And when I say crazy, I mean absolutely fucking nuts. No indicators, travelling at high speeds and cutting across in front of you for no reason, going 70km/h in a 60 zone while being 3 metres from your back bumper.

This one time, I was quietly going along at the speed limit (70, if I recall correctly) and this car pulls out from behind me, speeds round me, cuts in front of me (without using any indicators), abruptly breaks and turns into a driveway. WTF?!? Why!?

Another time, I was being tailgated by a city bus at 80km/h.

The friend who I’m staying with works for an insurance company as the person who fills in and files the claim when you have an accident (she says that she generally only takes Melbourne calls) and she told me some shockers.

Today, she filed a claim for a woman in her late 70s, who was pushed into an intersection and who narrowly avoided being cleaned up by a bus, by a truck who 1. didn’t noticed that the car ahead of him in his lane was stopped, 2. didn’t notice the stop light the car was stopped at, and 3. didn’t attempt to brake at all. What the fuck was he doing? Was he in the back of the truck smoking copious quantities of marijuana and cackling maniacally? Jesus.

Apparantly, Victorians have the highest rate of car-pedestrian accidents in the country. By far. With the way these freaks drive, this does not surprise me one bit.

Anyway, must go now. Sliders (that old-school 90s b-grade sci-fi series) is on Foxtel! w007