I can't find it now, but I remember an old video of a person opening the door and scooching through the car in the back seat when it was blocking the crosswalk.
Of course, with automatic door locks, it's less likely to work these days.
When I was a kid I was walking home from school and I saw a car stopped in the crosswalk and a highschool kid did a roll over the hood. The guy driving the car got out and complained to the crossing guard who just shrugged her shoulders and said, "you're in the crosswalk"
Once I was at a construction site in front of a school when someone came to a stop in the crosswalk and started using their phone. Some of the crew watched as the crossing guard walked up to the car and got ignored.
As if a single organism, the crew got moving. Within about a minute, a truck had backed up tight on the rear end of the car, an excavator just off the front side, and a new crosswalk was coned off just in front of the excavator. Wouldn't you know, just as the equipment was repositioned, something had come loose or a fuse popped and nothing got fixed until the crossing guard was finished.
I asked the foreman why the site was so far behind schedule when I'd just watched a gold medal performance for synchronized work and he said nothing moves a crew faster than anything not job related, haha.
The driver is there, so I would start touching the car in more and more aggressive ways until they moved. If they weren't there, write asshole on their driver's window.
Yeah, my city has an email address where you send pictures of that, and they get towed. If they drive off before the truck arrives, they will get fined regardless.
The pedestrian crossing signal is red, though? That strongly implies he has a green light, in which case he's not doing anything wrong here - this happens absolutely constantly while waiting for a lane to clear, and is almost invariably just a momentary stop due to trafdic patterns. If he's still there when the signal changes then yeah he's a king prick, but this image doesn't show anything wrong (besides the inherent wrongness of car-centered infrastructure)
But are you comfortable bullying some guy based on your guess about what's happening here? Again we don't actually know that he can't fully clear it - those rules apply to being able to clear an intersection before a cycle change (or when it would obstruct an emergency vehicle), which from what we can see isn't happening.
Alternative completely reasonable explanations:
he's a short man in a car with a high hood, he's reversed into the crosswalk from the spot immediately in front of him because he's pulling out (this would explain the slight cant to his wheels) and he overshot due to the restricted sightlines his height gives him.
He has pulled back because there is a larger vehicle parked in front of him and he wanted the visibility
A person is pulling out of the space ahead of him and he pulled into the crosswalk during the cycle to not obstruct traffic while they move out (which would mean he is clear of the crosswalk on the cycle change again)
This is at the parking / no parking change over (it does appear to be early morning or evening by the shadows) and the person in front of him pulled into a spot without him realizing they were going to do that (christ this one happens to me all the damn time, and not just at changeover)
He's pulled over to pick up a pedestrian who is out of frame
He is pulled over because an emergency vehicle is coming the other direction
There are a lot of reasonable explanations for this that don't warrant hating him personally. I loathe cars and car-centric infrastructure, but I also get incredibly uncomfortable with how eager people here are to wish harm on strangers because of a single contextless image - and again in this case, one that doesn't even show them doing anything wrong.
@Warl0k3@axexrx Motorists are responsible for selecting a vehicle they can operate safely. If a vehicle isn't designed to be operated safely by a person of your height, you shouldn't drive it. There are vehicles available that work for shorter people, though the market keeps producing less of them since everyone believes it's morally acceptable to choose a vehicle for status or style rather than safety.
As a Canadian, I walk over the car instead of around it.
I can't find it now, but I remember an old video of a person opening the door and scooching through the car in the back seat when it was blocking the crosswalk.
Of course, with automatic door locks, it's less likely to work these days.
Sounds like that old Mentos ad.
deflating tyres would make walkover easier
And smashing the windows will give you a good place to step.
You can also go through it.
When I was a kid I was walking home from school and I saw a car stopped in the crosswalk and a highschool kid did a roll over the hood. The guy driving the car got out and complained to the crossing guard who just shrugged her shoulders and said, "you're in the crosswalk"
.........did you somehow see ME when you were a kid??? I usually just started walking on the hood.
#NCGAB
When good ornaments were a thing, I'd rotate it and finger it when I walked by lol.
Once I was at a construction site in front of a school when someone came to a stop in the crosswalk and started using their phone. Some of the crew watched as the crossing guard walked up to the car and got ignored.
As if a single organism, the crew got moving. Within about a minute, a truck had backed up tight on the rear end of the car, an excavator just off the front side, and a new crosswalk was coned off just in front of the excavator. Wouldn't you know, just as the equipment was repositioned, something had come loose or a fuse popped and nothing got fixed until the crossing guard was finished.
I asked the foreman why the site was so far behind schedule when I'd just watched a gold medal performance for synchronized work and he said nothing moves a crew faster than anything not job related, haha.
#ACAB
Happy Acab day!
That's just a normal day in NYC. There's an 80% chance it's a dude in Oakley's who'll go aggro if you confront him. 25% chance he has a firearm.
The metal bits of my bag always tend to get caught on their paintjob though, accidentally
I just wish itβs like NYC where I can I submit violations and help fund the public schools in my city.
I handle this in one of two ways depending on what I have on hand.
Back when I had a car and used to drive I kept gel deodorant in my car specifically for the door handles of people who park like assholes.
Deodorant? How does that work?
I use gel deodorant and just put it on the door handles, but any will do. Just have to put a little more elbow grease into it if you use a stick.
Most people realize when they go for their door handle and it's covered in gel deodorant that maybe someone dislikes how they parked.
I used to carry ketchup or mayo packets for just such an occasion. Enjoy your goopy hands.
Iβll etch something into their door.
The driver is there, so I would start touching the car in more and more aggressive ways until they moved. If they weren't there, write asshole on their driver's window.
As a european, no. I'll call the police for towing.
Yeah, my city has an email address where you send pictures of that, and they get towed. If they drive off before the truck arrives, they will get fined regardless.
There is a police car right there...
The pedestrian crossing signal is red, though? That strongly implies he has a green light, in which case he's not doing anything wrong here - this happens absolutely constantly while waiting for a lane to clear, and is almost invariably just a momentary stop due to trafdic patterns. If he's still there when the signal changes then yeah he's a king prick, but this image doesn't show anything wrong (besides the inherent wrongness of car-centered infrastructure)
They appear to be in the parking lane, but in the blocked off area for the crosswalk, waiting.
Still though, my understanding is that in NYC, you may not enter an intersection you are u able to fully clear, including the crosswalk.
My dude, calling traffic laws a suggestion in NYC is giving them too much credit. There's literally zero enforcement.
There is literally a cop looking at this car in the picture.
Trying to ascertain the driver's race.
But are you comfortable bullying some guy based on your guess about what's happening here? Again we don't actually know that he can't fully clear it - those rules apply to being able to clear an intersection before a cycle change (or when it would obstruct an emergency vehicle), which from what we can see isn't happening.
Alternative completely reasonable explanations:
he's a short man in a car with a high hood, he's reversed into the crosswalk from the spot immediately in front of him because he's pulling out (this would explain the slight cant to his wheels) and he overshot due to the restricted sightlines his height gives him.
He has pulled back because there is a larger vehicle parked in front of him and he wanted the visibility
A person is pulling out of the space ahead of him and he pulled into the crosswalk during the cycle to not obstruct traffic while they move out (which would mean he is clear of the crosswalk on the cycle change again)
This is at the parking / no parking change over (it does appear to be early morning or evening by the shadows) and the person in front of him pulled into a spot without him realizing they were going to do that (christ this one happens to me all the damn time, and not just at changeover)
He's pulled over to pick up a pedestrian who is out of frame
He is pulled over because an emergency vehicle is coming the other direction
There are a lot of reasonable explanations for this that don't warrant hating him personally. I loathe cars and car-centric infrastructure, but I also get incredibly uncomfortable with how eager people here are to wish harm on strangers because of a single contextless image - and again in this case, one that doesn't even show them doing anything wrong.
@Warl0k3 @axexrx Motorists are responsible for selecting a vehicle they can operate safely. If a vehicle isn't designed to be operated safely by a person of your height, you shouldn't drive it. There are vehicles available that work for shorter people, though the market keeps producing less of them since everyone believes it's morally acceptable to choose a vehicle for status or style rather than safety.
But in this hypothetical he is operating it safely.
I mean, someone made sure to crop the photo in a specific way so yeah, this looks like a rage bait post and nothing else.
33/33/33 in dyckman tbh. Theyβll either move Curse you out and stay Or get out with a machete
@anyala "dick move."
What do you have keys for?
Bang on the car as hard as you can screaming move