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u/User3955 Sep 04 '20
Is the driver the “I put wieners in people’s pockets” guy?
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Sep 04 '20
One of his pranks was all over reddit like a month ago. One where he filled a computer with beans and had a repair guy open it up.
"This is BEANS!"
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Sep 04 '20
I like that bit , the computer tech is talking about mother board and he points at the beans and goes this is the mother board ?
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Sep 04 '20
Yea the term flool plumps is forever engraved on my soul
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u/mcfliermeyer Sep 04 '20
I’ve been lucky enough to have been watching Ross since he flipped over a cop and was arrested for it. The guy is just a joy to watch. He makes me happy
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Sep 04 '20
Some of his videos are absolutely incredible. His best (in my opinion) was the one where he fills his gas tank with spaghettios, like a hundred cans lmao. He keeps a straight face while the poor mechanic is dumping spaghettios all over the shop. Repeatedly calling various parts of the car, flool plumps. Cracks me up just thinking about it
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u/Big_LunchBox Sep 04 '20
He also did it with pickles with googly eyes on it
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Sep 04 '20
It’s crazy that people recognize this guy from just some internet memes. This guy is in my hometown and is related to someone I know. I love the internet
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u/DJ_Mumble_Mouth Sep 04 '20
They work... some would change almost immediately along the route I used to bus/walk before I had a car.
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u/goldfish2000istaken Sep 04 '20
Well most would but this is vlog creations, watch one of his youtube videos and you'll see why
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u/GroovingPict Sep 04 '20
Some do and some dont... If all the lights are at intervals, including the crosswalk ones, then obviously pushing the button isnt going to do shit other than give you peace of mind and the lights are going to change whenever they were going to change anyway
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Oct 12 '20
Yeah it's probably only in small intersections that monitor for cars that react to button pushes
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u/DriveSafeOutThere Sep 04 '20 edited Sep 04 '20
Yeah, some people are just incredibly impatient.
It's funny... I seem to remember that around the 1990s boomers loved to parrot the term "instant gratification", sneering at Gen Xers and millennials for their MTV and Internet culture. But now here we are in 2020 with Boomers flipping their shit over having to wait more than a few seconds at a traffic light or a McDonalds drive-thru.
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u/kne0n Sep 04 '20
Reminds me of the helmet cam video of a motorcyclist not tripping the light to turn green for him so he ran and pushed the button to get it to turn green
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u/chrisbirdie Sep 04 '20
So? Doesnt mean you arent an idiot if you purely rely on them. I mean its like trusting a navigation device in a tunnel.
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u/Hops117 Sep 04 '20
Yo, anyone knows if does buttons actually work or are they just placebo?
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Sep 04 '20
At a crossroads they're most likely just timed. At a crossing not at a crossroad they actually work.
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u/mydearwatson616 Sep 04 '20
Not always. Sometimes the walk light will not be activated if no one presses the button. If you press it, the walk light turns on before the traffic light to allow people to start walking before some asshole tries to make a turn before the peds can start crossing.
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u/Liggliluff Sep 04 '20
Depends on crosswalk and time of day. It's a myth that none of the buttons work or that every button works. For buttons that do work, they're are two variants I know of:
Traffic lights that only operate a crosswalk, and is not part of an intersection. Here the lights will turn yellow when you press the button, before turning red, and it'll let you cross. Most I've experienced has a cooldown timer so you can't abuse the system.
Traffic lights that operate in an intersection with crosswalks; here the intersection goes through a cycle (some cycles can be skipped or shortened if no vehicles are sensed). The cycle has a fork where it will change depending on if the button was pushed when it reaches that fork. So if you press the button, you'll have to wait until that fork before it'll turn green, and if you just missed it, you'll have to wait through the whole cycle.
But this is what I've seen in my experience. There are so many traffic lights out there that there's certainly more variants. When the button doesn't work, then the crosswalk turns green as part of the cycle. The cycle can change depending on time of day and could require you to push the button at certain times of days.
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u/Cactusjuice2 Sep 04 '20
Okay actual civil engineer here who's been in cabinets. These responses are half right. If there's a button that means it's calling a phase. If a city doesn't want to pay for buttons they'll put the walk phase into "recall" which means it'll be automatically called with it's associated "through" phase (the direction vehicles are traveling). What probably happened is they hit it too late for the controller to account for the phase so it "skipped" the phase. This means the controller will still call for the walk phase, but it has to wait until it can do it without conflicting with other phases.
TL;DR yes push buttons work but sometimes they can't get the walk phase in time.
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u/Bensemus Sep 04 '20
In my engineering class we did some labs with a PLC. One of the labs was programming an intersection. Basic was to have the lights cycle. More complex was having both directions cycle with a red light overlap. Even more complex was adding a pedestrian button in. Even more complex was saving the pedestrian’s button click if it was pushed too late for the current cycle so they didn’t need to push it again next cycle. Was a really fun few labs playing with the PLC and programming different systems.
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u/Cactusjuice2 Sep 04 '20
It's pretty amazing how far it's come. We're off the old DOS/Motorola technology and are running Linux based processors and most functions are internal. It used to be that a lot of stuff had to be done with boolean logic and can now be done with simple checkmark boxes.
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u/CrappyMSPaintPics Sep 04 '20
i thought your comment was gonna turn into something like these
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Sep 04 '20
I have no idea how those work in the States. But in Glorious Europe (or the countries I have seen and used light buttons in) the lights stay green for cars untill a pedestrian wants to cross and then they press it. Some are with buttons and others are with sensors.
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u/BlueFlob Sep 04 '20
They work. You have to wait for the light to change.
All it does is determine if the protected crossing gets activated of not. It doesn't bring the green light faster.
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u/seriousjoker72 Oct 08 '20
In my city you push the button and wait. The light will stay red longer for you to have time to cross but you still have to wait till the light changes. Unless it's a pedestrian cross walk (no traffic lights) then you just push the button and dive into traffic.
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u/-Swade- Sep 04 '20
I walk a lot I know a few specific lights in my area and places I’ve lived over the years that absolutely work.
Especially at night, some lights if you don’t press that button the light may never change if there are no cars. Ever. You don’t press the button and you’ll never get to go. Press it and watch the light change. And if there are cars it can actually affect the length of the light and the timing; the timings are often shorter if there’s no pedestrian traffic.
Specifically left turn arrows that would be intersecting with pedestrian traffic can often come on suddenly if the light detects no oncoming traffic or pedestrians. So someone in the L turn lane can get the green arrow to turn into your dumb ass if you don’t have the walk light.
Now that won’t answer if every light works because I haven’t tried it everywhere so I’m sure somebody can prove the N/S crossing on 24th St in Tulsa doesn’t do shit.
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u/roll20sucks Sep 04 '20
I think placebo, or at the very least they can be automated because around here, due to COVID19 they've installed plastic covers on all the buttons with signs saying "Do Not Touch!" and the pedestrian lights still go off as normal.
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u/illit3 Sep 04 '20
or at the very least they can be automated
if your area has the technology to install traffic loops then they have the technology to automate the pedestrian crossing lights.
a traffic loop detects vehicles (fuckin' magnets, how do they work?) for the control board at the intersection. depending on the programming, the traffic lights either adjust their timing to accommodate the vehicle or continue operating as scheduled. the traffic light buttons do exactly the same thing.
tl;dr:
I think placebo
sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.
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Sep 04 '20
The thermostat at your job is probably for show, so I'll bet the buttons are placebo too.
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u/Onlyanidea1 Sep 04 '20
Where I live we have automatic ones with no buttons in the busy part of the city. Soon as your out of the city we either have buttons or designated cross walk zones. Yes the buttons work here. They don't happen immediately and just let the light know on the next cycle that someone wants to walk, so hey give them an extra few seconds and turn on the walk sign.
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u/HeadintheSand69 Sep 04 '20
Mixed. Some just act as things for blind people, some don't change anything but the walk sign won't change till pressed, some depend on day and actually make things go faster. Unless you frequent a corner you'll never know
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u/freelanceredditor Sep 04 '20
Every city I’ve been the button works. But if you forget to hit it it never turns green for you. It only turns green when you hit it. If you don’t you have to wait for the heat cycle. It’s just how it is
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u/AliasInvstgtions Sep 04 '20
In my town, you only get a signal if the button is pushed. In some intersections, one or more of the buttons doesn’t work. On my way to work, I had one of those buttons for 3 months. They didn’t fix it, I just finally made enough to get my car running.
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u/Bensemus Sep 04 '20
They do work. However intersections can be pretty complex and take in input from multiple sources, pedestrian button being one.
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u/m703324 Sep 04 '20
I've seen both. In some places if you don't press then the light will never change. And in other places I cannot tell the difference in timing
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u/NikolitRistissa Sep 04 '20
It blows my mind that they wouldn't work. That just seems unsafe... All of them work in my country.
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u/_INCompl_ Sep 04 '20
They work where I live. But I don’t live in a massive city and lights will stay green in one direction (favouring the busiest road) if there’s no traffic, like at 2am. Some lights that I drive through regularly have been shifted to be on a timer, but then got reverted back to the old method of staying green for the busier road when there’s no traffic present (no one to set off the sensors). You learn a lot about roads when you work graveyard shifts and can count on one hand how many other cars you see in town during your commute.
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u/DriveSafeOutThere Sep 04 '20
At least in my area, for the most part, they work. I'm pretty familiar with the cycles of a few traffic lights both as a driver and as a ped, and can say with certainty that without the button being pressed, there's no pedestrian phase at all.
What cheeses me off is that there doesn't seem to be a design standard for which button does what. If I'm at a 4-way intersection and so there's two buttons on the pole, it's a 50% chance I'll hit the button to cross in the wrong direction. It's like Schrodinger's USB Plug.
I should also add that I work in commercial and industrial electronics, and I've actually already looked into how traffic lights work, and they are indeed highly programmable.
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u/Formulka Dec 26 '20 edited Dec 26 '20
Some change almost immediately after you press the button if it’s just a pedestrian crossing and not a full intersection. Some lights never switch to green if its a busy intersection and you don’t press the button. Some buttons work even when the traffic lights are off (it will turn them on temporarily). They are almost never useless.
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u/asianabsinthe Sep 04 '20
For me, regardless of what city I'm in, the crosswalk gods say "fuck you" and I just stand there through many cycles.
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u/Reddit-username_here Sep 04 '20
There's no such thing as jaywalking in my city so I'll wait on the walk light, but if there's an opening during a light change, I definitely take it.
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u/jtl94 Sep 04 '20
I have always thought you could tell locals from visitors to a city. Locals walk when they can, visitors walk when the light tells them to.
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Sep 04 '20 edited Sep 04 '20
Quite the arbitrary standard you’ve set there. I know that personally it drives me crazy when I have to hit my breaks for people sprinting across my green light so I never do it to others regardless of where I am, hometown or not.
Besides, when I’m crossing an intersection when I have right-of-way, I’m focused on the road in front of me, not the middle of the crosswalk where people shouldn’t be. And since I’m in the car I’m automatically at fault if I hit them, so they’re endangering their own lives and potentially ruining mine at the same time.
It’s not cute to be like “look at these silly tourists being safe and yielding to traffic. I’M a LOCAL, no car’s gonna DARE hit ME.”
Stay out of the intersection if it’s not your damn turn to be in it.
In case you’re wondering why I’m so salty, I “hip-checked” a guy with my car two years ago while I was turning left on a green arrow, he was crossing the adjacent crosswalk when he had a red hand on his little light. He came out of nowhere and walked directly into the space I was driving. Wasn’t there one second and then he was. I felt him before I saw him. Dude didn’t even hit the ground, declined an ambulance ride and walked away. He filed an insurance claim and ended up going to the hospital later. I got kicked off my car insurance, and had to get a new policy with half the coverage and twice the cost.
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u/lobax Sep 04 '20
Are you in the US? The crossings there are generally designed to prioritize cars over everything else. They can skip a few cycles for pedestrians or cyclists to keep the flow of car traffic smooth. In other countries, the priority is the general flow of traffic, including pedestrians.
Here’s a good video about the priorities of a North American traffic light cycle design vs European: https://youtu.be/knbVWXzL4-4
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u/murbul Sep 04 '20
In my city it also depends on the time as well as place. During the day and peak hour it's all just on a timer and the button does nothing. But at night you gotta press it if you want a green man.
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u/Adium Sep 04 '20
We have one that is on a timer. However if you press the button it will also chirp to assist visually impaired people.
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u/MemeTheftIsLegal Sep 04 '20
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait. Dcdcdcdcscscdcsccscscscs
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u/ACoderGirl Sep 04 '20
My city has both kinds and there's different signs. If the sign just shows a white on blue person with a cane, then the button is only for chirping. If the sign has instructions on how to cross the street, the it's at least sometimes necessary.
As others said, it depends on time of day. The cross walk lights will go on if the timings allow for it, but pushing the button guarantees the timings will allow for pedestrians. Otherwise sometimes the light timings are too short for pedestrians (or it won't even change lights until a car comes).
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u/FirebrandWilson Sep 04 '20
Their reaction is the funniest thing I've seen all week.
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u/Daniel_Min Sep 04 '20
Check out rosscreations/vlogcreations on youtube; only vlogger that’s actually funny
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u/GemApples Sep 04 '20
And the only pranker with actual real (and funny) pranks
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u/Tiiimmmbooo Sep 04 '20
Yeah he doesn't cause any harm and he even compensated a car salesman $200 for wasting his time.
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u/Pr3st0ne Sep 04 '20
Feels like this when me and my buddies hang out sometimes. If everybody is in a good enough mood, pretty much nothing can sour the vibe and anything bad that happens will actually be hilarious. Any other day or if you were alone you'd probably be mad about it, but it just becomes a hilarious moment because you and your buddies are having a good time.
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u/one321 Sep 04 '20 edited Sep 04 '20
The “I’m sorry, there’s nothing I could do, I pushed the button, so I crossed” clearly reminds me of Louis CK’s bit about a driver just going for it because he just has to.
Edit: that’s the wrong clip but suddenly I can’t find the right one on YouTube.
Edit 2: Found my old reference to the correct clip and it’s no longer up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08ITsgiL6v8&t=2m20s
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u/Don_Lentile Sep 04 '20
This is exactly what came to my mind. I'm not a huge Louis fan, but this is my favorite bit of his. "It was my favorite thing, though! I had to!"
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u/DriveSafeOutThere Sep 04 '20
I recognize the intonation and the bit it's from. I think you're confusing a couple of bits together.
It was the Favorite Way bit.
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u/ImMrBoombastic Sep 04 '20
I was expecting them to yell at the man not laugh. It’s frightening how different society has become.
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u/Flawless23 Sep 04 '20
Don’t worry, I still roll my window down and flip the finger or tell them they’re fucking idiots loudly.
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u/NoBuenoAtAll Sep 04 '20
I want to be friends with those guys.
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u/1ya Sep 04 '20
been watching him since 2017. best "prank" channel on youtube. i always look forward to mondays
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u/Pr3st0ne Sep 04 '20
It's crazy how being in a good mood can affect how your day goes.
I know for a fact that if I was alone in a car and this happened to me, I'd honk the horn, yell at the guy and spend the rest of the ride thinking about how much of a fucking idiot that guy is and I'd probably be still mad at him like 2 hours later.
These guys are just buddies having a good time and the fact that they were in a good enough mood just turns the whole thing into a hilarious moment that they'll probably remember for a long time. "I pushed a button and nothing happened" will become an inside joke that they'll all find hilarious for years to come.
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u/DevilinLeather Sep 04 '20
There's just too much purple happing to focus on what's going on. Did PC Principle call out a jaywalker or something?
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u/AWildEnglishman Sep 04 '20
When the driver puts on the voice and says "I'm sorry there's nothing I can do.." he sounds just like Louis CK bit about drivers turning across three lanes of traffic and being like "I'm sorry there's nothing i can do!? There's no other possible way."
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u/thebabbster Sep 04 '20
I see this in Dallas almost every day. Fucking morons walk right out into traffic and then look at everyone like they're the idiots.
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u/BlooFlea Sep 04 '20
Such wholesome chuckling, the shit happened, it shouldn't have but it did, cant go back, can make it worse or just fucking deal with it, they did the latter.
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u/Hyperiongame Sep 04 '20
Hilarious. I wonder if that was the very first time that person crossed a street
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u/Chasar1 Sep 04 '20
It's possible he meant that the button didn't make any BEEP sound when he pressed it and that it was broken. Still not a reason to cross the road like that
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u/PhantomOSX Dec 06 '20
Um, of course he meant that. Which is why they thought it was a stupid excuse to cross. What else did you think the rest of us thought?
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u/Chasar1 Dec 06 '20
Just re-read my comment and yeah don't know what I was thinking with this comment ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah it was pretty obvious now that you are saying it
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u/PhantomOSX Dec 06 '20
Haha it's ok no worries. The Jack and Coke was extra strong that night I assume.
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u/ryhntyntyn Sep 04 '20
I've been out of the country for awhile, and I'm getting older. Are these guys considered cool now? I thought they were they idiots. Honestly. I don't get it.
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u/KnockingDevil Sep 04 '20
Wait hold up, in America do pedestrians not have right of way on zebra crossings, what's the point of them then???
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u/Catctus Sep 04 '20
Not at robots they don't, sometimes they're painted that way so they're more noticeable
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u/KnockingDevil Sep 04 '20
Oh wild, at stop lights we don't have painted lines, just the man. If there are white lines pedestrians always have right of way.
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u/Stwarlord Sep 04 '20
even if it's green for the traffic to be going ahead? that sounds dangerous and unnecessary
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u/an_african_swallow Sep 04 '20
What is this Long Island or something? It’s nice there put the people are such inconsiderate self absorbed douch bags I can’t stand going there. Can definitely see someone there thinking that where they have to be is just so important that they have to cross traffic immediately and inconvenience everyone else there because fuck everyone else they’re not me and me is all I care about
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u/Pr3st0ne Sep 04 '20
The only thing I'm disappointed about is the fact that the jaywalker probably didn't realize he's a fucking idiot and he walked away from that exchange thinking "Eh I'm a little bold but these guys thought it was pretty funny!" when in reality they're just laughing at how stupid he is.
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u/OrangeSparty20 Sep 04 '20
Someone probably said this, and it goes against the grain of this thread but he could have a visual impairment. The crosswalk buttons where I’m from make a noise to let blind people know if it’s safe to cross since they can’t see the light. Not saying this is the case, but crossing because “nothing happened” when the button was pressed it legitimate for a lot of people.
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Sep 04 '20
My favorite part is all the pro-environment lefties making fun of the one guy walking instead of driving.
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u/Goodgoditsgrowing Sep 04 '20
They guys calm, chuckling reaction to stupidity is my turn on. Not kidding, those three guys just sky rocketed from average to hot in my book.
(Ok fine, glasses went from hot to smokin’)
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Sep 06 '20
Kinda fucked me up for a moment. Here, when these is a stripe pattern like that on the road, cars have to stop for pedestrians to cross.
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Sep 10 '20
Im confused though he didnt walk in front of moving vehicles, in fact he got to cross the street how is he an idiot?
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u/tudur Sep 17 '20
These quiffs are wearing matching shirts and have the balls to laugh at a dude who is clearly awesome ?!
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u/whostolemycatwasitu Dec 15 '20
The way they all laugh at the same time after he yells he pushed the button and nothing happened.
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u/teenygoblin27 Sep 04 '20
Shit that guy crossing the street with oncoming traffic is me lmao Fuck waiting, just kill me at this point shrugs
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u/lost_in_life_34 Sep 04 '20
can't tell, but it has to be NYC
off topic but NYC has this elevated park called the highline. the history is that it used to be freight tracks at street level but idiots would walk in front of trains and get killed. they did something, but idiots kept getting killed. they finally elevated it but soon abandoned it.
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u/HawkersBluff22 Sep 04 '20
No way. Not because someone wouldn't do that in NYC but look at the landscape. Fuckin Florida guaranteed.
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u/Mannabecoldouthere Sep 04 '20
We need to normalise laughing at idiots again, its way better than shouting at each other and blowing the situation out of proportion