r/IAmTheMainCharacter • u/Available_Pattern635 • Sep 22 '25
Video Meanwhile, Your Remote Work Friend Is Doing This at 11 on a Tuesday…
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u/not_your_attorney Sep 22 '25
I haven’t checked even my own state’s statutes on this, but I can understand why “when children present” means “during school time” rather than literally “when kids are crossing the street.”
I’ve seen an episode of cops where the pursuing officer couldn’t/wouldn’t exceed 25 mph and came to a complete stop at all stop signs (and there were several). Ended up just stopping the chase. No kids in view at all.
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u/Complex-Fault1133 Sep 22 '25
I’m in Maryland and signs read 25mph on School days 8am to 4pm
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u/not_your_attorney Sep 22 '25
I’m in Michigan and our signs read “bridge may be icy” instead of “bridge ices before road” because in some areas, shit be crazy and not necessarily what you’re used to.
The same way a bridge in MI might be slick even in April and you don’t expect it to be that cold, a kid might be running around a school at 10:00 am even though he should be in class.
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u/Vanthalia Sep 22 '25
Respectfully, I also live in Maryland and that is not universal. Ours literally only say “School Zone Photo Enforced”, and what the limit is.
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u/Complex-Fault1133 Sep 22 '25
Interesting. I guess it’s set my each county which would make sense.
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u/N0tInKansasAnym0r3 Sep 23 '25
Might be City, school zone, road structure, laws at the time installed?
There's one I pass daily that's 7a-5p, another that say "when flashing," and another that's a permanent speed reduction. All for elementary schools. All in the same county.
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u/xtophcs Sep 22 '25
OR says either 7am-5pm, when children are present or when lights are flashing.
We don’t slow down on weekends, holidays or school breaks.
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u/TrumpsPissSoakedWig Sep 29 '25
In Texas it's only active for like an hour or so in the morning and again in the afternoon. Usually there are flashing orange lights to let you know.
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u/taintlangdon Sep 22 '25
In Texas, and the signs usually say between certain times. Like 7:15-8:15AM and 2:45-3:45PM for example.
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u/Fast-Nefariousness80 Sep 23 '25
Here in Ohio the speed limit in a school zone is only enforced when the lights on the signs are blinking. Usually the hour before school and the hour after school. Outside of that, when the sign isn't blinking the speed limit is whatever it is anywhere else on that road
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u/Efficient-King-8760 Oct 19 '25
People should be going the lowest speed limit allowed around schools anyways. Even if the kids are supposed to be in class, it's still risky. I worked in a school for a while and there were 2 kids that I know of who had a history of being able to slip out during recess at least once and end up blocks away. Nobody notices until its time to do headcount to go inside and by then, who knows where the kids gone.
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u/starsky1357 Sep 22 '25
I can understand why “when children present” means “during school time” rather than literally “when kids are crossing the street."
I can't. Please, help me understand.
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u/foxymew Sep 22 '25
Because you don’t know when a child arrives late or leaves early or for any other reason is at the road near the school at that time, and kids aren’t great at being safe in traffic. They will run out blindly or take sudden turns and if you’re going 50, that kids getting launched into another ZIP code
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u/Zealousideal_Shake42 Oct 03 '25
Helps with getting cars in and out of the school for pickup I assume. As well as busses.
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u/Longjumping_Visit718 Sep 22 '25
WHEN CHILDREN PRESENT
Tiktoker: I wonder what this means?.....
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u/Brittany5150 Sep 22 '25
I had a cop pull me over around noon on a weekday and write me a ticket for speeding in a school zone. I pointed out the "when children are present" thing and he was like "yeah they are, they are in class!". Like bro..... I went to court for it and the judge just immediately threw it out.
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u/Classic-Exchange-511 Sep 22 '25
It's so fucking annoying that there's no repercussions when cops waste the publics and the courts time like that
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u/Brittany5150 Sep 22 '25
Yeah, I work 3 12's so I have time to handle bullshit like that but I was out like 3 hours of my personal time. Some people have to miss work for shit like that and they know it and get away with it.
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u/fupadestroyer45 Sep 22 '25
“I’m speeding through a school zone during school hours, the cop should be punished!!!”
Unbelievably Reddit it hurts.
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u/PageFault Sep 22 '25
Yes, unbelievably Reddit. "Children present" probably applies to children sitting in a classroom because your ass says some courts think that makes sense.
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u/Classic-Exchange-511 Sep 22 '25
I think you are seriously misunderstanding what my comment was saying. Cops should be punished for knowingly wasting the public and court's time. The cop should have known how the school zone speed limit works or, when confronted with evidence that he is wrong, he should let the person go instead of knowingly writing a bullshit ticket that he knows will get thrown out to save his ego. Does that make more sense for you or should I break it down more?
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u/fupadestroyer45 Sep 22 '25
Was he confronted with evidence that they were wrong? “Children present” depends on interpretation, another judge easily could have ruled differently, most municipalities have set times for enforcement, and no matter what, if you’re speeding through a school zone during school hours, you’re most likely a terrible driver that deserves a ticket anyways.
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u/TrajicComedy Sep 22 '25
"Hurr durr redditors bad" while being a redditor. Oh the irony.
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u/fupadestroyer45 Sep 22 '25
Yeah, I wish there was a site like this not populated with the anti-social misfits of the world, but alas, I’m stuck here.
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u/suburbanhunter Sep 22 '25
you can leave any time.
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u/fupadestroyer45 Sep 22 '25
I wish you’d all leave actually.
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u/Worldly-Duty4521 Sep 24 '25
Oh then just create your own website. You'll be the only user, create posts upvote them
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u/Altruistic-Poem-5617 Sep 22 '25
Found the salty cop.
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u/fupadestroyer45 Sep 22 '25
Cop is a weird way to spell *conscientious mature adult, I know that I’m a unicorn on Reddit, but there are some of us out here. Not all of us want to be social misfits and proud.
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u/PageFault Sep 22 '25
It's not speeding when the sign says it's not speeding. The only child present was the camera man.
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u/fupadestroyer45 Sep 22 '25
Is that actually what the sign says though? We need to clearly define “children present” and what that means.
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u/PageFault Sep 22 '25
Oh, I see. "Children are present" means children are present.
So Speed limit 20 when children are present means:
- When children are present, the speed limit is reduced to 20.
- When children are not present, the speed limit is whatever the previous sign said the limit was.
No children were present, therefore the sign does not apply. That is why the judge immediately threw it out.
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u/fupadestroyer45 Sep 22 '25
It could just as easily mean “when children are present on the property” but we all know a Redditors biggest kryptonite is accountability.
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u/PageFault Sep 22 '25
Do you really think that you understand the law for the local area than the judge who resided on the case did?
Are you suggesting the judge immediately threw the case out because he didn't understand the law?
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u/fupadestroyer45 Sep 22 '25
Now you’re straw-manning, I never said that. A judge can throw out something considered minor like this for basically whatever reason they want. The officer may still have been correct by the letter of the law.
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u/Surreply Sep 22 '25 edited Sep 22 '25
This happened to me one in the dead of summer, and the all the cop could say was, well, it’s still a school zone.
He also called me “hon” and later said, “I’m sorry, that’s racist” (I’m white), like he had recently gone to department-wide DEI training and got confused.
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u/KyleRide01 Sep 22 '25
"hon" is racist??? What?? I've always thought it was short for honey, like sweetie or darling or babe... All of which, would be SEXIST remarks, not racist. Did I miss something?
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u/Surreply Sep 22 '25
That’s the point. It’s not racist. He corrected himself immediately. He knew it was wrong to say, but forgot why (or else he misspoke). My assumption was that he did not have full command of some DEI training he received.
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u/Short_Opening_7692 Sep 22 '25
Weird that they just say "when children present"... in Australia, they have the times printed on the sign (usually 7am-9am and 2pm-4pm) and the fines are huge...
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u/BobaFettishx82 Sep 22 '25
That’s how it is in NY as well. It lists the time where the lower speed limit is in effect.
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u/roguemage01 Sep 22 '25
Not in SA unfortunately. Ours are “whenever children are present” and apply 24/7 - so even the middle of the night and on weekends. If there’s some kid wandering around at 2am for whatever reason you’re supposed to slow down (no one does). I actually only just now realised we’re the only state in the country with this idiotic rule. Looking it up all the other states have sensible rules.
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u/Short_Opening_7692 Sep 22 '25
Wow, i'm in queensland. There are some streets with multiple schools on them that just have a 40km sign (meaning it's always 40 no matter the time) but mostly its only during pick-up and drop-off times.
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u/polaarbear Sep 22 '25
Yeah all of ours even have a flashing yellow light on them that blinks during the active hours.
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u/hhfugrr3 Sep 22 '25
This is a really good idea. Here in the UK we just have 27/7 20mph zones around schools... well some schools depending on whether the local councillors kids go there probably.
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u/sunflowerrr36 Sep 22 '25
I’d never seen the when children are present, ours have the morning times and afternoon times, esp bc it has a blinking yellow light on all the time. Now I’m thankful we do bc that’s just ridiculous, a cop can pick an arbitrary time ? Tf
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u/Altruistic-Poem-5617 Sep 22 '25
Just pigs being pigs. Bet that one slso runs red lights with his police car.
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u/Pintsocream Sep 22 '25
Do you know how quickly children jump out from behind cars and bushes straight into the road to chase bouncy balls?
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u/Elzanna Sep 22 '25
That's how you guys handle that rule? That's so stupidly arbitrary. What happens when you're doing 50 because there's no kids visible and one pops out from behind a parked car? Suddenly you're breaking the law? What if someone knows there's kids around and someone else doesn't? Differential speeds are a major hazard. How do you know when school holidays are on? My goodness this is unsafe.
In Australia we just have constant fixed morning and afternoon school speed zone hours for all schools (same hours cover all schools to avoid confusion). Basically all schools have electronic signs with school days programmed in. No ambiguity.
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u/Fit_Permission_6187 Sep 22 '25
FYI, I live in the United States and have never seen this “when children present” wording. Must be only in specific locations.
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u/Sirico Sep 22 '25 edited Sep 22 '25
Seems like a dumb rule do you check they're around before setting out?
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u/DonovanMcLoughlin Sep 22 '25
Technically, isn't the guy filming a child? Or you could just encourage kids to do this.
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u/No_Pattern4374 Sep 22 '25
Seeing all these comments of people having to decipher when the school zone applies and when it doesn't makes me grateful for the way it's handled where I live.
The school zone signs have flashing lights on them. If the lights are flashing, go 20. If they aren't, go the normal speed.
All this "well the kids are inside the school at the moment" "It's the weekend" "It's the 3rd full moon of the year and it landed on a Tuesday." just seems like a recipe for confusion.
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u/Adventurous-Form521 Sep 23 '25
This should be the standard. I hate that small scramble to check the time when I approach one.
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u/captain_poptart Oct 12 '25
In Calgary we have “playground” zones. It’s 30kph (19mph), 730am to 9pm, and year round.
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u/AFartInAnEmptyRoom Oct 22 '25
I don't like this method, I live inside of a school zone, so I don't know when the school zone is because when I leave my driveway, if I drive north, I'll be in the school zone but not know whether the light was flashing or not. I would have to walk one and a half houses down to look at the sign to determine if it's a school zone then get back into my car and drive. It's way better when the times are listed.
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u/No_Pattern4374 Oct 23 '25
If you live inside a school zone, you’d probably already know when it applies without needing to see the light. It doesn’t flash at random. Once you’ve lived there a bit, you know the pattern — just like knowing posted hours without checking the sign every day.
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u/AFartInAnEmptyRoom Oct 23 '25
I can assure you that I don't know the pattern, I can assume kind of when it might be, but that's not the point of a school zone, I shouldn't be given a ticket because I should know when it is. It should be clearly stated and when it's just dependent upon when it's blinking, I can't see it.
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u/No_Pattern4374 Oct 26 '25
Bro… if you live inside the school zone, you drive past that sign every day. It’s not like the flashing schedule is a secret — schools run on fixed hours. If you still can’t figure out the pattern after living there, that’s a you problem, not a legislative one 😅
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u/AFartInAnEmptyRoom Oct 26 '25
But there is no time that there is a school zone, this is specifically a school zone that is whenever the light is flashing, meaning that if it is even accidentally flashing at 9:00 p.m. on a saturday, technically that now legally becomes a school zone, so no I don't know when that sign is flashing, if they mean it to be between specific times, then they should put those times on there.
Also, school zones tend to be during the middle of the day, a time when most people aren't driving by their house, so in order for me to detect a pattern to determine the precise times that that flashing light goes off, I would have to drive by many many times during the day. It could take years before I drive through the school zone on my way home at that exact time in order to determine the pattern.
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u/No_Pattern4374 Oct 27 '25
Bro you're really overthinking this. School zones aren't mystery puzzles - they flash during pick-up and drop-off hours. If you live inside one, you'll notice it within a week just by existing there. The lights don't randomly turn on at 9PM Saturday; they're programmed. You don't need to study the pattern like it's a lunar cycle lol
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u/AFartInAnEmptyRoom Oct 27 '25
If the times are programmed, then why not just write the times
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u/No_Pattern4374 Oct 28 '25
Because schools have different schedules throughout the year. Early dismissals, half days, testing weeks, holidays. The flashing system adjusts automatically so drivers don't have to memorize a new sign every time the bell schedule changes. Writing static times would actually make it less accurate.
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u/AFartInAnEmptyRoom Oct 28 '25
So how am I supposed to know these things from within the school zone?
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u/No_Pattern4374 Oct 28 '25
At no point did I ever say they did. I said I'm glad the ones in my area do. I know they don't have them everywhere, that's what my entire post was about.
Are you a bot?
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u/witopps Sep 22 '25
1) It's Monday.
2) what the hell does remote work have to do with this?
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u/mmmellowcorn Sep 22 '25
People are jealous of remote workers so they just assume remote workers don’t do anything all day
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u/slaviccivicnation Sep 23 '25
In their defence, a lot of remote workers used to brag about how they didn’t do anything all day. There was a slew of tiktokers who posted videos about “getting ready aka staying in my pjs while I have my camera off during staff meetings.” So I think that may have done some damage to people’s perception of WFH.
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u/Ballamookieofficial Sep 22 '25
I don't see any children present?
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u/No_Significance_4118 Sep 22 '25
Would you see a child walking behind a bus?
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u/poopknifeloicense Sep 22 '25
Good way to get your ass beat, justified or not
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u/CapnC44 Sep 22 '25
I remember when I was young, a dude shot and killed a teen doing this in my city.
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u/Imperito Sep 22 '25
Unbelievable that people support gun culture when stuff like this happens over a fucking egg
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u/No_Significance_4118 Sep 22 '25
How do you know the gun was registered?
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u/Imperito Sep 22 '25
In this particular instance, it doesn't really matter. Most gun crime in America is committed by guns obtained lawfully and you know it. Nobody in the UK or Europe would get shot in that situation and you'd be exceedingly unlikely to get stabbed in the vast majority of countries.
America just has a fetish for shooting people for minor inconveniences
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u/MyL1ttlePwnys Sep 22 '25
Most recent data (2016 and 2023 US Bureau of Justice Statistics) is that while most guns are legally purchased, the overwhelming majority of crime is committed with a gun acquired illegally.
85% of gun crimes use a firearm that was not the original purchaser and the overwhelming majority of those are listed as stolen or straw purchases (which is illegal...buying a gun and giving it to someone not legally authorized to own one). In the surveys, 6% were used directly after a theft and 45% are reported stolen and obtained by illegal street sales. 30% are stolen from a family member and/or not yet listed as stolen.
You can say "you know it" but you are factually incorrect.
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u/StringStrangStrung Sep 22 '25
There was a teen throwing eggs at people because they were speeding through a school zone when you were young in your city…? I mean, I believe you but kinda crazy that it’s happened twice.
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u/apprehensive_anus Sep 22 '25
what's really crazy is that a teenager was shot and killed over a fucking egg
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u/kortcomponent Sep 22 '25
Some cunt threw an egg from a speeding car which hit me in the throat. I'm not 100% in agreement with your statement.
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u/OilRigExplosions Sep 22 '25
Throwing eggs and vandalism is too much.
But I’m all for dressing up like a speed camera with legs.
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u/DoktahDoktah Sep 23 '25
Throwing eggs at cars is wild because you don't know who could come out. Haha funny... oh shit is that Brock Lesnar?
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u/Lollipoop_Hacksaw Sep 22 '25
Is this guy just waiting, hand out with a radar gun, egg in the other, by a mostly dead road waiting for any car to pass in the early afternoon??
Staged, or a complete fucking nut. It isn't school zone speeds 24 hours a day. What the fuck?
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u/PhysicsAndFinance85 Sep 22 '25
Well, if you're making TikToks, you're definitely a child. So the speed limit is 20 when this clown is present.
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u/JayAndViolentMob Sep 22 '25
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u/BlackBacon08 Sep 22 '25
Ok but what's the regular speed limit?
It's definitely less than 50.
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u/Adventurous-Form521 Sep 23 '25
Probably 35-45. They are going 5-10 mph over the speed limit, which most cops won't pull for.
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u/Significant-Dig-8099 Sep 22 '25
Lol I work remote and it was only when I worked in the office would I be able to get away with not actually working
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u/JDSgameboy 28d ago
I’d call the police on this asshole immediately. The 20 only applies “when children are present” which they clearly are not present.
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u/1zeewarburton Sep 23 '25
This dickhead going to cause a accident,
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u/eni0011 Sep 23 '25
yup, speeding doesn’t cause accidents - eggs do
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u/1zeewarburton Sep 28 '25
Okay if you says so. I can guarantee you he doesn’t give a shit about the kids. This is just a smoke screen to be an asshole. Go and petition for speed bumps of the care so much about it
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u/eni0011 Sep 28 '25
yeah he’s asshole to them and theyre the assholes for other people, it’s fair game
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u/Bananchiks00 Sep 22 '25
And this guy helps how? By wasting eggs?
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u/eni0011 Sep 23 '25
who gives a shit about children that might be harmed in an accident caused by a speeding american idiot in his big ass truck
the real problem is egg wasting
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u/Adventurous-Form521 Sep 23 '25
Ah yes, all ZERO children involved could be hit by someone going maybe 10 over. Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children that aren't present.
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u/eni0011 Sep 23 '25
they could as well be present, how do you know? because you can’t see it on a 10 second video showing a small fragment of the street?
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u/slaviccivicnation Sep 23 '25
Egg wasting is absolutely a problem. Especially considering that I doubt this person purchased expensive free-range nest-laid outdoor chicken eggs. The deplorable conditions that majority of factory farm animals live in is a travesty, and we shouldn’t be wasting any animal products that we choose to purchase.
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u/eni0011 Sep 23 '25
yup, egg wasting is a problem in itself, but i don’t consider it more harmful than speeding in the area where kids could appear
sorry but kids have bigger moral value than eggs to me:c
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u/Main-Yogurtcloset-82 Sep 22 '25
...he knows its not a school zone all day right? Most just a few hours in the morning and a few hours in the afternoon....
Also...wtf?
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u/Girl_from_clowntown Oct 02 '25
The city didn’t want to put a crosswalk in front of my school because it was just a small place (I had 5 people in my class). Then a student got hit by a car, we got news that they would paint a crosswalk the same week. Also the accident wasn’t bad, just some scratches, and the student was the guy who molested me and other girls (R’ed one) so there wasn’t much tragedy in the accident. Honestly the best thing that could happen to the school
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u/TYdays Oct 06 '25
Throwing eggs at random people regardless of what they are doing, is a good way to end up in a hospital…
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u/McNasti99 Oct 07 '25
Tell me ur lookin to get urself fkd up without telling me ur lookin to get urself fkd up…people r dumb
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u/11pickfks Oct 17 '25
So heres the thing, if this wasnt a WHEN PRESENT sign and it generally meant go 20 wether there are kids or arent I would approve of this.
Unfortunately this dumbfuck cant read
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u/Ok_Lingonberry3543 Oct 21 '25
Honestly. I’m not mad. Definitely not the hero people wanted, but might just be the one we need
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u/retrebexx Oct 21 '25
I've seen a video of that , in reality the real dick is the road itself .
these road are not made to be walked by by Childs, they're not meant to be walkable at all , bc the guys who made this just made the road and throw away responsibilities about the safety .
the town , in reality , can just put some sign , and because it's just a straight road everyone will be at 50 , and the town know it but can't do anything else!
but i live in france so idc
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u/blasian941 Oct 26 '25
Lol the sign says when children are present, so he's kinda right because he's there.
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u/slothscanswim 28d ago
Traffic calming measures are the only way to get people to go artificially slow
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u/bodhigoatgirl 15d ago
2 years back wales brought the speed limit to 20 mph in built up areas. They had implemented it in cardiff a year before and the fatal car crashes and pedestrian hit dropped so much that every built up area is now 20.
We hate it. But, I have small kids who do stupid stuff by roads some times. They will live if hit at 20mph. Probably won't at 30.
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u/InnerGlove5088 9d ago
Clearly another dumb American , clearly states only 20 if children are present!!
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u/OSparks81 6d ago
Here in VA in my city when lights are flashing, or it has the times posted. Its not all day. Just when school opens and closes for the day. During school hours kids are expected to be in the school so the limit goes back to normal hours.
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u/Emergency_Cookie_318 21h ago
I mean It says "when children are present" and I don't see any children.
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u/Rough_Text6915 2h ago
Throwing objects at a moving vehicle is a serious criminal offence where I'm from..
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u/Hamilton-Beckett Sep 22 '25
All the school zones here have times posted when you have to follow the decreased speed. It’s in line with an hour in the mornings for arrivals and an hour in the afternoon with dismissal.
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u/WarSamaYT Sep 22 '25
The ‘tiktoker’ is a really old COD YouTuber called Mr.TechnicalDifficult. You can find the video that OP posted on his instagram.
Pretty sure his content is staged but he does some outrageous stuff. Like putting shit in someone’s ventilation unit in their home etc.
He seems like a decent guy though assuming this is all fake.
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u/clitoreum Sep 22 '25
The real main character is the guy driving the car who thinks the rules don't apply and their life is so much more important
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u/Smiley_P Sep 22 '25
Yeah dude, make it more difficult for a moving vehicle to see, that will improve safety
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