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Hara Kiri Karachi Ishtyle

Posted: Jan 22, 2008 Tue 10:31 pm     Views: 215    Interacts: 2

Everyday while driving to my workplace... which is located in the bowel of the city in the I.I loser road area. I try to keep my focus on driving as swarms of motorcycle wallas zoom around my car, going through the smallest of niches the tiniest of crevices at breakneck speed.

Sometime i feel like an imperial star destroyer commander with all those x wings floating around from Star Wars!!! Are these people mad or what? They do not stop at signals, they do not use their indicators but rather stick their arms out on either side when turning and they do not look before they cut in front.

Its almost like they are trying to commit harakiri under your car. In fact some of them try so hard to get run over by cars that it is impossible to avoid them. this situation is compounded by the fact that these scooter wallas now have to wear helmets, which are good for safety yes... but in the absence of right or left rear view mirrors on the bikes have the same effect as blinders on a horse!!

As it is driving in this city is getting to be a pain in the arse! add to that reckless endangerments of other peoples lives and you have a recipe for cardiac arrest. I have no clue why people riding motorcycles behave in this way, shouldn't they be more careful since they do not have any metal around them to protect them? i would..


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Posted by Cigar on Wednesday January 23, 2008 09:10 am
I don't know how common it is in Karachi. But in Lahore those racing wheelers are very common. If their bike goes out of their control, it can hit many other vehicles and pedestrian as well. They like to show their expertise specially if there are girls around. It often happened to me that they will wheel in front of my car and won't let me overtake. You have to slow down to increase the distance because you don't want to run over them if they fall.

In 2002, Two of my class fellows passed away when they were coming back from their graduation party. It is said that before leaving, they told their friends, "Yeh motorcycle nahi hay lalay, Yeh Jahaz hai Jahaz"
Posted by faridoon on Wednesday January 23, 2008 01:40 am
yeah, i always tell them ke marna hai tau oonchee building se chalang lagao ... why implicate me

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