• rowdy@piefed.social
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      3 days ago

      Holy shit, are you comparing potential property damage to literal murder? Your brain rot is showing.

      Edit: To add to this, when I’m impeded by a “jaywalker” I might think “bruh” or “where’s the hustle?”. Not once in my entire life have I thought “I should just run you down.” You may be an actual psychopath.

      • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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        12 hours ago

        I dated a girl who was actually like that. It was insane to listen to and realising it’s not a joke. She lived near a bridge with foot and car traffic. They painted the bridge with waves and made it so pedestrians could just cross the street and cars have to be careful. And it was a 20km/h zone anyway, so more like: this is a foot bridge, but cars can go over too.

        I wasn’t from there, i was driving over the bridge and people were criss crossing and i just snuck by. She said something like: you nnow you can just drive and they have to move. I just kinda nodded while still creeping over the bridge. When we came home, same thing. She said: sometimes i just speed up and hit the breaks, really scares them and they move.

    • Godnroc@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Crossing the street is a momentary delay, a few seconds while driver sits in a climate-controlled chair with optional music, but parking across a sidewalk hinders people for minutes, hours, or even days until it is removed. The road isn’t wide enough to allow people to safely enter the street to go around the obstruction, and that says nothing about those who rely on sidewalls for free movement such as the elderly, injured, and disabled.

      In short, blocking other people for longer than is reasonable makes you a dick.

    • LegoBrickOnFire@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Drivers would not be inconvenienced by people crossing the street if they were not so big. People on foot (or even bikes) pass each other seemlessly unless it’s really dense. The fault of drivers having to wait at an intersection with people on foot is their own.

      Here again, drivers block to only legal way for people on foot. I think it’s fair to just go over.