual,I knew rider one would be waiting at the stop.he waited not to leave me alone with psycho blueboy.

All good reasons.  +1 to Spidey's comments. Engaging in conversation with Deliverance at the stop was a poor choice, though.

 

and I believe every justification from rider #2 


I maintain

everyone there was an asshole