Do you look both ways before crossing the street?
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In the car I just punch it. To qualify it is a racing civic with a Saturn 5 rocket engine....
Head on a swivel. Hell, Id do the full Exorcist 360 if I could. Maybe I'm just paranoid though.
What amazes me is how many people these days are taught it doesnt matter because the pedestrian has the right of way anyways so traffic has to stop.....
Sickens me to see somoene walk their entire family into a busy intersection without hesitation or any double check at all.
Kids these days... let me tell ya
Sickens me to see somoene walk their entire family into a busy intersection without hesitation or any double check at all.
Kids these days... let me tell ya
This is not a question you ask a montrealer.
If you ever come here, you will understand.
If you ever come here, you will understand.
I hate to post this story because it should be analyzed deeply:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/25/raquel-nelson-this-will-never-end_n_908448.html
This is the more in-depth story explaining what actually happened.
Only a nobody walks in LA so I assume its the same elsewhere.
I just Zen my way across the street.
i just go for it, ride across with my hands off the bars with my hands up telling people to stop.
I assume that the idiot behind the wheel is so busy jacking off on making a facebook post that they don't even notice that they are driving a car in traffic. I look aound all the time while crossing. It really sucks to become someones hood ornament
I dont even want to look
I look both ways. I pray while humbly looking down then up to praise jesus. The lord will allow me to cross the street safely.
I find this Pole to be very we-drive-on-the-right-centric and I'd like to register my protest at the lack of a "look right-left-right" option.
This girl here...
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=84029667324
Was struck and killed in Ocean City Maryland three years ago. She was crossing the road with her iPod on and apparently they think she thought if you are in the cross walk the cars would stop like in her home town. She didn't look at all according to witnesses, she just rode right across the cross walk with her music on. She went across three lanes of traffic while cars in all three lanes hit the breaks hard and stopped and she had made it until she got to the last lane, the bus/left hand turn lane and a soft drink truck kept moving forward unable to see her until she popped out behind the last car and he was going too fast to stop in time and struck her at about 30mph killing her instantly.
I met her 17 hours before she died. My buddy liked her and called her over when we were at this all day/night club at the beach where she worked. I found out 17 hours later she was the one that was killed on Ocean Highway. She was a sweet girl. Here's the article.
http://www.oceancitytoday.net/news/2009-06-26/front_page/001.html
Here's a shot from the scene on 33rd street. you can see her body covered in a white sheet still on the ground just beyond her twisted up beach cruiser bike and the truck is in the bus lane stopped. It was pretty sad.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RnRejIPRpAY/SkJfOxP8VhI/AAAAAAAAFa4/AH7IDF5hjeQ/s1600-h/Fatality.bmp
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=84029667324
Was struck and killed in Ocean City Maryland three years ago. She was crossing the road with her iPod on and apparently they think she thought if you are in the cross walk the cars would stop like in her home town. She didn't look at all according to witnesses, she just rode right across the cross walk with her music on. She went across three lanes of traffic while cars in all three lanes hit the breaks hard and stopped and she had made it until she got to the last lane, the bus/left hand turn lane and a soft drink truck kept moving forward unable to see her until she popped out behind the last car and he was going too fast to stop in time and struck her at about 30mph killing her instantly.
I met her 17 hours before she died. My buddy liked her and called her over when we were at this all day/night club at the beach where she worked. I found out 17 hours later she was the one that was killed on Ocean Highway. She was a sweet girl. Here's the article.
http://www.oceancitytoday.net/news/2009-06-26/front_page/001.html
Here's a shot from the scene on 33rd street. you can see her body covered in a white sheet still on the ground just beyond her twisted up beach cruiser bike and the truck is in the bus lane stopped. It was pretty sad.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RnRejIPRpAY/SkJfOxP8VhI/AAAAAAAAFa4/AH7IDF5hjeQ/s1600-h/Fatality.bmp
OC MD... Awesome... but who the F would cross that road w/o looking? It is quite a few lanes wide and always packed with drunks.
We had a place up near um... 115th maybe (just down from Carousel and across from Goldcoast mall). I was young at the time (grade school - high school) and it was engrained in me... WATCH OUT when crossing.
We had a place up near um... 115th maybe (just down from Carousel and across from Goldcoast mall). I was young at the time (grade school - high school) and it was engrained in me... WATCH OUT when crossing.
You would be absolutly amazed how many people just take it for granted that traffic always see's them and will yeild right of way......
