Man hits a dog on purpose (Strong language)

[candyshopgirl]

Okay so I'm sitting at a four way stop this morning by one of the biggest parks in my town.And there is a old man about 8o years old sitting at one of the stop signs and there is a man walking his two dogs in front of the old coot. Well the man had stepped just one foot on the side walk and the old bastard(notice the language will get stronger as we go on) floored it through the stop sign and ran his car into one of the dogs.The doggie wasn't hurt but the he just was given everyone that big dumb doggie what happened look. So me and my hubby jump out of the car and run over and ask the old son of a bitch what the hell is your problem?The old fucker just looked smug and said what..
So the man didn't want to call the police or make a report.The doggie was fine and instanly forgot what had happened as he rolled in the grass. But heres the thing across the street is a bus stop full of elementary kids.So it could have been one of those kids. And me and my hubby are so much into doggies.Stupid old man the reason why I put this in sightings is because no doubt that this stupid old man probadly is just as impatience in stores as this stop sign.Now I feel better after telling you guys and gettign it off my chest.

[Gerrinson]

First off - what a ing for hitting a dog on purpose! Dude belongs in jail. And I think he wouldn't try that with a kid, because a kid isn't legally classified as 'property', despite how some parents treat them.

That said, he sounds like he plays the game a lot of drivers play in my area, except they play it with people.

The game is called 'Psych the pedestrian!'. Or something like that.

What you do is you slow down so it looks like you're going to let the pedestrian cross (which is the law, here, by the way.) Then, at the last possible second, you slam on the gas and go flying through the crosswalk as close to the pedestrian as possible without hitting them. Bonus points if they have to jump back out of the way.

I usually run into at least three of these idiots a week while I'm trying to cross the street to get to work. And at least once a week, the driver will be looking at me and smiling as they blast through the crosswalk. I wish we could set up one of our security cameras so it would catch the incidents & the license plates of the cars doing this.

[wanderingjoe72]

Have a camera ready when crossing the road. This may make some of them think twice before trying to play their "game".

We did have an incident a while back in town where some of the high school kids would wait for traffic to come and then cross outside of crosswalks to make drivers have to slam their brakes. One story that was shared involved a kid doing this and notrealising it was his own father he did it to. Dad dutifully jumped out of the car and let's just say the kid never did it again.

[PepperElf]

i say... still call the police
bet that jerkoff driver won't look so smug while watching someone dialing 911 to report him.

[the lawsmeister]

The game is called 'Psych the pedestrian!'. Or something like that.

What you do is you slow down so it looks like you're going to let the pedestrian cross (which is the law, here, by the way.) Then, at the last possible second, you slam on the gas and go flying through the crosswalk as close to the pedestrian as possible without hitting them. Bonus points if they have to jump back out of the way.

I've had a couple of people do that to me before. They all got a 10 steelcap boot in their back door.

[HorrorFrogPrincess]

*dials Satan*

Hey, remember that other soul I promised you?

[RetailWorkhorse]

*Picks up Satan's phone and acts as his Secretary*

He'll be right up. Just a Child Molester to get out of the way and you're his next stop.




So, who has a brick camera I can borrow?

[Tikaysha]

Regarding kicking the back door of people who slow to make you think you can cross a crosswalk, then speed up again:

My strategy as well. Although I had one entitlement woman then pull over all indignant that I'd kicked (although luckily not dented) her car. My responce: I didn't run up to it, if you were that close to me, you should have stopped.

The best part? That happened because she was running a red light. I told her off quite...verbosely.

[Misanthropical]

Old man needed someone's foot up his ass! How dare he?!? I hope someone runs his old ass down!

Sorry, but I love animals and will not stand while someone hurts one for no reason other than they can. It's something I taught my children, you do not hurt another creature just because you can.

[One-Fang]

Indeed. You have to wonder sometimes what some people's brains are made out of. Surely not human neurons, because ... well ... if neurons are firing, you just don't do that.

I would have stood in front of the car and called the police. It was certainly criminal. The fact that the dog was not badly hurt is lucky, and if it were hurt it would have made the penalty worse, but it doesn't make it 'not a crime' because the victim escaped unharmed.

[Nyoibo]

you do not hurt another creature just because you can.

Hell, if I did there'be thousands of injured people in my wake, maybe I juust for one day.