I rode a bicycle in Taiwan. A car? A scooter? A motorcycle? No way.
âŚor as it was in my caseâŚthe driver actually ramming the motorist!..I guess what makes the difference between actually getting rammed and a near miss is whether or not the driver in question has had a few drinks alreadyâŚI guess the âpowerâ is fuelled by the booze and ramming becomes the custom!.. 
âŚthe locals are proâs in this field, but shame on that foreigner who goes around in a girlâs car wearing a blue tooth driving like a twat!..Hope he gets whatâs right for him.
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When I first saw this story, it seemed a little off and then when Dangermouse added the twist (who do you think you are, M. Night Shyamalan?) it made a bit more sense.
While I see basic stupidity on the road nearly every day, most of this stupidity is either in the âIâm too drunk/talking on the phone/trying to balance 8 things on my scooter to pay attentionâ variety or the âF@#$ you, get out of my way, I only care about myselfâ variety. I canât recall ever seeing a Taiwanese person engage in âYou just broke the rules and now I want to inconvenience youâ variety.
If anything, I would expect this latter mindset to come almost entirely from other foreigners, who tend to flip out when they see the rules being broken.
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How could you tell heâs white from his accent ?
No, and I canât say I have either. But I have seen a lot of behaviour which seems to be trying to enforce their version of the pecking order where someone has âtransgressedâ against that. On a bike Iâve had guys in cars try to run me off the road for overtaking them. Not because it was illegal to do so, or because I cut them off, but because I somehow made their dick smaller by passing them. In my car Iâve had guys sitting in the fast lane doing the speed limit and refusing to move out of the way, Iâve overtaken them on the inside and had them try to run me out that lane. Or, the same kind of instance, I have to pass on the inside, but when itâs a BMW that flashes them they move over. They donât want to go fast, but they somehow feel that they just should not be overtaken by some vehicle they feel is inferior to theirs. This btw is why I predict anarchy when motorcycles are allowed on the freeway.
I dunno, maybe I just overanalyze this stuff. 
No suprise
Thats a suprise :bravo:
Well, what pisses me off about the whole episode is that it removes my valid right of being able to shout and complain about the local idiocy that goes on here.
I give up.
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Dangerrodent wrote:
In the good old days of British Empire, whiteys who let the side down were put on the next ship home.
Because the guy assimilated into the collective? If anything, it should reinforce your mission.
You keep up the good fight.
If the person involved were a local then I would have thought twice about pissing up and down the side of his car at the next stop light. But in this case of the person in question being a foreign prick with too much ego on his hands than he has brains; I would have smashed his side window, reached in and slapped him upside the head. Taking full advantage of the legal system (teehee) here.
Donât be so sure of that working out. I know one foreigner down here who successfully persuaded the cops to prosecute another for assault and battery, and he wasnât even well connected. He even won the case.
The legal system here has some merit when it comes to - time, trouble and intent. I have to hand it to the pylons (cops) when it comes to reading some situations. This situation for example; if this prick ended up tryin to run me off the road and I pled my case to the police after I broke the foreigners face, then perhaps the cops would drag their feet knowing the guy was a walking hardon.
For me, regardless of what may happen to me legallyâŚin Taiwan, I would have smacked that dude âtout de suiteâ. You have to wonder wtf that guy was thinking. To me, he is in some serious need of a smackdown. He wants to play homicide with a carâŚIâll use my hands, get back on my scoot and make sure that I exit the scene from behind so he doesnât catch my plate. Fucker.
Foreigner or local. Whatâs the difference? Hulk angry! Hulk smash!
Youâd think he would know better, right?
edit and Iâd think heâd expect getting a kick in the head too for pulling such an idiotic move.
Meh. Heâs probably one of those guys who was scared by bikers as a kid and is taking it out on the local scooters commuters who are used to being pushed around by their âbettersâ on four wheels.
Ideally, we would all learn some of our hosts better traits and abandon some of our less attractive customs. Too bad it doesnât always work out that wayâŚ
Forget about being cut-off from the side and almost knocked off your scooter. Iâm simply aghast at how many car drivers have no problem doing a u-turn in front of heavy moving traffic, and simply expecting everyone to stop. This of course happens mostly to scooters, as if we donât count for anything but an annoyance.
Everytime I catch up to one of these pricks (yes, women do it too) Iâll ask them in Mandarin just what the hell they thought they were doing and everytime they say âso sorryâ and plead ignorance to anyone else being on the road. Iâll then say you knew exactly what you were doing and you donât care. If I get a chance at the next light, Iâll block their progress for as long as possible by not going forward on the green light.
Itâs simply astonishing how many people behave as if they are the only drivers on the road. I scared the shit out of this gal one day when I was speeding down a relatively empty hightway, she pulled a u-turn across four lanes right in front of me, and had to stop or she would have hit me because her turn was so wide. I screamed at her for almost hitting me and then almost stopped in front of her, shaking my finger and pointing at her plate. She finally pulled off the road for fear of her safety.
The reason these people drive this way is because, and Iâve said it before, the Taiwanese let them get away with it. And that includes the police.
Just had an experience with some assholes in Tienmou.
This absolute plonker in a silver Mercedes S class turns the same corner after me, but the two lanes must merge into one lane (because of parket cars on the inside lane). Iâm driving along slowly in my Mazda, and as we turn on the corner, despite being behind me, the f**kwit starts honking on his horn.
Iâm doing the same speed as the cars in front of me, so I have no idea why heâs honking. There is now way he can pass me on either side, and not much space in front. SooooâŚ
The first time, itâs likely because he wanted to turn ahead of the car behind me, but then the second and third time, he honked at me for no real reason. After the forth time, I wound down the window and gave the him the bird. Seemed to calm him down a little.
Then I pulled over and tailed him for a little: plate number DH 6889. At the next red lights, I pulled up right behind and waited for the change. Hah! Obviously he was unnerved: when the lights changed, he started up and stopped suddenly. I donât know what happened to his clutch or what⌠At first I thought he was waiting for me to honk him, but I didnât. Now I think that the car was in park or neutral!.. Dunno.
Complete idiot. The next time that happens I think I will report the driver as a drunk driver⌠see what happens then! Anyone know a quick call number from a mobile?
Kenneth
Oh, and by the way I saw a police car tailgating a taxi on the number 5 highway⌠So I really give up! Doesnât anyone know how dangerous that isâŚ?
Kenneth
Maybe I could install a retractable set of spikes on my bike. With a push of a button, they extend and if any car gets close to me, it will scratch the shit out of their car. Anyone want to help me design and install it?
I think Bond (James Bond) has an extra set now he doesnât drive his AstonMartin⌠I think those front mounted machine guns would help a lot, as would the oil slick machine at the back.
Kenneth