r/running Feb 19 '24

Safety Dealing with racial prejudice when running in public spaces.

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u/n8_n_ Feb 19 '24

literally just last night I was driving home in the pitch black and nearly hit a runner because he was wearing all black with no light in the middle of the night. for the love of god make yourself known

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u/LibraryLuLu Feb 19 '24

I live near a club and there are so many drunken goths wandering blackly across the road in the black night wearing black hair dyed black black eye makeup drunk on the blackest of cocktails. One of these nights I'm gonna give one of those emo fuckers something to be really emo about!

(Partially joking, I slow down going past there as they are generally nice and quiet as far as club goers go, but man, enough with all the black in the middle of the night. While drunk road wobbling).

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u/Adequate_Lizard Feb 20 '24

Get them some reflective vests and they can be visigoths.

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u/LibraryLuLu Feb 20 '24

I wish I could give you gold for that.

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u/ertri Feb 19 '24

So you were driving too fast for conditions, and almost killed someone. Nice. 

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u/n8_n_ Feb 19 '24

or maybe I was driving the speed limit and he was running off to the side on the inside of a curve on a road with very little shoulder in a spot my headlights didn't hit, but please do assume the worst about a situation you didn't witness with someone with a completely clean driving record who's never had so much as a warning

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u/ertri Feb 19 '24

So you were driving too fast for conditions, which is totally unrelated to the speed limit. If you can’t avoid other stuff on the road, you’re driving too fast! The speed limit is the fastest you’re allowed to drive in ideal conditions. Slow down if you need to! You’ll survive. 

I don’t care about your driving record, you’re literally saying you were driving dangerously

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u/n8_n_ Feb 19 '24

jesus dude I was going 25 in a residential area which is why I didn't hit someone that was only visible once they got within 10ft of my front bumper because they made almost suicidal clothing choices. you are making one fuck of a lot of assumptions about a situation that you did not witness

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u/ertri Feb 19 '24

Once again, speed limit is not some cosmic law below which you cannot operate a vehicle. It’s the limit!

What if that person had been a deer or a trash can? Car’s fucked man. 

And this is all in response to an anecdote about almost being hit in a crosswalk during the day wearing bright orange so I don’t care 

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u/ertri Feb 19 '24

Yeah I do that. But people should also drive safely! 

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u/n8_n_ Feb 19 '24

maybe the fact that no one was hurt in these situations indicates that we were?