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Whoever put this up near me is a fucking legend.

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[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Legend has it that someone local to my parents place complained to the nearest town police about people constantly rolling through the stop sign at the intersection in front of their house. The police parked up within sight of the intersection, and the first person they pulled over for a rolling stop was the same one who had called in the complaint.

Story goes the cop immediately gave up and drove back to the nearest town where he came from.

[–] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

This is great. I don't even care if it's not true or didn't happen, this is great

[–] strangehill2dieon@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I need one of those for my neighborhood. Everyone rolls through stop signs and they get mad at me for stopping at them. Also someone on my street straight up ran over the stop sign while texting and driving. World class drivers

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Where I live, some of the STOP signs have a square white sign underneath them that says "EXCEPT FOR RIGHT TURN". This is unbelievably fucked up because drivers not from the area who see only the back of the octagonal STOP sign assume that the drivers approaching the intersection from the other side are actually going to stop. Even I sometimes forget about the exception sign and get surprised by the other driver barreling on through - although not very often since drivers here so frequently fail to stop as it is.

[–] Coliseum7428@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

“Stoptional”

[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the most accurate image I can find of drivers in Dallas.

[–] Danatronic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Inaccurate, not enough Nissan Altimas with paper tags

[–] i_am_hiding@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Danatronic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Temporary license plates that you get from the dealer to use while the real ones are still in the mail.

[–] i_am_hiding@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Interesting. Here, cars have normal plates on them at the dealer registered to the dealership's address. The registration is transferred to the buyer's name at the time of purchase.

[–] thanevim@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We've been getting more roundabouts lately. I feel like we need the opposite as I have to sit behind someone coming to a complete stop for an empty roundabout...

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got rear ended by someone because the person in front of me thought a yield sign means stop when merging onto the highway. Fucker didn’t even realize it and drove off

[–] stalfoss@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

The person in front of you rear ended you and didn’t realize and drove off?

[–] Default_Defect@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My town has a bunch of people riding bikes because they lost their license from too many DUIs, the rest are drunk drivers that haven't lost theirs yet.

[–] EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmmm maybe encouraging drunk driving isn't a bad idea

[–] Default_Defect@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Seems like a good idea on paper, but they ride bikes about as well as they drove their cars.

[–] EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Still an improvement

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Killing someone while drunk cycling is a lot harder at least.

[–] this@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Bikes cause less damage than cars when someone crashes them.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now if only someone could put up similar signs about turn signals.

[–] SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I find a lot of drivers like to start their signal halfway through the turn.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That's more than most of the drivers do around here.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's because if you signal too early the other drivers move into your blind spot like they're defending a race position. Of course, doing it too late means a crash. They have to see you doing it.

That's why I always hit my emergency flashers right after I commit to the lane change.

[–] M4775@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

This sums up the demeanor and intelligence of a lot of drivers where I am.

[–] Bloodwoodsrisen@lemmy.tf 4 points 1 year ago

We have a few people in my neighborhood who love loud engines and subwoofers

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It's a shame I can't do the same for the speed limit because they keep stealing the fucking sign

[–] donut4ever@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Resol@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

You're not in Europe, but 33% of all cars have European license plates. And 1% of those are actually driven by Europeans.

I would like a Belgian one with the snazzy red background and white lettering.

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