Justice witnessed!! I love it when this happens!!!

[GilesGuthrie]

I'm the sort of driver who decides what speed I want to go at, and then sticks to it. And I'm usually pretty quick into, through, and out of junctions. I just seem to see things faster than people around me, and make decisions accordingly.

So I was travelling along a stretch of road that was two-lane dual-carriageway, interrupted with a succession of roundabouts. I was cruising at around 80 (70 limit) in light traffic, early evening. Clear and dry.

A guy came past me, which was fine. I saw him early, let him past easily. He was probably doing 90 in a car smaller than mine, and less powerful, but considerably newer. I was utterly unbothered by this.

Then we arrived at one of the roundabouts. I love going round roundabouts. I brake late, decide early, go fast, exit on full power. I picked my braking point, about "minimum + 20%". In other words, I was going to stop quickly, but nowhere near limit. I went up the inside of the early-braking prior overtaker. I was round the roundabout faster than him (he going the same way), and out faster. I reattained and held 80. He reattained and held 90-ish, and after half a mile or so repassed me.

This happened again at the next roundabout.

And then again at the next.

And the next.

When I did it at the fifth, he flashed and horned, and as soon as he had a hand free, appeared to have some sort of wrist-spasm. He tried everything he could to keep up on the exit. I decided to up my cruise to 90, hoping he would stay back. But no. He draws level. He's looking at me. Not the bridge, with the speed camera behind it. I'm not looking at the bridge either, because I know the speed camera's behind it. The Guthriemobile gets to the bridge parapet and drops anchor, passing through the detection zone at a perfect 70. Tossermobile does not, and is briefly illuminated by a pair of flashes.

I laughed. More than somewhat.

 

[Swift]

Then we arrived at one of the roundabouts. I love going round roundabouts. I brake late, decide early, go fast, exit on full power. I picked my braking point, about "minimum + 20%". In other words, I was going to stop quickly, but nowhere near limit. I went up the inside of the early-braking prior overtaker. I was round the roundabout faster than him (he going the same way), and out faster. I reattained and held 80. He reattained and held 90-ish, and after half a mile or so repassed me.

This happened again at the next roundabout.

And then again at the next.

And the next.


I laughed. More than somewhat.

Nothing better then going faster then someone by just skill.

 

[Der Alta]

Dredging through the threads, I remembered this one after a fun experience this morning.

So I'm out on a quest to find Weekend at Bernies, I and II. Local Circuit City has I, but not II. I throttle off to the local mall where there is another video store.

I find it and step to the register. At the register next to me, there is a Chick (blond, coked up, clubbed out, and talking like she's in a Fity Cent video) selling a few DVDs back to the store. The manager comes across an obvious bootleg. She casually tosses it into the trash can. The Chick starts sputtering like an angry coffee percolator.

Chick: "Why U trowing out ma movies?"
Manager: "Well, its an illegal copy."
Chick: "Its the movie, and you can sell it again."
Manager: "It is an illegal copy."

At this point, the Chick starts yelling about calling the cops because the manager is stealing her DVDs and throwing them out.

Manager politely states "Please, call the cops, in fact I've got them right here on Speed Dial, shall I?"

Manger then begins opening DVD's to check the condition of the movies. More Bootlegs, more trash throwing, more hysterics from the Chick. Finally Chick says "Wait... Let me look through my movies and see if there are ones that I want." She sorts through the lot of about 30 movies (5 are already in the trash), and places 5 on the counter to sell back. The manager gives a blank stare and says "I'll give you $2 a piece for them." Chick accepts, and leaves. Manager, employees and I share good laugh.

I'm simply amazed at how dumb some people are and the fallout from their lack of thinking.

 

[WallRunner]

We called the police on a Drunk and speeding guy, and 40 secs later we saw 10 police cars go past.

From,
Wall51

P.S. Country Music is the BEST!!!!!

 

[Lee]

The Guthriemobile gets to the bridge parapet and drops anchor, passing through the detection zone at a perfect 70. Tossermobile does not, and is briefly illuminated by a pair of flashes.

Sigged! Great story, I think this has to be one of my favourite threads so far, I'm trying real hard not to wake my parents up with my laughter..

 

[a6m5]

Christmas season, at the local department store. It's impossible to find a parking space. BMW 7-Series parks in the handicapped space and the guy runs into the store. Just like one minute later, cop blocks him in, turning his blue and red lights on. I got to see the guy coming back to the car. Priceless!

 

[Touring Mars]

I had a weird experience some time ago - one Friday night I was on my way to the bar and noticed three young kids hanging about suspiciously near some bikes... the eldest of the group noticed me looking at them and so I stared at him to let him know that I had clocked them... so they wandered off and I didn't think much more of it.

The next day, I came into my office and after a while I randomly had a look out of the window - to my surprise, I could see a security guard from my work 'escorting' the same three lads of campus (I work at a university) "So they were up to no good" I thought to myself... but that wasn't the end of it... About an hour later, I noticed that the three kids had reappeared, this time out the front of a public library next to my work, and they were hanging about the bike stands. I could see them checking for people and checking out the bikes, but then they wandered off again. By this point I was convinced they were about to steal this mountain bike outside the library. When I checked back a few minutes later, they were in the process of taking off a wheel from the mountain bike.... I was about to open the window and shout at them, but reckoned that this wouldn't have had much effect since they were already about to make off with the wheel, so instead, I went to my PC and Googled the address of the library and got the phone number. I rang the front desk and just said "Some kids have just stolen a bike wheel from outside your building"... well, about 30 seconds later, three blokes came out and looked around for the kids... and sure enough, they were some way up the road, but still clearly visible... so the three guys started chasing the kids. Bizarelly, instead of running like hell, the three kids ran straight into a lock-up garage only about 20 yards away... but when the 3 guys got there, they held the door shut and trapped the kids in the garage. One guy held the door shut while the other two ran back to the library and called the police... about 15 minutes later, with the poor guy still holding the garage door shut, a police van turns up. At this point, I run upstairs to my friend's office to show him what was going on... The three kids were bundled into the police van, and the parents in the house were also arrested It turned out the garage was full of stolen bikes and parts thereof...

So, I clocked these kids twice (saw their motive), I witnessed their crime and watched them getting arrested for it - all without calling the police myself or having to be a witness or anything (since the guys from the library were enough)... weird or what?

 

[a6m5]

Wow. Talk about a front row seat. Good deal! You even got to participate in it.