Motorists threatening lollipop ladies.

whyamihere

Just seen on BBC Midlands today that lollipop ladies in Nuneaton have started wearing cameras because they're getting threatened so often by drivers who are annoyed at being asked to stop.

What on earth is wrong with these people? It seems like something that would appear on The Onion instead of being reality.

PhilofCas

take your pick, they are:
dicks
prats
plonkers
nob heads
goons
stupid
arseholes
thick

Cunobelin

Nope they are simply poor victimized individuals being persecuted by these appalling women (and men). These cameras are merely another stealth tax undermining the rghts of motorists!

graeme_s-2

I was waiting at a pelican crossing a couple of weeks back. The lights were on red, the lollipop lady was in the road (this is outside a school) and I was at the front of a short queue of cars. As the lollipop lady was just starting to walk back to the kerb (lights still red), a cyclist undertook me, went straight through the red light and nearly hit the poor lollipop lady who jumped out of her skin. So it's not just car drivers!

Sad that such a job should be so potentially dangerous. They're not exactly hard to spot in all their hi viz gear with their lollipop are they?

OffTheBackAdam

Which just shows that it has little to do with them being in a car, more to do with them being ignorant.

always_tyred

PhilofCas wrote:

take your pick, they are:
dicks
prats
plonkers
nob heads
goons
stupid
arseholes
thick

Okay, I want to know how you did that - did you have to hit "preview" each time to see if the word was edited out? DickS and PratS are potential user names, but aresehole? Maybe the software's dictionary is US English only....

spen666

PhilofCas wrote:

take your pick, they are:
dicks
prats
plonkers
nob heads
goons
stupid
arseholes
thick

I prefer theword CRIMINALS

Tourist Tony

The Daily Bigot was left lying around at work the other day, with a front page headline of "Milking Motorists". After the usual bs about poor victimised criminals--er, I mean drivers, the Mail had the wonderful phrase "..and those trapped by the police"

A few pages further in, we learned that the poor suffering saints that are UK motorists were actually vicious evil bastards trying to kill sweet and innocent lollipop ladies, who had to be equipped with video cameras.....

PhilofCas

Always Tyred wrote:

PhilofCas wrote:

take your pick, they are:
dicks
prats
plonkers
nob heads
goons
stupid
arseholes
thick

Okay, I want to know how you did that - did you have to hit "preview" each time to see if the word was edited out? DickS and PratS are potential user names, but aresehole? Maybe the software's dictionary is US English only....

didn't give it a second thought, just typed away, hit 'submit' and hey presto the words were there for all to see

C-S-B

wow, the mere thought of someone getting angry at a lollipop lady for safely getting some kids across a street is appaling, especially as round here the lights are usually red when she steps out

formerlyknownasbonj

to the lollipop lady on a pedestrian crossing: remind me again why you're necessary?

chuckcork

formerlyknownasbonj wrote:

to the lollipop lady on a pedestrian crossing: remind me again why you're necessary?

To stop drivers from running red lights while children are in the middle of the road, and to make sure that they are all safely out of the way before the traffic starts moving again.

Having been closed to knocked down myself at the pedestrian crossing outside Sainsbury's in Surbiton (driver in his 60's with wife beside him decided the bus that had stopped at the crossing for people to cross was taking too long so just overtook the bus, talk about adrenalin on my part!!!)

They can be bizzare though in a safety sense. Outside the nearby Surbiton Girls High school they had a crossing guard at the traffic lights. Fine except that not 5 metres away from the crossing, over the 4 lanes of road (2 each way) there would be at least once a week buses parked over the double yellow lines of one lane, blocking the traffic approaching the lights? Somehow that aspect of "road safety" was never addressed by the crossing guard who expected me to obey the rules?

Denny69

formerlyknownasbonj wrote:

to the lollipop lady on a pedestrian crossing: remind me again why you're necessary?

I often thought this but some of the roads in the Teesside area can be quite intimidating to School kids, even at crossings. At least if there is a crossing patrol (PC term ) then there's that little bit of protection....allegedly!

OffTheBackAdam

They also stop the kids from dashing across without looking.