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Dear lead-footed, testosterone-drunk SUV Driver

by Karoli on August 11, 2008

Warning: What follows will not be safe for work or little kids. Just sayin’

Dear asshole who just rolled down a private street no wider than an alley at 25 miles an hour, completely oblivious to me and my dog…

Fuck you.

Yes, YOU. The guy in the SUV so busy texting while you were driving that you didn’t notice that you were moving at breakneck pace through a PRIVATE STREET where CHILDREN PLAY.

You. Evidently you’ve never had the unique heartbreak of seeing your child knocked flat in that very same goddamn street bleeding and bruised because another idiot just like you was so concerned with his own deal that he didn’t bother to see little kids crossing the street.

In a crosswalk, I might add, just like I was tonight.

Asshole, you missed me and my pug by about a hair. Even if you had noticed us, you wouldn’t have been able to stop in time because you were too fucking busy with your little text conversation or whatever to see that there were people who had been in the crosswalk longer than you had been on the street, since you wheeled around the corner like you were on the Indianapolis racetrack. If I hadn’t pulled back the dog, tossed my own phone in the process, and lunged, she’d have been dead and I’d have been injured.

The thing is, I’ve actually stopped you in the street and TOLD YOU OVER AND OVER TO SLOW THE FUCK DOWN. This is not the first time; it’s just the closest.

I would publish your address but I don’t believe in stuff like that, because I’m not quite as big an asshole as you are. But I swear to God, the next time you put my life, the life of my dog, or any CHILD’s life at risk again with your idiocy, I will not only publish your address, I will publish your name, your license plate and your fucking cell phone number if I get hold of it.

Do you get it yet? If not, come on over and let me educate you in person. I can even show you the photos of what it looks like to have that cute teenage girl run completely over at the ripe old age of five and 12 days after a van rolls over her front to back. Yeah, that’s right, we’re the house on the corner down from you, with the crazy pug and the PTSD-ridden woman who shrieks at you to slow down about six times a day.

Please, learn it this time, so someone isn’t killed because you are the biggest selfish prick I’ve ever seen. Either that, or plan to pay for a lifetime supply of Xanax to calm my constantly jangled nerves from your lunacy.


(This happened in Lakeside Village, Camarillo, East side of the lake, just in case anyone happens to fall on this post via Google.)

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  • WebPixie
    I wonder where police-type radar guns are sold:
    http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/20...

    St. Joseph MO is about 60 miles north of Kansas City
  • I like that idea. :)
  • Start taking videos of the testosterone behavior. With time stamps.
  • Yes, though this instance caught me completely and totally off guard.
    I had a still camera (at least until I tossed the phone aside to
    rescue the dog), but no video cam. Really, the guy just needs to get
    a clue and take his damn foot off the gas.
  • jptrenn
    There's no reason to not publish SOMETHING. Shit, publish his number. Email tome. I'll call him and tell him to slow down. Yes, I'll do it.

    Simply blogging won't do it. You have to take bolder action.
  • I appreciate the offer, but I really don't publish personal info here...it's one of those principle things. Or at least, I don't do it without fair warning.

    I did, however, send an edited version of this post to our local paper with the reference to the complex left in.
  • Here, I found some speed bumps. They're damn cheap. I'd offer to donate a couple in honor of the neighborhood kids. http://snurl.com/speedbumps
  • Dang, those are cheap. Gonna take that page to the next meeting and push again.
  • I know. Unbelievably inexpensive. A couple of bake sales would pay for one.
  • Ah, Camarillo. I spent a couple summers housesitting for my grandparents in Fillmore when I was in college. Small towns. Letter to the editor? As for the HOA, don't they make rubber speed bumps that are less expensive to install? I cannot believe their insurance allows them to go w/out the speed bumps. You must not have filed a claim against their insurance when DG was hit. Is that even up to code?
  • I did file a claim. It was denied after the police determined that a 5-year old in a crosswalk was somehow at fault for being run over by the driver of a very large van who already admitted fault. Yes, it's completely stupid, but after the police report was released there was very little that we could do. No leverage at all. And to make matters worse, the shrink we hired to handle HER PTSD turned us into the Child Protective Services for letting our kid "play in the street". No, seriously, it really happened like that.

    That's one reason I 'm so rattled.
  • We live on a street that is essentially a dead-end, but has 2 side streets the come into it. At the evening rush hour, commuters like to cut the signal by whipping down our street. Our neighborhood has reported it to the police so many times. They come hang out at the end and hide to catch the twerps, but it's still an issue, albeit a smaller one. If you haven't reported it, I would, especially since you know exactly who it is.
  • Out here in Camarillo, we are never right when it comes to the cops. When DG was run over while in the crosswalk, the cops said it was her fault, even though the driver himself admitted he wasn't looking and had no idea he'd run over anything or anyone until the other child started screaming.

    For nine long years I have pushed our HOA to install speed bumps. the way our streets are configured, there are three short streets that join with one long straight. Some folks, like the idiot I wrote this to, view that long straight as a raceway to head down as fast as possible. sometimes they even burn rubber.

    Cops don't intervene because it's private property. HOA has no will to fix it, even after I threatened to sue after DG was hit.

    It's just completely frustrating, but this guy is beyond clueless.
  • Oh my God. This makes my heart stop. And a feeling I've had once or twice on my street too.

    Can I copy paste this to all the street signs?
  • By all means, please do. I'm just so tired of people who think they
    are all-important, particularly when they're behind the wheel.
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