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GoBlank t1_jdcwdtx wrote
Reply to comment by VicVinegar88 in You don't need to use your high beams when driving anywhere inside 128, and very, very few places inside 495 by [deleted]
>or don't turn their headlights on at all
See this so often it barely registers now, but Monday(?) night I saw a cop doing it and that really got my attention.
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GoBlank t1_ixhf5h9 wrote
Reminds me of the two boomers on Charles St. who asked me if I thought I was tough when I said "excuse me, you're in the bike lane", and then threatened to knock me off my bike. In the south, they'd be called good ole boys, but I have yet find a New England equivalent.
GoBlank t1_jduyr51 wrote
Reply to comment by zimby in Car slams into another Roslindale building; two pedestrians hit, one dies by me5vvKOa84_bDkYuV2E1
Motorists straight up don't know the laws of the road, and they won't care to learn them until it starts biting them in the ass. Nearly being struck as a pedestrian or a cyclist is basically a daily experience now. Crosswalks? Fuck that. No turn on red? Fuck that. Staying off the phone? Fuck that.
A favorite was when a guy nearly ran me over me with an illegal u-y and then had the gall to roll down his window and calmly tell me I shouldn't be on roads without bike lanes. Motherfucker, do even you know the law? I wanna get section 11B printed on business cards and hand them out like candy- but I know eventually I'm gonna run into a guy who's car is a stand in for his whole identity, and he'll be the dude who tries to kill me instead of merely threatening it.