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  • Let's run over the handicapped person

    On my way home from work is a factory that employs mentally challenged folks. Among the products they make at this factory is Christmas wreaths. And as far as I know, all the profits go back into the factory.

    Anyhow, it's 3:30 and all the workers at this factory are done for the day and huddled on the sidewalk, waiting for the crossing guard to help them across the street. Or waiting in the bus shelter for the bus. The crossing guard lets one of the workers across the street.

    After passing the factory, I need to make a right turn. I see the person who was just let across the street seems to want to cross the street I'm going to be turning onto. So I stop to let him go.

    And then I get about the biggest, longest horn blast I've ever gotten in my life from the car behind me as the guy is slowly shuffling across the street. Had I had an old beater car that I didn't care what happened to it, I might have thrown it into reverse and driven right through this fuckwad's windshield. Seriously, you don't encourage me to splatter somebody so you can reach your destination 4 seconds faster than you otherwise would've.
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  • #2
    Ah yes, the old can't see over the car and what's going on syndrome...

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    • #3
      What I hate is when it's a truck jacked up to the legal limit so he can see every inch of roadway in front of me, but acts like they can't see what I'm stopped for.

      I had it drilled into me when learning to drive: "Drive AHEAD of you - and not just the car right in front of you." Although Yoda put it better: "Notice EVERYTHING. Save you, it can!"
      I will not be pushed, stamped, filed, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own. --#6

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      • #4
        Could have been worse. I recall an incident where a guy stopped at a crosswalk to let two kids cross, and the guy behind him, having no patience, pulled around him and floored it. Both kids got killed.

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        • #5
          Quoth Difdi View Post
          Could have been worse. I recall an incident where a guy stopped at a crosswalk to let two kids cross, and the guy behind him, having no patience, pulled around him and floored it. Both kids got killed.
          Wasn't something like this the cause behind behind Jenny Gildwarg's accident?
          PWNADE(TM) - Serve up a glass today! | PWNZER - An act of pwnage so awesome, it's like the victim got hit by a tank.

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          • #6
            Quoth Difdi View Post
            Could have been worse. I recall an incident where a guy stopped at a crosswalk to let two kids cross, and the guy behind him, having no patience, pulled around him and floored it. Both kids got killed.
            Guy probably got off with "accidental manslaughter" -- while it should be premeditated murder - the traffic laws are there for a reason, blatantly violating them means that you don't care about the consequences of your actions. And that is the definition of cold-blooded murder -- taking a life without caring that you are doing so.
            I will not be pushed, stamped, filed, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own. --#6

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            • #7
              Quoth Captain Trips View Post
              Guy probably got off with "accidental manslaughter"
              Hopefully it was at least vehicular homicide, which still doesn't generally carry as stiff a penalty IIRC.
              Character flaws aren't a philosophy -Scott Adams

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              • #8
                Ok guys - a couple of comments are bordering on Fratching.

                Please focus on the OP's original story and not the laws surrounding what 'would have' happened.

                Thanks!
                "So, if you wanna put places like that outta business, just stop being so rock-chewingly stupid." ~ Raudf, 9/19/13

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