Another driving adventure

There is a major intersection near my house. The North/South street has 2 straight through, 2 left turn and 1 right turn lane for each direction. The East/West street is the same right at the intersection although it does narrow about a block away in either direction.

One day I was sitting there at the intersection waiting for the light. (I was heading East.) There were a few cars ahead of me and a bunch in the left turn lanes also waiting for the light to change. As I'm sitting there, I see the guy at the head of the line in the left most straight through lane start to inch his way up like he's going to jump the light. I thought that would be a neat trick since the left turn lanes for both East and West get to go before the straight through lanes get the green light. Well, I had misjudges his plans. WHen the left turn arrows went green, the guy didn't attempt to go straight through at all. He decided that even though he as in a straight through lane, he was turning left. So he made a wide left turn and then forced a merge into the lane on the North South road - probably scaring the hell out of the drivers who had been correctly using the turn lane.

Now his move was dangerous and stupid to begin with, but the stupid part of it was compounded by one little detail that is apparent to anyone who drives those roads. Had the guy opted to safely go straight when the straight through lanes got the green, he could have driven up the road one block - just ONE block, made a left at that traffic light (a traffic light that is very visible from the major intersection we were at), gone another block and made another easy left, gone one last block and made a right (with the help of a traffic light that is also very visible from the major intersection we were at) on the North South road. AND he'd have entered the North South road at a point before ANYTHING he could have been planning to turn off on- so it's not like he would have missed an exit or a store or something. Maybe the guy just likes living dangerously? Too bad he forgot that the rest of the drivers on the road may not feel the same way.