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Ive been shouted at in Germany for crossing at red light, even with no car in sight, and for how bad an example this was for children at the scene.
by hycaria 7y ago
Ive been shouted at in Germany for crossing at red light, even with no car in sight, and for how bad an example this was for children at the scene.
- INTPenis 7y agoAs a cyclist in Malmö, Sweden, I wish I could shout at some people sometimes. But truth is that people cross against red all the time with no consequences. I stay out of principle.
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- reallydontask 7y agoI know people that have had similar experiences in Austria
- filmor 7y agoRightly so. Children can't (as reliable as you) decide how safe it is in a given situation to cross.
- hycaria 7y agoChild was holding the hand of the shouting Oma.
- egeozcan 7y agoI learned to ignore them. The speed limit on the streets where children frequent are max 40 and even lower around traffic lights. Drivers should keep looking and assume neither children nor adults will follow traffic rules. You just need to learn to be defensive if you are navigating tons of steel inside a densely populated area.
- klmr 7y agoChildren learn by imitation. That, and not the fear that the child might run after you (?!), is the reason why it’s frowned upon to cross red lights in front of children.
- egeozcan 7y agoBut shouting at strangers is also a bad example. I hate the unbeatable "but think about the children" argument that seems to haunt many discussions. Let the families educate their own children. Educate the drivers that children may randomly jump to the street, may also stay there and not try to evade or do who-knows-what so they should be more careful driving through the city. That's actually the case in Germany, training for a license includes learning to be ridiculously (but usefully) defensive.
- yason 7y agoSurely kids should limit themselves to only crossing on green (well, until they grow out of it) but I've taught my children to watch the cars first, not the lights. A green pedestrian light doesn't mean there are no stray cars running red lights or turning-but-not-yielding. It's cars that injure people, not lights, so focus should always be on cars.
- morsch 7y agoThat's not why people get riled up even if they think it is. Adults constantly do things in front of children that children cannot or should not do: cooking, handling power tools, driving cars, smoking drinking, etc. For the most part, this is not a problem, people just explain their kids that these are things that they cannot do now but will be able to do later (hopefully explaining why). But people don't put crossing the road at a light in those terms, they tell them nobody can safely cross the road safely when the light is red. So an adult doing just that and being safe directly contradicts your message and your authority. It makes you look dumb. And that's why they get riled up. We should just treat the red light as an aid for the young and infirm and explain it to kids as just that.
- Max_Mustermann 7y agoI have been fined by the police at 4 AM for the exact same thing.
- Nimitz14 7y agoAnd I lived in Germany for 12 years, crossing redlights probably every day, and was never reprimanded.
- hycaria 7y agoThis was in Berlin.