When I was a kid I was hit by a car on Dunbrack. I was on a crosswalk and to this day there is something I do that is also taught to every child in the Canada. I LOOK BOTH WAYS before I cross the street !!. When a 2 tonne vehicle is heading your way don’t walk out in front assuming that he sees you and will stop. Pedestrians in this city need to be responsible for themselves too. The amount of idiots walking around this place is scary, they don’t look, continuously text, got headphones blaring so they couldn’t hear a horn, walk into oncoming traffic and blame the drivers when they should be blaming themselves. I have had too many people walk in front of my car not looking than I could count. There are dangerous drivers out there for sure, but also some dangerous pedestrians that seem to forget that they are mortal. —Halilover
This article appears in Oct 31 – Nov 6, 2013.
Good Bitch…I witness this on a daily basis. Good thing I don’t have to count them.
Pfffffttttt!!!! How little you know, OB. Pedestrians and cyclists round here are like sacred fucking cows. Don’t dare look at them, suggest anything to them, run them over, or you’ll be sorry. They have the “right of way” and, if you dare challenge their authority, karma will strike you down like lightening, Motherfucker!!!
I don’t disagree. But I ALSO suggest drivers look both ways before they cross an intersection.
– a driver
I agree that there are some idiot pedestrians but I don’t think I should be called an idiot because I like listening to my music loudly. Horns shouldn’t be honked anyways incase of emergency and in route home or to work or school I don’t plan for emergencies. Don’t label me because I like to escape from the world for a few measly minutes before I’m forced to return to it when I reach my destination.
I see this every day at least a dozen times (I work near a High School), usually head down and texting. Sorry to hear about your experience OP. I constantly nag at my kid about crossing and he is 16, in one ear out the other I’m sure, but they are invincible.
Excellent bitch OB.
“Horns shouldn’t be honked anyways incase of emergency” – No.
The Captain can honk his horn whenever he damn well pleases!
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Like I said a few bitch days ago, people are getting dumber and dumber. Too many smart phones in the hands of idiots. And as for you partysummer you’re gonna look cute and love wearing hearing aids,you, as well as most of our teenagers and twentysomethings so cheer up you certainly won’t be alone. Dumb motherfucks.
Wait until Google Glasses become more easily available to the untermensch.
Thanks for that, Ivan.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
We just did a safety course here at work and the instructor had a good point. Yes you are you have the right away as a pedestrian in a cross walk but there is no sense in being “dead right”.
I dunno… we’ve been making great strides in force-field technology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5xeNePF-cg
Actually pedestrians should be called idiots when they act like them. Loud music prevents you from hearing oncoming traffic. Now i listen to loud music too when i walk so i use my EYES in a way that i would if i were deaf (which at that time i am) Do YOU do a shoulder check before you cross? Especially since your ears are incapacitated? Do you text in the middle of a stroll down a busy street? Do you dash out, clad in black at 9pm, from between two parked cars and then wonder why nobody saw you in time to stop?
An idiot should always be called an idiot. As long as you’re not being one then fine. I won’t call you one. There’s no need to argue. You know how much danger you subject yourself to. So think about it.
Wheels, don’t you mean dumb phones?
Smart phones attached to dumb owners BT.