left turn cagers
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Big Kahuna HDF Member
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left turn cagers
Can someone explain to me what left turn they're talking about when they say watch out for cagers making a left turn.
For example which is it:
1. a cager coming toward you in an oncoming lane and crossing in front of you from your left to right?
2. a cager entering from a street on your right side and making a left turn in front of you to go the opposite direction on the road you're on.
3. a cager entering from a street on your left side and making a left turn in front of you to go in the same direction you're going.
4. a bonehead cager travelling the same direction as you in a lane on your right side and turning left and cutting you off.
5. all of the above
6. none of the above , something else.
Help me understand. thanks.
For example which is it:
1. a cager coming toward you in an oncoming lane and crossing in front of you from your left to right?
2. a cager entering from a street on your right side and making a left turn in front of you to go the opposite direction on the road you're on.
3. a cager entering from a street on your left side and making a left turn in front of you to go in the same direction you're going.
4. a bonehead cager travelling the same direction as you in a lane on your right side and turning left and cutting you off.
5. all of the above
6. none of the above , something else.
Help me understand. thanks.
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WHEN I post it, #1. Not sure 'bout the rest.
#4 was how the guy in St Paul got "aced out" by the Rookie LEO in his squad, w/o the lights and siren on. BTW, He WALKED, ......the LEO, that is, 6 'carried' the biker, "HOME".
#4 was how the guy in St Paul got "aced out" by the Rookie LEO in his squad, w/o the lights and siren on. BTW, He WALKED, ......the LEO, that is, 6 'carried' the biker, "HOME".
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From: Grand Rapids, mi.
#1. Usually at an intersection, where there are left turn lanes. When you travel through a green light and go around someone turning left, it is hard to see you from the vehicle heading the opposite way and turning left in front of you. I slow down and look at there eyes to make sure I see them and they see me. You never know, they could be texting.
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#1 is how the a$$wipe from San Fransico took out my son last year in Hebron Ky. Fagot said he was in a hurry to get the rental car back to the airport so he could catch his flight back to San Fran 
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Can someone explain to me what left turn they're talking about when they say watch out for cagers making a left turn.
For example which is it:
1. a cager coming toward you in an oncoming lane and crossing in front of you from your left to right?
2. a cager entering from a street on your right side and making a left turn in front of you to go the opposite direction on the road you're on.
3. a cager entering from a street on your left side and making a left turn in front of you to go in the same direction you're going.
4. a bonehead cager travelling the same direction as you in a lane on your right side and turning left and cutting you off.
5. all of the above
6. none of the above , something else.
Help me understand. thanks.
For example which is it:
1. a cager coming toward you in an oncoming lane and crossing in front of you from your left to right?
2. a cager entering from a street on your right side and making a left turn in front of you to go the opposite direction on the road you're on.
3. a cager entering from a street on your left side and making a left turn in front of you to go in the same direction you're going.
4. a bonehead cager travelling the same direction as you in a lane on your right side and turning left and cutting you off.
5. all of the above
6. none of the above , something else.
Help me understand. thanks.
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From: Connecticut
Experienced #1 with a cop two weeks ago. Cop heard me, probably thought I was going alot faster than I was by the sound and ripped in front of me, so close that I locked up the tires and when I stopped I was right in front of him, he spun off the side of the road to try and turn around in front of me and was perpendicular to the road. Then when I told him to go he didn't, I pulled away and he floored it behind me riding my *** for three blocks before turning down a side road. ******** cops.
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From: N. Kentucky
IMHFYO, #5...ALL of the above. You gotta keep your head on a swivel. But the most common I've encountered is #2 although not by much
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From: Georgia
Got to watch for all of those but #1 is the one I mean. The only serious accident I ever had was years ago when a cager turned left into her driveway right in front of me.
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well I had an experience with #4 a couple weeks ago. I was travelling in the middle lane of a 3 lane road. The right lane stopped, then the left lane backed up next leaving only the middle lane open and I was free and clear. I knew something bad was going to happen so I slowed down a bit, still going about 70K (40mph). Just then some dumb *** blonde bimbo cut erratically from the right lane into my lane, right in front of me. I instanty went into a left swerve and had my hand on all the brake that RG had. The back anti-lock cut in and the front was pulsating. She saw me at the last second and stopped I went between her and the stopped car in the left lane. I think if she didn't see me I would have been in the small 3 foot space between her and the row of cars on the left. Lucky nothing happened. I said a small paryer, crossed my heart and carried on. I'm not religous in any way, but I'm getting closer with incidents like this. Oh and thank goodness for those anti-lock brakes, those tires were on the verge of squeeling and that 1000 lb piece of rolling steel and metal was literally standing on it's nose.
Last edited by zeus33; Sep 28, 2009 at 10:06 PM.