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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. |
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