Outspoken to Strangers?

Blkvoodoo said:
WOW, I must have grown up in a shitty neighborhood, shitty town, shitty state, There wasn't a week gone by in the summer where my neighborhood I and damn near EVERY kid were in the street playing kickball, riding skateboards, bicycles, kick the can at night, or what ever the fawk it was that kids do, granted, there were a few incidents of flaming tennis balls that made their way down the hill and around the bend, but those were isolated occurrences a LONG time ago ( this is not an admission of guilt ) no damage done other that a few warmed asses when our parents found out.

Kids in the street is part of a neighborhood, I find it sad that I DON'T see kids playing in the street or yards anymore, THAT is the shitty parenting, letting the TV, PS3, Xbox, tend to their kids instead of instilling a healthy lifestyle OUTSIDE and having to watch them OUTSIDE.

I resent you calling my parents "shitty" you haven't a clue who how or what they are and how they raised my siblings and myself.

the sad part about the idiots who disregard the speed limit in subdivisions is not being able to let my kid ride her bike off our street, she is forbidden to go past the last house on our street on her bike because of the idiots on the main road, which BTW, is no wider than ours, has no markings of any kind other than SPEED LIMIT signs.
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I totally agree with this. ^^^^^ When I was a kid, which wasn't that long ago....This what right when video games were getting popular ( like playstation, N64, Game Gear)...my parents wouldn't buy me one, and made me go outside and play...use my imagination. I see my little nephew doing nothing but playing on his iPad and xbox and iphone.....doesn't wanna play sports, doesn't wanna go outside and throw the football or anything like that...seems to be a common practice with kids nowadays.
To me, playing outside rather it be in the street of a neighborhood or in a cul de sac playing basketball is what being a kid is all about.

If I am driving through my neighborhood and see kids outside playing....I slow down and drive carefully and go on about my day and thank God, they aren't inside on a beautiful 75 degree day playing on their iPads. I don't get my panties in a bunch and wanna run them over with my car.
 
Personal opinion, taking emotions out of it, and who said what...I do believe there is some merit in the idea of where the placement of responsibility should land. Whoever was discussing the civil war reenactment, was the 80mph truck wrong, most definitely...it's his responsibility to more accurately assess his surroundings. However, had he been doing the limit or under, and he hit some kid that darted out in to traffic, or some adult was too consumed with their phone, where does the onus fall then??? Hell, I was cruising down a side road near my sister's house the other day, where I know kids play, and they were again...they cleared the street, which is 35mph, I was doing 15mph, I always slow down around a group of people due to what happened next. One of the kids still decided to dart out in front of my car, I locked up the brakes on the lincoln, and got close enough to where the 8-9 year old had her hands on my hood. Had I been a fraction of a second slower and hit her, or been going 5-10mph faster (still slower than the posted speed limit), whose fault is it then??? At the end of the day, I agree, there needs to be a shit ton more personal responsibility all around, otherwise accept the consequences of the risks you take...be you the parent of the kids playing in the street or motorist approaching those kids. That motorist may think you're just as wreckless letting your kid play in the street as you think he is for speeding/not slowing down.
 
Every residential neighborhood street and school zone is 25mph. I'm guessing, based on his comments, that Cory thinks school zones are BS, too. It isn't because kids are dipshits or their parents didn't raise them right, it's because of the likely risk of something unforeseeable happening. Balls fly out in the road, dogs get loose from their owners, etc. Speeding in residential areas, parking lots, or similar, falls into the category I mentioned earlier of "affecting me." Jerks doing stupid stuff (whether or not it breaks the law) that will get people hurt or killed is different from some d-bag parked in the fire lane or a HC spot. I yell at the speeders on our street but I will also shake my head and fuss at kids doing something dumb (like not looking before running out after a ball). There's a couple of teenagers down the street who take their sweet ass time moving their skateboards out of the street when we are coming home from work, and have cussed at us, but the asshole behind the wheel of the 4000 pound hunk of metal and glass needs to be on point.

Just, please, don't give them reason to install speed humps. There is no bigger waste of infrastructure dollars and people just speed in between them.
 
trailhugger said:
Just, please, don't give them reason to install speed humps. There is no bigger waste of infrastructure dollars and people just speed in between them.
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And they suck ass when towing a trailer...bump, bump, .... bump,bump,bump
 
Blkvoodoo said:
WOW, I must have grown up in a shitty neighborhood, shitty town, shitty state, There wasn't a week gone by in the summer where my neighborhood I and damn near EVERY kid were in the street playing kickball, riding skateboards, bicycles, kick the can at night, or what ever the fawk it was that kids do, granted, there were a few incidents of flaming tennis balls that made their way down the hill and around the bend, but those were isolated occurrences a LONG time ago ( this is not an admission of guilt ) no damage done other that a few warmed asses when our parents found out.

Kids in the street is part of a neighborhood, I find it sad that I DON'T see kids playing in the street or yards anymore, THAT is the shitty parenting, letting the TV, PS3, Xbox, tend to their kids instead of instilling a healthy lifestyle OUTSIDE and having to watch them OUTSIDE.

I resent you calling my parents "shitty" you haven't a clue who how or what they are and how they raised my siblings and myself.

the sad part about the idiots who disregard the speed limit in subdivisions is not being able to let my kid ride her bike off our street, she is forbidden to go past the last house on our street on her bike because of the idiots on the main road, which BTW, is no wider than ours, has no markings of any kind other than SPEED LIMIT signs.
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I'm with you. Hell, I'm a shitty parent now! We play in the street all the time. Along with riding bikes and pushing the stroller. My kids are taught to watch for cars and get out of the street when they are coming. I agree they need to be aware of thier surroundings and pay attention, but that's why I won't live on the main road.
 
RenegadeT said:
Wow your parents did raise a dipshit
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Also the same dipshit that rolled his xj with no swaybar at high speed on the interstate and was not wearing a seatbelt.
I think this is turning into a 88jeepster thread.
 
novacayne75 said:
Also the same dipshit that rolled his xj with no swaybar at high speed on the interstate and was not wearing a seatbelt.
I think this is turning into a 88jeepster thread.
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I was wondering when that was going to be brought up... and he tried to argue he wasn't a dipshit :p
 
No Interstate , no high-speed , as of over half of this forum runs with no sway bars. But yeah I fucked up I'm human.

And to think I've reccomended your shop to a lot of friends nova. That won't happen again.
 
I stand by my comments, if you allow your kids to PLAY in the road , your a dipshit. Your asking for a accident to happen to your kids. I grew up and played outside daily never in the road I skateboarded in driveways and on sidewalks.
I played kickball, soccer , baseball, football in yards.
Hockey in garages and driveways.

To allow you child to ride a bike in a road with no supervision and no knowledge of the rules of the road is irresponsible at best.

But yeah I'm a dipshit because I am not an inconvenience and nor will my kids to drivers on the roads.


Bash me all you want. It shows me your true colors and I'd be glad to never hang out will half of you( I know I'm a total asshole and Yall don't wanna hang out. ).

But I follow speed limits.

I hit gravel on a up hill curve at 35 mph in a 45 mph zone. Over corrected, when my tires caught pavement it caused me to catch a ditch and flip my jeep.

No sway bars bc I was still finishing the jeep. Taking it for a shake down run.

But I gotcha your better then me and never had a car accident in regular conditions.


That was 2 months ago and I learned a lot from the experience.
 
Cory said:
No Interstate , no high-speed , as of over half of this forum runs with no sway bars. But yeah I fucked up I'm human.

And to think I've reccomended your shop to a lot of friends nova. That won't happen again.
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I don't run sway bars... but I also wouldn't withdraw a recommendation to a good shop because the owner thinks I am a tool. If that shop does the best work, I will continue to refer them.

All this being said... I have been in plenty of foolish accidents but none of them were while playing in the street as a kid.

You hijacked the thread and took it in this direction so eventually you were gonna get burned. Thats all.
 
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All roads are not created equal.

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That is my road in its entirety. There is no through traffic. If you look close you will see my kids basketball goal in the cul de sac. As well as both bicycles in my driveway. There is no traffic on my road, especially now that the aforementioned renter neighbor has moved.
 
Ron said:
All roads are not created equal.

That is my road in its entirety. There is no through traffic. If you look close you will see my kids basketball goal in the cul de sac. As well as both bicycles in my driveway. There is no traffic on my road, especially now that the aforementioned renter neighbor has moved.
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Your house is like the house I spent my younger years in, few cars here and there but really not an issue... kids were pretty much always in the cul de sac and the only people who needed to be in that cul de sac lived there, knew the kids and were very understanding. When my parents split they moved into a much larger neighborhood where everyone drove like a jackass.

Where as my house is extremely unsafe for children... and animals...
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