r/IdiotsInCars • u/lmarksart • Feb 04 '23
Pedestrian almost gets hit by truck, multiple cars drive through a red light, but at least the pedestrian and I had a nice little interaction afterwards lol.
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u/appa-ate-momo Feb 05 '23
Unescorted funeral precession = parade of idiots.
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u/DiamondConscious Feb 05 '23
I still don’t understand the need for a freaking funeral precession where they stop traffic for it. Or on the highway is the worst. Like who cares. Everyone will get there within the same 5 min time Frame givin you all take the same route
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u/IkLms Feb 06 '23
Highway ones absolutely piss me off to no end. I used to live between a funeral home and the cemetery they typically went to on the highway and so many times I would be getting to where I needed to merge for my exit right as they are all entering the highway and I either had to come to a complete stop on a highway which I wasn't going to do or merge left to try and gun it to get in front of the procession so that I could then merge and exit, to spin around and go backwards on the other side to my exit because they'd militantly not allow you to merge through to get to your exit.
Completely unnecessary and often really dangerous driving by the people involved. Often in rural areas you also run into the asshats on a 2 lane who think that funeral procession means opposing traffic should pull over and stop "to show respect for the dead" and will swerve at anyone not doing it.
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u/DiamondConscious Feb 06 '23
Yeah. They act like they are police. It’s all BS. It’s 2023. Can we end this nonsense.
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u/y2julio Feb 05 '23
Looks like they want to join the deceased. Like what is the point of them these days?
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u/PEBKAC69 Feb 05 '23
Ah yes, blowing off traffic rules that exist for safety because .... muh religion. Great. Escort or no, that's fucking dumb.
Here's an idea - no special treatment for funeral processions. There's really not an emergency happening that justifies this.
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u/ReadThemanuals Feb 05 '23
I recently had a family memeber pass away and a bunch of my family was trying to do a funeral procession and I kept telling them we need a police escort. We can't all drive with hazards on going 10 miles a hour on busy streets . They did it any way. But I just meet them at the cemetery. I was not going to have any parts of that. When mu grandfather passed away my mom made sure she paid for the police escort.
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u/jratreddit Feb 04 '23
Funeral processions should be outlawed, or at the very least require police escorts, that's bullshit and puts everyone at risk for the sake of a dead person who doesn't gaf.
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u/CruulNUnusual Feb 04 '23
I think it’s suppose to have police escorts. Blame the funeral home.
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u/PEBKAC69 Feb 05 '23
We shouldn't be spending government resources on somebody's religious practice.
There is no emergency, dead is dead. They should wait like everybody else.
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u/CruulNUnusual Feb 05 '23
Honestly, I agree.
When I had to attend a funeral (Rest in peace) I felt so bad when we had to pretty much inconvenience other drivers trying to get through their day. We did have police escorts though, didn’t feel like we need it?
I guess it has to do if we take the freeway, someone would get lost. But ya know, googles a thing now.
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u/PaulLeMight Feb 04 '23
They are supposed to have escorts at any intersection
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u/jratreddit Feb 04 '23
yeah that never happens, and even then it's pretentious crap.
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u/PaulLeMight Feb 04 '23
I had one happen to me 2 weeks ago! Cops did what they were supposed to do, but someone important must have died since we counted over 200 cars
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u/ManfredsJuicedBalls Feb 05 '23
I was carrying mail on my route a few months back, and saw a procession that went through three light cycles before the line went through. Snarled up traffic in the city for a few minutes because of it. You’d think at that rate, they’d be better off renting some buses/coaches, and going on the route like that, with it being far less disruptive.
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u/onlyletters999 Feb 05 '23
Especially the non Line of Duty police funerals too. There is practically one a day where I live. Former police officers probably retired 30 years ago but still get police motorcycles, escorts, highway patrol blocking the roads. It's ridiculous.
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u/Pleasant_Guitar_9436 Feb 05 '23
I was in one once. Had cops on motorcycles. Still saw car get hit. Need far more cops than the funeral home is willing to pay for to stop all cross traffic. Last funeral I went to they just used google maps. Much simpler and safer. These funeral processions are from the past when whole communities would stop and doff their hats at the hearse. No place for them in modern large communities.
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u/bernythebear Feb 04 '23
Honouring the dead by putting the living at risk, makes perfect sense 🤦♂️
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u/cyanidelemonade Feb 04 '23
I've never seen a funeral procession in my life, so I also would have no clue what's going on. Gotta keep your eyes peeled when you're "breaking" the usual road rules!!
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u/CosmicCreeperz Feb 05 '23
Yeah all of those cars should have had headlights and hazards on per PA law. Even then IMO it’s a stupid thing, but at least that makes it a lot more obvious.
Also some idiot in the procession must have stopped at some point so they were separated. At that point who the hell could know why a few random people are running lights…
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u/weaton91939 Feb 04 '23
Woah first video on here where I can say I know that place. That intersection is atrocious imo
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u/rob71788 Feb 05 '23
What the hell…. I had to roll that back to see if it was some kind of a malfunction….
Guess the first person went and nobody else bothered to actually look at the light
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u/DrAniB20 Feb 05 '23
Apparently it was a funeral procession without a police escort
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u/rob71788 Feb 05 '23
Yeah I realized that later too… since when are mirror hangars a replacement for flags/escorts 🤦♂️
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u/BrainFloss1688 Feb 05 '23
Can't really tell for sure that there is no escort at all. It's very possible that there is one, but when they have only one, they don't block each intersection and let everybody through. They pretty much just lead the way.
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u/EnoughPicture Feb 05 '23
That’s Willow Grove PA, I hated that intersection, somebody’s always doing something stupid there.
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u/readingbabe Feb 05 '23
Funeral processions piss me off. Oh I’m sorry, you have a dead person in the car so go ahead, drive through red lights, cut through traffic, it’s okay we’ll all wait here why 50 cars cause a traffic jam
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u/rob71788 Feb 05 '23
Soooooooo I guess mirror hangars are a replacement for the flags that are supposed to be in funeral processions now?? That’s begging for an accident
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u/BrainFloss1688 Feb 05 '23
Never seen mirror hangers either, but I've never seen flags in person either, only in movies and shows, and the news. I've mostly just seen everybody turn their headlights on, but that doesn't work like it did 20+ years ago since most cars have automatic DRLs now.
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u/NTP9766 Feb 04 '23
Spent the entire video thinking that this looks like the Manhattan Bagel near me... only to realize that this is the Manhattan Bagel near me, lol.
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u/carlton_sand Feb 05 '23
I fucking hate funeral processions.
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u/BrainFloss1688 Feb 05 '23
Yeah me too, because the people driving in them don't know how to follow another car properly.
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u/BrainFloss1688 Feb 05 '23
In my state, any one of those licensed drivers could choose to take control and direct traffic. If there are not enough police escorts, then somebody from the funeral home or cemetery or funeral party could fill the role. Biker group rides do this all the time and are within the law as long as it's done safe and proper.
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u/lmarksart Feb 06 '23
That’s really interesting! I wish someone did that for this situation. It could’ve ended really badly for many people involved.
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u/MaxWebxperience Feb 05 '23
Funeral processions need a police escort... who is looking for some stupid yellow thingy?
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u/chosen4u77 Feb 05 '23
I get that in this instance, they were on the idiot end of the spectrum, but why are people hating on funeral processions? Yes, I 100% agree they should be escorted, but just because it makes you wait 30 extra seconds doesn't mean we should outlaw them.
No matter how late I'm running, I still stop and let them go by. Think of how your grieving family would feel if, on one of the saddest days for them, some yahoo was honking and screaming at them because they felt like they were more important.
It's a simple courtesy.
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u/chosen4u77 Feb 05 '23
There's also time management and planning behind it. The funeral director, the church, and the cemetery all have to be paid and I'm sure time is a part of that. Having to wait for people to stagger in because you couldn't wait a minute or two could cost more than what the family has to pay the bills.
But based on the tone of your comment, that's not something you could understand anyways.
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u/IkLms Feb 06 '23
If time is the concern, rent a fucking bus and bus people between the locations.
Funeral processions are absolutely idiotic.
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u/Capable-Chicken-2348 Feb 04 '23
not even close to be honest
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u/healing-souls Feb 04 '23
right? Almost got hit by a truck, 10 feet away from him.
Then he bitches about a funeral procession and proceeds to try and cut them off before stopping.
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u/andromeadus Feb 04 '23
BECAUSE they’re supposed to have police escorts. He didn’t know it was a procession until reading comments here since we are able to play the video back AND he didn’t have prior knowledge to the yellow placards that mean it’s a funeral procession. Bottom line is though is that they should’ve had a cop in the intersection to block traffic so this kind of confusion doesn’t happen
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u/keller104 Feb 05 '23
I hate people like this, “I’m going to make all of you miss the light just so one extra person can make it through”
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u/Juggernuts777 Feb 05 '23
I can’t really understand the audio. Was there a light malfunction?? Or were all these people just.. emboldened by the first idiot??
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u/lmarksart Feb 06 '23
The pedestrian and I were super confused. But someone in the comments clarified that it was a funeral procession and that’s why they were going through the red light. Except there weren’t any police escorts and they didn’t have flags on the outside of their cars. They had yellow tags on the INSIDE of their cars.
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u/lmarksart Feb 04 '23
You can hear the pedestrian say "RED LIGHT!"
I look over at him and he says "What just happen?"
That's when I put my window down to talk to him.
Both of us were so confused.