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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 5:37 am Post subject: Finally saw a scooter guy get tagged |
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Those scooter delivery guys, like school bus drivers, generally don't obey those crazy red traffic lights. Tonight some scooter guy figured a recent red is really just a soft green and tried to plow on through the red. Well, the taxi driver with the green didn't see it that way or see the scooter. Crack. The scooter went sliding across the intersection. The scooter guy lived. He seemed like he was in great pain and pretty dazed. No helmet but I think he landed on his butt.
Of course the other drivers all started honking away. How dare a person roll around on the pavement in pain. |
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chiaa
Joined: 23 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 8:55 am Post subject: Re: Finally saw a scooter guy get tagged |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
Those scooter delivery guys, like school bus drivers, generally don't obey those crazy red traffic lights. Tonight some scooter guy figured a recent red is really just a soft green and tried to plow on through the red. Well, the taxi driver with the green didn't see it that way or see the scooter. Crack. The scooter went sliding across the intersection. The scooter guy lived. He seemed like he was in great pain and pretty dazed. No helmet but I think he landed on his butt.
Of course the other drivers all started honking away. How dare a person roll around on the pavement in pain. |
The big question is....
Did he drop the food? |
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Manner of Speaking
Joined: 09 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 9:07 am Post subject: |
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I hear them more often than I see them. Once I saw a pizza guy take a corner at night, didn't see any more until I heard a sudden screeching of tires, and thump! Ploughed into the front of a car. Unconscious, at least one leg broken, and hauled away in an ambulance.
Another time I saw a guy on a scooter trucking some jajangmeon...again I heard a squealing a brakes, a thump!
Jajangmeon & noodles all over the road. Which is not a pretty sight. It looks like someone eviscerated a small animal. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 3:41 pm Post subject: Re: Finally saw a scooter guy get tagged |
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| chiaa wrote: |
Did he drop the food? |
Oddly enough his little delivery basket was empty. So where he was rushing to... Someone on a bike just like his, with a basket just like his, zipped right by him while he was rolling around on the ground in pain. Were they coworkers? If so, his coworker sure didn't seem to have any sympathy...
I'm still waiting to see in my game of "ah only in asia bingo":
- Scooter guy on sidewalk running down a kid or old woman
- School bus driver run down a kid or old woman
- Some version of the above with a Seoul cop watching the whole thing and doing sweet drick all. ("My job is to stand here and avoid military service!")
Hmmm any others? |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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| kid and dog with matching dye jobs? |
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honeybuzz
Joined: 26 May 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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My friend's grandmother died earlier this year after being hit by a scooter.  |
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Corky
Joined: 06 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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| whenever there's an accident, they come out and spraypaint the road with the vector of the collision. Around the corner, there's the dimesions for the front of a car at the start of the intersection, and over the opposite curb about 10 metres away is the spraypainted outline of a scooter on its side. |
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inkoreaforgood
Joined: 15 Dec 2003
Location: Inchon
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| Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 4:54 am Post subject: |
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| Corky wrote: |
| whenever there's an accident, they come out and spraypaint the road with the vector of the collision. Around the corner, there's the dimesions for the front of a car at the start of the intersection, and over the opposite curb about 10 metres away is the spraypainted outline of a scooter on its side. |
Yeah, when I see that I have to wonder if the guy lived. |
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keithinkorea
Joined: 17 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 5:30 am Post subject: |
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In Korea I've seen two scooter accidents and I'm actually suprised it is so few. I have seen a hell of a lot of near misses. Both times the guys were a bit damaged but nothing too serious. Dazed, Bruised and mystified sums up how they looked after the crashes.
They seem mystified that if you ride a scooter like a kamakazi c@@@ then you end up on your arse nursing some bruises and that is if you're lucky.
Korea is the hub of psychotic and bad driving whether it be bus, scooter or car. |
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dg611
Joined: 11 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 5:43 am Post subject: I've been the scooter guy |
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I rode motorcycles for 25 years before coming to Korea and I never had an accident worse than a scuffed knee. I spent 4 years riding around on a motorcycle in Pusan...in 99 I got tagged by a guy who claims he dropped his cellphone and was looking for it when he sideswiped me in the lane next to him and knocked me into a parked car across the street. Front fork smashed into the front of a parked van and then I fell over...I saw the spilling gas and got up quicker that I would have otherwise. Basically, I walked (hobbled) away with only a badly bruised right wrist and ankle and perhaps a slight concussion (thank god for helmets) The cellphone story was horsehockey..he was actually, making an illegal U-turn...but since he didn't actually cross the double yellow line, he got away with it. He only paid me about 2million to replace by bike (totalled Kaw 750) and the hospital bills cost about 600,000 for 5 days (which I though was excessive since I felt ok after 2.)
I really wish that I could sue the guy though because ever since then my girlfriend (now wife) won't hear about me riding a motorcycle again 
REMEMBER: If you ride a motorcycle in Korea (or anywhere else for that matter) you are invisible! |
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mog
Joined: 06 May 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 7:07 am Post subject: |
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| Do delivery guys get drilled by their employers for getting the food to its destination as fast as possible? Or is it just a mentality of the culture? |
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skinhead
Joined: 11 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 8:47 am Post subject: |
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my girlfriend (now wife) won't hear about me riding a motorcycle again
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HA! The ban. Just buy yerself a bike 'n ride it. What's she gonna do? (Mrs Skinny won't let me ride either. She's being unrighteous about it!  ) |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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| mog wrote: |
| Do delivery guys get drilled by their employers for getting the food to its destination as fast as possible? Or is it just a mentality of the culture? |
Probably a bit of both. Those scooter guys remind me of bike messengers in North America. It's one part "get it there on time" and one part "we're urban cowboys and having better sex than you" macho posing. I'm sure they get off on the rush and the risk taking. Although, they seem to pay a price sometimes, and exact one on the innocent public. |
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inkoreaforgood
Joined: 15 Dec 2003
Location: Inchon
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| Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| mog wrote: |
| Do delivery guys get drilled by their employers for getting the food to its destination as fast as possible? Or is it just a mentality of the culture? |
Probably a bit of both. Those scooter guys remind me of bike messengers in North America. It's one part "get it there on time" and one part "we're urban cowboys and having better sex than you" macho posing. I'm sure they get off on the rush and the risk taking. Although, they seem to pay a price sometimes, and exact one on the innocent public. |
I've heard that these delivery guys, especially in Seoul, are extremely unhealthy. Riding around in cluds of car exhaust all day long has made them sick, and they've found cases where guys in their early 20's have 3 headed sperm and the energy levels (the men, not the sperm) of an unhealthy 60 year old. What is a little shocking is that it takes as little as 3 months for this to become possible.
The aftermath of one scooter accident I saw involved a totalled bike, a damaged helmut, and a long streak of what I think was blood. No body was evident, and I really didn't want to see. I was riding the bus, and the traffic had slowed down because of the accident scene. I find riding the bus dangerous enough without riding a scooter too. |
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intergalactic
Joined: 19 May 2003
Location: Brisbane
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| Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Corky wrote: |
| the spraypainted outline of a scooter on its side. |
I had one of my very own! I only wish I'd thought to take a photo of it as a souvenir. |
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