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At our annual carnival, I place myself on parking duty mainly to make sure that pedestrians don't get themselves run over. It is a real danger precisely because so many people just don't think and take into account the fact that they will be run over by a car.
I even painted fat red crosswalk lines on the asphalt for them to stay behind. My guys and I say "stay behind the red line please, cars are coming". Most people then say thank you, and instruct their kids to do the same. But unless they have that protection instinct for others such as their own kids, they don't have it for themselves either. They say "let the car hit me, I'll get rich". I've had to run out into traffic and pick up one or two toddlers. I don't get it, other than say that the most obvious pattern is that consciencious parents are consciencious people. |
Between where I live and work, we have guys from a part of the world where I guess people drink outdoors only, gathered on a street corner or city boulevard, etc. Maybe their women won't let them have their scholarly friends over(?) IDK...:)
On several occasions, I've had to pull drunken guys up onto the curb because they passed out partially adjacent to a parked car's wheels, (where no driver on earth would be able to see them from the driver's seat), or on one occasion, with lower half of body in street exactly where a bus pulls into the bus stop. :rolleyes: Drinking can be a dangerous sport, especially outdoors. |
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I could have been hit by a train. When I was in high school I was on my way to take my SATs. I was sitting at a double train track with a barrier, watching the train go by. It was on the far set of tracks. Suddenly I saw a set of big ol' train wheels go tumbling down the center of the near track, about 15 feet from my car. They would have crushed the car if they had hit it. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1455219922.jpg An instant later a set of trucks, minus one set of wheels, came bouncing along between me and the train, it hit the train and bounced back toward me. It was close enough that it broke the barrier in front of my car. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1455220127.jpg Then a boxcar came along without the trucks under the back end. It went right past me, then jumped the track and got sideways about 200 feet down the track. The rest of the train plowed into it and the cars folded up together like an accordion. Fortunately the train stopped before the derailments got to where I was sitting. |
The other problem I run across all the time is riding their bikes at a decent clip, on the sidewalk, against traffic. Great way to take a header onto the hood of a car pulling out of a parking lot.
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And my hearing sux. maybe the sound bounces off the walls or buildings nearby. I remember when I was a yoot, putting pennies on the tracks. I could feel the rumbling of a big freighter well before it got there. the ground shook just before the train got there. It's too bad there isn't some sort of warning that a train might be coming this way. Some sort of sign or TRACK...... |
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However, you still need to be a pretty big dunderhead to get run over by a train. Like, you gotta be trying. Usually, you gotta be walking...ya know...where trains tend to congregate...like TRACKS. Rarely will you be run over by a train if you are not standing on or near train tracks. |
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https://youtu.be/pkTxXe3TddQ This one wouldn't embed either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp7GUQZMQjo But, of course, if you are on train track... |
OK you have convinced me that trains are indeed sneaky and stealthy and really quiet ('cept when those horns are blaring) and it's really easy to get hit by a train. if you are on the tracks.
Note to self, don't hang out on train tracks. Look both ways first. |
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No excuses implied for not being aware. My scan is true.:D |
I still say, if you are standing on the tracks, looking the wrong way, you will not hear it coming. Maybe the older trains make more noise but in my experience, you don't hear them.
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That's when I want a horn like this. I'm pretty sure they'd squeeze a little pee or poo out if I hit them with one of these as they cruised across the street. Unfortunately, most of the folks with this type of horn are douchebags just like in the video. <iframe width="640" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/icnRMW6P9nc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> As funny as this guy thinks it is to cruise around tooting his horn, it might be equally funny if he did it to someone that had a gun full of blanks that could scare him back. |
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A number of years ago I was staying at my sister's place for a weekend when one evening she decides she's going to go for a run....it's wintertime so it's already dark outside. I see her at the door and she's got her headphones on, plugged into her Ipod. I stop her..."What are you doing!?! You're going out by yourself in the dark and you're totally tuned out of your surroundings..are you crazy! Talk about an easy target!" Anyway, she got the message...I told her that at all times you should be aware of your surroundings which means eyes and ears "on" 100% of the time....."Some drunk in a car could be barreling behind you and hit you on the sidewalk and you wouldn't have known what hit you!" Anyway, about a week later, this was in the news.... Plane in emergency kills S.C. beach jogger - US news - Life | NBC News She heard about it and thanked me for the lecture I gave her.....what are older brothers for! |
I never underestimate the stupidity these days.
A decade or more ago: I drove a cushman 3-wheeler vehicle on a major college campus. 80K students or so. Most pedestrian crowds would cross(en mass) the wide open streets with little or no traffic. But there was always the suicidal random human elements. Some wanted to get hit. Some would suddenly walk directly in front of my vehicle on purpose. No accidents occurred on my watch. Too many times, random people would try to create problems. I have no problem with Darwin. |
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I just what the hell is the deal with the head phones? Is music that important? People are too preoccupied with too many useless distractions. It seems that most are younger folks that must have their head phones on at all times. Driving, eating, taking a dump. You name it its on. I have, at times, honk at them as they take up the entire road walking to their cars in the parking holding up parking lot traffic. They sometimes look and do nothing continue walking like if they own the road. Then there's the stupid ones that deserve to get hit.
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One bright red label said, "Do not place your tongue on hot iron." |
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We have a pedestrian safety law that makes us stop for pedestrians in and out of crosswalks. This was enacted because of all the pedestrian accidents we have here. I thought it was stupid and unnecessary if pedestrians learned to look both ways before crossing. Apparently, this is not taught in our schools these days because the younger generation just walks straight into the crosswalk or roadway without looking. Fast forward a few years and one of our legislators must have figured out the accidents aren't because of the drivers, it is because of the distracted pedestrian. So this legislative session, someone introduced a bill regarding walking while distracted aka using your phone (talking & texting while walking). lol |
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I'm not one for more regulations, but I wish daytime headlights were mandatory for all vehicles. People are just too clueless and ignorant. . |
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