To the scruffy looking couple (woman was either pregnant or majorly bloated) who ran out in front of my car on Gottingen St. yesterday near HFX backpackers… When you walk strait out into traffic don’t be surprised when someone doesn’t see you and must slam on their breaks to avoid denting their car! Honestly if I hit you it would have been your fault and I would have only cared about the dent YOU made in my vehicle… And then you YELL AT ME?
Go to hell I’m tired of you little scruffs acting like you know the law use the damn crosswalk or get a job and buy a car…—Pissed of driver
This article appears in Apr 22-28, 2010.
Y’know, I can afford to drive but I CHOOSE not to. Enjoy your obesity and pissing away money to oil corps and car and insurance companies, sucker.
It was striking how quiet the city was over Easter weekend when the fat suburbanites hadn’t driven in for work to bitch about parking and beep at pedestrians.
hey calvin dude; let me put this as delicately as I can, YOU’RE A FUCKING IDIOT STFU AND GO AWAY 🙂
i love the type of lemmings. these fools think they are impervious to any harm, that right? just let me hit you with my big white beast of a lincoln and see how far you bounce in the air. but of course i never get to have any fun like that, because you are never around when i’m driving. dammit.
Just look what it could have been. Like a unicyclist.
Say what you want about automobiles. They are Darwin’s Panzer Division.
I have martym, I’ve moved to Toronto!
I can jump on the subway daily and barely have to deal with you lazy gits and yer fat kids. And I love how there’s barely any surface parking downtown here — what’s left is quickly being snapped up by condo developers. Their waterfront is nicer because it’s developed all the way through, unlike ours, since whenever we try to develop any of our oceans of asphalt people balk about PARKING and TRAFFIC.
and no cross-burnings!
Sounds to me like buddy has an issue with scruffy looking people, who just HAPPEN to be next to a backpacking shop.
Probably some jock hippie-hater whose wife couldn’t take his relentless ‘bitching’ and decided to Google, “hippies bitch complain” and came across, “TheCoast, eh? What is this, some hippie propaganda URL? Perhaps I shall take the fight to where these assholes congregate.”
The road is shared, bud, get used to it.
That said, righteous jay-walkers do need to drop the corner-of-their-eye attitude whenever an assuming car does come too close. You don’t own the road just as much as the cars don’t, buddeo’s, so fuck off.
And again, SHARE THE FUCKING ROAD.
It’s eye contact, yo. We can all get along.
Hey dumbass i live on a island in BC; and if you don’t like cars you’re in the wrong city( the DVP rush hour is LA like) and the waterfront is butt ugly cept Queens Quay area (I lived in the GTA for 15 yrs) so good luck with whatever freak world you’re living in !
I don’t drive — why would I ever have to go anywhere near the DVP? 🙂
Ya know, I’ve jaywalked a million times. But I only ever do it at times when the streets are not busy. I only ever jaywalk on SGR when it’s dead. And even then, I look both ways, just like momma taught me. Haha. I hate the people who just… step out without looking when there are tons of cars on the road, expecting people to stop for them. I’ve been waiting to see SOMEONE get hit.
Well jaywalk all you like – just look both ways and make sure you have time to clear .
The ones ( particularly on gottigen st – near the square) that dawdle and stroll across the street staring at you and taking they’re time . Those are the assholes that actually deserve to get run over . If not for any reason beside being a prick and deserving a good bumper push.
I see a lot of dumbasses on SGR who don’t look any way when using a crosswalk. And often their light isn’t green and they’ll just strut out in front of a car like they own the streets. It’ll happen eventually….
who’s Jay?
omfg I’m using the dvp as an example; I don’t know wtf car-less utopian world you think TO is but unless you’re in perhaps the beaches get used to sucking fumes big time calvy!
martym why you so hatful?
Ugg Gottingen is soo bad for this. Jaywalking that is. I usually only ever go 30 or 40 down it because every time I drive down it, people either walk in front of me or fling their car doors open on the side of the road without looking.
The worst is when someone starts with a “jog” across the side of the street with no traffic (so it appears like they are trying to get out of your way) and it turns into a “casual jaunt” right in front of your car. It happens to often and it’s the worst on Gottingen and also Robie in between Almon and Young.
Carry an orange or fit a water pistol. Aim,cock, FIRE. Splat.
Or a megaphone and CD player that plays ‘Get off the road’.
Either way I try not to give way to lazy jay walkers especially those who can see you in the vehicle but just stroll the asphalt. My spouse is non too keen on my ‘Nudge them’ attitude but it works for me.
1) If you run someone over (jay walking or not) 99.9% of the time it will be your fault. If your not charged criminally or sued to death you can almost bet you won’t be able to afford insurance for some time. Welcome to public transportation! 2) If you’re a pedestrian who thinks a car cannot kill you, Darwin rules apply! EVEN if you’re in a crosswalk and your completely in the right – it will serve little consolation when your dead – or living the rest of your life with a debilitating injury. Oh, and not pushing that little button to cross is just plain suicidal.
For Christ sake these rules were taught in kindergarten!!
martym trolls easy, jeez.
i jaywalk, but i never EXPECT cars to stop for me. if I can make it across without inconveniencing anyone, i do.