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1 posted on 03/07/2016 10:02:26 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

This combination (President & Congress) also makes me think about walking into traffic on occasion.


2 posted on 03/07/2016 10:03:31 PM PST by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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Funny, pedestrian deaths near me went up due to more illegals driving and crossing streets illegally in front of traffic.


3 posted on 03/07/2016 10:09:55 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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“...as the economy improved...”

What a load of crap.

Rather, it’s more like that as the real economic reality hit hard pressed unemployed Americans, they took jumping in front of cars because they either couldn’t afford to purchase a gun or were prevented fom doing so because of the draconian and un-Constitional firearm laws the Dems have put in place.

But not sure to worry because a speeding car is every bit as lethal as a so wrong bullet.

Besides that, if the gubmint makes a person’s life imtolerable, then it is that person’s G*d given right to end it as he/she/it sees fit.

JMHO.


4 posted on 03/07/2016 10:21:50 PM PST by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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To: Olog-hai
Distracted driving and walking?
6 posted on 03/07/2016 10:58:54 PM PST by buckalfa (I am feeling much better now.)
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If you saw the white liberal idiots talking on cell phones and texting while crossing the streets in DC, you’d know why pedestrian deaths are up.

I nearly clobbered a jogger in my neighborhood when I was turning left on a green light and he ran straight at my car eventhough I was basically through the turn. He had ear plugs in for a radio and he yelled at us.

Schmuck never even looked at our 4,000 lb car in the turning lane.

Another cause of pedestrian deaths are hoodies, esp. by blacks and Hispanics in the DC area. They cross streets with almost no sideways vision and almost never look both ways even if they are wearing a hoodie.

Stupidity does kill. A real tragedy that common sense could prevent, but commonsense has been outlawed in both the government, young libs and street kids.


7 posted on 03/07/2016 11:50:28 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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The growing use of cellphones distracting drivers and walkers may also be partially to blame

I watched a guy in Alexander North Dakota walking through a vacant lot trip in a hole and fall flat. He was doing something with a phone with both hands. When drivers are distracted, it doesn't help (almost every driver I have seen in the last three years doing some stupid maneuver has had a phone in hand), but pedestrians get so wrapped up in whatever they are doing they lose track of their surroundings, too.

8 posted on 03/08/2016 12:38:31 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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Cell phones certainly are playing a huge part in these deaths. People are focused straight down as they walk, peripheral vision hugely compromised, as are their minds. Last night a female college student focused on her hand-held phone walked across a condominium complex driveway entrance as if it did not exist. To her it was just a continuation of the sidewalk. She did not notice that my car was approaching the end of the drive-way and would have crossed her path, had I not seen her marching across, not missing a beat, oblivious to her surroundings. Had she just been walking without the phone as focus, there is no way she would not have realized she was walking across a driveway with cars coming and going. l


9 posted on 03/08/2016 12:40:09 AM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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I see, it’s the fault of the drivers that pedestrians aren’t paying attention and keep walking in front of moving cars...


10 posted on 03/08/2016 2:18:27 AM PST by Don W ( When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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“The growing use of cellphones distracting drivers and walkers may also be partially to blame...”

The other day I was driving and noticed a gal walking and looking at her cell phone. Then I noticed she was walking with a gal using one of those canes for the blind. THEN I noticed that the blind gal had a phone up to her ear!

Talk about the blind leading the blind!


12 posted on 03/08/2016 2:41:21 AM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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From what I saw this morning, I’m not surprised. Narrow two lane road heavy traffic. Jogger ignoring the sidewalk and running about 4 feet out in the traffic lane - not even on the shoulder area. Cars slamming on their brakes to avoid hitting him - waiting until the traffic cleared in the other direction to get around him because that a**hole wasn’t moving out of the road. Now no one wants to run over anyone, but if someone got out of their car and punched him out I wouldn’t be surprised.


15 posted on 03/08/2016 4:11:13 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerThen ous enemy)
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Is it just that? I’ve hearing of more and more pedestrian accidents where the drivers were of Hispanic origin... just saying...


17 posted on 03/08/2016 4:57:36 AM PST by Thorliveshere
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