I know we’re entering the summer driving season when everyone goes nutso, but really, the public displays of recent auto-related insanity are getting just plain ridiculous.
The stop signs in my Toronto ‘hood are generally treated as suggestions, and even then sometimes ignored completely. Speeders hop up on the sidewalk to take shortcuts around the speedhumps. As a result, there have been a few police officers doing stop-sign duty in our area for a couple weeks, and we now gawk from the front porch and lay bets with the neighbours about how long one returning cop will stay stationary before he lights up another jackass. Our record is still about 45 seconds, and that’s at the high end!
Anyway, we had a perfect example of just how ridiculous people drive about a week ago. My wife and I live near the bottom of a one-way street, and happened to spot morons pulling illegal U-turns and driving back down the wrong way five separate times in one evening. Five! Surely their time must be more precious than ours because driving up and back around the proper way takes a whole other minute, maybe.
The one who took the cake was the guy who decided to put his hazards on first before pulling his five-point turn. As if that helps. As if someone coming the right way up the street isn’t going to say, “Hey jackass! You’re going… Oh, wait! He has his hazards on. Never mind!” Having your hazards on doesn’t make you invincible, or mean you’re exempt from the law. Try that when you’re doing 151 km/h on Hwy 401 and see what the Ontario Provincial Police say. “Oh, we’re sorry sir. Continue on your way… didn’t notice you had your hazards on!”
Just gets my back up…
Anyone else seen some despicable driving recently?