The true meaning of karma....

[woodbury22uk]

Just saw instant karma in action. On the way driving into town I was between two buses. The bus in front stopped at a bus stop which is conveniently located exactly opposite a traffic island. So if the bus stops so does all the rest of the traffic going the same way. My rear view was restricted by the second bus which had pulled up close behind me so I was unprepared for what happened next. Behind some other vehicles in the queue to the rear of second bus was a hot hatch. You know the sort; lowered suspension, large twin exhausts, and, I learned later, one of the annoying lumpy camshafts that makes the engine sound rougher than an old diesel engine on idle. The driver was clearly way too important to wait in the queue, so drove at some considerable speed on the wrong side of the road past the island towards the more or less blind bend beyond the bus stop. Luckily nothing was coming the other way. But the driver succeeded in hitting a large pot hole immediately opposite the island and towards the gutter. When we passed him about twenty seconds later he was admiring his impressively bent alloys on the driver's side, and looking forlornly at his large bore exhausts and silencers doing a great impression of scrap metal. And the engine did not sound too healthy but probably the combined effects of his lumpy camshaft and the loss of exhausts.

Might be a bit of a problem making a claim against the Council for the unmarked potholes, but I suppose he could always try to find an unmarked pothole on the right side of a main carriageway in a derestricted zone to justify the scale of damage to his wrecked wheels and exhausts.

My passenger managed a wry smile.

[Sprintex]

 

I saw someone try a similar manoeuvre at a red traffic light last year, his idea being to time it right so that when the lights changed he would nip in front from the turning-right-only lane thus beating the queue of traffic. What he didn't reckon on was the unmarked police BMW that he flew past whilst on the wrong side of the road, and that followed him across the lights and stopped him.

Result: one fine, possibly points as well, much longer delay than his time-saving idea would have saved him, and the ignominy of having all those he flew past at the lights now driving past slowly pointing and laughing 


Paul

[tutenkhamunsleeping]

one fine, possibly points as well, much longer delay than his time-saving idea would have saved him, and the ignominy

You get a second wife for motoring offences these days?  Crikey!