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Originally Posted by jayswin
Do you mean like drivers are raging at panhandlers?
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In my experience, drivers are going to call someone (police or 311, in Calgary's case) and go on a NIMBY-style rant about how they "shouldn't have to put up with this".
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Isn't a road rage incident where either a person gets out of their vehicle and confronts someone or dangerous moves are made with the vehicle due to driver to driver argument?
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Yes-ish, but it doesn't
require the other party to be in a vehicle. The most common pedestrian/vehicle road rage incidents are going to be someone in a car angrily honking at a super slow pedestrian who walked late and is walking the red, so to speak. The most common vehicle/panhandler road rage I've heard about (and I've heard about it twice) involved the 'dirty water bottle and clean your windshield' type incidents at stop lights. Road rage doesn't require physical violence or physical confrontation.
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I'd like to see the stats you have on this, cause beyond frustration I can't see there being a significant rise of people actually engaging in "road rage" incidents over it. And haven't these intersection panhandlers been around forever?
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I have no stats on it, just anecdotal experiences. I get calls from people fired up about "that guy walking through traffic" about once a shift. That number really hasn't changed in the 6 years I've been doing the job. It obviously slows down some when it's cold out, and picks up a bit when it's warmer. And they are just 'fired up' to rant/vent at me to "do something" about it. I've never personally heard of any physical confrontations or accidents caused. Generally, at most, there is some loud verbal sparring between the two involved parties.
The one singular accident/fatality I'm aware of is the one spoken up earlier in the thread, but that seems to me to be more anomaly than baseline.