People that let there kids play in the street

[rockouthippie]

I was driving home tonight. It's dark, it's and raining with poor visibility. I passed some kids in the street an pull into my driveway. My neighbor accosts me telling me "You have to be more careful, there are kids playing here". My response "What the fuck are your kids doing in the goddamn road at this time of night anyway?".

I wasn't speeding and I didn't come close to hitting any of the kids, but who would figure in a rainstorm that there would be kids in the road.

Is this some new ghetto thing to let your kids play in the road?. I've seen some of the kids driving around here doing 70 down this street. It's long and you can get up some speed.

I have to be more careful?. Get your kids out of the street!. My dad would have tanned by butt if he caught me playing in the street. I would even get in big trouble if I didn't exactly follow every traffic law riding my bicycle.

Lets follow some logic here. It's called a road because you drive cars on it. It's called a playground because that's where you play. The road is not the playground and the playground is not the road. That's why cars don't run over you in the playground.

Sometimes you see signs "Children at play"... WHY?. That's FUCKING stupid!.

What kind of a mouth breathing, ignorant retard lets his kids play in the street?. Especially on a pitch black night in a rainstorm.

These houses all have yards and there is a 8 acre playground a block away. But the kids have to be screwing around in the street and in increasing numbers.

There really ought to be a law and a hefty fine for parents that allow this.

I need to be careful?. You need to keep your kids out of the street!.

If, God forbid, I do run over one of these kids one of these days, it won't be my fault. I'm following the traffic laws.

Hell, my dog is even trained to stay out of the road.

[zootm]

Depends on the street. I played on the street as a kid, and it was plenty safe.

A thoroughfare or main road, yeah, kids should keep away. But a little side street is usually fine.

[rockouthippie]

Somehow I knew your parents would let you play in the road. :)

[zootm]

;)

I lived in a cul-de-sac at the time. All streets were not made equal.

Streets where cars come down with any regularity it's just not right, obviously. But I felt I needed to clear that one up.

[PAK-9]

I see people walking on the road down my street all the time, just walking where they need to go... except on the road for some crazy reason. There is a pavement right there, why are they walking on the road?! Its like they have a death wish, when you drive up they saunter casually onto the pavement, Hello!? I could have just run you down there. Even at night, and I dont want to sound racist but its usually the asians (Pakistani's), roads are for drivin' here in England buddy.

[zootm]

Strange. The only time you see people walking down roads around here is when there's been an international rugby game - there's far, far more people than the pavements can accomodate, and they just kinda mob the streets. It looks really cool but drivers tend to get a little pissed off ;)

[PAK-9]

probably less pakis in scotland

WOAH, who said THAT?

[zootm]

Originally posted by PAK-9
probably less pakis in scotland
I doubt it (in the area I'm originally from, in any case).

In any case, I have friends who are Pakistani (well, Scottish with Pakistani parents), don't mock - as with most communities there's good and bad. Chances are you've just come up against a bad bunch in your area.

Incidentally, I didn't know that the word "Paki" was a derogatory term for a long time, since everyone used it (including the Pakistani people I knew). Strange stuff.

[Mattress]

Originally posted by PAK-9
and I dont want to sound racist but its usually the asians (Pakistani's), roads are for drivin' here in England buddy. I don't want to sound racist either but around here it seems to be black folk that walk in the road rather than on the sidewalk most of the time.

I also used to play in the street when I lived at the end of a cul-de-sac (was good for baseball), but I didn't play in the road when I lived on a regular street (lived a few places growing up).
I don't think I ever played in the street at night in a rainstorm though.

[zootm]

Originally posted by Mattress
I don't think I ever played in the street at night in a rainstorm though.
Given our prevailing weather and short days during the winter, there often wasn't a choice for us. As I say, I was also at the end of a cul-de-sac though, so it's mostly just a case of different types of streets. Most types it's pretty irresponsible.

[Schmeet]

Looking back I have no idea how i was never knocked down by a car. I used to love playing in the street; scared the b'jeebus out of my parents though.

[dlichterman]

Here the old people walk in the road instead of the sidewalk for some reason....theres also so kids who live up the street from me that live on a hill and a curve and dart out everyone once in a while.....

[LuigiHann]

My road doesn't have a sidewalk. That always bothered me. One of my fears is that when I have kids, they'll want to play in the street. Either I'll be to nice, so they'll do it even though I tell them not to, because they aren't afraid of me punishing them, or else I'll be to strict, and they'll do it just to spite me, because I said not to.
There are trees all around my house, so there's no sunlight in the yard or the driveway. This makes it kind of gloomy. One day last summer my sister and her friend were tanning in the street. Now, it's not a busy road at all, and you can hear a car coming well before it does, and they're few and far between, but geez, I wouldn't want to lay down in it. How dumb do you have to be?
/random rant

[zootm]

Originally posted by LuigiHann
My road doesn't have a sidewalk.
I noticed that there were some residential roads with no pavement when I was in Canada (I assume that the US is similar?). That always seemed strange to me.

[seraphim]

Originally posted by zootm
I noticed that there were some residential roads with no pavement when I was in Canada (I assume that the US is similar?). That always seemed strange to me. Very few of the streets have no sidewalk. I find it all rather queer (ie, strange!)

[MidnightViper88]

At my dad's residential neighborhood, there are some areas of the neighborhood where kids do play in the street...But there's little flow of traffic, and the kids know when to move their asses out of the way when a car is coming towards them...

...but in a nighttime rainstorm? That's fucking retarded... :rolleyes:

Points for your responce to your neighbor... :D

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

I don't want to sound racist either but around here it seems to be black folk that walk in the road rather than on the sidewalk most of the time.
Ditto. Every time I have to drive around one of these assholes, they always give me a dirty look like "Why the hell are you driving on this road? Can't you see I'm walking here!" Either that, or they just look like the dumbasses that they are. It isn't only them, though. There's a little bit of every skin color around here that does that... but the vast majority are too dark to see at night.

[rockouthippie]

Some of these people make me think..... "Is Darwin at work here?". And this was a white guy. Mexican kids and/or parents seem to be smarter. Maybe it's because their big brother is doing 70 in a 25 and they know to stay out of the street :)

Why do your think I taught my rotty "NO ROAD!". She won't move off a sidewalk without being on a leash.

http://webranger.net/?p=102

Even Jesus learned not to play in the road :)

[MegaRock]

Hell, I ive smack dab in the middle of the city. Recently we had our government take a nice chunk of tax money to go to the local park to build these really nifty jogging paths through the park and repaint an area on the right side of the road designated for walking, biking and jogging.

Can you guess where people are walking now? If you guessed the left side of the road you get a cigar! And if you happen to come close to them they're yelling and cussing at you that you ought to watch what you're doing while driving your car.

WTF? Isn't that what the road is for. Why the hell did my tax money get wasted on these miles of paths when they refuse to use it even after crying about needing them so bad. If they walk out from between cars it's also your fault even though jaywalking is illegal. If I run over one of these morons I'd go to jail and they would sue me.

Personaly I'd now like my government to use some tax money to send some people out to smack any moron who isn't properly using their precious paths upside the head with a stick. If they keep bugging me I'll just start driving on the sidewalks. It's not like they ever use them anymore.

[Bilbo Baggins]

I used to play out in the street all the time as a nipper. Best times were had playing football, and dodging the cars. Kudos was to be had if you managed to kick a ball under a moving car without it getting burst.

Times were happier then, the sun was brighter etc et al.

[ElChevelle]

You were a nipper?

I get called on every summer at work, mostly by people walking on the road. Apparently a 30 ton truck doing 10 miles an hour on a mountain road looks like a vehicle out of Death Race 2000:rolleyes:
I can bitch about walkers but bicyclists hogging the road really piss me off tenfold.

[rockouthippie]

Originally posted by MegaRock
If they walk out from between cars it's also your fault even though jaywalking is illegal. If I run over one of these morons I'd go to jail and they would sue me.


Here if you get plowed, its your own ass, but you'd probably still get sued.

In mexico, pedestrians always have the right of way no matter what, so keep that in mind if you ever drive down there. It isn't uncommon to have people take a dive in front of you if you are driving something halfway nice.