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ceesgetdegrees
Joined: 12 Jul 2007
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 Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:15 pm Post subject: Pedestrian crossings.....why? |
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| what is the point of them over here? Nothing frustrates me more than seeing the total lack of acknowledgement by every driver when waiting at a pedestrian crossing. Look at the way kids cross the road, most of the time the poor little buggers just drop their heads and make a sprint for it. When i take the initiative and walk out with my hand raised, peopel who are forced to stop usually have an agitated look on their face and do the bali bali hand wave thing, makes me want to punch them in the face actually. Why are people here so freaking rude? even losers back home stop for people crossing at pedestrian crossings, especially kids! God koreans are weird sometimes. |
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SuperFly
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
Location: In the doghouse
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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Funny that you made a thread about this.
Just last night I was walking home, halfway through the crosswalk - when two adjumas in a matize coming barrelling off the main road, turning onto the street I was walking across. The bitch had the nerve to give me a long honk with her horn as she nearly missed running over my feet.
I've learned to laugh at these situations and thank the heavens that I didn't lose my legs/life.
EDIT: forgot to say that I threw a cookie wrapper in her window and hit her friend with it. I was saving it to throw away in a garbage can, but what the hell. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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| The crosswalk by my place is never heeded. Okay, almost never heeded. In 9 years, I've actually had cars stop for me TWICE to let me cross. Unreal. |
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mj roach
Joined: 16 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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crosswalk lights, traffic signs, sidewalks, lane stripes, etc.
IT'S ALL FOR SHOW...so korea 'looks' like a 'developed' country
it's one generation from handle bar to steering wheel and
farmers moved to the city around here
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ceesgetdegrees
Joined: 12 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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| I had a guy in a van cut me off as i was crossing at a pedestrian crossing a few months back. I'm a pretty big dude and hard to miss so it's not like he couldn't see me or anything, i ended up punching his passenger window. He stopped a little bit down the road and must have thought about getting out of his car and having a word, i wish he would have. |
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sadsac
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: Gwangwang
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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I live in the Posco housing area in Gwangyang and of all the rude, ignorant drivers I've encountered in my 7 years in Korea, Posco employees take the cake. On an almost weekly basis a kid gets barreled on a pedestrian crossing. If a car stops then others will just go around them and so the kid just steps out and bam. Pig ignorant morons is a good term to describe them. As with many, it's very frustrating. I've dinged quite a few car doors since I've been here.  |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Young FRANKenstein wrote: |
| The crosswalk by my place is never heeded. Okay, almost never heeded. In 9 years, I've actually had cars stop for me TWICE to let me cross. Unreal. |
Is everyone complaining about unheeded crosswalks living in Seoul? Around my place (Incheon), I'd say probably 90% of the drivers heed. They'll even stay stopped as long as people are anywhere in the crosswalk. |
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ceesgetdegrees
Joined: 12 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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| huffdaddy wrote: |
| Young FRANKenstein wrote: |
| The crosswalk by my place is never heeded. Okay, almost never heeded. In 9 years, I've actually had cars stop for me TWICE to let me cross. Unreal. |
Is everyone complaining about unheeded crosswalks living in Seoul? Around my place (Incheon), I'd say probably 90% of the drivers heed. They'll even stay stopped as long as people are anywhere in the crosswalk. |
No...i live in a rural area. One of the 2 schools i work at is really rural
and just yesterday as i got off the bus and was waiting at the crossing with about 10 of my kids, i had to do the whole "step out into oncoming traffic with my hands raised" thing to get the kids across safely. An ajumma broke at the last minute and encroached onto the crossing, all she could do was stare at me with this stupid grin saying "look at the way gook with all the korean kids...hahaha". Peasants. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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Nearly got ran over by a cop-car at a crosswalk here once 
Yeh, they're kinda useless. |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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| SuperFly wrote: |
two adjumas in a matize coming barrelling off the main road, turning onto the street I was walking across. The bitch had the nerve to give me a long honk with her horn as she nearly missed running over my feet.
I've learned to laugh at these situations and thank the heavens that I didn't lose my legs/life.
EDIT: forgot to say that I threw a cookie wrapper in her window and hit her friend with it. I was saving it to throw away in a garbage can, but what the hell. |
Close enough. |
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mrsquirrel
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Of all the things that rile me it's people speeding in school zones. It really fucks me off. Back in Thailand | |
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