Reffro

This came to me when I was driving back to London last Sunday night. I was catching up the usual middle lane hog, though in this case as it was a four lane section, they were the lane 2 hogs. Being bored and also feeling a little mischievious, I came to invent a new game. Now I haven't got a name for it, but Hog Lapping is the best I have come up with.

Anyway the game is simple, you have to drive in circles around the lane hog. Simply accelerate past them in the correct outside lane, move to the inside lane, and slow down a bit. You then let them move past you again, after which you can accelerate, overtake them in the outside lane and move in again. Simply repeat until they move into the inside or you get bored again.

It kept me amused for 10 mins the other night, was completely legal, except for a bit of minor speeding and had the lane hog completely confused. I mananged ten laps until they moved into the inner lane and spoiled my fun.

Give it a try one day when you find yourself on an empty bit of motorway with a lane hog. Oh and any suggestions for a proper name to give the game are welcome. If anyone wants to think of some rules and a scoring system please post it as a reply, I thinking of points for each lap, with various discretionary bonus points for make of car, age of driver etc etc.

NACRO

That's priceless I'm going to try it next time I see one on an empty motorway.

How about Hog-Lapping?

or Piggy in the middle?

small beamer

circles

TIFF-C20WTH

PMSL,thats sounds cool

Where is my keys

NotoriousREV

Hog Lapping is a cool name for it, I'll try that tonight!

In return, I may introdue Scoobynet to the game of "See The Gap, Be The Gap"...

TopBanana

Sorry but you didn't invent that one PMSL

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

Or drop to third ans warp past them, works for me !

P1Fanatic

Sounds funny but Id get bored too quickly. As the other chap said, drop a cog and leave them for dust is soo much more fun

Simon.

Apparition

Or just simply drive OVER them ! Think Hog Lapping is going to be the new olympic sport.... must find a hog soon. Get in training

Father Jack Hackett

Hog Lapping is great ...

how about doing it "backwards", i.e. undertake them, let them undertake you then do it again until you get bored?

Trucker Ted

Reffro,quality man, i'm pi**ing myself laughing here just picturing that,the guy must have wondered what the **** was going on.

thats nuts dude!

BOB.T

T Gardemeister

Neil Smalley

Sounds a laugh. Don't do the undertaking version though as it's illegal and could cause said hog to get stroppy.

C h a z

Done this before but with me and a mate doing the lapping. P1ss funny. See if you can try and get about half a dozen of you doing it at once.

what would scooby do

Been doing this for years..

even better is to get two cars doing about 120mph and rip past the "middle lane sex-offender type", one at each side.

P.S. don't do this to small cars, we had a 2cv that nearly flipped over in our wake vorticies

asifR1

we've done this for ages as well.........

recently four of us going to London and we ended up torturing this old couple in a volvo, but the pretty young thing in the back was well amused

fast bloke

I like to play the 'You are not turning left for the rest of the day game' Works best if you have three or more lanes, just sit on the inside lane about a foot behind the lane hog. If they speed up, so do you, if they slow down, so do you. If you come up behind something slow, nip into the outside, get past, then quickly back to the inside and slow down until he is just in front of you again. If you get really committed you can keep him on the motorway for as long as you like.

(It is perfectly legal - I got pulled by an unmarked car for doing this on him once - he was raging to the point that he couldn't talk without dribbling, but he could find nothing to do me for )

Anyway - off to find a motorway for a bit of piggy in the middle

Stevie

Superb.

I dont know how you have the patience to do that.

I just set the cruise at 85 and drive on the left

speedking

I often have people doing something similar to me. Overtake me at 90mph. Then they answer the mobile phone and slow to about 55mph cos they can't concentrate, so I pass. 5 mins later, phone call over, zoom past at 90mph again. 5 mins later I am passing them again because they have phone glued to ear [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img][img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img] Who says using the mobile while driving is safe

Dave P

Another variation has been suggested to me... overtake, pull into the middle lane and slow so the lane hog has to overtake you!!! Then as soon as he pulls into the middle lane... rpeat.

Dave

Alas

Just hope you don't meet Kenneth Noye!!!
Alas

bigsinky

spat me beer out at that one, feckin superb

cheers

big sinky

barge

thats as old as the hills


you need 2 cars to play chase around the hog, years ago we used to do it around trucks, 1 car on either side & the winner was who ever caught the other car

yoof of today come up with your own games

Spoon

Played this before and have been guilty of singing "There's a shíthead in the ring tra la la la la".



[Edited by Spoon - 5/12/2003 10:01:31 PM]