Thank you to the asshole who thinks that stopping at a crosswalk doesn’t apply to them. I was enjoying the beautiful weather walking my dog and giving my 4 month old baby some fresh air, pressed the button on the crosswalk lights waited for the traffic to stop in BOTH lanes and was just about to walk out when you decided that you didn’t need to stop behind the vehicle who stopped for me. No, you decided that you were in too much of a hurry and went around the car, flying by in the small space between that car and the sidewalk, nearly making the three of us roadkill. It’s not like you couldn’t see me with the brightly coloured sling I was caring my child in, and even if you couldn’t a car was in front of you stopped at a crosswalk wouldn’t you want to take it slow just in case there was someone? —Almost Roadkill
This article appears in Aug 18-24, 2011.
did you get a plate number, hope so, because if not, you are fucked. too many times this shit happens, and no one gets a fucking number to give to cops.
you know if they almost nail me, i’m gonna make sure you don’t get a chance to get someone else. and if they stop, then their fucking ass is mine.
It wasn’t a black SUV was it? See ‘Compensating’
it’s a good thing you were so observant!
you can’t really be safe anywhere… there’s some crazy fuckers out there…
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Ugh. This pisses me off to no end.
It’s not that they can’t drive, they have so much entitlement that they think the rules don’t apply to them.
But they’d be the first ones to bitch if someone they love/or themselves got mowed down in a crosswalk.
Fucking asshole!
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Thankfully the dog is okay. OP, imagine if you had one of those SUV strollers….it would be toast!
all pedestrians should carry a pencil and notepad, or a camera. the problem with a cellphone camera is they can be too slow to activate
OP, I suggest that you keep your child in a sling, and get a stroller from a yard sale.
with the stroller full of red wine( for splatter effect) and a baby doll, the next time some asshole goes motoring at you, just push the stroller out in front on him………then check the driver’s seat for a brown spot.
Carry a brick in the stroller, OB. I used to carry a large rock in my bag when I was a student in case some asshole driver thought he didn’t have to stop when I was using a cross-walk. Pretty expensive lesson in knowing the laws of the road for them when you put their back window out.
well with the red wine trick you could probably make them feel like shit for a long time, because while you sit there screaming bloody murder, you know they won’t get close enough to the stroller and baby doll to figure out what the fuck happened.
Once the police arrive, just maintain the hysterics long enough that the police dont think you are a prankster. It is somewhat normal for a mother to be hysterical if their baby’s stroller – empty – gets creamed by a car.
Saw someone on Barrington drive around stopped cars at a crosswalk with blinking lights. Almost creamed a baby carriage and mother. I guess getting to work a couple minutes early is worth murdering children in Halifax for some assholes in their Lexus SUVs. Fucking SUV owners.
a really funny thing here. after i posted, about 2 hours later.some dumb bitch, on a cel no less,fucking near creams me in same fashion. well me, i give back right quarter panel a gook fucking seagal kick, nice dent there. she stops dead in her tracks, yells at me that she is going to call cops, then speeds off, but not before i get her number off plate, and tell her she is lucky i didn’t have a fucking big rock at the time.
hope the bitch is reading this, but guess she was too busy being her, to even wonder if she might have hit me.anyway, cops have plate number, have fun in court toots.
check out fred flinstone http://www.macombdaily.com/articles/2011/0…
lol wow PG.
I guess I’m just used to not living in the city…but why do you even want to walk the streets with your child ?
THe city is full of parks, lake area’s with green belts, trails the waterfront boardwalks.
I guess I’m just dense.
I see no reason to be wandering around the heart of the city full of one way streets, traffic tie ups & jams, as well as light runners & the lost , to even consider going into that for a stroll with my baby !
Point pleasent, the board walks, up on the hill (or around it), the public gardens, So many better places to take yourself & your child than the bloody streets !
more – you have to walk TO the parks to walk IN the parks.
Again, not all of us are lucky enough to own a vehicle.