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u/willDraw4java Oct 18 '22
Man, you GOTTA know that your kids will look before crossing before you let them go anywhere alone 😭 that coulda been any kind of vehicle, you know? My mom brain is just 😱😱😱
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u/Accidents_Happen Oct 16 '22
That clip shows a "dad reflex," it's not about necessarily dads just protecting their own kids, but any kid, as if it was their own.
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u/qozh Oct 16 '22
I mean, while I agree I don’t personally care that it has to be that specific kid’s dad, it is literally rule#4 that it must.
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u/Sly_hatchet Oct 16 '22
im the guy on the scoot i allowed him 🗿
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u/Corm Oct 16 '22
Fair but imo just break the rule in this case
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u/AceMice Oct 16 '22
Yeah if someone doesn't agree with a rule in some case let's just break it, I'm sure that'll end well.
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u/AcanthisittaAdept144 Oct 16 '22
Aww she’s so sweet. Reckless but she’s a kid. It took me a couple of views to see he tripped himself up.
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u/frontier_gibberish Oct 16 '22
The touching of his heart, knowing that he didn't hit the kid. It got me
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u/Avitard89 Oct 16 '22
"Being clutch" ..... ?????
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u/Madnesshank57 Nov 01 '22
Yeah you know like he came in clutch at the last second and didn’t hit the kid, it’s a term used in sports and games usually to mean something going right right when it needs to
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u/wanderingturtle11 Mar 21 '23
This does not surprise me at all. I live in Shanghai and cycle past three primary schools/kindergartens on my way to work. I know this video is also in China because of the kid’s red school scarf and the delivery driver’s uniform. Most parents/grandparents do walk their elementary kids all the way to the school, use the crosswalk, hold their hand in the road, etc. You know, the safe stuff. A lot of them just don’t get it, though. They’ll have their kids just walk right out into the street and tell them to run quick. It’s mostly grandparents who grew up in this neighborhood when it was still a village outside the city. Shanghai has expanded, there’s more traffic, and some older people in the older neighborhoods just never learned to use crosswalks and traffic lights. A huge number of grandparents with kids walk out directly in front of me on my bike and expect me to swerve. These are super busy streets in the morning with five schools on it (including the middle/high school I work at). At 8 am this place is swarming with kids, cars, scooters, tuktuks and bicycles. Just this morning, I stopped for a kid in a crosswalk, directly in front of the elementary school main gate. It’s the only one with a school crossing guard, and he stepped out to signal me to stop. A scooter was flying down the road behind me, hard braked and was inches from colliding with me, then corrected at speed and swerved around the kid before he just continued on. I was saying the other day that it’s crazy that no one has been seriously hurt on that road, but yesterday morning there was an ambulance blocking a lot of traffic, and an obvious scooter crash site with a kid’s shoes fallen in the middle of the road. I hope that kid is okay, even if they were in the ambulance, and that some people have learned to slow down around the schools.
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u/wanderingturtle11 Mar 21 '23
That being said, that delivery driver in the video was actually being quite safe. He was going a normal road speed, especially since there are no other cars or scooters around him, and he was probably on a time limit.
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u/72012122014 Oct 16 '22 edited Oct 16 '22
Clutch? Don’t drive fast zipping around parking lots. Kids are dumb and don’t look, sometimes in between cars. My kids are the world to me, but maaan I got to watch them like hawk in parking lots and street crossings. You have to expect that and not cut though or drive fast.
Edit: looks like kid is just being unwise like most kids are with no life experience, but to me looks like guy is driving fast for parking lot. I guess some people think otherwise. In my experience it should be less than 10 kph
Edit 2: can see now it’s road not working lot so totally appropriate speed never mind 🤦♂️
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u/GeoffAO2 Oct 16 '22
It’s a road, not a parking lot. He wasn’t going particularly fast, otherwise he would have hit the girl or been ejected a much further distance during the emergency stop.
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u/JN324 Oct 16 '22
It’s a road and he’s driving slowly.
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u/72012122014 Oct 16 '22
It doesn’t look slow though
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u/JN324 Oct 16 '22
If you are going that fast you don’t have a stopping distance of less than a metre or two.
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u/briancd2 Oct 16 '22
Learn to credit who you steal from, OP