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Gumburcules t1_j5zjifg wrote

Reply to comment by ertri in Opinion | D.C. is turning its beautiful streets into bar-code lookalikes by DCmetrosexual1

My proposal is to replace them with severe tire damage strips.

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giscard78 t1_j5zlc9y wrote

my proposal is sharks with laser beams

(no, but seriously, the pylons should be strengthened)

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burrito-disciple t1_j60qzni wrote

Then you'd just have a disabled vehicle stuck there

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Gumburcules t1_j60tu2h wrote

Well yeah, otherwise they'd get away before the tow truck comes to take the car to the impound and crush it into a cube in front of the driver.

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GrilledCyan t1_j6114qo wrote

You have thirty minutes to move your car…you have ten minutes…your car has been impounded…you car has been crushed into a cube…you have thirty minutes to move your cube!

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hemlockone t1_j65dabi wrote

A car was disabled taking the curve too sharp across the street from me. I live at a 4-way stop where three of the corners have a bio-retention curb extension (https://www.dcwater.com/whats-going-on/blog/working-together-build-sustainable-community #2). When a taxi ran aground, I made sure everyone was physically OK, then walked away because I wasn't particularly sympathetic. If the driver couldn't miss a giant concrete ditch and curb, what's to stop them from missing a child or a person?

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ertri t1_j64gfki wrote

Sounds like a problem for the driver, not me

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burrito-disciple t1_j64j9wz wrote

Lol y'all are so fussy

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ertri t1_j650vtq wrote

Fussy? I literally don’t care what happens to the vehicle. How’s that being fussy?

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burrito-disciple t1_j654xsf wrote

"I'm so fussy about something I don't like that I actively want other people to suffer for it" - u/ertri

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ertri t1_j65anp8 wrote

Oh yeah, I don’t want drivers in bike lanes. I am fussy about that. I like people to actively suffer if they want to do shit that actively endangers me!

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burrito-disciple t1_j65gsbj wrote

It's such an American thing to seek maximalist violent retribution for any perceived slight, whether real or imagined. Smh.

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ertri t1_j661pby wrote

A bollard is stationary! Whatever’s behind it would get maximalist damage from a car going through it like what happens with plastic sticks!

I just think there should be consequences for maneuvering a multi thousand point piece of metal dangerously!

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burrito-disciple t1_j662m1p wrote

>I like people to actively suffer

u/ertri

There's a difference between just consequences and sadistic retribution.

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ertri t1_j66hlty wrote

Running into a bollard should have consequences because hitting a person behind that bollard sure as shit does!

Should people actively suffer because an idiot in a giant death machine was operating it poorly, or should the operator deal with the consequences?

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burrito-disciple t1_j66ijm5 wrote

Just very cringey to invent situations where someone gets hurt or has to suffer and then to get excited about that thought.

Americans have a sick obsession with Retribution.

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ertri t1_j68bm15 wrote

What? People literally drive over flex posts constantly, including right into bike lanes that other people are in. That’s not a made up situation, it happens every day on any of the protected lanes the original article is bitching about!

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