While I can definitely moan and complain with the best of them, I thought that I would pass this little experience along. Perhaps there is a light at the end of the tunnel (or is that just the Land Cruiser coming the wrong way):
While driving yesterday, an idiot in a Land Cruiser with blacked out windows literally ran me off the road. As I pulled up behind him at the next light to get on the Trade Centre R/A, I laid on the horn and he reversed (but did not hit me). He then pulled into the round-a-bout, sped across 4 lanes to the outside, almost caused 3 accidents and then drifted back across the 4 lanes to the inside - 2 more TCAS R/A's. It goes without saying that this was all without indicating (you lose points for indicating). As he finally dashed back against traffic to exit onto SZR, he managed to get the vehicle up onto 2 wheels.
I did manage to get his plate number and as I was on my way to the Police Station anyway on another errand, I thought that I would let the Police know what happened as this was certainly one of the most egregious displays of rudeness/recklessness that I've seen in my 12 years here. When I told the police what happened, I was ushered into the chief's office who listened, and in exasperation said that they realized that they had to do something about people like this. He looked the guy up and said that he would follow it up. He later called me personally and said that the driver confessed (the police here have a 100% confession rate
) and that they would be issuing a fine.
While caning would have been too good for this guy, it at least seems that the police are trying to take this seriously and are not letting people off simply because they all have the same middle name (Al).