David Jenkins
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| posted on 10/2/09 at 10:26 PM |
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Morons with high-beams...
What is it with some clowns?
Coming home from the station this evening... pillock 100 metres behind me in a country lane with his high-beam on...
Coming back from the pub tonight... another pillock 100 metres behind me in the same country lane, also with his high-beam on... and one coming
towards me, also with his high-beam on! He eventually dipped after being flashed about 20 times... and the one following STILL didn't dip!
Arghhhh!!!!!
(Five exclamation marks - a sure sign of madness...)
<end rant>
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 11/2/09 at 01:21 PM |
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What have I started... 
  
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 11/2/09 at 03:40 PM |
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my landys had two driving lights for reversing I could switch on from the dash.
Folk never did that for very long
I also fit high power front driving lights to all my cars too
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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cd.thomson
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| posted on 11/2/09 at 03:53 PM |
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flash them with this:
http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/ccw/info.htm
Craig
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focijohn
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| posted on 11/2/09 at 09:13 PM |
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Get yourself a passenger and get a 5million candle power torch. It will either burn out their retinas or they will dip. My dad had one and it was good
and would illuminate from a good 500m
Anyone going slower than you is an idiot. Anyone going faster than you is a maniac.
Too many targets but too few bullets.
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MkII
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| posted on 11/2/09 at 10:47 PM |
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slow down to about walking pace so they overtake you then follow them for several miles with your lights on full beam.a bit childish but at the same
time quite satisfying .m.
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 12/2/09 at 09:11 AM |
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Occasionally I wonder about having a strip of red corner reflectors* in my rear window - if someone doesn't dip, they get their own lights
straight back. Failing that, a flat mirror that can be raised on a string...
* corner reflectors - like a cube cut on the diagonal, which return a beam of light in exactly the same direction as it came from.
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 12/2/09 at 10:05 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by David Jenkins
Failing that, a flat mirror that can be raised on a string...
no you mean one of these...
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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iank
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| posted on 12/2/09 at 10:27 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by David Jenkins
* corner reflectors - like a cube cut on the diagonal, which return a beam of light in exactly the same direction as it came from.
The proper name is retroreflectors (used them years ago when doing some robotics work).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroreflector
An interesting idea - just need 3 flat mirrors to make one, but wouldn't they just return the light to their headlamps and not their eyes?
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Anonymous
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 12/2/09 at 12:36 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by iank
An interesting idea - just need 3 flat mirrors to make one, but wouldn't they just return the light to their headlamps and not their eyes?
I suppose you could set them at slightly more than 90 degrees to get a bit of 'scatter'.
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 12/2/09 at 01:12 PM |
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I used to have a big LED sign board that i'd salvaged from a skip. It ran off a 12v power supply, so I was going to put it in the back window of
my car, only it was wider than my Fiesta 
In hindsight, I probably would have got myself a kicking by flashing up 'learn to drive you ****' to the wrong person
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