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So you're outside a busy supermarket that you visit often and about the cross the road at a zebra crossing, but a car drives straight over it. You look in the window and see a complete mong who wasn't paying attention and had no idea you were there.
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over a year ago
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How to react? He/she won't care, they're 200yards up the road by the time you've reacted.
What would you do? There's nothing you can do apart from say to oneself 'what a knobjockey' |
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"I'd wave my fist furiously and mutter obscenities under my breath. 
What else can you do? "
Pop home, pick of a chainsaw and wait patiently for them to return to their car after doing their shopping? |
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run after them and throw a dolly through their window like a wild fucking conor mcgreggor.
nah I would just walk across after they had gone and do/say nothing. If they hit me I would go after them. |
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over a year ago
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Had something similar happen to me recently. Not only failed to notice poor little old me about to cross the road but failed to notice the cop car behind. Oh how I laughed when they were pulled over. |
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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago
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After the initial shock, look on the bright side - he/she missed you.
Mind you, I uttered some obscenities this morning.
Walking up to a crossroads, where quite a lot of parents and children cross to school, I was within 6 inches of being clattered by an adult whizzing round the corner on the pavement on a scooter.
Kids on wheels on the pavement is fine. Adults? I gave him some abuse. |
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"After the initial shock, look on the bright side - he/she missed you.
Mind you, I uttered some obscenities this morning.
Walking up to a crossroads, where quite a lot of parents and children cross to school, I was within 6 inches of being clattered by an adult whizzing round the corner on the pavement on a scooter.
Kids on wheels on the pavement is fine. Adults? I gave him some abuse."
My hand may have hit their window...
The scooter thing is terrible, when they or cyclists get too close i want to kick their wheel out |
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"After the initial shock, look on the bright side - he/she missed you.
Mind you, I uttered some obscenities this morning.
Walking up to a crossroads, where quite a lot of parents and children cross to school, I was within 6 inches of being clattered by an adult whizzing round the corner on the pavement on a scooter.
Kids on wheels on the pavement is fine. Adults? I gave him some abuse.
My hand may have hit their window...
The scooter thing is terrible, when they or cyclists get too close i want to kick their wheel out"
Its as bad when cars get to close to us cyclists , they should stay out of the bike lane instead of knocking us of |
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"After the initial shock, look on the bright side - he/she missed you.
Mind you, I uttered some obscenities this morning.
Walking up to a crossroads, where quite a lot of parents and children cross to school, I was within 6 inches of being clattered by an adult whizzing round the corner on the pavement on a scooter.
Kids on wheels on the pavement is fine. Adults? I gave him some abuse.
My hand may have hit their window...
The scooter thing is terrible, when they or cyclists get too close i want to kick their wheel out Its as bad when cars get to close to us cyclists , they should stay out of the bike lane instead of knocking us of "
Definitely, there should be a lot more measures to encourage cycling and make it safer |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"So you're outside a busy supermarket that you visit often and about the cross the road at a zebra crossing, but a car drives straight over it. You look in the window and see a complete mong who wasn't paying attention and had no idea you were there.
How do you react / what do you do? "
No point in any reaction!! |
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"I give them a death stare and just wait till it's clear. It happens too often to get wound up anymore.  Shite drivers round here."
It does concern me though as I'm a fully grown adult, albeit not the tallest, and it's a place where parents bring kids. So if they can't notice me then they won't see a kid either... |
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It happens all the time at the supermarket i go to. I try not to let it rile me. I always wait to make sure they stop, just in case, as it happens so often. |
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"It happens all the time at the supermarket i go to. I try not to let it rile me. I always wait to make sure they stop, just in case, as it happens so often. "
I've noticed it's rarely people being belligerent, but just stupid people with that far away look in their eyes |
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"It happens all the time at the supermarket i go to. I try not to let it rile me. I always wait to make sure they stop, just in case, as it happens so often.
I've noticed it's rarely people being belligerent, but just stupid people with that far away look in their eyes"
Yes and there are two bloody belisha beacons on ours |
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"It happens all the time at the supermarket i go to. I try not to let it rile me. I always wait to make sure they stop, just in case, as it happens so often.
I've noticed it's rarely people being belligerent, but just stupid people with that far away look in their eyes"
That's my take on it too |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I give them a death stare and just wait till it's clear. It happens too often to get wound up anymore. Shite drivers round here.
It does concern me though as I'm a fully grown adult, albeit not the tallest, and it's a place where parents bring kids. So if they can't notice me then they won't see a kid either... "
Lights were on red so a bus had stopped. Kid crossing. Lorry thought the bus was stopped to pick up passengers and overtook him. Killed the kid.  |
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"I give them a death stare and just wait till it's clear. It happens too often to get wound up anymore. Shite drivers round here.
It does concern me though as I'm a fully grown adult, albeit not the tallest, and it's a place where parents bring kids. So if they can't notice me then they won't see a kid either...
Lights were on red so a bus had stopped. Kid crossing. Lorry thought the bus was stopped to pick up passengers and overtook him. Killed the kid. "
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By (user no longer on site)
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It doesn't matter if I'm at a zebra crossing or a red light, i dont walk over unless the car is coming to a stop, or has stopped completely.
A lot of drivers dont pay attention so I'm not surprised when they drive straight past without even noticing me |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"So you're outside a busy supermarket that you visit often and about the cross the road at a zebra crossing, but a car drives straight over it. You look in the window and see a complete mong who wasn't paying attention and had no idea you were there.
How do you react / what do you do? "
If he/she is coming in to park, get their reg. And ask security to have a word.
Not sure if the cops would b interested but you could ask the security to pass onto police if recorded and can make out reg number, Esp a near miss like that |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"There a crossing near work.
It's so bad that we get our phone out and photograph their number plates and dob em in.
We get loads just waving at us"
Yes this is what I would do |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Start a thread about it 
Shout stamp your foot get angry and increase your blood pressure?
Accept that others are fallible too....even drivers...shrug your shoulders and get on with life?
The choices are your OP. Which one causes the least stress or bad feeling in your life? |
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"Start a thread about it
Shout stamp your foot get angry and increase your blood pressure?
Accept that others are fallible too....even drivers...shrug your shoulders and get on with life?
The choices are your OP. Which one causes the least stress or bad feeling in your life?"
To be honest, punching their car window made me feel pretty good |
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I was using a zebra crossing with our daughter when she was about 8. She was walking ahead of me but we were both on the crossing. Something made me reach out and pull her back. I'm glad I did because a car drove at speed over the crossing where she would have been standing.
in that case I would not have been responsible for my actions had she hit our daughter.
If they drive over while I'm standing waiting to cross I just swear ineffectively. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I’d take the sensible approach. I’d take their number plate find out where they live and keep ordering takeaways to their house 
My man "
How would you find out where they live? |
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"I’d take the sensible approach. I’d take their number plate find out where they live and keep ordering takeaways to their house
My man
How would you find out where they live?"
Police person abusing his power probably. Or has a mate who's a police person. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Nothing.
Read the Highway Code. You should stop at a zebra crossing but you don't have to by law.
As a pedestrian it is your duty to stand by the side of the road and wait for the traffic to stop! |
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By *eesideMan
over a year ago
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"So you're outside a busy supermarket that you visit often and about the cross the road at a zebra crossing, but a car drives straight over it. You look in the window and see a complete mong who wasn't paying attention and had no idea you were there.
How do you react / what do you do? "
Keep out the way and wate for karrmar to step in |
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"So you're outside a busy supermarket that you visit often and about the cross the road at a zebra crossing, but a car drives straight over it. You look in the window and see a complete mong who wasn't paying attention and had no idea you were there.
How do you react / what do you do? "
You could always phone your partner and say ffs you twat look where you're going next time !!  |
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"So you're outside a busy supermarket that you visit often and about the cross the road at a zebra crossing, but a car drives straight over it. You look in the window and see a complete mong who wasn't paying attention and had no idea you were there.
How do you react / what do you do? "
I go - Phew thank God I have the sense to NOT cross until the car has stopped. |
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"So you're outside a busy supermarket that you visit often and about the cross the road at a zebra crossing, but a car drives straight over it. You look in the window and see a complete mong who wasn't paying attention and had no idea you were there.
How do you react / what do you do? "
What a car not stopping at a zebra crossing, well I never.
Get the reg and report it to the police, get a picture of the vehicle if you can. |
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By *ugby 123Couple
over a year ago
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"It happens all the time at the supermarket i go to. I try not to let it rile me. I always wait to make sure they stop, just in case, as it happens so often.
I've noticed it's rarely people being belligerent, but just stupid people with that far away look in their eyes"
Maybe it was a big bill at the checkout that gave them the far away look |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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you may have the right of way, but it's a no contest against a 2 tonne piece of metal!
You only have the right of way if you are already on the crossing "
Even when on the crossing you should keep your wits about you - look at any approaching cars and decide if they are slowing down or not!
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By (user no longer on site)
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Roll my eyes and carry on with my day.
You need to be aware and be responsible for yourself when using zebra crossings as we all know cars dont always stop. |
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"So you're outside a busy supermarket that you visit often and about the cross the road at a zebra crossing, but a car drives straight over it. You look in the window and see a complete mong who wasn't paying attention and had no idea you were there.
How do you react / what do you do? "
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Unfortunately the vast vast majority of accidents occur from drivers just driving in a daze, we call them accidents and give them a slap on the wrist to carry on driving in the life long oblivion they've become institutionalised in |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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You could buy a car identical to theirs, copy their number plate and speed back n forth through a speed camera 4 times, so they get enough points to be banned for a year |
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By (user no longer on site)
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you may have the right of way, but it's a no contest against a 2 tonne piece of metal!
You only have the right of way if you are already on the crossing "
I was scrolling to see if anyone had said this. I’d always understood it to be that the vehicle must stop if you’re already on it, not if you’re about to or waiting to. Nods. |
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you may have the right of way, but it's a no contest against a 2 tonne piece of metal!
You only have the right of way if you are already on the crossing
I was scrolling to see if anyone had said this. I’d always understood it to be that the vehicle must stop if you’re already on it, not if you’re about to or waiting to. Nods."
Of course if they aren't aware you exist then they have no idea whether you were already crossing or not |
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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago
Up on them there hills |
Technically if you haven’t a foot on the crossing you don’t have to stop, we live in a town famous for a sit com, we get a lot of visitors, which a lot stand and admire things while stood on the edge of a zebra crossings.
However if they ran over you and you wasn’t on the crossing, that is another story. |
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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago
Up on them there hills |
"Technically if you haven’t a foot on the crossing you don’t have to stop, we live in a town famous for a sit com, we get a lot of visitors, which a lot stand and admire things while stood on the edge of a zebra crossings.
However if they ran over you and you wasn’t on the crossing, that is another story."
Apologies, the car doesn’t have to stop. |
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you may have the right of way, but it's a no contest against a 2 tonne piece of metal!
You only have the right of way if you are already on the crossing
Even when on the crossing you should keep your wits about you - look at any approaching cars and decide if they are slowing down or not!
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Yep. That's how I prevented a car knocking our daughter over. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I was run over when i was 18.
Completely my fault except if the fella hadn’t have been charting to his wife he would have noticed me and breaked in time.
The worst thing (as luckily it wasn’t a life threanting injury) was the bloody bottleneckers having a good gawp!!
I had a right ticking off by a policeman at the Hospital too. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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you may have the right of way, but it's a no contest against a 2 tonne piece of metal!
You only have the right of way if you are already on the crossing
I was scrolling to see if anyone had said this. I’d always understood it to be that the vehicle must stop if you’re already on it, not if you’re about to or waiting to. Nods.
Of course if they aren't aware you exist then they have no idea whether you were already crossing or not "
That’s absolutely true. *splat* |
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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago
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Had this very argument with a pedestrian not last month, he was walking towards the zebra to my left going in the same direction, made no indication (glance etc) he was going to cross & just stepped straight onto the crossing. I stopped but gave him the shaky fist.He came over.
"You have to stop its the law"
"It isn't, but let's just say it is, what happens if I don't?"
"You'd get done obviously"
"That's ok, I'll tell my kids no toys for a while cos of the fine I'll get, but where would I send the flowers? There's only going to be one loser & its never going to be a car driver fella".
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I stand at the crossing and wait until I make eye contact with the driver of the stopping vehicle. I'm too little to bounce off a car, I'd break rather too easily to do anything else. |
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"Had this very argument with a pedestrian not last month, he was walking towards the zebra to my left going in the same direction, made no indication (glance etc) he was going to cross & just stepped straight onto the crossing. I stopped but gave him the shaky fist.He came over.
"You have to stop its the law"
"It isn't, but let's just say it is, what happens if I don't?"
"You'd get done obviously"
"That's ok, I'll tell my kids no toys for a while cos of the fine I'll get, but where would I send the flowers? There's only going to be one loser & its never going to be a car driver fella".
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Although the difference here is that you actually saw him in the first place. In a supermarket carpark, the cars are going somewhere between 5-15 mph so i fancy my chances to get out the way, I'm more concerned about the frequency i see this happen and what'll happen when it's a child crossing rather than myself. |
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"So you're outside a busy supermarket that you visit often and about the cross the road at a zebra crossing, but a car drives straight over it. You look in the window and see a complete mong who wasn't paying attention and had no idea you were there.
How do you react / what do you do? "
Same as I'd react anytime crossing the road,zebra crossing or not.....not even think about crossing till,traffic stopped or road clear of traffic,quite simple |
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By *good-being-badMan
over a year ago
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Zebra crossings. Give traffic plenty of time to see you and to stop before you start to cross. Vehicles will need more time when the road is slippery. Wait until traffic has stopped from both directions or the road is clear before crossing. Remember that traffic does not have to stop until someone has moved onto the crossing. Keep looking both ways, and listening, in case a driver or rider has not seen you and attempts to overtake a vehicle that has stopped.
Taken from the highway code.. pedestrians rule 19..
There are lots of folk doing stupid things on the roads , drivers cyclists pedestrians
everyone should and needs to be aware of their surroundings .. better safe than sorry. |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
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I take their Reg No and report it to the Police. A lot of crossings have CCTV on them or close by so Police can review events.
Feedback on two occasions advised me drivers were traced and "advised" about their driving standards! |
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"It doesn't matter if I'm at a zebra crossing or a red light, i dont walk over unless the car is coming to a stop, or has stopped completely.
A lot of drivers dont pay attention so I'm not surprised when they drive straight past without even noticing me"
Look left look right no matter what the lights show new mini roundabout up the road from me 70% of drivers going straight on dont even glance to the right this weather with the windows open they hear the shout of wanker ! |
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"So you're outside a busy supermarket that you visit often and about the cross the road at a zebra crossing, but a car drives straight over it. You look in the window and see a complete mong who wasn't paying attention and had no idea you were there.
How do you react / what do you do? "
I'd say you probably deserve to get knocked down if you're using words like mong. |
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"I usually yell 'son of bitch' and try to shit on their hood "
Maybe i should start carrying a bag of shit when i go to the supermarket, borat style. I can just dump it in the bin if i manage to get to the front door without encountering any mongs who can't drive properly. |
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you may have the right of way, but it's a no contest against a 2 tonne piece of metal!
You only have the right of way if you are already on the crossing
Even when on the crossing you should keep your wits about you - look at any approaching cars and decide if they are slowing down or not!
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Yup, you have to make eye contact in my book, I would never take it as read if I were crossing, I often see pedestrians hurling themselves onto zebra crossings without checking if the driver has even seen them or not, and it's foolish IMO. |
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"I usually yell 'son of bitch' and try to shit on their hood
Maybe i should start carrying a bag of shit when i go to the supermarket, borat style. I can just dump it in the bin if i manage to get to the front door without encountering any mongs who can't drive properly. "
This is what I do since I am 12 in order to deal with that sort of behaviour |
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