No, and this isn’t snitching.
Snitches can still get stitches.
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Clarification needed: who decides what constitutes a “safety hazard”?
(Not critiquing this situation. That person can get fucked)
Putting lives in danger/at risk?
we have to have a readable plate in the pic to get points in the game
i have my city’s “report a problem” form site on my favorites bar in my browser. i use it so god damn much.
when conversation falls on the deaf ears of neighbors, it’s time to snitch your nips off.
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Walking home from school today there was some big truck blocking the sidewalk while unloading shit (it is not normal to block the sidewalk in our neighborhood). The dudes were standing around the truck and Ira yells OH NO! They’re in the way! We explain that they are just unloading as we walk around and he says NO they need to get out of the way… they are poppy butts. All in earshot of the dudes who may or may not have been moving stolen RV batteries.
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So did they move to to partially block both ways of traffic or are they currently trying to merge in?
They’re trying to get back into traffic after I started taking pictures of their plate.
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was this 2 hours again after the original post, or just a follow up of moments later, posted 2 hours after your OP?
If the former, hope they had a ticket or two on their window.
No, the two pictures were taken moments apart.
darn. welp, at least the fear of a ticket or being snitched on motivated them to correct their behavior i suppose.
- Do nothing
- Report
- Vigilante
ATMO being 40 means choosing #2, not #3.
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Yeah, my u lock justice phase is long past.
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I still bang on cars every once in a while but I usually just cruise past them these days.
I am becoming a slightly more chill cyclist believe it or not but I did flip off a cager while pushing a stroller tonight
Last week I was crossing the very busy arterial street that separates my store from our admin offices. In the crosswalk, with the walk signal.
Some jagoff was turning left across the walk and I guess didn’t like waiting for me and did this “jump forward” bullshit to scare me so I really lit into him and we got in a screaming match in the middle of the street. Biggest road argument I’ve been in for a while.
The security guard for the nearby liquor store then told me “this street’s dangerous, maybe pay attention next time” and I contained the urge to tell him to fuck off (only becuse I buy my beer there every Friday)
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this reminds me of how it was almost one year to the day that i spartan kicked a car that tried to right-hook me (and my then pregnant wide) while we were walking across the crosswalk in our neighborhood.
attempted car violence makes me see red still, i’ll be the first to admit. i try to usually tamp it down lately, but occasionally ya know.
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I was on my morning ride a few weeks back going the speed limit in the middle of the right lane of a two lane street. Some motorist honked and then rolled up next to me at a light to explain to me how dangerous that particular street was and how I needed to get out of the way.
I gave a long pause, smiled and said, “have a nice day” and rode away. This represents real growth.
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Fucking pickup truck drivers are the worst. Was just heading back from the dentist on the freeway which was starting to heat up given the time of day as it’s a primary commute route from SF to the east bay suburbs. Traffic is humming along at 10 over. I’m in the #1 lane behind a person that’s behind a dude in a pickup going 5 under. I begin to think to myself, “fucking pickup truck drivers are the worst camping in the #1 lane not giving any fucks and likely this dude would try to race me if I went around him”.
Then I started looking at his load. Dude has a ladder rack and pickup bed loaded with shit that appear not to be tied down all that well. My spidey sense starts going off and I begin to consider what I’m going to do when some shit falls over this truck.
Now since I’m already paying close attention, I’m nonplussed when pickup truck driver nearly slams into someone coming to a stop in front of him. Person behind the pickup truck dodges left, I was already braking and fine, but someone was about to smash into me from behind so I took all the space I had available to me to allow that person to slow down.
Then it gets really fucking good. SUV between me and the pickup truck goes around. Pickup truck fires up the hazards and pulls to the left of the #1 lane, but is still half way in the fast lane of travel. Of note is that we’re in a curve on the freeway and traffic behind us is closing at 80mph. It’s at that point, I figure out what’s happening.
The fuckwit in the pickup truck is stopping in the middle of the goddamned busy ass freeway because HE’S ALREADY LOST HIS FUCKING LOAD and was coming back around to get it and nearly smashed into the person in front of him when they braked to avoid it. So the dumb bastard parks his fucking pickup on the fucking freeway and then wanders out in to the freeway to grab his shit. 'Course by this point, I’d driven over whatever shit was in the road and left whatever fucking pileup was about to happen happily behind me.
Holy shit. Idiot car brain fucktwit pickup drivers. I can’t even fucking fathom.
That was 30 minutes ago, just for giggles, I looked:
