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Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Twerk from Home posted:

# ? Sep 26, 2023 16:49

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# ? May 23, 2024 15:37

500excf type r: Mar 7, 2013; I'm as annoying as the high-pitched whine of my motorcycle, desperately compensating for the lack of substance in my life.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

"pedestrian versus car" makes it pretty clear they think it was a meeting of equals. lol

It is a mechanical description for the initial response. There are also vehicle vs vehicle, vehicle vs pole, etc similar to "fully involved structure fire" versus "vehicle fire" because you want the appropriate responders sent with the appropriate equipment

# ? Sep 26, 2023 16:56

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003

Here's an appropriate mechanical description: "A driver attempted to kill a man with his car today"

e: also I don't think first responders are waiting to read the news reports to figure out what to bring to the crash scene but I may be wrong

# ? Sep 26, 2023 16:57

500excf type r: Mar 7, 2013; I'm as annoying as the high-pitched whine of my motorcycle, desperately compensating for the lack of substance in my life.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Here's an appropriate mechanical description: "A driver attempted to kill a man with his car today"

That would be appropriate for a press release correct, but the description from the press release is from the radio call to responders where your verbiage would be counter productive and unwieldy

# ? Sep 26, 2023 16:59

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003

hanging out with the other firemen in the station house until the six o'clock news so I can figure out what to bring to that crash scene from this morning

# ? Sep 26, 2023 17:03

500excf type r: Mar 7, 2013; I'm as annoying as the high-pitched whine of my motorcycle, desperately compensating for the lack of substance in my life.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

hanging out with the other firemen in the station house until the six o'clock news so I can figure out what to bring to that crash scene from this morning

Disingenuous Manlet or Illiterate Clown? Tonight at 11:00

# ? Sep 26, 2023 17:06

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003

There's no reason for the 6 o'clock news to be publishing mechanical information to help first responders, hth

it's disassociation of fault, pure and simple

# ? Sep 26, 2023 17:09

500excf type r: Mar 7, 2013; I'm as annoying as the high-pitched whine of my motorcycle, desperately compensating for the lack of substance in my life.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

There's no reason for the 6 o'clock news to be publishing mechanical information to help first responders, hth

it's disassociation of fault, pure and simple

The article is quoting the initial call to responders lol how is this hard to understand

# ? Sep 26, 2023 17:11

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003

Because their job is to do journalism, not to republish sanitized accounts from the police

Publishing that instead of what happened is a choice. how is this so hard to understand

# ? Sep 26, 2023 17:12

lobster shirt: Jun 14, 2021

they did publish what happened

quote:

Pittsburgh man hit neighbor with car after argument, police say

A Pittsburgh man was arrested Monday for hitting his neighbor with his car after an argument.

Kevin Garth, 53, is facing a list of charges, including aggravated assault by vehicle, accidents involving death or personal injury, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, failing to stop and render aid and harassment.

Officers responded to the 4300 block of Bristol Street Monday afternoon for a vehicle versus pedestrian accident.

They spoke with the victim, who said Garth ran him over with his vehicle twice after an argument over a woman.

# ? Sep 26, 2023 17:14

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003

The 'pedestrian versus car' poo poo is still garbage that summarizes this as just another accident

# ? Sep 26, 2023 17:17

Feels Villeneuve: Oct 7, 2007; Setter is Better.

before i have an opinion on this i need to know if either the driver or pedestrian were being sexist

# ? Sep 26, 2023 17:17

Mauser: Dec 16, 2003; How did I even get here, son?!

He aimed the car at his legs to avoid fatally injuring the guy who assaulted his car

# ? Sep 26, 2023 17:17

Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

he could have simply jumped, spun around, allowed himself to break the windshield (possibly by directed karate chop or heel kick), and then landed on top of the driver like Brock Samson

# ? Sep 26, 2023 17:19

500excf type r: Mar 7, 2013; I'm as annoying as the high-pitched whine of my motorcycle, desperately compensating for the lack of substance in my life.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

The 'pedestrian versus car' poo poo is still garbage that summarizes this as just another accident

How should it be reported to first responders? How would you improve upon this?

# ? Sep 26, 2023 17:19

CopperHound: Feb 14, 2012

Ensign Expendable posted:

A driver can never be held responsible for anything. Any collisions are the fault of the vehicle.

Well, in this case, the brown paper bag test might have some sway.

# ? Sep 26, 2023 17:22

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003

500excf type r posted:

How should it be reported to first responders? How would you improve upon this?

I wasn't aware that WPXI was a primary source for first responders

It's an attempted homicide story and introducing it as a "car versus pedestrian accident" is poo poo framing, there's zero reason for that line to be in a report to the general public unless you're deliberately framing it.

# ? Sep 26, 2023 17:23

Feels Villeneuve: Oct 7, 2007; Setter is Better.

we need to stop trying to fix the symptoms and look into the root cause of this incident: the argument about a woman

# ? Sep 26, 2023 17:24

Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

if i were reporting it to first responders i would probably say "a man was hit with a car by his neighbor" but they already said that in the first line and the article has to fit a minimum word count

# ? Sep 26, 2023 17:24

500excf type r: Mar 7, 2013; I'm as annoying as the high-pitched whine of my motorcycle, desperately compensating for the lack of substance in my life.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

I wasn't aware that WPXI was a primary source for first responders

It's an attempted homicide story and introducing it as a "car versus pedestrian accident" is poo poo framing, there's zero reason for that line to be in a report to the general public unless you're deliberately framing it.

The article is very clear on what happened. The one line you take umbrage with is quoting the call that went out over the air to responders.

# ? Sep 26, 2023 17:28

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003

What's accidental about running someone over with your car twice? sounds pretty deliberate to me

automobile discharges; bystander becomes seriously injured

# ? Sep 26, 2023 17:30

500excf type r: Mar 7, 2013; I'm as annoying as the high-pitched whine of my motorcycle, desperately compensating for the lack of substance in my life.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

What's accidental about running someone over with your car twice? sounds pretty deliberate to me

automobile discharges; bystander becomes seriously injured

starting to go with option C, disingenuous illiterate manlet

# ? Sep 26, 2023 17:31

Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

make out already

# ? Sep 26, 2023 17:31

aw frig aw dang it: Jun 1, 2018

Feels Villeneuve posted:

we need to stop trying to fix the symptoms and look into the root cause of this incident: the argument about a woman

hearing reports she was a fox. a babe. a robo-babe.

# ? Sep 26, 2023 17:35

spacemang_spliff: Nov 29, 2014; wide pickle

god shut up

# ? Sep 26, 2023 17:37

Beached Whale: Jun 27, 2009; The world as will and idea

Motorists voice concerns about reconfigured traffic patterns near Pittsburgh's Fern Hollow Bridge

quote:

Aviva Lubowsky, said she lives about two blocks away from the intersection of South Dallas and Beechwood. She said she thinks there�s good and bad in the recent changes.

�I think it�s a real mixed bag,� she said. �There�s no doubt in my mind it�s better for pedestrians and bikers. I have walked and biked that area since the changes have been made, and I do feel safer and there�s more access, and that�s great. But the thing I do most there is drive, and it�s not better for drivers.�

Car brain is a hell of a condition. Sure it might be safer when I'm walking around but who the hell has time for that!?

# ? Sep 26, 2023 18:48

mazzi Chart Czar: Sep 24, 2005

Have you guys seen the New Toyota Tacomas!

The loving looking like Gamer-Chairs but without the black and red color scheme.

Whatever status car ownership had is being eroded to edge lord ego poo poo.

mazzi Chart Czar has issued a correction as of 21:39 on Sep 26, 2023

# ? Sep 26, 2023 19:03

corona familiar: Aug 13, 2021

mazzi Chart Czar posted:

Have you guys seen the New Toyota Tacomas!

The loving looking like Gamer-Chairs but without the black and red color scheme.

Whatever stats car ownership had is being eroded to edge lord ego poo poo.

you may not like it but this is what peak truk looks like. tactical everyday carry in commuter form

# ? Sep 26, 2023 19:31

A MIRACLE: Sep 17, 2007; All right. It's Saturday night; I have no date, a two-liter bottle of Shasta and my all-Rush mix-tape... Let's rock.

toyotas been trading off their reputation for building the best [REDACTED] truck but they can't say that out loud. they can make the trucks look more like nerf guns tho. buy toyota, you can start your own miliitia!

I like how they embraced the ugly rear end LED light bar people have been strapping to their trucks

A MIRACLE has issued a correction as of 19:40 on Sep 26, 2023

# ? Sep 26, 2023 19:37

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004

A MIRACLE posted:

toyotas been trading off their reputation for building the best [REDACTED] truck but they can't say that out loud. they can make the trucks look more like nerf guns tho. buy toyota, you can start your own miliitia!

I like how they embraced the ugly rear end LED light bar people have been strapping to their trucks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_XwoiyDrA8

# ? Sep 26, 2023 19:47

corona familiar: Aug 13, 2021

A MIRACLE posted:

toyotas been trading off their reputation for building the best [REDACTED] truck but they can't say that out loud. they can make the trucks look more like nerf guns tho. buy toyota, you can start your own miliitia!

I like how they embraced the ugly rear end LED light bar people have been strapping to their trucks

I wonder if modern NA-market Toyota trucks can even compete with their counterparts in the [REDACTED] target demographic

# ? Sep 26, 2023 20:12

apatite: Dec 2, 2006; Got yer back, Jack

Ben Goldfarb wrote a new book, https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324005896

quote:

An eye-opening account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads, from the award-winning author of Eager.
Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. While roads are so ubiquitous they�re practically invisible to us, wild animals experience them as entirely alien forces of death and disruption.

Hope it is as good as Eager, which I would recommend

# ? Sep 26, 2023 20:35

evil_bunnY: Apr 2, 2003

Greg12 posted:

gently caress england

terfy plague island

# ? Sep 26, 2023 20:58

Cup Runneth Over: Aug 8, 2009; She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate