We had a lot — A… LOT — of kids zigzagging across our street tonight, rather than going up one side and down the other.
A coupe of times they did it in front of cars that were coming. More times than that they didn’t even bother looking either way, just walked out to the other side.
Parents, relatives, friends of anyone with kids: PLEASE explain to them basic safety like not doing this, ever.
The more it happens, the more kids will get hurt. And some will get killed.
@reay Makes me think of the classic SNL skit "Consumer Probe" where Dan Aykroyd plays a toy company executive defending his dangerous products, one of which is a Halloween costume entitled "invisible pedestrian" that's just a black cloak. It's fine, though, because it clearly has a warning label "not for blind kids".
@reay kids in our area don’t look when crossing. More often than not I see parents walking with their kids down the middle of the street, on a blind corner no less. How anyone hasn’t been hit by a car (or the many pickups) that zoom past I have no idea. Street safety doesn’t seem to be a thing here.
@andymoose Having said that, there’s a sharply increasing trend around my area of people riding bikes a) without a helmet and b) using earbuds or big headphones to listen to music.
Dumb and dumber.
Maybe we’re just at a period in time when people would prefer to remain wilfully ignorant, even — maybe even particularly — about their own safety?
@andymoose I’m seeing older people, even adults, doing that more and more. Just idly stepping into the street (often on their phones, of course) without bothering to check. I’ve startled a couple by continuing to carefully but blatantly approach them. Hoping it scares them enough to actually think about looking next time.
Something has to change to wake people up, for their own protection. Because even if a driver is in the wrong, a pedestrian will get the worst end of that accident every time.
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