What Would You Do?

[oren]

No this is not a pity Oren thread. I could careless about whether you care or not, but this might pique your interest, and I'd like to know what you think/whether you've seen something like this/ probably you have something to share as well.

How many of you cross the street every day without a care in the world? I'm pretty sure most of you have done it all your lives without thinking. I suggest you start fucking thinking because this might or has actually happen where you are.

Most of us are drivers/ learning how to drive. General rule you pull off to the side to let an ambulance through if it's lights are flashing because they are trying to get to an emergency or get someone to the hospital.

Okay here's the story, I pull over like everyone else and let the ambulance through, but here's where the story gets interesting. The ambulance with someone inside the back that needs to get to the hospital stops at the intersection ahead of me. Now I don't understand why on earth this ambulance has to stop lights flashing and all.

Would you believe it, pedestrians wouldn't move away to let the ambulance through. Even when it was honking they wouldn't move faster they just kept crossing in both directions. I see this lady yelling at them telling them to stop crossing and let the ambulance through and what do they do? They STOP in the middle of the fucking crosswalk and stare at her as if she were crazy.

Now EVERYONE in thier cars are getting pissed off with these pedestrians, even me since I can see from a view behind the ambulance that someone needs to get to the hospital. We're honking yelling at them they need to get off the crosswalk or someone in the ambulance is going to die in a few minutes.

For the love of all that is good, I don't know where the fuck these people came from because they would not move! At least until we called the police THEN they started moving, and the ambulance got through, but traffic was held up for a bit because after all holding up an ambulance in my city is an offence and you can be given a fine upto $25,000 for not letting an ambulance get to an emergency/ get someone to a hospital.

It's ridiculous.

Okay, done now.

[Irene]

WOW! I did not know such unintelligent uncaring mindless idiots existed. to think I actually had faith in humanity...

[oren]

Thanks for the expected sarcasm. but personally I would have at least expected people to be better than that. Instead they couldn't care less if someone in an ambulance died.

[Arcanafang]

Oh stay away from tahoe city. The pedestrians there are idiots and make the small town have a constant traffic jam in the summer. I bet most of them wouldn't give a damn about an ambulance.

though a lot of the drivers in California would take pulling over for an emergency vehicle a sign of weakness so they're not much better.

[Irene]

Thanks for the expected sarcasm. but personally I would have at least expected people to be better than that. Instead they couldn't care less if someone in an ambulance died.

I wasn't being sarcastic, not in the slightest. I genuinly thought that people were smart enough to get out of the way of screaming ambulances. I hope they all got the maximum fine.

[oren]

Sorry, for the misinterpretation.

I don't believe there's an leniency towards blocking the way of an ambulance. If you're willing to put someone else's life on the line just to get to where you want to tehn you deserve to be slapped with a $25,000 fine and some how I wish there was a prison sentence to go with it if the person was to die.

In terms of the US, I can probably see that happening more often, but I've only really been to Conneticut, New York, Florida, and Michigan so I really wouldn't know. Up here we never had this problem until recently as in whenever the stupid population of my city got to this point.

Ooh, another story which made my day despite the fact I almost got a flat tire.

Some guy stops right in the middle of an intersection to break a glass bottle onto the road. Considering this is a red light and I'm sitting there to get my brother to school on time a flat tire is the last thing I need. Next thing I know I see for cars pulling up and around the one that decided to break the glass bottle and force him into the gas station that just happens to be there.

I don' know what happened after that but I'm pretty sure the guy didn't get away with it.

Where are these people coming from?! I swear the city I live in is a giant magnet for assholes, and idiots! (Veatrix knows my theory behind that, poor guy also has to sit in my car and listen to me curse and swear).

[Mithra Reborn]

wow. it is now that i realize we ARE a just as smart as chickens who just got their heads cut off. i mean, REALLY, couldn't any of them give a shit to move so someone could still live?!