Rubber neckers - get off the road.
July 28th 2010 05:05
If hoon drivers aren't bad enough, and if greenlight idiots don't cause enough disruption, the other pet hate of mine when I am driving is RUBBER NECKERS.
What is a rubber necker - in case you haven't heard the term before.
A rubber necker is a person who slows down at a traffic or other accident site on the road, to take a good look at what has happened - the rubber neck referring to the rubbery way a driver can turn his or her head over the shoulder to get a good look at things that don't concern him/her on the road.
What shits me about them?
A few months back I was taking the main highway into the city, and had to cross over a creek. The bridge is like any other section of the road, the only difference is that it has lots of concrete pylons along each side.
Well, it would appear that traffic coming FROM the city was disrupted by a car that had flipped on its roof... clearly visible to all traffic... both the TO and FROM directions.
Police were directing the FROM traffic... and it caught my attention.
But I was sitting on 80km - the legally allocated speed for the area - when I noticed the police in fluoro clothing directing the FROM cars away from the flipped car.
Thing is, I nearly ran up the ass of a rubber necker who had slowed down to 55km just to have a good look at what had happened.
I blasted my horn and hit the brakes, the police were suddenly drawn to looking at the TO stream of traffic but clearly there is nothing they can do.
How INSENSITIVE AND CALLOUS are you bloody rubber neckers?
What are you hoping to see - blood and guts and a decapitated head?
How despicable you all are... no sensitivity for the injured, no consideration for responsible drivers like me who are using the road to get where we have to be.
You nearly cause another accident just because you have to see what's going on.
Unless directed by traffic police or other road operations staff to slow down, it should be ILLEGAL for traffic to slow down to have a look at accident sites.
I hate rubber neckers.
What is a rubber necker - in case you haven't heard the term before.
A rubber necker is a person who slows down at a traffic or other accident site on the road, to take a good look at what has happened - the rubber neck referring to the rubbery way a driver can turn his or her head over the shoulder to get a good look at things that don't concern him/her on the road.
What shits me about them?
A few months back I was taking the main highway into the city, and had to cross over a creek. The bridge is like any other section of the road, the only difference is that it has lots of concrete pylons along each side.
Well, it would appear that traffic coming FROM the city was disrupted by a car that had flipped on its roof... clearly visible to all traffic... both the TO and FROM directions.
Police were directing the FROM traffic... and it caught my attention.
But I was sitting on 80km - the legally allocated speed for the area - when I noticed the police in fluoro clothing directing the FROM cars away from the flipped car.
Thing is, I nearly ran up the ass of a rubber necker who had slowed down to 55km just to have a good look at what had happened.
I blasted my horn and hit the brakes, the police were suddenly drawn to looking at the TO stream of traffic but clearly there is nothing they can do.
How INSENSITIVE AND CALLOUS are you bloody rubber neckers?
What are you hoping to see - blood and guts and a decapitated head?
How despicable you all are... no sensitivity for the injured, no consideration for responsible drivers like me who are using the road to get where we have to be.
You nearly cause another accident just because you have to see what's going on.
Unless directed by traffic police or other road operations staff to slow down, it should be ILLEGAL for traffic to slow down to have a look at accident sites.
I hate rubber neckers.
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