Of course it was a Prius driver. Probably too busy posting leftist bullshit on Twitter to watch the road.

The way this driver blew through the intersection AFTER the two cars ahead of me went through tells me the driver wasn't even beginning to pay attention to the road. To be blunt, I couldn't tell the gender either, but they were younger, and as you stated, likely leftist, due to the whole back end of the car was wallpapered in stickers. I did catch a "Dirt Worshipping Hippie Tree Hugger" sticker and stickers for a local politicians. And being a Prius, In Madison, wallpapered in political, environmental, Social crap, extremist left is typical of the species.

I actually have a theory that Toyota dealers are now offering left-wing/hipster stickers on the order forms for Priuses. I honestly have never seen a sticker-free Prius on the road.

Optional Sticker(s), check desired:
□ Bernie 2016
□ Coexist
□ #Resist
□ Black Lives Matter
□ Other (please specify) ___________

I actually saw back in 2016 a week before the election, a Silver Prius with a Trump sticker on the rear, that resided down on the isthmus . I was utterly shocked seeing it. 3 days later I saw the same car, heavily vandalised with orange spray paint and "FASCIST" painted all over it and the glass all smashed in. I've never seen another Prius with ANYTHING even remotely conservative, Republican, pro-2A on the back ANYWHERE.

Though my neighbor upstairs has a Prius with a sticker-free back end.

I have seen leftist stickers on pickup trucks so I guess it's possible to see right-wing stickers on a Prius. Also you'll never see a right-winger vandalize a car with a Bernie or Hillary sticker on it. But hey, who am I to judge.

Ranting aside, Good luck with your car and hopefully the damage isn't as bad as it looks. Can't stand texting drivers either.

Yeah, theres a few extremist left "RedNeck Cadillac" here in Madison too. Theres a Red Dodge Ram that from a distance looks like the typical sports/Pro-2A/Conservative truck til you read the stickers and realise the driver would make Karl Marx proud with all the serious pro-communist/socialist shit and even Vegan and Animal Rights bullshit slapped on the back. The whole back gate and rear bumper is covered in stickers along with the back window.

And I have seen extremist lefties openly and wantonly vandalise vehicles here with the "Wrong Politician" sticker on the back end. Local AntiFa LARPers will also go as far to slash the tires of 'Offending vehicles" too.

I had some older fruitcake openly scream at me last night and flipping me off over my Anti-AntiFa sticker on my car, calling me a fascist. He ALMOST rear ended a bus in the process of letting me know his dislike towards my sticker. I would have laughed my ass off if he had.

The one bumper sticker I saw over the last five years that made my jaw drop, and I wish I'd gotten a picture of was as follows:


geNOcide:

An Armenian LIE since 1915.


It was on the back of a black coloured Prius parked at the local University.


Since then, I've also seen the same slogan online, and also on placards. And the fact that no one even bats an eye. X.x

Sounds like  HemmsFox denying the Holodomor too. He's a hard core Tankie.

Well, the final stage of genocide is always denial.

EIGHT STAGES OF GENOCIDE

And Goddess help you if you DARE call what's starting to happen to South African farmers 'genocide'. X.x

Can't stand Armenian Genocide denial, you'd think it would be up there with Holocaust denial in terms of disgusting hateful taboos but I guess this goes back to the Leftist logic of "It's okay when Muslims do it."

Holocaust Denial isn't really taboo anymore. It's actually quite trendy these days, especially amongst some of the hardest-core amongst the so-called 'anti-fascist' crowd. The Armenian Genocide-denying arseholes are often the very same people, who refuse to call Israel anything other than "Occupied Palestine", and likewise refuse to say the word "Jerusalem". It is always "Al Quds". Same with the way they have resurrected the old Khazar Canard, and fished the Protocols of the Elders of Zion back out of the sewers.

My Ex is Armenian on her dads side, lost half the family during the "Death March", and lost another sizable chunk in the Death camps during WW2. Her grandmother was just a small girl during the Armenian Genocide and just her and a fast thinking older sister managed to escape.

Around here (roughly 50-50 district in terms of party split), the left-wing ones tend to appear en masse not on Priuses (Priusii?) - which are mostly sticker free - but on rustbucket subcompacts.

I mean, vehicles so bad they look like the rust is starting to leach through the faded Obama '08 and Kerry '04 stickers, or where you have to wonder if the stickers are the only things holding the vehicle together at this point, particularly when they began wrapping around the sides and onto the rear doors.

A buddy's ex- had one of those. We're talking so many political stickers you could barely see paint on the back.

One day we're at a coffee shop with a writing group and she stands up, glaring out the shop window, at a red pickup truck -- no stickers on it, looks fairly new, no real discerning features -- and starts shouting "THERE'S REDNECKS PARKED NEXT TO MY CAR! I DON'T WANT REDNECKS PARKED NEXT TO MY CAR!"

Same coffee shop, she tried to shove her way into a conversation I was having with someone about the local gun/knife/military surplus show. Because it was vitally important everyone know at that instant that she'd broken up with a prior boyfriend after discovering he owned a firearm.

Shortly before her and my friend broke up, she was literally throwing a temper tantrum in a Panera before storming out in tears because no one would accede to her demand that the restaurant be cleared of any who disagreed with her views, lest her evening be ruined by overhearing some discussion she opposed.

The first time I ever heard of Black Lives Mater, it was, "BLM is rioting!" and my response was a confused, "Why would the Bureau of Land Management be rioting?"

Maybe its because of the wild mustang round up and those free rangers!

I would like to respectfully point out that being politically Left does NOT automatically make one a bad driver, just as being a Right Winger does not equate to a perfect driving record.

It's not about the political leaning of the driver, but the simple fact that he or she is a G-DD----D F---ING MORON who is making the streets unsafe for others.

(Too bad like isn't like that Steve Jackson Games title: Car Wars. Then you could have used the front-mounted .50 cal instead of the horn to remind the moron that they should be focusing on the road, not their phone. A quick strafe across the side armor, not aiming for tires, just a vehicular version of the Gibbs-smack.)

maybe it's better that way; the streets would be empty I tell ya. just looking at those road rage vids on YT where people absolutely escalate over incidents between miniscule and nothing makes me wanna strange them dead. who gets upset like that will also beat their wife and children or pets and makes some random people's life miserably only because they can.

Right on target there.

Now if the car companies could plant some electronics in their vehicles that would disable smartphones while the car is in motion, that would be a great safety feature. 7X=Q

I thought they made it illegal to text and drive and pretty much the entire United States.

Yup, but people still do it.

call on you to and look up videos of texting gone wrong or texting fails you might feel better. There should be one video in particular of a guy picking with a cell phone while on a skateboard and suddenly he's minus his skateboard and still moving. Another video shows a bunch of people in the street yelling and running right and left off of the sidewalk, followed by a moving truck backing down the sidewalk. There's a guy walking right through the people completely blissfully oblivious texting on a cell phone while listening to a iPod who proceeds to disappear under the back of the truck as it barrels down the sidewalk. It's a little 10 or 15 second YouTube video, but you get my point.
Several parts of Canada passed the anti-zombie act. The law is literally called "he zombie act or anti-zombie law. What they're talking about is you could be given a hefty ticket for texting listening to your iPod combination of the two. While going through a crosswalk intersection and so forth. It's quite common in Halifax for as many as dozens of high school kids or college kids in some parts of the city to in large numbers walk against the traffic lights while laying with handheld devices and things in their ears if you can believe that. I just about lost it with the guys at the college doing it over at Dell house the and I've had people drive around the honking their horn and screaming and physically force their vehicle through crowds of people in the street that are walking against the light majority of them decking with handheld devices and things in their ears. Other drivers are not as forgiving as me and will quite literally just put one hand on the horn stick their head out the window and scream and push their way through people in the street who are walking against the light in a group formation! I've had as many as 30 people over around the colleges walk against the light in front of me. About a year ago I nearly hit a woman. At two in the morning and subsequently nearly got rear-ended by the guy tailgating the where you couldn't see her in the dark. There was no street lights on and she was in a crosswalk texting while listening to a audio device walking through a crosswalk. It was just bizarre lock that I've seen her sneakers. Whatever she was wearing all you could see was her sneakers till you were inches away. Guy behind me at first couldn't understand why I stopped nearly drove into me and started screaming and blasting the horn which got her attention and she realized I'd come within inches of hitting her. He couldn't even see Her from behind Me.

I hate people texting!

I dreaded delivering down near the University around lunch time or between class times, just for that very sheep-like action, one crosses, then they all cross and then come the drifters which leads to another band of tag-a-longs.

Worst I ever saw was a couple years ago, where I sat for over TWENTY minutes trying to make a left turn and traffic was back up, all because of the students pulling that shit. Finally a city bus driver got fed up, blowing his horn and just moved forward literally causing the students to mill about like a stream of ants if you wipe out their scent trail.

part of me wishes I could hug you. There's whole sections of the city that are constantly like you just described. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. The people just behave like sheep. The college is one of the more heavy spots for it. There's a couple of corners downtown. Doesn't matter if they've got the right away or not. They just keep pouring into the street as many as 20 people in a little heard. Literally been in a situation where I nearly got pushed in the crowd, only to have whoever was behind me honk and scream. Drive right around the and physically force their way through the crowd because they weren't going to wait. Didn't matter what color the light was they just didn't stop walking a never-ending oblivion stream of sheep. Literally was in Walmart the other day trying to get out of a parking billet. I watched one guy come within inches of backing into me to pedestrians walk right up nearly slamming face first into the side of my van to more walking obliviously right around behind it, while one of their group walked face first into the side of the van. All of this at the same time. There's not much you can do to get somebody's attention just sit there and wait for the figure their crap out. The guy that nearly ran into me backing up. I was waiting for to crush several pedestrians because they were just blindly walking right in between my vehicle and his. Probably doesn't help matters that I very vehemently insist I'm a horrible driver. I keep finding myself in situations where I'll have somebody in the passenger side complaining you drive too slow you drive like an old lady you drive to cautiously and while they're using one of those phrases something happens right in front of me! One incident in particular I was trying to explain to this woman something we used to refer to as Romero's you'd call them zombies. This was after she just finished lecturing me that I was cutting get pulled over by the cops for driving too slow and too cautiously. She started lecturing me saying I was paranoid. A woman wearing a house coat and slippers around to something in the morning, full on zombie walking rolled right out in front of me while the girl in the passenger side was planing about my driving don't know if she passed herself or not she just started screaming . Managed to miss the woman that walked out between two parked vehicles narrowly by swerving to the opposite side of the road. She never even reacted and just continue shuffling in a forward direction, staring straight ahead like actor from a zombie movie. Don't know if the woman was drunk, high, or in shock from something. If not for the fact I had somebody in the passenger side, I would've immediately stopped gotten out and gone back to see what was going on. You can't do that kind of thing in the city at night. If you've got somebody else's ass on the line in your vehicle. When I'm by myself. I don't think twice about stopping putting the four-way flashers on and going back to see what's going on. But when you've got somebody else in your vehicle. You can't risk their safety to do something like that. I've lost track of comedy times I've nearly hit somebody walking down the yellow line of the highway or walking in the lane of traffic child chasing a ball or an animal or a parent chasing after a escaping pat . I've even had people run right out in front of me waving their arms in the air where they were trying to get a lift. I bloody kid you not. It's why I usually travel at less than the posted speed and I travel very differently on secondary sidestreets in the city especially in the evening and at night. I've lost track of how many times I come around a corner a where's between six o'clock at night and say to him the morning and rollup on where somebody had just been hit. People don't particularly like the way I drive but part of it is to compensate for my bad driving. I've literally had people run headlong into the side of my vehicle while I was traveling at a pretty decent speed. Had a jog or run into one of the mirrors on a truck. I was driving. Still don't know why the guy was running as another example he was coming from the direction of the court house rate in front of police officers and other witnesses ran headlong into the passenger side of my moving vehicle nearly got rear-ended when I stop short guy behind me immediately started throwing a fit and didn't care why I stopped. Got out looking for the guy that ran into the side of the truck and couldn't find him eat hearty gotten back up and Running. Bloody cops barely even batted an eye, was what got me. I figured I was Kennedy getting some major crap for hit and run or something. Damn. Well stopped as soon as I could, given the guy behind me was practically pushing me down the street when I did stop. Barely even identified something hit me because it hit between the door and side box of the truck on the passenger side was just this quick glance of something running into the truck. Don't think the guy behind me even seen it all. He's seen was me stopping for no good reason.
I've also had somebody nearly rear-ended me start screaming and honking their horn poll out next to me, tell me off start to accelerate away and within less than A few car lanes and plow headlong into a deer while several other deer start flying all over the road and the oncoming traffic start veering right and left to avoid the other deer. That particular case. I've seen the deer coming and the guy behind me didn't pay any attention to what was going on on the side of the road. All he's seen was somebody he felt wasn't driving fast enough suddenly slam on the brakes for no reason. I was already pretty much crapping my pants because of how close I came to one deer and seen the other heard of them coming. Further down. Also done a few fancy maneuvers with a minivan on a highway late at night, where I still think I got a significant amount of deer poop on my headlight. Dan dear checker scattered all over two lanes of highway like trying to dodge pylons that move because your part way through a blind turn and suddenly you see dear all over either side of the highway. Still think one of them crapped on the headlight. I was so close to its ass. Hence why I'm trying to get a unit mounted on the front of the van and one on the car. Dear hits are becoming extremely common where I live. Personally, I'm more scared though that I'm going to eventually get one of these clowns. That's drunk or high or playing with their cell phone while they've got your bugs in their ears listening to whatever the heck they are listening to.

everyplace has laws for distracted driving, we don't need more anti-phone laws, just enforce the existing ones.

friend of mine was a taxi driver back in the 90s and I used to love the bumper sticker on his car, could you drive better with that phone shoved up your ass?
Stories I could tell you about people reading a newspaper doing a crossword puzzle
shaving, reading a roadmap, my personal favorite using a laptop while being on a cell phone and driving. I've known women who I witnessed putting on makeup and fiddling with their phone while driving. One of the more funny ones was technically hands-free cell phone. I've seen a woman in a Iranian burqa with a Apple phone propped up against the side of her head while she was driving and a couple of taxi drivers with turbans and their smart phone of choice wrapped into the side of their turban while they are driving. I'm not joking.ive also had a woman wearing a extremely large piece of religious headgear to the point where she could see right or left could only see straightforward and she walked out into traffic, pushing a baby carriage. Don't know how she managed to avoid getting run over. She just kept walking straightforward and couldn't see anything right or left. Had another woman wearing something similar. Nearly drive into me in a parking lot. It was the equivalent of a horse wearing blinders. She could only see straightforward couldn't see right or left me and several other vehicles nearly collided with her as she blissfully glided through the parking lot. Distracted driving is a big thing with me because I'm constantly avoiding people doing stupid things. Bad enough. If I drink a cup of coffee or eat something while I'm driving but there's a hell of a difference in doing that and your cars going down the road and were digging around in the back seat, laying with your kid or bent over on the passenger side while your cars going down the road ghost writing;).or my other personal favorite vertically challenged people who could barely see over the line of the dash so it looks like one of those new self driving cars. I also witnessed a man with a blind cane with his wife get into the driver side of the vehicle and his wife, proceed to give him directions and he drove away. That ended up becoming a really famous case couple months later, his wife had a heart attack and he had multiple car accidents, Leavitt was in the Rotary when she took her attack and he had multiple drivers.i thought I was seeing somebody re-creating a scene from the blues Brothers when I seen him, pulled up the cane and get in the driver side of the car.

My brother is convinced that the Doctors/pharmaceutical companies are trying out new drugs. "I don't care. My doctor gives me meds so I don't have to!" Unfortunately you have to drive for your living. You can't take the bus, you can't work from home and you can't phone it in.

The worst part of the whole thing can be summed up in two words: FULL MOON.

Oh Crap, You are correct, it is a full moon today!

Howls away! ^0^ Still, in such cases, best to just think happy thoughts. Thoughts of turning into a werewolf, ripping their roof off, then devouring them messily.

It's a triple-witching-hour full moon, too --  steamfox says it's a Full Blood Wolf Moon. That's got to be ugly.

Total eclipse in 4 hours 15 minutes. Starts in 90ish minutes. And it's a Full Blood Wolf Supermoon.

Did you get their plate number? Not that the police would do anything, but you might be able to track them down. Me? If I could track them down, I'd throw the damaged rim through their back window or windshield then leave. People who text while driving deserve bad things to happen to them. Seriously, I've had plenty of times where I had to take a call or text or fuss with my phone, or whatever. In such instances, I do one of two thing; Either I wait until it is safe to do so, or I pull off the road, put my turn signal on to indicate I'm not broken down, just temporarily stopped, then I fuss with my phone. There's nothing wrong with pulling off the road entirely to fuss with a phone. There is quite a number of things wrong with causing accidents or wrecking people because of the urgent desire to bash Republicans or Trump.

Cameras at the intersection?

This isn't a major city for intersection cameras.

Maybe it's time for you to get a good Dashcam camera.

Should have hit them anyway. That would teach that punk a lesson. Good Lord man, you cannot catch a break!

Yeah, my mother was a taxi driver and got rear-ended at a light by a texter in a truck. There her taxi van all the way across four lanes of road and into a concrete wall, which crumbled. The van was, of course, totalled. And she had serious spinal injuries.

The guy's response when the police questioned him? "I didn't even notice she was there, I was texting."

Needless to say, suing him went very easily.

One word: Bluesmobile. Make the other guy the crumple zone.

As a biker, I really despise drivers who text (I assume they're texting, might be watching Netflix to all I know). Due to this, I had to buy a helmet cam, and two that live on my motorbike, one front and one hiding under the box rack, just so if there is a near miss, I'll have footage of the fucker. Though it's not Prius over here, it's usually Volvos or (not a) Minis.

One day, on the motorway, a (not a) Mini rocketed past me, nearly hitting me and several others... I kinda got angry and chased after him (not the responsible thing to do), and caught up with him in the lane beside him, looked down at my speedo (reading 90mph), then over at him. He was sitting there, with a tablet on the steering wheel, watching whatever it was.
I slow down, pull into a lay-by I know there's usually a bike cop hiding behind the billboard and wait for him to show up. After about 15 minutes, the bike cop slides into the lay-by and wave to him. He walks up and asks why I waved him over, I explain what I did, and show him the helmet cam's footage. Cop calls in all the details, takes a copy, turns to me and tells me that he should give me a ticket for speeding but his superior said "since she was showing community spirit and aiding the police, let her off with a unwritten warning."
Later found out when I was called in to talk with the police, that I had caught several others doing the same (texting and the like) in several lanes, in both directions. And that my footage was being used to prosecute them all.

*ponders investing in car cams*

Been on a college campus lately? Watched supposedly bright kids walking or riding a bike across campus with their ear buds in and staring at their smart phones totally oblivious to their surroundings (i.e. pedestrian/vehicular traffic)? They (and their parents) carry those behaviors with them on the road…at 70+ mph or after a traffic light turns green and they sit there like a frog on a log. I really don’t care if they want to self-select themselves out of the gene pool, but I don’t want to be the one who helps them on their way…or have them take me with them.

I've also seen drivers reading manuscripts, working crossword puzzles, grooming, applying makeup, and getting roadhead. It's also amazing to see how many smoker litterbugs are on the road--window opened a few inches in the icy blast--just to dump ashes and butts or vaping steam.

Weirdest bumper sticker seen so far: "Thank You For Not Breeding".

Bumper sticker that got me flipped off: He Won--Get Over It

Bumper sticker someone defaced: [Picture of Barkie] 100% Fact Free

I apply various bumper stickers to magnetic sheet material to vary the display for tailgators. Current one reads "Hang Up And Drive".

Maybe you should've clipped them, taught 'em a lesson. it'd've been his/her fault.

Take your dashcam footage and see if the playback captured the plate of the Prius, and take that camera footage to the cops to report them. You have so many bad stories with food delivery and even attacks on your car you have to have one installed. They never even looked up and could have killed someone!

I've had the police come to my house before investigating bad driving when I told my sister "I have to switch off, my blood calcium is making my hands cramp and I can't control the car." She made me drive through it.
Well, she spoke to the cops on her desicion to keep me driving when she was perfectly capable of relieving me. Someone wrote down my sister's plate number and reported us to the police. I'm sure that was a DUI somehow that I needed calcium pills and unable to take any and driving without was making me unsafe. But we got off lucky with a warning.

I have an older camera on my dash, But didn't have it on at the time since I wasn't on the job. So no, didn't get the footage.

"cop cams" are twenty bucks off the infomercials.

Sometimes, I honestly believe that it should be perfectly legal to drag texting drivers out of their car and publicly execute them on the side of the road. The texters probably wouldn't even notice the entire execution process.

or tell everyone about it on facespace.

Sad to say you probably would have better off clipping the person.

Personally, I hope that such people experience a leak in the exhaust that channels the smoke directly into the car's air conditioning.

okay, but the process would be slow. they'd still have a chance to drift into the oncoming traffic and cause severe accidents, killing innocent people.
how about them getting out of their ride and being run over by another driver who's texting?

Here's one.

The automobile has a built in function that makes the vehicle swerve off a cliff, if the driver's handphone is detected texting.

nice idea, I'd be all for it.

"I wanted to tell you about all those morons on the road when this clif"

good to hear it's "only" a rim and hubcap, and mayyybe a tyre. you're probably aware of what else could have happened...
hey, maybe we're lucky and the driver was getting a text message that the divorcing partner is taking everything with them, including the phone...

some toime ago it happened to be at a crossing where the road goes upwards, that the car in front of me suddenly started to roll backwards. honked my horn but nothign happened; it banged against my front, and a second time, even. then they woke up and hit the gas pedal. I suspect they were texting or something and forgot to keep the foot on the brake pedal. :P

This is why I like watching those bad drivers of USA/Canada Fury Road videos.

I give lefties a free three potatoes stuffed up high in the exhaust pipe. People don't park so close I can't get in my old Mercedes station wagon, the Last one got a deep ping in the middle of his passenger side door. I don't usually damage other people's cars unless they were an asshole to me though.

People in Canada drive like the people here in Oregon do, too slow in the fast lane and too fast in the slow lane with tunnel vision, (no idea what mirrors and side windows are for) and texting even though it is a felon here as much as in Taxifornia.

Michigan and Taxifornia, as well as Ohio, Misery, and Indiana drivers, have no ability to drive what-so-ever!

I had no brakes at all unless I pumped up the pedal a couple times before pressing them, was in countless bumper to bumper racing track Taxifornia freeways in rush hour and still never hit anybody! I drive with the expectation that somebody is going to try to hit me, so I drive offensively and am not there when they go to hit me.

In the cab driving for Orinda Taxi, I avoided 54 accidents in two months!

I drove in Michigan where the roads become ice after one day of salt then it freezes overnight into ice then snows on top of that before going to work.

On blizzard days I found out why people have the propensity to tailgate all the time, they are not drafting so much as are used to being two inches off your bumper to keep from missing where your tail lights are (and probably the road) in a blizzard.

I also know how to drive in three feet of snow on the road, I drive between the mailboxes, the road is underneath the drifts between them somewhere.

I also found out in the Rockies it is best to drive on rain tires instead of snow tires because 40 below snow cakes wide tread tires and then become ice tires with zero traction.

I want to get a six-wheeled Jaguar armored car for my next car, it has solid rubber tires, and seats 14 uncomfortably! one inch armor all around.