Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 9026660)

When the light turns green and I want to make my right, occasionally there'll be a bike coming up in the bike lane. Now, if the bike wants to go straight, he/she is going to cross the path of my right turn. But I'm there first. I always make sure to not go and let the bike go, but I'm surprised at how they never seem cautious about it. If I'm on a bike and I see a car at the light with it's right turn signal on as the light is turning green, I'm not just going to blithely keep cruising right into its path and trust that it sees me. People making right turns are not inclined to look in their right mirror. I'm kind of surprised that there aren't more people hit at that intersection.

And I presume that the bikes have the right of way, but it's just weird that I'm there ahead of them and am supposed to notice them passing me on the right when my light turns green.

Originally Posted by Dayze (Post 9026854)

Rain Man,


I'm sincerely happy that you survived such a close encounter with death. The Planet would not be the same without you.

However, you could quite possibly turn this near catastrophic event into a lucrative business. You could corner the market on 'dark' Greeting Cards. And by 'Dark', I don't mean greatings from Wesley Snipes.

Use your near death encounter for inspiration. Kick off your line of dark greeting cards with your inagural card:

"Glad You're Not Dead"

though, using that exact greeting may entitle Buehler and DaFace to royalties. Make them relinquish their royalty rights in exchange for $20 in Applebee's gift cards and call it a square dea. Screw those guys.

Originally Posted by NJChiefsFan (Post 9026837)

Bikers don't seem to understand that right or wrong, if a car makes the first move, they are in trouble. I respect people wanting to bike and exercise and all that, but they don't seem to know cars exist. I enjoy when there are like 3 of them in a row and one will swing out into the road without warning right as I am coming up on them.

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 9026607)

I was walking home and was crossing an intersection north to south. There was a one-way street coming north, and a two way street going east to west. A fellow pulled up on the west side hoping to make a left onto the one-way, but there were cars.

So I'm crossing the street, and I swear he glanced over and saw me. But right as I got next to his hood ornament he saw a break in traffic and thought he could go. He gunned it and bammo!

There was no chance of dodging. I did the Heisman trophy pose and stiff-armed his hood, and he hit the brakes before he actually got into my body, but dang, it was close. I got around to the side of his vehicle, we looked at each other, and then he gunned it out of there. Never apologized, never asked if I was okay, nothing. A couple of pedestrians came up and asked me if I was okay, so it was enough of a hit that it got people's attention.

I've got a sore wrist from hitting his hood, so I hope I at least dented it a little.

And I got his plate number, but I'll cut him a break. He just got caught up looking south at the traffic on the one-way and didn't think about a pedestrian coming the other way. But he still should've stopped and said something.

Originally Posted by frazod (Post 9026638)

Some prick almost took out my wife while she was crossing the street earlier in the year. He didn't actually hit her, but she had to leap out of the way and the ****er didn't even slow down. Didn't get a plate number. We did look for the car a bit but she couldn't identify it.