"OPPOsaurus WRX" (opposaurus)
12/15/2016 at 14:05 • Filed to: Mod Edit
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"OPPOsaurus WRX" (opposaurus)
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DONT BE A DUMBASS
warning: rated R language
FUCKIN CARP DOESN’T UNDERSTAND YOU STOP FOR AN AMBULANCE. SO WHEN U DONT STOP AND IT WANTS TO TURN, YOUR GUNNA GET HIT. DUMB BIRCH GET OFF THE ROAD.
This shit blows my mind. i overlook an intersection and consistently see people think they don’t have to stop, move over, get out the way. you do.
vondon302
> OPPOsaurus WRX
12/15/2016 at 14:13 |
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Yup blows my mind too.
yamahog
> OPPOsaurus WRX
12/15/2016 at 14:16 |
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While that is really shitty and dangerous driving behavior, please ease off the gendered slurs.
S65
> OPPOsaurus WRX
12/15/2016 at 14:17 |
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Think of it like this
One day it could be you in that ambulance..
Takuro Spirit
> OPPOsaurus WRX
12/15/2016 at 14:18 |
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Our service department looks out on TWO roundabouts.... I’m so glad I’m stuck in the depths of the building and don’t have to bear witness to the morons travelling through them. Its bad enough I have to drive through them daily. People are just generally BAD.
Urambo Tauro
> OPPOsaurus WRX
12/15/2016 at 14:31 |
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I swear, people must be in their own little world...
I stopped by the store yesterday and as I went to grab a parking spot, I got stuck behind a car stopped in the aisle. Completely stopped, brake lights ON. I could see that the way ahead of her was clear, so I beeped my horn, but to no avail. She waited several minutes just for another customer to load up their car and leave. She was so DESPERATE for that precious parking spot (not handicapped, mind you) that she paid no mind to the long line of cars that had accumulated behind her.
jimz
> OPPOsaurus WRX
12/15/2016 at 14:36 |
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I remember an old episode of COPS where someone nearly did that to the officer who had the camera crew in his car. He was running full lights and sirens and just started yelling “Do you have a brain in your ( bleep ) head? What the ( bleep ) do you think these lights mean!”
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jimz
> Urambo Tauro
12/15/2016 at 14:40 |
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edit: derp
Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> S65
12/15/2016 at 14:41 |
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I love the story about the guy who wouldn’t move over for the fire truck where it turned out it was his own house on fire
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Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> OPPOsaurus WRX
12/15/2016 at 14:41 |
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BASTARD HOW DARE YOU TELL ME HOW TO DRIVE
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jimz
> OPPOsaurus WRX
12/15/2016 at 14:42 |
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I almost did this yesterday. the intersection of Rotunda and Oakwood in Dearborn is bad, it’s a very “shallow” cross:
if you’re on southbound Oakwood to turn left onto Rotunda, you’ve got the walls around the test track partially blocking your view. So when there’s the usual ambulance coming west on Rotunda to go to Beaumont, you sometimes can’t see it until you’re already well into the intersection. Especially when they don’t have the sirens going.
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Urambo Tauro
> jimz
12/15/2016 at 15:03 |
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Can those ambulances still run their red if they don’t have their lights & sirens on? I can’t think of any reason why an ambulance might need to stealthily approach their target (unlike cops).
I mean, you’re right: that visibility SUCKS. But it seems like it shouldn’t matter. Wouldn’t an ambulance on an emergency run always be broadcasting its presence (visibly AND audibly)? And if it was a non-emergency trip, wouldn’t they be required to drive as normal traffic?
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jimz
> Urambo Tauro
12/15/2016 at 16:22 |
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they’ve got the lights on, but the sirens are usually only used when approaching intersections. In my case I advanced to take my turn and saw the approaching meat wagon. It was far enough away where I wasn’t actually going to interfere with it, but it was still an “oh shit” moment.
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Urambo Tauro
> jimz
12/15/2016 at 16:40 |
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Huh. That’s strange. I’m used to seeing them always using sirens with the lights together while driving, though they sometimes use regular horns in addition to all that when they’re approaching intersections. The only times that I see flashing lights without sirens is when the vehicle is stopped at the scene.
I wonder if maybe that’s standard procedure, and you just happen to be bearing witness to one or more EMT drivers who haven’t been doing it right.