2009 March | L.A. Can't Drive

More Freeway Blindness

Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter As sad as it seems, I’m pretty used to not seeing vehicles with their head/taillights operating at night on the surface streets.  But today, I saw an inordinately large number of morons flying on the freeways in the dark.  This photo of a silver Infinity was taken after 7:30 p.m. on [...]

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RV Parks in Compact Parking Space

Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter I laughed aloud when I got this submission the other day.  If you look closely, you can even see “COMPACT” written in the adjacent parking spaces: “Doesn’t look very compact to me.  Takes up about 80% of the drive of the parking lot.  WTF are they thinking putting a 28′ RV [...]

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Jackass Wants to Be Noah and Part the Waters

Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter This genius in a clay-gray, shizzy Range Rover was the only prick who was stepping on the accelerator while everyone else was braking for either red lights or slowing traffic.  We took this picture on Barham in Burbank when we noticed this driver shaving off the front bumpers of other drivers [...]

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Excuse Me, But Does the Beetle Come with a Powder Room?

Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter This lady in her silver VW Beetle on the 110 Fwy South (near Chinatown) last Thursday was applying makeup by switching between a mascara applicator and an eyebrow brush in stop-and-go heavy traffic during evening rush hour.  Music was blasting out of her car as she was primping herself for her [...]

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Aggressive Driver Profiles Don’t Apply in L.A.

Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter Encounters on the road for the L.A. commuter is like a box of chocolates–you never know what kind of asshole you’ll get.  As much as I like to rag on Escalades, Mustangs, and Audis, it truly is a surprise for me to see who is driving the vehicle.  It’s almost as [...]

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