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#3216455 10-Apr-2024 08:40

Repeatedly I see an AON (Insurance Brokers) Lodo'd SUV blast past here (Company Office is nearby) at speed at School time and totally ignore the Stop Sign at the corner!

Oh the irony of an Insurance Company employee not mitigating risks in a Company vehicle!

I phoned the this morning with the vehicle details & reg number. Receptionist thanked me for the call!

I wonder if the driver behaviour will change?

(Will probably just drive badly elsewhere)

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#3216458 10-Apr-2024 08:51

msukiwi:
I phoned the this morning with the vehicle details & reg number. Receptionist thanked me for the call!

I wonder if the driver behaviour will change?

(Will probably just drive badly elsewhere)

What you should be wondering is whether the receptionist will pass on your message to company management or just give the driver a heads up. You need to email or write to the branch manager since it's too late for Fair Go.

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#3218116 14-Apr-2024 12:38

I'd love to know the thought process behind "I'm just going to sit stationary in the middle of the street for 20+ seconds". There must be a thought process, right? A brain is necessary for a licence, right? Right?

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#3218166 14-Apr-2024 12:48

Behodar:

I'd love to know the thought process behind "I'm just going to sit stationary in the middle of the street for 20+ seconds". There must be a thought process, right? A brain is necessary for a licence, right? Right?

Brains are like indicators, not all drivers use them....

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#3218169 14-Apr-2024 12:55

Behodar:I'd love to know the thought process behind "I'm just going to sit stationary in the middle of the street for 20+ seconds". There must be a thought process, right? A brain is necessary for a licence, right? Right?

See it here almost daily!

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#3218170 14-Apr-2024 13:00

It's not just on the road, but also pedestrians on the footpath often seem to have an uncanny lack of awareness of others around them. It's fascinating because I'm sure these behaviours were not commonplace 20 years ago, so it's as if something has shifted in human psychology.

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#3218176 14-Apr-2024 13:15

Behodar:

I'd love to know the thought process behind "I'm just going to sit stationary in the middle of the street for 20+ seconds". There must be a thought process, right? A brain is necessary for a licence, right? Right?

Unless you're a GoBus driver working in Hamilton City where the dimwits in charge of things to do with road layouts have installed "in lane" bus stops. Then you do it because that's what's required. 🤬

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#3218177 14-Apr-2024 13:17

Well at least there's an excuse there. This one was someone who backed 3/4 of the way out of a parking space, then just... stopped. There was a large stretch of clear street between that car and mine, and it took me 10-15 seconds to close the gap, and only once I had arrived and come to a complete stop did the other car bother to complete the manoeuvre.

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#3218182 14-Apr-2024 13:30

alasta:

It's not just on the road, but also pedestrians on the footpath often seem to have an uncanny lack of awareness of others around them. It's fascinating because I'm sure these behaviours were not commonplace 20 years ago, so it's as if something has shifted in human psychology.

20 years ago i had someone walk into the side of my van, bounced off it muttering "sorry" then wandered off.

the other thing to consider is the amount of burnt out brains from meth and other drugs. 30 years of meth in nz is going leave a lot of fried brains.

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#3218246 14-Apr-2024 14:54

Just yesterday, pushing a trolley in a Costco carpark (you know how big those trolleys are!), person casually reversing out of a spot, I look at them coming closer and closer thinking "nah, no way they're going to..." BASH - yup, they reversed straight into the trolley, which hurt my finger and nearly tipped it over. AND THEY STILL DIDN'T NOTICE.

I gave a confused glance at this other couple watching the whole thing with mouths aghast, golf clapped for a moment, then made my way to my car. The person driving gets out of the car and the couple just said "you idiot, you just hit that man over there with your car, you should go apologise". They hop back into their car and then muck around for another couple of minutes before finally coming over and saying "are you alright?"

I joked their paint job was going to be worse off than I. They just said "it's all right, it's my mum's car".

Applause. Really.

Behodar:

I'd love to know the thought process behind "I'm just going to sit stationary in the middle of the street for 20+ seconds". There must be a thought process, right? A brain is necessary for a licence, right? Right?

You should probably write to Waka Kotahi and implore them to cancel their partnership with Sanitarium that gave out a free Full License in every box of Weet-Bix.

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#3219562 17-Apr-2024 14:30

The muppet in front of me just now approached a right turn without indicating, then ran the stop sign.

It was a cop.

(In seemingly no particular hurry.)

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#3219567 17-Apr-2024 14:44

I'd report him to the local plod then. Police have no excuse, it should be second nature to them to A/ stop and B/ indicate.

They need to set an example but sadly they don't and no one pulls them up on it. I've witnessed police cars going outside of the lane, i.e. the white lane markers, and reported them for it, as it was actually cutting a corner over a parking lane. Local station said they'd pass it on. Like shit they will.

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#3219609 17-Apr-2024 16:56

I've had similar to that. At a red light, light goes green. Car in front of me sits there unmoving for about 15 seconds before finally taking off. Alright, annoying, but whatever. Next set of lights, same thing again. Starting to get on my nerves a bit, but whatever. Next set of lights they repeat the same thing! I hit the horn because I can only assume it's an idiot on their phone - they then proceed to move, but fire up red and blues motioning to pull over. Fella gets out and wanders over saying "what's the emergent reason for using your horn?" to which I respond, "you were unmoving at the green traffic light for quite a long time, so I could only assume you were a tourist on your phone or something" and he responds "you are only to use your horn in an emergency. I have millions of dollars worth of equipment in my vehicle so I can't just take off at a flash".

What he didn't know was that the place I was driving to was my workplace, Police Headquarters, and I knew for a fact he was lying because unless he was driving a mobile operational command vehicle or one of the buses for use during major events, I could have listed what equipment he had in his vehicle and probably knew more about the cost of it than he did.

Not to mention Occam's Razor - what is the more likely of the two scenarios? The vehicle stopping for almost an entire light cycle is an undercover police vehicle with millions of dollars in equipment? Or the vehicle is driven by a tourist or school drop-off mum looking at their phone or doing their hair?

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#3219626 17-Apr-2024 17:53

Well, if you're doing your driving test and hold traffic up unnecessarily for more than 5 (?) seconds then that's a Critical; two of those and you fail. (Same as not stopping at a stop sign etc.)

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#3220079 18-Apr-2024 20:12

Kyanar:

I've had similar to that. At a red light, light goes green. Car in front of me sits there unmoving for about 15 seconds before finally taking off. Alright, annoying, but whatever. Next set of lights, same thing again. Starting to get on my nerves a bit, but whatever. Next set of lights they repeat the same thing! I hit the horn because I can only assume it's an idiot on their phone - they then proceed to move, but fire up red and blues motioning to pull over. Fella gets out and wanders over saying "what's the emergent reason for using your horn?" to which I respond, "you were unmoving at the green traffic light for quite a long time, so I could only assume you were a tourist on your phone or something" and he responds "you are only to use your horn in an emergency. I have millions of dollars worth of equipment in my vehicle so I can't just take off at a flash".

What he didn't know was that the place I was driving to was my workplace, Police Headquarters, and I knew for a fact he was lying because unless he was driving a mobile operational command vehicle or one of the buses for use during major events, I could have listed what equipment he had in his vehicle and probably knew more about the cost of it than he did.

Not to mention Occam's Razor - what is the more likely of the two scenarios? The vehicle stopping for almost an entire light cycle is an undercover police vehicle with millions of dollars in equipment? Or the vehicle is driven by a tourist or school drop-off mum looking at their phone or doing their hair?

Just based on logic alone it sounds like the cop was lying. Police cars are supposed to be able to take off in a hurry! All their gear is bolted down so that it doesn't go rolling around the cabin! Seems to me that he just couldn't handle being called out by a civilian. Unfortunately, there are a few cops who are power trippers to make up for their insecurities.

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