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Typical driver mindset, blaming those they run over. If anything, the "iPhone issue" you mention is probably more apparent in distracted drivers, not pedestrian

• olivermarks 5y ago
  I was speaking mostly as a pedestrian. The word 'victim' is offensive in this context. If I do drive in SF I do so at a snails pace as there are so many people there who chose to think the laws of physics are irrelevant to them and that if they are injured it is someone else's fault. This goes back years and so does victim scamming: I was picking my (then young) son up on a rainy night from outside the Davies Symphony hall where he'd been performing in a youth choir. I fortunately saw a guy sneak behind my car and lie in the gutter: he hoped I'd reverse and touch him to get out of the parking space at which point he could cry out in pain and sue. Happens all the time. Who's the victim in this situation?
• Toutouxc 5y ago
  > Typical driver mindset You're building your argument on a borderline ad-hominem assumption > the "iPhone issue" you mention is probably more apparent in distracted drivers then on something that may or may not be true and honestly doesn't really mean anything > Do you also park in the cycle lanes, and then later complain about cyclists not using them? and accusing the person some more.
  • matsemann 5y ago
    You skipped the main part, where I called them out for victim blaming. Nothing to say on that?