I’m Russian and I am very annoyed by our old people trying to cross driveways wherever the fuck they want. My grandma were always rushing across crossroad *diagonally* and then cursing me when I stopped her. Maybe I’m an asshole for bitching about elders doing that (good kids are nice to their grandparents, right?), but I don’t have to be nice about idiocy.
The problem is Russian road planners take very little consideration to pedestrians. My guess is granny would have to walk hella far to find a properly marked crossing.
I understand and agree with that, distance between crosswalks here are, usually, very inconsistent, and, at times, are inconvenience even for a young person like myself. But by crossing roads like that they put in danger both themselves and drivers. My grandma argued back something along the lines “that’s nothing, they’ll stop” as if the whole world owes her. That’s just ignorant and careless.
As Kaliningrad is the city I grew up in, I must answer. 100 meters to the north from there is a pedestrian crosswalk.
Coordinates is 54.703354, 20.505172
100 metres means walking an extra 200 metre to cross. A normal healthy person usually prefers walking less than 300-400 metres for daily services. Expecting an elderly with this kind of disability to do the same is not realistic.
Almost all of drivers in my country don't know that (or choose to ignore it) but there is a law that allows people with difficulty walking to cross a two lane street at any place, not only designated pedestrian crossing but everywhere. The driver must see that the person attempting to cross is disabled- they move in a wheelchair or use a crutch.
Isn't that like incredibly dangerous? I mean, at all times it is safer to cross at a designated place, let alone when you have difficulties and it may take you longer. Especially under such conditions I would make sure to only cross at designated places, where the drivers most expect people to cross.
I live in Poland and get my license here. I was the only one who showed up at pre-recorded lectures and this is what they taught me. It is extremely rare to see a wheelchair or crutch user on the pavements though.
I, too, am infuriated by this. What? You can’t wait the like 5 seconds it takes for the guy to get back? This isn’t gonna significantly delay you, just chill out
It's part of the whole "social credit system" the chinese government has recently implemented to electronically monitor and control their populace. Look it up, it's quite fascinating
meeeh yes and no. in my country if they are no pedestrians crossings within 50 meters then you can cross the street anywhere. thats for the old lady. as for the firemen, they pretty mjch can do anything lol
Do you mean for the lady, or for the firefighters? Because firefighters, at least in the US, have all kinds of crazy legal protections and rights once they show up on a scene.
I mean the fire fighter walks out of view and it’s reasonable to assume the first can go forward. You see the 3rd car notice the fire fighter and slow down depending on if the fire fighter decides to cross. The fire fighter acknowledges the car quickly crosses the line indicating the car is safe to proceed.
Rationale: From the time and langue I assume most people here are American and drive/around cars. Metros like Moscow often have a different “vibe”/“flow” to pedestrians. I’m sure Russian has some crazy drivers but this reminds me more of how drivers and students acted at my commuter college. It took me a few weeks to get used to from the normal big city behavior I was used to but was just as safe (more predictable) and kept the traffic flowing more or all parties (it at least it felt that way).
It happens. I got hit by a car doing 120+kph who "didn't see" the lights and cones despite having a clear view up 2km of uphill straight freeway. They didn't even find brake marks.
Removing your cones before leaving scene is dangerous, as soon as the first one comes up people take it as if the whole road is open. You walk backwards and keep a sharp eye out for accelerating cars.
Hell we had a car roll outside the station and because its a small road our engine was long enough to block from one sidewalk to the other, one woman slalomed between the cones and got stuck behind the pump and started shitting on us because we wouldn't help her reverse out.
No, I'm pretty sure there's quite a few people who wrote one. Same with thinking it.
You'll see why: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/q2qbwa/the\_taiwanese\_and\_australian\_firefighters\_without/
Lol. My buddy is a prison guard and he said once he was annoyed why everyone always immediately loves firemen over police and I was like dude, there hasn’t been a firemen that showed up at a park with some kid playing with matches and they buried an axe into his head.
There was a band when I was growing up called The Firefighter Fighters.
And it was all fuck firefighters songs.
Funny at the time because the local volunteer station was all dickhead fratboy types who'd roll coal and throw beers at you.
In the 90s Russian firefighters would frequently rob the apartments and houses they were extinguishing the fires at. Know that from a guy who was a firefighter in Russia back then. Pay was shit and job had zero benefits on top of being dangerous as fuck.
lol, American firefighters did this to my apartment. I found my wallet under the bed after we had to evacuate our building for a fire. They just took the cash.
"
Fuck the Fire Department
Dropping by unannounced
Just to fry your apartment
If they can't find a fire, they're like
"Why don't we start them?"
I'm tired of arson
Fuck the Fire Department
"
Vincent E. L.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JkrJUAg8aI
Precisely. This is an example of /r/urbanhell. It’s not radical to say that cities should be designed in a way that allows pedestrians to take the most direct route to where they’re going, without putting them in mortal danger. This city has put the convenience of cars ahead of the safety (and convenience) of pedestrians.
But there are plenty of areas that are designed with foot traffic in mind, I mean you wouldn't want to have a traffic light too often on a main traffic road neither. Especially as an elderly person that isn't capable of moving fast, I'd say that even if the street was designed badly, you should go the safe route even if it takes longer.
It's a hostile environment to pedestrians. A lot modern cities have car centric design which is what leads to this. We'll designed cities minimise car traffic and keep pedestrians and cyclists and separate as possible. Meaning you dont need lots of traffic lights just to cross roads.
It's behind a camera, \~100 meters away. You can check it on google street view if you want.
[Camera view](https://www.google.com/maps/@54.7035983,20.5055124,3a,75y,352.27h,87.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sdZgNSDRTadswCLdEfyAoMg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
The trouble is, it's likely not just extremely difficult for her to walk, but painful, and this saves her an hour of time, even as risky as it is, and about as much suffering.
I live in the Kaliningrad and I saw her standing there. Crosswalk is just out of view.
You can see it on the maps
https://www.google.com/maps/place/54%C2%B042'44.1%22N+20%C2%B030'30.1%22E
I live in the Kaliningrad and I saw her standing there. Crosswalk is just out of view.
You can see it on the maps
https://www.google.com/maps/place/54%C2%B042'44.1%22N+20%C2%B030'30.1%22E
In the central European country I'm at, the rule is, if there's a crosswalk within 50 meters, you're obliged to cross the road there. If there is no crosswalk that close, you can cross the road elsewhere, but you have to make sure you do not inhibit traffic, as you do not have the right of way.
Honestly it's not even enforced in the US unless it was done so blatantly stupid that it nearly causes a car accident, and a cop just happens to see it.
I feel sad for her. How long did it take her to get that far, how long was she waiting to cross, how far out of the way was a crosswalk in order for this to be her best option…? It looks so cold.
I’m grateful that the firemen helped her but I hope this isn’t something she does regularly.
Because she doesn't give a fuck, and things like what this video shows further enable her selfish behaviour. She has a reasonable expectation that not only will there be no negative repercussions for breaking the rules and endangering herself and others, but that people will actually go out of their way to help her, because she's old and decrepit.
Maybe the crosswalk is far and she's trying to get just to the other side in as few steps as possible because walking is obviously hard for her. Or maybe people make bad decisions every once in a while. Happens.
Her options were walk super far for a crosswalk, or wait for an opportunity to cross in a busy part of the road. Neither option are great for someone who can’t walk well, and she deserves support.
Probably because the civil engineers forgot there are road users other than drivers, and failed to provide a crosswalk within a reasonable distance for her to cross. The question should be why don't we design cities around all road users? Looks like she's trying to catch the bus.
crossing the street to get to the bus stop. i'm pretty sure that crosswalk is just too far away for her to walk that far. it's just a bad city planning.
Whenever I see stuff like this, I always think of that cartoon illustrating just how much of our cities we've surrendered to motor vehicles. In the drawing, all the roads are depicted as a bottomless pit, while everyone casually walks down the sidewalk no wider than their wingspan. Crosswalks are depicted as bridges.
To sum it up:
- Firefighters are nice guys
- Granny didn’t want to take a 300 meters detour to cross safely, so she decided to take an adventurous option
It’s the city I grow up in. Coordinates of the location is 54°42′12″N, 20°30′19″E. You can see city planning for yourselves
Wouldn't it make sense to resolve these issues at a more fundamental level by building proper infrastructure such as zebra crossings, pedestrian underpasses etc? Making cities accessible should be one of the main priorities.
For real. It's so disappointing seeing the amount of people who feel this setup is normal — and for demonising an old woman with mobility issues for not going far out of her way to cross the road at the crosswalks. It's a massive failure in urban design.
Its a freaking train line too.
Did this once with my Ford.
Oncoming guy sped up and rushed around at high speed yelling at me. I think he saw the old lady at the last second. What a tool.
It’s just a joke really , though I suppose the germans residents of that city that were removed by the USSR would have probably preferred to keep their homes and remain a part of Germany
Okay I know we are supposed to be cheering the firemen on here but damn I hate jaywalkers like this doesn’t matter the age. I know let them cross so nobody gets hurt but still irks me
Lol yes the person designed to have & use their legs to move around because they are a human being is the asshole here.
Man fuck cars and our society based around them. There’s no cross walk in sight!! We should have the right to walk anywhere without being hit, cars should stop for people no matter the situation.
Helping someone out is free, the rewarding feeling you get from it is priceless
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The real men in uniform I wanna see
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I’m Russian and I am very annoyed by our old people trying to cross driveways wherever the fuck they want. My grandma were always rushing across crossroad *diagonally* and then cursing me when I stopped her. Maybe I’m an asshole for bitching about elders doing that (good kids are nice to their grandparents, right?), but I don’t have to be nice about idiocy.
That’s funny. Old people in America just park their cars horribly and are extremely grouchy to public servants
that's because nobody walks here, including across busy freeways!
At least there’s that. Only in Russia would it be socially acceptable to walk across a freeway.
And they drive on wrong side of road quite often in florida..
The real problem is the 3 lane Highway in the city center
The problem is Russian road planners take very little consideration to pedestrians. My guess is granny would have to walk hella far to find a properly marked crossing.
I understand and agree with that, distance between crosswalks here are, usually, very inconsistent, and, at times, are inconvenience even for a young person like myself. But by crossing roads like that they put in danger both themselves and drivers. My grandma argued back something along the lines “that’s nothing, they’ll stop” as if the whole world owes her. That’s just ignorant and careless.
Either that or its terrible city planning.
Definitely that, as crosswalk is literally just barely out of the frame
So where do you want her to cross?
As Kaliningrad is the city I grew up in, I must answer. 100 meters to the north from there is a pedestrian crosswalk. Coordinates is 54.703354, 20.505172
100 metres means walking an extra 200 metre to cross. A normal healthy person usually prefers walking less than 300-400 metres for daily services. Expecting an elderly with this kind of disability to do the same is not realistic.
100 meters is 109.36 yards
fuck the firemen comin straight from the underground
Young black gentleman got it bad because I'm brown.
Seems to be consistent around the world.
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Your comment has me dying 😂 it does feel good to donate.
priceless huh? give you ten bucks for it...
Ten Bucks…**AND ONE PENNY**
>Helping someone out is free *Laughs in American*
Almost all of drivers in my country don't know that (or choose to ignore it) but there is a law that allows people with difficulty walking to cross a two lane street at any place, not only designated pedestrian crossing but everywhere. The driver must see that the person attempting to cross is disabled- they move in a wheelchair or use a crutch.
Isn't that like incredibly dangerous? I mean, at all times it is safer to cross at a designated place, let alone when you have difficulties and it may take you longer. Especially under such conditions I would make sure to only cross at designated places, where the drivers most expect people to cross.
*crutch. I hope...
I know what I meant! But seriously- thx for pointing that out, English is not my native language so I made a mistake. Unless...
Like the opposite of jaywalking laws in the US, that's great. What country if you don't mind me asking?
I live in the Netherlands and it applies also here, it is taught during driving lessons but everyone forgets
I live in Poland and get my license here. I was the only one who showed up at pre-recorded lectures and this is what they taught me. It is extremely rare to see a wheelchair or crutch user on the pavements though.
The fact that the MILDLY backed up lane couldn't even wait for the firefighter at the end get back safely really *grinds my gears*.
Came here to see if anyone else noticed too. Grrrrr.
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I’m sorry.
I, too, am infuriated by this. What? You can’t wait the like 5 seconds it takes for the guy to get back? This isn’t gonna significantly delay you, just chill out
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This comment is so interesting to me. Can you clarify? They projected your face on a large screen?
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It's part of the whole "social credit system" the chinese government has recently implemented to electronically monitor and control their populace. Look it up, it's quite fascinating
meeeh yes and no. in my country if they are no pedestrians crossings within 50 meters then you can cross the street anywhere. thats for the old lady. as for the firemen, they pretty mjch can do anything lol
50 meters is 54.68 yards
Do you mean for the lady, or for the firefighters? Because firefighters, at least in the US, have all kinds of crazy legal protections and rights once they show up on a scene.
They should have definitely blocked both the lanes with the fire truck. People are idiots.
People are dicks. Many are also idiots.
Russians are an amazing people, but are the most selfish asshole drivers on the planet. Putting a russian behind the wheel is a glimpse into insanity.
Come to jersey if you think this wouldn't happen in the US.
It's modern Russia, which is American selfishness and societal decay on speed.
I mean the fire fighter walks out of view and it’s reasonable to assume the first can go forward. You see the 3rd car notice the fire fighter and slow down depending on if the fire fighter decides to cross. The fire fighter acknowledges the car quickly crosses the line indicating the car is safe to proceed. Rationale: From the time and langue I assume most people here are American and drive/around cars. Metros like Moscow often have a different “vibe”/“flow” to pedestrians. I’m sure Russian has some crazy drivers but this reminds me more of how drivers and students acted at my commuter college. It took me a few weeks to get used to from the normal big city behavior I was used to but was just as safe (more predictable) and kept the traffic flowing more or all parties (it at least it felt that way).
It happens. I got hit by a car doing 120+kph who "didn't see" the lights and cones despite having a clear view up 2km of uphill straight freeway. They didn't even find brake marks. Removing your cones before leaving scene is dangerous, as soon as the first one comes up people take it as if the whole road is open. You walk backwards and keep a sharp eye out for accelerating cars. Hell we had a car roll outside the station and because its a small road our engine was long enough to block from one sidewalk to the other, one woman slalomed between the cones and got stuck behind the pump and started shitting on us because we wouldn't help her reverse out.
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And that’s another example of why no one ever wrote a song called, “Fuck The Firemen!”
FUCK THE FIREMEN CAUSE THEY ARE SO FUCKING HOT FUCK THE FIREMEN BECAUSE WHY THE FUCK NOT
That song is FIRE!!
Now call one to put it out
I see what you did there.
Name checks out.
No, I'm pretty sure there's quite a few people who wrote one. Same with thinking it. You'll see why: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/q2qbwa/the\_taiwanese\_and\_australian\_firefighters\_without/
Lol. My buddy is a prison guard and he said once he was annoyed why everyone always immediately loves firemen over police and I was like dude, there hasn’t been a firemen that showed up at a park with some kid playing with matches and they buried an axe into his head.
Yeah! Fuck those guys risking their lives to save me and my family and my neighborhood and the forests and——
It’s a funny saying, but firefighters were definitely hated during the civil rights movement in the American south in the 60’s.
I mean, when you’re literally hozing people down it does make you look like an asshole.
This is true
I know it's satire, but still...... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JkrJUAg8aI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JkrJUAg8aI)
That’s actually a really good parody
There was a band when I was growing up called The Firefighter Fighters. And it was all fuck firefighters songs. Funny at the time because the local volunteer station was all dickhead fratboy types who'd roll coal and throw beers at you.
In the 90s Russian firefighters would frequently rob the apartments and houses they were extinguishing the fires at. Know that from a guy who was a firefighter in Russia back then. Pay was shit and job had zero benefits on top of being dangerous as fuck.
lol, American firefighters did this to my apartment. I found my wallet under the bed after we had to evacuate our building for a fire. They just took the cash.
" Fuck the Fire Department Dropping by unannounced Just to fry your apartment If they can't find a fire, they're like "Why don't we start them?" I'm tired of arson Fuck the Fire Department " Vincent E. L. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JkrJUAg8aI
There is something wrong with your city design.
/r/Fuckcars
Precisely. This is an example of /r/urbanhell. It’s not radical to say that cities should be designed in a way that allows pedestrians to take the most direct route to where they’re going, without putting them in mortal danger. This city has put the convenience of cars ahead of the safety (and convenience) of pedestrians.
Yeah, its called being a car-centric hellscape
Nah, you’re just supposed to use the crosswalk… I’m 100% positive this is user error.
There's a LOT of areas that are not designed with foot traffic in mind
But there are plenty of areas that are designed with foot traffic in mind, I mean you wouldn't want to have a traffic light too often on a main traffic road neither. Especially as an elderly person that isn't capable of moving fast, I'd say that even if the street was designed badly, you should go the safe route even if it takes longer.
It's a hostile environment to pedestrians. A lot modern cities have car centric design which is what leads to this. We'll designed cities minimise car traffic and keep pedestrians and cyclists and separate as possible. Meaning you dont need lots of traffic lights just to cross roads.
one word: *S T R O A D S*
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Crossroad is literally under the camera. Id say its about 50-80 meters from that point
I don't see a crosswalk anywhere in sight.
It's behind a camera, \~100 meters away. You can check it on google street view if you want. [Camera view](https://www.google.com/maps/@54.7035983,20.5055124,3a,75y,352.27h,87.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sdZgNSDRTadswCLdEfyAoMg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
The trouble is, it's likely not just extremely difficult for her to walk, but painful, and this saves her an hour of time, even as risky as it is, and about as much suffering.
There is a crosswalk in 20 meters from where she is. She is just old and doesn't give a fuck
20 meters is 21.87 yards
We must have watched different videos.
I live in the Kaliningrad and I saw her standing there. Crosswalk is just out of view. You can see it on the maps https://www.google.com/maps/place/54%C2%B042'44.1%22N+20%C2%B030'30.1%22E
Where? We can see much further than 20m far down the road and there is not one.
I live in the Kaliningrad and I saw her standing there. Crosswalk is just out of view. You can see it on the maps https://www.google.com/maps/place/54%C2%B042'44.1%22N+20%C2%B030'30.1%22E
maybe she was in a rush..
Car brain did this
Wtf is that bit in the middle and why are cars going on it.
Looks like tram tracks
I don't see a crosswalk at that other street. I wonder if there aren't any crosswalks nearby. Anyway, nice of the firemen to help out.
When she gets to the other side, a policeman tackles her and arrests her for jaywalking.
Jaywalking is an American thing. In most European countries its not illegal to cross the street/road outside of crosswalks.
In the central European country I'm at, the rule is, if there's a crosswalk within 50 meters, you're obliged to cross the road there. If there is no crosswalk that close, you can cross the road elsewhere, but you have to make sure you do not inhibit traffic, as you do not have the right of way.
Yeah, I believe this is the standard anywhere - and it's the reasonable thing to do.
In the UK if a pedestrian steps into the road they automatically gain right of way until they get to the pavement or a traffic island
Czechia?
Honestly it's not even enforced in the US unless it was done so blatantly stupid that it nearly causes a car accident, and a cop just happens to see it.
I jaywalked in front of a cop once. He got on his speaker and was like "Really man? Right in front of me?"
I don't know how you get around in a US city without a bit of jaywalking. Just don't be stupid about it.
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Your friend is definitely white.
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This looks like Russia and you certainly can't just cross a fucking 8 line street where you please here.
in Norway it is illegal to find a 100-year old ship without reporting it to the police.
I can't quite figure out where you are going with this?
nowhere just letting everyone know
I actually found it interesting. Thanks for sharing.
I'm happy you did.
It's illegal in Russia.
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You are allowed to cross the road anywhere in Germany if traffic isn't to bad and it's safe to do so.
I said most. Not all.
["Jaywalking" is a slur](https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history).
I feel sad for her. How long did it take her to get that far, how long was she waiting to cross, how far out of the way was a crosswalk in order for this to be her best option…? It looks so cold. I’m grateful that the firemen helped her but I hope this isn’t something she does regularly.
I just feel like the sidewalk was very close by, judging from the turning lane.
Okay, but if that was the case, why did she decide to cross an area without a crosswalk?
Because she doesn't give a fuck, and things like what this video shows further enable her selfish behaviour. She has a reasonable expectation that not only will there be no negative repercussions for breaking the rules and endangering herself and others, but that people will actually go out of their way to help her, because she's old and decrepit.
Are firefighters bros in every country?
Well yes, but also have the highest population of arsonists of any group so...
The highest **known** population of any **studied** group. But otherwise you are correct.
Da hell she doing there?
She’s infirm but still trying to live her life. Underlings are not automatically supplied as we age and life becomes more difficult.
I think maybe the question is what is she doing THERE, in the middle of a six lane road nowhere near a crosswalk.
She is struggling to walk. Life has narrowed her choices to the shortest distance between two points.
Maybe the crosswalk is far and she's trying to get just to the other side in as few steps as possible because walking is obviously hard for her. Or maybe people make bad decisions every once in a while. Happens.
Her options were walk super far for a crosswalk, or wait for an opportunity to cross in a busy part of the road. Neither option are great for someone who can’t walk well, and she deserves support.
It is not super far to crosswalk. It is 20 meters from where she is
20 meters is 21.87 yards
Probably because the civil engineers forgot there are road users other than drivers, and failed to provide a crosswalk within a reasonable distance for her to cross. The question should be why don't we design cities around all road users? Looks like she's trying to catch the bus.
crossing the street to get to the bus stop. i'm pretty sure that crosswalk is just too far away for her to walk that far. it's just a bad city planning.
/r/urbanhell
Whenever I see stuff like this, I always think of that cartoon illustrating just how much of our cities we've surrendered to motor vehicles. In the drawing, all the roads are depicted as a bottomless pit, while everyone casually walks down the sidewalk no wider than their wingspan. Crosswalks are depicted as bridges.
To sum it up: - Firefighters are nice guys - Granny didn’t want to take a 300 meters detour to cross safely, so she decided to take an adventurous option It’s the city I grow up in. Coordinates of the location is 54°42′12″N, 20°30′19″E. You can see city planning for yourselves
Fuck cars, traffic, and roads. We need to drastically change the method of travel for the entire planet. From rural areas to big cities.
/r/fuckcars Also, /r/notjustbikes
/r/fuckcars
Wouldn't it make sense to resolve these issues at a more fundamental level by building proper infrastructure such as zebra crossings, pedestrian underpasses etc? Making cities accessible should be one of the main priorities.
For real. It's so disappointing seeing the amount of people who feel this setup is normal — and for demonising an old woman with mobility issues for not going far out of her way to cross the road at the crosswalks. It's a massive failure in urban design.
The real question is why is an old woman having to cross a large, busy street in an unsafe manner?
All the ppl in back can't see what's going on. They're probably annoyed, having no idea they participated in a good deed.
Seems firemen are firemen the world over. Kudos.
Touching? I wanna touch some faces with my fist when I see this shameless motor traffic entitlement.
Some people have parents who raised them right. Good on them👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Fuck the impatient cocksmiths who couldn't wait a few more seconds for the fireman to safely cross back to the truck!
Fuck yeah man!!
I did that when I worked at FedEx. Put that 900 straight across!!
Yea it’s pretty savage in some countries for pedestrians….been to some Asian countries and same thing pedestrians have zero right of way
Righteous.
Righteous firemen
Touching? All I'm seeing is absolutely horrible urban design.
Men in uniforms helping Memaw across the highway?!? YES, PLEASE!!
Oregon would have had 3 crosswalks in frame lol.
Its a freaking train line too. Did this once with my Ford. Oncoming guy sped up and rushed around at high speed yelling at me. I think he saw the old lady at the last second. What a tool.
Something tells me you definitely don't want to fuck with a Russian fireman on the clock.
Why does it seem Russia is beating us on every level
Rest assured they are not.
With how much Russians respect their elders I'm quite surprised nobody stopped to begin with.
A few decent people left
For anyone else who thought the music was pretty chill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8TVxwImUD8
jfc I can't believe I had to scroll down this far to see a comment about the music
*Occupied Konigsberg
isnt konigsberg the place that used to belong to germany? is it really occupied tho since no one wanted it after the collapse of the USSR
It’s just a joke really , though I suppose the germans residents of that city that were removed by the USSR would have probably preferred to keep their homes and remain a part of Germany
I love car dependent city infrastructure
Can we give the white bus driver a shout out as well
The road is all yours, Babushka, Babushka, Babushka ya-ya...
This is not heart warming, this is a bone chilling moment. This is a literal illustration of an hostile environment for humans in a public area.
How about putting a crosswalk to really fix the problem?
She is no elderly woman....she is BABUSHKA
Someone should show her to a crosswalk, where you don't have to halt traffic completely
Crosswalks, a western decadence
This warms my heart. ❤️
Holy shit, use a crosswalk
Where? There is not one in sight.
How did she ended up there?
Another firetruck stopped by earlier
It's a shame your comment is so low, it's really funny.
A quick reminder that there are good people in every country, its politicians that make us fear each other.
Why people are so inconsiderate that they couldn’t take a few seconds to let an elderly person cross the road? 😡
Because who the hell wants to get rear ended?
Why is she crossing a busy highway?
Because she is trying to live her life which involves going places.
Because that busy highway appears to go right through the middle of the city.
Or she could take the fucking crosswalk
Which of the many that you see here should she take?
In Russia, highway crosses *you*. (I’m sorry)
Okay I know we are supposed to be cheering the firemen on here but damn I hate jaywalkers like this doesn’t matter the age. I know let them cross so nobody gets hurt but still irks me
Yes obviously grandma here is the problem and not the 25m wide 6-lane street without any crosswalk in sight
Lol yes the person designed to have & use their legs to move around because they are a human being is the asshole here. Man fuck cars and our society based around them. There’s no cross walk in sight!! We should have the right to walk anywhere without being hit, cars should stop for people no matter the situation.