It is one of the most extraordinary examples of madness on the highway - a motorcyclist riding with no hands as he sends a text message.
Sitting astride a powerful machine, the rider was photographed working on his phone as he traveled along Sydney's M2 motorway at 60mph. In order to operate the phone, he had to take both hands off the handlebars and, it is believed, switch his expensive bike onto cruise control. Sitting astride a powerful machine, the rider was photographed working on his phone as he travelled along Sydney's M2 motorway at 60mph The rider was photographed by a passenger in another vehicle - believed to be a bus or a lorry due to the elevated angle - as he rode, head down, his concentration on his text message.
Had he crashed, the thin clothing he was wearing would have given him no protection from, at the very least, severe cuts, grazing and broken bones. 'I thought I'd seen everything,' said morning radio host Ray Hadley when he posted the picture on his website today. 'But obviously I hadn't until now.'
Re: Zen and the art of
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 2:19 am
by loCAtek
This is why I'll never drive/visit/text in Oz....
Re: Zen and the art of
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 3:16 am
by Scooter
Worried about getting caught, are you?
Re: Zen and the art of
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 3:18 am
by The Hen
In the US it is the cops that text whilst riding.
Re: Zen and the art of
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 3:24 am
by loCAtek
Scooter wrote:Worried about getting caught, are you?
Ha! Haven't driven since '09, if you've been paying attention.
Re: Zen and the art of
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 3:30 am
by Scooter
The only other interpretation of your comment would be that you'd have to go to Australia to encounter someone texting and driving. It happens where you too, you know.
Re: Zen and the art of
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 5:54 am
by loCAtek
That was future tense...
Re: Zen and the art of
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 1:10 pm
by Scooter
Because in the future no one would be texting and driving where you live? You would only encounter that in Australia?
Re: Zen and the art of
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 2:43 pm
by Lord Jim
Actually, it just looks like one more example of the strategy I described in the thread in News and Suggestions...
"Instead of trolling Strop and Hen on a single subject, I'll try to mask my overall on-going trolling pattern by tossing out gratuitous swipes on multiple topics, in multiple threads in multiple forums"....
This is why I'll never drive/visit/text in Oz....
That's funny...
I can recall a time when you talked enthusiastically about the possibility of moving there....
Re: Zen and the art of
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 3:53 pm
by Rick
At least the handle bars on motorcycles in OZ are on the same side as the handle bars on motorcycles here in the US...
Re: Zen and the art of
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 4:09 pm
by dales
A public caning of cylists/motorists would go a long ways toward solving this problem.
Re: Zen and the art of
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 7:40 pm
by The Hen
keld feldspar wrote:At least the handle bars on motorcycles in OZ are on the same side as the handle bars on motorcycles here in the US...
Fnaaar.
Re: Zen and the art of
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 6:49 am
by loCAtek
Lord Jim wrote:
That's funny...
I can recall a time when you talked enthusiastically about the possibility of moving there....
It is, but I have learned the error of my youth.
Re: Zen and the art of
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 8:38 pm
by dales
I'd visit if I had the $$$$$$$.
Re: Zen and the art of
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:31 pm
by Jarlaxle
I'd consider it if I could arrange to be sedated for every second on an airliner.
Re: Zen and the art of
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 12:48 am
by PMS Princess
My first trip over (about age 5) I begged my parents to leave me there with one of my aunties.
*When I was in junior high someone asked how long it takes to drive there.
Re: Zen and the art of
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 1:03 am
by Rick
I went there, I was an ASS, I have not been asked to return.
Re: Zen and the art of
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:42 am
by loCAtek
Were you given the BOOT, as per [the Simpsons Episode 119] custom?
