WARNING: Stay Off My Roads at Night

cobraboy

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I?ve had it.

No more Mr. Nice Guy.
No more Mr. Clean
No more Mister Nice Guy
They say he's sick, he's obscene

:)cheeky:)

I?m no longer kidding around.

To all you on the roads going from Jarabacoa and to Santiago Sunday night, you done tipped me over the edge. You done woke up that sleeping dawg.

So I did it. In a festering "blind" rage, I ordered the local Atomic Energy Commission to change the high-beams on the family sled.

What were once PC mild-mannered factory equipped standard incandescent headlights?your grandfather's headlights...are now Xenon Zombie Death Night Raiders. 19 volts of pure photon Badness, wattage and lumens only an abacus run by a Chinese CPA can calculate.

I don?t mean a tad brighter than stock.

No siree Bob. Not for me. I don't do anything "just a little."

I mean 2500 gigawatt nukuler powered laser beams that will melt the friggin? paint off an oncoming car from 600 yards. Lights so bright retina banks won?t take your peepers. So much energy you?re a/c system is rendered impotent.

Hell, the mechanic had to wash himself with heavy water from a nukuler plant to make the geiger counter quiet down enough to sound like a Buddy Miles-on-acid drum solo...

So I warn you: you drive toward me with YOUR brights on at night, after repeated polite flashes to dim, you?ll be seeing ?floaters? well past the bandages coming off and the facial radiation burns healing.

Henceforth, I will flash once. Once. Not twice. Not three times. Once. My suggestion is to dim your lights. Because if you don?t, you?ll be looking for the summer noon sun for comparative visual relief from my headlight fission chaos.

Pass the word?






Seriously, I have finally found "acceptance" that most Dominicans who drive at night don't think blinding oncoming traffic is a problem. So the brights stay on no matter what. OK, fine. I need to see too, so I'll have ~zero~ sympathy for oncoming traffic with their high-beams on when they catch a few thousand roentgens of solar fusion eminating from my new brght headlights. None.;)
 

El Tigre

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I don't blame you. If I were in your shoes I'd do the same thing. It irritates the hell out of me when I flash for them to dim and they don't.
 
I?ve had it.

No more Mr. Nice Guy.
No more Mr. Clean
No more Mister Nice Guy
They say he's sick, he's obscene

:)cheeky:)

I?m no longer kidding around.

To all you on the roads going from Jarabacoa and to Santiago Sunday night, you done tipped me over the edge. You done woke up that sleeping dawg.

So I did it. In a festering "blind" rage, I ordered the local Atomic Energy Commission to change the high-beams on the family sled.

What were once PC mild-mannered factory equipped standard incandescent headlights?your grandfather's headlights...are now Xenon Zombie Death Night Raiders. 19 volts of pure photon Badness, wattage and lumens only an abacus run by a Chinese CPA can calculate.

I don?t mean a tad brighter than stock.

No siree Bob. Not for me. I don't do anything "just a little."

I mean 2500 gigawatt nukuler powered laser beams that will melt the friggin? paint off an oncoming car from 600 yards. Lights so bright retina banks won?t take your peepers. So much energy you?re a/c system is rendered impotent.

Hell, the mechanic had to wash himself with heavy water from a nukuler plant to make the geiger counter quiet down enough to sound like a Buddy Miles-on-acid drum solo...

So I warn you: you drive toward me with YOUR brights on at night, after repeated polite flashes to dim, you?ll be seeing ?floaters? well past the bandages coming off and the facial radiation burns healing.

Henceforth, I will flash once. Once. Not twice. Not three times. Once. My suggestion is to dim your lights. Because if you don?t, you?ll be looking for the summer noon sun for comparative visual relief from my headlight fission chaos.

Pass the word?






Seriously, I have finally found "acceptance" that most Dominicans who drive at night don't think blinding oncoming traffic is a problem. So the brights stay on no matter what. OK, fine. I need to see too, so I'll have ~zero~ sympathy for oncoming traffic with their high-beams on when they catch a few thousand roentgens of solar fusion eminating from my new brght headlights. None.;)

If only i could install them on my rentals.
 

Robert

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Bundle up 10 laser pointers and wire them into one switch.

They don't dim the headlights, but thats usually because they are busy avoiding the on-coming tree :)
 

jrhartley

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sorry I dont agree with joining the uneducated masses, I will continue to drive as instructed by my driving instructor
 

cobraboy

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sorry I dont agree with joining the uneducated masses, I will continue to drive as instructed by my driving instructor
Then you'll receive my kind, gentle, PC, environmentally friendly and socially-conscious pedestrian lights. :classic:

YOU will have nothing to fear...
 
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Two blinded drivers on the road just about doubles the risk of an accident.

Road rage never really benefited anyone.
 

Shiraz72

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I?ve had it.

No more Mr. Nice Guy.
No more Mr. Clean
No more Mister Nice Guy
They say he's sick, he's obscene

:)cheeky:)

I?m no longer kidding around.

To all you on the roads going from Jarabacoa and to Santiago Sunday night, you done tipped me over the edge. You done woke up that sleeping dawg.

So I did it. In a festering "blind" rage, I ordered the local Atomic Energy Commission to change the high-beams on the family sled.

What were once PC mild-mannered factory equipped standard incandescent headlights?your grandfather's headlights...are now Xenon Zombie Death Night Raiders. 19 volts of pure photon Badness, wattage and lumens only an abacus run by a Chinese CPA can calculate.

I don?t mean a tad brighter than stock.

No siree Bob. Not for me. I don't do anything "just a little."

I mean 2500 gigawatt nukuler powered laser beams that will melt the friggin? paint off an oncoming car from 600 yards. Lights so bright retina banks won?t take your peepers. So much energy you?re a/c system is rendered impotent.

Hell, the mechanic had to wash himself with heavy water from a nukuler plant to make the geiger counter quiet down enough to sound like a Buddy Miles-on-acid drum solo...

So I warn you: you drive toward me with YOUR brights on at night, after repeated polite flashes to dim, you?ll be seeing ?floaters? well past the bandages coming off and the facial radiation burns healing.

Henceforth, I will flash once. Once. Not twice. Not three times. Once. My suggestion is to dim your lights. Because if you don?t, you?ll be looking for the summer noon sun for comparative visual relief from my headlight fission chaos.

Pass the word?






Seriously, I have finally found "acceptance" that most Dominicans who drive at night don't think blinding oncoming traffic is a problem. So the brights stay on no matter what. OK, fine. I need to see too, so I'll have ~zero~ sympathy for oncoming traffic with their high-beams on when they catch a few thousand roentgens of solar fusion eminating from my new brght headlights. None.;)

So the next time the power goes out can you drive over to my boyfriend's family's house and park in their driveway shining your lights in to illuminate their house? LOL I'm sure his sister in law will cook you something nice in return... ha ha.. :cheeky:
 

cobraboy

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Two blinded drivers on the road just about doubles the risk of an accident.

Road rage never really benefited anyone.
Good thing you don't live here then and not dim your lights when I approach. Otherwise
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Hillbilly

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This humble soul would request the information relative to the acquisiton of said proton lights if available for use on lowly VW Golfs...

I, too, suffer from this aversion by the local populace to lower their beams...

OR, a light bulb just popped up, did you mount these atomic powered photon beams on a light rack above your shuttle????

Humbly,

HB
 
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cobraboy

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So the next time the power goes out can you drive over to my boyfriend's family's house and park in their driveway shining your lights in to illuminate their house? LOL I'm sure his sister in law will cook you something nice in return... ha ha.. :cheeky:
Darlin', they'll have to repaint the wall and patch the holes from the chunks of concrete those lights will blast off...;)
 

rice&beans

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Venting

I?ve had it.

No more Mr. Nice Guy.
No more Mr. Clean
No more Mister Nice Guy
They say he's sick, he's obscene

:)cheeky:)

I?m no longer kidding around.

To all you on the roads going from Jarabacoa and to Santiago Sunday night, you done tipped me over the edge. You done woke up that sleeping dawg.

So I did it. In a festering "blind" rage, I ordered the local Atomic Energy Commission to change the high-beams on the family sled.

What were once PC mild-mannered factory equipped standard incandescent headlights?your grandfather's headlights...are now Xenon Zombie Death Night Raiders. 19 volts of pure photon Badness, wattage and lumens only an abacus run by a Chinese CPA can calculate.

I don?t mean a tad brighter than stock.

No siree Bob. Not for me. I don't do anything "just a little."

I mean 2500 gigawatt nukuler powered laser beams that will melt the friggin? paint off an oncoming car from 600 yards. Lights so bright retina banks won?t take your peepers. So much energy you?re a/c system is rendered impotent.

Hell, the mechanic had to wash himself with heavy water from a nukuler plant to make the geiger counter quiet down enough to sound like a Buddy Miles-on-acid drum solo...

So I warn you: you drive toward me with YOUR brights on at night, after repeated polite flashes to dim, you?ll be seeing ?floaters? well past the bandages coming off and the facial radiation burns healing.

Henceforth, I will flash once. Once. Not twice. Not three times. Once. My suggestion is to dim your lights. Because if you don?t, you?ll be looking for the summer noon sun for comparative visual relief from my headlight fission chaos.

Pass the word?






Seriously, I have finally found "acceptance" that most Dominicans who drive at night don't think blinding oncoming traffic is a problem. So the brights stay on no matter what. OK, fine. I need to see too, so I'll have ~zero~ sympathy for oncoming traffic with their high-beams on when they catch a few thousand roentgens of solar fusion eminating from my new brght headlights. None.;)

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51418611@N05/4863079671/" title="Highbeams by bocachica64, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4081/4863079671_c627b224df.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Highbeams" /></a>

I understand your frustration, as I have driven there for many years,and it sucks when THAT HAPPENS....you just have to remember where you are(DR)....Don't fall into the aggressive approach...."I'll show you" "Fight fire with fire".....etc....etc, you just increase your risk of something BAD happening to you,...Guns, Road Rage, Drunken Idiots.....a lot of Dominicans drive like they don't have a lot of value for life, carefree attitude, like whatever.....Don't fall into that trap........DON'T LAY DOWN TOTALLY,but I wouldn't go buying The Best High beams in the world, because then YOU become the target..............PS.....But I did enjoy the rant!!!......Always looking for good comedy writers!!;)
 

hammerdown

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Unless you drive here at night you don't know what is going on...I do a lot of night driving in this country and sometimes you need some bright lights to be able to see the side of the road or you are just blinded by the other driver...anyway my point is, if you don't drive here at night your comments are worthless......way to go Cobraboy, where did you get the lights, I was looking at installing aircraft landing lights on my car...might even see cuba or puerto rico
 

cobraboy

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I agree totally, it bothers me also a lot that most drivers don't dim their lights but reacting on that to put even more brighter lights on yours to overpower that is looking for problems.
Maybe you could put some really low lights, and they'd see the errors in their ways, and buy a Prius or something. Maybe with an apology letter.

Hell, I'm considering putting a pair on my rear bumper just for the trucks with the entire bright light rack who wants to tailgate.

I'll be looking like this soon:

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gmiller261

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Oh so true.

Why is it that they do not go to low beams when flashed? Do they not understand the concept?

I hate to say it, but a friend of mine in the DR throws a peso out his window at the car when they pass by. (only if they do not go to low beam)

At first I was appalled, I told him he had to be the better person.

Well, now I do it and I do feel some satisfaction.
 

Shiraz72

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Darlin', they'll have to repaint the wall and patch the holes from the chunks of concrete those lights will blast off...;)

If you haven't already done so, then you should also get yourself one of those PA systems installed behind the grill of your car/suv and a horn that plays police sirens and bachata so you can blast them out of your way and advertise chickens for sale or various other products you want to sell or buy at 7:00 AM when you pass by on the boulevard... then you'll really fit in. :cheeky:
 

SantiagoDR

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Take away their lights & horns and Dominicans "won?t know how to drive".

Opsss..... sorry, I think that was an oxymoron!

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SantiagoDR
 

cobraboy

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Night driving here is not for the kind, concerned-about-safety "why can't we all get along and everybody follow the rules" School Marm drivers. It is a war and war requires a different set of survival skills, and that set does not include diplomacy. Especially during the first 2 hours after sunset: that is THE most dangerous time is because of the drunks driving home. Later on is not so bad. Lights are just one issue.

And hammerdown is 100% correct. One problem is there is often no lines-much less reflective paint or raised reflectors-on the road and no streetlights. The new pavement between Santiago past the faux toll booth is a great example. You CANNOT see the road, where it begins or ends because there is NOTHING on it...and new asphalt absorbs light-little reflection-so your headlights are almost inop.

Aircraft landing lights. I like it! Great idea...:cheeky: