"This guy pulled up to a stop-light and stopped directly on top of crosswalk."

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

[qazplm135]

1. that feels set up

to me lol

[rzemanfl]

3. +1 n/t.

[tblue37]

4. Actually, I did that once many years ago. I wouldn't do it now, though, because I'd

be afraid of getting killed by some rage addict.

[Rebl2]

25. Same here

I’d be afraid of getting shot

[marble falls]

6. You do not know the Russians ...

[qazplm135]

8. that's different

the reactions make sense, they are organic, the guy doesn't try climbing into the guys car, the guys in the car react like you'd expect humans to react.

The initial video looks staged from the lack of any normal reaction to a guy climbing into your car and walking over you to the "reaction" by the driver after it's over.

[marble falls]

11. Sometime go watch the Russian drivers videos on youtube.

[qazplm135]

12. Russians aren't humans?

I have seen some before. I understand they all have cameras in their cars. They aren't aliens, and they still operate like normal humans.

[marble falls]

33. Certainly they are human, what kind of a question is that? What they are is a culture with ...

with only several decades of widespread ownership of western autos as opposed to Zevs and the Russian version of Fiats.

[qazplm135]

34. So they all collectively act

not like your average person when an unknown person just walks into their car and over them?

Look, you appear to think I'm questioning the presence of a car camera or that it's filming. I'm not. They do it all over.

I'm questioning the authenticity of the reactions.

[marble falls]

36. That's just plain silly and purely argumentative. Have a nice evening arguing with someone else ...

over piffles.

[qazplm135]

39. lol

you're literally the one who started the argument.

[lunatica]

31. They were speaking Spanish at the end.

[uppityperson]

13. That is wonderful

[gristy]

14. My heart was racing a bit all through this

That guy did a good job. Scary, though.

[Igel]

38. Nope.

They don't look Russian--dress is wrong, phenotypes are skewed. The writing isn't Russian. Can't tell what it is, but the letters are wrong. Things dip below or reach above the block of lower case letters differently in Russian--if it is Russian on the signs, it's highly marked Russian.

The youtube title says "in Russia they'd already be run over." He wasn't; the title implicates that they're not in Russia.

(And, I'd add, that I would *never* do the assholery that the guy performs for the video in Russia. I suspect I would be run over. At the very least honked at, threatened with being run over, and possibly have both the driver and others screaming at me.)

Pover'te il' net, tak mne kazhetsia.

[cwydro]

9. Yeah, exactly, the guy behind just happened to be filming.

Riiigght.

[Disaffected]

17. Dashcam?

[cwydro]

20. Perhaps.

I doubt it.

[Disaffected]

29. Maybe I misunderstood,

if you were referring to the second video, I would agree.

[lunatica]

32. So how does that not make it funny?

Real or not, it’s funny.

[yaesu]

19. yep, my thoughts exactly, nt

[zackymilly]

24. Yep, looks staged.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Perfect!

[AllaN01Bear]

5. hahahaha.

[Codeine]

7. Obviousfake is obvious. nt

[blaze]

10. The very *last* time I stopped in a crosswalk

An older gentleman walked directly to the passenger door, walked around the front of my car (making very sharp, deliberate turns), stopped directly beside me/the drivers door and made the final sharp turn to finish his walk across the street.

My passenger laughed and said, "That looked like something your Dad would do!!"

Very last time.

[George II]

15. I did something similar to a taxicab in Manhattan many many years ago. I walked across the hood....

....of the cab (and was ready to race my butt off if he got out!)

[USALiberal]

16. Why?? nt

[George II]

21. Why was I ready to run? I was just a 130 pound scrawny guy (but a VERY fast runner!)....

....and NYC taxicab drivers can be mighty surly. They can be pretty aggressive if it's the end of their shift and had a bad day.

[USALiberal]

23. Why did you do it I mean, just walk around. nt

[George II]

26. Oh. Well, cab drivers are pretty obnoxious to pedestrians and runners (at least back in the '70s)...

I was a runner and to get to Central Park I had to dodge cabs left and right - it was an eternal battle between runners and cabs.

The situation was perfect - he knew he was in the crosswalk and I wasn't in the best mood myself, so I just did it.

I sure as hell wouldn't do that today though. I've grown up.

[cwydro]

27. Good question.

And damn, those taxis in NYC had pretty big hoods lol. Finding that difficult to visualize.

[Xipe Totec]

18. I did that this morning. Was going to turn right, and then saw the no right turn on red sign.

Luckily there was no traffic and no pedestrians, so I gingerly backed the car out of the pedestrian crossing to wait.

[TrollBuster9090]

22. This seems to be standard Fire Department procedure. There are a lot of images like this around, if

...you just google 'fire hose through car.' People parking in front of a fire hydrant, and regretting it. They're hilarious.

[IronLionZion]

28. I've wanted to do that

it's even more infuriating when cars are making turns and don't even look for pedestrians walking across the clearly marked crosswalk with a walk signal. Pedestrians get hit by cars all the time in my city. Some have died.

[lunatica]

30. LMAO!

If that was planned it was great! If not, it was still great!

[denbot]

35. Cool, but set up.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

37. Some car drivers

Do that shit,and they deserve to get their cars walked through.

So much of our country ,land ,laws etc is devoted to cars it's disgusting.

I can't wait until car culture dies.

[VladmireTrumpkins]

40. No set up here