He's right for England at least. You can get a ticket for accelerating hard upto the speed limit. It comes under "Dangerous Driving" - pretty hefty fine and points on your license too.

 

Yup, they call it "Stunt Driving" around here and you can get it for doing burnouts in a parking lot, accelerating hard, revving your engine at a stop light, doing 50km/h over the speed limit is an automatic one too, not even a warning for that one... All this came around when a bunch of people got killed in Ontario within a week because of street racers.

$2000 fine, +towing and impound fees, automatic liscence suspension, and you don't even want to know how much insurance sky rockets after one of these.

 

He didnt get a ticket for the donut he got a ticket for driving a caliber =P

 

first off, i'd like to say i'm glad to see this thread running such a long life (4 months now), and i think we all can agree, Karma's a bi*ch!

i still can't figure out how these idiot's driving a 4-banger ricer, thinks it's even an attempted race, when they try to challenge me in my 'Burb! besides the fact it's more than 1 1/2 times longer, and weighs twice as much-plus it's diesel!! maybe it's the "shake" the 6.2 makes or the Flowmaster 50's that make it sound faster than it is, idk.

i won't go into details, as this would break the forum rules, but i believe it. i used to run a 2x4 set-up with a Top Gun 5 stage (made almost 1100hp on spray) in my Dart, and *ahem* educated one ZX9 a few times.

yes they are.

sounds an awful lot like my wife. it may have taken her a few years to stop rolling her eyes when i start going on about cars, but even after 21 years, i still catch her wanting to, every once-in-a-while, hahahahaha!

too bad you didn't get that, those are sweet!

 

Of course you educated him on the drag strip right? lol.

 

uhhh......yeah, of course.............

 

Revival...

Last week (Friday night) I was heading home from my GF's house, A 4 dr Cavalier loaded with (assuming) college kids passes me WAY over the speed limit and cuts me off.

I guess he wasn't happy that I slowed down for the construction zone... Thing is, I knew there were some dandy holes and that's why i was taking my time, because we all know how good the front ends are on our trucks, and in a City that's had 4 roads in Canada's 10 worst roads for the past couple of years you can imagine how careful I am lol.

He didn't slow down at all and hit this gigantic pot hole. The car bottomed out on the frame, popped out of the hole, got completely sideways, and hesomehow straightened back out. I got up behind him at the next red light. Being the nice guy I am, I thought he would benefit from a lesson on how bright high beams could be. As we pulled away from the light and exiting the construction zone, he changed lanes and I noticed something bright dangling from his front end... Among the now wobbling front wheel (MmMmMm...bent rim anybody?) and the now crooked tracking (mmm, bent control arms) I noticed that his driver's side headlight was now dangling by the harness.

Once again, being a nice guy, I pulled up next to him at the next red light and rolled down my window... He did the same thing, and choking on the resulting pot fumes, I told him... "Hey buddy, hope driving like an *** was worth wrecking your car! Your headlight's dangling!" To which I was instructed to go self fornicate and he tore off into the night before the light even turned green... Shaking my head I turned up the street and returned home, wondering why natural selection isn't harsher on stupid people.

 

Haha thanks for the laugh oktain, I especially got a kick out of the last paragraph!!

 

because they're too stupid to realize who's knocking on the door.

"it's the devil ya dumbass, open up!"

 

Anyone else with other jackass stories?

I'm surprised there aren't more deaths with the drivers in this city...