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Ouch. But not near as bad as the motorcyclist run down by the Austin cop later in the video.
At the very end of the video, the station reports on the very ironic program going on in Austin to catch vehicles not yielding to pedestrians in a crosswalk. Yep, just cops in plain clothes walking back and forth across the street waiting for someone not to yield.
I'll be honest, I'm not really sure I fully understood this crosswalk law. A few blocks from our house is one which is not at an intersection controlled by traffic lights. Just white stripes going across a road where motorists wouldn't otherwise ever have to come to a stop. Mrs. LL and I walked up to it one day and she just starts walking through it although there was a car coming a couple of hundred yards away. I told her to wait. She told me I was crazy because the car had to yield. And I'll be dang, the car came to a slow stop just like a red traffic light had suddenly appeared. I still think that's a good way to get killed.
Kind of what I'm talking about
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My kids are at the age to learn how to look before they cross the street.
I tell them that no matter what the laws say the most important law is inertia.
That car weighs more than you and will kill you if it hits you.
That's why it completely blows my mind how bicyclists will pedal in the middle of tbd street.
Never think the car is going to yield to you whether you are walking or driving.
Were drugs, Alcohol or Texting involved?
You ever hear of the phrase "dead wrong"?
I hope it never happens, but one day Mrs. LL could be dead right.
I blame the damn bike riders. They don't follow the rules of the road and they distract drivers. Little bastards are all over Austin in their Lance Armstrong wannabe outfits. Makes me sick....
the car was a couple of hundred yards away?! That should be enough time even for your Nana to get across the street, unless the car was doing about 70mph
From now on, when you go out walking/jogging, make sure Mrs. LL is there to hold your hand, especially when crossing the street!
He wasn't watching the cyclist for safety concerns, he was looking at her ass as she stood on the pedals.
Isn't that why the put them Cow catchers on the front of them Peetrol Cars?
Well on the plus side if the wind up hurt to bad that means dinner for me!
DF Big Ass Shark.
"Well on the plus side if the wind up hurt to bad that means dinner for me!
DF Big Ass Shark."
Barry, the comments have taken a turn for the worse.
Half of them are unreadable and a third have curse words.
And then some are like this guy's comment. Illiterate, dumb, and curse words. What good could possibly come out of a comment like this?
Hey... There's a stick really far up there. Would you like some help getting it out?
Lighten up... Get you some soup and biscuits and sit down and enjoy some blogging fun!!
-The Red Tomatoe
3:47 is correct. The last couple days have very pathetic.
Do you have some sort of standard as to what goes through or are you pretty much just hitting the "accept" button?
You might as well just take the filter off and let us go crazy.
It's tomato.
The "e" is reserved for the plural tomato usage.
Barry - check out the star tele story about the kid carrying the cross to DC. Worth a follow up to your post. Pretty impressive
There is a lot going on inside some patrol cars. Laptops dispatching call details, report writing and the radio traffic can get distracting. Kinda like driving around in your office only harder..
I saw the virgin of Guadalupe in the dust on the back window of my pickup.. Its a miracle!
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