innocent pedestrian gets his clock cleaned - Page 3

Urbane Guerrilla · 05-30-2006, 02:58 AM

It's no picnic in a car; I've been turning left with the light, excellent light conditions about eight in the morning, and had some yoyo going the opposite way slalom around my nose. Where was his head, I wonder? He had at least half a block to see me. There's an abbreviation for such people losing situational awareness wayyy on down the block: driving HUA.

T-boned another guy once. We were on the main thoroughfare and he shoots out in front of us from a mall entrance. Totaled his machine; we drove away with our grill stove in and a headlight cell smashed. As he shot out in front of us I had just enough time as my right foot went from accelerator to brake to think, "I don't believe anyone could be so stupid!" Stood on the brakes, hit him going twenty or so, down from thirty-five or forty, right in the soft spot ahead of the driver's side door.

dar512 · 05-30-2006, 01:41 PM

In the book "Zodiac" by Neil Stephenson, Sangamon Taylor describes the proper way to ride a bike in traffic. "Most people will tell you to assume that drivers can't see you. That's bullshit. I assume I'm wearing fluorescent clothes, and there's a million-dollar bounty going to the first driver who manages to hit me. And I ride on that assumption."

I'm sure the quote's way off. I don't have the book here. But that's the attitude.

mrnoodle · 05-30-2006, 03:24 PM

The sickening thing about that video is that the pedestrian saw what was coming -- he starts to run about 3 steps before he's hit.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-30-2006, 08:08 PM

If he'd looked before he heard the crash....like before leaving the center island,... he'd seen it coming. The car coming straight at him was hauling ass, did he think it was going to suddenly stop? No, he never looked. Probably didn't even know the light was changing.

Elspode · 05-30-2006, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by seakdivers

Whatsa lite ploe?

A ploe with half the calories and all the taste of a regular ploe. Less filling, too.

seakdivers · 05-31-2006, 01:24 AM

Dang, that makes me hungry.....

MaggieL · 06-02-2006, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by seakdivers

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MaggieL · 06-02-2006, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by zippyt

it was not un commen for a car that was a streight shift to roll down a drive way running into what ever it just felt like...
We lost a few lite ploes that way .

zippyt · 06-02-2006, 11:09 PM

and your point IS ?????

05-30-2006, 02:58 AM	#31
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	It's no picnic in a car; I've been turning left with the light, excellent light conditions about eight in the morning, and had some yoyo going the opposite way slalom around my nose. Where was his head, I wonder? He had at least half a block to see me. There's an abbreviation for such people losing situational awareness wayyy on down the block: driving HUA. T-boned another guy once. We were on the main thoroughfare and he shoots out in front of us from a mall entrance. Totaled his machine; we drove away with our grill stove in and a headlight cell smashed. As he shot out in front of us I had just enough time as my right foot went from accelerator to brake to think, "I don't believe anyone could be so stupid!" Stood on the brakes, hit him going twenty or so, down from thirty-five or forty, right in the soft spot ahead of the driver's side door. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

05-30-2006, 01:41 PM	#32
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	In the book "Zodiac" by Neil Stephenson, Sangamon Taylor describes the proper way to ride a bike in traffic. "Most people will tell you to assume that drivers can't see you. That's bullshit. I assume I'm wearing fluorescent clothes, and there's a million-dollar bounty going to the first driver who manages to hit me. And I ride on that assumption." I'm sure the quote's way off. I don't have the book here. But that's the attitude. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

05-30-2006, 03:24 PM	#33
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	The sickening thing about that video is that the pedestrian saw what was coming -- he starts to run about 3 steps before he's hit. __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

05-30-2006, 08:08 PM	#34
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	If he'd looked before he heard the crash....like before leaving the center island,... he'd seen it coming. The car coming straight at him was hauling ass, did he think it was going to suddenly stop? No, he never looked. Probably didn't even know the light was changing. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

06-02-2006, 11:09 PM	#39
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	and your point IS ????? __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

05-31-2006, 01:24 AM	#36
seakdivers Icy Queen Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Southeast Alaska Posts: 700	Dang, that makes me hungry.....

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