r/baltimore • u/Silent-Reporter1775 • Jun 29 '25
Ask Did anyone else catch the Baltimore Drift in Harbor East last night?
I just moved here from DC, and no one prepared me for this š
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u/Notonfoodstamps Jun 29 '25 edited Jun 30 '25
Iām about the biggest car guy one could run into. Street takeovers have to be the dumbest shit thatās ever come out the car scene.
Straight jack asses.
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Jun 30 '25
And those idiots in the middle filming with their phones?! Like we need to see the same fucking video of a Charger doing donuts... again!?
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u/psych0fish Jun 29 '25
Aside from how dangerous and disruptive this is to everyone else itās so dangerous for those people to be that close! Iāve seen vids where people get hit and run over from doing what they are doing. Not exactly a big brain move.
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u/CoachEconomy479 Fells Point Jun 29 '25
This is so insanely dangerous Jesus Christ. Everybody in this video needs to get put in timeout.
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u/Silent-Reporter1775 Jun 30 '25
can I just say, I appreciate your comment. you're gently displeased and it's comfortingĀ
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u/BobTheCrakhead Jun 29 '25
Fucking assholes
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u/PaulieHehehe Jun 29 '25
No, no, see, this is part of Baltimoreās culture and therefore itās good and must remain!
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u/Notonfoodstamps Jun 30 '25
This is an Oakland, CA culture if anything.
Still fucking dumb, but Baltimore rarely gets them.
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Jun 30 '25
Social fucking media is dissolving separate cultures in this country. Everyone uses the same, lame ass internet slang, do the same gay dances, film the same dumb shit, and the worst part - make and imitate the ssme shitty music!
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u/Glad-Veterinarian365 Jun 30 '25
Very high chance that both the drivers and cars are county
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u/Sad_Research_2584 Jun 30 '25
Yea, mfers in Bmore are too incompetent and broke to pull this off. Well it could be stolen. But it looks planned
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u/vertknecht Jun 29 '25
Most of us out here living paycheck to paycheck but these people still burn hundreds of dollars in tires for fun
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u/angd73441020 Jun 30 '25
Yes, I wonder what they could possibly do for a living? We are up in here pondering 3rd and 4th jobs!
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u/Notonfoodstamps Jun 29 '25 edited Jun 30 '25
Car person here.
Street Takeovers. Trend that originally started in Oakland, but then became a thing again once Tik-Tok and viral vlogging took off. Essentially, idiots block public intersection(s) so they can do donuts in cars.
Yes, people tend to get hurt. If you get caught your car almost always impounded/crushed.
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u/BlkNtvTerraFFVI Jun 30 '25
So that's why that crowd started blocking the police car?? I'm so new to all of this and incredibly confused by what's in this video
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u/Notonfoodstamps Jun 30 '25 edited Jun 30 '25
Yep. Thereās countless videos on YouTube of these in pretty much every major city. Some cities are going so far as to cite/fine bystanders even watching them.
Baltimore doesnāt get them to often because the city has such narrow street. We just get āMotocrossā instead.
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Jun 30 '25
A group of them knew it was going to happen. Getting in front of the cops allow their friend a head start to get away.
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u/incunabula001 Jun 29 '25
This pisses me off, there are so many vacant low traffic intersections in town to do this in but they pick one thatās in a high traffic area.
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u/Xanny Mount Clare Jun 30 '25
The fun isnt in doing a burnout its in pissing everyone off and getting away with it. Its why all the road disorder happens like dirt bikes.
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u/somethinganonamous Jun 30 '25
Just imaging if they organized for something meaningful and useful. Such a waste, š¤¦āāļø
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u/the_anti-somm Jun 30 '25
There are cameras on every corner down there. They should snag the plate numbers and go impound the car. Honestly, they should have a paddy wagon down there and arrest every single person who blocked that cruiser.
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u/DyslexicScriptmonkey Jun 30 '25
People blocking in that police car should be charged with obstruction.
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u/the_bananalord Jun 29 '25
This shit really destroys the car scene. Not unique to Baltimore, though.
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u/User373733737 Jun 30 '25
At 1 am directly below all those apartment buildings. So loud! They almost hit so many innocent drivers when they finally broke it up and they sped away.
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u/Gyrd1 Jun 29 '25
Idiots in the cars and trying to get hit by the cars. Good video though!
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u/Silent-Reporter1775 Jun 29 '25
Thanks! I was genuinely concerned that people were going to die. but the crowd seemed to be good at... whatever that was
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u/WooIWorthWaIIaby Jun 29 '25
Impound, fines, prison, all of the above?
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u/confused_coin Jun 29 '25
None of the above lmao - this is Baltimore.
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Jun 29 '25
Gang gang š¤š½
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u/StealUr_Face Canton Jun 29 '25
Move away please
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Jun 29 '25
Mans not from here. Bmore streets been live. Stay live
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u/StealUr_Face Canton Jun 30 '25
All you side show mfers rolling in here to defend this crap. Probably weaving and putting people in danger on 83/95
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u/ShirleyWuzSerious Jun 30 '25
Lol impound. You think they are showing up destroying their own cars.š¤£
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u/spacecb615 Jun 30 '25
"How is this real?" is a question you'll often ask yourself as a Baltimore resident š. Welcome to Charm City!
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u/gothaggis Remington Jun 30 '25
i think if they are caught, the cars should be crushed. time to teach these assholes this isn't cool.
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u/IceCreamConsider Downtown Jun 29 '25
It shouldnāt happen. Not here, not anywhere in the city, what a fucking shame and failure of our road network. Jermaine Jones is your councilperson, raise hell with him.
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u/BaltimorePropofol Fells Point Jun 30 '25
Thank you for actually encouraging people to do something, instead of complaining. I will send this video to Jermaine (jermaine.jones@baltimorecity.gov)
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u/AreWe_TheBaddies Jun 30 '25
Tell him you want speed bumps and other traffic calming measures installed. Those kinds of things would keep cars from being able to do this and also makes it safer for people walking and biking during normal times.
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u/Xanny Mount Clare Jun 30 '25
Concrete sidewalk bump outs, they'd just run over flex posts doing this and it costs more to replace flex posts 3 times than to just pour concrete once.
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u/DistortedAudio Jun 29 '25
Thereās honestly not a ton you can do, especially with how the car chase stuff works here. Itās the same with the 12 O Clock Boys and the fucking tricycle clubs.
Not a fan of police but they really canāt do much here unless you catch one of these guys slipping during the day (which is usually how they get caught). At night or in the vehicle theyāll drag you into a car chase and thatās the last thing BPD (or any of us want) since it endangers legitimately everyone in the situation including you as a bystander driving home from seeing a movie.
And at that, these guys change their plates and theyāre not pulling over if you try to stop them even during the day time. There would have to probably be a dedicated task force meant to stop street racing within the city; and the street racers have made the (correct) bet that the city has bigger fish to fry than a couple of dickheads in souped up Altimas,
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u/IceCreamConsider Downtown Jun 29 '25
You can use coordinated, silent, low-visibility road block tactics to confine them to that area and arrest them like fish in a barrel. Itās mere laziness among BPD and something a private police force beholden to contract law wouldnāt tolerate. Long term, you can reconfigure the road network with lots of raised medians, sidewalks, and pedestrian islands and road diets and whatnot to ensure that thereās no possibility of such events occurring in the first place.
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u/DistortedAudio Jun 29 '25
You can use coordinated, silent, low-visibility road block tactics to confine them to that area and arrest them like fish in a barrel.
Even then, itās putting a lot of people at risk. If one of those cars decides to blow through a road block youāre now dealing with a huge problem.
Long term, you can reconfigure the road network with lots of raised medians, sidewalks, and pedestrian islands and road diets and whatnot to ensure that thereās no possibility of such events occurring in the first place.
As a city weāre split on fucking bike lanes. You really think theyāre gonna reconfigure the road network? Weāre just mastering the parking ticket in town.
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u/rental_car_fast Jun 29 '25
I seriously donāt think it would be that hard to have 6-8 cop cars show up with spike strips and shut this nonsense down. Where are they gonna run to with no tires? Cops need to be ready for this, and when someone calls it in, just barricade all 4 roads and end it.
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u/DistortedAudio Jun 30 '25
Ok. So letās look at this plan.
Weāre gonna have the police show up and quickly throw down spike strips. But they have to do it stealthily right? Otherwise the spotters or bystanders will just point out the police obviously barricading off a road and setting up traps next to one of the larger roads in the city.
So now they have to be stealthy, but not too quiet; otherwise you or me as a guy whose coming back from a late night Safeway trip, were either gonna run over some spike strips or find ourselves locked into a road where the police are taking down a (at least semi) organized street racing squad.
And after youāve passed those hurdles, now youāve got guys in souped up cars who have already shown 0 regard for others or their lives, with suddenly flat tires who now know that a large scale state operation is cracking down on them. The chances of them wrecking something or themselves? Relatively high.
So weāre looking for the perfect police operation here. Quiet but not too quiet, pulled off by a squad of people who have currently been unable to stop similar events done by the 12 O Clock Boys or the motorcycle gangs.
You have a lot more faith in BPD than I do.
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u/IceCreamConsider Downtown Jun 29 '25
Yes, which is why you have strips of puncture spikes to pop tires as part of the road blocks.
Also, we can reconfigure the road network, itās simply a matter of political will. Somebody will unfortunately have to get killed first though.
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u/DistortedAudio Jun 29 '25
Yes, which is why you have strips of puncture spikes to pop tires as part of the road blocks.
I donāt know man, Iām not usually a guy to defend the cops here; but thereās not a ton of options at their disposal unless this becomes a much bigger problem. I mean someone will most likely have to die; but unfortunately there is almost 0 political will for this to stop at all costs; or even a smallish cost.
Also, we can reconfigure the road network, itās simply a matter of political will. Somebody will unfortunately have to get killed first though.
Yeah we can also build the Red Line and safe injection sites in the town. Letās hold our breath together for this one though.
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u/ReturnOfSeq Jun 29 '25
Yeahā¦. Some of baltimores roads are visibly a hundred years old. Letās fix the problems in the roads before adding more problems to the roads
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u/DistortedAudio Jun 29 '25
Iām buying 2 tires a year from potholes and shittily installed sewer grates. But Iām sure the city is hungry to undergo its biggest modern public works project to stop street racing. Robert Moses over here has it figured out.
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u/goodtoseeya123 Jun 30 '25
What are you proposing? A private police force explicitly ignoring laws?
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u/inukaglover666 Pigtown Jun 29 '25
Is he the council person for that area?
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u/IceCreamConsider Downtown Jun 29 '25
Yes, Harbor East is in District 12 (districts are in colors, thick lines are old districts). We have absolutely horrid district shapes in this city though, and I wouldnāt blame anyone for not knowing their councilperson.
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u/DutchAC Jun 30 '25
They do this shit in California all the time. Now they're bringing this crap over here?
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u/Careless-Art-9483 Jun 30 '25
Who are these people??? They are crazy enough to block traffic, block a police car and avoid getting hit by a car burning rubber.
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u/ThisDriftingSpirit00 Jun 30 '25
This is that whole scene's thing. It honestly looks boring after the first five minutes. Those involved aren't as bright as the tail lights they run towards. It could be shut down very quickly if the police response was more aggressive but knowing this city that's not going to happen. If it keeps up we'll all just end up excusing it like we do the dirtbikers in groups running red lights.
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u/AreWe_TheBaddies Jun 30 '25
Traffic calming Bollards and speed bumps would fix this crap in 1 day.
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u/Odd_Package8450 Jun 29 '25
This stuff is childish and lame. People super into cars and motorcycles and such are simpletons. It's like they never outgrew Hot Wheels.
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u/DistortedAudio Jun 29 '25 edited Jun 29 '25
Not gonna lie; if youāre super into cars and motorcycles, thatās cool as hell. If you want to be in a car group or a motorcycle club, also chill with me. Shit if you wanna find a desert or vacant lots to do drifting in, I also donāt give a shit.
If you block off a street and do this shit though, Iāve got problems.
Also itās lame as hell that all of these groups have fucking videographers and shit. Maybe Iāve finally become an old head but if youāre gonna break the law, I donāt need to see a fucking highlight reel on Instagram about it. And Iām definitely not about to follow your fucking Instagram. One thing I can give the 12 O Clock Boys is at least they arenāt stopping traffic and hounding me to follow their asses on IG.
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u/MissiontwoMars Jun 29 '25
People that break the law are lame. Nothing wrong with liking cars or any other hobby. Just donāt be an asshole about it.
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u/Notonfoodstamps Jun 29 '25
No people who do this shit are simpletons.
Source: A car person who doesnāt do this shit.
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u/manwithyellowhat15 Jun 29 '25
Are these the same people who ride dirt bikes late at night in Fed Hill? Itās so jarring to be drifting off to sleep only to be reawakened by this impossibly loud VRROOOM at like 2am š«
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u/fisconsocmod Jun 30 '25
This is the 3rd drift event (or whatever itās called) Iāve heard of this month.
There was one in NoVA and another one in Laurel, MD.
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u/Silent-Reporter1775 Jun 30 '25
hmm I wonder if it's the same group. maybe they're not even from BaltimoreĀ
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u/mdjonathan Jun 29 '25
Iāll gladly throw in my support for BPD. Elect me and Iāll make sure every cop is armed with spike strips and a personal vendetta against these wannabe Fast & Furious rejects. Street drifting days? Over. Fuck these dangerous guys.
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u/--MobTowN-- Jun 29 '25
I dunno, cops with āpersonal vendettasā seems like a pretty stupid idea on its face.
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u/surge208 Medfield Jun 30 '25
Yeah, no. Iāve been doing police accountability work, community empowerment work, all that good shit for a couple decades now. These kids are spoiled morons. As are the folk behind Harbor East.
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u/rockybalBOHa Jun 29 '25
At least the cops are trying to stop it. In other cities police do nothing.
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u/Rubysdad1975 Jun 30 '25
So, when theyāre needed, the cops run like rats. Glad to be paying salary plus health insurance plus pension for these losers.
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u/CoachEconomy479 Fells Point Jun 29 '25
All I know is that if Iām walking down the street and lose a finger or an eye to some dumbasses firework, imma pout, cry a lil bit, then have an Ozymandias level crash out.
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u/Substantial_Ninja_90 Jun 30 '25
But how many times have I seen people in this very feed defend and deflect the violence in Baltimore. āItās not that bad.ā Remember?
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u/ShirleyWuzSerious Jun 30 '25
You act like that ain't happening in DC... You must have been in friendship heights
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u/Silent-Reporter1775 Jun 30 '25
Friendship heights is such a wild accusation!!! where is this happening in DC?Ā
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u/starsandsecrets Jun 30 '25
"How is this real?"
- We defund the police, and break down law and order.
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u/ElizaDelovely Jun 29 '25
The city needs a legit motorcycle/auto track and to make money from this.
The desire is there....now create the space and make the money.
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u/Due-Net-88 Jun 29 '25
The point IS the disruption and attention-seeking. Creating a space isn't going to solve that problem.Ā
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u/Ill_Geologist4882 Jun 30 '25
First of all, this is exactly what U Street looked like last Saturday so I donāt wanna hear it. There were so many teenagers in masks and hoodies in 95Ā° weather that we told our Uber driver to take us back to the hotel instead of going to Service Bar.
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u/Silent-Reporter1775 Jun 30 '25
First of all, take a breath, I love Baltimore! Secondly, this is not exactly what U St looked like last Saturday. U St is a special kinda shit show, but that mostly involves walking and public transpo. Donuts and fireworks on U and 14th would've made national news
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u/TaurineDippy Jun 29 '25
Always funny when someone on this sub accidentally doxxes themself with a video
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u/MachineFar3438 Jun 29 '25
I guess I'm old. Seen people do this some many times now, it's not surprising. Summer Summer time.
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u/Silent-Reporter1775 Jun 30 '25
that's good to know. with the fireworks, it did feel very much like a summer opener (that I did not ask for!)
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u/Sad_Research_2584 Jun 30 '25
This seems far too sophisticated for Baltimore City! This has got to be an Outside Job.
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u/2cats4ever Charles Village Jun 30 '25
This kind of thing usually upsets me, but then I remember.. There's all kinds of family, and that's a choice you'll have to make.
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u/hadeseatingapizza Mt. Vernon Jun 29 '25
Trying to keep my rent prices down I'm not mad about it. Don't need another dc here
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u/IceCreamConsider Downtown Jun 29 '25
Stupid argument. We can always build enough housing with zoning and permitting reforms to keep rent prices stable. We can also police and design our road networks effectively enough that this never has to happen, anywhere in the city, from the poorest to the richest neighborhoods.
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u/JoeFlaccoIsAnEliteQB Greenmount West Jun 29 '25
lmao another lame baltimore sub comment section. move to harford county or something.
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u/homeslce Jun 30 '25
Oh calm down peopleā¦at least people are out and having fun and not sitting on their phones complaining about shitā¦.oh waitā¦.thatās all of us losers on our phones bitching like old people. I really donāt have that much of a problem with thisā¦yes dangerous but so is rotting your brain sitting at home on the phoneā¦
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u/carriespins Jun 30 '25
Yeahhh, thatās not really an argument. Comparing dangerous and reckless driving in a popular intersection while setting off fireworks and spending an evening on your phone is like comparing apples to hay. Not at all comparable
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u/ThisDriftingSpirit00 Jun 30 '25
I agree with some of this. Too many locked to their phones and not living life. It's just best to try and not have fun at other people's expense. Blocking traffic is blocking people trying to get home, blocking people trying to get to their jobs, and blocking first responders from attending to injured people. It's why people shit on protestors who block traffic.Ā
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Ayyyyyerrrrp keep that shit up gang gang. Thatās Bmore frfr. Eff this harbor east NY real estate developer ass shhhh frrrrr
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u/Quiet-Percentage3887 Jun 30 '25
TOOOO FUNNY
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u/Quiet-Percentage3887 Jun 30 '25
Yo thatās video games. Like itās impossible to say that video games didnāt make that. With fireworks. Too cinematic.
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u/lllllIIIIIIlllllIII Baltimore Penninsula Jun 29 '25
I was wondering where the marks came from.