3 SUVs in 3 Weeks

:lol: :lol: I've had that happen once, and yes, it did feel pretty good......

 

The Prius has had the same "calming" effect on me, too. It's amazing to me because now I don't even see cops until they're passing me or really close by. In my BMW I always vigilant, always on the look out for cops, and always driving 80+MPH.

 

There is something inherently wrong with getting pleasure out of someone else’s misery!
Think about it. h34r:

 

There's misery and there's misery. When someone gets misery after inflicting misery on someone else, then this would be justice, surely? And justice is a good thing I think.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(grasshopper @ Jul 28 2006, 09:01 AM) [snapback]293755[/snapback]</div>

When someone engages in some sort of behavior that puts me in danger (i.e. tailgating), you better believe that I'm happy when they get punished for it. And I'd hardly call getting a ticket "misery" . . .

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(grasshopper @ Jul 28 2006, 08:01 AM) [snapback]293755[/snapback]</div>

Why is it that you think that they are in misery. They got pulled over and force to slow down. They may have gotten in an accident and died a half mile down the road. That would have been misery. Or what about the fact that ServoScanMan had to suffer thinking that those SUV's tailgating him were about to involve him in an accident. That was misery.

I guess it is all how you look at it.

I see it as a win, win. No more tailgating on ServoScanMan's butt, and no more unsafe driving by the SUV drivers. All is right with the world!

I think we all find pleasure in being protected, not that the other person got pulled over.

Remember the unsafe driver that is prevented from killing with their car could be the unsafe driver stopped from killing you!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(grasshopper @ Jul 28 2006, 06:01 AM) [snapback]293755[/snapback]</div>

you are most certainly right with that statement, but your conclusions are wrong.

i am getting satisfaction by knowing that there will be more gas (albeit it, probably very little) because the SUV has been forced to slow down and conserve

i will getting satisfaction knowing that the financially strapped local government will get some money in fines INSTEAD of raising my taxes.

i will get satifaction knowing that another driver that i must share the road with has been educated on the speed laws that insures that we all make it home safely.

so yes, i am VERY HAPPY to see ANYONE driving ANYTHING getting pulled over for reckless driving even if its only for exceeding the MAXIMUM SAFE SPEED

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(grasshopper @ Jul 28 2006, 08:01 AM) [snapback]293755[/snapback]</div>

That's not misery. That's Karma. Sometimes the universe works.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(grasshopper @ Jul 28 2006, 06:01 AM) [snapback]293755[/snapback]</div>

It's their own fault for neglecting to obey traffic laws, so they're well deserving of that misery. I've had it happen to me too (many years ago thankfully), and each time it was my own fault and I'll own up to each of them~I deserved it too.

En route to work every morning, I cruise through a semi-residential area where the speed limit suddenly changes from 45 to 35 mph. Most people blow through that section at ~50mpg regardless of the fact that there are a couple of upcoming stop signs, but I slow down to 35-37mph and get to coast through on electric power. I've noticed cops camping out at the curve in the road right after the speed limit change, and sometimes as many as 4 people pulled over a few hundred yards further up getting written up. I love it!

 

Hot dang! That was a good en. Got em coming out of the woodwork? EEEEEEEHHAAAAAAA!!

Fishing here is just too easy. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Whoa man, gotta go . Got another un on. B)

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(grasshopper @ Jul 28 2006, 11:33 AM) [snapback]293852[/snapback]</div>

Ok you got me.

 

<_< I have grasshopper on IGNORE... too bad I have to see his "quotes" from others. Looks as if this person is a troll.

 

heh... what goes around comes around right? SUV driver tails you too closely, then cop tails SUV driver (hopefully at reasonable distance) with radar in hand :lol:

 

I was backing out of a driveway and a crazed person in a Nissan Pathfinder was barreling down the road speeding like crazy, making it a point to dramatically honk and swerve around me. There was a police officer going the other direction that witnessed the whole thing. Needless to say, he pulled a U-turn and made my day. Stupid SUV drivers.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ServoScanMan @ Jul 28 2006, 05:58 AM) [snapback]293731[/snapback]</div>

You state that you drive at or BELOW the speed limit. My guess it that you are getting great satisfaction keeping traffic backed up behind you. There are many times when you should drive with the flow of traffic, to not do so causes many more accidents than going a mile or so over the speed limit does. If we would all just drive in a curtious manner we could all get were we are going alive, Even the idiot SUV driver that was wrong to be following so close........

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ServoScanMan @ Jul 28 2006, 03:58 AM) [snapback]293731[/snapback]</div>

Ah yes. Prius "schadenfreude". :lol:

 

Last weekend, a sedan was blazing by everyone pretty quickly in the 2nd lane from the left, on a rather uncrowded freeway. When it was about 150 yards ahead of us, the driver realized he/she was missing an exit or something, and abruptly cut over to the exit lane, cutting off a lone car in one of the right lanes by less than 10 feet. Unfortunately it happened to be a patrol car, who had to slam on the brakes so hard it almost stopped...

The rest of us cruising behind this on the freeway could just 'see', in that four-second pause before the patrol car jammed on its lights and sped over behind the sedan, the stunned officer thinking 'what the heck?' and then 'I am gonna ride this guy's nice person soooo bad...'