If someone asks you a question your answer is always “no.”
“Do you know the time?” “No”
“Do you want a free bottle of designer perfume?” “No”
“Can I ask you a question?” “No”
“Do you want to help starving children?” “No”
“My name is James, what’s your name?” “No”
There’s no upside to interacting with people on the street. Don’t be polite because they’ll use it against you.
“Do you have drugs?” “No” “Okay you are innocent.” “No” “Want money?” “No” It always works and agree with them
Don’t look tough, look crazy. People don’t bother me in the street. It’s because I dress like a hobo and mutter / silently move my lips talking to myself while walking down the sidewalk. If they do manage to get me to make eye contact, it’s intense enough they wish they hadn’t. A wallet and groping my ass aren’t worth losing an eyeball or testicle to what looks like a tweaker.
If you did that in my town you’d be on the local crime watch group and be called a drug addict and have your local image tarnished
just saying all your thoughts outload is a fantastic way to keep people away from you, also acts as a sort of…humility check for yourself and as a socrates check for everyone else
Throw them off their rhythm.
Always look at both sides before you start crossing the road.
This applies to one way roads too.
Especially 1 way roads, if someone’s not paying enough attention to see a no entry sign they aren’t paying enough attention to see you
Even interstates?
No, the advice there is to not cross them at all unless on a different elevation.
Like shrooms?
Street smart
Don’t put a climbing rope on asphalt the oils will mess it up.
I remember hearing about this, so I tend to avoid yardsaling my climbing gear all over the parking lot. But at the same time, I don’t really worry about it. If leaving nylon on asphalt actually caused a strength reduction to the point where the gear would fail, we’d hear about a lot more climbing deaths due to snapped ropes - which we don’t.
The don’t survive to tell the tale.
I assume this is a joke, but people don’t just die and disappear off the face of the earth. When someone dies in a climbing accident, people find out, and the death is documented in climbing accident journals.
Maybe Big Rope is silencing people.
Walk with a purpose.
Keep eye contact to a minimum.
Use mirror, reflections and shadows to tell movement without looking directly at it.
Don’t use headphones, you need your senses.
Don’t listen to strangers.
Trust your gut.
If you want people to move out of your way when walking, look over their heads or behind them. That unconsciously signals other walkers to move.
Stray dogs:
If you pass somewhere and there are suddenly stray dogs in your way, just squat down and show your hands. Hands down, palms up. If they come to sniff and shit, keep your palms below their face. Basically let them come to you. When they trust you, you can pat the top of the head. But patting the top of the head before they know you can be dangerous, as you might use them to hit them, for example.Usually within seconds the whole pack comes to get some love :)
I’ve never been attacked by a dog this way. But if a dog would come at me, actually aggressive and not slow down, I hear you should use your feet to defend yourself.
Don’t just walk through their territory.
Interacting with unknown, much less untrained canines is a quick way to test the local health system.
FWIW, looking unfamiliar animals in the eyes is an even more sure way to imply to them that you’re a predator. 😵💫
If you do have to defend yourself, indiscriminate use of a grenade launcher sends a powerful message.
“To whom it may concern”
I always liked “To whom it will shortly concern”
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palms up???
Like thisI would say, the psychology behind is that we grip into our palms. So it’s harder to hide something behind your palms. You’re showing in every way you are not backstabbing them.
Seems dangerous is what im saying. I do palm down on only one hand. Also feet does not seem like a good idea. I would not want to reduce my balance and verticality nor make my groin more of a target.
If a dog is jumping up on you then you should put your knee up and they’ll stop. It’s a good way to train dogs not to jump up on people.
If you’re squatting down in this situation and raise your knee… Thafuq.
Stand up first
The defense with the feet I got from someone who had to defend themselves multiple times. I don’t remember the details, but it’s about the easier way to keep distance from their mouth without it biting onto anything… idk. I’d say, check some youtube videos or other resources of people who talk from experience. :)
I think another important reason is to keep the face away. If you were to use your fists, you’d have to lean forward, bringing your face closer to their mouth. You’re also not allowing them to bite anywhere, like your legs. Of course, much like a knife fight, you don’t wanna be in this situation in the first place.
The palm thing, if you’re already doing a lot of other things right, it probably doesn’t matter much. But I find it signals more intent that you mean no harm. And by the time they come that close to you, I don’t see them attacking you, like ever. And if they were to show hostile behaviour beforehand, you have time to change your hand position and stand up.
In the United States, the most common street name is second Street. That’s because some municipalities have first Street and some municipalities have main Street.
That’s a fun fact, ty
Don’t get into fights of any kind. Nobody comes out the winner, just losers.
Honor, Street Cred, Respect, whatever. None of that is worth injuries and the bills from the hospital or getting involved with the police over.
Never go to a secondary location.
If someone is about to get in your path just look at where you’re trying to walk instead of looking at them. They’ll move instinctively.
If you’re out walking late at night, having bigger dogs help. Ain’t nobody gonna come up to me looking for trouble if they see me walking a couple big pit mixes.
Don’t stop or talk when people are trying to talk to you in a public place, especially if you’re in a foreign country.
Jaywalking is a-okay.
Negative. I was visiting Burbank CA from NYC. About 8 am on a nearly empty street. Going to get coffee I got a jaywalking ticket. I was shocked .
Depending on where you are and what you look like, don’t do it in front of cops, though.
At least not with your dick out.
Very true.
As long as no kids are around to watch you so they dont think they can just run out in the street whenever
Especially if you want a free Darwin award.
“Jaywalking” is mostly a US thing made up by car companies to victim-blame pedestrians when they were killed by cars so they could avoid regulation themselves. Where I am we were taught very early in school how to safely cross a road safely, and pedestrians waiting to cross or already crossing a road generally have right of way even when no signals exist. It’s only an issue in backwards countries where cars have more rights than people and cities are designed for them instead.
I cross without a signal daily because otherwise I’d have to walk all the way around the block to get to a crossing going the opposite direction from where I’d want to go then find a way to circle all the way back at other crossings. That would make leaving the house more than a little inconvenient, especially since everything I’d need is in walking distance so I rarely drive. To my knowledge I have not been killed by a car a single time.
Edit: Thanks for the downvote, doesn’t change the facts.
The very word jaywalk is an interesting—and not historically neutral—one. Originally an insult against bumptious “jays” from the country who ineptly gamboled on city sidewalks, it was taken up by a coalition of pro-automobile interests in the 1920s, notes historian Peter D. Norton in his book Fighting Traffic. “Before the American city could be physically reconstructed to accommodate automobiles, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where cars belong,” he writes. “Until then, streets were regarded as public spaces, where practices that endangered or obstructed others (including pedestrians) were disreputable. Motorists’ claim to street space was therefore fragile, subject to restrictions that threatened to negate the advantages of car ownership.” And so, where newspapers like the New York Times once condemned the “slaughter of pedestrians” by cars and defended the right to midblock crossings—and where cities like Cincinnati weighed imposing speed “governors” for cars—after a few decades, the focus of attention had shifted from marauding motorists onto the reckless “jaywalker.”
To my knowledge I have not been killed by a car a single time.
Fucking beautiful capstone on this otherwise great post.
Exactly. I had to look up what Jaywalking was, I’d never heard of it before.
In my country pedestrians always have right of way except on motorways.
That’ll help you win the case after you’re dead or injured for life, so that’s good!
I mean, you’d still be more likely to get hit and personally I’d think you’d want to avoid that, but if you accept that reality and are more concerned about financially benefiting (or your family benefiting, if you’re now a corpse) then this is sound logic!
I’ve never understood it myself, because I am the type that wants to do everything in my power to avoid being grievously injured to begin with even if it’s “the other guy’s fault,” but hey, different strokes.
In most residential areas there are no designated crossings.
And drivers here have an expectation that pedestrians may try and cross the road at any moment so perhaps they’re all more aware.
I’m not sure how finances fit into this cultural difference.
Depends on where you’re at to some degree I suppose (especially because if there are no designated crosswalks then there is no “jaywalking” as the latter action is predicated on the former condition), though “being where the cars go vroom” is still more likely to get you hit by one than “not being where the cars go vroom” no matter what the area is zoned for.
Yet still, my point is “the right of way” isn’t some magic forcefield that prevents injury or death, but simply means that if you do get injured or dead someone will be charged with involuntary manslaughter about it and likely have to pay your family money. And again I’d say “cool but I’d rather be alive,” so for me the true advice isn’t “don’t worry the state will make sure your surviving family members get a little cash,” it’s “try not to get dead in the first place if you can avoid it.”
Look both ways before crossing…? Not sure what you mean
Edit: If you see something, no the fuck you didn’t; snitches get stitches and wind up in ditches having shat their britches, or something like that.
