More shenanigans and tomfoolery on rt 235

[treehugger]

So yesterday about 730 PM I was just getting back in town as I was driving down 235 near walmart I heard all kinds of horns and saw the right lane stopped. Turned out someone in the right travel lane missed the first turn off to walmart and decided to stop in the travel lane and wait until they could get into the turn lane at the absolute last minute instead of going down 100 yards to the other Walmart entrance.

Just wanted to make the observation that I missed all the shenanigans on the road for the last week.

I saw karma in action this am. This white VW tdi drives like a mad man between gates 3 and 1, and turns left on Pegg Road. Usually driving before 7am. This jerk has almost hit me, always tailgates and makes unsafe lane changes.

This was the morning where he was going at least 70 mph, cut across 3 lanes of traffic in front of an unmarked state police officer. Finally busted!

 

[BernieP]

I saw karma in action this am. This white VW tdi drives like a mad man between gates 3 and 1, and turns left on Pegg Road. Usually driving before 7am. This jerk has almost hit me, always tailgates and makes unsafe lane changes.

This was the morning where he was going at least 70 mph, cut across 3 lanes of traffic in front of an unmarked state police officer. Finally busted!

Love it, if only karma was more reliable
I might not be too unhappy with the speed, but people that both speed and make rapid lane changes are a freaking hazard.
I hate people who come flying up and then at the last minute, while you are breaking, cut in. There goes the gentle stop as you now slam on your brakes sending everything in your car to the dashboard.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

I saw karma in action this am. This white VW tdi drives like a mad man between gates 3 and 1, and turns left on Pegg Road. Usually driving before 7am. This jerk has almost hit me, always tailgates and makes unsafe lane changes.

This was the morning where he was going at least 70 mph, cut across 3 lanes of traffic in front of an unmarked state police officer. Finally busted!

Did you honk and point?

 

[treehugger]

Did you honk and point?

No....but I will wave at him tomorrow lol

 

[DEEKAYPEE8569]

I really need to get a dash cam. This little nitwit wasn't on 235, but on base.
Black car, blacked out windows, comes rolling down the hill from the direction of the Exchange.
Light turns red but they keep making the LEFT. A few MPH faster and they probably would have hit the jersey barriers

Was is there never a cop around when you need one. Last I checked in my rear view the car was trying to make a U-turn to get out of there but with traffic moving not sure when they will get that chance.

When the Gate Guard sees your camera, he/she will stop you and tell you to take it down before proceeding.

 

[Goldenhawk]

When the Gate Guard sees your camera, he/she will stop you and tell you to take it down before proceeding.

They used to. I haven't been nagged about my dashcam for quite some time.

 

[DEEKAYPEE8569]

They used to. I haven't been nagged about my dashcam for quite some time.

I'll be damned.....I was always told, "You can't have that on base." "You have to take it down." I wonder what changed. Don't really care anymore; just wonder what changed.

 

[Goldenhawk]

I'll be damned.....I was always told, "You can't have that on base." "You have to take it down." I wonder what changed. Don't really care anymore; just wonder what changed.

Even when I was asked to take it down, it was very sporadic - like a few guards made it their personal mission but nobody else really saw it as a big deal. I figured if it was that spotty, there probably wasn't a command focus, so I'd just leave it there and take it down when asked.

 

[BernieP]

I'll be damned.....I was always told, "You can't have that on base." "You have to take it down." I wonder what changed. Don't really care anymore; just wonder what changed.

Kenny will have a fit, it's one of those laws / rules that has been ignored for convience
TECHNICALLY, we should not have a camera on base unless you have permission. I think cellphones have caused them to treat it more like the old , don't ask, don't tell. If you keep it in your pocket nobody will say anything.
I see people posting pictures taken on base, often in their office or some other activity.
Only Public Affairs can release pictures to the public, and your social media account is pretty much "the public".
But nobody is enforcing the rules right now, bigger fish to worry about.
Like Chinese nationals getting on base, with cameras (and god knows what else) and taking pictures.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

TECHNICALLY, we should not have a camera on base unless you have permission. I think cellphones have caused them to treat it more like the old , don't ask, don't tell. If you keep it in your pocket nobody will say anything.

Actually the statement is something along the lines of no photography except in recreation areas.

 

[glhs837]

Actually the statement is something along the lines of no photography except in recreation areas.

You are correct. And I say that as someone who back in the day had an "all access" photo badge, which of course didnt apply to classified things. But I was okay in nay hanger or ramp area. Then they did away with that and made the province of the individual commands, which was a perfect example of the problems of Balkanization.

 

[BernieP]

relatively quiet morning, traffic wasn't that bad.
Log jam can't have anything to do with all the traffic lights from Rt. 4 to Chancellors Run Rd, can it?
Amazing how the stop and go, opens up after the light at CR Rd, and at each light after.

 

[GopherM]

Retired and moved to NW GA thinking that I had seen it all in SOMD. A week ago we were stopped at a traffic light at an intersection similar to most of those between Wildwood and the base. We were about the 6th car back at a full stop. The light turned green and almost immediately the meth head in front of me got going and drove right into the car in front of him that hadn't even had the chance to start moving yet. There also seems to be a 10 second rule on red lights here where it is OK to just run them until there is no one left to follow through the intersection.

 

[glhs837]

Waiting to turn right onto the road into Gate 3 from 235NB this morning. Forest Park/Shaw, whatever it is. Line is backed up all three directions. Guy stacks up on my left in the single right turn lane as I'm waiting for enough space to fit the bike, then tries to do a 90 degree turn in front of me. WHAT. IN. THE. EVERLIVING. FUC^ do you think you are doing? Of course, while he's doing that, the line moves, allowing me to get in there. But really, who thinks that is okay?

 

[PrchJrkr]

Waiting to turn right onto the road into Gate 3 from 235NB this morning. Forest Park/Shaw, whatever it is. Line is backed up all three directions. Guy stacks up on my left in the single right turn lane as I'm waiting for enough space to fit the bike, then tries to do a 90 degree turn in front of me. WHAT. IN. THE. EVERLIVING. FUC^ do you think you are doing? Of course, while he's doing that, the line moves, allowing me to get in there. But really, who thinks that is okay?

*******s, that's who. I'm so glad I've seen the last of base traffic. I will assume you were on your bike. You're a very brave man to fight that crap every day. Be safe!

 

[GopherM]

I'll be damned.....I was always told, "You can't have that on base." "You have to take it down." I wonder what changed. Don't really care anymore; just wonder what changed.

They probably finally realized that "amazingly" everyone on base had a camera in their phones and many of them were sitting in holders on the windshields where they could have the cameras recording. The only way to protect what they were worried about on a restricted photo facility was to ban all phones and cameras. Plus if you are driving a Tesla or some models of Cadillacs they external cameras are continuously recording to a memory device anyway.

 

[glhs837]

***s, that's who. I'm so glad I've seen the last of base traffic. I will assume you were on your bike. You're a very brave man to fight that crap every day. Be safe!

I might not were I coming from the north or east. But I'm coming from the south so most of my ride is pretty mellow.