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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:Whatever lady, you win, I just don't want to die. This is my perspective as a pedestrian traversing roads stuffed with goddamn idiots.
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PenisMonkey posted:For kicks I'll just use the parking brake to stop. Is this you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVhqm4a-S08
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I don't expect anyone to do the basics of pretty much anything anymore. They can't be bothered to do something as simple as stop at a red light. Sure, sometimes they split the difference and stop, but only after completely passing through the loving crosswalk and sticking out into the intersection. And these are the people that glare at me when I have to step into traffic to get around them so I can cross the street. As they said on Malcolm in the Middle: I expect nothing and I'm still let down.
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Sep 15, 2015 22:23
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nsaP posted:I mean it's wrong but who cares? I get it if they are obstructing traffic but w/e. When I have to walk in traffic to get around some idiot who has blocked the crosswalk I definitely care. EDIT: Ah! I should've looked at your rap sheet first. Never mind!
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Sep 16, 2015 19:50
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PCOS Bill posted:On my way home from work today I was driving down a road with a few stores on each side of it. At random right in front of me some guy dressed in a full suit decides he's going to jog out from the left to try and cross before I get by (THERE'S NOBODY BEHIND ME, WHY THE gently caress CAN'T YOU WAIT TWO SECONDS FOR ME TO PASS) and flips me off when I'm just barely stopped by the time he gets in front of me. I see this same behavior from bicyclists, motorcycles and cars. It reflects a general stupidity that crosses all modes of conveyance. Everyone is terrible.
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Sep 17, 2015 00:34
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B4Ctom1 posted:Here is my submission of road sharers (not my video) I hope I have never been this wrong in my life.
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Sep 17, 2015 17:30
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Here is the source of your vehicular problem.Protocol7 posted:So I live in Denver...
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Sep 22, 2015 16:40
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Bovril Delight posted:Christ. 911 for a traffic infraction. I used to be a 911 dispatcher and this is absolutely a valid reason to call. People driving the wrong way get other people killed and are frequently impaired. As for people leaving the scene of a crime in a car the plate is helpful but a vehicle description, subject description and direction of travel is enough to send cops, and the dispatcher would've prompted you for that info. But just like cops dispatchers vary wildly in quality, tied to the quality of the agency they work for. Bad agency=bad cops/dispatchers.
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Sep 23, 2015 16:52
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buttcrackmenace posted:
I would go back to that job if I could get even one call from Mr. Buttcrackmenace. Almost as good as the angry calls I got from the rear end in a top hat doctor from Love Boat.
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Sep 23, 2015 19:58
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"911 good evening how can I help?... oh, hello mr buttcrackmenace. Another one crash?"
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With a shovel someone could slowly start filling that convertible with soil and see if that got a reaction out of her.
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Sep 25, 2015 22:29
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Ineptus Mechanicus posted:Out of all the people in both of those long lines during this excruciatingly long wait, nobody called the cops? They're obstructing the road, if one or both can't handle that intersection give them a ride to the station and impound the car, they obviously shouldn't be driving. Is this one of those collective madness things and everyone just temporarily lost the ability to reason? Were the cops also stuck in traffic? Save a little time by using this instead. Worked wonderfully to get my old boss to keep his office door closed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUTaegkIQFM
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Sep 26, 2015 02:56
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I drive slow as poo poo in parking structures because most everyone else drives like an idiot. Whether they're going up or down, day or night they usually drive like they think there couldn't possibly be anyone else coming the other direction. The same ignorance that makes people lovely drivers on the road makes them lovely drivers in lots and structures.
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Sep 30, 2015 14:05
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Uthor posted:One way loops are great as long as you can escape the loop so you don't have to drive through the entire parking garage on your way out, especially if it's mostly empty. They have those at the Century City mall here in L.A. and it always looks like Christmas with all the green and red lights. They're not perfect but during busy times it's better than wandering rows at random.
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Sep 30, 2015 23:13
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As my old supervisor used to say: "Please hold for the dial tone" and then he'd hang up. Eternal Hold is too good for some people.
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Oct 6, 2015 03:23
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Walking home I was crossing a side street and a Rover decided he had to make his left from the main road that instant, pedestrians be damned. Since I was about halfway across he had to cut his turn much sharper, right into oncoming traffic from the sidestreet, almost hitting me. I flipped him off and of course he did the same, continuing to hold his hand out the window all the way down to the next intersection, sticking his head out and glaring back at me to make sure I saw it. People aren't just terrible and dangerous, they're proud of it. I expect people were doing this poo poo back when they were driving chariots.
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Oct 24, 2015 13:34
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Because they drove them on the wrong side of the woad?
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Oct 24, 2015 14:06
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Yesterday I was driving around 9am and heard honking. On a two lane street an old man in a Lexus SUV was honking a Prius that looked like it might have been going a little slow. But then he also honked him when they were at a red light. Old man makes several dangerous attempt to change lanes then gets in behind me. I'm definitely quick on the draw at a green but he still honked me the moment it changed. Gets out from behind me and immediately starts honking someone ahead of him who's going about 10 over the speed limit, tries to make his own right turn lane as he approaches the next intersection, almost putting two wheels up on the sidewalk. He managed to squeeze past so he could fail to stop for the red, rip around the corner and then mindlessly start honking someone who had pulled out of the gas station well ahead of him. I could still hear him honking as I went through the intersection and on my way.
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Oct 25, 2015 12:45
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The cops I used to work with would overlook minor traffic stuff if they were patrolling, but if something they saw bothered them they'd say "This guy needs a talking to" and they'd light you up. You see motor vehicle infraction obsession in smaller jurisdictions with less crime, particularly if it's a nice area that gets through traffic from crappier areas. Beverly Hills is a good example, where they have loads of cops on traffic detail endlessly busting poor people driving shitheaps. Do not speed in Beverly Hills, no matter how much a 25 mph speed limit annoys you because there's a bored cop just waiting for you.
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Oct 26, 2015 04:11
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I was waiting to cross a side street, but this time at an intersection with traffic lights. I was waiting for the walk signal and across the narrow two lane street was a couple of other people. I could see a BMW starting to edge through the red light to make a left onto this street, planning to make his own left turn signal. Light changes and I start to cross, the other two people start from their side. The BMW jumps the light to make his left, cutting off the oncoming motorists who'd been waiting for green on the other side of the intersection. He guns it to blast through the intersection, brakes for a millisecond because pedestrians are crossing and then he guns it again and shoots between me and the people crossing from the other side, almost killing all three of us. Tears off down the street. I hate people. Until they actually kill someone they couldn't care less. Hell, they might not even care after they kill someone if it saves them waiting fifteen seconds. Dick Trauma fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Oct 28, 2015 |
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Oct 28, 2015 09:05
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What does "kooiaap" mean? It looks Finnish!
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Oct 29, 2015 19:56
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InitialDave posted:It's one of those specialist fork lift trucks that go on the back of a lorry. Ah, thank you. I'll make sure to remember that the next time I put my rubbish in the boot before I take the carriageway down to the tip. 
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Oct 29, 2015 20:54
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Top Hats Monthly posted:I was driving my friends XJ, and I got tailgated by a Prius, who then tried to run me off the road. 
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Oct 31, 2015 16:28
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PCOS Bill posted:Everyone tells me I can't possibly run into this many assholes in a given day and I must be doing something to provoke them. Maybe they read your posts.
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Nov 7, 2015 18:08
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FogHelmut posted:I'm in a 2.0 liter Impreza at altitude and I'm giving it all she's got. I had a '93 Impreza and took it over the Rocky Mountains many times. I quickly got used to getting in the right hand lane, putting my foot all the way down and keeping it there, watching as my maximum speed slowly eroded on the biggest hills. Poor little car sandwiched in by the RVs and other slowbies.
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Nov 9, 2015 20:06
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I'm not much of a speeder (+5-10 over the limit) so I stay out of the left lane to avoid frustrating people. As long as the left lane is clear people that tailgate me in the middle lane can go screw themselves.
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Nov 10, 2015 19:03
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xzzy posted:Chicago is a proper major city guys, I swear! Then where is your proper major airport? 
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VideoTapir posted:You need to know where the police station is, too. Depending on the station there are not necessarily always going to be cops there.
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Nov 13, 2015 19:40
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Almost run over twice yesterday in a single block. Crossed a side street and a city pickup decided it would be faster to just run me over rather than stop for the stop sign. I was halfway across the street when he approached so there was no excuse. I had to jump back and then he stomped on the brakes. I yelled at him and walked on. At the next crossing (a freeway on ramp) there's only a single right turn lane. That driver stopped as I crossed with the walk signal, but as usual people in the lane next to him got impatient and made their own right turn lane. A big SUV tore around the waiting car and almost went right over me. He was close enough that I was able to reach out and put my hands on his hood. I yelled "TRY WAITING GODDAMIT" and he flipped me off and the instant there was one inch of clearance peeled out behind me, only to immediately stop because the onramp as usual is backed up all the way to the street. Walking to work these last few years has left me hating pretty much everyone. Car drivers, motorcyclists, bicyclists, other pedestrians. No one has any common sense left, or even a sense of self-preservation.
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Last night I made it all the way to my block without a near miss. But that last street... I crossed, LED flashlight in hand. An old dude in a big BMW made a quick right out of the strip mall, and roared toward me with the clear intention of not stopping for anything to make his right turn onto the main street. Stop sign? Ha! Pedestrian? Pshaw! Like so many people he began to brake, but then I heard the engine surge and the car leaped forward before stopping again, just before hitting me. And like so many people his face was completely blank as I swore at him and hurried to get out of the way. Nothing registered. As soon as I was clear his car leapt forward again, almost smashing into the traffic on the main street that had been stopped dead since before he even pulled out of the strip mall. But boy did he need to almost kill me in his rush to sit at the corner.
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Nov 21, 2015 00:50
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Just saw a Citroen C1 get hosed up after trying to cut in front of a city bus at traffic lights. As much as I liked the old double deckers from when I was a kid I have to say that's a lovely bus.  EDIT: This sort of model... 
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Dec 2, 2015 17:44
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Oh yeah those were kind of great except: absolute deathtrap because you'll fall down the back stairs and off it when it's icy/wet, and the upstairs is horribly cramped. Also not wheelchair accessible at all. They still run in service on a couple of routes though. On a rainy day I loved being able to dash up those stairs so I could ride up top and watch the water stream over the windows. For a little kid they seemed like the coolest ride short of an L-1011. Of course riding buses in England at that time did have its downsides: 
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CannonFodder posted:Haha, the song you are listening to goes "Well that's a shame, that's a shame" as the pickup gets sideswiped. I was surprised because that's a cover of a song I thought would be an unlikely candidate for a cover version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT3I_dlnNHE
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Jonny 290 posted:For a while, shady fuckers were pulling "wave you through" scams in Arkansas where they'd try to get you to go, then they'd t-bone you and claim you ran the stop sign. I never take another car's suggestion to violate a traffic law. Just go. That's the George Carlin method. He did a thing where he talked about right of way at an intersection where another driver imperiously waves you ahead. "You. Go." Of course George's response is "gently caress you! YOU go!" And when you let the other guy proceed you ram into him.
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As a pedestrian I regularly almost get run over by cars, motorcycles, bicycles, skateboarders and other pedestrians. Everyone is a drat idiot that can't follow the rules.
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Apr 5, 2016 17:51
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nm posted:I have had a horse person yell at me for stopping and stepping off the trail. They wanted me to just ride right by (contrary to every other horse rider I've encountered). When I lived in Denver it was the standard to get off the bike and walk it past horses. Also the city trails are busy there and most cyclists practiced the lost art of calling out before passing pedestrians. "On your left" and that sort of thing. I can't tell you how many time here in L.A. I've had some dipshit blow past me on the sidewalk close enough to catch at my clothing, no warning of any kind. It's no different than the ones that blast through stop signs as I'm crossing, be they motorized or not. gently caress anyone that gambles with my safety. Take risks with your own, but not mine.
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Apr 5, 2016 19:58
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This was her driving instructor:
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I avoid the left lane but I find that it doesn't matter which lane I drive in. Tailgating fuckheads will get on you no matter the lane and they'll refuse to change, even when there's a lane to the left available. Tailgaters, brake checkers... they're just more of the stupid shitheads you share the road with and neither has the moral high ground. Just try not being a goddamn idiot when you're driving/riding/walking.
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Jun 1, 2016 17:20
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No poo poo I first learned about maintaining space between cars from this commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4flX6xaH46M
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Jun 1, 2016 18:10
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leica posted:No, the PT driver panicked and lost control in a situation that could have been easily averted by just applying the brakes. He might not have selected "brakes" on the options sheet.
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My favorite is people in the right hand lane that have to slow or stop for someone ahead of them making a right turn into a driveway. And then they just never speed back up again.
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