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Posted by frito on March 21, 2010, 2:36 pm
There I was, sitting dead stopped on a state highway waiting for traffic to
break so I can make a left turn into my driveway. I'm watching my back
trail since I kinda live in a curve. I habitually pulse the brake when I'm
stationary to keep the ass end of the bike lit up. I see a pick up coming
up on me and calculate that I'll have time to turn behind the last oncoming
car before the pick up gets to me. Just about the time I start to move,
headed into my drive, the numb nut finally spots me and locks it up. I'm in
the drive and he's crossed up and still sliding. He stops just before he
gets to my drive and I felt obliged to look over my shoulder to call him a
stupid fuck. Dude sat still in the highway for a good while, don't know if
he was cleaning his shorts or deciding to come up to the garage and kick my
old, tired, and heavily armed ass. He made the best decision and went on
his way. It's pretty bad when drivers totally ignore or just fail to see
full sized bike ditting dead in the middle of the road, but I have the turn
signal module brake lights + a strobe mounted on the tourpak. That's 3
lights I was pulsing and the strobe doing it's thing, but it was my fault
dude locked it up.
Cool beverages are on me. I survived this time.
--
"frito"
Fred Snetzer
'01 FLHT
TOMKAT
IBA #10549 BS #162
http://eddiekieger.com/
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Posted by Dean on March 21, 2010, 5:12 pm
>There I was, sitting dead stopped on a state highway waiting for traffic to
>break so I can make a left turn into my driveway. I'm watching my back
>trail since I kinda live in a curve. I habitually pulse the brake when I'm
>stationary to keep the ass end of the bike lit up. I see a pick up coming
>up on me and calculate that I'll have time to turn behind the last oncoming
>car before the pick up gets to me. Just about the time I start to move,
>headed into my drive, the numb nut finally spots me and locks it up. I'm in
>the drive and he's crossed up and still sliding. He stops just before he
>gets to my drive and I felt obliged to look over my shoulder to call him a
>stupid fuck. Dude sat still in the highway for a good while, don't know if
>he was cleaning his shorts or deciding to come up to the garage and kick my
>old, tired, and heavily armed ass. He made the best decision and went on
>his way. It's pretty bad when drivers totally ignore or just fail to see
>full sized bike ditting dead in the middle of the road, but I have the turn
>signal module brake lights + a strobe mounted on the tourpak. That's 3
>lights I was pulsing and the strobe doing it's thing, but it was my fault
>dude locked it up.
>Cool beverages are on me. I survived this time.
Them left turns can be a bitch. Glad you're safe. I put a back off
module on my Road King last week, it worked perfect -- the nine flash
model. Anyway. It never made it out of the garage. I put a relocated
license plate bracket on the left fender/muffler brace bolts. Put two
LED bolts on, to lite up the plate, and got the bright idea to tap
them into the O/W wire in the tail light circuit. Faster than I could
say nano sec, the brake lights were ON permanent & the module was
fried. Ah well, wouldn't be any fun working on a bike if something
didn't take a dive. I call them 'teaching moments.' I'll order a new
one when I get back from Florida. I ran the LED's into the fuse box,
where they should have gone in the first place.
Thanks for the drink. I'll treat you to a cold one at EKIII
Dean
EKIII
'06FLHR
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Posted by Andy aka Big Stinkie on March 21, 2010, 5:50 pm
On 3/21/2010 1:36 PM, frito wrote:
> There I was, sitting dead stopped on a state highway waiting for traffic to
> break so I can make a left turn into my driveway. I'm watching my back
> trail since I kinda live in a curve. I habitually pulse the brake when I'm
> stationary to keep the ass end of the bike lit up. I see a pick up coming
> up on me and calculate that I'll have time to turn behind the last oncoming
> car before the pick up gets to me. Just about the time I start to move,
> headed into my drive, the numb nut finally spots me and locks it up. I'm in
> the drive and he's crossed up and still sliding. He stops just before he
> gets to my drive and I felt obliged to look over my shoulder to call him a
> stupid fuck. Dude sat still in the highway for a good while, don't know if
> he was cleaning his shorts or deciding to come up to the garage and kick my
> old, tired, and heavily armed ass. He made the best decision and went on
> his way. It's pretty bad when drivers totally ignore or just fail to see
> full sized bike ditting dead in the middle of the road, but I have the turn
> signal module brake lights + a strobe mounted on the tourpak. That's 3
> lights I was pulsing and the strobe doing it's thing, but it was my fault
> dude locked it up.
> Cool beverages are on me. I survived this time.
I've been behind Frito's bike at a stop light. You'd hafta be driving
completely distracted and with your eyes closed to miss him, or be
cruising with your girlfriend as she's giving you a...well...like I
said, you'd hafta be driving completely distracted and with your eyes
closed.
Glad you made it, and I hope the nincompoop wore 4 big ol' flat spots on
his tires.
Andy aka Big Stinkie BS#252 SLOB#3
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Posted by Steve Irving on March 21, 2010, 6:21 pm
On 3/21/2010 2:50 PM, Andy aka Big Stinkie wrote:
> On 3/21/2010 1:36 PM, frito wrote:
>> There I was, sitting dead stopped on a state highway waiting for
>> traffic to
>> break so I can make a left turn into my driveway. I'm watching my back
>> trail since I kinda live in a curve. I habitually pulse the brake when
>> I'm
>> stationary to keep the ass end of the bike lit up. I see a pick up coming
>> up on me and calculate that I'll have time to turn behind the last
>> oncoming
>> car before the pick up gets to me. Just about the time I start to move,
>> headed into my drive, the numb nut finally spots me and locks it up.
>> I'm in
>> the drive and he's crossed up and still sliding. He stops just before he
>> gets to my drive and I felt obliged to look over my shoulder to call
>> him a
>> stupid fuck. Dude sat still in the highway for a good while, don't
>> know if
>> he was cleaning his shorts or deciding to come up to the garage and
>> kick my
>> old, tired, and heavily armed ass. He made the best decision and went on
>> his way. It's pretty bad when drivers totally ignore or just fail to see
>> full sized bike ditting dead in the middle of the road, but I have the
>> turn
>> signal module brake lights + a strobe mounted on the tourpak. That's 3
>> lights I was pulsing and the strobe doing it's thing, but it was my fault
>> dude locked it up.
>> Cool beverages are on me. I survived this time.
> I've been behind Frito's bike at a stop light. You'd hafta be driving
> completely distracted and with your eyes closed to miss him, or be
> cruising with your girlfriend as she's giving you a...well...like I
> said, you'd hafta be driving completely distracted and with your eyes
> closed.
> Glad you made it, and I hope the nincompoop wore 4 big ol' flat spots on
> his tires.
> Andy aka Big Stinkie BS#252 SLOB#3
Yo Andy......why do those nincompoops run into police/fire vehicles that are
sitting at the side of the road all lit up?????
Somehow, drivers, especially them who are impaired somewhat......tend to target
fixate on the light show and can't seem to help themselves.....(kinda like Ron
White says) they follow the lights all the way in to the scene of the crash.
We had so many of the incidences out here (with cops and fire guys killed) that
we (when I was still gainfully employed) started rigging them to NOT flash like
a frikkin Christmas tree when they were sitting somewhere.......still had a
couple little blue/red things alternating on the top.....but all the strobes and
stuff got shut down when the vehicle got placed in park.
Another reason we did that was that the frequency of the strobe flash would lock
up intersections all red even after the emergency vehicle had gone through (but
that's another story).
--
Steve Irving BS#237 - Goat Head
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Posted by Andy aka Big Stinkie on March 21, 2010, 6:55 pm
On 3/21/2010 5:21 PM, Steve Irving wrote:
> On 3/21/2010 2:50 PM, Andy aka Big Stinkie wrote:
>> On 3/21/2010 1:36 PM, frito wrote:
>>> There I was, sitting dead stopped on a state highway waiting for
>>> traffic to
>>> break so I can make a left turn into my driveway. I'm watching my back
>>> trail since I kinda live in a curve. I habitually pulse the brake when
>>> I'm
>>> stationary to keep the ass end of the bike lit up. I see a pick up
>>> coming
>>> up on me and calculate that I'll have time to turn behind the last
>>> oncoming
>>> car before the pick up gets to me. Just about the time I start to move,
>>> headed into my drive, the numb nut finally spots me and locks it up.
>>> I'm in
>>> the drive and he's crossed up and still sliding. He stops just before he
>>> gets to my drive and I felt obliged to look over my shoulder to call
>>> him a
>>> stupid fuck. Dude sat still in the highway for a good while, don't
>>> know if
>>> he was cleaning his shorts or deciding to come up to the garage and
>>> kick my
>>> old, tired, and heavily armed ass. He made the best decision and went on
>>> his way. It's pretty bad when drivers totally ignore or just fail to see
>>> full sized bike ditting dead in the middle of the road, but I have the
>>> turn
>>> signal module brake lights + a strobe mounted on the tourpak. That's 3
>>> lights I was pulsing and the strobe doing it's thing, but it was my
>>> fault
>>> dude locked it up.
>>> Cool beverages are on me. I survived this time.
>> I've been behind Frito's bike at a stop light. You'd hafta be driving
>> completely distracted and with your eyes closed to miss him, or be
>> cruising with your girlfriend as she's giving you a...well...like I
>> said, you'd hafta be driving completely distracted and with your eyes
>> closed.
>> Glad you made it, and I hope the nincompoop wore 4 big ol' flat spots on
>> his tires.
>> Andy aka Big Stinkie BS#252 SLOB#3
> Yo Andy......why do those nincompoops run into police/fire vehicles that
> are sitting at the side of the road all lit up?????
You answered your own question. They are nincompoops. <sfsf>
I was dispatching one night when a cop who was on a traffic stop on the
interstate radio-ed in (is "radio-ed" a word?) and said, "A car just hit
my police car." He sounded pretty shook up. I said, "Are you in it?" He
said, "Yes." Next I inquired, "Are you injured?" He replied, "It just
happened...hubcaps are still rolling. I haven't had a chance to take
inventory yet." (You'd hafta know this cop. Always had a humorous
response to a stressful situation.) I sent "the world" (the phrase we
used in dispatch when we sent more cops, ambulances and FD apparatus to
a scene with unknown circumstances) to his location just in case.
Thankfully he wasn't hurt bad. It was a drunk who hit him, of course.
> Somehow, drivers, especially them who are impaired somewhat......tend to
> target fixate on the light show and can't seem to help
> themselves.....(kinda like Ron White says) they follow the lights all
> the way in to the scene of the crash.
Moth to the flame kinda thing.
> We had so many of the incidences out here (with cops and fire guys
> killed)
I never lost an officer. Had a few that went to the hospital for the
night, but they always went home eventually. It would have happened
sooner or later, so I got out while my record was still good.
> that we (when I was still gainfully employed) started rigging
> them to NOT flash like a frikkin Christmas tree when they were sitting
> somewhere.......still had a couple little blue/red things alternating on
> the top.....but all the strobes and stuff got shut down when the vehicle
> got placed in park.
Yup. I dunno what the best answer would be. Damned if you have lots of
flashing lights, damned if you don't.
> Another reason we did that was that the frequency of the strobe flash
> would lock up intersections all red even after the emergency vehicle had
> gone through (but that's another story).
Speaking of moths to flame, I heard that the reason they circle light
bulbs and flames is because they are programmed to follow the sun as it
goes down so they can remain warm longer. Therefore, they see a light
bulb and head for it. Unfortunately for them it is much closer than the
sun and they pass it up. They hang a u-turn and head back to the "sun."
Pass it again, make a u-turn, etc.
Andy aka Big "the bottomless pit of worthless knowledge" Stinkie BS#252
SLOB#3
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>break so I can make a left turn into my driveway. I'm watching my back
>trail since I kinda live in a curve. I habitually pulse the brake when I'm
>stationary to keep the ass end of the bike lit up. I see a pick up coming
>up on me and calculate that I'll have time to turn behind the last oncoming
>car before the pick up gets to me. Just about the time I start to move,
>headed into my drive, the numb nut finally spots me and locks it up. I'm in
>the drive and he's crossed up and still sliding. He stops just before he
>gets to my drive and I felt obliged to look over my shoulder to call him a
>stupid fuck. Dude sat still in the highway for a good while, don't know if
>he was cleaning his shorts or deciding to come up to the garage and kick my
>old, tired, and heavily armed ass. He made the best decision and went on
>his way. It's pretty bad when drivers totally ignore or just fail to see
>full sized bike ditting dead in the middle of the road, but I have the turn
>signal module brake lights + a strobe mounted on the tourpak. That's 3
>lights I was pulsing and the strobe doing it's thing, but it was my fault
>dude locked it up.
>Cool beverages are on me. I survived this time.