2011 August | L.A. Can't Drive

The Next Big Thing: Cell Phone Contortions While Driving

Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter The hands-free cell phone law has more or less become a joke in Los Angeles. You absolutely cannot drive down a single block without finding someone behind the wheel holding a cell phone in his/her hand and chatting away. Clearly the cops here are citing for the violation as often as [...]

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Clueless, Apathetic Twit Blows Through Red Light

Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter I snapped this one today on the way back from work during pre-afternoon rush hour on Beverly Glen. This middle-aged lady in her Lexus RX400h hybrid SUV (license plate 6DRC) blatantly ran through the red light at the intersection of Beverly Glen and Beverly Glen Place. And when I say blatantly, [...]

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More Freeway Blindness at Dusk

Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter Let’s keep this trend about highlighting night blindness going, shall we? I snapped this one Thursday night on the 101 Freeway in Sherman Oaks at dusk around 7:45 p.m. If you happen to own a car that has true “auto” headlights that turn on both the front and back vehicle lamps [...]

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More Freeway Driving Blindness

Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter I was searching through my archives and forgot to share this photo, taken a few weeks ago on the 101 Fwy. We were traveling east on the freeway somewhere around Sherman Oaks when we came across this Acura (license plate 5NMY) cruising completely blind with no head or taillights on at [...]

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Does Your Dog Drive a Stick Shift, Too?

Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter There really isn’t much to say about this one, other than here we have another moronic L.A. driver illegally driving with a dog in his lap–surprise, surprise. Some people in L.A. like to think that the populace here is just more laid back and consequently don’t think these issues regarding safety [...]

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