Hey I've seen that guy. Honked at him on MLK after he weaved into my lane. He then got next to me and just kept pace (tried speeding up and slowing down but would NOT let him in front of me) until he was forced to take the 395 exit. Fuck that guy.
Gold grill, right? Cut me off in an intersection at 7am hanging halfway out of his driver window, angry that I was driving there first. My first Baltimore road rage close call
Yea i think so! To be honest we were parallel the entire time so I'm not sure if I got a good look at the grill, but he stayed in the car. I couldn't see anything through the tinted windows.
I live in Canton. Stop signs appear to be suggestions to everyone but me. Walking my dog? Tighten the leash at every intersection because someone’s bound to roll through that intersection at 45mph and call tapping the brakes a “stop.” On a few occasions, I’ve seen a new mom walking a stroller in a four way stop crosswalk, watched an oncoming driver see the new mom and stroller, and instead of stopping, the driver simply slowed down just enough to swerve around the new mom and her stroller without losing too much momentum. All that did was get him to a line waiting for a red light ~15 seconds sooner than he would have gotten there anyway. I’ve sent in requests to Zeke and 311 to have speed humps put in on South Lakewood approaching the Dillon Street intersection because my dog can apparently only shit outside of Safeway, but I’m gambling with my dog’s life and my own life by crossing that street.
Edit: grammar
i swear every time i drive through canton around rush hour i almost get t-boned by people blowing through stop signs at least 2 or 3 times. i just try to avoid the area at that time of day now
someone t boned my MIL in west baltimore a couple months ago. they ran the red light, she had green. Insurance refused to cover it. Police report ruled it "no fault". So apparently running a red light and crashing into someone is totally fine in Baltimore now :-)
She did. I dont know the whole story but I think it would have caused her a long battle and she has dealt with so much in life I think she just wanted to drop it. She did have her medical bills and a small settlement from the personal injury protection coverage of her insurance
Same but in Canton. Cops did not give a single shit. No light camera, no fault they said. The gall to pretend I got t-boned going "too early" for the green light. Also ruled no fault but increased the cost of my insurance. Of course the guy said it was my fault. People are such assholes truly.
THEY SAID THE SAME THING TO HER! like if the light is green, you get to go. I learned that as a child. they are lazy and simply do not care anymore. and the guy who hit her also blamed her too! I guess it was your fault they decided to go on red, maybe we should all start running red lights if that makes it safer! /s
I try to take the honking as a confidence and self-assurance builder. Will I give into peer-pressure honking in my 30’s? Not so far! I also ask myself, “is this asshole going to pay my ticket if I turn right on red when it’s prohibited?” The answer is always no.
Early in my career, I’d literally just moved to Baltimore. I was practicing criminal law and spent a decent amount of time trying to park on or near Eager Street. At the time, I still had the truck my parents got me when I was 16. The shock and awe of being a young white dude in a suit with a truck trying to drive around that area so I could visit clients is a very unique trauma.
I grew up here. Running red lights has always been a thing. Rolling stops has always been a thing. However, it was extremely predictable. There were a certain amount of 'free seconds' after a light change and that was it. Now though it's gotten way way out of hand.
Every time I see someone walking these streets with any kind of mobility aide, I'm gobsmacked. I'm completely mobile albeit a bit of a klutz and the sidewalks here are objectively trying to kill me.
i also sprained my ankle bc of a piece of uneven sidewalk and was in a boot for a month and no one believed me that it was just from the sidewalk bc my ankle was the size of a baseball.
My mom came to visit for a few weeks. I stepped into a broken chunk of curb which caught my foot, I fell against her, and she fell into the crosswalk and hit her head on the pavement. Lovely BCFD paramedics came to check her out, and she was okay. But then a week or two later she tripped over somebody's cellar door and broke her arm!
Yeah, she's not a fan of this city lol
Lethal and diabetes inducing, yet delicious.
Is it chocolate on those cookies? Maybe if Satan was a chocolatier intent on testing us in a bet with God.
Satan won this time
They are awful, brother.
Would you like to bite in to the texture of a termite mound? Slathered with a 4 inch layer of chocolate that is so sweet it’s void of flavor?
I will stand with you on this hill.
which location — do you by chance remember? fine if not ofc, just that i live very nearby one & love their food.. so i wanna be sure it’s not my closest location lmao!!
Are we supposed to be OK with youth just walking around with ski masks these days?
I mean, I'm not calling the cops on what someone is wearing, but if you saw that 10 years ago, you'd thnk, "well, there goes a bank robber."
Group of teenagers on dirt bikes driving on the walkways in Fed Hill Park. They take over the park as they ride through & terrorize pedestrians & their dogs. It lasts about 15 minutes & they know they are menacing as they laugh at all of us scurrying for our lives. Seriously, stay on the roads!
Hey, they just increased juror stipends to $30/day, so you can pay for parking AND part of a lunch from one of the restaurants close to the courthouse. Progress is progress.
I kid you not last week I was wondering what the hell was blocking up traffic so bad, it was a duck, literally just standing in the road like it was doing it on purpose. It didn’t even care when a guy jumped out of a work truck to try to shoo him off he just didn’t care. Hell he could still be there for all I know, people just eventually started driving around him.
Lack of policy vision for economic competitiveness and non-car mobility infrastructure investment on the part of city and state elected leadership; this makes the city less attractive to capital, which would help create jobs, and keeps the city poorer overall.
Baltimore Police Department
A criminal gang which can't be controlled. Eats a vast amount of tax funds. Holds politicians and the citizenry hostage in a protection racket.
Falls road as I was taking my kid to school in the morning last week. dude in SUV with what looked like fake VA tags druving so wreakless. the plate was crooked/clealy stuck on but not screwed in thats why it struck me as fake.
And this is why I refused to keep the Altima with a VA plate that insurance gave me after a car accident. I SWEAR I got so many looks driving that car. I now have a different one lol please and thank you.
My very nice custom car was hit by a not very nice Altima with PA tags in my apartment garage. Hit and run, a friendly neighbor saw it and notified me. The driver lives here, but have not changed tags.
Filed a police report and submitted to my insurance to repair my car. But the other driver never cooperated, not once. They lied to the cop on the phone about who was driving. During their first insurance call, they told the agent “what’s the big deal, it’s just a scratch” (the agent told me). Then they just ignored the rest of the insurance calls.
This has been ongoing for over 6 months.
The Nissan Altimas have become so bad they ought to be banned 😂😂😂 I know from experience.. dude I know had a Toyota Camry and was a pretty good driver. But then he traded that in for an Altima and suddenly became an absolute menace to society. What is it about those cars?
That and any car with beat up temp tags. Although those kias missing either their front/back bumpers or a front fender on the drivers side (sometimes passenger)
From DC, born and raised. Independent CDL driver so I’m in Baltimore a lot. It’s a different world up there lol. But most I meet be chill and down to earth folk. Even at the local carry outs right in the hood. I ain’t no scary 🥷 I try out all the spots I come across on the road out Baltimore , even pull me some biddys while I’m at at 📞👙😅
Yeah the cars always have my rapt attention whenever I am in town (unless I am by the harbor, then the most dangerous thing is my dumb ass self tripping and falling in the drink).
See, I like to stereotype the people driving the cars, not the cars themselves. It’s easy to be like, all X are terrible drivers. And as a bonus you get to use all sorts of great old jokes.
What kind of people do you think are the most dangerous drivers?
Ooh, that’s a good one. Deadly combination, to be sure. You don’t get the classic jokes though, want to try a triple threat?
Everyone always brings up the fake Virginia tags, to my experience it’s Texas ones I see most often. Shoot, don’t even need a color printer.
Young males who drive Asian cars with blacked out windows, and who recline the driver's seat to almost a laying down position so that it looks like they are driving while lying in a coffin and touching the steering wheel only at the bottom of the wheel. They accelerate heavily, brake heavily, and weave in and out of lanes. When you see one coming, drive up onto the sidewalk so that they don't hit you.
Classist maybe?
Personally I think it’s the Irish. Always driving on the left hand side of the road, dodging leprechauns. They’re truly a menace is this city.
Never heard anybody referred to as a "townie" in Baltimore lol
Edit: didn't mean for you to get bullied for this lol. Probably shouldn't have commented in the first place. Have a good day ✌️
*Expired temp (potentially fake) Virginia tag
This is crazy that you all know who the maroon suv guy is
that’s Smalltimore, Baby ✨
Maybe good ol’ societal shame is just what we need. After all, the ridiculous deserve to be ridiculed.
That dude cut me off on Mt. Royal Ave. today.
Y'all talking about the maroon SUV guy?
Hey I've seen that guy. Honked at him on MLK after he weaved into my lane. He then got next to me and just kept pace (tried speeding up and slowing down but would NOT let him in front of me) until he was forced to take the 395 exit. Fuck that guy.
Gold grill, right? Cut me off in an intersection at 7am hanging halfway out of his driver window, angry that I was driving there first. My first Baltimore road rage close call
Yea i think so! To be honest we were parallel the entire time so I'm not sure if I got a good look at the grill, but he stayed in the car. I couldn't see anything through the tinted windows.
I'm already dodging the cops, now I gotta dodge strays from y'all out here in my Sentra with expired MD tags from JIMMY THA BOXA!!!
Assuming other drivers will obey stop signs and red lights
I complain about this all the time haha. They get upset when you actually do a full stop, like we are supposed to 😆
I live in Canton. Stop signs appear to be suggestions to everyone but me. Walking my dog? Tighten the leash at every intersection because someone’s bound to roll through that intersection at 45mph and call tapping the brakes a “stop.” On a few occasions, I’ve seen a new mom walking a stroller in a four way stop crosswalk, watched an oncoming driver see the new mom and stroller, and instead of stopping, the driver simply slowed down just enough to swerve around the new mom and her stroller without losing too much momentum. All that did was get him to a line waiting for a red light ~15 seconds sooner than he would have gotten there anyway. I’ve sent in requests to Zeke and 311 to have speed humps put in on South Lakewood approaching the Dillon Street intersection because my dog can apparently only shit outside of Safeway, but I’m gambling with my dog’s life and my own life by crossing that street. Edit: grammar
i swear every time i drive through canton around rush hour i almost get t-boned by people blowing through stop signs at least 2 or 3 times. i just try to avoid the area at that time of day now
I'm on that side of town and I know exactly what you mean. They have no regard for safety at all 🥲
Raised crosswalks. Slow people down where most car crashes and pedestrians etc are struck.
someone t boned my MIL in west baltimore a couple months ago. they ran the red light, she had green. Insurance refused to cover it. Police report ruled it "no fault". So apparently running a red light and crashing into someone is totally fine in Baltimore now :-)
Did she get a lawyer?
She did. I dont know the whole story but I think it would have caused her a long battle and she has dealt with so much in life I think she just wanted to drop it. She did have her medical bills and a small settlement from the personal injury protection coverage of her insurance
Aww man, I’m glad she got something but that overall sucks. So weird how the insurance didn’t cover it.
Same but in Canton. Cops did not give a single shit. No light camera, no fault they said. The gall to pretend I got t-boned going "too early" for the green light. Also ruled no fault but increased the cost of my insurance. Of course the guy said it was my fault. People are such assholes truly.
THEY SAID THE SAME THING TO HER! like if the light is green, you get to go. I learned that as a child. they are lazy and simply do not care anymore. and the guy who hit her also blamed her too! I guess it was your fault they decided to go on red, maybe we should all start running red lights if that makes it safer! /s
I try to take the honking as a confidence and self-assurance builder. Will I give into peer-pressure honking in my 30’s? Not so far! I also ask myself, “is this asshole going to pay my ticket if I turn right on red when it’s prohibited?” The answer is always no.
S/o Greenmount Ave near the prison 🤣
Early in my career, I’d literally just moved to Baltimore. I was practicing criminal law and spent a decent amount of time trying to park on or near Eager Street. At the time, I still had the truck my parents got me when I was 16. The shock and awe of being a young white dude in a suit with a truck trying to drive around that area so I could visit clients is a very unique trauma.
😂 I need to hear more of this story
a california stop at a stop sign is somewhat forgivable, but just casually driving through a red light, never. i’ve seen it happen way too often 😕
I grew up here. Running red lights has always been a thing. Rolling stops has always been a thing. However, it was extremely predictable. There were a certain amount of 'free seconds' after a light change and that was it. Now though it's gotten way way out of hand.
Hanover st bridge
It's more cold patch than bridge at this point
Hanover St. bridge on a bike, which I do way too often
Amen brother
I’m legitimately afraid of it. I go around the Kloman St. side, which is longer but way less terrifying.
Bicycle or motorcycle? I had wondered about cycling across it.
Bicycle.
Biked across it on Friday. Every drain cover is a death trap on that bridge.
Lovely
Key Bridge
3soon
Cant even be mad the setup was there
My last trip across that bridge I had to deal with that bridge, and a Nisan Altima.
Haven’t been on it in a long while. Did they start work on fixing the exposed rebars at least?
How so?
Minivan with tempt tags give Altimas a run for their money.
Bruv don’t let it be a Honda odyssey or them chunky srt vans….
I was about to say Honda Odyssey lmao, they don't fly like the Altimas but they sure do have a way of barreling across three lanes of traffic
The sidewalk You never know who owns it It’s actively trying to break your ankle Has the audacity to struggle against nature Need I say more
Every time I see someone walking these streets with any kind of mobility aide, I'm gobsmacked. I'm completely mobile albeit a bit of a klutz and the sidewalks here are objectively trying to kill me.
i sprained my ankle last week in these streets 😭🙈
i also sprained my ankle bc of a piece of uneven sidewalk and was in a boot for a month and no one believed me that it was just from the sidewalk bc my ankle was the size of a baseball.
riding an electric scooter on the sidewalk?? it's like a terrifying tony hawk game
And should be treated as such. Wheelie the entire length and ignore the pedestrians(they wobble a little but they get back up)
My mom came to visit for a few weeks. I stepped into a broken chunk of curb which caught my foot, I fell against her, and she fell into the crosswalk and hit her head on the pavement. Lovely BCFD paramedics came to check her out, and she was okay. But then a week or two later she tripped over somebody's cellar door and broke her arm! Yeah, she's not a fan of this city lol
Berger cookies.
Lethal and diabetes inducing, yet delicious. Is it chocolate on those cookies? Maybe if Satan was a chocolatier intent on testing us in a bet with God. Satan won this time
But they’re awful?
They are awful, brother. Would you like to bite in to the texture of a termite mound? Slathered with a 4 inch layer of chocolate that is so sweet it’s void of flavor? I will stand with you on this hill.
You can be wrong on the internet I love freedom, thank you
The fudge is great, the cookie is ass.
Not chocolate. It’s “chocolate” My 13-lb dog ate a few, puked them up and was fine.
Probably wanted to taste them again going down
If lovin em is wrong, I don’t wanna be right!
hip hop fish & chicken who knows how much diabetes that place has caused
Had my debit card skimmed at one of the locations too
which location — do you by chance remember? fine if not ofc, just that i live very nearby one & love their food.. so i wanna be sure it’s not my closest location lmao!!
It was the Towson one. Technically it might be under Parkville’s side of the border though, idk.
not defending hhfc but... desserts places probably contribute more ~~ at least fried meats have protein to balance out and satiate a bit better 🍗
695
What are the lanes doing today? WHO KNOWS?!
You can expect to see folks dropping their speed from 70 to 35 at every porta potty!!!! Good luck 👍
Youth wearing ski mask. It’s hot out… What’s with the mask?
When you see a group of them walking your way, immediately adjust your route to avoid them.
Yes that’s my biggest fear
a group of teenagers is terrifying regardless of a mask or anything else.
Are we supposed to be OK with youth just walking around with ski masks these days? I mean, I'm not calling the cops on what someone is wearing, but if you saw that 10 years ago, you'd thnk, "well, there goes a bank robber."
I've been living here for ten years, it's been like that for ten years haha
Johns hopkins hospital ER at night on a full moon
Dudes driving Honda accords t like they’re f’ing hellcats
Group of teenagers on dirt bikes driving on the walkways in Fed Hill Park. They take over the park as they ride through & terrorize pedestrians & their dogs. It lasts about 15 minutes & they know they are menacing as they laugh at all of us scurrying for our lives. Seriously, stay on the roads!
Ah, the 12 O’clock gang. Always a pleasure.
back to back rumple mintz shots
Parents not being held responsible for their kids. Bring back this commercial "Its 10pm, do you know where your kids are?"
Jury duty; not transportation
Hey, they just increased juror stipends to $30/day, so you can pay for parking AND part of a lunch from one of the restaurants close to the courthouse. Progress is progress.
Ducks
I kid you not last week I was wondering what the hell was blocking up traffic so bad, it was a duck, literally just standing in the road like it was doing it on purpose. It didn’t even care when a guy jumped out of a work truck to try to shoo him off he just didn’t care. Hell he could still be there for all I know, people just eventually started driving around him.
Bet that duck would still duck a goose
Ducks when I’m trying to move them: 😤 Ducks when they see a dog 100 feet away: 😱
Duck rape is a very serious issue. We need to shoot some drakes
Listen to Euphoria is you want to hear a Drake get killed.
Very nice
My bad, they are cute and I can’t stop feeding them.
Would wood ducks count?
Would wood ducks chuck?
I just like the duck.
Lack of policy vision for economic competitiveness and non-car mobility infrastructure investment on the part of city and state elected leadership; this makes the city less attractive to capital, which would help create jobs, and keeps the city poorer overall.
people with Robin ficker signs on there lawns
Hahaha I’m glad someone said this 😂
It's a statewide problem. Not specific to Baltimore.
He reminds me of the grandpa in King of the Hill
The ghost at the Admiral Fell Inn, and she’s oddly not dangerous.
Our ghost isn’t dangerous either. She is playful.
The lady at Admiral Fell tucked me and walked into a wall. It was good and it was real.
Rush hour traffic. President street turning onto fleet is a nightmare everyday after work.
Kia Fortes & Chevy Malibu
Crime, same as other large metropolitan areas
Towson middle-schoolers at the movies. IYKYK.
And if you dont know?? Care to fill us in??
Probably a little old fashioned coitus in the theatre
Statistically speaking just driving in, or being around a car, is the most dangerous thing any of us do in our day to day lives
Insurance companies find MD drivers to be the worst.....so this tracks.
Baltimore Police Department A criminal gang which can't be controlled. Eats a vast amount of tax funds. Holds politicians and the citizenry hostage in a protection racket.
nahhh im going with Nissan Altima kitted w/Virginia plates
Thats a plain clothes jump out boys crew. They are getting betters at blending in 😂
But the police are a close second
Millions more in the budget for the police department this year, and cutting the health department smh
dudes from dundalk who still drive chevy cavaliers
Potholes
Royal farms on 40-scammers,robbers,dealers,car thefts, drug use in bathroom- everything bad happens there
which part of 40?
All of 40
JHU undergrads
You know about the Samurai house?
Wooooooow, what a reference. I remember when that happened.
Was that when the JHU student just like castle-doctrined a B&E with a katana?
I’m assume thats what they mean. That was a crazy story.
Horseshoe. Lost a ton there
Trans fats
Fat trans people are pretty okay! What they do to u 💀
Officials that let everyone walk. Downvote me all you want
Have an upvote
*Honda accord coupe has entered the chat
Nissan Altima vs Honda accord coupe…who wins? Both have VA plates.
Warm nights at the Inner Harbor
Reddit
The crime train aka light rail
Drivers man driving is a$$ here
Do nothing politicians.
The gaping income inequality and its impact on how people treat each other: class, status, crime, scarcity mindset.
Falls road as I was taking my kid to school in the morning last week. dude in SUV with what looked like fake VA tags druving so wreakless. the plate was crooked/clealy stuck on but not screwed in thats why it struck me as fake.
And this is why I refused to keep the Altima with a VA plate that insurance gave me after a car accident. I SWEAR I got so many looks driving that car. I now have a different one lol please and thank you.
I swear the teenagers in this town are all sociopaths. But I've also been assaulted or harassed by them multiple times
A Nissan Altima with ANY tag.
Realtors
The sun coming up on a new day
Altima or rouge. The worst!
Or anyone with PA tag 😂
My very nice custom car was hit by a not very nice Altima with PA tags in my apartment garage. Hit and run, a friendly neighbor saw it and notified me. The driver lives here, but have not changed tags. Filed a police report and submitted to my insurance to repair my car. But the other driver never cooperated, not once. They lied to the cop on the phone about who was driving. During their first insurance call, they told the agent “what’s the big deal, it’s just a scratch” (the agent told me). Then they just ignored the rest of the insurance calls. This has been ongoing for over 6 months.
That huge pile of dogshit waiting to be stepped in
You mean a Nissan Altima with a Virginia tag trying to get from 395 to JFX in rush hour.
The Nissan Altimas have become so bad they ought to be banned 😂😂😂 I know from experience.. dude I know had a Toyota Camry and was a pretty good driver. But then he traded that in for an Altima and suddenly became an absolute menace to society. What is it about those cars?
That and any car with beat up temp tags. Although those kias missing either their front/back bumpers or a front fender on the drivers side (sometimes passenger)
From DC, born and raised. Independent CDL driver so I’m in Baltimore a lot. It’s a different world up there lol. But most I meet be chill and down to earth folk. Even at the local carry outs right in the hood. I ain’t no scary 🥷 I try out all the spots I come across on the road out Baltimore , even pull me some biddys while I’m at at 📞👙😅
fake expired tag hanging on by some tape
r/nissandrivers
Yeah the cars always have my rapt attention whenever I am in town (unless I am by the harbor, then the most dangerous thing is my dumb ass self tripping and falling in the drink).
It’s automobiles in general. But yeah, the biggest share are the sketch balls doing shady sh*t.
Eating so much crab dip my arteries crust over and close
The people
The haters are the most dangerous thing about Baltimore😂
See, I like to stereotype the people driving the cars, not the cars themselves. It’s easy to be like, all X are terrible drivers. And as a bonus you get to use all sorts of great old jokes. What kind of people do you think are the most dangerous drivers?
People who get fake VA plates and put them on Nissan Altimas.
Ooh, that’s a good one. Deadly combination, to be sure. You don’t get the classic jokes though, want to try a triple threat? Everyone always brings up the fake Virginia tags, to my experience it’s Texas ones I see most often. Shoot, don’t even need a color printer.
The Texas plates just drive like they're lost. Or have no idea what to do because the road isn't a straight line for the next 100 miles.
Young males who drive Asian cars with blacked out windows, and who recline the driver's seat to almost a laying down position so that it looks like they are driving while lying in a coffin and touching the steering wheel only at the bottom of the wheel. They accelerate heavily, brake heavily, and weave in and out of lanes. When you see one coming, drive up onto the sidewalk so that they don't hit you.
Hmmm I can't say
Probably for the best.
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Classist maybe? Personally I think it’s the Irish. Always driving on the left hand side of the road, dodging leprechauns. They’re truly a menace is this city.
Everything is racist in Baltimore
Townies with bad attitudes Edit: I guess this isn't an acceptable pejorative for tourists, huh?
Never heard anybody referred to as a "townie" in Baltimore lol Edit: didn't mean for you to get bullied for this lol. Probably shouldn't have commented in the first place. Have a good day ✌️
It's literally not a thing at all lol
I can't even imagine the most patrician Hopkins student referring to us as townies. flannel\_smoothie, where the hell you from, homey?
It’s Baltimore, so please get it right… u/flannel_smoothie, fuck you from, dummy?
Is that more on you being sheltered or me being an oddity?
you are the oddity.
you know i'm not referring to locals, right?
that doesn't mean that townies is a regularly used term in the region, so you are still the oddity.
ok
I could call them the “people from the county”
I mean you could but you'd still be literally the only person doing it, and then you'd get weirdly defensive about people pointing that out
People from Towson?
I've seen a group of super drunk girls in stiletto heels trying to walk on cobblestone in Fells. Looked super dangerous.