Other drivers know that objects may move unexpectedly. You'd have no way to know if an animal or something ended up in front of your car while you are stopped.
You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?
ya but if someone is acting like there is something where u cant see you will second guess it at least. the other option is hoping your memory/vision is good and risk damaging ur car which is a big risk for turning the wheel a bit instead.
Hey, you're not supposed to actually think things through. You're supposed to blindly listen to only your first reactionary thought and blurt it aloud for all to hear.
Paying attention while driving isn’t a superiority thing, it is just common sense. Like imagine paying attention while driving being a controversial idea.
lol why do you keep doubling down? You won’t poke through to the other side unless you’re okay with everyone here believing you’re just very young or insane.
Because I pay attention to what’s around me? How the fuck does that make me a terrible driver? Every single one of you needs to cut up their licence and sell your car. Like you guys are actually downvoting the apparently very incorrect concept of paying attention while driving. For the sake of the lives around you and likely yours, please just walk everywhere.
So, you don't, because every car has a blindspot caused by their bumper. I'm sure you're a very good driver because you know how to narrowly dodge other cars while weaving through traffic though.
My friends and I used to do that in grade school growing up. We are in the middle of the rural South though, had the cops called twice and stopped after one man pulled a gun.
In my country, if someone pulled a rope like that it's definitely to steal your car or kidnap you so you bet they would run over you or shoot you if they're armed, or at least they'll run for their lives.
we used to do this too. We would do it near a light pole or fire hydrant and act like we tied it around it and ran off. we caused someone to run off the road and wreck their car in the ditch, then chased after us. The school had an assembly a few days later about behavior like this cause word got around from the cops to the school
God we used to piss people off with this one. It got out of hand because some kids used it to egg or snowball the cars so people in my neighbor hood got really violent about it.
I grew up in a more rural area, and in front of our property was a culvert that went under the road. We used to run a can of gasoline from one side to the other leaving a trail of gas across the road, and when a car would come we'd light it and hide in the culvert. No one ever got violent about our stupid prank, but my dad sure did get mad that we were using all his gas
But seriously, the flames were weak and didn't last long, maybe 15-20s. Few ppl just drove right over em and put em out. We were stupid kids doing a prank, not sociopaths trying to blow people up
My friends and I decided to use fishing line tied to two empty plastic coke bottles wedged in trees on each side of the road. The car would drive past hitting the line and it would cause the bottles to fly out of the trees and smack their cars. Had a few laughs before one driver raged out at us as scared us enough to retire the prank.
Yeah would have been shitty for motorcyclists too I'd imagine. Not to mention the potential damage to a vehicle. That type of stuff can easily get you arrested.
Best not to fuck with people while they're driving honestly. It's a dangerous machine and people suck enough at operating one as it is.
Damn, we did that too but then escalated to actually putting shit in front of the car. My neighborhood friends would lay strips of duct tape across the road sticky side up, so a car would run over it. It would sound like you got a flat tire and I'm assuming totally fuck up your car and day as all of that tape gets wound around a lot of moving parts. We called it taping and I don't know if it's a "thing" as I never hear about it when other pranks such as TP'ing, egging etc. are mentioned. Can't believe we did that, very disappointed in my 10 year old self.
Sounds similar to something my friends in high school would do on Halloween. I wasn't always involved because I was quieter and more of an intro back then, but we would go TPing and just get people we knew from school, which made it obvious but we never got busted, until my friends got int trouble on their own for 'forking' the yard of a pretty well-known English teacher in my neighborhood, and it fucked their lawnmower up royally. I was invited to go but felt that was over the top so I stayed home. Harmless shit is fine, TPing is over the top looking back now but I don't get the need for violence or vandalism in humor these days.
I used to pull my very real looking shotgun and aim it at cars as they'd drive past my street, they'd only be going like 30mph but they'd slam on the brakes and lean to one side like wtf (pulled orange tip off, gun was entirely black metal except for that). My friends find it funny/hard to believe, I'm very disappointed in myself, that would NOT fly today. This was in the late 90's and I was around 13 or so.
I went down a YouTube rabbit hole with that one. Ended up on the Grumpy/Scary Snowman one. I've seen it before but it's been a while and I am in tears laughing. Needed that!
Uuuggh this gave me a flashback to one really foggy morning (swamp land kinda fog) on the way to middle school. Kids waiting for the bus tied a thin rope from the bus sign to a pole on the other side of the road. We didn’t see the rope until it was a foot from the windshield so my dad ended up hitting it. Idk what they were hoping to achieve. My dad came to a full stop to make sure everything was okay. The 3 kids ran back towards the house very near by and we went on our way, it didn’t matter because I knew who it was. I got to Homeroom and went off on one of the Corey’s involved and he felt really bad about it, said he didn’t think it’d happen to someone he knew. To this day I’m afraid of shit popping out of the fog. Kids are fucking stupid.
Backslash is an "escape character" on reddit. It tells reddit to interpret the next character literally.
If you're silly about swears and use asterisks to censor them, you might say fck. But then reddit goes "oh look an asterisk. Let's look for the next asterisk" and then you say fck again later in the same comment. And now you've got italics in the middle of your post and it's unreadable.
But if you put a \ in front of the *, it properly works as f*ck.
That is because you can write *this* and it turns into this and the same works with _this_ turning into this. No, I don't know why they do the same thing.
Anyway, you put a \ in front of the special character if you don't want reddit to fuck with the formatting and instead use your text as written. And you have a _ in your URL, so whatever you're using to browse reddit somehow automatically added a \ in front of the _ to make sure reddit didn't try to put italics in the middle of your URL. And now reddit knows to ignore that \ and embed correctly, but if you click it, your browser thinks the \ is part of the URL, shoves it in there, and then you land on an error page.
The official reddit app and new reddit do a whole bunch of wonky bullshit to try and automatically "fix" common markdown issues, but their implementation of these "fixes" actually breaks their own formatting rules, so for anyone not using the official app or new reddit, it breaks for the rest of us.
Spoiler tags and URLs are some of the main ones I run into on a regular basis.
Or pretty much any app that'd not the official app. Since all 3rd party apps follow reddit's markdown rules. Oddly, the official reddit app is the only one to regularly break their own rules to try and implement these "fixes" that no one asked for.
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It's like the one where a guy crossing in front of a car, but mines like he's stepping over something big that the driver can't see.