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People are Getting Crazier in California

Posted by $ Abaco 7 years, 8 months ago to Culture
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I don't know about other parts of the nation. But, we were just talking about this in the office today. My life is spent commuting, working, and spending time with my family. I'm seeing things on my commute the past month or so that are really mindblowing. I think it must be a reflection of something affecting people. Just this morning there was a five car pileup in front of my office. 35 mph speed limit, no stop sights, no speed bumps, straight shot, two lanes...no reason for cars to run into each other. Yet, there it was. Almost no traffic at the time, very early in the morning. I've had a drunk stagger in front of my truck at 6:30 am, almost getting killed. I've seen multiple people passed out on drugs or booze with their legs out in the street and their upper bodies sprawled on the sidewalks. Lots of tents and boxes people sleep in almost anywhere they can place one - freeway cloverleafs, alleys, parks, creeks. I have seen multiple massive crashes lately - probably 5 in the past week - where somebody runs a red light doing at least 50 and just turns their car into a yard sale - often with bad injuries. I'm guessing people are either passing out or just playing with their phones. I'm seeing accidents like this almost every single day, sometimes a couple per day.

There's got to be something going on, right? My coworkers notice it too. Just this past week we've got stories of close calls on our commutes. Any theories on what it could be? I can't imagine. Perhaps it's just coincidence.


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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Last time (2015) I went to California, I couldnt shake the image in AS of the oak tree that was rotten at the core. Thats Califonria. I made my fortune in the 80's, but by 91 I left as it was not a place to do business aymore.

    Its the beauty I suppose that keeps people living there. What other reason is there? Taxes are high, regulations are through the roof, and its filled with collectivists everywhere you turn.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I have trouble believing the media violence reports. That said, its my impression that violence has increased dramatically in the last few years. It seems like hardly a day goes by without an "active shooter" story being on the news.

    I would like to see statistics from a someone just reporting the facts. The MSM seems to promote violence to encourage gun control.

    I just want the facts.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    There are no ramifications for your actions in California. The liberal philosophy of "stronger together" will take care of whatever happens to you, so you dont have to.
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  • Posted by dougblack 7 years, 8 months ago
    Solution: Leave California; there are many sane places to live with lower taxes and costs.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If you want to see homeless, come to Vegas. They ar everywhere, and come into fast food restaurants constantly asking for money. Unfortunately, liberals give them money, making the problem worse.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 8 months ago
    I live in Vegas, and the drivers here are the worst I have ever seen. I am not sure if its just the people who live here, or its the times we live in.

    I call it MTV driving, where nothing is planned, but most driving decisions are done at the last second to get the 'best deal" in real time. The result is chaos with cars changing lanes all the way across the 3 lane road, speeding through traffic lights, and other last minute decision making.

    People seem to want to get in front of you all the time, encouraging "turf protection" as a major goal.

    Also, people dont leave enough space between cars to give one a chance to prevent an accident. Its as if they expect there to be accidents and if you follow very closely at least you wont hit the car in front at a high relative velocity.

    Lack of planning, in my opinion, is the real cause of this. They just aim their cars, instead of driving them.
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 7 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Saw that as a teenager, and I can see I need to go back and watch it with fresh eyes....or, actually, OLD eyes.
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  • Posted by evlwhtguy 7 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Your statement..."Yes, send the homeless to Beverly Hills where the massive mansions must have ample room to house these people." makes me remember a scene from the Movie Doctor Zhivago which is about the Russian Revolution.

    Dr. Zhivago comes back to his family home after being forced to be a doctor for communist partisans for the last several years and he finds that his father and sister are living in an upstairs room and the house is full of "workers". There is a Commissar there who gives him a ration o crap about how the house was totally enormous and that's why the government moved all those people in there. and Doctor Zhivago, having worked with communist partisans for many years knows the right thing to say... He says... "Yes it is much more just that all these people are living here. "

    Of course the doctor is just trying to survive the encounter and the mob is actually ready to pounce on him and a distant cousin shows up who is a bigger commissar than the one in the house. He snaps his fingers, shows his red book and the mob immediately vanishes. Because of course, even though all the farm animals are equal..."Some are more equal than others"!. A very instructive movie.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 7 years, 8 months ago
    No wonder Californians migrate to Colorado. The drivers there may be even crazier. When I was a Colorado resident over 30 years ago, they seemed to make tailgating a sport. I witnessed a 57 car pileup on I-70 in clear weather, all due to a tailgating circus of extreme nature.

    Coloradans also seem to fail to grasp how four wheel drive works, speeding like maniacs on icy roads. I counted six four wheel drive pickups upside down in the median on the way to work one day.

    Send the California crazies to Colorado, where they'll feel right at home.
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  • Posted by Ben_C 7 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I was working in Manhattan when Rudy became mayor. What an amazing transformation. Yes, the police arrested the subway gate crashers and guess what, it made a difference given the number of felons arrested etc. The car window washers were expelled and traffic became a tiny bit better. Yes, send the homeless to Beverly Hills where the massive mansions must have ample room to house these people.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Whoa! Me dino has just been inspired to come up with a new definition (thanks, evl-etc) for the late great state of Kalifornia~An asylum run by inmates.
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  • Posted by evlwhtguy 7 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That is exactly what Rudy Giuliani did in NY....hassle the squeegee guys. It made a big difference. Many in police and political leadership say the cops should concentrate on the really big crimes and quit chasing people spitting on the sidewalk....The problem is that if you give the an inch they take a mile and you have more "Serious" crimes when you let the inmates run the asylum.
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  • Posted by TheOldMan 7 years, 8 months ago
    But, but, they're "oh so concerned" and progressive! How can this happen with high income tax, sales tax, gas tax rates, generous welfare, sanctuary cities?
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You;re hitting on why me dino finds that~Lock the house! Lock the house!~to be very funny.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 8 months ago
    Cosmic radiation, it's on the increase. Studies have shown that it effects health and it effects the mental state of those most vulnerable.
    It's on the increase for two reasons: 1, the sun, we are not getting the electrical interaction with sunspots which keeps our ionosphere active, thereby protecting us from cosmic radiation. 2, A weakened magnetic shield, (down 25%) likely caused by magnetic pole excursions...in other words...they are on the move and moving toward each other.
    We also have, as you have observed, people having sex on their cell phones; (it might as well be sex) Why else would you stop paying attention to where they are driving?

    Put all these factors together; what does it spell?...People are not aware, (conscious) of their own behavior...everything is fluid and relative. They have devolved back into the nonconscious bicameral brain as a result of the post modern society where nothing matters so long as it feels good...until you get hurt!
    Then of course, it's someone else's fault!

    I lived in California for 4 years in the late 70's, they were crazy then too...always ready for a party...I thought at the time,..maybe it's the constant danger of waking up in the ocean with out a paddle. (earthquakes, (The Big one), mud slides, forest fires or alien invasions).

    Connecticut SUCKS...but not as bad as California.
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  • Posted by Suzanne43 7 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Moonbeam, being Moonbeam would probably like to try it, but I don't think that anyone in Malibu would adopt or feed any of the homeless.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Maybe Moonbeam oir some bleeding heart group could be persuaded to hang "FEED ME" or maybe even "ADOPT ME" signs from the necks of the Malibu homeless.
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  • Posted by Suzanne43 7 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Litter box for the homeless." Now that's funny. I really think that we need to get these homeless people relocated to the Malibu beach so that we can watch the fun.
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That's funny. I used to work with a guy who's a radical, angry leftist and he lives in Malibu, home on the beach. He gripes about the paparazzi. I've seen videos of common folk being beat up when they try to go to that beach with a blanket. I like your idea.
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    Posted by Suzanne43 7 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Perhaps a way to solve this problem in California would be to remove these people to places like Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, and Malibu where the Liberals can give them tender, loving, and compassionate care.
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 8 months ago
    In the past week there were two cops shot within a mile of my house, and another shooting about 1/4 mile away. It's just becoming a way of life here - random, extreme violence.
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