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Today at lunch I had a near death experience, from my house to a friend's house there is a pretty big road in-between it's kinda like a highway but shorter and a bit slower. But anyways, I'm crossing it the fastest way there is to my friend's house and it's right by some rail-way tracks.
So I see a car coming followed by a little break then some more cars so I get ready to run across right after this car and as it passes I start to run but as I run I tripped and I was on my hands and knees looking at about 10 cars in 2 lanes coming towards me.
The cars were no more than 2 meters off so I rolled and just made it into the ditch as a car zooms past just missing my head.
What scares me the most though is nobody bothered to honk or take their foot off of the brake, nobody was paying enough attention to notice me, and I'm not a small guy. I'm 6 feet tall and these people just kept doing what they were doing. I was in awe at just how automated these people were.
And then later I found that as I was falling my jaw slammed shut and I cracked out a filling that was in one of my molars.
Bad day.
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United States24680 Posts
Wow that sucks. Although that really does teach a lesson about crossing the street in an unsafe manner without having to die in the process XD
At least it didn't happen on Saturday!
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On April 30 2009 05:48 micronesia wrote:
Wow that sucks. Although that really does teach a lesson about crossing the street in an unsafe manner without having to die in the process XD
At least it didn't happen on Saturday!
Yeah for sure.
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Look on the bright side: at least you didn't get a ticket for jaywalking.
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good thing you are ok
yes most people are automated :/
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Dude why are you playing frogger in real life is it really worth risking your life getting home 1 minute earlier.
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Something similar happened to me a while ago. I didn't really tripped, but some moron was speeding and almost ran me over after nealy hitting another car.
I guess you should be a little carefull when crossing the street, bad fucking place and time to trip.
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On April 30 2009 05:56 Frits wrote:
Dude why are you playing frogger in real life is it really worth risking your life getting home 1 minute earlier.
Thing is there pretty much is never a safer time, the cars just keep coming. This is a pretty major street.
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United States24680 Posts
If possible you should seriously consider taking the long way around if the traffic is pretty consistent...
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I just use my trusty jetpack and fly right over those cars
a car nearly hit me once too, though it wasn't going too fast and was pretty small so it probably wouldn't have been that serious.
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On April 30 2009 06:19 Zurles wrote:
I just use my trusty jetpack and fly right over those cars
a car nearly hit me once too, though it wasn't going too fast and was pretty small so it probably wouldn't have been that serious.
You might be surprised how much damage a car can do, even at speeds that wouldn't consider too fast. I've been unlucky enough to witness quite a few accidents and sometimes you just can't believe how much damage a "slow" (at least it looks slow) can do...
Be safe!
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On April 30 2009 05:46 iCCup.d(O.o)a wrote:
What scares me the most though is nobody bothered to honk or take their foot off of the brake,
wouldnt that of been a good thing? i think you ment gas 
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Good thing you aren't dead, iccup needs good staff like yourself.
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There is a reason they always tell you not to run across the road. Or maybe you didn't have that hammered into you during your childhood?
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man i was so good at frogger
i could never find the version from my childhood though =[
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They probably didn't react because most people don't try to cross highways on foot. Use a real crossing path, and you won't have this problem
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CA10828 Posts
good to hear you're still alive
scary experience though o_O
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On April 30 2009 06:47 EsX_Raptor wrote:
Indeed.
to OP: not only you were risking your own life, but you also endangered many other lives.
Your not the center of the universe you know -_-
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My friend crossed a street 10m away from the crossing path and got hit. I heard he flew 3-4 meters, but he was at school all healthy and unscratched the next Monday 
That's gonna teach you dude, thank whoever you pray to that you're alive
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