And aussies who want to drive overseas should go to Germany and do a driving course first ..............
Cyclist hit by campervan.
Scott Pickersgill, the rider struck by the side of the van, said in many ways some of the responsibility for such incidents rested with hire companies.
“Let’s face it, there are crappy drivers everywhere. But these international tourists didn’t know the rules and couldn’t drive to start with so shouldn’t have been allowed to drive a hire vehicle,” he said.
“She said: ‘Big mirror. Sorry.’ “
I am over the other side of the bay from Oceanboy and although we don't have the amount of foreign tourists that side has, we are starting to get them. Hire cars full of gawking asians driving at 35 kms an hour are starting to appear and at even that speed they are dangerous. They are also dangerous on foot.......they don't seem to understand what getting out of the way is. People down here are bowling through them like skittles.
enf (21-02-18)
And that's a bad thing ?? ...........payback ??Originally Posted by admin
most aussies only want to ride scooters round bali whilst pissed and off their heads on mushies, it'd be a waste of time.
and you dont need a licence at all to hire a bike in bali...
As Steve Irwin would say, "Natural selection, don't muck with it!"
How many times have I seen Habib and his Couzin rock up to the motorcycle hire in Thailand and hire an R1 each.
The little Thai guy offers them a helmet, "No, I ride a fulli siik R1 in Australia mate. I don't need no pussy helmet bro!"
Next thing you see is Habib riding off down a side street on the back wheel wearing thongs and a singlet.
Then a loud crash before the ambos haul them off to the local clinic for the "touch of detol".
I'd love to buy a scooter in SE Asia and ride that bugger to London for shits and giggles. It would be an awesome trip.
I should get a Chinese driving permit and do it.
Yes I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.
Its something I have noticed a lot of asian people do........and unfortunately its now something a lot of Australians do. Just stand there, totally oblivious to the fact they are blocking peoples access.
You just have to rudely smash through people these days unfortunately to make them understand
That sounds like most shopping centre car parks in Mandurah, not to mention abboe's who seem incapable of walking on a footpath, they nearly always walk in the centre of the road as if they 'kin owned it......................darwinism @ work !!!!
You just have to rudely smash through people these days unfortunately to make them understand
Just an Update.
The last few weeks some Asians have been celebrating Chinese New Year.
In my area, we are over run with Chinese in their own hire cars.
I have never in my life seen more idiotic driving or incorrect use of the road.
Even the most simplest of ideas, like a round-about, has been used in so many strange and wonderful ways!
I spoke the Apollo Bay cops over the weekend, they have started asking "Asian Drivers" how many days they have been driving.
The over whelming answer is 1.
Then then asked, how many in total including back home..... 1
Seriously, our only saving grace is they drive slowly, most of the time.
Ive had 2 of them just prop mid round about, stop completely.... Made for some great late breaking of the guy following
Even just getting the mail then, i encountered a half dozen crazy car movements, all asian drivers in hire cars.
No way i'd take the road bike out during this Chinese New Year!
But really really sad part... We put of own young kids through hours of driver training, lessons and tests
Yet the exact same law makers yet Asians with no driving experience, come to our country, to drive on the opposite side of the road for the first time unsupervised.
Why are they so special???
Last edited by ol' boy; 20-02-18 at 06:15 PM.
If u want to go on an expedition get a Land Rover, if u want to come home from an expedition get a Landcruiser!
shred (21-02-18)
Huh, didn't take long
If u want to go on an expedition get a Land Rover, if u want to come home from an expedition get a Landcruiser!
Left Hand Side v Right Hand Said
I guess it was the bloody chingas again.
Cheers
Ted (Al)
Tiny (21-02-18)
well fark that, I'm going the middle of the road.
Cheers, Tiny
"You can lead a person to knowledge, but you can't make them think? If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
The information is out there; you just have to let it in."
Around here Tiny, that is probably the safest place to be.... Hedge your bets
If u want to go on an expedition get a Land Rover, if u want to come home from an expedition get a Landcruiser!
You wacist oceanboyheheheh.
Which side of the road you drive on has roots in military tactics.
The first is to think about which hand you hold a sword in and if you are riding your horse which side you would pass another person coming head on another horse.
(This also applies to battle) but in peaceful times, you never could tell if somebody was an arsehole.
Most humans are right handed, so if you are attacking or defending, you're going to want to pass on the left hand side.
And the English loved to establish rules for behaviour and conducting war etc.
Of course the rest of the world at some point in time has come to think of the English as a bunch of arseholes and they stick it too them.
So if you're a colonial American or mainland Europe, the easiest way to fvck up the English and stop them invading is mess up their rules.
Since your people use guns and not swords, you can pass on the right and side and shoot the confused fvcker with a sword.
Even better still, he's probably got a group of infantry who will line up neatly and let you shoot at them while they shoot back at you.
OF course you can just hide behind trees and rocks and pick them off like ducks in a shooting gallery even if you have shitty muskets for weapons.
Even if the English have enough firepower, the local people will still fvck them around because they will be used to driving/riding/passing on the wrong side.
The rest of the world just wanted cars and since America made so many of them and cheap, it made a lot of sense to follow suite.
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