Posted on 10/25/2023 5:38:14 PM PDT by Libloather
I saw a motorcyclist go by us at 100 mph in our college town. Told my wife he was going to die on that thing. A couple of days later I heard on the news about a speeding motorcyclist T-boning a car. Had to be the same idiot.
I bet he will always know whenever the weather is going to change.
This is why I don’t want bike riders in front of me - there’s no telling when one of them will take a spill and have me trying not to run over them. Mix in the fact that a good percentage of them drive as brainlessly as this guy and I just switch lanes if needed to get away from their vicinity.
He is thankful he didn’t lose any limbs? He should be thankful he didn’t get his spattered brains shoveled off the road. But then he would have to have brains to spatter before they could get shoveled off the road.
The thought crossed my mind that people who ride motorcycles must despise this type of guy. I assume so, but I don’t ride, so I don’t know.
The thought also crossed my mind that I resented a single taxpayer dollar being spent to clean up the road and get him off of it, but I recognize that as an un-Christian thought. Not kidding either. Just sayin that was what crossed my mind for a second.
I thought of every person on that road he terrified that day, and anyone he traumatized due to his idiocy. I am pretty sure there is a little high resolution, full resolution, super slow motion clip of that accident playing over and over again in that truck driver’s brain, showing that dumb ass sliding inexorably towards the path of his right front tire. He will probably see that in his brain with great vividness for some time.
Riding a motorcyle is dangerous enough. Nowadays, with all the cell phones in cars and other crap, to survive, you must drive as if every car you encounter is going to collide with you and assume that with every vehicle that you approach or approaches you. (I don’t ride, but I know people who do, and this is not an uncommon refrain)
And that doesn’t even take into account natural things, like a patch of sand on a road or an animal darting in front of you.
To exponentially increase the real risk to yourself by doing what that guy did shows an IQ so low it boggles the mind, or a pathology so acrid that his demise at high speed would perform a service to society that that in life he never could.
Cheers for the truck driver who didn’t swerve and mess up an innocent.
The stretch of 495 around Littleton seems to have more than it’d share of accidents. I can’t figure out why. There don’t seem to be any obvious hazards on the road.
Yeah it seems to be impossible to slam a pickup truck doing 140 and it launched the truck (watch it in .25x speed) but the guy lands over the handlebars upside down and the bike continues without wiping out or him falling off until the 18wheeler sideswipes him. Unbelieveable.
How can you see the shadow of the camera pole mount, but you can see open road behind the bike and don’t see the pole attached to the bike.
i know that, now find it in the picture!!!
you can see it in the shadow, but find it in the picture...
you should see the stick, and there’s nothing
I saw this a couple of days ago...didn’t know the idiot lived.
He should have his driver’s license permanently revoked.
“I thought of every person on that road he terrified that day,...”
Well - I don’t scare easy. I can count on one hand with fingers left over the times that surprises have made me jump. But two of these idiots are one of those times.
I’m driving 65 or 70, just moving along with traffic on the interstate, and all of a sudden, a really LOUD whine came by the driver’s side of the car, followed immediately by another one. They were going so fast I never saw them in the mirror, and the sound came out of nowhere, right beside me. I jumped “inside”, so it didn’t make me do anything stupid like jerk the wheel. They must have been going well over 100.
I wouldn’t be surprised if those guys were dead by now.
. . . and found out.
Object lesson.
In my area, Bay Area. North Cal, there are a lot of wildlife still dwelling near the main highways. A few times a year, one sees evidence of a family of Deer, where not all of them made safely from one side of the freeway to the other.
Or you find raccoon and possum roadkill.
I drive by thinking “Somebody’s got to shovel that mess up and hose it off. Forthe aesthetic value and so drivers dont cause an accident swerving around it. Glad that’s not my job!” This is a job I could understand being given only to Robots very soon, in whichever counties can afford their own Tin Man.
We’ll undoubtedly see many more on the way back to Connecticut in a week or two.
I live near a 4-way stop. Every one in a while I hear the whine of a crotch rocket that doesn’t even change pitch, telling me that they didn’t even slow down for that stop sign.
It’s only a matter of time.
I’ll give the firemen who show up to deal with it my shovel, trash can, and garden hose.
Another reason to not have bike riders in front of you is that you can’t hear their loud pipes when you’re in front of them. That’s assuming you’d rather not hear them.
Motorcyclists have always been bad and they are getting worse.
Regular auto drivers are getting worse. Every woman I see driving is texting on her effing phone.
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