Baby on board…
Posted by Leeb - 02/06/08 at 12:06:00 amSo what?
Are these a badge of some sort? Like a scouts honour badge? Congrats to the people in the car in front…you had a baby…clap….clap….clap.
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Are they somehow meaning that the occupants are special and shouldn’t be involved in an RTA? “Please mister idiot 4×4-driver-who-is-tailgating…. go for someone else obviously less valuable than me ‘cos they don’t have a little yellow diamond in the back window declaring my ability to procreate successfully”..
Maybe I should get a little diamond too….maybe it will keep me safe from bad drivers too!
Lost time….
Posted by Leeb - 29/05/08 at 02:05:00 amI get frustrated by the morons who tailgate.
We arn’t supposed to be able to sue for traffic accident damages here in NZ because we have been bestowed with the all seeing and all powerful Accident, Compensation Corporation. I think this is wrong.
I am a contractor, this means when the moron hits the back of my car, the clock should start running for all damages…the ACC will only pay me 80% of my ‘wages’ whilst I recover…but who will pay for my mental anguish caused by my spainal/neck injury causing me to be afraid of driving ever again? The ACC wont thats for sure. What about my car?..I know it’s a 1988 Corolla with a book price of less than a grand…but I have spent heaps of my time maintaining this vehicle in top mechanical nick for the last 150,000kms…finding another [more time and $$$] in the same shape would be a nightmare.
Therefore I want to be able to opt out of the ACC fantasy and take my own legal action to recover damages and all my new costs. I want to sue the moron who hits me for the TORT of negligence - they should have been paying attention and leaving [dare I say it?] a stop gap. Complete disregard for me and my passengers should be recoverable via legal means.
insurance company can then at leisure, recover from their insuree. This would drive up premiums on sporty cars and 4×4’s and boy racer vehicles making these things expensive [especially when 3rd party compulsary comes in soon]. With high insurance premiums and lost no-claims bonus’s [should that be bonii?], arising out of my little case law win, people might think twice about tailgating.
Oh, I forgot these morons are incapable of thinking….that’s why I wrote this blog!
Next time some one rams me….I might try suing.
Why…..
Posted by Leeb - 22/05/08 at 02:05:00 am…..Do old people insist in going out at lunchtimes?
It’s not that I would want to infringe on their human rights to do so…but they HAVE ALL DAY - EVERYDAY to do their shopping for their singular loaf or lotto or nappies.
Did this start in the 40’s and they did it their whole life?
Why do they insist on driving at 30kmh in anything from 50-100 zones?
C’mon folks you’ve had your lives…let us younger people have the lunchtimes!
In saying that… you can be damned certain I’ll be hovering my little ‘hovering thing’ at lunchtime…well below the posted hovering limit when I’m a hundred and thirty!