how to say you're sorry

vitaminC · Post by **vitaminC** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:37 pm

http://www.fredericky.com/images/dumb.pdf

This should be in every newspaper...

Post by **ericalm** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:01 pm

I've actually considered making stickers or magnets to slap on cars as I go by. Something like a warning for all other drivers and, especially scoots & MCs, with bright colors and a bold graphic.

Slapping one on could be dangerous, so I've also thought of just hanging a sign from my bag hook so I can hold it up when I pull up next to someone. Something along the lines of "LESS TALKING. MORE DRIVING. PAY ATTENTION, JACK ASS."

I've also thought of building some kind of compressed air-powered wrist cannon into my jacket to shoot steel bearings at offenders. Nothing powerful enough to do any serious damage or hurt anyone. Just enough to dent a Hummer or take out a mirror or window, maybe...

Keys · Post by **Keys** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:38 pm

I just thought a paint-ball gun would be good for labelling drivers as "dumbasses".

"HOW D'YA LIKE THAT NEON GREEN ON YOUR NEW BMW, JACKASS..!!!"

Whatever,
--Keys

Lagerhead · Post by **Lagerhead** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:40 pm

http://www.aerostich.com/catalog/US/Yel ... 18962.html

weaseltamer · Post by **weaseltamer** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:42 pm

hey eric could i have one too? i won't tell anyone who i got it from...

Post by **ericalm** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:18 pm

Lagerhead wrote:http://www.aerostich.com/catalog/US/Yel ... 18962.html

Damn, $3 each! Great idea, but I think I'll have to make my own. Less wordy, more to the point.

weaseltamer wrote:hey eric could i have one too? i won't tell anyone who i got it from...

You'll shoot your eyes out!

EBee · Post by **EBee** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:19 pm

The comedian Gallagher had a routine about bad drivers...his idea was for every driver to have a dart gun with darts that said "Stupid" on them. When a driver did something stupid, shoot them in the trunk with a dart, and when a driver accumulated more than 3 darts, the cops pull them over and ticket them. I think that's great!

Oh, and if its CARDS u want...
http://www.glarkware.com/productcart/pc ... roduct=209

rajron · Post by **rajron** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:24 pm

Very funny article.

dannyW · Post by **dannyW** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:20 pm

I' have been know to have a word with offenders at red lights.

for example, I couldn't resist last night on Beverly (a busy rush hour street in Los Angeles) when I noticed a car violently weaving between two lanes, because the driver was TEXTING ON TWO PHONES AT THE SAME TIME.

what is wrong with people?

vitaminC · Post by **vitaminC** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:22 pm

dannyW wrote: what is wrong with people?

Where to begin?

lobsterman · Post by **lobsterman** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:05 pm

ericalm wrote:
Lagerhead wrote:http://www.aerostich.com/catalog/US/Yel ... 18962.html
Damn, $3 each! Great idea, but I think I'll have to make my own. Less wordy, more to the point.

$3 for pack of 10 cards... so not so bad, but the reviews weren't very good about how well they stick.

Also I can't see trying to get close enough to the 'tards who pass on the right or cut me off @ 50 - 60mph to toss one onto their car, so limited utility for me.

I have often thought of paintball guns as keys mentioned, mostly for people who speed down the residential but long and straight road I live on. Ohio is a concealed carry state, I wonder if that covers paintball guns?

Kevin K · Post by **Kevin K** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:50 pm

Anyone know which paper that article's from?
-K

vitaminC · Post by **vitaminC** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:04 pm

Kevin K wrote:Anyone know which paper that article's from?
-K

I guess not everything that comes out of Texas is bad: original

Post by **ericalm** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:20 am

vitaminC wrote:
Kevin K wrote:Anyone know which paper that article's from?
-K
I guess not everything that comes out of Texas is bad: original

Very few things are, really, relative to the size and population of the state. It's just that people are more likely to hear about or notice the bad things. Or that, sometimes, those very few bad things are really big ones. Big and very bad.

vitaminC · Post by **vitaminC** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:54 pm

ericalm wrote:
vitaminC wrote:
Kevin K wrote:Anyone know which paper that article's from?
-K
I guess not everything that comes out of Texas is bad: original
Very few things are, really, relative to the size and population of the state. It's just that people are more likely to hear about or notice the bad things. Or that, sometimes, those very few bad things are really big ones. Big and very bad.

I know. Generalizations and stereotyping are, in general, bad, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

louie · Post by **louie** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 2:56 pm

you can buy card sized magnet blanks that have a self adhesive on one side to adhere your personal greeting/charge and is a soft magnet for sticking to the offensive driver's car on the other side.
these are great ideas.

polianarchy · Post by **polianarchy** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:04 pm

All of these ideas assume that those mothertrucking idiots can read. Really, I think bad driving is symptomatic of a much larger problem.

ERik3tb · Post by **ERik3tb** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:12 pm

more likely, they would try and peel off that magnet to read it, while driving, and eating that bowl of cereal, and texting the BFF about that idiot on the bike. all the while screaming obsenities and trying to flip you off.

Sounds like the normal morning rush hour drive to me.

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:07 am

EBee wrote: Oh, and if its CARDS u want...
http://www.glarkware.com/productcart/pc ... roduct=209

Is this the correct link? When I click it I get a message saying that the item doesn't exist.

~Ken

Elm Creek Smith · Post by **Elm Creek Smith** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:59 am

I'm thinking maybe the note should be a tag on a spiked steel ball that we can gently stick onto the offending motorist's hood, fender, door, quarterpanel, trunk lid, or roof.

Just my idea of a gentle reminder.

ECS