Feet out the window - including driver - today

phillyc · 31-12-2010, 08:36 PM

Yep, that is what i saw today on the trip home from Canberra to Newcastle.

A young bloke and 2 young girls, all aged early 20s travelling along the Hume Hwy south of Sydney just after Pheasants Nest in a bronze VT-VX Commodore with Qld rego ...-GAG (and i'm pretty sure i know the 3 numbers too) start to tailgate my wife not long after rejoining (5 mins?) after we had stopped for our/kids break.

So my wife changed lanes after finishing the overtake of the adjacent car and let the tailgaters past.

What i noticed first off, was that the front passenger had both her feet out and the rear left passenger had one foot out. I looked on in disbelief. They thought they were pretty damn cool. The girl thinking i was looking at them for being cool gave me the thumbs up. I shook my head. Then i noticed the DRIVER had his FEET out of the car and his seat was in the almost fully retracted / submarining position. He gave me the 'Hang Ten' sign. At which time i pointed at them and then pretended to pull a trigger to my head.

I copped some verbal (which i couldn't hear) and a middle finger for this. I tried to take a picture on my phone, but it didn't seem to work and they got away too quickly from us before tailgating other cars still with the drivers and passengers feet out the window.

Considering this is 1000 km from the Queensland border, is it any wonder that Commodore drivers are over represented in the road toll with such small immature minds.

pottery beige · 31-12-2010, 08:50 PM

smelly feet??...

AWD Chaser · 31-12-2010, 08:51 PM

although bloody stupid... it could have happened in any car... not just a commodore...

Unfortunatley for all involved, natural selection will sort them out...

Muzz Landau · 31-12-2010, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by AWD Chaser

although bloody stupid... it could have happened in any car... not just a commodore...

Unfortunatley for all involved, natural selection will sort them out...

My thoughts exactly. Their stupidity has more to do with their age and care free nature rather than the type of car they are travelling in.

Stefan · 31-12-2010, 09:02 PM

The Holden bashing is seriously getting tiresome on this forum. It is absolutely cronic and off putting.

Ford_The_Win · 31-12-2010, 09:15 PM

I know this isn't a constructive comment, but most psychologists and sociologists recognise that stereotypes wouldn't exist if they weren't true to a certain extent. What the OP witnessed is a stereotype in the flesh.

Oh and just to back up my claim, according to this article, 50% of hoon vehicles impounded in Vic were Holdens...

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/car-...-1225898002426

Jim Goose · 31-12-2010, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by mick_1010

I know this isn't a constructive comment, but most psychologists and sociologists recognise that stereotypes wouldn't exist if they weren't true to a certain extent. What the OP witnessed is a stereotype in the flesh.

That probably holds true, most stereo typres will just follow other peoples lead. So they all buy the same clothes, wear their caps sideways, buy the same type of car...

Just up the road are two sets of flats which total 12 units.
There are on average 22cars parked on the road/ footpath
Out of that there are 8 commodore utes and one noisy Lancer with annoying exhaust tone.... And guess which car drivers can be heard acting the morons 99% of the time???

On the flip side a guy i work with owns a commodore ute and is a young 20something.... he doesnt follow that trend.

But the fact remains the commodore is very popular with the younger male generation hence the fact that a lot of them will spin tyres, race etc etc....

I rarely see a young 20yr old in a Falcon here, hence I will rarely see young person acting like an idiot in a Falcon (though obviously it does happen).

Keepleft · 01-01-2011, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Stefan

The Holden bashing is seriously getting tiresome on this forum. It is absolutely cronic and off putting.

Because observations of poor or really really dumb behaviour involve a model of that make.

I love some Holden, but admit I was praying for the end of GM under the GFC, only because of 'that model', who's occupant and buyer set would move into ore models and makes, IF they had gone under.

No offense.

Get fools in Falcons too, but that other model, man!

cheap · 01-01-2011, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Stefan

The Holden bashing is seriously getting tiresome on this forum. It is absolutely cronic and off putting.

I agree and a balanced approach must be maintained, therefore could you help me locate an intelligent Holden site/forum where I can improve relationships?

phillyc · 31-12-2010, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Muzz Landau

My thoughts exactly. Their stupidity has more to do with their age and care free nature rather than the type of car they are travelling in.

Probably so in regards to age, but i see that sort of passenger behaviour so often and a damn large chunk are in Commodores. And it isn't just people their age, they are often my age (early 30s) and older.

I personally don't appreciate having my families life at risk for care-free aka stupid people. Nor the idea as a taxpayer of paying to look after 3 quadriplegics for the rest of their electromechanically operated lifes.

It's inarguable that young people are over-represented in too many crashes, but the same can easily be said of Commodores too where they are ripped apart in two or whatever else.

It is however the first time i've seen a driver do it. Hence the reason for the original post.

Coyote mk3 · 31-12-2010, 08:54 PM

-Young people are stupid
-Commo drivers are idiots.
-Thread locked

Sorry that is how this thread is going to run its course.

What you saw is disturbing and had you got a good video you could have turned them in and Today Tonight could have had a field day.

chrisfpv · 31-12-2010, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by phillyc

Considering this is 1000 km from the Queensland border, is it any wonder that Commodore drivers are over represented in the road toll with such small immature minds.

The car has nothing to do with there immature behavior mate, let's not get this thread started off by throwing in the usual Holden cheap shots. It's getting old.

But you're correct, they are immature and are most likely brainless idiots who think they are invincible. See it all too often.

GreenR · 31-12-2010, 11:00 PM

wow that's game of them. I mean maybe the passengers I could sort of understand. Long road trip maybe just getting a little uncomfortable and wants to stretch their legs a bit, but the driver? Very dangerous.

Now no attempt to fuel a bashing on Commodores and the people that drive them. However, 4 good friends of mine have lost their probationary license. 1 drives a Falcon.. Guess what the other 3 drive..

burnz · 31-12-2010, 11:13 PM

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Originally Posted by phillyc

Yep, that is what i saw today on the trip home from Canberra to Newcastle.

A young bloke and 2 young girls, all aged early 20s travelling along the Hume Hwy south of Sydney just after Pheasants Nest in a bronze VT-VX Commodore with Qld rego ...-GAG (and i'm pretty sure i know the 3 numbers too) start to tailgate my wife not long after rejoining (5 mins?) after we had stopped for our/kids break.

So my wife changed lanes after finishing the overtake of the adjacent car and let the tailgaters past.

What i noticed first off, was that the front passenger had both her feet out and the rear left passenger had one foot out. I looked on in disbelief. They thought they were pretty damn cool. The girl thinking i was looking at them for being cool gave me the thumbs up. I shook my head. Then i noticed the DRIVER had his FEET out of the car and his seat was in the almost fully retracted / submarining position. He gave me the 'Hang Ten' sign. At which time i pointed at them and then pretended to pull a trigger to my head.

I copped some verbal (which i couldn't hear) and a middle finger for this. I tried to take a picture on my phone, but it didn't seem to work and they got away too quickly from us before tailgating other cars still with the drivers and passengers feet out the window.

Considering this is 1000 km from the Queensland border, is it any wonder that Commodore drivers are over represented in the road toll with such small immature minds.

i havent seen the drivers feet out the window..
but the passengers feet, whell nothing new .. i have lost count on how many i have seen..

FPV8U · 31-12-2010, 11:18 PM

As above, passengers is not a huge deal but the driver well thats just plain stupid.

sgt_doofey · 01-01-2011, 02:42 PM

We encountered a stereotype on our way home today. Car came screaming up behind us and was dangerously tailgating us whilst travelling at 110km/h. My wife was driving and passing another car with another car in front of us. We eventually got past the car and moved back over in to the left lane to only have this car fly past us with the passenger hanging out the window giving us a verbal spray.
They then tailgated the car in front and lather, rinse, repeat...
The car? Well, it was an EA/EB Falcon Wagon. The stereotype was a socio-economic one, not what car they drive.

dogfish · 01-01-2011, 03:16 PM

The movie Death Proof Would make any one want to stop putting their Legs out the Window.

uranium_death · 01-01-2011, 03:23 PM

Idiocracy...it's happening!

Had they died, people would have said,"He wasn't a silly driver or a hoon, and he certainly didn't like attention. He loved his mother and gave to charity. He was a hero! He saved his pet rock's life."

Same crap all the time. People like this need to be severely injured in their car for them to learn anything. Other people's stories of horror just don't seem to be enough...

burnz · 01-01-2011, 03:31 PM

on a positive note,, i see a lot of ladies wearing mini skirts with their feet on the dash...

is that dangerous for me or them??

Keepleft · 01-01-2011, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by burnz

on a positive note,, i see a lot of ladies wearing mini skirts with their feet on the dash...

is that dangerous for me or them??

Just don't jump out the window when on the move to grab em?

Dunno what the fine is in NSW.

cheap · 01-01-2011, 04:43 PM

Pity you didn't take a photo, I'm sure the coppers would be interested.

XCwillo · 01-01-2011, 06:39 PM

No offence to the OP but it sounds like you've edited the event to make them sound like satans children >.<

Feet out the window is nothing, but if the driver was doing it, that's just bloody stupid :\

ALSO DEY WUZ DRIVUNG KOMODOR, THARFOR DEY IZ STOOPID
I didn't think to abuse the OP for commodore bashing just because he stated the car?
Stop trying to be so right wing everyone
Im sure if he said they where in a 180SX you all woulda flamed for rice bashing :\

phillyc · 02-01-2011, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by XCwillo

No offence to the OP but it sounds like you've edited the event to make them sound like satans children >.<

Feet out the window is nothing, but if the driver was doing it, that's just bloody stupid :\

ALSO DEY WUZ DRIVUNG KOMODOR, THARFOR DEY IZ STOOPID
I didn't think to abuse the OP for commodore bashing just because he stated the car?
Stop trying to be so right wing everyone
Im sure if he said they where in a 180SX you all woulda flamed for rice bashing :\

No offence taken. But the event was not by any means edited.

TheZHLANE · 01-01-2011, 06:41 PM

good luck hitting the brakes

**ebxr8240** · 01-01-2011, 06:44 PM

Bad choice on on two options...Feet and vehicle...Lol...

Last time I had my feet...Ah don't want to go there....

ThaFlash · 01-01-2011, 06:50 PM

i must be fick, still trying to work out the rego.....

fmc351 · 01-01-2011, 06:57 PM

Bloody Nike wearers, they're all the same. Both with or without their shoes on.

montyv8 · 01-01-2011, 07:59 PM

should have pulled back in front of them and brake-tested them. Might have waken them up.

Trevor 57 · 01-01-2011, 08:01 PM

did you ring 000 and report them, if not, why not? I wouldn't have hesitated, and I would have let them see me do it.

XCwillo · 01-01-2011, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Big Trev

did you ring 000 and report them, if not, why not? I wouldn't have hesitated, and I would have let them see me do it.

"Hello 000 what is your emergency?"
"Uhh yeah there's some crazy youngins driving on the free way... With their feet hangin out the window! oh wait, oh, oh no he isn... Oh my god he just gave me the hang ten symbol!"
"..."
"Hello?"