h a l f b a k e r yCeci n'est pas une idée.
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I was at a pedestrian crosswalk and despite the presence of signage that indicated that Traffic should Yield for Pedestrians, traffic did not yield.
In some places waiting for a crosswalk light to change after you press the button takes forever.
So the plan is to place a bin of corpse like inflatable
or rubber human sized dolls in a bin.
If you find yourself waiting too long for the light to change or for traffic to yield.
Make way by grabbing an available corpse, heave it into the path of traffic and then cross safely once traffic has come to a complete stop.
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Or... you could slow down, wait for the light, and look both ways
before you cross the street! What a concept! Seriously, if you did
something like this in Spokane you'd get run over or shot. [-] |
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Spokane is a rough town. Try and stay safe there man. |
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I thought this was somewhat funny. |
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Think it's funny? You've obviously never seen the results from
kids chucking dummies from overpasses as a prank. Not a damn
thing funny about it. |
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I never said I thought it was good idea. Note that I haven't
bunned or boned the idea (yet). |
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I have given this a bun merely for provoking 21Q. The idea itself has some merit; however the dummies would be quickly stolen by drunk undergraduates. Whole lecture theatres would be filled with them during the 8am lecture. |
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There should be a 21Q Provocation Category |
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Also from an overpass is different its malicious, mean spirited and stupid
from a crosswalk on the other hand is altruistic. |
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How about simply holding the doll in front of you on a short stick while crossing? If a car driver hits it while he should yield, its legally equal to causing an accident, yet nobody gets hurt. |
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Simply chucking the doll onto the street is prone to cause harmful accidents that would not have happened had a flesh-and blood human crossed the street at pedestrian velocities. |
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LQ - I like that, how the device is deployed is entirely up to the pedestrian. |
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I bun this mostly for the fun of reading [21Q]'s outrage.
//if you did something like this in Spokane you'd get run over or shot.//
Hmm, somewhere you can get mortally wounded for crossing the road. Spokane sounds like a shit-hole. |
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There's a pedestrian crossing in the very heart of this city that is often ignored by cab drivers, who brazenly drive through while people are walking across the street. |
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I saw a cab pushing through one day, then watched in amazement as a young man cocked his arm and threw a full can of Coke straight through the cab's windscreen, hitting the driver. |
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The passenger in the cab got out and walked off without paying. |
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It took a couple of months for the cabbies to return to their previously brazen ways. |
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In the Republic of Ireland, the inhabitants simply push (occupied) baby buggies into the path of oncoming traffic, and expect it to stop....... |
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In England we use old ladies and people in wheelchairs for the same purpose.
Fishbone for the idea though. This is littering and hence illegal!
I would have voted for if you replace the fake corpses with huge swinging axe blades that are activated whenever the lights change. In 'walk' mode, the axes swing parallel to the road and in 'don't walk' mode, they swing parallel to the pavement. |
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If that's what you want, why not have half-barrier pedestrian crossings ? |
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Or hire Welshmen, for the same purpose? |
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But no-one would stop for that .... |
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UB, are you sure that wasn't me you saw? Coke cans are one my
my favorite projectile weapons. |
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