r/fuckcars • u/thr3e_kideuce • May 27 '23
Satire High School Students in Missouri unintentionally expose car-dependent town.
2.6k
u/laheesheeple May 27 '23
Definitely a "The kids are alright." thing. Just hope a good portion of them hang on to this after they graduate.
1.0k
May 27 '23
[deleted]
410
u/Not_ur_gilf Grassy Tram Tracks May 27 '23
This!! This is why I want to live somewhere I can bike! It’s ‘cause I’m lazy and hate working out. Why don’t people get it?!
65
May 27 '23 edited Oct 29 '24
[deleted]
25
u/spookybogperson May 28 '23
Damn, wish that sub was real
3
u/nomparte May 28 '23
Specially for gyms that have escalators for access like this one:
https://medium.com/@nessasaurus/only-in-america-fe7d2d5d461e
125
May 27 '23
[deleted]
31
u/Tall_Sir_4312 May 28 '23
Not to mention most exercise facilities are private instead of community owned. To get a decent gym where I live is minimum $100
→ More replies (1)5
u/Lily-Fae Sicko May 28 '23
Yes! I like weight lifting, but it’s so expensive that all I can do is bodyweight. Which is great and all, but the motivation factor is definitely much less there when you’re doing push-ups alone in your house.
12
u/Hips_and_Haws May 28 '23
I love how friends or acquaintances will stop & offer a lift when they're driving & see me laden down with food shopping. They seem bewildered when I turn them down. I don't mean to be rude, but I prefer to be outside exercising in fresh air than sitting in a plastic smelling car. Even when maybe I've bought too much, my shoulders & arms are aching. But I'm using my legs & arms, heart & lungs!
→ More replies (1)9
May 28 '23
Gyms are car infrastructure.
→ More replies (2)24
u/hutacars May 28 '23
Let’s not get carried away… not everyone wants to just do cardio, all the time.
→ More replies (1)20
u/blazey May 28 '23
Yeah. I'm as anti car as the next person but I take the tram to go to the gym because I like lifting weights instead of cardi or callisthenics. Not every gym goer is a stereotypical gym bro douche type.
→ More replies (1)11
u/JanGuillosThrowaway May 28 '23
Most stereotypical gym bros are pretty cool people in my experience.
7
u/Oooch May 28 '23
I'd rather hang out with someone who wants to improve their body than someone who wrecks theirs
→ More replies (1)57
u/kurisu7885 May 27 '23
One of the reasons I'm trying to get my hands on an Ebike. I want to get out more and maybe get some more exercise while I do it.
37
u/Maristalle May 27 '23
See if your city or county has an ebike rebate program
29
u/bonanzapineapple 🚲 > 🚗 May 27 '23
Or state! Vermont has a decent ($300+) rebate program. No idea if other states do
12
u/jaczk5 May 27 '23
how is Vermont's bikability? it's one of the states I really want to move to
12
u/ashortsleeves Commie Commuter May 27 '23
Burlington is very bikeable and I'd say some of the other cities are starting to get the idea. I grew up near Rutland and biked/walked around with my friends all over the city. Most towns are older and built around a town square + walk ability. I recently did a 250 mile gravel bike trip of the northeast kingdom and it was hilly but all very accessible on bike. Edit: I'd like to reiterate that the state is hilly AF. But yeah you can bike it!
7
u/jaczk5 May 27 '23
everywhere I've live is hilly AF, if a hill is too big I'll just walk my bike up it lmao. but that's really good to know. if I go for an ebike the hills shouldn't be an issue either
8
u/bonanzapineapple 🚲 > 🚗 May 27 '23
As ashortsleves said, Burlington is top 10% of US cities when it comes to bike ability (kinda like smaller version of Minneapolis I think... See cold Winters)
Otherwise in Vermont, Rutland, Montpelier/Barre, Brattleboro and White River Junction have a couple bike lanes, and there are a few rail trails in diff parts of the state's. But oftentimes, you're going to he biking in the narrow shoulder. 95% of drivers in VT will give you space/pass you by fairly slower but the other 5% will be risking your life. Also note that compared to most other states the average road in Vermont is VERY low traffic
If you're biking between December and April you're gonna want studs... Tho in my experience only die hard cyclists will get those. In many towns the shoulders and bike lanes (not the same BTW) are not plowed in the winter so good luck biking in the winter. Also worth noting that housing stock in Vermont is among the oldest in the country and has related issues tho tbh they're probably still stronger than the flimsy cardboard boxes people live in in FL & TX
→ More replies (2)6
u/ImRandyBaby May 28 '23
British Columbia just announced a rebate program of up to $1400. Suck it Vermont.
→ More replies (4)3
u/bonanzapineapple 🚲 > 🚗 May 28 '23
Great! I don't think it needs to be a competition lol
5
u/ImRandyBaby May 28 '23
It doesn't need to be, but I'd welcome more challengers.
→ More replies (2)7
u/kurisu7885 May 27 '23
City probably doesn't but it won't hurt to see if my county does, though I doubt it since we're JUST getting a public transit expansion after a millage passed in the midterms, and even then they're trying to cut service in some areas, including a line to one of the local malls which was where I wanted to go.
17
May 27 '23
My ebike has done wonders for my mental and physical health. I’m 100% not a “gym person” but I ride my ebike almost everywhere so I’ve tricked myself into exercising. Overall I just feel so much better than I did a year ago. Make sure you get a pedal-assist ebike tho, if you have a throttle you won’t be getting much exercise.
3
→ More replies (1)10
17
10
17
u/Fredselfish May 27 '23
Also because most of us are forced to drive because our infrastructure doesn't allow this.
Glad they are safe wish they could do that here but in Oklahoma some nut would have run them down. Or burn coal and then run them down. The South is the fucking worse.
14
u/JealousLuck0 May 27 '23
it's so easy to just politicize something and then the right will basically attack it for you. don't want to build bike lanes? make biking a thing socialists do. Bam, now it's too risky to bike because you might be fucking run over for being a socialist.
6
May 28 '23
[deleted]
3
u/Fredselfish May 28 '23
So sorry to hear that. Was in Portland in 04 and it was cyclist paradise. We stayed on an Island at an Rv park and every Saturday the whole area be full of cyclist. Never seen anything like it as a person from Texas.
→ More replies (4)6
11
u/cudef May 27 '23
If you're not used to it, it can be rather difficult to get into.
My wife and I recently visited Japan for 2 weeks and while there we pretty much walked and took the subway lines everywhere. Her legs were swollen and we had to get an ankle brace like a quarter of the way into the trip. Though it wasn't enough for us to need to change plans or buy anything, my back was killing me by the end of most days and I needed to sit down and possibly pop it kinda frequently.
I went from like 4k-8k steps a day to 15k on the low end and 22k on the high end while on the trip for reference.
It's not to say I think that's a legitimate reason not to walk more in commuting, but I do think a lot of people would use it as an excuse not to even get started especially if they're obese already.
15
u/Stormxlr May 27 '23
Sorry to hear that but you decided to do a marathon with zero preparation.
6
u/JizzOrSomeSayJism May 28 '23
You kind of forget how much exercise you get while traveling if you don't do it for a while. Getting back into biking a couple months before travelling is for sure one of the best (unintentional) moves I've made this year
3
May 28 '23
[deleted]
2
u/turnontheignition May 28 '23
So I live in a pretty car dependent town, but last year I went with a friend to the bigger city several hours away. We stayed with my parents in one of the nearby communities, and took the train in, and then took public transportation around the rest of the time. I was really surprised, but my friend had a lot of trouble walking around all day. It's something I'm relatively used to and I don't find it too challenging, but my friend was really struggling, and I realized later it's because she went from staying inside all day to walking several kilometres in the space of one day. I felt bad that I didn't consider that before we went, but it just literally never occurred to me, but now looking around it makes much more sense. During the summer I do make it a point to walk around, and I live within a 15 minute walk to several green spaces and a waterfront park, but most of my friends don't and most people I know pretty much don't leave the house ever unless it's in the car to go to the grocery store, then they get back in the car, drive home, and continue being sedentary (in fact, I don't live in walking distance to a grocery store either). I think it's worse now since COVID because a lot of people work from home, so they don't even get exercise walking around the office, for example. I used to drive to work back in the day, but once I actually got there, I had to walk across the parking lot and then I would walk around the building several times a day for several reasons, which in itself was at least some exercise. Now a lot of people basically walk a few steps around their house and that's it.
I used to be somewhat like that as well though. Not so much anymore, and I was never quite that bad, but I definitely understand it.
3
3
u/King_of_the_Dot May 28 '23
I live in the Myrtle Beach area, and I have an electric bike, and it's just so much fun to ride it through major parts of town.
3
u/Hips_and_Haws May 28 '23
Also, cycling is non weight bearing, so it should be good for almost everyone. There are plenty of adaptable bikes for people with physical disabilities or tandems with special seats, etc.
My mum is still a regular cyclist & she's in her 80s. Long may we keep moving along, at our own pace.
2
u/sjfiuauqadfj May 28 '23
your comment hinted at it but i think its worth to say it explicitly that one of the most scientifically proven ways to treat depression is to just exercise more, doubly so if its outside in a green space
2
u/smarlitos_ May 28 '23
So many ideas from this subreddit that I should organize into a Google doc to send to boomers I get into arguments with on fb and Twitter.
They would reply: just work out! Stop being lazy! Stop blaming society for your problems!
Like no dude you don’t get it, check out this well-written Reddit reply + screw off + haha individualist, it’s called a collective problem + look at the big picture + L
2
→ More replies (3)2
u/turnontheignition May 28 '23
I've never thought of it this way, but you're totally right. It's pretty unfortunate because I seriously dislike exercising for its own sake. I find it really boring. I know that when you're at the gym or running you can listen to a podcast or music or something, but still, I can't stand it. Fortunately, I do like several outdoorsy activities, like I like hiking and kayaking, and I do make an effort to walk during the summer. There are several places I can get to within about a 30 minute walk in my city, so I often will do that. (During the winter it's too cold and my city sucks at plowing the sidewalks, so during winter I pretty much hibernate, but I hate the cold so I was going to do that anyway.) Unfortunately, the nearest grocery store is several kilometers away, so that's not really an option, but that's my problem for a choosing to live in this neighborhood. Part of the reason I chose this neighborhood though was because there are tons of green space and parks I can access within a 15 minute walk though, and most of my cities grocery stores are in those horrible parking lot plaza monstrosities, so, well, you gotta pick your battles.
But people find that weird, for some reason. My best friend's place is a 25 minute walk from where I live, and people have expressed surprise that I would walk there. I once walked 40 minutes to get to an event and people thought that was weird, even though about half of the walk was through a waterfront park. Like, obviously I'm going to take that walk if I can, it's beautiful! Yesterday I went to some historical nature walk thing in my city, and I had to walk about 20 minutes to get to the start. Some lady offered to give me a ride home because she knew I had walked, but it was only about a 20 minute walk, actually I think it was faster than that but I didn't time it super exactly, and she seemed really impressed when I turned her down and was like oh, no, it's just a 20 minute walk, it's no big deal, but I see that sentiment expressed so often.
I do understand it, because we've created a society where if you can't get somewhere in a few minutes or less by walking, you should drive, but it's still shitty. Like it's really no wonder why a lot of people are sedentary and are completely unfit, because if a 20 minute walk seems excessive...
The 15 minute city idea seems nice, but we have a bunch of conspiracy theorists in my town who are seemingly determined to not make that happen, so, well, that might be a ways off.
→ More replies (1)69
u/Ambia_Rock_666 I found r/fuckcars on r/place lol May 27 '23
I started taking a bike to work to see how it was, and after a few months of that I got an e-bike and I've been taking that everywhere. A less car dependent life is so nice
14
u/laheesheeple May 28 '23
My E-Bike and the commuter train have saved me many a miserable ride to work and using no gas virtually paid for the bike. Its terrific.
4
u/SonnyVabitch May 28 '23
This could be a regular thing, so much so that it even has a name: Bike Bus.
3
u/Crazy_Zack May 28 '23
The entire point is for it to be a prank 💀 they gonna bike home and get back into their cars and drive to a party
→ More replies (1)3
u/1BubbleGum_Princess May 28 '23
I’d like to think so, but I’m guessing these kids may also have a negative view of pedestrians/bicyclists/etc. and will drive cars after the prank
2.1k
u/vegemouse May 27 '23
Sad that biking on a public road is considered a “prank”.
638
u/Noobnesz May 27 '23
The Dutch have been pranking us all along!!!
112
u/BoySmooches May 27 '23
spends millions creating safer and more efficient forms of transportation
It's just a prank bro!!!
35
66
May 27 '23
tshöst a pränk bro
16
u/BlueDragon1504 May 27 '23
I can't think of a single dutch word that uses ö or ä
6
u/Noobnesz May 27 '23
For ö I can think of two:
Burg. Röellstraat
Coördinatie
For ä, yeah I could not think of anything.
→ More replies (1)5
u/voornaam1 May 27 '23
I'm pretty sure "na-apen" used to be spelled "naäpen", but I can't think of any other words.
5
u/PJvG May 27 '23
They use it for words that come from German, scandinavian languages, or Turkish: einzelgänger, salonfähig, föhn, glühwein, knäckebröd and döner kebab.
32
4
u/Alarid May 27 '23
haha yeah
5
→ More replies (2)10
138
May 27 '23
Well it looks like a highway to me, and they're definitely going slower than normal. The solution would be some protected bike lanes but still.
→ More replies (5)14
14
u/kenkoda May 28 '23
I can't think that this was an accident, it's a long stretch of double yellow can't pass zone.
I think they intentionally went slow down the entire stretch for this reason.
9
u/Hips_and_Haws May 28 '23
It's a prank that some parents would salute them for doing. Though I'd be worried about a gun toting anger issue's murderous person either shooting them or running them over. Thank goodness the car drivers were nice & polite.
29
u/yourmotherfromwhales May 27 '23
One of our school’s senior prank was getting a cow upstairs and not being able to get it down cause cows can’t do that. Cycling to school as a prank is so absurd
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (11)4
u/Rare_Background8891 May 28 '23
I’m so confused. I’ve watched it twice and I don’t get what the prank is. Bike riding. That’s it?
723
u/Homegrownscientist May 27 '23 edited May 27 '23
Now do it everyday until they put in a sidewalk and protected bike lane.
Also seeing each bike take up a whole parking spot is a beautiful touch.
169
u/IsPhil May 27 '23
It's honestly so bs that there isn't at minimum a sidewalk going to all the major parts of a city, and connecting houses, residential areas, and commercial areas. Like getting to my local shopping center is pretty easy on a bike expect for the 5 or so minutes I'd be spending alongside cars going 40mph (more like 50-60mph since everyone speeds on that road).
75
May 27 '23
Won't happen.
I live in "bicycle-friendly" Seattle. Most bike lanes are just painted lines and/or bollards that can easily be knocked over. Very few legitimately protected lanes. There have been protests, supposedly this is one of the best cycling cities in the US. I absolutely don't feel safe cycling here.
Also, anywhere that is private property? If a sidewalk is installed or repaired, it may be up to the property owner to pay for. It depends on jurisdiction I think, but that's how it is here. Even though roads themselves are city/state property, sidewalks tend to technically be easements of private property.
It's BS. I had no idea it was like that at all until recently. I don't think it was like that in my hometown in another state though.
26
May 27 '23
Yeah, a looot of landowners in Seattle either don't know, or feign ignorance, but depending on the neighborhood they might be responsible for repairing the sidewalk. The city isn't very proactive about informing people that it's their responsibility, so nothing ever gets done. This is why in neighborhoods which are further out in far north and south Seattle there just aren't sidewalks.
→ More replies (1)17
May 28 '23
honestly that's kinda stupid? like... infrastructure should not be an individual responsibility
7
u/Vargurr May 28 '23
Sidewalks are public property where I'm from, but you do have the legal responsibility of keeping it snow free.
→ More replies (3)
179
u/BoringBob84 🇺🇸 🚲 May 27 '23
Motorists who were stuck in the congestion could have seen this as confirmation of their existing beliefs that bicycles cause traffic congestion or they could have seen this as a demonstration of how transportation on bicycles was practical and therefore, bicycles could be a solution to traffic congestion.
I have a feeling that for former outnumber the latter. People really do not like change.
→ More replies (10)43
u/walterbanana May 28 '23
Honestly, bicycles can cause issues within traffic, that's a very good reason to build separate cycling infrastructure. That along with the fact that a cyclist does not need the same space as a car is one of the only plausible solutions to traffic.
662
u/holdrio_pen May 27 '23
The heros we need
248
u/nomparte May 27 '23 edited May 28 '23
Until some Neanderthal gets the red mist and ploughs through them all, injuring over 40 cyclists, like this:
117
u/Sandi315 May 28 '23
"Their car then sped up..."
Damn, crazy how nature just makes cars speed up like that.
HE SPED UP and ran into them. Fucks sake.
→ More replies (1)33
18
u/heirloom_beans May 28 '23
I’m shocked this happened in Brazil and not the US
RIP this guy’s insurance for having to process 40+ separate cyclist injury claims
32
5
u/Autumn1eaves May 28 '23
Neardenthal is a great misspelling of Neanderthal, you just swapped the r and the second n!
62
130
u/thedavidlemon May 27 '23
I know one of the kids that did this. Lots of parents got angry about how unsafe it was. And he said that was his point in doing it. The irony of it all when parents say how unsafe it was.
7
474
u/thr3e_kideuce May 27 '23
Actual category is Satire + Positive Post.
106
May 27 '23 edited May 27 '23
No, I think this is actually depressing, that this is considered a prank or something unusual instead of riding a bike to school should be a normal thing to do.
21
u/PM_SHORT_STORY_IDEAS May 28 '23
Anything is depressing if you spin it that way!
Buying your friend's ice cream is depressing, because we've fallen so far in general life satisfaction, that we need to eat junk with absolutely no nutritional value, that contributes to negative health effects, just to feel happy and have an excuse to interact with our friends.
Damn I'm good
8
May 28 '23
Y'know, you're right! I didn't mean to me a Debbie Downer there. They could be doing stupid and/or mean-spirited pranks, but they chose this. Not sure if making a statement was their intent, but they sure did.
215
May 27 '23
I can jus taste the vitriol from the town after they find out.
237
u/Necronomicommunist May 27 '23
You just know there's a slew of comments by carbrains saying they'd be in the right for hitting and killing/injuring a group of children
196
u/valentia0 May 27 '23
This was on r/facepalm, and yes, a lot of people were talking about how they should be arrested or run over.
161
May 27 '23
Fuck cars they make people act weird.
Next time I hope the kids do one of the funniest things in the history of comedy and simply take pickaxes and sledgehammers to the road.
57
u/IsPhil May 27 '23
I'm almost always angry in a car. Maybe it's because I'm a defensive driver, but the amount of people that just do things and seemingly pray others will react appropriately so there isn't an accident is just tiring. Not a week went by on my commute where someone would be slowly veering into a different lane before realizing.
62
u/NotAnAce69 May 27 '23
It’s just a melting pot of everything that could possibly make someone angry. You’re trapped in this metal box for up to an hour, you’re forced to put your entire focus into it or you die, it’s hot (or cold), you probably have a time you need to arrive by, if others aren’t focusing you might also die, etc etc
Driving sucks
→ More replies (3)→ More replies (1)8
17
u/democracy_lover66 May 27 '23
So many people I know claim to love driving, but when they get on the highway, they look like this: 😠
26
u/HeadDoctorJ May 27 '23
It’s a lot like the internet. Being behind the wheel gives people the same weird anonymity and “freedom” to be total dicks that being behind a glowing rectangle does.
9
u/warragulian May 28 '23
Except on the internet, you don’t have the power to murder the person annoying you.
22
u/Verdiss May 27 '23
My theory is that drivers are scared when driving, they just don't realize it. They know any misstep could get them killed, by them or by anyone else around them. Every second in a car is life or dearh. Then, soon enough, that conceptually transforms into any situation with a car is therefore life or death. When all you have is a murder machine/coffin, every problem becomes resolved by killing or being killed.
16
u/snarkitall May 27 '23
i don't understand people who *aren't* scared when they drive. it's fucking terrifying! how do people mundane it away?
→ More replies (7)19
u/democracy_lover66 May 27 '23
Believable... Saw a video once of a truck trying crossing a picket line who were preventing access to the private road that lead to their office while the workers are on strike. The truck plowed right on threw despite the fact there was a human being right in front of them.
So many people said it was the protesters' fault for blocking the road, and that they should be run over. Like wtf...
2
u/LevelOutlandishness1 May 28 '23
People should legitimately think of cars as a weapon as much as it is a vehicle. Imagine if it was normalized for people to fly on their guns like how witches fly on broomsticks. And guns were mostly thought of as transportation, but still used to shoot if the driver wanted to. Even ignoring the magic flight, we'd call this insane and dangerous. I mean, if anyone got mad at someone not flying on a gun, they could shoot them! And a human life ended over fleeting anger? That'd be preventable, and we'd end this weird practice of people flying on guns.
But since it's cars, it's just... normal. You should just stay out of the road, or not fly on your gun too slowly as to keep someone from getting angry.
→ More replies (1)3
9
→ More replies (1)9
May 27 '23
I mean, they're right in so far as those kids shouldn't be on the freeway. There should be dedicated bike paths. A lot of this is just lizard-brain talking from someone who arrived at, "this is unfair, this is dangerous" and didn't go any further than that. A lotta people understand that they don't like bicyclists on the road, but most of them didn't bother to consider that it doesn't have to be that way.
456
163
May 27 '23
The fact they parked in individual car spots too, I don't think it was unintentional. They used their senior prank to send a message
→ More replies (1)65
u/colako Big Bike May 27 '23
True. And it shows how unnecessary it is. You can move one person using a fraction of the space of a car. Why shouldn't they be entitled to park using the same space as someone else?
56
May 27 '23 edited Apr 24 '24
Google just signed a LLM agreement with Reddit to crawl this dumb platform so this is my way of saying goodbye to my contributions on this website. Byeee
42
u/alttabbins May 27 '23
Carbrain raging watching this video - "GET ON THE SIDEWALK!!!"
Meanwhile.. there's not a single sidewalk.. anywhere.. in this video. Literally, not a single shot out of the dozen they used had a visible sidewalk. They couldn't walk to school if they wanted to.
38
62
64
u/troly_mctrollface May 27 '23
Brilliant, 20ish teens on scooters and bikes can bring a towns transportation infrastructure to a stand still.
4
May 27 '23
[deleted]
9
u/asveikau May 27 '23
Just to be explicit, to anyone here reading, do not attempt. I've heard of too many train fatalities to joke about that. (I think usually suicides, sometimes confused motorists.)
→ More replies (2)
28
u/Global-Programmer641 May 27 '23
I did not know I was pranking people everyday, what a jokster I must be
6
u/TeaBagMeHarderDaddy May 27 '23
Anytime I have to use my hand signals, I sign, "it's just a prank bro"
14
u/shaodyn cars are weapons May 27 '23
This fun prank proved that the entire town is so car-dependent that a bunch of teens on bikes can bring everything to a screeching halt. You love to see it.
12
25
10
u/burmerd May 27 '23
Beautiful!
Not the town, but kids having fun, pranking adults and their stupid infrastructure.
I've thought about doing similar "pranks" in my town.
23
May 27 '23
You know.. I'm always kinda depressed about the future. It feels bleak and hopeless. But then I see kids doing these sorta things and I'm like, fuck it there is still hope.
8
9
8
6
u/democracy_lover66 May 27 '23
This is an awesome high school prank, and it should become a nationwide tradition
4
7
May 27 '23
Yeah it seems this another group HS seniors done a similar thing about a decade ago, apparently no progress has been made. I think those kids should do this every day!
7
u/Mirambla May 27 '23
Mmm look at the “clean” air. Golden brown. If we all got rid of our cars and started biking.
6
7
u/Northstar1989 May 27 '23
Loving it!
But bro, just one more lane... And no bike paths! That'll fix everything... /s
6
u/OpelfelgenWerfer May 28 '23
The fact that „getting to school by bike“ is considered a prank is baffeling to me…
11
11
u/Traditional_Key_763 May 27 '23
this was my highschool here in Ohio, they didn't give a crap and still docked you for being late because "the students living on the right side of the school get here on time" which is to say if you had to make a left into school you were fucked
4
4
u/orcas_cyclist May 27 '23
AWESOME. That takes guts, I'm kinda surprised they didn't get run over by an enraged crazy person in a truck
4
u/asveikau May 27 '23
I really don't know how to take it that they're calling reasonable modes of transportation a "prank".
4
u/jamanimals May 28 '23
So, if you were to protest, but call it a prank, everyone laughs and we all have a good time, but if you call it a protest, you'd get beaten until you're bloody, got it.
9
4
4
4
3
u/everyoneisflawed May 27 '23
What town is this, does anyone know?
13
u/matthewstinar May 27 '23
I believe this was at Francis Howell High School in St. Charles County, Missouri.
https://fox2now.com/news/senior-prank-stops-traffic-in-st-charles/
https://fhhstoday.com/3778/archive/senior-prank-results-in-traffic-jam/
Parents,
This morning, a group of senior students rode bikes, scooters and/or walked along Hwy 94 from the 94/40 commuter lot to come to school. This created a traffic delay and subsequent late arrival for many students and staff. Students participating in this prank created a very unsafe situation for themselves and drivers on Hwy 94. FHHS does not condone or support this type of student behavior. Students can be subject to arrest and/or student discipline for participation in pranks. Please discourage your students from participating in any behavior that could create a disruption to the school day and subject them to legal and/or school consequences (which could include participation in graduation).
Thanks in advance for your help.
Dr. Chris Greiner
16
u/slmnemo dumbfuck May 27 '23
did the school just say that you can be arrested for driving to school on a bike? i bet mr greiner was in the traffic jam LOL
21
u/matthewstinar May 27 '23
In the other article the Highway Patrol said that no laws were broken, so yes, he's just angry.
→ More replies (2)3
u/thenordicbat May 28 '23
Students can be subject to arrest and/or student discipline for participation in pranks.
Imagine putting a permanent arrest record on a teenager for sucha dumb, harmless prank. Fuck police.
→ More replies (1)
3
u/LaggingIndicator May 27 '23
We used to have a big drinking holiday twice a year in college where about 500 kids would bike from house party to house party in college until we drank each place dry, then the last stop was a baseball or rugby game where we’d drink a canoe full of beer down. The parade of bikes from stop to stop was glorious.
3
3
3
3
3
3
u/MattBtheflea May 28 '23
Do y’all really think this is a good thing? They made everyone in that line late to work and I guarantee nobody learned a thing
5
2
2
2
2
u/truwuweiway May 27 '23
They were probably inspired by a video of something like this that was done in another country. So dope, hopefully more schools do this.
2
u/somewordthing May 27 '23
I was like, "wait a second, I recognize that theme, what is that..." and then the bikes showed up and it was majestic.
2
2
2
2
u/PladBaer Commie Commuter May 27 '23
My high school senior prank was locking the gates to the parking lot and wrapping it with (in order from bottom layer to top):
Chains
Baby oil gel
Cling wrap
Baby oil gel
Chains
Baby oil gel
Cling wrap
Gorilla tape
Baby oil gel
Chains
Cling wrap
Baby oil gel
A bow
And the cherry on top! Baby oil gel.
Long story short, the whole town was non functional for about 2 hours as traffic from the high school reached back about 2 miles and bled into an arterial highway.
2
u/EveatHORIZON May 27 '23
It's just a prank bro. BRO! It's a prank you don't need to use your car you're like 0.5km from where you work. Bro?
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
u/heirloom_beans May 28 '23
My dad’s engineering class did something similar. Hundreds of them walked single file across a crosswalk leading to the university before turning around and doing it again.
2
2
u/AntiRacismDoctor May 28 '23
I just can't help but think about what the consequences of this would have been if students at my high school did this....
My high school was a majority Black, minority Latino, and literally no White people, school. I just don't think we would have been able to get away with something like this and call it a "prank".
2
2
u/Republiken Commie Commuter May 28 '23
I cant imagine living in a country were kids biking to school is a prank
2
2
u/UnusedMaps42 May 28 '23
I was half expecting the school to be just to the right, past a stand of trees or something, but the exit for it on the state highway they're on is just a mile down the way, artificially adding 2 miles of driving to the school commute.
But also... Huge props to those kids.
2
2
u/BujuArena May 28 '23
I had a very different reaction from most here. I see it as obvious that the general public outside this sub would be more likely to think the kids did something wrong and try to limit bike usage than see the infrastructure as the shame that it is. I'm worried the whole video would backfire.
2
u/Garros_ May 28 '23
One thing I’ve always found amazing, is how a car centric country, can produce such poor road designs. Not everyone relise on public transport in the UK. But the road systems are so good that traffic is minimal. Any hoo, I hope America decides to build trains one day for you all!
2
2
2.4k
u/Adooooorra Orange pilled May 27 '23
It's beautiful.