STREETS is for CARS!

[Argabarga]

To the "bro" skateboarder, who was boarding down the middle of that street, that UNLIT street, at NIGHT, while wearing BLACK sweats and a BLACK hoodie..... the street I WAS DRIVING ON, by the way... I have just one question.

Exactly WHEN did you get bored with LIVING?????

[Jay 2K Winger]

"You don't get it, bro, black's cool, bro!"

"If you want to flirt with death, join the Dry Pool Diving Team, f**khead!"

[Buzzard]

The gene pool seems to need chlorination... and the prime examples bring their own chlorine.
I just wish they wouldn't try to involve MY bumper in the process.

[gremcint]

my mom almost ran over a kid on a bike for the same reason, middle of the night no reflector dressed all in black and just suddenly turns right in front of us.

[mjr]

Years ago my mom actually ran over a kid's skateboard. He pushed it out in front of her car. I don't know if he did it accidentally, or on purpose thinking she'd stop and he'd have a laugh.

She ran over it, and the kid yelled at her.

Cue mom slamming on the brakes, getting out, and yelling at the kid that if he didn't want his skateboard to be run over, he shouldn't be pushing it into the street in front of oncoming cars.

[dalesys]

Let's rewrite Randy Newman's hit and all sing,

"Splat people ain't got no reason for living...

They got teeny tiny brains...

[taxguykarl]

my mom almost ran over a kid on a bike for the same reason, middle of the night no reflector dressed all in black and just suddenly turns right in front of us.

I had a near miss like that--he just needed a scarf covering his mouth and nose to look just like a ninja. Good thing we just bought new tires and had the brakes checked. He would have been a road pizza otherwise

[DiRF]

Was driving down a narrow two-lane road one day... saw a kid coasting on top of his skateboard, down the middle of the street, huge designer headphone on his ears, his eyes glued to his phone two inches from his nose. I had to bring my car to a complete halt, because he was heading straight for me. He only looked up at the last second and turned away from me. I was about to lay on my horn...

...a while later I saw a kid on rollerblades (do they still call them that?), with two dogs on a leash, leading him God knows where... because, again, headphones and phone fixation. At least this one was (mostly) on the sidewalk...

[Racket_Man]

To the "bro" skateboarder, who was boarding down the middle of that street, that UNLIT street, at NIGHT, while wearing BLACK sweats and a BLACK hoodie..... the street I WAS DRIVING ON, by the way... I have just one question.

Exactly WHEN did you get bored with LIVING?????

Hey Arga welcome to my world almost every shift I work after is becomes twilight (not the sparkly vampires) --- skateboarders, cyclists, street crossers, dogs and their pets, etc.

[wolfie]

This one involved a vehicle that BELONGED on the road, but since this thread seems to be dealing with morons oblivious to the world around them, here goes:

I was approaching a scale that had its lights flashing (had a 40,000 pound load), and a few truck lengths before I got to the light board, the lights stopped flashing (i.e. they had pulled in enough trucks to deal with, and let everyone past until they had finished "processing" their batch). Two trucks ahead of me, someone pulled into the ramp for the scale (lights had stopped as he had passed them), and starts decellerating. Truck behind him continues past on the highway, so moron decides he doesn't want to be delayed by the scale. At this point, he's past where the dividing line between the right lane and the off-ramp has expanded into a "no-go" wedge.

He pulls a hard left to cross the wedge and pull back into the right lane. Slight problem - guess who's using the right lane, and traveling at highway speed, with a car alongside in the next lane (blocking a lane change)? I slam on the brakes (if a car had been tailgating, they'd have hit me - fortunately nobody was), and barely avoid hitting the guy. By this point, I'm down to roughly 40 km/h, and it takes FOREVER to get back up to speed (did I mention I was hauling 40,000 pounds of cargo?). Either go through the scale, or bypass it, but don't change your mind halfway through!

[DiRF]

We need more dashcams in North America.

[HawaiianShirts]

my mom almost ran over a kid on a bike for the same reason, middle of the night no reflector dressed all in black and just suddenly turns right in front of us.

I'm a bike commuter myself, and I've seen several other people on bikes wearing all black at night. Usually with no helmet. It boggles my mind. It's like they're trying to be invisible.

I've got the standard reflectors on the bike, plus a flashing headlight, a flashing taillight, flashing spoke lights on my wheels, ankle reflectors, neon yellow jacket or vest (depending on weather), and helmet reflectors. If I ever get hit by a car, I want to be able to look at the driver, point at myself and my bike, and ask, "How could you not see this?"

[Seanette]

I'm a bike commuter myself, and I've seen several other people on bikes wearing all black at night. Usually with no helmet. It boggles my mind. It's like they're trying to be invisible.

I've got the standard reflectors on the bike, plus a flashing headlight, a flashing taillight, flashing spoke lights on my wheels, ankle reflectors, neon yellow jacket or vest (depending on weather), and helmet reflectors. If I ever get hit by a car, I want to be able to look at the driver, point at myself and my bike, and ask, "How could you not see this?"

I'm grateful to cyclists like you who give me a chance to not turn you into road pizza and have nightmares for the rest of my life.

[Argabarga]

I'm grateful to cyclists like you who give me a chance to not turn you into road pizza and have nightmares for the rest of my life.

Eerily, I stopped the other night for a cyclist I saw coming down the street who was wearing an orange reflective safety vest, a bike helmet with a strobe light on it, a headlight on the bike, and multiple static reflectors.

I was so busy watching him, I almost ran down the OTHER cyclist in the intersection, the one with NO headlight, NO helmet, DRESSED IN BLACK, and riding DOWN THE SIDEWALK.

And yet, If I had run him over, his family would BLAME ME for the mess!

[CoffeeMonkey]

On the way to school this week I saw a guy pushing another guy in a wheelchair across a 5 lane, 45mph street. Less than a block from the light. With traffic coming. OMFG, dude.

Then, on the way home, at night, some other dude was wearing dark clothes and just walking in the street. Down a stretch with few to no lights, mind you.

It was a day of poor decision making, I tell you what.