By John Smith
The other day I was stuck behind a swaying horsebox going from Enniskillen to Sligo. Not ONCE did this ignorant bastard move over to let other traffic past, instead he kept out as much as possible so no one might make it past him.
You can always spot them, brand new SUV, brand new horsebox, they think they own the road and how dare we plebs want to overtake them.
It is high time these people where made by law to pull over to let other traffic off, because being forced to overtake these ignorant bastards is dangerous and I would feel sorry for the horses, if not the pillock behind the wheel of his 08 suburbian tractor. So, if you drive a horsebox at about 30 kp/h, whilst swaying gently from side to side with about 2 miles of traffick behind you, if I spot you at 3AM, 30 miles away from any civilisation, with a broken gearbox in the pouring rain I will pull up to point and laugh at you for 30 mins and drive on in the knowledge that it couldn’t happen to a more deserving person.
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What you want to be doing there, is beeping like a lunatic. This freaks the horse out, it goes nuts and forces knob-end driver to pull over and sort it out!!
BB guns are just as effective.
Kinky!
But I wouldn’t want to do anything to injure the horse.
What I’m researching at the moment is the possibility of building an EMP generator from bits of old microwaves, that would fry the electronics of the vehicle in front without harming the animals, causing said knob-head to coast gently to a stop with his engine management, radio, mobile phone, sat nav and any other electronic equipment in his suburb tractor fried beyond repair, allowing you to safely and carefully, of course, overtake the now immobile obstruction, leaving him to worry about replacing every piece of silicon he had on him. This may take a few years, since current prototypes for the US navy are housed in a truck with separate Diesel generator to generate the 15-20 KW needed to operate the device, but I’m sure the Japanese will have a hand held version out any time soon now. Now THAT would be usefull!
Pity the horse hadn’t got a driving licence.
There were three brains in this situation.
1. The brain under the bonnet, better known as the computer or ECU.
2.The horse and its brain, a marvel of nature.
3. The driver with a so called brain located in a place where his or her arse should be found. This possibly explains why no matter how much you try to explain to these arseholes the problems associated with driving practices the more shit they throw back at ye, as they blame everyone else except themselves.
Next time you come across a similar situation and you want to get your point across, wait until the car stops at a traffic light, step out of your car and go and have a quiet whisper with the horse. You will probably get a better and more intelligent reply to your questions.
Thank you, a little human understanding goes a long way in the battle to stay sane on Irish roads.
What was the condition of the road/shoulder though? Was it bumpy and full of large puddles that could send a trailer astray (in which case he was perfectly within his rights so stay where he was) – or was it a large main road with perfect conditions (in which case he SHOULD have pulled in and allowed people to pass).
Regarding the SUV thing – I think moorists who pull a horse trailer are obliged to have them, rather than cars. I could be mistaken but I heard before that that was the case
Not so much the SUV thing, it’s more the whole package. Made his money building shitty housing estates, buys SUV, horse and box and sets about the road. Everyone else is just muck. Fine by me, but this guy was ahead for the best part of an HOUR and he had another car following him at such a distance that it was actually impossible to overtake at all. There where plenty of points for him to pull in, but I suppose once you have that kind of money you don’t move over for the little people.
In short, arrogant prick.
And this whole “I’m entitled to be on the road” attitude makes me want to buy an SUV and box myself, trundle through all of Ireland up and down at 40 km/h in the middle of the road with exactly that written on the back of it on a large sign.
There would be a law requiring pricks to pull over in a week.
there shud also be a law to put arses like you who posted this comment in the first place in a dark room for a very long time!! iv went from an ancient aul wooden trailer an car to a new 4×4 an trailer which iv worked my nuts off to get so that my horse an myself are safe. dont tar all horsebos owners with the same stick plz. iv seen the devastation caused by boy racers on the wrong side of road head on an also after clipping a friends trailer on a country road resulting in death to the horse as they drove on oblivious. your comments show u as an arse.get a life!!
Not all horseboxes, only about 90% of them.
Farmers towing cattle usually oblige and let you buy, but big, shiny, new 4×4′s the size of houses usually get a fit when you dare to overtake them.
One guy went up to over 120 km/h, only to slow back down to 60. If that doesn’t scream f***k you, nothing does.
I agree with Joanne, its very bad of the boy racers to clip a horsebox and drive on oblivious of the carnage and death of a horse. Where really the polite thing would have been to stop, and see if the horse was dead, if it was, then pick it up and huge BBQ …partttyyyyyyy….maybe the boy racers wouldnt have hit it if the dick would have pulled over and let people pass as in previous threads. The thing i have found in ireland and driving, is that nobody actually cares for anyone else on the road, 98 per cent of people dont read the road ahead, yellow boxes, for instance, idiots stuck in them coz they dont read the road ahead….and dont even get me started on the biggetst idiots on the road….taxi drivers….
fair point Joanne. Not all horsebox drivers are rubbish. But most are. The same way not every driver in Ireland is rubbish, but most are.
Having driven all around the country for the best part of eight years i have seen a lot of bad drivers doing absolutely insane things.
And from being stuck behind ignorant horsebox drivers, i can vouch that 9/10 of them are ignorant and selfish when it comes to other roadusers.
There are obviously exceptions to every rule, and not all horsebox drivers behave that way.
One example of ingnorance (not just of horsebox drivers) is moving into the outside lane when traffic is entering the dual carriageway/motorway. Barely anyone obeys this law and it causes merging traffic to slow down considerably. Thus when the vehicle finally enters the traffic, it is not going anywhere near the required speed. This causes traffic to slow down to accomodate the newly merged vehicle.
Simple solution: move out of the way of merging traffic on dual carriageways and motorways….please!
Actually, events have caught up with us and as per
http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5900&Itemid=26
it finally happened.
There’s no reason this shouldn’t apply to pillocks in SUV’s towing horseboxes at 40 km/h.
So, get your videocamera out, have the passenger film proceedings and bring the evidence to the Gards.
With a bit of luck that b*stard won’t be holding anyone up for a year or so.
ok, no comments here for a while so its either a lost cause or we’re all now shining examples of motoring excellence!
Actually I believe neither so will attempt to keep it in peoples minds:
“If you drive like a maggot you’ll still look like a maggot when it kills you!”
hiya does anybody know how to report dangerous driving?