This explanation of a "bird strike" just came through in an aviation safety report.
Event: Bird strike on Captain’s forward windscreen.
Cause: Bird was apparently texting.
"fun" with textosos
(a textoso is someone habitually texting while driving)
If I'm the first car at a light and there is someone next to me that is engulfed in texting, I like to tap my horn while the light is still red. Almost every time the perpetrator gives it gas before they even look up at the light.
I haven't gotten anybody to enter the intersection yet. It is only a matter of time. I'll probably feel regret and remorse...:snarky:
"fun" with textosos
As funny as I think that is, you might be careful about doing that.
This day and age you might be cited for inciting the accident regardless that the fault would be on said "textoso".
Then again, how could they prove it was your horn that started it.
Eric
> As funny as I think that is, you might be careful about doing that.
I'm glad you understand someone can be "careful" doing something foolish. That has been my stock and trade my entire "crazy" life. I call it exit strategy. Don't try and pull off something sensational (stupid) without calculating the variables.
If I ever get tagged for honking at textosos I won't deny honking. I'm a bad liar. I was probably just trying to get their attention to tell them to quit texting while driving.
The hard part is going to be saying that to the investigating officer without my dumbass smirk. 😉
> This explanation of a "bird strike" just came through in an aviation safety report.
>
> Event: Bird strike on Captain’s forward windscreen.
> Cause: Bird was apparently texting.
That's ridiculous! Birds don't text.
They tweet.
Eric
I'm with you Brother Paden. [smirk included]
When I'm out and about and see someone driving with the phone stuck to their ear, I am oft to be heard "get off the f.....ng phone!!!". Although no doubt I'm never heard it makes me feel better to make my statement.
And that's my story and I'm sticking to it!!
E.
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"fun" with textosos
That's what a .45 automatic in the glove box is for ...
"fun" with textosos
A couple of years ago, I was making a map of the intersection of a busy street and the entrance/exit of the local community college.
every so often, when classes would let out, the exit line would fill with students leaving. %99.9 of them were looking down at their phone; texting, tweeting, facebooking, or checking their email....
I felt it safer to wait til most of the traffic cleared, before I'd venture out into the road....B-)
Seeveral times I was tempted to yell LOOK OUT! But I felt that someone might get hurt, so I didn't. I SO wanted to though...:snarky:
college kids and driving
There's a signalized intersection close by the University here in Norman that has no protected left turn arrow. There is also a sign that states "NO LEFT TURN 7-9AM 4-6PM". If someone wants to turn left at peak traffic times; there is usually only ONE car per cycle that makes the light. AND it's usually the left-turner, on the final few photons of a yellow...hence the "NO LEFT TURN" sign.
I was unfortunate enough to be at that intersection one afternoon behind a young man with out-of-state plates that apparently couldn't read. We had sat through two signal cycles and I and everybody behind me was getting irate. Horns didn't help.
I had yelled "C'mon Man!" and a few other things. Nothing seemed to phase him. When I finally hollered "You're doing it wrong, freshman!" I got a rise out of him. He decided to finally abort his attempt to turn left. He saluted me from the driver's window with a vertical arm topped with the angriest finger I've ever seen.
Good man there freshman...that's the school spirit! :clap:
Paden in the funny papers
Paden in the funny papers
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I'm probably really not that bad though!
Paden in the funny papers
:excruciating: I was trying to determine whether you were the one who wrote the test, the one taking the test or the one commenting on how the test was going.
People who do really stupid things, especially in roadways, need some really serious wakeup calls......without it being terminal stupidity. One of my pet peeves in surveying is when you put out all sorts of highly visible advertisement that a worker is temporarily within the right-of-way and the driver becomes enamored with all of the visual brightness and is drawn to it instead of away from it. Those people need a rock through a window. Preferably a side window.
Paden in the funny papers
I'm usually pretty good driving past workers in the daytime. But in recent years I've seen more work at night, and I find it difficult to see my way through the forest of kilowatt lights staring me in the eyes.
Ditto cop cars, now with enough red and blue photon torpedoes to blind you. They don't need that much light power to be seen.
Paden in the funny papers
I often wonder how many people have epileptic seizures while standing in front of the patrol car whilst being questioned by the office. Those newer LED's our state troopers use are what to bright.
