[pachyderm]

Heh.

"Police had given advance warning that they would be ticketing along Northern Virginia's HOV lanes Wednesday morning, but more than 200 drivers apparently paid them no heed.

"That will cost them $125 to $1,000, depending on how often they've gotten caught driving alone in [High Occupancy Vehicle] lanes reserved for vehicles with more than one occupant during rush hour."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...hpid=sec-metro

Are they all daft !

[VickiesPath]

Drivers in Phoenix will do anything.....and I mean ANYTHING....they think they can get away with.

You would not believe what I've seen and I don't drive the freeways that often.

1. On any given day, people get ticketed for having blowup dummies in their passenger seats in the HOV lanes.

2. One day, I was traveling up AZ Route 51 and saw something weird coming up in the middle of my lane. As I approached it, I realized it was an aluminum extention ladder what had fallen off of a construction worker's truck. The saving grace was.....it was positioned exactly parallel with the lane and you could drive directly over it with your wheels and not high center.

3. My very first morning rush hour stoppage, a sports car passed me on the right shoulder.

4. On day I saw something up ahead what appeared to be a flock of white fluffy ducks all over the freeway....it was a huge bag of baby diapers that had fallen off of someone's truck who was moving and had exploded all over the freeway and was being blown about between the cars.

5. One afternoon, my husband, son and I were driving to south Phoenix to a resort to spend a weekend relaxing when we approached a pickup hauling a mattress and boxed spring. They were not tied down. As we came up behind this truck on the inside lane, I got an icky feeling in my stomach. Suddenly, the boxed spring flew off the truck and headed straight for our windshield. However, instead of the corner of the box hitting our windshield, it hit our hood and bounced over the roof of the car into the median and hit the dividing guardrail. We continued driving because you simply do not stop on that freeway unless you want to be injured in the traffic. So we sped up to the guy driving the truck who still had no idea he had lost the boxed spring and pointed to his boxed spring back in the median. Took him totally by surprise.

These are the type of nimwits who live in this area. And every single day, you end up driving behind a group of immigrant gardeners with their gardening trailers. Everyone has to make a living but I wish they would put brake lights and turn signals on these home-made vehicles.

[SWA 1971]

Originally Posted by Vickie in Phoenix

Drivers in Phoenix will do anything.....and I mean ANYTHING....they think they can get away with.

You would not believe what I've seen and I don't drive the freeways that often.

1. On any given day, people get ticketed for having blowup dummies in their passenger seats in the HOV lanes.

2. One day, I was traveling up AZ Route 51 and saw something weird coming up in the middle of my lane. As I approached it, I realized it was an aluminum extention ladder what had fallen off of a construction worker's truck. The saving grace was.....it was positioned exactly parallel with the lane and you could drive directly over it with your wheels and not high center.

3. My very first morning rush hour stoppage, a sports car passed me on the right shoulder.

4. On day I saw something up ahead what appeared to be a flock of white fluffy ducks all over the freeway....it was a huge bag of baby diapers that had fallen off of someone's truck who was moving and had exploded all over the freeway and was being blown about between the cars.

5. One afternoon, my husband, son and I were driving to south Phoenix to a resort to spend a weekend relaxing when we approached a pickup hauling a mattress and boxed spring. They were not tied down. As we came up behind this truck on the inside lane, I got an icky feeling in my stomach. Suddenly, the boxed spring flew off the truck and headed straight for our windshield. However, instead of the corner of the box hitting our windshield, it hit our hood and bounced over the roof of the car into the median and hit the dividing guardrail. We continued driving because you simply do not stop on that freeway unless you want to be injured in the traffic. So we sped up to the guy driving the truck who still had no idea he had lost the boxed spring and pointed to his boxed spring back in the median. Took him totally by surprise.

These are the type of nimwits who live in this area. And every single day, you end up driving behind a group of immigrant gardeners with their gardening trailers. Everyone has to make a living but I wish they would put brake lights and turn signals on these home-made vehicles.

Oh my! Wow!