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mack4289
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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 Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 7:49 pm Post subject: so I ran over a Korean child on a bike.... |
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A bicycle, that is. I was riding along one of those subway exits where you can't see anyone who's coming out and just as I got to the corner this little Korean kid comes running around the corner and I ride right through him. As I see him crying and moaning on the ground, all I can think is, "Why wasn't I riding faster?" No, seriously these old Korean ladies were walking behind me and they came over. I was thinking this could turn out badly for me, that I'm at the mercy of what these old Korean women want to say. But from what I gathered through the way they were talking to him and the way they weren't talking to me, these ladies gently scolded the kid for not watching where he was going. Then I had to go with the kid to his father and the father made the kid apologize.
Yeah I know this story is a letdown from the subject title. If you want to write a nightmarish alternate ending, be my guest. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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Pedestrians usually get the blame when some kind of vehicle hits them. This is a country where jaywalking is seen as a serious offence but riding motorbikes at 30mph on the sidewalk is fine.
It's a car country. |
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jcan
Joined: 08 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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| I once saw a taxi hit a kid walking across the street - pretty loud thump - the kid was lying on the road bawling. Then the driver got out and started yelling at the kid. |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| I've had a few close calls myself. That's why I installed a truck horn on my scooter. Scares the bejesus out of people. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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| I hit a door opening on a taxi while I was on my scooter once. Luckily I was going at a slow speed. And the passenger getting out apologised and the taxi driver wasn't mad at me. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Sidewalk. Not sidecycle. Learn it. Live it. |
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:57 am Post subject: |
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Aren't the subway exits on the sidewalk, walk being the operative.
Is it okay to hipcheck a motorscooter in the crosswalk?
cbc |
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Ryst Helmut
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
Location: In search of the elusive signature...
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:08 am Post subject: |
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Probably sometime during summer vacation...wait, that starts today <whooopie!> I'll get bored enough to try that!
!shoosh,
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cmr
Joined: 22 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:20 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| Pedestrians usually get the blame when some kind of vehicle hits them. |
Funny, I've been told the exact opposite... by Koreans.
Seems like whenever a pedestrian is involved in an accident with a vehicle the driver is at fault.
| eamo wrote: |
| This is a country where jaywalking is seen as a serious offence but riding motorbikes at 30mph on the sidewalk is fine. |
Were you being sarcastic when you wrote that "jaywalking is seen as a serious offence" in Korea? I see so many people doing it daily that it doesn't seem like they really give a damn about it. |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:31 am Post subject: |
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| jcan wrote: |
| I once saw a taxi hit a kid walking across the street - pretty loud thump - the kid was lying on the road bawling. Then the driver got out and started yelling at the kid. |
The driver yelled at the poor kid? He sounds like a moron. He is a moron.  |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:35 am Post subject: |
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| cmr wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
| Pedestrians usually get the blame when some kind of vehicle hits them. |
Funny, I've been told the exact opposite... by Koreans.
Seems like whenever a pedestrian is involved in an accident with a vehicle the driver is at fault.
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| This is a country where jaywalking is seen as a serious offence but riding motorbikes at 30mph on the sidewalk is fine. |
Were you being sarcastic when you wrote that "jaywalking is seen as a serious offence" in Korea? I see so many people doing it daily that it doesn't seem like they really give a damn about it. |
I've personally had a policeman sprint down the street blowing his whistle because I didn't use a crosswalk to cross an empty road. He gave me a blasting in Korean and pointed frantically to the crosswalk. My Korean wife goes bananas if I ever try to cross without a crosswalk. She seems to think I'm taking a crazy risk. The fact that I have two eyes and can see if cars are coming or not doesn't seem to matter.
Yes, I see Koreans jaywalking too, but I also see them driving like drunken monkeys and ride motorbikes fast on busy sidewalks. It's just that there is a large portion of people here who will ignore laws if they feel they have to rush.....and when are Koreans not in a rush??!!
My main contention is that, if you try to cross a busy street you will get honked at by every car coming at you. Rightly so. But ride a motorbike on a busy sidewalk and nobody blinks. |
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JasonC
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:48 am Post subject: Got hit by a car today! |
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Hmmm...that's interesting timing.
After over 5 years in Korea, I got hit for the first time by a car today!
I was on my way to the gym and a grandpa was pulling out to make a right and apparently wasn't watching, so I went flying when he hit my back tire.
Kind of sucked, but no real damage, just scrapes and bruises on the side I landed on.
Haraboji was pretty freaked and came running out apologizing 50 times. Then, I got in trouble from my wife when I got home because I didn't get his phone number etc... but I figured no real damage, so all is good.
So, the moral of the story? No matter how long you avoid it, don't forget, there is some crazy driving going on and be on the lookout! |
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mack4289
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:49 am Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Sidewalk. Not sidecycle. Learn it. Live it. |
Side"walks" for now. But if we English teachers form a union dedicated to running over oblivious Korean children, then lots of things could change. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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| scooter riders are scum. Delivery guys are especially bad but it seems waygooks are pretty much as bad as those guys. |
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