(05-16-2013, 04:04 AM)ryoken Wrote: Dead serious. I do not joke about what i have experianced, and what i have seen while driving. But i also do not feel sorry for fools who bring trouble down on themselves.
Ever consider how much patience the average truck driver pulling a 20-60000pound trailer in day to day traffic has over the average car driver thinking he can zip in and out of traffic to get somewhere 2 minutes faster has?
Or how much more driving exp someone doing 300-400000 KMs a year has over the average car driver?
And yet trucks have only 1 accident for every every 1000 car accidents on average.
And yet people wonder why i blow up sometimes here. Keeps me from losing it out there on highways. Disco=game=venting 0 hurt. Highway=real life=dead or injured people.
Lives aren't games, guy.
You are right. So why put it,and others at risk by being an arse, and cutting off a vehical 10times your weight, and size? Just because you want to get ahead, or home 2 minutes faster?
Not saying i look for cars to crush, but i will not risk myself for tools, when i know i am safer in the bigger, stronger, heavier vehicle.
Just last week in Toronto where i live some 18year old in a acura cut off a big rig. The truck swerved to avoid, went into a concrete pillar of an over pass, and was killed as the 60000 pounds of pipe he was hauling crushed his cab, and leaving his wife a widow, and 3 kids fatherless.
Now tell me who is the more evil?
Wait. Just wait.
Did the driver of the Acura cut off the semi driver KNOWING it would lead to his death? I highly doubt it.
It's called an accident. A tragic one to be sure, but an accident none the less.
People make mistakes. That's expected. Most of them don't brag about them on public forums, but to each his own I suppose.
Glad I'm not driving the same roads as you is all I can say.
Sorry look up accident.
An accident is something that cannot be avoided. That was something that with a little patience, or respect of other drivers could have been avoided.
Also the law also seen it as avoidable, and the kid was charged with vehicular manslaughter, and such.
Meh, semantics. I'm quite certain that the guy did not intend to kill the truck driver.
Perhaps mistake is a better word, but there are mistakes with UNINTENTIONAL consequences.
That's neither here nor there, though. I just don't agree with joking about crushing 5 cars under my semi, and it certainly wouldn't be something I would brag about.
I'm sure the owners of those cars, regardless of the mistakes that were made, didn't think it was so funny.
Any car accident is serious business....I'm awestruck that a grown man thinks its something worth bragging about, and a semi-driver no less.
