Emily VelascoNov 24
Here's a grim little tidbit. I was just talking to a friend of mine who still works at the newspaper where I used to work, and she told me that pedestrians get killed by cars so often these days that they don't cover them as news anymore unless the victim was well known or the driver was arrested.
Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machinesNov 24

@MLE_online

Something like 30% of ped fatalities is folks reading their prayer tablet or zoned out on earbuds.

I yell at them once in a while like a crazy old person when they mill around on a public roadway.

They are never grateful for some reason.

Show threadEmily VelascoNov 24
@n_dimension where do you live that people reading prayer tablets are milling about in roadways?
Show threadcognitively accessible mathNov 24
@MLE_online @n_dimension in an imaginary world where drivers are never responsible.
Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machinesNov 24

@geonz @MLE_online

Ultimately, you are the only person responsible for your safety.

If you lean over the waterhole without looking around for crocs or tigers, you kinda deserve to be eaten.

Show threadEmily VelascoNov 24
@n_dimension @geonz building a city where most of the outside world is set up to be paths for crocs and tigers and then saying people should take responsibility for being attacked is a silly take
Show threadKevin Karhan 

@MLE_online @n_dimension @geonz granted, I do share that observation: #Smombies are real and I've seen people just randomly cross the road out of nowhere, being in full black matte stealth clothing during moonless winter nights, and more than once I wasn't shure if they are just stupid or if they attempted a "traffic suicide' cuz I had people try that too, crossing a road with direction lanes blocking barriers in the middle.

  • I only have excellent eyesight - espechally at night - so it only ended with me honking or flashing the highbeams as they didn't even realize I had to floor the brakes and the vehicle behind me thinks I was "brake-checking" them to provoke an accident, rather than preventing someone with no sense of self-preservation from becoming a chalkout line and getting their pronous changed to was/were.

And mind you those weren't like schoolkids racingnagainst the clock to be on time at school, but grown adults at late night when every under-16 would have police pull over and ask them what they're doing outside, giving them a lift back home and asking the parents to please not let their kids roam alone at 23:45 outside.

#sarcasm #traffic

Wulfy—Speaker to the machines (@[email protected])

@[email protected] Something like 30% of ped fatalities is folks reading their prayer tablet or zoned out on earbuds. I yell at them once in a while like a crazy old person when they mill around on a public roadway. They are never grateful for some reason.

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Show thread😀🚲Nov 24
@kkarhan @MLE_online @n_dimension @geonz #crashNotAccident
Show threadKevin Karhan Nov 24
@enobacon @MLE_online @n_dimension @geonz I mean, I drive cautious af, but you too wouldn't expect people walking around on a motorway like it's a pedestrian area...
Show thread😀🚲Nov 24
@kkarhan @MLE_online @n_dimension @geonz I hope they find the traffic Engineers who did this.
Show threadKevin Karhan Nov 24

@enobacon @MLE_online @n_dimension @geonz nah, it's nit tue traffic engineers but intentional misconduct by said people.

  • Highway police usually takes care quickly of "people walkingbarounf on the highway"…