Re: High speed overtaking idiots.

"jg" <jg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:OZMVj.306$IK1.13@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Saab C900 Viggenist wrote:
>> Sylvia Else <sylvia@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>>
>>> I shared the driving from Sydney to Dubbo and back over the last three

>>> days.
>>
>>> Some notable efforts from other drivers included
>>
>>> a) Overtaking at 100+km/h on the other side of double white line and 
>>> chevron marked roadway.
>>
>> You think that's bad! I had a bunch of people who appeared to be of
>> middle-eastern appearance speed past me in the *breakdown lane* on the
>> Princes Highway a few km into the 100 km zone heading south out of 
>> Heathcote
>> (Sydney) doing about 140 (I was doing just under 100 in the normal 
>> left-hand
>> lane) driving some Mercedes sedan which was pumping out allah-allah
music 
>> at
>> high volume. I was hoping they'd lose it and crash - sigh. 8-)
>>
>> There weren't any cop cars chasing them so I presume they were just
being
>> idiots for the sake of it. Perhaps they had some harem girls in the car

>> they
>> were trying to impress...
>>
>>> b) Following me about a car length behind when I'm overtaking someone 
>>> else, again at 100+km/h. What if I changed my mind? I never have done 
>>> after starting an overtake, but there's always a first time. This was
P 
>>> plater.
>>
>> That's very common! People who think you should be out of their way
come 
>> up
>> your rear and tailgate when you're overtaking a slower vehicle. It's
>> indirect intimidation which would count as 'road rage' I suppose.
>>
>> Craig.
>
>
> That's why they don't like speed limits - they use you as a marker for 
> their own speed. It's always just a bit faster than you, but they don't 
> understand that if you went as fast as you like or fast enough to "not
be 
> in their way" the race would never end... except into a tree. They even
do 
> it at traffic lights - follow the next car through without even looking
at 
> the lights.
> I often wonder what those people with little white crosses at the
roadside 
> were actually doing when they died?

No doubt speed, alcohol and/or fatigue played a part in most of them. The 
apologists might suggest otherwise though.