My Weekend Tow Story

[kebo]

You could use a bumper sticker to tell them how you feel.

Bruce

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LOL!!!! Funny stuff there!

 

[Old Junk Man]

Well, hopefully I don't run into anyone like you on my motorcycle. Two wrongs don't make a right.

That true. However sometimes as distasteful as it is you gotta do what ever is necessary to solve a problem.

 

[Redneck in training]

Few years back I was driving from Marble Bar (the hottest town in Australia) to Port Hedland at night. There was very little traffic but I caught up with a road train on winding section of the road. He was moving pretty fast so I stayed couple hundred yards behind him and left my long beams on thinking I was far enough to do so. When the road straightened up and I passed him he immediately turn on some strong lights that threatened to burn my eyes out. I guess he was annoyed by my long beams after all. I sped up to way over speed limit but he kept on my tail with the lights on for quite few kilometers before he gave up the chase.

 

[jimmysisson]

My eyes are pretty sensitive to lights like that: I probably would have done like the trucker.
I like the long lights name - always called them brights here.
Jim

 

[MikePA]

My eyes are pretty sensitive to lights like that: I probably would have done like the trucker.

Wouldn't it have been easier to simply move the mirrors slightly until the guy passes you?

 

[Old Junk Man]

Wouldn't it have been easier to simply move the mirrors slightly until the guy passes you?

my truck had a motor mirror on the pass side. the mirrors on the drivers side where fixed. you had to get out and loosen them with a couple of 9/16 wrenches to adjust them. and the spot mirror catches the light no matter how it adjusted.

 

[NewfieDan]

Had an issue this past weekend. I was coming home from our campground, since I was still fighting a bad cold. The road is winding and narrow along a small lake, with very narrow shoulders. I was in my truck, which was a good thing since another full size truck came towards me. Neither of us was towing, and that is a good thing.

He came around a curve and dimmed his high beams then immediately turned them back on. I had trouble seeing wher the road was, but moved over on the narrow road. He didn't move over or slow down. If I moved over any farther I would have been in the water. I was sure our mirrors would hit, he was that close.

 

[MossRoad]

That true. However sometimes as distasteful as it is you gotta do what ever is necessary to solve a problem.

So cause a fatal accident because someone following you is annoying? What a jerk.

 

[mikesee]

I have compassion for those who tailgate, drive with their long lights on and fail to signal. It must be very painful for them to live their lives in such a rush and without regard for others.

 

[MossRoad]

I have compassion for those who tailgate, drive with their long lights on and fail to signal. It must be very painful for them to live their lives in such a rush and without regard for others.

I didn't say they weren't idiots. But it doesn't give anyone the right to throw a handful of BB's out the window, turn off their brake lights and then hit the brakes, etc... it's just plain stupid behavior.