Not safe at any speed - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

davidmash · #1 03-15-2022, 09:18 PM

Saw this at the gas station today. Called 911 but he bailed before they got there.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/hiT438j1sQQs1GX29

https://photos.app.goo.gl/jcHgYftcDq7FSazr7

Can't get the pics to post.

Dubyagee · #2 03-15-2022, 09:24 PM

The scrappers around here are just as bad.

The last one I saw was an early Camry with the truck lid removed and a wooded “bed” made into the opening. It was stuffed like that van, going 20 miles an hour with the rear bumper dragging the road. I backed way off.

vwnate1 · #3 03-16-2022, 12:16 AM

Well ;

These are all over Los Angeles .

Some are crazies living in there, they pick up all manner of trash and pile/rope/tape/glue it to their hoopty ride and thankfully don't go on the freeway .

The actual scrap collectors won't have any plastic / cardbord crap .

An old friend of mine offered the local scrap guys $10 each for any old Motocycle or scooter, he got some really good stuff .

Boomers are dying off and their (our, my) crap is, I think mostly worthless .

Autoputzer · #4 03-16-2022, 07:09 PM

I had a nut-job coworker who lived in his car and in a u-stor-it shed. We called the car the "Hotel Monte Carlo," as in Chevy Monte Carlo. It was loaded with crap up to the windows, making sort of a nest in the driver's seat.

I saw a pick-up truck with a camper shell that was full, including the cab. Some old guy was driving it.

My "hoarding" is limited to recyclables: #1 and #2 plastic, cardboard, bond paper, magazines, aluminum cans, and steel cans. I have ten buckets for plastic, one bucket each for the cans, and a bin for cardboard, and hanging file baskets for the bond paper and magazines. I compact everything before it goes into a bin or bucket, to minimize my trips to the recycling center.

Bubba County gave up on recycling, so it's now a 29-mile round trip to Non-Bubba County for the plastic and magazines. I make a point to only go when it's a combined trip to somewhere else. I get rid of everything else at my former employer's site, which I go to frequently.

Non-Bubba County shut down their recycling operation during the lockdown-smackdown. I had 33 buckets of plastic "sheltering in place" (our back porch), accumulated over four months (transferred to large leaf bags, ten buckets to a bag).

It takes me three to six months to fill the aluminum can bucket. I have to admit I get depressed when I dump them in the recycling bin. My compacting decreases the volume of my aluminum cans by probably 80%. Almost nobody else using the recycling dumpster does that. It they did, the truck would only have to come for the dumpster 1/5 as often.

Frau Putzer says I hoard garage. She just doesn't understand or appreciate efficiency and process optimization. With my recycling, our weekly trash is between two and three 13-gallon kitchen bags. Our garage is so cramped that I have to pull a car out to get the 96-gallon trash can out. I tie tight knots the plastic bags containing cat **** and cat piss incrusted cat litter, and I zip tie the kitchen bags up tight. That pretty much eliminates the normal garbage stench. So, I usually go two weeks before putting the trash out instead moving a car to put the trash out.

merc lover · #5 03-20-2022, 02:11 PM

You sure those aren't pictures of your ride?

vwnate1 · #6 03-20-2022, 04:30 PM

This video is hard for me to watch, the guy didn;t die but he's all done with Motocycles now :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCnPQTwtrog&t=55s

The speed indicated is in Km bu still way too fast .

cmac2012 · #7 03-21-2022, 12:41 AM

Wow. That’s a tough one all right. Bikes are so fast these days. He was doing 150 mile an hours at times, and accelerated up to those speeds pretty quickly.

davidmash · #8 03-21-2022, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by vwnate1

This video is hard for me to watch, the guy didn;t die but he's all done with Motocycles now :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCnPQTwtrog&t=55s

The speed indicated is in Km bu still way too fast .

What was the flashing on the "dash". Looked like proximity warnings lights that you find on a car for lane assist.

Well, at least he did not hurt anyone else.

Worked with a guy who was a fork lift driver. Drove the lift very carefully, everything by the book. He was out cruising with his wife and he took off ahead at a high rate of speed. She rolled up a while later on an accident. He lost control and got decapitated.

I do not get the thrill of being irresponsible lie that and risking your life and those around you.

Autoputzer · #9 03-21-2022, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by davidmash

What was the flashing on the "dash". Looked like proximity warnings lights that you find on a car for lane assist.

It looks like a tachometer and redline warning. You see them often built into the steering wheels of race cars. BMW M cars have them in the HUD and they're actually pretty useful when you're on a track and need to be concentrating on what's happening outside the car.

It's "lucky" that biker crashed into a truck. If he'd hit a passenger car, the motorcycle would have cut it in half long ways. Motorcycles are pretty much an incompressible mass compared to cars.

cmac2012 · #10 03-21-2022, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Autoputzer

It looks like a tachometer and redline warning. You see them often built into the steering wheels of race cars. BMW M cars have them in the HUD and they're actually pretty useful when you're on a track and need to be concentrating on what's happening outside the car.

It's "lucky" that biker crashed into a truck. If he'd hit a passenger car, the motorcycle would have cut it in half long ways. Motorcycles are pretty much an incompressible mass compared to cars.

My favorite car up until the day it was totaled was a ‘67 Saab 96. That was the older funny looking model with the streamlined tale, front wheel drive, had a V4 Ford forklift motor. I was a half block from home, it was dusk, crossing an open intersection, I saw a headlight about a block away and went on across.

Oops, the headlight was a motorcycle doing about 80, this in a quiet neighborhood, had to be 25 limit on that section of road. If it hadn’t been desk I might I have discerned the speed better. I was almost through the intersection, the guy swerved to the left to go around the front of me, if he’d swerved to the right he might’ve made it.

Hit my car right about at the front seam of the drivers door. Bent the pillar to the left of the windshield, windshield was cracked everywhere, front door was never gonna work again. Drove me into the curb, the wheel whipped around so hard that it broke a finger, my left thigh got bruised all to hell and bad cut on my left arm. The guy broke both of his arms, he flew up into the air and landed in some thick foliage in the parking strip. Excellent landing spot for him, no other serious injuries.

I ended up getting a couple thousand from his insurance company. Lucky for me three teenage boys saw the whole thing.

cmac2012 · #11 03-21-2022, 03:00 PM

The emergency flashing lights on the truck were not hard to see. Amazing that he didn’t break hard and go to the right, and then onto the shoulder. Of course, if he’d been smart and a good driver wouldn’t have been in that circumstance to begin with.

Two full time carers? Good lord, the money that will be spent to keep him alive.

About 15 years ago on my morning commute across the Bay Bridge, I was in line at the toll plaza, A guy came through next to me on a fast looking bike, he was wearing all leathers, something about him seem wired, like a speed freak. Traffic wasn’t light, but he disappeared in front of me, lane splitting all the way. Not long after was a slow down, about five or 10 minutes later I drove past the guy lying on the roadway motionless, several people around him looking down in consternation, pretty sure he was dead.

vwnate1 · #12 03-21-2022, 08:20 PM

That this video is making people think .

Too soon old too late wise .

I'm still wondering when the hell the 'wise' part begins....

Autoputzer · #13 03-21-2022, 09:07 PM

I had a project over in Bristol England. I was over there two weeks at a time, so I had weekends to go exploring. British CAR drivers are the safest, most courteous, most law-abiding drivers I've ever seen. But, bikers are bat**** crazy.

I was on a two-lane, twisty road, in the rain, in heavy traffic, cresting a hill. A motorcycle coming the other way passed a heavy truck and drove in between me and the truck.

vwnate1 · #14 03-21-2022, 10:09 PM

I can tell you that riding anything with only two wheels can reasonably be considered crazy......

I wonder why I don't quit, I tried but cannot seem to let go .

cmac2012 · #15 03-22-2022, 04:55 PM

I got a kick out of it as a kid. In New Mexico they would let you have a “scooter license” at age 13, was supposed to be 5 hp or less. I had a Suzuki 150 two-stroke, about the smallest two cylinder I recall. It was pretty fast - 16 hp - nobody said a word. Later in my early 20s I had a BSA Victor. 441 cc single cylinder. With both bikes the thing to scare me was unexpected road conditions. I was going around a turn once on my Suzuki and hit a patch of gravel on pavement. I got my foot down for a hard smack on the pavement fast enough to keep from dumping it, didn’t do my foot any favors. On the BSA a couple of times drivers would change lanes right at me on the freeway. I felt pretty exposed.

I had a housemate who sold furniture. One time he discounted a guy like crazy in trade for a Kawasaki 500 three cylinder. This was around ‘76. He had never ridden and was afraid to learn, got it just to make money. He asked me to drive it every few weeks to keep all the fluids circulated, the cobwebs off of it. OMG that thing was fast.

A couple of weeks ago I saw the hottest looking Ducati I’ve ever seen in a client’s garage. Oh man, that looks like fun. Who knows.