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ess
Citizen
Username: Ess
Post Number: 2973
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 9:05 am: | 
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If you are going to make a right turn at a red light, which is perfectly legal, please make sure that a) you come to a full and complete stop when your light is red, b) there is no oncoming traffic as a result of the just-changed light, and c) if you fail to adhere to a & b, please make sure you don't do so in front of a cop at the intersection. You WILL get stopped and ticketed.
So, to the driver who did this yesterday evening as I was crossing Valley on Oakland, aren't you glad you were in such a big fscking hurry? Was it worth me almost hitting you as you recklessly turned to "save" the extra 30 seconds? Was the ticket worth it? HA! |
Nashira
Citizen
Username: Nashira
Post Number: 83
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 9:26 am: |
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Ess,
Aren't people unbelievable? Adding to that, don't you just love the people who sit there and honk at you when you are going to turn right at a red light, but cannot do so yet because of oncoming traffic going through the green light? I hate driving because some people are so rude and only care about themselves. I am happy this other person did not cause you to get in an accident. |
greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 8897
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 9:34 am: |
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TS's theory is that many drivers misunderstand the law. They think that RoR is mandatory and that they have right of way over oncoming traffic.
Every once in awhile, there is justice. |
Alleygater
Citizen
Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 2421
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 10:03 am: |
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I was stopped at a red light and this guy on his cellphone in an expensive convertible and a shirt and tie, was LAYING ON HIS HORN, over and over again. I finally screamed out my window to go around me or leave me the BLEEP alone. And he got out of his car to give me an earful. When he came over to me he's holding his phone out (I guess he asked his caller to hold for him) and telling me turn my m.f.ing car and just screaming at me. I look at him and ask him to look over there. I point at the NO TURN ON RED sign and asked, "Are you going to pay for my ticket?" I couldn't believe HE STILL CONTINUED TO SCREAM AT ME!!! Luckily the light changed and I drove off. People!
Oh here's the kicker. I tell TS the story and then I'm given the riot act. 'Cause, you know, the driver "might have had a gun and killed me." |
LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 2246
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 10:12 am: |
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Yikes Alley - that's scary.
Oh - and Ess - people don't stop at stop signs around here, you have some nerve thinking they should stop at red lights. 
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Sis2790
Citizen
Username: Sis2790
Post Number: 28
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 10:38 am: |
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Grrrr...I would have taken that guy's license plate # and reported him to the cops as an aggressive driver. |
Glock 17
Citizen
Username: Glock17
Post Number: 1700
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 10:39 am: |
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Alley gator what you do in that situation is swing your door open, hitting him as hard as you can....then proceed to make the turn. |
Ily
Citizen
Username: Ily
Post Number: 254
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 10:55 am: |
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Alley - Ugh! Crazy story! I'm thinking of always having a camera handy. I'd love to post a picture of this jerk screaming and frothing waving his cell phone around. HA! |
Guitar Dad
Citizen
Username: Guitardad
Post Number: 27
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 11:09 am: |
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I also just love the non-stop-right-on-red when one is a pedestrian crossing with the right of way. Some "drivers" just honk as a warning as they're cutting into their mad turn. What?! |
Rosiegirl
Citizen
Username: Rosiegirl
Post Number: 12
Registered: 5-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 12:05 pm: |
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I was at the light by Nero's a few weeks ago - I was stopped on Hobart Gap Rd. (going towards SH)in the right lane at a TOTALLY RED light. Some yahoo made a left hand turn on to S Liv. Ave (ON RED) and nearly hit a car going towards the mall. Said car had to swerve to avoid a FATAL accident. Yahoo had the nerve to slam on the horn as if he owned the road. No, I don't think he was a cop, and I am certain his wife wasn't in labor b/c St Barnabas was in the other direction. Oh, and here's a shocker...he was on his cell phone - NOT hands free!! Nice job, J@CK •••!!!! |
Señor Moment ©
Citizen
Username: Howardt
Post Number: 2343
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 12:45 pm: |
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I think it's true that people don't understand the law.
They don't know that a right turn on on red is allowed, unless a sign says otherwise, ONLY AFTER COMNG TO A COMPLETE STOP. It's ignorance, less than stupidity.
...ellipsis |
cody
Citizen
Username: Cody
Post Number: 1105
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 2:29 pm: |
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I like the nuts who blast their horn for you to make a right turn on red when there's a big sign that says "no turn on red". I refused to move once and one idiot followed me for a block, passed me on Prospect and then jammed on her brakes right in front of me just out of spite.
The other fun one is when there is a pedestrian in a crosswalk who is crossing with the light, you are turning and the driver behind you honks and honks as you wait for the pedestrian to cross. I've even seen them swing out and around to turn in front of the car that is giving the pedestrian the right of way. Don't NJ drivers know that a pedestrian in a marked crosswalk who is crossing with the light has the right of way unless a traffic officer is controlling the intersection and instructs otherwise? Doesn't anyone read that driver's manual around here? |
red
Citizen
Username: Redy67
Post Number: 6807
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 2:48 pm: |
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I had one guy beeping his horn at me on Vauxhall and Springfield Avenue. I was turning left, and all the oncoming traffic was turning right. The guy behind me was shaking his fist and beeping at me to go....um oncoming traffic? |
ess
Citizen
Username: Ess
Post Number: 2974
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 3:16 pm: |
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No, people do not understand the law. Idiotic.
Another favorite of mine is being honked at by the doofus behind me when he/she wants to make a right on red, but I am going straight (and there is no room to turn). Are people now expected to make a right on red, even when they do not need to turn? Argh.
I usually don't take pleasure in others' misfortunes, but the thought of that jerk from yesterday getting a ticket still makes me giggle. Poetic justice, indeed. |
newone
Citizen
Username: Newone
Post Number: 428
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 3:53 pm: |
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Cody
What I do with people like that is give them a big smile and clap my hands like I'm saying "good job, you really got me" (sarcastically of course) |
red
Citizen
Username: Redy67
Post Number: 6810
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 7:12 pm: |
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Driving home on Ridgewood tonight. A car in the other direction has her blinker to turn left. A PSE&G truck beeps at her, passes her across the double line, almost hitting me and speeds down Ridgewood. |
hch
Citizen
Username: Hch
Post Number: 332
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 11:57 pm: |
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Drivers coming down Valley and turning right onto Tuscan often only come to a "rolling stop" before turning on the red. There have been many time where I was in the pedestrian walkway and drivers were clearly annoyed by my presence as they waited to turn right.
Also, what's with people jumping the green light to turn left in front of oncoming traffic? |
mjh
Supporter
Username: Mjh
Post Number: 736
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 8:02 am: |
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"Also, what's with people jumping the green light to turn left in front of oncoming traffic?"
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I HATE it when people do that. There is a sick temptation to ram right into them, isn't there? |
Glock 17
Citizen
Username: Glock17
Post Number: 1715
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 8:31 am: |
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Well then be quicker than them. I do both things...jump the green quite often and as many times as i can...jam the accelerator down when the light turns green to stop other people from doing it to me...hehehehehe |
mjh
Supporter
Username: Mjh
Post Number: 738
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 9:24 am: |
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I wrecked into a person like you once (my one and only ever car accident in 30 years).
The cop called it a "no brainer", gave the guy a ticket. His insurance paid for my repair. I"m sure his rates went up as a result.
hehehehehehehe |
Zoesky1
Citizen
Username: Zoesky1
Post Number: 1625
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 9:36 am: |
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I honk loudly at those f**kers. I hate that jumping-the-green stuff. They have NO right. Where did these morons learn to drive? |
Glock 17
Citizen
Username: Glock17
Post Number: 1718
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 9:47 am: |
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Well... just be quicker then. Since 99.9% of people just sit there and wait for the first one or two left turners to turn. |
Popo
Citizen
Username: Popo
Post Number: 204
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 10:56 am: |
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Failing to yield to oncoming traffic when turning left is illegal, period. |
Morrisa da Silva
Citizen
Username: Mod
Post Number: 512
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 11:46 am: |
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Glock your fabricated use of statistics to bolster your argument in favor of your ill-mannered and illegal behavior is astonishing. Hey maybe when you graduate you can get a job at FOX NEWS! |
blackcat
Citizen
Username: Blackcat
Post Number: 705
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 12:07 pm: |
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They are not waiting for the left-on-green turners. They are making sure no one is running the now red light. Comes with experience.... |
Glock 17
Citizen
Username: Glock17
Post Number: 1726
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 12:23 pm: |
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I love how easy it is to make you all get angry. |
Alleygater
Citizen
Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 2436
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 12:53 pm: |
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Which is probably why many people won't be joining you at your back to school party. |
blackcat
Citizen
Username: Blackcat
Post Number: 707
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 12:55 pm: |
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No one's angry. Just laughing at inexperience |
Glock 17
Citizen
Username: Glock17
Post Number: 1730
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 1:05 pm: |
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Hah. I never gave it that title.
But it's fun because all I have to do is go. I LOVE JUMPING THE GREEN LIGHT. IT REALLY GETS ME OFF.
and just sit back and watch the time go by.... |
Alleygater
Citizen
Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 2440
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 1:15 pm: |
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Oddly immature. Which coming from me is sort of the pot calling the kettle black...go figure. |
Sandi and Paul
Citizen
Username: Momsandi
Post Number: 112
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 1:17 pm: |
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When a guy honked at me for not turning when there was a no turn on red sign I turned back and waved, pretending he must know me. Then he made a motion for me to make the turn. He honked again, ESS, so when the light turned green I just sat there and made him go around me, then proceeded on my way. Don't give in to these impatient idiots. If they are in such a hurry they should leave for their appointments on time! Some are adolescents like Glock who will change their behaviors only after a serious accident occurs. When I was their age I thought I was invincible too. Eventually, they will cause the driving age to go up to 21. They have the highest rate of accidents even though reflexes at that age are the best. |
Cougar86
Citizen
Username: Cougar86
Post Number: 35
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 1:42 pm: |
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I like to just accelerate into the right turn, not even slowing for the red light. I even roll down the windows and scream out "NO BRAKES" as I do it and have a look of panic on my face. It really gets your adrenaline going, better than a double shot expresso latte from Starbucks... |
Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 3710
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 4:44 pm: |
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greenetree,
I can't remember where, but in some states, RoR is required if you are turning and there is no traffic coming. It might have been Denver or Wyoming.
Also, does anyone know if left on Red is permitted between two one way streets in NJ? |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 15243
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 5:08 pm: |
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Rastro, I am pretty sure it's not, though I believe it is in California. |
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