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Wednesday 22 August 2018

SHOCKING FOOTAGE

SHOCKING FOOTAGE: Irresponsible Women Walking in Catskills Nearly Cause Head-On Collision





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Nearly one month ago, YWN published a “Mailbag” which went viral regarding Jewish women walking on the roads in the Catskills.
The letter was written by a woman in the Monticello area, who explained in detail how women are often seen walking two or three across on the country roads, with zero regard for the passing vehicles.
Her point was to bring awareness to the thousands of woman walking on the roads, warning that someone will one day R”L get killed from this totally reckless behavior.
The attached video is dashcam footage taken on Tuesday morning at around 11:00AM in the Swan Lake area. It shows FOUR women walking side-by-side along the road, forcing vehicles to swerve across the double yellow line into oncoming traffic to avoid hitting them.
The letter writer is correct.
This reckless activity WILL one day cause a serious accident. It will either hurt a pedestrian, or an occupant of a vehicle forced to swerve to avoid hitting one of the totally irresponsible women.
WATCH AND BE SHOCKED

  1. I seriously believe that according to halacha, one is not allowed to go into the other lane if someone is carelessly walking and risk CV injuring or killing themselves or another innocent person. (I don’t expect this to be printed).
  2. There are 2 problems here. One is the pedestrians, but the other is drivers who don’t stop and look before driving into an oncoming lane to avoid pedestrians or stopped cars. This problem is not unique to the Catskills. The problem is also endemic to the 5 boros.
  5. And hooray for YWN for finding yet another article talking about the misdeeds of the heimishe community!
    It is a serious issue overal whether it are the walkers or the baby carriages! שה’ ישמר עלינו
  6. The main thing out of order shown in the video is the idiot driver of the car with the video dashcam drives across the double yellow lines into the opposite direction to get CLOSER to the OTHER SIDE that the four women are walking on.
  9. what is most amazing is that there is ZERO attempt (in the clip shown) to move to the shoulder. equally amazing (and share some of the blame) are the drivers who cross the double yellow line without the slightest hesitation or decrease in speed.
  10. Where should these women be walking if not on the side of the road???
    Where there is no dedicated sidewalk, pedestrians are allowed equal use of the road (excluding highways obviously) so car users take care and go easy.
    Most (if not all) of the upstate New York road accidents are due to highly irresponsible drivers zooming around country roads at ridiculous speeds.
    Go slow and share the road.
  12. Moshe94:
    “It seems like they are suffering from a superiority complex, which makes them feel like they own the road.”
    Are they doing something irresponsible? Yes.
    Seems as if you are suffering from a loathing complex which makes you feel as if you have the right to disparage them.
    So before I conjecture, let’s read in your own words what would you have said had they had the appearance of belonging to another group?
    Let’s see your vast knowledge of diagnosis of the psyche.
  13. Calm down – there’s nothing shocking in this video whatsoever.
    The oncoming cars are being fully responsible, only swerving just enough and only because there they can clearly see that they have the space to do so. And all the women are keeping neatly to the very edge of the road, and only spread out after the last car passes and no more oncoming cars can be seen.
    (Technically, yes it is a double-line, but it’s really not a big deal to allow common-sense to override technical bureaucratic rules – as in this case, when there is plenty of time and visibility. I realise that all the rule-loving overly-righteous-government-obeying Americans will jump on me for my previous sentence. But I hold by it. And don’t be so ignorant to yell “dina demalchusa” at me. )
    This is not a “SHOCKING” video. But the nature and focus of this site is indeed shocking in that, if a visitor were to see the choice of article published on this site, without knowing anything about it’s background, they could easily draw the conclusion that it must be an anti-Semitic site seeing how regularly and punctiliously it tries to highlight every failing of every religious Yid, and always in a manner which is ‘dan le’kaff chovah’.
  14. @galicianer Yes, I would have said the same thing about any group. Unlike some people, I care more about deeds than Identity/affiliation.
  15. In NY, the law is clear, if there is no sidewalk a pedestrian must walk as close to the left of the road as possible, single file, facing oncoming traffic.
  17. Response to AJM: You are 1000% WRONG. Cars are NOT Expected to “Share the Road with Pedestrians” unless a specific sign says so at a MARKED Pedestrian Crossing! This road is Single Lane for Cars in opposite Directions- And Worse For These women is the Hill the ONCOMING CARS come over gives No Time for Cars to See and Stop! It’s not Bad enough a Teenage Girl was KILLED a few Years ago Doing this?!
    If Women want to Walk, they must walk 1) INSIDE THEIR BUNGALOW COLONIES 2) SINGLE FILE Along the Grass On side of the road 3) In Town on the Sidewalk 4)Get a Car Ride somewhere safe to walk
    Stop this Dangerous Walking In path of Cars on Roadways!
  18. Response to leahleh: § 1156.
    (b) Where sidewalks are not provided any pedestrian walking along and upon a highway shall when practicable walk only on the left side of the roadway or its shoulder facing traffic which may approach from the opposite direction. Upon the approach of any vehicle from the opposite direction, such pedestrian shall move as far to the left as is practicable.
  20. What’s the point of going up to the Catskills and still be dressed in their stiff garb. Can’t they let loose a little?
  21. SV: These Women Were NOT Walking on the shoulder, Nor were they all the way on the Left- they were walking side by side almost all the way to the double yellow line, leaving no room for a car to pass them safely without fearing into ONCOMING TRAFFIC! . And TORAH LAW of PERSONAL SAFETY would not allow People to endanger their lives walking on a Road where cars Drive that can’t see them over hilly roads till they’re almost hitting them! How Dare they endanger their own and others lives! A few years ago a Frum young Girl was Killed Exactly like this! Don’t defend the indefensible! MiU.S.,..

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3 comments:

Rabbi Gaby Lock said...

IN ENGLAND WE HAVE A BIGGER PROBLEM WE DRIVE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD IN THE PAST FEW YEARS A FEW FOREIGNERS HAVE BEEN KILLED AS THEY SEE THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD CLEAR AND CROSS,THERE ARE ALSO FRUM PEOPLE WHO DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT YOU HAVE TO WALK ON THE PAVEMENT, THEY WALK ON THE ROAD, AND USE THEIR MOBILES.
THERE ARE NOTICES UP IN ALL THE SYNAGOGUES BUT THEY DO NOT LISTEN.
WE HAVE DONE OURS MORE WE CAN NOT DO.
THERE IS ALSO A PROBLEM WITH THE BUSSES, THERE IS A YELLOW LINE ON THE PAVEMENT ESPECIALLY NEXT TO THE BUS STOP AS THE BUS COMES VERY NEAR TO THE PAVMENT FOR PEOPLE TO GET ON EASEY,
LOTS OF CHILDREN GET HIT BY THE BUS USUALLY, THANK G-D IT IS NOT FATAL, BUT WHEN YOU TELL THEM OR EVEN THE PARENTS,THEY DO NOT CARE.

22 August 2018 at 08:25
leah said...

Thanks for you speech

22 August 2018 at 11:02
Rabbi Gaby Lock said...

LEAH
WE JEWS THINK IT IS WRONG TO CRITICISE OUR BEHAVIOUR THERE IS NOTING WRONG IN OBSERVING THE THINGS WE DO WRONG AND TALKING ABOUT THEM.
WHAT IS WRONG THAT WE DO NOT WANT TO RECOGNISE THAT WE ARE NOT LIKED BY THE GOYIM, WHAT EVER WE DO.

22 August 2018 at 12:50

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