Mebbe, mebbe, panic attack after find out run over
local gangster pet doggie while make illegal turn.
cheyeknee rady!!!
When you are rich and foreign you don’t need a drivers license in Canada.
That’s a DWA right there. Driving While Asian. They have certain, let’s call them “tells”, so that even when happily trundling along in regular traffic that just seem to stick out. I don’t get it, but it always seems to have something to do with spatial awareness.
That must be the same driver who damaged my car here in Edmonton a few years ago, though I didn’t see it happen.
Since nobody owned up (though I’m sure I know who did it), it took me a while to figure out what probably took place. The driver backed out his or her vehicle and brushed against my passenger side rear corner. The plastic cover for the rear bumper partly popped off and that must have panicked that person.
Rather than driving forward, straightening out the front wheels, and trying again, it looked like he or she decided to separate the two vehicles using a tire jack. The result was that there was a clean rectangular dent on my car and a cracked taillight cover at about the same height on the other one.
The result was about $1000 damage. If they hadn’t tried that tomfoolery with the tire jack, all I would have had to do was snap the bumper cover back in place and nobody would have been the wiser.
After cussing a blue streak when I found the dent, I set about repairing it. I hammered out it as best I could, filled in the remaining bumps with body putty, and then carefully sanding it, followed by priming and painting.
I spent less than $100 on sandpaper, masking tape, and paint and I think I did a pretty good job for someone who isn’t a trained auto body mechanic. One has to look real close to see that something happened.
On top of that, I might have saved myself a lot of time. It only took me a few weeks. Apparently, there was a 3-month long waiting list in Edmonton back then.
I wasn’t surprised when, a few days later, that driver parked his or her car in a different stall. Just how that person passed the driver’s test is beyond me, though I’m sure that it wasn’t how I passed mine, if you get my meaning.
Immigrant drivers safer than long-term residents
Recent immigrants seem to be steadier behind the wheel than long-term residents, researchers have found.
Some people might presume that many new Canadians are unsafe and accident-prone drivers, dealing as they do with unfamiliar roads and customs, along with extreme weather conditions. That wasn’t the case in a decade-long study.
Researchers tracked almost one million recent immigrants to Ontario and compared their involvement as drivers in serious road crashes compared to long-time residents of the province, matching each subject in the two groups by age, gender, living location and economic status.
More than 10,000 crashes occurred during the study period. After analyzing hospital and other records, the researchers determined that immigrant drivers — the highest proportions from China and India — were 40 to 50 per cent less likely than long-term residents to be driving a vehicle involved in a bad smash-up.
“These findings suggest that contrary to popular opinion, recent immigrants are less prone to be drivers in a serious crash,” said lead investigator Dr. Donald Redelmeier, an internal medicine specialist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre who is often on call in the Toronto trauma centre’s emergency department. http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/immigrant-drivers-safer-than-long-term-residents-1.1036868
Rizwan – I think the study proves only that Asian drivers are 50% less likely to report the accident. Correspondence isn’t always causation and that seems to have escaped the author of the study.
Correlation not Correspondence – dumb spell checker…
Okay, you’ve been away for three weeks. How do you know your home has been burglarized by a(n) (member of the index ethnic group)?
A: The cat’s been eaten; the computer is fixed; and he’s still trying to back out of the driveway.
What I see is a driver “right-sizing” the vehicle for “her” garage.
A certain Korean comedian claimed his mother, when getting ready to make a turn, would put on her four-way flashers because she was never sure whether to turn left or right.
billshit, pretty much covers that. I used to work in the automotive industry
Not only that you idiot, travel the 401 from Toronto to Windor and just about every ignorant idiot big truck driver is either a sick (Sikh or has queerbeck license plates on it) or a frog, and that o opinion of just about anyone who travels that stretch
You see rizzy, when a Chinese person came in with a 3 year old car we just asked which body shop did the repairs, and we hadn’t even looked at the car
Meaningless study if they are not taking into account distances traveled per year. Immigrants are less likely to travel far from home and more likely to stay at home in bad weather conditions.
Brexit is looking like leave side might do it – really early yet.
What? I don’t get it. I mean, come on, don’t try to tell me you’ve never had a little scuff mark from getting into your garage. I park like this all the time, what’s the big deal?
That will buff right out.
I love the way that both car and house were damaged, and how the muffler was left sitting on the driveway!
Do that trip frequently. I heartily agree. Also do the 402 London to Sarnia. Said drivers are mostly Sikh and driving rust bucket trucks that are frequently involved in accidents.
That “study” is BS! When I lived and commuted from Surrey to Vancouver daily for about 12 years then all over the Lower Mainland for jobs, the absolute craziest drivers were young Chinese guys, usually recent immigrants,which I know from working with several of them.
The running joke whenever we heard of an auto accident was, “what part of China was he from,and what was the color of his Honda Civic”.
My nephew had a scary experience with one oriental when he was a car salesman and said they did not have to try for their driving license. Somehow there was a system where they were able to buy one without having to go through that bother.
That’s what I figured, though other means crossed my mind as well…..
While I was teaching at a certain technical college, we often accepted students who either came from foreign countries or, at least, had some of their previous education there. When they submitted their applications, they had to include evidence of what they had studied before.
Often, though, some of them didn’t appear to have learned anything from the courses they claimed credit in. In many cases, it was hard to verify where they were before, let alone if they actually took the courses that were shown on their transcripts.
It occurred to some of us that some of them might have purchased their transcripts or, at least, some, if not all, the course credits listed.
Sorry Chinese, it must be one of you.
Somewhat reminiscent of the lady in Calgary turning 360 degrees before taking off from a parking lot.
Tedd Bopp – Head of Sales.
Horry Cow! Who Taugh you to dlive like dat! Gesa Clise!
To the moderator or Ms. Kate.
Please delete the post from, Lev | June 23, 2016 8:40 PM, in case someone feelings get hurt and such.
It would be better that way.
Thanks
John Chittick – Worst part is I understood you every word.
If you choose to live in a big city be prepared for the worst. It’ your choice.
Good thing it’s in BC. No-Fault government ICBC insurance. Anyway, he was just trying to get in the wrong garage. The right one would have been the double. We had a joke when I lived in Hongcouver: Q: How do you blind a Chinaman? A: Put a windshield in front of him.
Don’t like the way i drive?! – stay off the sidewalk then!
Q: blindfold? A: dental floss.
Was that the garage? Looked like he was trying to get in the front door. Nice job either way.
Cognitive dissonance: the state of shock a person feels when strongly held beliefs are contradicted by facts.
Will buff right out..
lol..
Chinese man need twelve rolls of Duck Tape, and 6 metal coat hangers..
they ripped the front right wheel off the drive axle, how was the thing even moving? there must be 15 thousand dollars damage to the vehicle and also damage to the house. if I was their insurance broker I would refuse to pay because it sure looks like wilful damage to me.
Apparently it was a teenager who didn’t have a license.
That’s too funny – about a dozen GTA insurance companies would beg to differ, at least those who still offer car insurance to the GTA’s diversity contingent.
Thank heavens I was safe in a bus today! 🙂
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Mebbe, mebbe, panic attack after find out run over
local gangster pet doggie while make illegal turn.
cheyeknee rady!!!
When you are rich and foreign you don’t need a drivers license in Canada.
That’s a DWA right there. Driving While Asian. They have certain, let’s call them “tells”, so that even when happily trundling along in regular traffic that just seem to stick out. I don’t get it, but it always seems to have something to do with spatial awareness.
That must be the same driver who damaged my car here in Edmonton a few years ago, though I didn’t see it happen.
Since nobody owned up (though I’m sure I know who did it), it took me a while to figure out what probably took place. The driver backed out his or her vehicle and brushed against my passenger side rear corner. The plastic cover for the rear bumper partly popped off and that must have panicked that person.
Rather than driving forward, straightening out the front wheels, and trying again, it looked like he or she decided to separate the two vehicles using a tire jack. The result was that there was a clean rectangular dent on my car and a cracked taillight cover at about the same height on the other one.
The result was about $1000 damage. If they hadn’t tried that tomfoolery with the tire jack, all I would have had to do was snap the bumper cover back in place and nobody would have been the wiser.
After cussing a blue streak when I found the dent, I set about repairing it. I hammered out it as best I could, filled in the remaining bumps with body putty, and then carefully sanding it, followed by priming and painting.
I spent less than $100 on sandpaper, masking tape, and paint and I think I did a pretty good job for someone who isn’t a trained auto body mechanic. One has to look real close to see that something happened.
On top of that, I might have saved myself a lot of time. It only took me a few weeks. Apparently, there was a 3-month long waiting list in Edmonton back then.
I wasn’t surprised when, a few days later, that driver parked his or her car in a different stall. Just how that person passed the driver’s test is beyond me, though I’m sure that it wasn’t how I passed mine, if you get my meaning.
here’s the story behind this. Still hilarious.
Immigrant drivers safer than long-term residents
Recent immigrants seem to be steadier behind the wheel than long-term residents, researchers have found.
Some people might presume that many new Canadians are unsafe and accident-prone drivers, dealing as they do with unfamiliar roads and customs, along with extreme weather conditions. That wasn’t the case in a decade-long study.
Researchers tracked almost one million recent immigrants to Ontario and compared their involvement as drivers in serious road crashes compared to long-time residents of the province, matching each subject in the two groups by age, gender, living location and economic status.
More than 10,000 crashes occurred during the study period. After analyzing hospital and other records, the researchers determined that immigrant drivers — the highest proportions from China and India — were 40 to 50 per cent less likely than long-term residents to be driving a vehicle involved in a bad smash-up.
“These findings suggest that contrary to popular opinion, recent immigrants are less prone to be drivers in a serious crash,” said lead investigator Dr. Donald Redelmeier, an internal medicine specialist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre who is often on call in the Toronto trauma centre’s emergency department.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/immigrant-drivers-safer-than-long-term-residents-1.1036868
Rizwan – I think the study proves only that Asian drivers are 50% less likely to report the accident. Correspondence isn’t always causation and that seems to have escaped the author of the study.
Correlation not Correspondence – dumb spell checker…
Okay, you’ve been away for three weeks. How do you know your home has been burglarized by a(n) (member of the index ethnic group)?
A: The cat’s been eaten; the computer is fixed; and he’s still trying to back out of the driveway.
What I see is a driver “right-sizing” the vehicle for “her” garage.
A certain Korean comedian claimed his mother, when getting ready to make a turn, would put on her four-way flashers because she was never sure whether to turn left or right.
billshit, pretty much covers that. I used to work in the automotive industry
Not only that you idiot, travel the 401 from Toronto to Windor and just about every ignorant idiot big truck driver is either a sick (Sikh or has queerbeck license plates on it) or a frog, and that o opinion of just about anyone who travels that stretch
You see rizzy, when a Chinese person came in with a 3 year old car we just asked which body shop did the repairs, and we hadn’t even looked at the car
Meaningless study if they are not taking into account distances traveled per year. Immigrants are less likely to travel far from home and more likely to stay at home in bad weather conditions.
Brexit is looking like leave side might do it – really early yet.
What? I don’t get it. I mean, come on, don’t try to tell me you’ve never had a little scuff mark from getting into your garage. I park like this all the time, what’s the big deal?
That will buff right out.
I love the way that both car and house were damaged, and how the muffler was left sitting on the driveway!
Do that trip frequently. I heartily agree. Also do the 402 London to Sarnia. Said drivers are mostly Sikh and driving rust bucket trucks that are frequently involved in accidents.
That “study” is BS! When I lived and commuted from Surrey to Vancouver daily for about 12 years then all over the Lower Mainland for jobs, the absolute craziest drivers were young Chinese guys, usually recent immigrants,which I know from working with several of them.
The running joke whenever we heard of an auto accident was, “what part of China was he from,and what was the color of his Honda Civic”.
My nephew had a scary experience with one oriental when he was a car salesman and said they did not have to try for their driving license. Somehow there was a system where they were able to buy one without having to go through that bother.
That’s what I figured, though other means crossed my mind as well…..
While I was teaching at a certain technical college, we often accepted students who either came from foreign countries or, at least, had some of their previous education there. When they submitted their applications, they had to include evidence of what they had studied before.
Often, though, some of them didn’t appear to have learned anything from the courses they claimed credit in. In many cases, it was hard to verify where they were before, let alone if they actually took the courses that were shown on their transcripts.
It occurred to some of us that some of them might have purchased their transcripts or, at least, some, if not all, the course credits listed.
Sorry Chinese, it must be one of you.
Somewhat reminiscent of the lady in Calgary turning 360 degrees before taking off from a parking lot.
Tedd Bopp – Head of Sales.
Horry Cow! Who Taugh you to dlive like dat! Gesa Clise!
To the moderator or Ms. Kate.
Please delete the post from, Lev | June 23, 2016 8:40 PM, in case someone feelings get hurt and such.
It would be better that way.
Thanks
John Chittick – Worst part is I understood you every word.
If you choose to live in a big city be prepared for the worst. It’ your choice.
Good thing it’s in BC. No-Fault government ICBC insurance. Anyway, he was just trying to get in the wrong garage. The right one would have been the double. We had a joke when I lived in Hongcouver: Q: How do you blind a Chinaman? A: Put a windshield in front of him.
Don’t like the way i drive?! – stay off the sidewalk then!
Q: blindfold? A: dental floss.
Was that the garage? Looked like he was trying to get in the front door. Nice job either way.
Cognitive dissonance: the state of shock a person feels when strongly held beliefs are contradicted by facts.
Will buff right out..
lol..
Chinese man need twelve rolls of Duck Tape, and 6 metal coat hangers..
they ripped the front right wheel off the drive axle, how was the thing even moving? there must be 15 thousand dollars damage to the vehicle and also damage to the house. if I was their insurance broker I would refuse to pay because it sure looks like wilful damage to me.
Apparently it was a teenager who didn’t have a license.
That’s too funny – about a dozen GTA insurance companies would beg to differ, at least those who still offer car insurance to the GTA’s diversity contingent.
Coming to a parking space right next to you.