Showing posts with label lights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lights. Show all posts

Thursday, 15 March 2012

Fog + Auto headlights + Idiots = Disaster

This morning in the UK we have a thick blanket of Fog - meaning the visibility on the road is around 50 yds at most.

The majority of cars on the road have their headlights on, and fog lights - as you would expect but there are a good handful who have not. No headlights on at all!  The cars that these idiots belong to are the sort of cars who will have Auto headlights (they come on when its  dark and go off when its light.)  So obviously the fact that these drivers no longer have to think about switching on / off the headlights when its dark, has made them stupid.  They have failed to think that perhaps they should put on their headlights and fog lights when its a very foggy day.  These are the kind of people who will walk into a lamppost because they were staring at a woman's boobies, and sue the council because the lamppost was there, and not made out of soft duck feather filled pillows!

I saw a near miss this morning because of this.  A car coming the other direction turned in front of a car, because it couldn't see it - it had no lights on at all!  Perhaps the Auto Headlights switch should come with a sticker saying "sometimes you might have to turn them on manually when its not dark, but you cant see jack all. Fools."


Thursday, 1 March 2012

Scaring drunk drivers off the road!

Last night around midnight the roads were quiet apart from a fair few Police cars out and about and some blatantly drunk drivers. Presumably that's what the police were out looking for - and good. People to take to the wheel, having had too much alcohol will at some point ending up killing someone and/or themselves. Why do people risk it these days when the chance of getting caught is so high?

One driver in front of me last night was weaving all over the place, and was obviously well over the limit, and drunk at the wheel. At that point there were no police cars about (typically). So i decided to do a bit of policing myself.  I accelerated quickly to get up behind the car in close proximity and started flashing the headlights as an undercover police car would do.  The outcome was that the drunk driver freaked out, and started braking and looking behind as though he had just been caught, and was going to lose his licence!  Acknowledging my job was done, i turned off. however hopefully this was enough to make the driver think twice next time and not get behind the wheel drunk!  Am i being over hopeful?


DON'T Drink and DRIVE!!!