Apparently for NYC you can just search and see the amount of traffic violations, and this dickhead has a LOT
Welcome to New York City
Submitted 1 month ago by Veserr@sh.itjust.works to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Speculater@lemmy.world 1 month ago
binarytobis@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I feel like at some point those should start getting points against your license or something.
qevlarr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
$1200 for 19 violations. No wonder people don’t care about the violations. Red light violation in my country is EUR 320 ($367)
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
11 speeding and red light incidents… less than $1200??? Thats absurd.
11 separate incidents being caught doing behaviour that has an increased chance of killing/maiming someone… and less than $1200 in fines to deter that???
this person has proven that they REGULARLY break the law in a dangerous way… and they still allow him to get behind the wheel every morning… and one day when he kills someone, they’ll call it an “accident”
There’s nothing accidental about allowing this person to drive a 3 ton weapon every day
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Holy shit I’ve only gotten 1 ticket in my entire life and it was BS. It’s…really not hard to not break traffic laws.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
The fine should go up exponentially with the number of violations (as well as income). First ticket? You screwed up. Tenth? You clearly don’t care. Hundredth? You’re doing it on purpose.
Speculater@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This guy pays about $200 a year to drive like an asshole.
scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Bro was at like 19 on just that license plate
Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Probably a cop
zergtoshi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Would help a lot, if violations did not only cost money, but the driver’s license eventually.
justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 1 month ago
100 years of automobile propaganda has made us in North America that streets are for people to move, not for cars to move.
AmidFuror@fedia.io 1 month ago
Streets are for emptying chamber pots.
FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 month ago
HEY, I’M CYCLING HERE! /s
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
someone died on a man drag of road at about 3pm one day right before christmas. Car accident. I got out of work at 6 and had to take the road home. There was this absolute prick speeding, weaving through traffic and being dangerous. Speeding to the gas station, so I pulled in behind him. I told him somone died just hours earlier on this road from dangerous driving, someone lost thier son right before christmas and asked him to follow traffic laws, and slow down.
he goes, “sweetheart, I got places to be”. I raised my voice, “so does everyone else, that doesnt mean you can speed and potentially kill someone, youre not special”. drove off.
“I got places to be”
people are so selfish.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 month ago
There was a spot close to where i lived close to a kindergarten - it was a driveway for emergency vehicles, crossing over the sidewalk and closed off. Every fucking day for 2 hours in the morning and intermittent during the afternoon you had to dodge illegally parked cars there, most of the time not even leaving enough space for a wheelchair or a baby stroller while they dropped their own kids off.
There were perfectly fine legal parking spaces a few meters down the road.
It was more than “mildly infuriating”, because it speaks of either a lack of self-awareness or a “fuck you, got mine"-mentality.
zergtoshi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How many valve stems did you collect?
atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Don’t collected the valve stems. That’s property damage and it’s illegal. Instead, buy a box of valve stem caps and a box of small BB’s. Glue the BB’s inside the caps and swap them out with the ones already on the nuisance car (tape the old ones to the tailgate so you aren’t stealing), and go on about your day. It’s gonna take them awhile to figure out why their tires keep deflating because nobody checks that caps, and it takes less than 30 seconds the bend down and “tie your shoe”.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
That’s entirelly the mindset of the average car driver everywhere.
Were I am now, Portugal, when the police starts properly some rule of the road that’s regularly not obbeyed (like, say the no parking on sidewalks one or the no running red lights in the next 30s after it has turned from yellow one) those types start bitching and moaning about how the police are “hunting for fines” - in other words, admitting that they’re breaking the rules and claiming that the real problem is actually enforcing of the rules.
(By the way, unsurprisingly, Portugal is has one of the highest rates of road deaths in the whole of Europe).
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They drive like maniacs there.
How many times I got hit by a mirror because you had to walk on the streets since all the cars parked on the footpath.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Fuckcars is leaking again I see!
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 month ago
On the contrary, everybody hates cars. I’ve never met a driver who doesn’t hate cars. Fuckcars is the concentrated form.
dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
You might want to meet more people
binarytobis@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Everyone I know IRL hates cars and driving in rush hour, and all of them live at least 30 minutes away from work. I don’t think they properly weigh their options when choosing a place.
benjirenji@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
I wouldn’t be able to hear him over my “get out of the way!get out of the way!get out of the way!”
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s New York. Need to adjust to the local dialect. “Get out of my fucking way, you fucking asshole!” Anything less doesn’t get through.
Jesusaurus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Would be a shame if you tried to “squeeze past him” and accidentally scratched/keyed to whole side of his car because there was no space to get around
klankin@piefed.ca 1 month ago
Yeah but the driver would probably just run him down, road rage is crazy
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Americans voted in a pedophile twice. You think they care about bike lanes or basic decency?
newton@feddit.online 1 month ago
Kick his door off
Ariselas@piefed.ca 1 month ago
U locks don’t just work for locking up your bike, or so I’m told
homes@piefed.world 1 month ago
They’re actually pretty shitty for locking your bike up.
Mac@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Please video yourself doing this
newton@feddit.online 1 month ago
Is not allowed, filming and riding a bike is severely fined here
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Unprotected bike lanes’ fatal flaw is that they rely on the honour system in a country where nobody has any.
Naho_Zako@piefed.zip 1 month ago
Thankfulky enough, I think Mamdani has stated in some recent interviews that he’s working to make bike lanes actually protected, and just make the city more bike/pedestrian friendly. So things are looking up for them!
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
In my city I never (and I mean never - people just don’t do it here, they even avoid getting caught intending up yurn lane stuff) see people drive in bike lanes, so this seems like a NY City asshole kind of thing.
BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I live in a city where most of the bike lanes are just a dedicated shoulder. When I’m driving on these roads, 100% of the time if I’m following someone, they will drift into the bike lane. I also ride my bike in that lane, so I’m extra alert to it. Not so much a parking issue, but lazy and distracted drivers are a plenty.
justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 1 month ago
I see taxi drivers doing it regularly.
Drusas@fedia.io 1 month ago
Nah. I see it plenty in Seattle, though I'm sure it's a much bigger problem in New York.
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 1 month ago
With so many cops why would it rely on the honour system ?
I mean it should be the cops kicking out people off bike lanes… We have assholes like that in the EU but they sometimes get a fine for it and eventually some stop doing that kind of shit.
The problem is that it’s not enforced by your police forces.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Police in North America exist to protect the property and interests of the wealthy, not to enforce laws that help the average person
shaztopher@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Dude, cops in NYC actively hate cyclists. If one saw this interaction they’d probably cite the biker
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Hahahahahha you have way too much faith in lazy pigs. Writing tickets to motorists in the bike lane is way less fun than raping children and beating minorities.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I’ve cycled to work regularly in a couple of countries in Europe and do paid attention to that kind of thing were I didn’t.
In my experience there are ALWAYS assholes who for their own convenience will block the bike lane if they can get away with it. There might be more in some places and fewer in others, but they always exist - assholes fucking things up for the rest are a fact of life.
As I see it, the only solution for it is protected bike lanes were possible so that it’s simply impossible for a car to go there and where that’s not possible speedy and stern enforcement (the “there’s a tow truck there in 5 minutes top and the fines are painful” kind).
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was happy to see a city near me had marked some sidewalk space as bike lanes on an expanded sidewalk.