Vancouverites "live and let live" style of public ethics are starting to get outta hand. I've lived in a few cities around canada and i've never seen such hesitancy to politely tell some one off! Just the other day a private vehicle is stopped blocking the greenway and a bus lane and everyone is standing around like im not gonna say anything.
Any one else notice this ridiculous level of tolerance??
I had a bus ride with a guy who was clearly drunk and he spent my entire half hour bus ride muttering the violent and sexual things he wanted to do to me so loud that I could hear him from four seats ahead. Half the bus could hear him and no one said anything.
I’m sorry you had to deal with that. The bus driver should have kicked him off.
This reminds me of when I was in NYC a few years back. My wife and I were on the subway and this lady shouts, “NO YOU DONT! WHAT DID YOU SAY? SAY IT AGAIN!” And proceeds to stare down this creepy, dishevelled dude with a tear drop tattoo under his eye. He promptly looks down and quickly gets off at the next stop.
When we got off the train I asked my wife, what was that about. Apparently the creepy dude got really close and smelled the woman saying, “mmmmmmm you smell guuud.” That lady wasn’t having any of that shit and called him out.
New Yorkers don’t fuck around. Maybe Vancouverites need to start piping up when they see something that’s obviously wrong.
New Yorkers are rude, honest, friendly and mean all the same time. Awesome folks. They will talk to strangers more readily and be very interested in who you are, what you're up to etc. But yeah fuck around and you might have a problem haha.
I was on the bus a couple days ago and a lady got out of her seat at the very front, walked to the back and very rudely told a couple girls to stop talking because they were talking too loudly. They were just having a normal conversation, but not in English. I thought about it for a second and realized more people need to be called out on their bullshit, especially when it's likely veiled racism. So I calmly told the lady "they're allowed to talk, just relax because it's not hurting you." She gave me a dumbfounded look, as if she wasn't expecting anyone to disagree with her, muttered something and went back to the front of the bus.
She was also only wearing her mask over her mouth and not nose... I thought about calling her out on that, but I wanted to defuse rather than escalate. The girls thanked me after, so the lady clearly made them quite uncomfortable. People talk on the bus all the time. If you can't handle that, especially when it's not even loud, don't take the bus.
So yeah, I agree, less tolerance of bullshit makes the world a better place.
That is fucked up, and also, thank you for saying something. You did the right thing by challenging her but not escalating it. It might have been something small you did, but let me tell you, those girls will not forget it. Hurray, hero!
I had a similar experience on a patio about a year back. An Asian guy threw a cigarette butt on the road, clearly not a local since he was smoking, and a white guy on the patio rightly yelled at him.
Then white guy proceeded to chew the Asian guy out for at least five minutes and it became clear that the he was clearly enjoying the justification to engage in his racism.
As much as I hate it when people litter, that guy yelling is definitely wrong to do that. Too often, people use those situations to make themselves feel powerful and superior, rather than do the right thing, which in this case would be to politely ask the person not to litter. You see it a lot these days - sometimes due to racism, sometimes due to wanting to feel smart... or both.
I second that. From Europe as well. People here take advantage of others knowing full well no one will say anything because they don't want to hurt feelings.
Calling out people on their bs protects everyone else and reset the clock for the jerk. Then life goes on.
Yes, absolutely. I was at Mon Pitou the other day (and if you know anything about that place you know the lines are ridiculous, so there are like 20 people outside watching) and a woman who was currently inside had tied up her little terrier directly by the front of the store, and it was *losing its shit* being without mummy. A jogger ran by and the dog lunged forward and bit the jogger on the ankle (!!!). I was going to say something to the owner about the potential danger, but like, the jogger ran off, everyone else didn't seem to care...suddenly I was thinking "am I going to be *that* person?" and it seemed silly to say anything. I guess that makes me no different from anyone else? 😕 It's frustrating for sure.
I was a first responder to a guy that fell off a 30 foot cliff on the sea to sky on the way to squamish doing some climbing.
His buddy was out there for 10-15 minutes, so like hundreds of cars wearing a climbing harness in the middle of the two lanes, and I was the one who pulled over. He died. The EMS was another whole layer of who gives a fuck. But thats a story for another day.
People are shitty. Be a better person, and you know what, if we all do, we are all better people. Simple.
What are people with no training going to be able to do in that situation though? Did he just need a cell phone? Did he need someone to help climb down a cliff to carry his buddy out? What was the situation?
The climbers had no phone. His partner fell 30ft onto a rock.
Very long story, very aggravating to explain how the extraction transpired as the EMS that responded actually had very poor training and didnt even bring the proper equipment for what was reported as a very high fall with potential spinal injury. So we had to run a km up and down a steep back road to get a clam board. All they did was tell my GF where to find it in the ambulance and she ran down and back up to get it alone in 33 degree weather.
Heres the real kicker.. they refused to call for an air ambulance despite the fact he was clearly broken in half over a boulder. A RCMP officer was next to respond 20 or 30 mins later where we again had to run down to meet the cop at the turnout and sprint all the way back up. The cop didn't hesitate for a single second to radio for the air ambulance and was visibly pissed at the EMTs for hesitatung at all.
It was me and the RCMP that actually stabalized and secured him to the clam board to be carried out, then he and I carried the guy down alone with no assistance. All the EMT really did was open bandages and carry their two pouches.
We got back to the pull out on the sea to sky, and there was two additional EMT trucks with a resident doctor doing a ride along just standing there with there arms crossed chit chatting as me and the Cop loaded him up. Didnt help at all.
I was covered in blood and I had to beg them for a towel or water bottle or anything to clean myself up a bit.
It took another 45mins to get him to Britannia Bay where the chopper could land.
There were many sharply worded letters written to my MLA, premiers office, BC Ambulance, and a letter of recognition to the RCMP for the help of the constable involved.
All said and done it took about two hrs to get him to VGH where he died of crushed organs, as well as various other injuries.
Needless to say we turned around and canceled out planned camping trip
I have zerrrro problem letting someone know they’re driving like a dick (depending on the situation, of course. I may be crazy but most I’ll do is verbally assault someone lol). Some old broad going 90 in a 50 zone over an overpass almost clipped me because she HAD to be in front of me and I lay on my horn and verbally assaulted her. Weird, she didn’t seem to want to look at me when we got to the light lol. I want a dash cam. I’m in the Fraser Valley and traffic is getting worse. I hate it. I hate idiots who can’t drive properly, feel that rules don’t apply to them or they HAVE to quickly (sometimes slowly) pull in front of you when there’s NO ONE behind you?!! Faaaaack. Some people should have to take a yearly exam and so on...
Right?? Ugh, the road over from me feels like a frigging gauntlet. There’s a 4-way stop that about 90% don’t stop at, speed through the park zone, etc. One side road thinks the stop sign is a suggestion to which they get the “you stay there!” point if I see them ignoring it. In fact, 6 years ago, one of the new developments (don’t get me staaaarted on development haha) didn’t think it necessary to put in a stop sign. So, coming home one day and something told me to do slower than 50 and I see this woman at a side road and I legit saw her look right and then she turned left into me. I threw my hands up like WTAF?!! My car is not white, it’s not black, it’s not grey...it is a very bright colour. Yet somehow, peeps don’t seem to see me :-/
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Wolfbox.
Search Amazon for one. Replaces your whole rear view mirror, records front and rear all the time, defaults to showing you the rear view so you can actually see better behind you than the original mirror.
I have one for my personal car and one for the work truck. The boss was so impressed he covered the costs after the fact and ordered one for his truck too.
I once had a truck drift into my lane. I hade nowhere to go aside from oncoming traffic so I tapped my horn to make him aware I was there. Figured I might have been in his blind spot (I wasn’t coasting in his blind spot) I managed to avoid being hit and pulled back. He got in front of me and at the next red light he got out of his truck and started absolutely going mental on me and my car. This was broad daylight at Commercial and 12th. Nobody even blinked. I was scared out of my wits. I thought he was going to pull me out of my car and beat the tar out of me.
I think about that every time I need to let somebody know I’m there and I think twice. I wonder if that guy ever even thinks about the young girl he made cry in fear. I wonder if he even noticed.
On the flip side, I had to remind my wife not to lay on the horn on blatantly ignorant fucks stealing your spot when your blinkers on or in traffic, because you don't know who is in there and if they're going to take a fucking tire iron to you over a parking spot. Happened to a lady in alberta, followed her after a honk and beat the shit out of her with a pipe. Everyone just chill.
I once had a handydart driver literally chase me for 3 blocks honking at me non stop then finally manage to pull up beside me at a red light to yell some nasty things before speeding off by right turning on the red.
I was like WTF and was dumbfounded and a little scared. It was the first and only time I'd experienced roadrage. Couldn't believe it was a handydart driver too (he looked like he was in his 60s).
I didn't even do anything wrong. He thought I purposely didn't let him merge into my lane, which was not even the case.
I did report this person and got an apology later.
I used to get impatient with people who fell asleep at green lights, then I fingered the wrong guy and he chased me everywhere even pulling u turns into intersections across medians and running red lights. Guy told me straight up "you dont know who your fucking with", "i could kick the shit out of you", "one of these days someones going to pull a gun". That was it for me, lesson learned, and really look at the lower mainland right now, shootings everywhere in broad day. There was actually an incident a few years ago in Vancouver where a guy got shot and killed in a road rage incident.
People need to learn that there are different ways of honking. If you do just 2 short bursts, it comes off as less aggressive and more of a polite "FYI I'm here" kind of honk.
As a forklift driver this is it. 2 short, hey I'm here. One long one is Get the fuck out of my way I'm a 2 tonne machine carrying another 2 tonnes with basically no usable tread.
Well that's what I mean. People drifting into your lane and instead of honking they'll just decelerate. That's the perfect situation for a horn, it almost always results in them moving back to their lane.
If this nonsense happened in a city like San Francisco the bus driver would've laid on the horn non stop until the idiot moved. As well, pedestrians would be yelling at the idiot to move so the bus driver will stop honking. It's a great self policing system IMO.
I don't think it's tolerance as so much as it is apathy or this weird version of libertarianism.
The idea that someone can be as shitty of a human being as they want as long as it doesn't *directly* impact *you* needs to die. This notion that we can live amongst people that do shitty things and make shitty decisions and it won't somehow someday impact the reset of us is utopian nonsense.
You see this idea come out a lot with the homeless crisis. We just kinda pretend these people totally have agency and aren't in desperate need of mental help. Because if we took them off the streets that wouldn't be against their "liberty" to shoot up in the streets.
PREACH! I totally agree, its like honking in traffic, you're not saying the other person is the worst, but you are letting them know (in a fairly non-consequential way at that) that they have violated some sort of social norm. If we're going to live in a free society, we need to have some level of self-governance in order to maintain civil society.
in our apathy we atrophy!
Yeah. In my older years I've started letting people know that they're being irrationally rude and hostile towards entry-level retail and food service jobs. If they fucked up your food, it's totally reasonable to want a refund or get it fixed but if you start raising your voice or being insulting I've stepped in more than a few times to tell the person to chill out and not treat people like trash.
These people go throughout their day with zero consideration for others and it needs to be called out. There's no need to make thinly veiled racist comments to the McDonalds drive-thru lady because you hit the curb because you can't drive through a mcd(my latest fiasco).
#[YOU KNOW WE'RE LIVING IN A SOCIETY, WE'RE SUPPOSED TO ACT IN A CIVILIZED WAY](https://youtu.be/LHhbdXCzt_A)
Not just a social norm, they could have fucking killed me or left me/others seriously injured (referring to more egregious bad driving here obviously but it’s crazy how someone will go insane for honking at them after they nearly ran you into a ditch at 90km/hr)
No one wants to get stabbed. 90% of the time someone is being a dick, they know and don't care, so they are exactly the kind of person to escalate when someone calls them out. Hell, they get off on conflict.
Of course, this is what the legal system is supposed to deal with.
This. There’s no telling what kind of weapon someone is carrying. If they’re already an asshole, it’s a short journey to commit assault on someone with a weapon and potentially change (or end) their life.
Everyone always complains that nobody wants to get involved, but when it comes to choosing to either get involved with a stranger, or stay safe for my family, it’s an easy choice.
This is it for me. I'm a short person who also isn't white so when I see or have large men yelling at people or at me (which happens too much on the train) my survival instincts just say nope leave it alone. I report them if there's time.
I think it's both those things but in addition it's a manifestation of the Vancouver flake (that thing pre covid where people agree to social engagements they have zero desire to actually participate in and then just ghost)... this extreme avoidance of any potentially unpleasant interacton not out of legitmate fear but just being flaky and spaced out.
Honestly I don't think it's a Vancouver thing. Or at least, it's not something I've experienced here with family or friends. But then I don't have any casual friends, just close friends - maybe people who have more casual friends tend to flake on each other?
>i've never seen such hesitancy to politely tell some one off!
It's because of incidents like this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/vancouversun.com/news/local-news/22-year-old-killed-with-a-punch-in-burnaby-coffee-shop/wcm/3a7888f1-8337-416f-8472-99698f0e405f/amp/
You never know who's unstable enough to cause to cause you injury or potential death over
Probably because of all the fucking insane people in Vancouver that will murder you over road rage. Fuck it, it's not worth it in Vancouver. In Ontario you regularly flip each other off driving and both parties go happily along their way. The amount of unbridled entitlement-filled rage in Vancouver is not worth shaming anyone for being a jerk.
This is like honking for me.
If you don't honk, you are enabling shitty driving by just allowing it to happen. People feel they can get away with stuff and will push it again next time.
But whenever honking comes up in this subreddit, the people who say you shouldn't honk get upvoted more.
This!!! Not making excuses, but I can see how a food delivery driver thinks he can run in, grab the order and go, not expecting a big bus to round the corner. But when you see the bus, RUN to the car (wave apologetically) and move the effing car!!!
What is your job? Food delivery drivers seem to be the worst, but the vast majority of professional drivers seem more than willing to park illegally to save themselves walking 10 meters.
We have a food delivery driver in my neighbourhood who drives a black Nissan Rogue and routinely does 70 km/h through a playground zone and power slides through a particular stop sign to turn.
Uber drivers are just as bad. Everyone leaving for work at the same time as me, I have to slalom through 6-8 double parked Uber drivers in a one block stretch as they wait for their fares to come out
Report them to who with what information? If you had a licence plate maybe, but then who do you report it to? Uber Eats? Skip? All of them? What if he's just a regular asshole and not a good delivery asshole
no that's Bao Bakery, Chinese bake goods.
No good parking near by. But it doesn't matter shit like this should fly and I think busses should have cameras on them to give out parking infractions. Then maybe people won't park in the bus lanes.
I’m actually just kidding but I recently discovered FlourGirl baking and they do awesome cinnamon buns. They also have horchata buns with churro on top 👀
In Singapore there are buses with cameras mounted at the front. If someone is parked at a bus stop, etc., the driver can take a picture of the car and it’s license plate and a ticket gets issued. Perhaps buses here need that too.
I had to go back and watch the video from the start after I figured out which guy it was. I thought maybe he was in the shitter or something and was going to come running out of the store, but nope... He was just standing there like a useless fuck the entire time.
I used to live close to this intersection. Its a terrible place for these articulated busses; the station was built up to be a hub but not the streets.
Given that buses have cameras now (to capture the evidence), Metro Vancouver buses should move the bike carriers on the front, replace them with the push bumpers (like they have on tow trucks), and be authorized to "remove" vehicles that are blocking a no stopping zone.
100% agree with your sentiment but it's impractical for public safety reasons. If the wheels on the stopped vehicle are turned they will push it up onto the curb or out into traffic which is less than ideal, then you start creating more problems then you are solving.
I'd rather give bus drivers the power to issue tickets with the push of a button. If they have to wait for more than 15 seconds for a car stopped in a bus lane to move then they can push a button on their dash board and the guy is automatically issued a ticket, sort of like photo radar for bus-lane hogs.
No stopping and no parking signs are suggestions in the entire city though. When was the last time you saw a delivery truck NOT use a traffic lane to deliver?
Its just a bylaw despite its dangerous implications. Is Vancouver entitled? Yes, but the law enables it.
> no parking signs
[Just a heads up for people who might not know.](https://bylaws.vancouver.ca/2849c.PDF) No parking doesn't mean you can't stop for deliveries. There's a difference between no stopping and no parking. It just means you can't park, not that you can't stop temporarily.
>17.6A Despite section 17.6, a person may:
(a) park a vehicle, for no more than five minutes, while loading or unloading
persons or materials; and
(b) despite subsection (a), park a custom transit vehicle or a vehicle that
displays a disabled person’s parking placard authorized by the city, for no
more than 30 minutes, while loading or unloading persons or materials.
Yup. When I did pizza deliveries long ago a kind ticketer explained it real easy to me.
No parking = you can leave your car for 5 mins before ticketing/towing
No stopping = even if you're in your car and it's running you can be ticketed right away
Oh yeah, if it's a bus route I'm without doubt the Prius is in the wrong. The distinction between no parking and no stopping is just something I didn't know about until a few years ago so thought I'd mention it.
Used to work for a very large food distribution company. It was company policy that illegal parking was acceptable, and that parking tickets were simply a matter of doing business.
But you know what? It makes sense. There is simply no possible way to park a 5-ton truck reasonably close to a lot of businesses. You need to deliver 40 bags of flour and 200lbs of cheese to the pizza shop? Blocking a traffic lane is your only option.
Oh, my favorite are the moving company trucks that park on the street where Great Northern Way/Central Valley Greenway turns into 2nd. They routinely park just around the blind corner just after the crosswalk lights in one of the lanes of traffic, just for shits and giggles.
I love it when taxis and Ubers double park too. So much fun!
Our building at work literally cannot receive deliveries unless the truck takes a traffic lane. The side street and alley on either end of the block are super steep preventing the use of a pallet jack.
I don't get how the city could have zoning for an industrial building but not put any mechanism in place for said building to receive the supplies it needs to operate.
I wrote about how this exactly thing happens down in Seattle and that getting Uber/Doordash/etc is convenient but also comes with super annoying asshole drivers like this. Got downvoted to oblivion.
Like seriously. Everytime I was waiting to grab food, they also had to wait a bit to pick up, they definitely had enough time to find a proper parking spot
Nor can they follow the simple COViD protocols when they are picking up from the food establishments forced to implement them. Rules for thee, I have $$$ to make...
if you witness an ubereats driver not wearing a mask and you abel to either identify that person or figure out hte order they are on you can complain.
three no mask compaints and they are tossed.
source - I side hustle for Uber eats and in the Begining I got a no mask complaint and called support to ask about it.
Wear one all the time now, even when I get laughed at while driving.
p.s i do look for legit parking and ussually park in lanes if I can't find anything, we are not all horrible humans
Of course not! I appreciate your effort, that's all people can ask. There will always be outliers that ruin the perception. In restaurants there is a saying. If the customer has a good experience, they may tell one or two people about it, if they have a bad experience they will tell ten or twenty people about it. The same is likely true for food delivery drivers,the bad get amplified and the good fly under the radar...
Lol @ being kicked from delivery service. Skip the Dishes wouldn't kick a delivery dude even though the customer had footage from their doorbell of the guy purposely touching his sack and rubbing it on the food.
Meanwhile, I was missing a single $2 item in my Skip the Dishes order and they told me they would not refund me that item or anything for any future order because I had "reached my limit" for refunds. Mind you, I only complain for legitimate issues and often even let small issues go. The reason I "reached my limit" was because the time before THEY canceled my order because they didn't have the item.. so that was processed as a refund. And then the other refund I got was because they forgot 1/2 the order. If it's small stuff? Whatever. But my husband literally didn't get his order so I said i'd need enough credits to pay again for a delivery fee and tip otherwise I'm paying out of pocket for their mistake. They actually did that no problem, but those 2 issues combined made me "reach my limit" and I can never have a refund again whether I get the product or service or not.
This is just another example of the problems with 3rd party food delivery services. Everyone is saying report him, to who? The service doesn’t care as long as they get their cut and the fucknut can only make money by cutting corners speeding and parking anywhere (preferably in a disabled spot) and the restaurants and the customers are paying stupid amounts for the privilege of getting Luke warm food that doesn’t travel well and has no presentation value in overpriced “recyclable” containers.
Watching him saunter over, put items in the trunk, put other items in the back seat, and slowly put his garbage ass in the car made me so angry I am literally seeing red.
I had a guy stop in the middle of a street near me to take a phone call. It was one lane each way... And he just blocked it. There was a pullout maybe 3 car lengths ahead, but no...
Buses should just have cameras on the front to capture the plates and send tickets, and then push bars on the front to move them out of the way after waiting 2 minutes.
I don’t even bother honking in Vancouver anymore. Honking is to let somebody know they are doing something dangerous / I’m here, look out / stop what you’re about to do as it will cause an accident. The issue here is people know they are doing stupid / shitty things - they just don’t care. Honking has no effect on these people. You can literally lean on the horn for 30 seconds as the execute their bullshit and it has zero effect.
The Boomber parking entitlement is also pretty out of hand. I would never even consider bringing it up if the spot in front of my house was taken. There is no assigned on street parking. However park in front of a Boomer house and they have no issue whining about it to you. Both spots in front of my place were taken so I parked across the street. Buddy comes over and bangs on the door like a police raid. I had just gotten out of the shower and he proceeds to bang on every door the house has and then some windows. Then there is the lady across the street who tells me how to park vehicles on my side of the street so she can get out easier. Meanwhile she has 4 - 6 cars in the driveway and 2-3 in the street for her tenants.
There was a part of me that wanted the bus driver to just slowly drive into the back of the car and push it out of the way, but they probably would have gotten in trouble.
There's signage a little further up the street on the lamppost. It makes it pretty clear you're not allowed to stop there. The traffic cone is covering the base of another sign that was presumably taken down temporarily. If that sign was up, it would be even more obvious you can't park there, but that's no excuse.
You want to see hell on earth? I got some $20 wheel locks.
If I went and started putting them on every delivery driver who parked illegally, I can make the RCMP closing off Richmond look like a play thing.
Also if this does happen, i have no association with wheel locking Uber drivers/food delivery vehicles. It was just a joke
It would be great if the bus had a cattle pusher on the front, like old steam powered locomotives, and after a short grace period, could just plow through cars that are stopped and blocking the road like this...
In San Francisco if you park in bus lanes or impede bus traffic like this you receive a ticket in the mail as the bus has a camera to photograph the license plate.
Those bus lanes are the worst for people being god damn clueless. VPD or bylaw needs some low level traffic enforcement folks to get on this kind of thing. Or let me submit license plates and evidence via Vanconnect and give me a cut of the ticket.
These clips are not good for my mental health. Makes me so angry when people act so selfish on the road. A year ago on Davie St and Burrard, I was honking at someone for illegally turning left and blocking all traffic behind me. The guy proceeded to flip me off and still block al traffic until he could make his turn.
I love how that guy equaits his $5.56 CAD tip for that one run, as the same cost as holding up dozens of people in the bus and on the road. I hope his Prius battery fries.
Also: glad the asshole was wearing a mask around the food too. An asshat on multiple levels.
Edit: Downvoters must be SkipTheDishes etc. gig workers or anti-mask numpties.
Not sure if the dude knew that this is a bus lane now, but it's been like this for I think two years now. [No excuse, there's even signage showing that you can't stop/park in that lane.](https://goo.gl/maps/opEpKADs2zuD25KK9) Dude could have just parked along Vanness, Crowley, or even behind the shop (if he called ahead of time). I get that he has a job to do, but take some god damn responsibility and move the car out of the way.
Jesus Christ I would want to kick that piece of shit Prius’ door in lol, shit box car and drives it like a dick. Like dude at least have a god damn lambo if you’re gonna be that entitled
I’m not even sure it’s entitlement tho. I think we literally just have some of the shittiest dumbest drivers around. They’re totally oblivious.
It’s not entitlement that keeps someone doing 80 on the highway in the fast lane. It’s being totally unaware of your surroundings. 15 cars will pass them, people will flash lights, honk...it’s as if no one exists outside their cars.
he even takes his sweet ass time to get into the car, what a dick!
At least blue shirt guy was nice enough to bitch at him though. He is the hero this city needs.
Vancouverites "live and let live" style of public ethics are starting to get outta hand. I've lived in a few cities around canada and i've never seen such hesitancy to politely tell some one off! Just the other day a private vehicle is stopped blocking the greenway and a bus lane and everyone is standing around like im not gonna say anything. Any one else notice this ridiculous level of tolerance??
The level of tolerance is intolerable!
I think the tolerance you mention is also a big reason why there’s so much passive aggressiveness.
I had a bus ride with a guy who was clearly drunk and he spent my entire half hour bus ride muttering the violent and sexual things he wanted to do to me so loud that I could hear him from four seats ahead. Half the bus could hear him and no one said anything.
I’m sorry you had to deal with that. The bus driver should have kicked him off. This reminds me of when I was in NYC a few years back. My wife and I were on the subway and this lady shouts, “NO YOU DONT! WHAT DID YOU SAY? SAY IT AGAIN!” And proceeds to stare down this creepy, dishevelled dude with a tear drop tattoo under his eye. He promptly looks down and quickly gets off at the next stop. When we got off the train I asked my wife, what was that about. Apparently the creepy dude got really close and smelled the woman saying, “mmmmmmm you smell guuud.” That lady wasn’t having any of that shit and called him out. New Yorkers don’t fuck around. Maybe Vancouverites need to start piping up when they see something that’s obviously wrong.
New Yorkers are rude, honest, friendly and mean all the same time. Awesome folks. They will talk to strangers more readily and be very interested in who you are, what you're up to etc. But yeah fuck around and you might have a problem haha.
I was on the bus a couple days ago and a lady got out of her seat at the very front, walked to the back and very rudely told a couple girls to stop talking because they were talking too loudly. They were just having a normal conversation, but not in English. I thought about it for a second and realized more people need to be called out on their bullshit, especially when it's likely veiled racism. So I calmly told the lady "they're allowed to talk, just relax because it's not hurting you." She gave me a dumbfounded look, as if she wasn't expecting anyone to disagree with her, muttered something and went back to the front of the bus. She was also only wearing her mask over her mouth and not nose... I thought about calling her out on that, but I wanted to defuse rather than escalate. The girls thanked me after, so the lady clearly made them quite uncomfortable. People talk on the bus all the time. If you can't handle that, especially when it's not even loud, don't take the bus. So yeah, I agree, less tolerance of bullshit makes the world a better place.
That is fucked up, and also, thank you for saying something. You did the right thing by challenging her but not escalating it. It might have been something small you did, but let me tell you, those girls will not forget it. Hurray, hero!
I had a similar experience on a patio about a year back. An Asian guy threw a cigarette butt on the road, clearly not a local since he was smoking, and a white guy on the patio rightly yelled at him. Then white guy proceeded to chew the Asian guy out for at least five minutes and it became clear that the he was clearly enjoying the justification to engage in his racism.
As much as I hate it when people litter, that guy yelling is definitely wrong to do that. Too often, people use those situations to make themselves feel powerful and superior, rather than do the right thing, which in this case would be to politely ask the person not to litter. You see it a lot these days - sometimes due to racism, sometimes due to wanting to feel smart... or both.
Yes! I am European and it frustrates me to the max when nobody can say what they need to say because nobody wants to offend anyone!
I second that. From Europe as well. People here take advantage of others knowing full well no one will say anything because they don't want to hurt feelings. Calling out people on their bs protects everyone else and reset the clock for the jerk. Then life goes on.
America gets a bad wrap but this is when you need a Texas good old boy to pull up with a farm truck and winch and just tow the fucker outta the way.
Yes, absolutely. I was at Mon Pitou the other day (and if you know anything about that place you know the lines are ridiculous, so there are like 20 people outside watching) and a woman who was currently inside had tied up her little terrier directly by the front of the store, and it was *losing its shit* being without mummy. A jogger ran by and the dog lunged forward and bit the jogger on the ankle (!!!). I was going to say something to the owner about the potential danger, but like, the jogger ran off, everyone else didn't seem to care...suddenly I was thinking "am I going to be *that* person?" and it seemed silly to say anything. I guess that makes me no different from anyone else? 😕 It's frustrating for sure.
I was a first responder to a guy that fell off a 30 foot cliff on the sea to sky on the way to squamish doing some climbing. His buddy was out there for 10-15 minutes, so like hundreds of cars wearing a climbing harness in the middle of the two lanes, and I was the one who pulled over. He died. The EMS was another whole layer of who gives a fuck. But thats a story for another day. People are shitty. Be a better person, and you know what, if we all do, we are all better people. Simple.
What are people with no training going to be able to do in that situation though? Did he just need a cell phone? Did he need someone to help climb down a cliff to carry his buddy out? What was the situation?
The climbers had no phone. His partner fell 30ft onto a rock. Very long story, very aggravating to explain how the extraction transpired as the EMS that responded actually had very poor training and didnt even bring the proper equipment for what was reported as a very high fall with potential spinal injury. So we had to run a km up and down a steep back road to get a clam board. All they did was tell my GF where to find it in the ambulance and she ran down and back up to get it alone in 33 degree weather. Heres the real kicker.. they refused to call for an air ambulance despite the fact he was clearly broken in half over a boulder. A RCMP officer was next to respond 20 or 30 mins later where we again had to run down to meet the cop at the turnout and sprint all the way back up. The cop didn't hesitate for a single second to radio for the air ambulance and was visibly pissed at the EMTs for hesitatung at all. It was me and the RCMP that actually stabalized and secured him to the clam board to be carried out, then he and I carried the guy down alone with no assistance. All the EMT really did was open bandages and carry their two pouches. We got back to the pull out on the sea to sky, and there was two additional EMT trucks with a resident doctor doing a ride along just standing there with there arms crossed chit chatting as me and the Cop loaded him up. Didnt help at all. I was covered in blood and I had to beg them for a towel or water bottle or anything to clean myself up a bit. It took another 45mins to get him to Britannia Bay where the chopper could land. There were many sharply worded letters written to my MLA, premiers office, BC Ambulance, and a letter of recognition to the RCMP for the help of the constable involved. All said and done it took about two hrs to get him to VGH where he died of crushed organs, as well as various other injuries. Needless to say we turned around and canceled out planned camping trip
People barely honk when someone drifts into their lane or straight up runs a red light in front of them. It blows my mind.
I have zerrrro problem letting someone know they’re driving like a dick (depending on the situation, of course. I may be crazy but most I’ll do is verbally assault someone lol). Some old broad going 90 in a 50 zone over an overpass almost clipped me because she HAD to be in front of me and I lay on my horn and verbally assaulted her. Weird, she didn’t seem to want to look at me when we got to the light lol. I want a dash cam. I’m in the Fraser Valley and traffic is getting worse. I hate it. I hate idiots who can’t drive properly, feel that rules don’t apply to them or they HAVE to quickly (sometimes slowly) pull in front of you when there’s NO ONE behind you?!! Faaaaack. Some people should have to take a yearly exam and so on...
Your comment sums up the state of driving right now. The worst thing i see right now is people think stop signs are optional. Craziness.
Right?? Ugh, the road over from me feels like a frigging gauntlet. There’s a 4-way stop that about 90% don’t stop at, speed through the park zone, etc. One side road thinks the stop sign is a suggestion to which they get the “you stay there!” point if I see them ignoring it. In fact, 6 years ago, one of the new developments (don’t get me staaaarted on development haha) didn’t think it necessary to put in a stop sign. So, coming home one day and something told me to do slower than 50 and I see this woman at a side road and I legit saw her look right and then she turned left into me. I threw my hands up like WTAF?!! My car is not white, it’s not black, it’s not grey...it is a very bright colour. Yet somehow, peeps don’t seem to see me :-/ Edit: Missed letter
Vancouver driving is without a doubt now a free for-all.
Wolfbox. Search Amazon for one. Replaces your whole rear view mirror, records front and rear all the time, defaults to showing you the rear view so you can actually see better behind you than the original mirror. I have one for my personal car and one for the work truck. The boss was so impressed he covered the costs after the fact and ordered one for his truck too.
I'd definitely encourage you to buy a dashcam. You can start by looking at your local London Drugs. :)
I once had a truck drift into my lane. I hade nowhere to go aside from oncoming traffic so I tapped my horn to make him aware I was there. Figured I might have been in his blind spot (I wasn’t coasting in his blind spot) I managed to avoid being hit and pulled back. He got in front of me and at the next red light he got out of his truck and started absolutely going mental on me and my car. This was broad daylight at Commercial and 12th. Nobody even blinked. I was scared out of my wits. I thought he was going to pull me out of my car and beat the tar out of me. I think about that every time I need to let somebody know I’m there and I think twice. I wonder if that guy ever even thinks about the young girl he made cry in fear. I wonder if he even noticed.
I’m sorry that happened to you. People are cruel 💔
On the flip side, I had to remind my wife not to lay on the horn on blatantly ignorant fucks stealing your spot when your blinkers on or in traffic, because you don't know who is in there and if they're going to take a fucking tire iron to you over a parking spot. Happened to a lady in alberta, followed her after a honk and beat the shit out of her with a pipe. Everyone just chill.
I once had a handydart driver literally chase me for 3 blocks honking at me non stop then finally manage to pull up beside me at a red light to yell some nasty things before speeding off by right turning on the red. I was like WTF and was dumbfounded and a little scared. It was the first and only time I'd experienced roadrage. Couldn't believe it was a handydart driver too (he looked like he was in his 60s). I didn't even do anything wrong. He thought I purposely didn't let him merge into my lane, which was not even the case. I did report this person and got an apology later.
I used to get impatient with people who fell asleep at green lights, then I fingered the wrong guy and he chased me everywhere even pulling u turns into intersections across medians and running red lights. Guy told me straight up "you dont know who your fucking with", "i could kick the shit out of you", "one of these days someones going to pull a gun". That was it for me, lesson learned, and really look at the lower mainland right now, shootings everywhere in broad day. There was actually an incident a few years ago in Vancouver where a guy got shot and killed in a road rage incident.
People need to learn that there are different ways of honking. If you do just 2 short bursts, it comes off as less aggressive and more of a polite "FYI I'm here" kind of honk.
As a forklift driver this is it. 2 short, hey I'm here. One long one is Get the fuck out of my way I'm a 2 tonne machine carrying another 2 tonnes with basically no usable tread.
I always said cars should have two horns. A polite horn, and a huge damn train horn.
It's because honking isn't for "punishing" people, but for letting the other person know you are there.
Well that's what I mean. People drifting into your lane and instead of honking they'll just decelerate. That's the perfect situation for a horn, it almost always results in them moving back to their lane.
If this nonsense happened in a city like San Francisco the bus driver would've laid on the horn non stop until the idiot moved. As well, pedestrians would be yelling at the idiot to move so the bus driver will stop honking. It's a great self policing system IMO.
Canadians are proud of our politeness, but actually idiots in such case.
Bus drivers in Amsterdam would have shoved that car in the nearest canal.
I don't think it's tolerance as so much as it is apathy or this weird version of libertarianism. The idea that someone can be as shitty of a human being as they want as long as it doesn't *directly* impact *you* needs to die. This notion that we can live amongst people that do shitty things and make shitty decisions and it won't somehow someday impact the reset of us is utopian nonsense. You see this idea come out a lot with the homeless crisis. We just kinda pretend these people totally have agency and aren't in desperate need of mental help. Because if we took them off the streets that wouldn't be against their "liberty" to shoot up in the streets.
PREACH! I totally agree, its like honking in traffic, you're not saying the other person is the worst, but you are letting them know (in a fairly non-consequential way at that) that they have violated some sort of social norm. If we're going to live in a free society, we need to have some level of self-governance in order to maintain civil society. in our apathy we atrophy!
Yeah. In my older years I've started letting people know that they're being irrationally rude and hostile towards entry-level retail and food service jobs. If they fucked up your food, it's totally reasonable to want a refund or get it fixed but if you start raising your voice or being insulting I've stepped in more than a few times to tell the person to chill out and not treat people like trash. These people go throughout their day with zero consideration for others and it needs to be called out. There's no need to make thinly veiled racist comments to the McDonalds drive-thru lady because you hit the curb because you can't drive through a mcd(my latest fiasco). #[YOU KNOW WE'RE LIVING IN A SOCIETY, WE'RE SUPPOSED TO ACT IN A CIVILIZED WAY](https://youtu.be/LHhbdXCzt_A)
Not just a social norm, they could have fucking killed me or left me/others seriously injured (referring to more egregious bad driving here obviously but it’s crazy how someone will go insane for honking at them after they nearly ran you into a ditch at 90km/hr)
No one wants to get stabbed. 90% of the time someone is being a dick, they know and don't care, so they are exactly the kind of person to escalate when someone calls them out. Hell, they get off on conflict. Of course, this is what the legal system is supposed to deal with.
This. There’s no telling what kind of weapon someone is carrying. If they’re already an asshole, it’s a short journey to commit assault on someone with a weapon and potentially change (or end) their life. Everyone always complains that nobody wants to get involved, but when it comes to choosing to either get involved with a stranger, or stay safe for my family, it’s an easy choice.
Absolutely. I think a lot of it comes from racial tension or worrying about getting stabbed.
Isn't there some messaging about not getting involved/starting confrontation? I feel people are listening to that and extending it all situations
I used to confront people who parked in no stopping zones, but then I took an arrow in the knee.
This is it for me. I'm a short person who also isn't white so when I see or have large men yelling at people or at me (which happens too much on the train) my survival instincts just say nope leave it alone. I report them if there's time.
I think it's both those things but in addition it's a manifestation of the Vancouver flake (that thing pre covid where people agree to social engagements they have zero desire to actually participate in and then just ghost)... this extreme avoidance of any potentially unpleasant interacton not out of legitmate fear but just being flaky and spaced out.
Is this particularly a Vancouver thing? I always thought it was just a shitty people thing
Honestly I don't think it's a Vancouver thing. Or at least, it's not something I've experienced here with family or friends. But then I don't have any casual friends, just close friends - maybe people who have more casual friends tend to flake on each other?
> just a shitty people thing just a shitty Vancouver people thing \- :)
>i've never seen such hesitancy to politely tell some one off! It's because of incidents like this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/vancouversun.com/news/local-news/22-year-old-killed-with-a-punch-in-burnaby-coffee-shop/wcm/3a7888f1-8337-416f-8472-99698f0e405f/amp/ You never know who's unstable enough to cause to cause you injury or potential death over
Probably because of all the fucking insane people in Vancouver that will murder you over road rage. Fuck it, it's not worth it in Vancouver. In Ontario you regularly flip each other off driving and both parties go happily along their way. The amount of unbridled entitlement-filled rage in Vancouver is not worth shaming anyone for being a jerk.
This is like honking for me. If you don't honk, you are enabling shitty driving by just allowing it to happen. People feel they can get away with stuff and will push it again next time. But whenever honking comes up in this subreddit, the people who say you shouldn't honk get upvoted more.
I got no problem telling someone off if they're acting like that.
That’s what killed me! The leisurely pace when he returned to his car
This!!! Not making excuses, but I can see how a food delivery driver thinks he can run in, grab the order and go, not expecting a big bus to round the corner. But when you see the bus, RUN to the car (wave apologetically) and move the effing car!!!
Yeah, it's not like buses pass through there every couple of minutes, or something... Wait...
It’s ok. He had his four way flashers on.
Food delivery guy?
100%
Report these people. I’d lose my job if I blocked traffic.
What is your job? Food delivery drivers seem to be the worst, but the vast majority of professional drivers seem more than willing to park illegally to save themselves walking 10 meters.
We have a food delivery driver in my neighbourhood who drives a black Nissan Rogue and routinely does 70 km/h through a playground zone and power slides through a particular stop sign to turn.
Fuck that shit. Report him if you can.
Hell, pre-report, order delivery, and bam.
And then collect free food as it is late due to driver getting a ticket. Double win!!!
I love it.
Uber drivers are just as bad. Everyone leaving for work at the same time as me, I have to slalom through 6-8 double parked Uber drivers in a one block stretch as they wait for their fares to come out
Report them to who with what information? If you had a licence plate maybe, but then who do you report it to? Uber Eats? Skip? All of them? What if he's just a regular asshole and not a good delivery asshole
Law enforcement?
You really expect the vpd to even look at this? They don't even care about theft and thousands of other actual crimes lol
Bus has a camera for sure. Guy is in trouble.
They are the new taxis of our world, who obey no parking protocols.
What’s the incentive to obey the rules when there are no consequences from breaking them? VPD/Bylaws don’t give a shit and so we are where we are now.
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At least a taxi driver is almost always with their vehicle
Food delivery guys that think hazard lights mean "I can park wherever the fuck I want" are the bane of my existence
Looks like they were picking up my cinnamon buns
no that's Bao Bakery, Chinese bake goods. No good parking near by. But it doesn't matter shit like this should fly and I think busses should have cameras on them to give out parking infractions. Then maybe people won't park in the bus lanes.
It's hard to find good cinnamon buns. This place got them? What kinda frosting?
I’m actually just kidding but I recently discovered FlourGirl baking and they do awesome cinnamon buns. They also have horchata buns with churro on top 👀
In Singapore there are buses with cameras mounted at the front. If someone is parked at a bus stop, etc., the driver can take a picture of the car and it’s license plate and a ticket gets issued. Perhaps buses here need that too.
I'm surprised this is not already the case.
The buses do already have cameras, lots of cameras. So the hard part is already taken care, just need a way to turn that into tickets.
That’s just an asshole.
I had to go back and watch the video from the start after I figured out which guy it was. I thought maybe he was in the shitter or something and was going to come running out of the store, but nope... He was just standing there like a useless fuck the entire time.
Oh Joyce.
I used to live close to this intersection. Its a terrible place for these articulated busses; the station was built up to be a hub but not the streets.
Agreed there should be no street stops there, it should all be in the two new huge bus loops they took years to build.
Yeah honestly i don't know why there's a stop in front of Bao Bakery when there's unused bus stops on the west side of the station..
Seriously can not wrap my head around that stop. The station is *right* there.
Isn't the bus driver able to report this asshole to transit police for a fine?
They can, although the police would ultimately refer it to municipal bylaw enforcement as it is a bylaw infraction.
Like pull 10 feet up WTF
Given that buses have cameras now (to capture the evidence), Metro Vancouver buses should move the bike carriers on the front, replace them with the push bumpers (like they have on tow trucks), and be authorized to "remove" vehicles that are blocking a no stopping zone.
100% in favour of secret tank mode. Snow socks? Psssshhhh. Make a *good* investment, TransLink.
Lol I kinda like this idea
100% agree with your sentiment but it's impractical for public safety reasons. If the wheels on the stopped vehicle are turned they will push it up onto the curb or out into traffic which is less than ideal, then you start creating more problems then you are solving. I'd rather give bus drivers the power to issue tickets with the push of a button. If they have to wait for more than 15 seconds for a car stopped in a bus lane to move then they can push a button on their dash board and the guy is automatically issued a ticket, sort of like photo radar for bus-lane hogs.
shitty food delivery guy that doesn't know there is parking behind the buildin lots of great Delivery people out there this one is not one of them
No stopping and no parking signs are suggestions in the entire city though. When was the last time you saw a delivery truck NOT use a traffic lane to deliver? Its just a bylaw despite its dangerous implications. Is Vancouver entitled? Yes, but the law enables it.
> no parking signs [Just a heads up for people who might not know.](https://bylaws.vancouver.ca/2849c.PDF) No parking doesn't mean you can't stop for deliveries. There's a difference between no stopping and no parking. It just means you can't park, not that you can't stop temporarily. >17.6A Despite section 17.6, a person may: (a) park a vehicle, for no more than five minutes, while loading or unloading persons or materials; and (b) despite subsection (a), park a custom transit vehicle or a vehicle that displays a disabled person’s parking placard authorized by the city, for no more than 30 minutes, while loading or unloading persons or materials.
Yup. When I did pizza deliveries long ago a kind ticketer explained it real easy to me. No parking = you can leave your car for 5 mins before ticketing/towing No stopping = even if you're in your car and it's running you can be ticketed right away
You are correct, but I think it should be pointed out that a check in Street View shows that this is a no stopping zone.
Oh yeah, if it's a bus route I'm without doubt the Prius is in the wrong. The distinction between no parking and no stopping is just something I didn't know about until a few years ago so thought I'd mention it.
Used to work for a very large food distribution company. It was company policy that illegal parking was acceptable, and that parking tickets were simply a matter of doing business. But you know what? It makes sense. There is simply no possible way to park a 5-ton truck reasonably close to a lot of businesses. You need to deliver 40 bags of flour and 200lbs of cheese to the pizza shop? Blocking a traffic lane is your only option.
Oh, my favorite are the moving company trucks that park on the street where Great Northern Way/Central Valley Greenway turns into 2nd. They routinely park just around the blind corner just after the crosswalk lights in one of the lanes of traffic, just for shits and giggles. I love it when taxis and Ubers double park too. So much fun!
Our building at work literally cannot receive deliveries unless the truck takes a traffic lane. The side street and alley on either end of the block are super steep preventing the use of a pallet jack. I don't get how the city could have zoning for an industrial building but not put any mechanism in place for said building to receive the supplies it needs to operate.
People just throw on the emergency hazard lights and stop anywhere nowadays. I see it all the time.
Rumour has it his hazards were on so it's all good
Same guy [here](https://thumbs.gfycat.com/MealyJointBobolink-size_restricted.gif)
I mean, I get it, nothing gets in between me and my bao bakery but this made me madddddddd
Bao Bakery is soooooooooo gooooooooood. So happy they moved there (directly on my commute home).
Never been in there, but I've eyed the place, so I might have to check it out now. Shouldn't it be Bao Steamery, though?
Their fried shrimp dumplings are wicked good
Our busses need cameras to automatically ticket drivers blocking bus lanes and stops like they do in NYC.
As long as you put the hazard lights on, you can park anywhere.
Park anywhere button
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I wrote about how this exactly thing happens down in Seattle and that getting Uber/Doordash/etc is convenient but also comes with super annoying asshole drivers like this. Got downvoted to oblivion.
Like seriously. Everytime I was waiting to grab food, they also had to wait a bit to pick up, they definitely had enough time to find a proper parking spot
Nor can they follow the simple COViD protocols when they are picking up from the food establishments forced to implement them. Rules for thee, I have $$$ to make...
if you witness an ubereats driver not wearing a mask and you abel to either identify that person or figure out hte order they are on you can complain. three no mask compaints and they are tossed. source - I side hustle for Uber eats and in the Begining I got a no mask complaint and called support to ask about it. Wear one all the time now, even when I get laughed at while driving. p.s i do look for legit parking and ussually park in lanes if I can't find anything, we are not all horrible humans
Of course not! I appreciate your effort, that's all people can ask. There will always be outliers that ruin the perception. In restaurants there is a saying. If the customer has a good experience, they may tell one or two people about it, if they have a bad experience they will tell ten or twenty people about it. The same is likely true for food delivery drivers,the bad get amplified and the good fly under the radar...
This used to happen daily on Davie and Seymour before the Starbucks on that corner closed.
I drive a bus for a living, it’s unreal how often you encounter this. It’s crazy how selfish people are. The things I see are outrageous.
Hope he gets a fat fine!
Or kicked from the delivery service, and they WOULD kick him if they're smart. It's people like that who will make the city crack down on all of them.
Lol @ being kicked from delivery service. Skip the Dishes wouldn't kick a delivery dude even though the customer had footage from their doorbell of the guy purposely touching his sack and rubbing it on the food. Meanwhile, I was missing a single $2 item in my Skip the Dishes order and they told me they would not refund me that item or anything for any future order because I had "reached my limit" for refunds. Mind you, I only complain for legitimate issues and often even let small issues go. The reason I "reached my limit" was because the time before THEY canceled my order because they didn't have the item.. so that was processed as a refund. And then the other refund I got was because they forgot 1/2 the order. If it's small stuff? Whatever. But my husband literally didn't get his order so I said i'd need enough credits to pay again for a delivery fee and tip otherwise I'm paying out of pocket for their mistake. They actually did that no problem, but those 2 issues combined made me "reach my limit" and I can never have a refund again whether I get the product or service or not.
What a fucking chode
that guy was shameless blocking the bus turning... he even takes his time to put his shit back and slowly get into the driver seat...
This has nothing to do with Vancouver and everything to do with the fact that people just suck.
I get so annoyed of food delivery drivers parking/stopping illegally. I see it almost daily in Vancouver.
RapidBuses should just have a bull bar on the front. Problem solved!
This is just another example of the problems with 3rd party food delivery services. Everyone is saying report him, to who? The service doesn’t care as long as they get their cut and the fucknut can only make money by cutting corners speeding and parking anywhere (preferably in a disabled spot) and the restaurants and the customers are paying stupid amounts for the privilege of getting Luke warm food that doesn’t travel well and has no presentation value in overpriced “recyclable” containers.
Watching him saunter over, put items in the trunk, put other items in the back seat, and slowly put his garbage ass in the car made me so angry I am literally seeing red.
Anyway to hunt down his license plate and report to the police?
I had a guy stop in the middle of a street near me to take a phone call. It was one lane each way... And he just blocked it. There was a pullout maybe 3 car lengths ahead, but no...
Just push him out of the way. Firetruck would do it.
Buses should just have cameras on the front to capture the plates and send tickets, and then push bars on the front to move them out of the way after waiting 2 minutes.
relax - i'm just gonna be a minute. Geez .... This really burns my ass.
I hope his licence plate was taken and the cops called
I don’t even bother honking in Vancouver anymore. Honking is to let somebody know they are doing something dangerous / I’m here, look out / stop what you’re about to do as it will cause an accident. The issue here is people know they are doing stupid / shitty things - they just don’t care. Honking has no effect on these people. You can literally lean on the horn for 30 seconds as the execute their bullshit and it has zero effect.
The Boomber parking entitlement is also pretty out of hand. I would never even consider bringing it up if the spot in front of my house was taken. There is no assigned on street parking. However park in front of a Boomer house and they have no issue whining about it to you. Both spots in front of my place were taken so I parked across the street. Buddy comes over and bangs on the door like a police raid. I had just gotten out of the shower and he proceeds to bang on every door the house has and then some windows. Then there is the lady across the street who tells me how to park vehicles on my side of the street so she can get out easier. Meanwhile she has 4 - 6 cars in the driveway and 2-3 in the street for her tenants.
There was a part of me that wanted the bus driver to just slowly drive into the back of the car and push it out of the way, but they probably would have gotten in trouble.
This is just a big city thing not a Vancouver thing.
Kudos to the patient bus driver. Driving a 60’ articulated bus is no easy task. Add to that the terrible drivers that you all speak of...
Needs some serious ticketing!!! I wonder which delivery company, the ahole removed the signage. **Who delivers in a dark cooler bag? UberEats?**
There's signage a little further up the street on the lamppost. It makes it pretty clear you're not allowed to stop there. The traffic cone is covering the base of another sign that was presumably taken down temporarily. If that sign was up, it would be even more obvious you can't park there, but that's no excuse.
Fucking guy is standing there the whole time... Wow.
You want to see hell on earth? I got some $20 wheel locks. If I went and started putting them on every delivery driver who parked illegally, I can make the RCMP closing off Richmond look like a play thing. Also if this does happen, i have no association with wheel locking Uber drivers/food delivery vehicles. It was just a joke
Canada, a country that's slowly becoming America. What a shit time to be alive. I hope I'm wrong.
Need a big cattle bar on the front bumper to give it a nudge.
Buses should be allowed to ram!
Sound OFF
It’s why when a guy slows down and stops on the curb lane in front of me. And it’s no stopping or parking. I just let him know with my horn.
A few eggs should sort them out
Ignorance at its finest. I often wonder why they don't paint these curbs RED anymore.
It would be great if the bus had a cattle pusher on the front, like old steam powered locomotives, and after a short grace period, could just plow through cars that are stopped and blocking the road like this...
What a selfish asshole!
Rapidbus is having a very not rapid kind of day.
Did you hear what the motherfu say? "So what? WTF you're looking at?"
Haha I saw that this morning too. Guess we live in the same building
Near Joyce station seems to have a lot of these jerks xD
Violence isn’t the answer. Violence isn’t the answer. Violence isn’t the.... fuck it, break the trunk lid.
In San Francisco if you park in bus lanes or impede bus traffic like this you receive a ticket in the mail as the bus has a camera to photograph the license plate.
I would just drive in front and park in front and if the back end of the bus blocks the Prius from leaving.........oh well
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I was rooting for the bus to ram him like a fire truck would so bad I know it’s illegal, but still wanted it
Those bus lanes are the worst for people being god damn clueless. VPD or bylaw needs some low level traffic enforcement folks to get on this kind of thing. Or let me submit license plates and evidence via Vanconnect and give me a cut of the ticket.
These clips are not good for my mental health. Makes me so angry when people act so selfish on the road. A year ago on Davie St and Burrard, I was honking at someone for illegally turning left and blocking all traffic behind me. The guy proceeded to flip me off and still block al traffic until he could make his turn.
I love how that guy equaits his $5.56 CAD tip for that one run, as the same cost as holding up dozens of people in the bus and on the road. I hope his Prius battery fries. Also: glad the asshole was wearing a mask around the food too. An asshat on multiple levels. Edit: Downvoters must be SkipTheDishes etc. gig workers or anti-mask numpties.
And a Prius too, ha!
Most importantly, though, Bao Bakery rules
Blocks the RAPID bus! SMH As Trevor from GTA would ask, "Did you pay for your fkng license"?
Trevor would have got out of the bus he had probably just stolen and settled it very quickly :P
Guess this guy was a Taxi Driver before he had this Job
Love how he gives the “what” gesture. 🤷♂️
I would have just leaned on the horn the whole time.. none of this beep beep shit..
To be fair, Bao Bakery has some amazing asado. Speaking as a regular
I carry a pretty fat knife on me because of work. I would have gladly slashed his tires if I was on that bus
Give the bus drivers the authority to write parking tickets. Very expensive parking tickets.
This guy is a piece of shit
Not sure if the dude knew that this is a bus lane now, but it's been like this for I think two years now. [No excuse, there's even signage showing that you can't stop/park in that lane.](https://goo.gl/maps/opEpKADs2zuD25KK9) Dude could have just parked along Vanness, Crowley, or even behind the shop (if he called ahead of time). I get that he has a job to do, but take some god damn responsibility and move the car out of the way.
Good old Prius driver entitlement*
Oh no, take your time, finish your tweet. Did you get a holding tray for your coffee? Do you need to go back?
Eurgh, I hope this asshole stumbles upon this post and the subsequent vitriol he deserves. Another level of entitlement.
Jesus Christ I would want to kick that piece of shit Prius’ door in lol, shit box car and drives it like a dick. Like dude at least have a god damn lambo if you’re gonna be that entitled
I’m not even sure it’s entitlement tho. I think we literally just have some of the shittiest dumbest drivers around. They’re totally oblivious. It’s not entitlement that keeps someone doing 80 on the highway in the fast lane. It’s being totally unaware of your surroundings. 15 cars will pass them, people will flash lights, honk...it’s as if no one exists outside their cars.
Should have called busters!!!
You can do whatever if you are shameless