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Car plows through protesters during Ferguson rally in south Minneapolis [W:349]

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sangha said:
I have done it more often than you have and seen it done hundreds of times.

You are wrong.
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So you agree... great. Moving on...
 
Phys251 said:
Question: Are you a parent? If so, how would you feel if your child "ended up under the wheels of this car"? You would politely ask the driver to get off, right? You wouldn't wanna cause any further trouble, right?
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A smart parent would raise a child intelligent enough to avoid people doing stupid things, and their kid would not be there in the first place.
 
sangha said:
OMG!! He agreed with the dictionary!!!

How radical
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I know. That is what I just said... why he is agreeing with you is beyond me because you both only affirm what I have said.
 
X Factor said:
It's a long thread and I admit I haven't seen every post in it, but let's be real. To say that a vehicle "plows" into a crowd and "runs people over" well when I first saw the thread title I envisioned a speeding vehicle jumping over a curb at a high rate of speed and mowing people down like Grand Theft Auto and that is exactly the impression I was supposed to get. I hear "run over" I imagine someone actually ending up under the wheels as the car rolls over them. Not exactly what happened her, although, the girl does end up partially under the car so I don't think 'run over' is necessarily inaccurate. It's just meant to suggest something far worse than what actually occurred.
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A few pages ago I posted two videos where a speeding car (40 mph?) aimed at and plowed through a crowd purposely hitting and dragging people and never slowing down and then speeding off. That is an accurate plowing... this was some bumping and hitting.
 
Phys251 said:
Question: Are you a parent? If so, how would you feel if your child "ended up under the wheels of this car"? You would politely ask the driver to get off, right? You wouldn't wanna cause any further trouble, right?
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I would blame my kid for being in such a stupid situation in the first place and ground her and take away her phone.
 
Phys251 said:
And I clearly, irrefutably showed how, beyond any REASONABLE doubt, he should have been able to see it.
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Bull****.

'Reasonable doubt' and 'should' are mutually exclusive.

You lose.
 
rocket88 said:
They could have. However in Minnesota, as in many other states, pedestrians have the right of way.
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Cool. I understand the law's desire to not allow motorists to run down people who step into the road. Do peds ever have any obligations to act for their own safety?
 
X Factor said:
It is funny how you accused everyone else of posting from a political perspective then made a poll all about political lean.
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It was the entire point of the poll was to show it. Unfortunately, people like to pretend they are "independent" or have no lean - it's sad really.
 
Misterveritis said:
Cool. I understand the law's desire to not allow motorists to run down people who step into the road. Do peds ever have any obligations to act for their own safety?
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I don't know. Why don't you run someone over and tell us how that worked out for you?
 
Why do I love DP? Because I get awesome responses such as this:

SMTA said:
A smart parent would raise a child intelligent enough to avoid people doing stupid things, and their kid would not be there in the first place.
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But not nearly as awesome a response as this:

Bodhisattva said:
I would blame my kid for being in such a stupid situation in the first place and ground her and take away her phone.
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Getting run over doesn't sound too bad, but gosh! Grounded...with no phone! Guess I'd better stay out of the street, then.

SMTA said:
Bull****.

'Reasonable doubt' and 'should' are mutually exclusive.

You lose.
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Well shucks, folks. There goes my dream of being a DA.
 
Phys251 said:
But not nearly as awesome a response as this:



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Getting run over doesn't sound too bad, but gosh! Grounded...with no phone! Guess I'd better stay out of the street, then.
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My kids don't even have a phone... and it is D.A..

And maybe it is just how awesome I am as a parent, but my girls have really good heads on their shoulders. I asked them about this earlier to see what they would think and when they heard that people were protesting in the street one said, "that sounds stupid because you could get hit by a car". When I told them that people did get hit by a car my youngest said, "duh, what did that think would happen". :lol:

But I know... holding people accountable for their actions is such a thing of the past...
 
whysoserious said:
It was the entire point of the poll was to show it. Unfortunately, people like to pretend they are "independent" or have no lean - it's sad really.
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But I am an Independent with no lean... WTF do you expect me to do? Lean?
 
sangha said:
Yeah, I know, I know! She wasn't run over; she was struck by the car, knocked down, and then rolled under the car.

That's completely different than "run over" :lamo
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Where did I say she rolled under?
 
Phys251 said:
And I clearly, irrefutably showed how, beyond any REASONABLE doubt, he should have been able to see it.
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No, you didn't. We all saw the same video, there's no way to determine where that left turn went.
 
Phys251 said:
Question: Are you a parent? If so, how would you feel if your child "ended up under the wheels of this car"? You would politely ask the driver to get off, right? You wouldn't wanna cause any further trouble, right?
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Appeal to emotion.
 
Bodhisattva said:
But I am an Independent with no lean... WTF do you expect me to do? Lean?
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He probably expects people to conform to whatever little box he has in mind. I'm glad he was never my DM.
 
rocket88 said:
I don't know. Why don't you run someone over and tell us how that worked out for you?
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I wouldn't be too hard on that guy. It's Christmas, and he was just trying to pick out a hood ornament.
 
danarhea said:
I wouldn't be too hard on that guy. It's Christmas, and he was just trying to pick out a hood ornament.
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...he wanted to 'plow' her he just didn't mean to use his car ;)
 
Phys251 said:
And I clearly, irrefutably showed how, beyond any REASONABLE doubt, he should have been able to see it.
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No, you do not. In fact I don't see how he could have with the one car in his viewing angle (he was right on the corner bumper away from the supposed escape route) And there were people in the road.
 
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