One of These Days I'm Really Gonna Do it I Swear to God...
 

Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> Twice in as many days I am waiting patiently at a crosswalk for my
> legal turn to cross. Twice in as many days, some oblivious ****head
> comes flying up just as my walk signal comes on and stops, fully
> blocking the crosswalk. Thursday's incident involved a silver VW Jetta
> being driven by a twentysomething male with a Bluetooth headset in his
> right ear. I got a really good look at it because his head was craned
> 90 degrees to the left as he approached his red light, hoping to see a
> gap in the cross traffic large enough to allow him to simply whip
> through the red light and around the corner witbhout stopping. No such
> luck, so he ended up coming to a stop directly across the crosswalk.
> As I walked behind his car, that trunk lid looked SOOOO tempting, but
> I resisted the impulse.
>
> The very next morning, at an intersection one block away, the exact
> same scenario, only this time it's an oblivious elderly Asian male
> driving a minivan. As I walked around behind his van, my fist was
> balled up, ready to strike, but once again I resisted, settling
> instead for an exaggerated shrug and a wry smile as I passed the lady
> who was crossing the street from the other side.
>
> Maybe what I need are some bumper stickers with really strong glue
> that I can slap onto the backs of these vehicles. The stickers would
> say something like "WARNING: I don't stop for red lights!" or "I
> flatten pedestrians for breakfast." Something that won't cause any
> actual damage, but will be damned annoying to remove - and maybe help
> increase their situational awareness.
> --
> What the heck, I'll play too.
> - Dave

Being a pedestrian is pretty much suicide nowadays. The answer, as
always, is severe penalties for the reckless drivers who imperil
walkers. Used to be a philosophy that the walker always has the right
of way and woe to any driver that hits one. That made drivers careful.

One of These Days I'm Really Gonna Do it I Swear to God...
 

Being a pedestrian is pretty much suicide nowadays. The answer, as
always, is severe penalties for the reckless drivers who imperil
walkers. Used to be a philosophy that the walker always has the right
of way and woe to any driver that hits one. That made drivers careful.

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while I agree with that somewhat, and do not encourage people to run red
lights, a
lot of this red light issue would mostly go away if the GODDAMN USELESS
government would TIME THE ****ING TRAFFIC LIGHTS. Oh but wait, that
might cut down on the revenue flow and we can't have that now, can we?
Forget safety,
it's all about the money.

I get ****ing tired of stopping at traffic light #1, only to drive 2/10 of a
mile to get stopped by traffic light #2
only to drive 2/10 of a mile to get stopped by traffic light #3, etc., etc.

TIME THE GODDAMN ****ING TO HELL TRAFFIC LIGHTS

One of These Days I'm Really Gonna Do it I Swear to God...
 

SheBlewHimDidYouBlowHim wrote:
> Being a pedestrian is pretty much suicide nowadays. The answer, as
> always, is severe penalties for the reckless drivers who imperil
> walkers. Used to be a philosophy that the walker always has the right
> of way and woe to any driver that hits one. That made drivers careful.
>
> ************************************************** ******************
> while I agree with that somewhat, and do not encourage people to run red
> lights, a
> lot of this red light issue would mostly go away if the GODDAMN USELESS
> government would TIME THE ****ING TRAFFIC LIGHTS. Oh but wait, that
> might cut down on the revenue flow and we can't have that now, can we?
> Forget safety,
> it's all about the money.
>
> I get ****ing tired of stopping at traffic light #1, only to drive 2/10 of a
> mile to get stopped by traffic light #2
> only to drive 2/10 of a mile to get stopped by traffic light #3, etc., etc.
>
> TIME THE GODDAMN ****ING TO HELL TRAFFIC LIGHTS

I'd *LOVE* to see you try that in Orlando.

One of These Days I'm Really Gonna Do it I Swear to God...
 

One of These Days I'm Really Gonna Do it I Swear to God...
 

put me in charge of this country, I'd tell the goddamn government morons,
you have exactly 1 ****ing hour to get the damn traffic lights timed or you
will be shot and killed, YOUR CHOICE.