• conditional_soup@lemm.eeEnglish
    60·
    10 days ago

    MFs like this are why we really need public transit. This dude is sharing the road with everyone else while he’s trying to eat chicken and shitpost. He could be doing that without endangering everybody else (though he’s probably deservedly catch some shit about eating a rotisserie chicken tbh) on a train.

    • BlueFootedPetey@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      10 days ago

      Naw he needs to stay on the road. I aint trying to be smelling everyones full meals on the train home.

      I say as my citys public transit, which is poorly/corruptly run, is about to lessen services even further. Sad times.

      • conditional_soup@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        Howdy pardner, maybe Strong Towns can help? Look and see if there’s a local chapter for your city and reach out to them. If not, start one! It’s pretty easy, they have a lot of great resources to support you, and getting a group started is as easy as showing up to a few city councils and networking with other speakers or putting a flyer up at the library or local coffee shop!

      • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        Might not smell too bad by itself, but then it combines with the lingering hobo piss and someone smoking ditch weed.

    • calcopiritus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      I don’t know what the rules are on public transit near you. But the ones I use don’t allow food/drinks.

  • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
    203·
    10 days ago

    I question why this person still has a valid license if they care so little about everyone else that they couldn’t stay in their own lane.

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    162·
    10 days ago

    Pretty self-explanatory if you ask me; not to mention understandable. But a bottle of wine and a new rotisserie chicken for the wife couldn’t hurt.

    Edit: speeling

  • Pnut@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    10 days ago

    I had a co-worker get a warning once for eating leftover pizza. I’ve seen my mom eat the messiest sandwich and get off with a warning. It really depends on how many kids you have to drop off. No one fucks with a hungry momma bear.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    101·
    10 days ago

    I got pulled over in the 90’s for eating a bag of chips. I never left my lane, but every time I reached over into the passengers seat I would swerve a little.

    It was late afternoon. I saw the cop behind me. I was doing the speed limit, but he was kind of close. I just figured he’d go around at some point. no lights, no siren. Finally, BULLHORN: PULL OVER.

    K, so I pull over. Driver gets out and stays by the door hand on weapon, Passenger walks up to my drivers door, license and reg, yada yada. Have you been drinking? no. Why didn’t you pull over? I just did. Why didn’t you pull over back after the stoplight when we turned the lights on? What lights?

    He looked back. No forward lights on.

    Ohhh shit… umm he’s a trainee… Look, we pulled you over because you were swerving a bit

    Ahh, sorry, I was starving points at chip bag

    oh, ok, just be careful.

  • pedz@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    9 days ago

    • Nine people in the United States are killed every day in crashes that are reported to involve a distracted driver.

    • In the United States, over 3,100 people were killed and about 424,000 were injured in crashes involving a distracted driver in 2019.

    • About 1 in 5 of the people who died in crashes involving a distracted driver in 2019 were not in vehicles―they were walking, riding their bikes, or otherwise outside a vehicle.

    Source: https://www.cdc.gov/distracted-driving/about/index.html

    Yes, it does happen all the time. And the consequences are not always just a ticket.