Dont know if this is nationwide but now our barriers are open to eastern block countries the route i have to take to go for mots passes through a largely immigrant new to this country area and these people all aged 17 to about 27 and all male think it is quicker to walk under your wheels than wait for gaps in traffic or the little green man to come on.
I can imagine if these people have either no basic road sense or dont care and think they are harder than a mondeo then we are going to have problems with bodies scattered on the roads in the very near future.
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I have noticed this too bb. It seems to be the latest fashion. In London though girls do it too.
It isn't just a matter of crossing roads though. Busy bits of road seem to be the preferred place to stand and chat these days.
If moisture from running over one of these people causes corrosion to your car, you are in duty bound to hunt down their next of kin and sue their bums off.
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It's an encouraging trend, otherwise called "reclaiming the road". I hope their children play hopscotch and street cricket in pot-holed cul de sacs, and the cars have to go slowly for a change.
Actually it's not just dangerous nostalgia, but part of a respected Dutch theory about mixing road users rather than segregating, called the Woonerf principle.
Anyway, wasn't Lud recently extolling the nimble way Londoners on foot nipped through the traffic without needing boring things like pedestrian crossings?
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Yes CP, but there's a difference between nipping through and standing about in front of... :o}
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Sad but true Bell Boy, we get that round our way too but seems to be mainly 14-20 year olds. Time to get a train horn from an old Deltic fitted to your car, like those YouTube clips from the US!
With some of the ones round us theres nothing encouraging about it Cliff, IMO; some do it just to look cool, but for some its confrontational. If you drove slower, the latter types would still stand in the road to deliberately hold you up.
A while back saw a middle aged woman, she was only dawdling along but was forced to brake by a youth in the road (this was a main road not a quiet cul-de-sac), she did nothing more than shake her head in disapproval, and was rewarded with him leering through her windscreen beside himself with rage, threatening to "pink fluffy dice kill her".
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I love to have a pint in a town centre pub on a crossroads, four lanes in each direction, traffic light controlled, with pedestrian controlled lights.
It's an awful long way across, but they usually make it - hilarious!
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Well I would like to have my car fitted with the gas flame throwers that they use in South Africa as anti hi-jack, I think that would discourage it but I would worry about the char marks up my paint work!
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its all part of the general breakdown of law and order in the country
these people know they will never ever end up in court even if they cause an accident, they know even if they did they would get a meaningless sentence, and that whatever else happens if there is a problem the car driver will get hammered by the joke of a police and justice system we have
same as cyclists, when exactly was the last time a cyclist was in court for riding with no lights at night? or for riding through a red light? never in modern history compared to the thousands of times these events happen every day round here
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maybe I'm just showing my age but isn't it jaywalking (with a 'j')???
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bell boy is a creative speller and mine of ingenious neologisms... :o)
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ah, that makes sense (now that I've looked up 'neologisms')
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I know what a neologism is, but I don't get this one! Am I thick?
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Perhaps in this case bb's gnarled and oily fingers slipped on the delicate keyboard of his BlackBerry...
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no blackberry here lud though i am eating an apple for my late 3pm break
somebody might say yay as the cadavor goes under the wheels though?
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somebody might say yay as the cadavor goes under the wheels though?
Yes, as they swerve joyfully towards the next one with a cry of 'Tally-ho!'...
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Yay area - ghetto slang for Bay area, the desirable part of California.
p1:Yo,why is we so weak?
p2:Cause we dont live in the Yay Area.
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I believe yaywalking is a new addition to the 'yogging' fad, which has sprung up in the San Diego area recently. Incidentally, do you know where the name San Diego comes from? ;)
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Aha, I get it! Very inspired bellboy!
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Kids in a local village hang out at a certain street corner where they love to dawdle across the road in front of motorised road users. It started to become irritating, but they stopped after the time I dropped a gear, floored it and headed for them as fast as I could with loads of revs. Never a problem now.
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Vroom, vroom - mmm, doughnuts ...
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I once crossed the Arc de Triumph roundabout on foot (or should I say en pied?) before realising that there was a subway for the return journey. French motorists not amused IIRC.
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Years ago I was coming down a hill and saw the motorist in front of me getting mooned by a youth in the middle of the road. He had to brake hard to avoid him. When I got down to that part I slipped the clutch, gunned the motor, and swerved towards the twerp while beckoning him out. He backed off. Didn't fancy a 3lt 6 where the sun don't shine!
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