That cop shouldn't have a job.

It's an SUV. In Texas. The driver was clearly in the right. That boy needed a good hittin'.

Old news. Happened Sept. 27. Also for those saying "He should have been walking on the sidewalk", there was no sidewalk.

Watch this video report from back when it happened. There was real tall grass (like 3 feet high) so he had to walk in the road. Quickly cut after he was hit.

This cop takes the cake as the douchest cop out there... or at least deserves an honorable mention.

I hate when people walk on the wrong side of the street. Especially when they have their dogs. I'm always worried I'm going to hit the dog when it's hanging out in the road like that.

/not that this kid needed a ticket, but.

rhondajeremy: Walking on the wrong side of the street?!?!?! Really?!?! I wasn't aware there was a legal side of the road to walk on (drive & ride a bike yes but not walking).

I always walk facing traffic so I can see whose coming at me vs. the cars coming from behind me where I can't see who might be swerving to hit me for fun. If that means a ticket, then flippin' give me one, I'd rather live.

That's the right side of the street. Walking away from traffic so you can't see is the wrong side.

Walker: Old news. Happened Sept. 27. Also for those saying "He should have been walking on the sidewalk", there was no sidewalk.

Watch this video report from back when it happened. There was real tall grass (like 3 feet high) so he had to walk in the road. Quickly cut after he was hit.

Still, he was walking on the wrong side of the road. It's dangerous as hell, and should be taught in schools and reinforced by parents. If it takes a ticket to teach the local kids and their parents a lesson, so be it. I drive down 10th street to get to my neighborhood. Although the neighborhoods all have sidewalks, 10th street does not. The teens in the neighborhoods walk10th to get from one neighborhood to the next. Once a month or so I nearly pick off some teen(s) dressed in dark hoodies and pants walking on the right side line with their backs to traffic at night. I've sent emails to the middle schools requesting the dangers be taught in health and gym class, but my 14yo says he has never heard of it being addressed in school. The kid's parents should pay the ticket, STFU, and make sure their kid(s) arent ever in the same situation again.

Chinchillazilla: rhondajeremy: Walking on the wrong side of the street?!?!?! Really?!?! I wasn't aware there was a legal side of the road to walk on (drive & ride a bike yes but not walking).

I always walk facing traffic so I can see whose coming at me vs. the cars coming from behind me where I can't see who might be swerving to hit me for fun. If that means a ticket, then flippin' give me one, I'd rather live.

That's the right side of the street. Walking away from traffic so you can't see is the wrong side.

True, but doesn't the pedestrian always have the right-of-way?

Only one question needs to be answered here: could the driver see the pedestrian? And he hit him anyway. Done. Driver's fault. 100%.

I think being hit by a SUV is quite enough punishment.

dugitman: Still, he was walking on the wrong side of the road. It's dangerous as hell, and should be taught in schools and reinforced by parents. If it takes a ticket to teach the local kids and their parents a lesson, so be it. I drive down 10th street to get to my neighborhood. Although the neighborhoods all have sidewalks, 10th street does not. The teens in the neighborhoods walk10th to get from one neighborhood to the next. Once a month or so I nearly pick off some teen(s) dressed in dark hoodies and pants walking on the right side line with their backs to traffic at night. I've sent emails to the middle schools requesting the dangers be taught in health and gym class, but my 14yo says he has never heard of it being addressed in school. The kid's parents should pay the ticket, STFU, and make sure their kid(s) arent ever in the same situation again.

I guess I'm confused. Would it really matter if he was walking towards traffic or away from traffic? If someone is walking on the shoulder of the road then they should expect a degree of safety. Unless you are a complete moron you shouldn't be driving near the shoulder of the road (only going near it for stopping emergencies or to avoid a head-on collision). Especially if there is no sidewalk. In that case you should be driving more towards the center line.

Sounds to me, the cop was just a douche and just wanted to write a ticket, to fill up his end-of-month quota, which is rapidly drawing to a close.

One time, a buddy of mine and I was racing, and I lost control of the car and flipped into a ditch, and had to be air-lifted to a hospital

The cop (prolly the only 'nice cop' I have ever met) did not cite me, instead just gave me a lecture and said I had already suffered enough

JihadMakeMeHungry: Dr Dreidel: JihadMakeMeHungry: I've noticed this happening a lot more lately. Don't walk with your back to oncoming traffic, people. It's stupid.

Please draw me a diagram of how one could walk with their back to ONcoming traffic.

// put your seat back forward

I lol'd. Thank you.

The Larch: I absolutely detest the way suburbs are built without sidewalks, and I think the municipality should be sued to shiat if they allow any street zoned residential not to have a sidewalk, or have any street within a 1,000 feet of a school doesn't have a sidewalk. But they actually had a sidewalk on that street.

Not all residential streets need sidewalks. I actually have 2 sidewalks in front of my home. It's fairly ridiculous. More shiat to shovel and less ground to soak up the rain/snow. I grew up in a house with no sidewalks. The street was plenty wide, was not a through street and wasn't full of idiots drivers.

hailin: dugitman: Still, he was walking on the wrong side of the road. It's dangerous as hell, and should be taught in schools and reinforced by parents. If it takes a ticket to teach the local kids and their parents a lesson, so be it. I drive down 10th street to get to my neighborhood. Although the neighborhoods all have sidewalks, 10th street does not. The teens in the neighborhoods walk10th to get from one neighborhood to the next. Once a month or so I nearly pick off some teen(s) dressed in dark hoodies and pants walking on the right side line with their backs to traffic at night. I've sent emails to the middle schools requesting the dangers be taught in health and gym class, but my 14yo says he has never heard of it being addressed in school. The kid's parents should pay the ticket, STFU, and make sure their kid(s) arent ever in the same situation again.

I guess I'm confused. Would it really matter if he was walking towards traffic or away from traffic? If someone is walking on the shoulder of the road then they should expect a degree of safety. Unless you are a complete moron you shouldn't be driving near the shoulder of the road (only going near it for stopping emergencies or to avoid a head-on collision). Especially if there is no sidewalk. In that case you should be driving more towards the center line.

Walk left, ride right. That's been the rule since I was in grade school in the 70s. It's mostly for your safety but also to minimize bikes & pedestrians getting in others' ways on the shoulder, too.

Cool story, sis: I was riding my bike down a small highway (1 lane in each direction) to run some errands. I went into the 7-11 for something & then had to go across the intersection to the post office. I rode the bike against traffic since the post office was on the same side of the street as the 7-11, and got nailed by someone making a right on red. Hit me hard enough to throw me over her hood, smash the windshield, and then I rolled off and my head hit the ground first. Got the wind knocked out of me, left knee screaming in pain (initial point of impact), and couldn't see straight. I was lying in the middle of this intersection, in pain, gasping for breath, bleeding from a cut on my scalp, when the cops show up. The cop hunkers down next to me and asks if I had been riding on the wrong side of the road. I meekly said yes and he promptly told me the accident was entirely my fault and that he was going to write me a ticket.

And he did. Handed it to me as I was being loaded onto a backboard. I was 18, didn't have my driver's license yet, and had a traffic ticket. $25 & 2 points off a license I didn't even have.

Even better, when I went for my license shortly afterwards, the ticket had been improperly filed as riding a MOTORIZED vehicle on the wrong side of the road, had been listed as not paid, and my non-existent license had been suspended. Took me a week to clear that up.

I'm guesssing you have not ridden your bike on the wrong side since.

Trance750

Some police deparments expect officers to ticket at least one involved person after every accident. This policy might be based on pressure from insurance companies to determine fault, or merely on the desire to punish.

Pedestrians do not have "right of way" outside of crosswalks. Whether you can get away with hitting one depends on circumstances. You are legally required to make some effort to avoid running them over, just like you are legally required to make some effort to avoid crashing into cars even when the other driver deserves it.

In my state there is also a law saying drivers should be more careful around children. I forget whether that's in the Uniform Vehicle Code.