August 02 2007
And You Thought Auckland Drivers Were Bad
posted by Ana Samways at 10:11 am
It’s true: they are mostly rude, selfish or just plain dim. Like this Auckland serial car stacker (left) who can’t be arsed getting a trailer, and inner city overtakers (you’re going 60km per hour, but still…) and the buggers who don’t indicate.
But one of the most infuriating traffic niggles for me happens at the lights. The drivers at the head of the cue in a turning lane who halt about three metres from the top of the lane, and then patiently wait up to 15 minutes (while every other lane gets multiple greens) amid tooting and impolite gestures from other drivers, before finally moving forward onto the line and letting the pixies who control the lights know they are there.
So, here’s a video tribute to appalling car manoeuvring…
August 2nd, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Why is the second woman in the second clip covered in pigeon shit?
August 2nd, 2007 at 5:20 pm
I STILL think Auckland drivers are bad! I swear BMWs are imported here without indicator stalks.
Driving in Auckland sometimes makes “Death Race 2000″ look tame.
August 3rd, 2007 at 6:53 am
damn they were all women – *hides head in shame* do people engage their feet and disengage their mind when driving?
August 3rd, 2007 at 7:14 am
No, our BMW’s all have indicator stalks, but we prefer not to use them as that would give away our intentions when making turns. Also we don’t use them because we know it really slags you mere mortals off. You really should be grateful to us for allowing you all to use OUR roads at all.
August 3rd, 2007 at 9:11 am
I was amazed when I arrived in Auckland. i hadn’t seen so many BMWs since the downfall of Paris in 1940…
August 3rd, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Thank-you. That was hilarious.
August 3rd, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Its because the rest of the world knows how crappy old BMW’s really are…so they send them here to sell em’ cheap to suckers with large ego’s, poor attention spans and below average iq’s
August 4th, 2007 at 2:17 am
Sort of like you bevan – people who don’t seem to have any grasp of English grammar
August 11th, 2007 at 10:21 am
Don’t forget the full-stop at the end of your sentence John – you muppet.
August 22nd, 2007 at 6:23 pm
As a BMW driver who knows what his indicators are for, and how to use them, I’d like to apologise for the behaviour of my more arrogant fellows. Some of us own BMWs because we like them, not because we have microscopic genitals or delusions of grandeur.