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I saw someone put one of these up to get across the roads beneath the Granville island overpass and yeah, I kinda feel like a brick would have helped out when I used to go there.

Disappointed that it's foam bricks instead of real bricks ngl

i hope this isn't an april fools, the foam bricks are such a good bit. the only thing people in cars fear is somethign that could hurt their precious car

a bricked society is a polite society

give them real bricks. year round

This reminds me of something from Fahrenheit 451, a detail that stuck with me more than most when I read it for school even though it wasn't, y'know, on one of those "what are the themes of the book" worksheets or whatever. Which is when the protagonist is about to get hit by a car and in a panic drops flat on the ground, and the novel notes that the driver swerves, not because they didn't want to hit him (they were intentionally aiming for him before) but because they thought running over a man lying on the ground was more likely to make the car flip than ramming him head-on.

idk I didn't think this is super relevant to the article but I was struck by the similarity of this "seeing pedestrians but just not caring" to that fictional moment of calculated malice that I've thought about for decades.

when i was a pedestrian in seattle, i would just walk over peoples hoods in my big docs, people are real polite when youre 6ft 2 with a mohawk

maybe they shared notes with the guy avoiding getting splashed by cars driving through puddles the same way https://youtu.be/_pecj2vb2SA

I imagine holding a gun would have a similar effect

lacking a brick, I once punched a car that was trying to slow-roll through an intersection while people were still crossing

somehow didn't hurt my hand or get beaten up, so I think it's a viable tactic