• [email protected]
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    518 months ago

    I’ve nearly been bricked by a crazy and/or violent person while driving. Twice, actually. I can tell you with certainty that this will cause people to slow and potentially invite a wellness check. Bricks have so much utility.

    • @[email protected]
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      308 months ago

      Years ago somebody threw a brick off an overpass and shattered my Dad’s windshield while he was on the highway. He drives for a living so he was able to maintain control but it could have easily killed him and others.

      • @Stovetop
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        248 months ago

        There was a horrific video from years back of dashcam footage where a family was driving down the highway and a brick flew through their windshield, killing the wife in the passenger seat instantly. I can’t imagine going through that much trauma as a family.

        • @Thteven
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          188 months ago

          That one is fucking haunting. At least nobody threw that one though, it fell off of a truck heading in the opposite direction. Makes you realize how much we have to just trust that everyone around us on the highway has their shit together.

  • Kbin_space_program
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    468 months ago

    Fyi: is a joke, they’re foam.

    Also, this crossing needs a dedicated light that ties into the nearby traffic light.

    • @[email protected]
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      58 months ago

      If this is America, the cars will just stop in the intersection or ignore the light entirely

      • Hildegarde
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        18 months ago

        I’m pretty sure this is canada, unless this has become an international trend in record time.

  • @[email protected]
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    378 months ago

    Imagine being in a city so pedestrian hostile that you need flags to be noticed by cars (Salt Lake City, I’m looking at you). And of course it’s never the driver’s fault.

    • @dragontangram88
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      78 months ago

      Yeah, if you’re in SLC, just give up on walking anywhere and take the Blue line, or the Green line. Every place you need to go to is a little too far to walk anyway.

    • @doingthestuff
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      38 months ago

      The last time I had to drop off my car at the nearest tire shop and walked the 1.5 miles on the dangerous road to get to my quiet road I had three different people stop to offer me a ride to get me out of danger. It’s just two narrow lanes and a ditch and cars going 45-55 mph. You 100% can’t ride a bike on it, I’ve seen one in 17 years.

    • @[email protected]
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      38 months ago

      Do you mean a pole with flags on it that you grab and bring to the other side when you cross? I’ve also run into those in Jackson Hole

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    8 months ago

    struggling to find that video where one dude stood in the rain with a brick so cars wouldnt wet him.

  • @[email protected]
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    88 months ago

    Some twat splashed me on a wide open road the other day after I got caught in a hailstorm on my way home, still salty about that one

    Not that it made any difference I was fully saturated anyway

    • @Retrograde
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      178 months ago

      It’s because you didn’t have a brick

  • bruhduh
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    48 months ago

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