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re: How to make Punks slow down when driving through your neighborhood.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 2:13 pm to LSUsmartass
Posted on 4/14/14 at 2:13 pm to LSUsmartass
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Having said all of this, what is your plan for eliminating 100% of speeders in subdivisions?
I don't think you can, but that's sorta the point of the thread. My plan (for individual issues)would be to talk to the speeder. I think that's the best option, which the OP did.
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but I promise you there are a lot of people in this thread who puff their chests out and tell their kids it's ok to play in the streets because they'll be sitting out there with a pallet of bricks chunking them at the speeders.
Perhaps, but they're idiots. Now, with that being said, my neighbor growing up lived in the cul de sac. He set his basketball goal up on the side of the road and we played in street for countless hours (compare it to my goal in the driveway, which we rarely played on). We always called car timeout when cars were rolling through and stood to the side, but there's a big difference in a 7th grader and a toddler. That's part of the appeal of living in a neighborhood over the side of the highway. You would typically think the streets would be a lot safer and thus kids would be ok if they ended up at or around the streets, whereas I wouldn't have the same piece of mind on the side of a major highway.
ETA: I can no longer respond in this thread b/c I cannot waste my 2000th post on this topic. My thoughts on this subject have pretty much been exhausted as is.
This post was edited on 4/14/14 at 2:18 pm
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Posted on 4/14/14 at 2:13 pm to TexasTiger01
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OK, we're not talking about kids playing on HWY 1 or HWY 90 here. We're talking about kids playing in the streets of quiet family oreinted neigborhoods.
Do speeders have limited access to quiet family oriented neighborhoods? Do people speed in your subdivision or not?
Posted on 4/14/14 at 2:14 pm to TexasTiger01
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Posted on 4/14/14 at 2:15 pm to TexasTiger01
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My son seen the truck coming, pulled to over to the curb and stopped. He has been trained well. The idiot driver crossed over the center line while making the Flowmasters sing Song of the South.
does the driver in question live in your neighborhood?
Posted on 4/14/14 at 2:16 pm to LSUsmartass
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OK, we're not talking about kids playing on HWY 1 or HWY 90 here. We're talking about kids playing in the streets of quiet family oreinted neigborhoods.
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Do speeders have limited access to quiet family oriented neighborhoods? Do people speed in your subdivision or not?
Read the next sentence....
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OK, we're not talking about kids playing on HWY 1 or HWY 90 here. We're talking about kids playing in the streets of quiet family oreinted neigborhoods. I'll be the first to admit that if I'm on the interstate I AM speeding. But side streets and neigborhoods I drive below the limits and keep a keen eye for kids, dogs, deer, etc.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 2:18 pm to BrentED
I'm not trying to argue with anybody in here, my point is if you live very close to a road(in a subdivision or not) then you have to be very aware that people are idiots and drive recklessly...all it takes is 1.
Another thing, a lot of subdivisions are 25mph, that can look like 40 if you live in a neighborhood with narrow streets and close houses.
Another thing, a lot of subdivisions are 25mph, that can look like 40 if you live in a neighborhood with narrow streets and close houses.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 2:18 pm to tgrbaitn08
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does the driver in question live in your neighborhood?
No, he was at the house of one of the punks that speeds down the street alot... I've talked to him before and he has slowed down.
This post was edited on 4/14/14 at 2:24 pm
Posted on 4/14/14 at 2:23 pm to TexasTiger01
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How to make Punks slow down when driving through your neighborhood.
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one of the punks that speed down the street alot... I've talked to him before and he has slowed down.
seems like you've answered your own question
Posted on 4/14/14 at 2:24 pm to LSUsmartass
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Another thing, a lot of subdivisions are 25mph, that can look like 40 if you live in a neighborhood with narrow streets and close houses.
Our sub-division has 15 MPH signs up. And IMO that's plenty fast.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 2:33 pm to TexasTiger01
I lived in a neighborhoods where the streets were narrow and lots of kids including mine rode bikes all the time. I would somewhat legally park my car which was an old junker in the road blocking almost half of it, this forced everyone to slow down when passing it or risk dinging their car.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 2:35 pm to LSUsmartass
It is even more amusing how people ignore all common sense and when there are signs and such of kids, speed limits and whatnot and still speed.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 2:48 pm to cascadia
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It is even more amusing how people ignore all common sense and when there are signs and such of kids, speed limits and whatnot and still speed.
It's sad but it happens. Like I said earlier, I live in a cul-de-sac so other than the weekend house gawkers and our neighbors and their visitors we don't see a lot of traffic thankfully. On a pretty day I'd say you're going to encounter anywhere from 5 to sometimes 20 kids (if someone is having a party of sleepover) ranging in age from early teens to toddlers. As for us, we've got a 5 yr old girl and 12 year old boy. In the past year we've started allowing him to go outside with his friends without us being out there to supervise. But our little girl does not step foot out of the house without us being there to supervise. And by supervise I mean if she's in the front yard, one of us is in the front yard with her, same for the back yard as well.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 2:53 pm to EA6B
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I would somewhat legally park my car which was an old junker in the road blocking almost half of it, this forced everyone to slow down when passing it or risk dinging their car.
I think that this might also decrease visibility of a child crossing the road on the other side of the vehicle. I don't know how it would necessarily work out, but that's just the first thing that came to mind.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 2:54 pm to Darth_Vader
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In the past year we've started allowing him to go outside with his friends without us being out there to supervise
you wouldn't let your 10 year old son go play outside without you there watching him?
that sounds odd to me.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 2:56 pm to Darth_Vader
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It's sad but it happens. Like I said earlier, I live in a cul-de-sac so other than the weekend house gawkers and our neighbors and their visitors we don't see a lot of traffic thankfully. On a pretty day I'd say you're going to encounter anywhere from 5 to sometimes 20 kids (if someone is having a party of sleepover) ranging in age from early teens to toddlers. As for us, we've got a 5 yr old girl and 12 year old boy. In the past year we've started allowing him to go outside with his friends without us being out there to supervise. But our little girl does not step foot out of the house without us being there to supervise. And by supervise I mean if she's in the front yard, one of us is in the front yard with her, same for the back yard as well.
This is how it should work IMHO.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 3:02 pm to Displaced
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you wouldn't let your 10 year old son go play outside without you there watching him?
that sounds odd to me.
As long as he had a group of fiends with him, yes. All alone? No. My wife saw some show showing that the majority of kids who are snatched up by sickos are outside their home or in a park playing alone.
This post was edited on 4/14/14 at 3:06 pm
Posted on 4/14/14 at 3:07 pm to Darth_Vader
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As long as he had a group of fiends with him, yes. All alone? No.
This, I will walk with my son to see if his buddies can play, but no cruising alone yet..
Posted on 4/14/14 at 3:17 pm to TexasTiger01
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And as far as kids playing in the streets of a neighborhood; really guys. It's the freaking norm for small, quiet neighborhoods
It might be normal, and I do drive slow to watch for kids in my nighborhood, but it's still extremely annoying. I had a 10 y/o kid pull out on his bike directly in front of me the other day, looked over his shoulder to see me, and slowly rode his bike in front of my car until he got to his friends house. Had no care in the world that I was behind him. Someone looking down for a second would have plowed over him. That's rediculous and I shouldn't have to be on the lookout for that crap just to ride to and from my house. People let their kids out like this all of the time, and it's not just my neighborhood. I'm not saying that is the children playing that you are defending, but it's all over the place. Why are kids not playing in the back yard?
For the record, I do not have children, but I do have one on the way. My wife and I have on multiple occasions made the comment that our child will not play in the front yard after driving to our house and having to watch out for un-supervised children. You can drive well within driving laws and un-supervised children will still make the street more dangerous.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 3:21 pm to KG6
I remember the good old days when the OT was the punk speeding through the neighborhood.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 3:22 pm to TexasTiger01
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This, I will walk with my son to see if his buddies can play, but no cruising alone yet..
That's pretty much how we'd been with him up until this last year. From about the age of 10 or so we'd let him be outside without us as long as he had friends with him. Before that one of us would be there with him (like we do with our daughter.
Now that's he's 12 he can go outside without us but he has to keep his cell phone on his so we can call him in if needed.
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