Ghastly ([info]ghastlycomic) wrote,
@ 2008-07-19 03:23:00
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Scooter Rage
You know what ruins a perfectly good evening? When you're on your way to the gay bar for a night of karaoke and drawing and some fucking asshole thinks it's really funny to throw a rock at you as you drive past on your scooter hitting you square on the part of your temple not covered by the helmet. Luckily I managed to bring the scooter to a controlled stop and the skin wasn't broken. But I have a lump and my head still hurts.

WTF seriously! This shit is just not funny. I'm getting fed up with all the scooter rage out there. Get used to it assholes because gas prices are getting higher and there's only going to be more of us on the road. Put me in a diminished mood for the rest of the night.

Anyways, tonight's drawing.

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[info]acelightning
2008-07-19 07:34 am UTC (link)
Awww, poor Ghastly! But I seem to be first in line (get behind me, the rest of you!) to kiss it and make it all better.

And it's good to see Kwerki again, with her sweater more stretched out of shape than ever...

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[info]fujinsama
2008-07-19 08:31 am UTC (link)
I've never heard of scooter rage. Considering I'm thinking of getting a vespa, is this something I should be worried about?

I'm glad you're alright, though, bump aside.

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[info]lhaluk
2008-07-19 08:33 am UTC (link)
Amazing. Nothing but savages in this country now. I say we law abiding citizens
start a revolt and send them all to some forsaken island somewhere.

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[info]maikeru_go
2008-07-19 11:15 am UTC (link)
I'd say the lot of us on 2 wheels (motorcycles, powered scooters, bicycles, and the few on mopeds—though please don't ride in the bike lane with the motor engaged since you're technically you're a motor vehicle traveling at motor vehicle speeds and belong in the main stream of traffic) get paintball markers and slingshots and break a few windshields (or at least force them to not be able to see too well) or tail-lights when people start deliberately doing life threatening stuff like throwing rocks. It's one thing to be cut-off due to the other person not looking, it's another for them to actually intend to maim. So taking up markers and slingshots is self defense as rocks traveling at motor-vehicle velocities are moving fast enough to kill and thus technically assault with a deadly weapon.

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[info]korgmeister
2008-07-19 09:05 am UTC (link)
Wow, what the fuck is wrong with some people?

Geez and I thought it was bad that I almost got my car wiped out by some idiot in a Honda Accord who thought "Oh my, a blind corner, I SHALL DRIVE THROUGH IT AS FAST AS I POSSIBLY CAN!".

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[info]nickymccloud
2008-07-19 09:16 am UTC (link)
... Why the hell would you throw a rock at anyone, period? Really now, what ever happened to, y'know, being a decent person? It doesn't take a Ph.D. to know that you shouldn't throw freaking ROCKS at people.

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[info]pikku_gen
2008-07-19 09:48 am UTC (link)
As above.

...What the flying fuck is the matter with people nowadays?

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[info]nickymccloud
2008-07-19 11:29 am UTC (link)
Makes you wonder sometimes, dunnit?

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[info]riskygamble
2008-07-19 10:22 am UTC (link)
They see you rollin'
They hatin' :(

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[info]almagill
2008-07-19 12:15 pm UTC (link)
Jealousy, that's all it is.

That and the inevitable result of generations of inbreeding... "ugh shiny noisy moving thing.. throw rock.."

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[info]pied_pieper
2008-07-19 11:59 am UTC (link)
Christ on a stick! I'm so glad you're ok.

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[info]almagill
2008-07-19 12:20 pm UTC (link)
Seems some things never change.

Fucktards see something they don't 'get' and just lash out.

(Old Man Moses time...) Back when I were a youngster, scooting round town, I had a babies soiled nappy thrown at me, a car drew up alongside at traffic lights and the passenger tipped a bottle of brake fluid on my tyre, another car at another set of traffic lights thought it's be 'amusing' to drive forward onto my rear wheel so it was trapped under his bumper... and you know why? Because when they are sat in their little metal boxes with half a dozen screaming offspring asking 'are we there yet are we there yet' and they are just about losing the will to keep breathing, some happy chappy on a scooter will go whizzing past them, free, unencumbered and full of the joys.

Hope the bump gets better soon, Ghastly.

Next time? Throw it back.

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[info]pyat
2008-07-19 12:55 pm UTC (link)
What part of town did that happen in?

I remember my classmate Andy, back in high school, used to get her scooter knocked over every now and again, just by people being mean spirited.

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[info]fabricari
2008-07-19 01:02 pm UTC (link)
People have scooter rage? The fuck? I have scooter envy: wish I didn't work so God damned far from work, I'd get a scooter.

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[info]hotclaws
2008-07-19 01:03 pm UTC (link)
Ahh, that sux.It reminds me of when I was a punk when it first all started in Manchester ,England and I would get attacked for the way I looked .People are just such morons, fuck 'em i say, fuck 'em all.

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[info]sinboy
2008-07-19 01:18 pm UTC (link)
Damn. I'm sorry to hear that. Glad you're OK!

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[info]tatterdemalion
2008-07-19 01:39 pm UTC (link)
Ouch.. glad you're ok though Unca Ghastly, would be a sadder less fun place without you in it.

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[info]greenworldgirl
2008-07-19 01:50 pm UTC (link)
And I thought Canadians were supposed to be polite! You should move to California. People think we're all gay ecotards anyway.

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[info]tigrress2
2008-07-21 04:22 am UTC (link)
Yeah, what she said. (I love it in Cali!)

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[info]maikeru_go
2008-07-21 04:01 pm UTC (link)
Right, those of us in Northern California (S.F. Bay Area) especially.

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[info]asmor
2008-07-19 02:11 pm UTC (link)
Man, what's with all the assholes up there? I thought you canucks were supposed to be nice.

I drive a piece of shit '87 Honda scooter whenever I can (it's in the shop at the moment) and the only thing I ever get is, "Wow, I bet that thing gets great gas mileage!"

You should move to Salem, MA. :D

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[info]contradictacat
2008-07-19 02:11 pm UTC (link)
Argh. It's things like that where I'm OK with retaliatory violence. I know a guy who has a motorcycle, and for a while he would break the windows of people who opened their car doors right in front of them. Teeny bit over-the-top, I thought...but would be completely justified in your case.

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[info]woekitten
2008-07-19 02:32 pm UTC (link)
Holy shit dude. Was that in Hamilton or Toronto? I would think Toronto would be more accepting, since the place has become scooter city. My dad's even talking about getting one.

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[info]ghastlycomic
2008-07-19 03:51 pm UTC (link)
Hamilton, not two blocks from my house. Hamilton is like Toronto's jealous brother that tries to compensate for its lack of success by acting all macho and calling Toronto a fag.

Truthfully though, most people I encounter love the scooter and are very interested in it. But there's this tiny fraction of people who for some unknown reason turn into absolute dickwads when they see someone on a scooter. The other day a kid on a bicycle, going the wrong way down a one way street, made an attempt to clothesline me as I drove past. It's funny because all I would have had to do was turn my head to the side a little bit and he would have shattered his wrist on my helmet (and probably try to sue me too). Pedestrians will yell and jump off the sidewalk directly into my path (which would do neither of us much good in a collision and could even end up killing one or both of us). Drivers will yell out the window as they pass, or honk the horn, or swerve as if they were deliberately trying to sideswipe you. Why anyone thinks any of this shit is funny is beyond me.

I was reading that in some cities in the States there is a 3 month waiting list to get a scooter. Even here in Hamilton I'm seeing more and more scooters on the road, particularily the electric kind. People are going to have to just get used to them because they're not going away now and there's only going to be more of them as time goes by and gas gets more expensive.

Oh well the bump seems to have gone down this morning and my head doesn't hurt anymore.

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[info]newdance
2008-07-19 09:23 pm UTC (link)
I find this all very bizarre. It's like a weird alternate dimension, this Hamilton, Ontario!

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[info]ghastlycomic
2008-07-19 09:37 pm UTC (link)
Hamilton is one very weird little city. It is a bizarre mix of working class grunge and avant guard artistry that makes me love this city so much. There's a very interesting a vibrant urban culture here.

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[info]maikeru_go
2008-07-19 10:22 pm UTC (link)
The clothesline guy seems to be lacking in a basic knowledge of physics—the scooter plus the guy on it probably weighs more and has a more stable base than the bicycle (not to mention the gyroscopic effect of heavier rims would make your scooter harder to topple). Clotheslining only works well if the person/object doing it is A) far heavier than the person/object to be clotheslined or B) moving fast enough to overcome the inertia of the person/object to be clotheslined or C) anchored to a generally immobile object. Oh and yes he would have probably broken his hand on your helmet if you had turned your head, ducked a tad, or changed course a bit.

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[info]lulong
2008-07-19 06:18 pm UTC (link)
Aw! What a fucktard! Seriously, what do people think when they do shit like that?

I hope you feel better!!!

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[info]danicia
2008-07-19 06:37 pm UTC (link)
Move to Seattle. We LOVE our Scooter folks. Not that I'd be the first in line to welcome you with cuddles or anything. Really.

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[info]sheherazahde
2008-07-19 09:33 pm UTC (link)
Throwing rocks is assault and is illegal, even in Canada.

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[info]xenosphobatic
2008-07-19 11:02 pm UTC (link)
Shame you didn't catch the little fucks. Turn them in for assault.

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[info]wildcard9
2008-07-19 11:02 pm UTC (link)
What the flying fuck is wrong with people?!! That could have killed you by causing you to crash, or hitting you in a spot that would have done more damange than just a lump!! Scooter bashing?? That is a new hatred to me, I am sorry to say :(

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(Anonymous)
2008-07-20 12:15 am UTC (link)
Eeek! Glad you're okay.

Might I make a suggestion?
Get a bottle of clear rubbing alcohol, then get a Sharpie marker (any colour; the more obnoxious the better!), a funnel, and a water gun). Open the Sharpie and cut open the cartridge. Put it into the rubbing alcohol. Let the alcohol leech the dye from the cartridge, then put it in the water gun.

Pay back jerks with a squirt from the gun. :D

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(Anonymous)
2008-07-20 12:17 am UTC (link)
Oh, and I'd recommend wearing rubber/latex gloves when working with the Sharpie and fluid.

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[info]bothrops
2008-07-20 02:12 am UTC (link)
Solution. Get a brick, glue felt all over it, then put some hook material (you know, from velcro) on the bike somewhere easy to reach. When needed, lob brick. I know someone that has used this trick on a few occassions here in Texas.

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Head injuries
[info]blog.nitpicking.com
2008-07-21 01:26 am UTC (link)
Here in the States that would be called "Felonious Assault" or something similar. Did you report it to the police?

LJ's support for OpenID is pretty rudimentary--this is the guy you chatted with while waiting for your cab the last time you were at I-CON.

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[info]just_you_wait
2008-07-21 02:16 am UTC (link)
should've chased the fucker and beat him down with your legendary Gimp Stick.

I was driving to the movies 1.5 years ago when some schmucks threw eggs at my windshield, blinding me temporarily. Luckily there wasn't any traffic at the time, or it could've been really bad.

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[info]rashind
2008-07-21 07:54 am UTC (link)
Fuck that shit. I haven't encountered any scooter rage, yet... and I'm an obvious, unpassable trap. I'm sure they'll get around to it.

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That utterly sucks
[info]merujo
2008-07-21 09:43 pm UTC (link)
and I feel your pain, man. I got nailed in my bad (partially blind/chemo'ed) eye just about a month ago by a guy who didn't like the fact that I was a fat chick. He (a moron with white muttonchops and a salmon-pink wifebeater) started screaming out his pick-up truck window about how "m-f'ing fat bitches" like me should die and then flinged a 44-ounce Big Gulp out the window of his truck at my head. Hit me squarely in the eyeball, gave me headaches that continue now, and caused a temporary loss of sense of humor. I don't know what the fuck is wrong with people, but reservations for space in Hell are filling up pretty damn fast.

Hope your mood is much improved (and your noggin, too!), Crackers.

Merujo

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[info]gentlemanl0ser
2008-08-03 10:34 pm UTC (link)
You know, a similar thing happened to me. Except I was in a car, and not a scooter, and it was a gun not a rock. Well, a BB gun at least. I was, like you, driving to my local gentleman's club, when someone pulled up and matched speed with me in the other lane and the aforementioned being shot in the head with a BB gun took place. I arrived at the bar with the side of my head covered in blood, cleaned myself up and tried to enjoy the rest of the night. That BB is still embedded in the side of my head.

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