FabSwingers.com forum: mobile pedestrians- a rant!

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

ok some people will hate this others [driver] may agree, again today im turning a corner and there is a guy on his mobile, doeasent bother looking just crosses road ,i saw him but if i didnt and hit him , i am in the shit, it seems to be getting worse phones and head phones , but whats worse is the look some give you as if you are in wrong ,lol, surly in such cases just hitting them a lil,bit is justified , !!

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

"ok some people will hate this others [driver] may agree, again today im turning a corner and there is a guy on his mobile, doeasent bother looking just crosses road ,i saw him but if i didnt and hit him , i am in the shit, it seems to be getting worse phones and head phones , but whats worse is the look some give you as if you are in wrong ,lol, surly in such cases just hitting them a lil,bit is justified , !!

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fully agree mate but try the numbnut students we get in manchester cycling down oxford road with headfones on with out a care in the world

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

The campaign needs to be extended to all people and not just aimed at teenagers. I get annoyed when I see cyclists on their mobiles in the midst of fast moving traffic too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I walk everywhere ...n i get sick of car driver that think i can read their minds...the amount that dont indicate which way they going then give me a dirty look for trying to cross a road

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

i spend alot of time in london driving from walthamstow to camberwell on a friday night is like the wacky races , with cyclists, some are ok have hi-vis, light, helmets , some are like cheech,n,chong on a tandem!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hitting the a little bits fine as long as you dont mind the Judge jailing you a little bit.

Seriously though, it is a ridiculous situation.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

fully agree mate but try the numbnut students we get in manchester cycling down oxford road with headfones on with out a care in the world "

what about a combination of the 2.

saw a lad on a bike, with headphones on, texting on his phone.

sometimes the gene pool needs a little chlorine

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I walk everywhere ...n i get sick of car driver that think i can read their minds...the amount that dont indicate which way they going then give me a dirty look for trying to cross a road"

i cant deny there are bad drivers too,and lots dont indicate, but to cross a road, without looking is just nuts,and being on a bike on a phone is just as dangerous as it is driving,

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

I think if a person is moving either of their own volition or by some mechanical device they should be summarily tried then hung drawn and quartered if they are using a mobile or have earphones or headphones on. Dangerous stuff, a young man of 17 was killed here last year because he just stepped under the wheels of a bus while wearing headphones, his poor family and the poor bus driver

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By *ichaelangelaCouple
over a year ago

notts

see one lad, about 20ish, every morning, riding his bike down a busy main A road,

texting with no hands on the handlebars

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The amount of times I've almost got run over at a zebra crossing is unbelievable!

Everyday I use the same crossing and most cars just pass by without a care in the world!

Surely the same rules apply to drivers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I walk everywhere ...n i get sick of car driver that think i can read their minds...the amount that dont indicate which way they going then give me a dirty look for trying to cross a road

i cant deny there are bad drivers too,and lots dont indicate, but to cross a road, without looking is just nuts,and being on a bike on a phone is just as dangerous as it is driving, "

i do look where im going esp when im pushing a pram ....

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I think if a person is moving either of their own volition or by some mechanical device they should be summarily tried then hung drawn and quartered if they are using a mobile or have earphones or headphones on. Dangerous stuff, a young man of 17 was killed here last year because he just stepped under the wheels of a bus while wearing headphones, his poor family and the poor bus driver

that is sad , some one dead , and two parties both suffering family for there loss and the driver involved, , the thing about the earphones , which some people on public transport will understand is why do they have to be so loud,?? we all love music ,but if i can here 4,5,6 seats away? what can you hear wearing them, ive tried and failed misrebly to stop my son from wearing them, maybe when, if he learns to drive , then he might understand

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"The amount of times I've almost got run over at a zebra crossing is unbelievable!

Everyday I use the same crossing and most cars just pass by without a care in the world!

Surely the same rules apply to drivers"

as i said bad drivers too, but if an accident happens , no matter who is at fault, who does the finger point to?? the driver? or the person on the ground?

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"The amount of times I've almost got run over at a zebra crossing is unbelievable!

Everyday I use the same crossing and most cars just pass by without a care in the world!

Surely the same rules apply to drivers

as i said bad drivers too, but if an accident happens , no matter who is at fault, who does the finger point to?? the driver? or the person on the ground? "

The person at fault. See my previous post, no one blamed the poor bus driver.

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By *iss_tressWoman
over a year ago

London

Ooooh don't get me started on this! It's the idiots walking on packed station concourses, head down, texting away, stepping of trains at peak times updating their Facebook page: I ask you, wtf?!!

I've had several run ins at the station this week and not one of the idiots was under 30!

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By *ssexguy69Man
over a year ago

thurrock Essex

a driver will get nick if he caught on his phone while driving , but these divs on ther bikes texting or chatting on ther phones , nothing done about it , i see it all the time as im a cabbie , the law should stand the same for them as it does for a car or lorry drivers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"see one lad, about 20ish, every morning, riding his bike down a busy main A road,

texting with no hands on the handlebars

He's sounds like a talented idiot!

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

I never look when im crossing at a zebra crossing and the amount of drivers that have to slam their breaks on, its hardly im unnoticable

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By *ouplefunukCouple
over a year ago

North Bristol

"I walk everywhere ...n i get sick of car driver that think i can read their minds...the amount that dont indicate which way they going then give me a dirty look for trying to cross a road"

I thought they'd stopped making indicators on cars, they're used so infrequently these days!

I was nearly hit crossing a one way street once. The driver was swearing at me for not looking left before I crossed. Why the f*** would I have looked both ways on a one way street?! He was the one going the wrong way for a shortcut.

*Her*

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