Still laughing over this

[joeintexas]

My wife got a call from a cousin of hers that was in a minor fender bender yesterday. Seems this lady decided to make a right hand turn out of the far left hand lane on a six lane street, running into my wife's cousin and running several other cars off the road. When the officer arrived he asked her why in the world she would do such a thing? She said, with a straight face, " My GPS told me to"!! It said I had passed my turn and to turn around immediately!! His reply was " Are you kidding me!" She said she wasn't.

 

[arjay]

We have them here too [emoji57]I need some sort of grenade launcher on the front of my truck..

 

[Rangerpat]

As one of your fellow Texan's said: "You can't fix stupid."

 

[jlrhiner]

We have them here too [emoji57]I need some sort of grenade launcher on the front of my truck..

I always wanted photon torpedoes.

 

[pharmer]

That's just a "right turn" around here. Same for the "left turn" from the right shoulder, across six lanes. That can get interesting. Joe

 

[Airpark]

Pharmer, you got it right.
Watched two here today. At a signaled intersection. Left run arrow on, cars going both directons made turns, left arrow went off, light turned green for me to go....BOTH cars in middle lane approaching me turned left right in front of me and the other traffic.

Oh, for the grenade laucher.

 

[deadin]

I've had three "Left turns from the outside lane" in front of me while in the inside lane in the last week. Must be something in the air. I wonder what bloomed.....

 

[Salty RI]

Six lanes wow, we still call 2 lanes a super highway.

 

[boatme99]

Six lanes wow, we still call 2 lanes a super highway.

Like Rt 138 from I 95 to Rt. 1?

 

[mojave30cal]

I guess when God was giving out brains, she thought he said
trains, and said she didn't want any. We have drivers
like that here in Las Vegas too. And half of them are drunk.

 

[Raider]

We have them here too [emoji57]I need some sort of grenade launcher on the front of my truck..

Much too destructive. I would prefer a giant extendible boxing glove.

Charlie

 

[Jinglebob]

Had that happen when I visited my mother in Dallas. A young woman came across two lanes of traffic to enter a left turn lane. I nearly T-boned her. When I honked, she gave me the "hand gesture". No offence to our forum members from Dallas but the city has some of the rudest drivers I've ever encountered.

 

[planojack]

Recently, my wife and I left our house, on the far side of nowhere in the Virginia mountains, for a short trip. My wife commented after a mile and meeting three cars, that the traffic was pretty heavy that day. Soon, I need to go to downtown Washington. Do you think it might get worse?

 

[Salty RI]

Like Rt 138 from I 95 to Rt. 1?

You know the area, I live in Point Judith, we have only one two lane road, any more than that and I think I'm driving in the wrong direction.

 

[hangnoose]

YOU SAID LEFT RIGHT?

Thank you Siri.

 

[rimfired]

And that is why I'm selling my last Harley.

At 64 I'm too young to die on two wheels.

Too many * have tried to kill me the last two years riding.

Had more fun than could be bought, What lasts!

 

[Edmo]

And that is why I'm selling my last Harley.

At 64 I'm too young to die on two wheels.

Too many * have tried to kill me the last two years riding.

Had more fun than could be bought, What lasts!

I also often ride on two wheels and am hyper-aware of idiots around me when on the road. If I could legally jam cell phone signals, I would do it.

Remember, 50% of the drivers out there are below average... The other 50% think they drive well enough to talk, text or otherwise not pay attention to job #1.

Edmo

 

[LVSteve]

I always wanted photon torpedoes.

BFG 9000. Not even shrapnel left.

 

[boatme99]

You know the area, I live in Point Judith, we have only one two lane road, any more than that and I think I'm driving in the wrong direction.

Champlins for lobster!

 

[Horsehaulin]

Had two women do that in front of a tow truck of my dads one month apart to the day. We ended up fighting the insurance companies in court for a year and one still has not payed up after two years. I think they should ban stupid people from having GPS in their vehicles, those hurt more people than guns!

 

[NCTexan]

Unfortunately, too many folks have "embraced" technology that is far beyond their capacity to employ.

Computes, telephones, GPS, and remote controls... and automobiles.

 

[steelslaver]

Getting a drivers license should be more difficult than a CC permit and easier to have revoked.

The problem with GPS systems is they assume the driver has some common sense. Some people would drive off a cliff if the GPS directed them to. Hmmmmmmmm that give me an idea on how to get rid of a lot of really stupid people.

Around here there are not that many multi lane roads. What happens around here is people have their GPS set on shortest route and they follow it into the boon docks on to roads that are impassible when its rained, buried in snow in the winter or take their motor home or big trailer across what we call a scenic route, then fail to appreciate the scenery. LOL

 

[Smithboomer]

I heard about a guy in Germany who drove onto a already-collapsed bridge because his GPS unit told him to "turn left".

Germans....love 'em or hate 'em, they know how to follow orders.

 

[Cdog]

Pre GPS, I saw a wife pointing left while beating her husband and driver of the pickup towing the camper that I slammed into as they made that left turn from the far right lane.

My bike was a total loss. After surgery, 3 months in a cast and 30 years I still have a screwed together ankle that's a better weather forecaster than anyone on the tube.

Real life zombies do walk/drive among us...

 

[Brian41]

Makes you wonder how the woman managed to even program the GPS unless she had someone do it for her. Yep they're out there and another reason I've given up on motorcycles and sports cars as I like to be in something a little bigger.

 

[bhayles]

Pre GPS, I saw a wife pointing left while beating her husband and driver of the pickup towing the camper that I slammed into as they made that left turn from the far right lane.

I hope you talked the cops into giving the ticket to the wife instead of hubby. It sounds like he really had no choice if he wanted to live...

 

[Cdog]

I wish I had! Great reply above!

 

[walkin jack]

Anyone remember the comedian from a few years back that went by the name Gallagher? His head was bald on the top but he wore the "finge long and straight. The first few rows of his audiences always had plastic sheeting covering them because part of his act was to smash different fruits and veggies with a huge wooden mallet. The grand finale of this segment of the show was always a watermelon.

Anyway, one of his bits was that he invented a gun that shot "stupid stickers". If you had one of these you could observe another driver do something stupid in his vehicle and shoot a stupid sticker on to his vehicle. If a cop sees a vehicle with 3 or more stupid stickers on it he could pull them over and give them a ticket.

As funny as that was I couldn't help but see what a good idea in might be after all. I could go through a couple of rolls of stupid stickers a day with no effort.

 

[the ringo kid]

We have them here too [emoji57]I need some sort of grenade launcher on the front of my truck..

They are here as well. I,d replace the grenade launcher with twin .50s----you have more than one chance to ''correct'' others of their mistakes.

 

[the ringo kid]

I've had three "Left turns from the outside lane" in front of me while in the inside lane in the last week. Must be something in the air. I wonder what bloomed.....

Nothing bloomed..... They just took too many ''stupid'' pills. Something similar happened to me like that this week.