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Idiot reading newspaper while driving.

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 11:37 am
by SXLancerMum
Yep you read it right.

On Saturday morning I was driving up the Pacific Hwy between Forster and Taree (in the 110 zone) and we overtook this guy with something spread over his steering wheel. I did a double take and realised that it was a bloody newspaper. Yep the idiot was driving along at close to 100 km/hr reading his newspaper.

And they blame accidents on speeding and young people. They should add old geezers reading newspapers to that list methinks.

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 12:05 pm
by king eternal
And if they were in an accident they would blame the other person, and if it was a P plater they would demand the police to come and breathalyse them.
People like this should loose their licence instantly.

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 1:01 pm
by The X
I've seen this newspaper reading phenomena in morning stop start peak hour traffic. I'm sure there have been a few rear enders from people glancing down at the letters page (or whatever these idiots are read)....

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 2:09 pm
by SXLancerMum
Well this was on the highway not in city traffic.

Mattigins wrote:You were near forster? why did you not come and visit?


I was with my hubby driving between Gloucester and Scotts Head up near Nambucca.

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 4:34 pm
by BR14AN
On the way home from uni I have seen a couple chicks driving whilst highlighting a text book.... I guess women are better multitaskers...

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 5:09 pm
by Graham
I don't see the problem here..

Two eyes.. one for the newspaper and one for the road?

And women think men can't multi-task :P

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:30 pm
by Tillllasam
Life is short. Read more! :P

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:56 pm
by dannyboi
Y U NO USE RADIO?!

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:12 pm
by SXLancerMum
Tillllasam wrote:Life is short. Read more! :P


It will be even shorter if you're doing it at 100km/hr and you're the one driving.

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:40 pm
by Speedie
saw a chick riding a pushbike today while she was texting. Weaving over the lane in front of cars and trucks.

Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 12:15 pm
by damion
There's a guy at work, who drives his falcon XR6 turbo from Dandenong to the city each day with DVDs playing on his in-dash LCD - cause he's tweaked it so it doesn't need to be in Park anymore.
makes me so angry!

Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 4:55 pm
by timdawes
lol i remember driving to wagga from sydney once, and just past yass was some bloke in an impreza, reading a book, driving about 90km/h.

we tried to take a pic but he saw us and put the book away