L.A. Can't Drive

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Here’s a submission I received a few days ago that illustrates asinine leapfrogging at its finest. Sadly, this stunt doesn’t just happen in the heart of L.A.:

“This is a picture of two dumbasses on Sand Cyn at Soledad. Sand Cyn has just one lane to go through the intersection because it turns into a windy narrow road. Mr. Vette, idiot #1, uses the right turn only lane to blast by me and continue, but old gray-haired dumbass #2 in the Edge decides he’s gonna be slick also and try the same thing, except by this time there is no more right turn lane. Now he’s in the dirt trying this feat, kicking up a mess of dust and almost driving over the side!!”

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Caught in the act! My wife snapped this photo on a lazy Sunday morning just before noon. The clueless brunette driving this Toyota Corolla S (license plate 6BKT) decided to have a mini drag race on Burbank Blvd. by Vesper. Why? What’s the point? There’s absolutely no traffic. Even if for some reason she was lost and was looking to make a right turn somewhere and suddenly discovered that she was at the wrong block, she should accept that error in judgement on her part and back the frack up–wait for clearance, signal, then merge back in, lady. Instead, this aggressive biznatch gunned it, at which point the car in front of us started accelerating hard, as well, to prevent her from leapfrogging. Personally, I try to practice defensive driving and let the person cut in front (at which point in time I snap a photo if it’s safe to do so). However, it’s totally understandable how such asinine behavior such as leapfrogging–especially on empty streets on a weekend–can set anyone off. The moron in the Corolla eventually had to hit her brakes and back off to avoid colliding into the parked car you see in the phone (lane-splitting for cars isn’t an option and is, quite frankly, illegal).

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My wife was born and raised in Los Angeles, so she is still teaching me shortcuts of how to get between the Valley and the West Side while bypassing traffic. Unfortunately, a lot of these routes are frequented by a high density of assholish natives who seem to view their side streets with a sense of propriety and entitlement. On this particular route through canyon roads just east of Sepulveda, we saw no fewer than three cars blowing through stop signs, completely disregarding traffic that had the right-of-way. The asshole in his 40s driving this Range Rover (license plate 6GIW) ran a stop sign from a side street to merge in front of us onto Woodbridge. Mind you, though we didn’t have a stop sign for our direction of travel, this arrogant, stereotypical fuc*nut still felt that he had the right-of-way and had the gall to glare at us while speeding past us in the lane for opposing traffic. So not only did he not stop and wait for clearance the way he was supposed to, but he was now also on the wrong side of the road during morning rush hour traffic.

Wait, it gets better. He then proceeded to continue to travel on the wrong side of the road in an attempt to not only pass us but also pass the car that was in front of us. Seriously? Granted, the road was delineated with a dotted yellow line, but this guy needs a serious reality check how when and how to cross these lines safely. Road raging past cars that were pacing along just fine in rush hour traffic is certainly not the smart or legal way to pass on these roads. Rather, it’s the easiest way to get killed. In fact, cars were moving along so well that he was actually traveling against opposing traffic for a few hundred yards in his pathetic attempt to pass the car in front of us before it finally dawned on him how futile this attempt was. Fortunately for him, more commuters were traveling south instead of north at this time of the morning. Now if you still don’t think this story is bad enough, let me add that it was raining earlier that morning, so the roads were still slippery. I will never understand the mind of such aggressive assholes and what causes them to drive so recklessly for very little, if any, reward.

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Here’s a good example of the domino effect of lazy idiocy that happens way too often in this town. This was taken on a weekday just before 8 p.m. Rush hour traffic had tapered off somewhat, so the post-work shopping crowd was thinning, though the parking lots were still busy. With that said, the driver of the BMW SUV (license plate 5JIL) was too much in a rush to park and get his/her groceries to straighten out his/her vehicle at this busy Sherman Oaks Trader Joe’s by Hazeltine and Riverside. Parking spots are scarce and relatively narrow here, so only apathetic, selfish assholes park like this. Speaking of inconsiderate drivers, the brunette driving the Toyota Rav4 (license plate 6PQV) pulled in right when I was taking this photo. She even looked back at me when she got out of her car. Hmm, even with that level of awareness, she clearly didn’t think it was a big deal to also park like a lazy jackass (no, she didn’t bother adjusting her vehicle, either). Just because the person next to you is parked like an asshole shouldn’t give you license to park the same way if you can help it….and yes, she could’ve helped it, especially given that the space on her right was a shopping cart return area. Seriously, was she afraid that the railing was going to ding her car? It really doesn’t take a lot of effort to quickly adjust one’s vehicle appropriately in a parking spot–even a narrow one. Let’s not reinforce this L.A. me-first mentality and at least make the effort to park straight.

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I wasn’t able to get a clear shot of this texting dipsh*t’s license plate because his fracked up bumper and trailer hitch locking pin blocked some of the letters. However, if you happen to know this punk in his late 20′s with short brown hair or use his services (he was driving a Ford utility truck of some kind), tell him to pay attention to his driving and stop texting on his phone. We were traveling east on Burbank Blvd. in Sherman Oaks when this moron blew through a red light at Vesper. We saw him stop a mere block later at Van Nuys. I initially thought that here was yet another aggressive dumbass who needed to beat a yellow light (and missed badly), only to stop at the subsequent red light: risk 100%, reward 0%. Put me at a card table with these fuc*ers, and I’ll rake every time. However, when we caught up to him at Van Nuys, we saw him speeding off while staring down at his phone and texting away. He also was changing lanes without signaling. I wonder if he realizes that the average texter keeps his eyes off the road for a full 5 seconds at a time….talk about messed up priorities.

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