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Originally posted by Jayx1 at least you had trouble sliding! I had no grip in my case!

i didnt hit my brakes till she was on my roof

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Originally posted by geroin i'm pretty sure even if you hit him it would be his fault anyways, you can just say he was jwalking and you couldn't stop just a lot of shit and headache to deal with..

im going to find out. If this really is the case then pedestrians had better watch out because im sick of their arrogance.

PS im always the FIRST one to stop at a crosswalk and give pedstrians their right of way.

Do you really think it's arrogance? Or is it just cluelessness? Because to suggest that these people are arrogant would imply some higher level of thinking and/or consciousness, and I really doubt that. People are fucking stupid. You just know the soundtrack to their life is fucking circus music or some shit.

It baffles me how much people jaywalk in Toronto...then are able to sue the person that hit them when the jaywalking diptards were the ones breaking the law in the first place! Cops need to be stricter on issuing people who jaywalk tickets versus filling up their quota with handing out tickets to homeless people.

Try that shit in China and you get clipped and/or squished....pedestrians are lowest on the traffic food chain next to crippled people and dogs.

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Originally posted by jennypie Do you really think it's arrogance? Or is it just cluelessness? Because to suggest that these people are arrogant would imply some higher level of thinking and/or consciousness, and I really doubt that. People are fucking stupid. You just know the soundtrack to their life is fucking circus music or some shit.

I think its a combination. I know of people who brag that they make cars stop in the road because "if they hit me ill sue them". So its arrogance, ignorance, carelessness, and douchebaggyness all in one.

All i know is that these days my horn and high beams get a pretty good work out downtown.

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Originally posted by KaiLee Try that shit in China and you get clipped and/or squished....pedestrians are lowest on the traffic food chain next to crippled people and dogs.

This is how it works in most of the world. But this is canada. We like to make life difficult for those who we think have it easy.

this is why you should use public transit

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Originally posted by Jayx1 Thank you for causing me to swerve to avoid you thereby crashing my car into the curb at 30 km/h. Thank you for also having the concience to yell and swear at me for almost hitting you after i saved your life. Thank you for sticking me with a day off work and a $400 repair bill. Thank you for being like almost every other self rightious pedestrian in our wonderful city. Moral of the story.... next time ill just hit the ******

watch him turn out to be one of those NIMBY'ist pro-ban people ..

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Originally posted by Jayx1 Moral of the story.... next time ill just hit the ******

Unfortunately, that would result in a larger repair bill (people can cause quite a bit of damage) and tort liability... but at least you have insurance for the liability.

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Originally posted by RickyM you're just a shit version of Moral Hazard. At least he knows what he's talking about.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN lol, i love it when moral feels the need to lay the smack down

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Originally posted by geroin i'm pretty sure even if you hit him it would be his fault anyways, you can just say he was jwalking and you couldn't stop just a lot of shit and headache to deal with..

Okay, now you're in my world (Bodily injury claims are my specialty). Unfortunately, just about every North American jurisdiction (Ontario included) has a Revers Onus of Proof when it comes to collisions between motor vehicles and pedestrians. This means that the driver of the automobile is automatically presumed negligent unless they can prove that the pedestrian was negligent. This is exceedingly difficult to do (out of several hundred pedestrian accidents I've handled I've only gotten our driver completely off on four... and two of those were suicides). In a situation like this the courts would likely find the pedestrian to be anywhere from 10-25% liable for the accident (10% for crossing not at a pedestrian crosswalk is the standard... it could be upped to 25% depending on a number of other factors). Ultimately, the courts take the view that the driver should be ever vigilant for pedestrians and always be able to avoid them. Personally, I think the judges are just being lazy or overly sympathetic (judges tend to want to give injured people money and in this case the insurance company is the only one who has any); however, that is the reality of the situation at present.

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Originally posted by RickyM you're just a shit version of Moral Hazard. At least he knows what he's talking about.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN lol, i love it when moral feels the need to lay the smack down

There was a young mom with a kid in an umbrella stroller on the side of the street (on Haida for you Jay) instead of the sidewalk. She risked her and her kid's life pushing the flimsy stroller instead of just carrying ther kid and walking on the sidewalk, which was easy to walk on, but slushy for a cheap stroller.

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Originally posted by Jayx1 at least you had trouble sliding! I had no grip in my case!

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...9&forumid=12&s=

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Originally posted by Abercrombie There was a young mom with a kid in an umbrella stroller on the side of the street (on Haida for you Jay) instead of the sidewalk. She risked her and her kid's life pushing the flimsy stroller instead of just carrying ther kid and walking on the sidewalk, which was easy to walk on, but slushy for a cheap stroller. http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...9&forumid=12&s=

I know where you are talking about... that WT beotch that constantly jwalks from the projects to get to the macs milk. Shes heard my horn several times.