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I run in my neighborhood in the pre-dawn hours. I wear reflectors and a light, but I still keep my head on a swivel as I do not want to get run over. During this time, it is not uncommon to see people completely blow off stop signs - not even pause. This angers me, partly because of the principle, partly because it is ME that one of these knuckleheads is going to kill one of these days.
So this morning a Mercedes drove straight through a stop sign and would have hit me if I hadn't seen it coming and stopped (I was already in the middle of the intersection, so I was standing very close to it as it crossed). I yelled "It's a ****ing stop sign, that means you're supposed to stop". I start running again, but the guy slams on his brakes, lowers his window and yells "What are you going to ****ing do about it?" I stop again, walk behind his car and loudly recite his license plate number so he knows I have it, and start running again. Behind me, I hear him gun his engine and come back my way. I hop on the sidewalk, concerned he's a lunatic who is going to run me over, and he yells "****ing tough guy, huh? I'll ****ing kill you!" and takes off.
So, two things. One, this is not the first time an interaction like this has taken place. I should probably learn to STFU and just not get hit by the *******s, right? Two, does anybody follow up with the police so that have this guy's info in case he really IS a lunatic and decides to run me over on some future morning?
When I walk (or even drive) in Philly I never trust these ****ers to actually stop at a stop sign--I would say 1/20 don't stop or partially stop. So I just wait till they actually fully stop before crossing. I've seen way too many mfers just go right through stop signs in the middle of the day. If fact, at a 4 way stop I was driving my car. I had stopped, pulled out the guy going the other way didn't even attempt to stop and missed my car probably by a foot.
A few weeks ago, I hit my breaks in the rain because some idiot was going the wrong way on a 1 way street that I was turning into. Dude behind was too close. Got some scratches but my card is old and I didn't care too much but most drivers are ****ing terrible.
One of the two times my previous car has been really hit, I pulled out from a blind intersection to make a left when my light had been green probably for 8-10 seconds. for some reason the guy going the other way, who literally worked 150 feet away and returning from a a delivery, who was an idiot didn't even slow down at a red light and plowed me. I avoid blind intersections like they're my job and I won't go into an intersection on foot or in car till I see everyone stop. The other time some old lady couldn't see my car and as I was pulling into a parking lot she barreled the side of my car making a left into the street. Funniest **** is she's on the phone with her husband and claimed she didn't know who's fault it was. The cop saw it and knew I couldn't thrust the side of my car into the front of her car very easily.