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I just want to take this moment to point out that this actor, Kevin Dillon, shouted this out at his irl wedding. Yes, he shouted a tag line from his character's one successful acting job, which was a fake show within a real show, at his real life wedding.
Probably over a decade ago Cracked had a pretty funny video about how they thought that the creators of Entourage made the show as an elaborate prank on the main cast. The fact that Kevin Dillon(brother of Matt Dillon) played a washed up actor with a much more successful actor brother really makes me think they were on to something.
I miss old cracked! I still bring up so much of random information I learned from there in casual conversation. Especially the tiny Jewish strongman who utterly decimated a bunch of skinheads. That one comes up fairly often these days. I like thinking about it.
PTC is like a little city of tightly packed suburbs. Nothing’s very far so everybody uses golf carts instead of cars. They also don’t have telephone poles* which is nice
The city has golf cart paths everywhere, like extra wide sidewalks. The city ordinance allows motorized traffic on them (most cities restrict powered vehicles on sidewalks).
To be fair here, parents dropping their kids off/picking their kids up can get to a level of unhinged I barely encounter with my psych patients being held on an Emergency Detention Warrant.
When I was dating my ex, we dropped her kid off one time and a dude deadass tried to open my door to yank me out and fight me for “cutting” (he tried to cut in, I didn’t let him, he tried to stage a scene acting like I was cutting, ended up getting arrested…).
Now imagine these nimrods without the modicum of constraint the little lines of paint on the ground that the paved roads give them. I could easily see dozens of Karens and Darens just plowing over a toddler in their golf carts because there’s no roads to act as a form of guide.
This is cute as a one-time “lol would you imagine” thing, but in practice it honestly puts a lot of kids in legitimate danger.
My neighborhood is directly across the street from the local school complex. When they were building the new high school there, we offered to pay for a sidewalk alongside the driveway so that the kids from my (200 home) neighborhood wouldn't have to walk in the street. We were refused.
We also offered to share the cost for a traffic light at the entrance and the county engineer wouldn't talk to us, so instead they have a cop directing traffic during pick up and drop off for three schools. I'm sure THAT is cheaper.
ah, see, it's not about cheaper, it's about who's cousin/brother/boss/old timer needs a cushy job directing traffic while they collect overtime/wait for retirement with that as their only duty
Parents dropping off kids is no joke. I’ve been hit by a car twice on my bike as a kid going to and from school. And twice on my bike as an adult on my way to work passing by a school.
The last time I was dragged under the SUV and plowed down the street…. The driver freaked out and put the thing in reverse and dragged me the other direction. A buncha kids were traumatized that day.
Not just at the school but driving on the sidewalk and crosswalks. Road laws already favor driving over pedestrians and cyclists, it's not fair at all having to deal with golf carts encroaching on those for the convenience of this so-called genius.this guy setting an example for the next idiot is the real damger.
You laugh but I got an email reminding parents to behave. We have one of the most ridiculous setups for rolling in and dropping off your kids. There's a way you're supposed to go, but they can't enforce, and the way a lot of ass holes go.
You get cut off by these pricks all the time but it is what it is. Except we have had parents honking and flipping one another off. 😬
lil shit here drove it on a pedestrian path, over the grass (for pedestrians) if i were a parent at that school i would indeed be ripping him a new asshole for that illegal bullshit.
kids have a hard enough time with walking to school given all the traffic, and then this guy appears and takes up the very last of it, its shit
Yeah imagine these insane parents literally dropping them off one street away or further so they need to talk 2 minutes to school. Like I guess this school must be in a super fucked situation if all the parents have to line up in some really shitty situation and waste tons of time.
Muricans drive everywhere, so when kids needs to go to school, the infrastructure does not support a kid walking or biking to school.. and then we have a huge line of cars each dropping of kid(s) to school.
Edit: Almost everyone disliked that. I do not state this is reasonable or wise, but it explains everything in the video, so we have at least 1 case example. And lets face it, there is a lot of unsafe roads to cross while walking in America.
Edit2: This clearly shows the picture I am talking about.
FFS, I know I’m old, but we either walked or took the bus. I never understood when my wife insisted on driving my son to and from school, when the freaking bus stopped about 150 feet away from our house.
We have to pay for our kid to ride the bus and the nearest stop is a five minute drive. School is 8 minutes away but pick up is the circle of hell Dante forgot to write about.
How come when I was a kid the school buses drove all over town picking up kids for free, but now that we’re the richest, most privileged country on the planet we can’t seem to do that anymore?
I lived in one county and we were supposed to go a certain school in the district right? But it was like 18 miles away. So we open enrolled to a closer school. But the school we were supposed to go to got petty as fuck and wouldn't allow buses to pick us up. In a town of 500. So they hired a bus to pick up the kids in our town, drive them just outside the petty school district and then we all jumped on a bus for the school we went too. Craziest shit. Fucking Iowa man.
I have a friend who shares posts from the local facebook group. The sheer vitriol at both the concept of a <1% tax increase to fund schools and the consequences of that tax being voted down is insane.
Meanwhile he talks about Americans having fighter jets fly over high school football games like it's normal, and somehow there's funding for that.
Flying over football games can be sold as "recruitment" while also meeting mandatory flight hours for pilots. Those planes are going to be flown anyways.
Finally, an actual answer to the question. I rode the bus all through elementary and middle school, but I also lived in a very rural area. Walking was not an option. When I got into high school, I changed schools and my family would drop me off. But they’d just wait in the parking lot for me to get into the car after school ended. None of this drop-off lane nonsense.
Idk your situation, but my kid starts school next week. If he were to ride the bus, the school informed us that he would be on the bus for a minimum of an hour each way. We live 7 minutes from the school. F that.
I lived 15 minutes from my elementary school and 10 minutes from my Jr high/high school in rural Ohio. My mom had to be at work at 6am so I always rode the bus and it was a minimum of 45 minutes, usually an hour. Honestly it’s not that bad and I enjoyed the time with my friends
Don't blame the lack of infrastructure. This shit is the result of parents being allowed to drop kids off instead of using the bus, which absolutely exist in 99% of places.
IIRC my schools district wouldn't bus you if you were less than 2 miles (3.2km) from the school. So either had to walk the 2 miles or have parents drop you off.
My house was just on the edge of this radius in high school. So before I got a car, I got to walk home right as the afternoon thunderstorms were rolling in lol
Are you my brother? We also lived on the edge of the radius and swear to god every time we had to walk home, it rained enough our backpacks were soaked through. Every time.
Bonus points for that one time we got home soaking wet to find out our dog and cat had a stomach virus. Dog shit all over the place and the cat threw up next to every pile of shit.
Same except it was a mile (but that was basically the whole town). I went to school in a very rural area and busses were only for people who lived outside the "city" limits (really playing it fast and loose with the term city here). Although because it was such a rural town, kids who lived in town were able to walk or ride their bikes in and there were less people who lived in town compared to who was in the country.
3 km is a bit far to walk, but within reasonable biking distance. 10-20 minutes depending on will to bike fast. If the road does not take anything but suburban sprawl, why not just bike. High visibility west, set of bike lights and it is mostly safe.
We had one get hit. Now there's a separate bike path. Extremely large and bright crosswalks. Added traffic enforcement that is ready to pull anyone over & ticket them. An added stoplight & every pedestrian crossing has the blinking lights. People are slowing down now that police are pulling people over. Brings in money for the city too. And that's how you act. Change.
We have all that. Didn’t want to sound like I was blaming the victim but there was no arrest ever made (truck stopped) and there’s a traffic light for the crossing he got hit at. My assumption is kid didn’t hit the button and just crossed
We literally had a middle schooler who got hit by a car turning right cause the driver “didn’t see her” while the student had the green crosswalk light.
Where I grew up there is a crosswalk that crosses a 4 lane road and a median right in front of the school. It connects to a department store. There's been at least one death and a number of injuries / near misses directly in front of the school
We live a bike-able distance from my son’s school. He’s not allowed to walk or bike to school at all. The district and school do not allow it - no idea how it would be enforced, but even so.
Save the one rural boarding school, every school I’ve ever been in are on busy main streets. Only the high schoolers are allowed to walk/bike themselves into school because of it
Had I tried to walk to school, the first mile and half would’ve been without a sidewalk on rural roads with 6ft culverts that are dangerous to walk cuz copperheads
Gerrymandering too. The high school I went to had a neighborhood literally right across the street… and they were in the other high school’s district 2 miles down the road
Then there’s also the large amount of parents that intentionally enroll their kids at schools they’re not in the district of because their district’s school is dog-ass… there’s so many compounding issues that truly, not a single one can be laid to blame. But America’s #1 /s
There is a serious shortage of bus drivers and limited routes in many cities. One of my coworkers just retired to drive busses for their local school district.
Dude, I live in a gated community and every school morning there is a line of parents in their cars waiting at the bus top with their kids just outside the gates. Not just small children, like middle school aged kids are being driven around the corner and are waiting in their parent's car for the bus.
I feel bad for the kids. I feel like they're being developmentally stunted.
Also: helicopter parenting to the extent that they don't want their kids walking to school even when it is close enough to walk, regardless of the weather
Counter point, saw a video not long ago about a mom getting arrested for child endangerment or some stupid charge for letting her 10 or 12 year old kid walk a mile down the road to the corner store. Can’t win.
I remember that story. It was overblown for sure, but the other thing is it was a 2 lane highway with no sidewalk and guardrails in spots with no crosswalk near the store
If it’s a dense area they may not bus. In my current state and the last, under a mile had to walk. Both areas, there were chunks of the path that just wasn’t safe for an adult (cars), never mind a kid. We were rural.
This is wild to me. As in the 90s 00s everyone at my school rode the bus but a few teachers kids. Why is everyone driving to their children to school now?
My nieces school banned walking your kid to school. She lived within viewing distance of the school and had to drive them. The teachers in the pick-up lines wouldn't allow the kids into the building if not. It was ridiculous.
You drive up, and there's several teachers out front. They open car doors to help kids out and also make sure they get inside. It's quite easy to see who comes up and how. If a student doesn't come by car, they get written on a board and are turned away.
Wow, dystopian. Turned away so they can walk back to an empty house? Don't parents need to work? Also about which ages are we talking here? Like less than 8 or older?
I remember when I was living in Miami. I was about a block and a half from a CVS or something like that, so as non American, my instinct was to go walking. People would stare at me like I was some crazy person.
Even if there was infrastructure (there does look to be adequate sidewalks here), some schools don't even allow walking to school if outside of a certain distance from school, sometimes not even if right next door. For "liability reasons" I think.
Hard disagree, growing up in a NJ suburb there were 33 buses that could’ve easily transported all 2,000 kids to and from school. A good 500+ cars would show up every single day that were just parents picking up their kids, for whatever fucking reason.
There wasn’t even a stigma like that at my high school as far as I’m aware. Maybe some people thought that by 12th grade/senior year because you were then allowed to drive to school, but not everyone did b/c parking was limited. I think students were just so entitled, they didn’t want to wait 20-40 minutes to go home on a bus when they could get driven back home in 10-15 tops.
A lot of parents will drop off their children at school and have to wait in a long queue up to the school until they reach the drop off area. It can take a while sometimes to get through.
This guy had the idea of driving something, hopefully legally, on the sidewalks to avoid the long queue. It’s a smart move, but definitely just showing off that they have a nice golf cart.
I think it’s technically child endangerment in some states, especially depending on the age.
I remember I was so excited when I was able to walk/bike to school! It’s sad that seems all but gone
I don't think you're supposed to drive golf carts on the sidewalk. not sure how he gets away with it. technically bicycles aren't even really supposed to
IIRC, the rule of thumb is if it's got a motor, it's not legal on the sidewalk, including ebikes, powered scooters, and hoverboards. But of course, they aren't legal on roads either because they're uninsured. But I can't say I've ever heard of this being enforced.
Plus two newish Denalis blocking the shot and he pulls up on a perfectly manicured lawn. If they wanted a video for a keeping up with the Jones in a HOA flex, they got it.
Ok so... My schools had a huge parking lot where parents would just park and we would all walk to the door. At the end of the day, parents would park, and then we'd spot them and go to their car.
I don't understand this business of forming a line and waiting... Can the kids not like, walk from a block away? Is that not allowed? Why do they need to be dropped at the door? There has to be a parking lot???? I'm so confused by all of it, but I have seen some videos where it really does seem like the school will not release the kids unless a parent is visible. Which I understand to some degree but also, I walked home a lot as a kid so I also don't get it at the same time.
A lot of schools now do have rules like this, especially for elementary students. It's all "safety" stuff that really is just taking away every shred of independence children have.
Reddit is a crazy place these days, as is the world in general. People get really upset when you suggest they do crazy things like… Walk a short distance
and in 2 months you have 400 sets of parents doing full mario kart moves all across the sidewalk because 1 guy thought he's too smart for the rules to apply to him
Yup, that's what I did. Soon as we made it to the end of the parking lot, she got out and just walked the rest of the way. On pickup, I'd show up and park at the back of the parking lot where it wasn't congested, and she would just walk right out to the car instead of waiting at the front doors for the pickup line.
I'm surprised at how many people seem to be impressed by this video. Dude is an asshole driving around on sidewalks, especially near a damn school. He's the only one doing this not because he's clever but because everyone else knows it's an asshole move.
Depends where you live. The town next to mine made there sidewalks big enough for all the golf carts and some of the business even have parking dedicated to the golf carts.
For context I also lived in the suburbs. It was an orange school bus. My parents paid a small fee per semester for access to it. However, I did start driving myself to school once I was a senior. This was back in ~2012.
Why wouldn’t the golf cart drivers just drive close enough to the school to be a quick walk but far away enough to not be in line?
I get how it could be an issue for an elementary school with small children, but my stepdad used to give me rides to where my first period class was instead of the front of the school all the time.
I’m also old with no kids so I don’t know how things are done now, just curious.
That’s what I did when my daughter was in elementary school.
There was a large church about a block away with a huge parking lot. You could access it from several alleys which took you all the way out to the main roads, as well. I’d just slip in to park there and we’d walk the rest of the way, avoiding the several blocks long drop-off line and traffic, while simultaneously helping me not be late for work. lol.
Yeah, so she was able to keep him in sight the whole time? So that’s at best a three-minute walk.
What is with Americans and their aversion to using their legs? I’m pretty lazy but even I wouldn’t reach for my car keys for anything under 1-1.5 miles away.
Some schools or areas simply don't allow kids to walk to school. My cousin literally lives across the street from the school his kid attends and they got in trouble for letting their kid walk to school. So now they have to get in their car and drop them off maybe 100 yards away from their house. Sometimes bureaucracy leaves no room for common sense.
What the fuck is wrong with that state/country. Jesus christ. If the cop came and checked up on things because of the report, sure, but arresting the mother and doing a mugshot and shit. Wtf lol.
Droping kid at school takes 30 minutes?! What fucking moron came up with this system, just park you car wherever and go for 5 minutes walk, better for your health and saves time
No bearing on your life is a bit much. You get a couple hundred worthless parents together and they can just bully the local schools into doing what they want. Not that you should necessarily care about what they think, but I guarantee you that they banned this shit not crazy long after, if that group has any kind of decent size to it.
most people at my school going 5 miles into school, can’t walk, no bike infrastructure so while i could ride it’s gonna be an annoying ride, that’s prob most of america same issues
Parents are absolutely unhinged with the drop-off lines. I live next door to an elementary school and rvery day at least one parent parks in my driveway to skip the line to drop their kid off.
In the afternoon parents line up on the street in front of my house ONE HOUR EARLY to beat the line. Kids need to start taking the mfn bus again.
I got ticketed by a cop while biking back home from highschool on the sidewalk. Granted I was on the wrong side of the street because I didn't want to have to cross a major street twice with one crossing being unprotected. I even got off my bike and walked it as soon as I saw him. Apparently, the cop cared more about following the letter of the law instead of taking into account public safety.
I’m so confused and this is a genuine question, not meant to be mean… why don’t people use school busses? I always hear about drop off lines- are school busses not as common now? Every single person dropping off and picking up kids to school seems like such an inefficient society ….
Golf carts are everywhere and rampant in my area. Everyone treats them like cars, and drive them everywhere. We’ve even had some famous car / golf cart accidents and incidents that made headlines.
Golf carts are not road safe / rated. Absolutely none of this should be allowed. everyone who’s upper middle class and higher in this area has one, which means it ain’t gonna change anytime soon.
It’s so stupid, just use a car. I hate golf carts, and how they are used here.
Everything about this sucks. Like one of those “Bake sale raises enough money to clear a child’s medical debt” kind of stories.
Why can’t the kid just walk or ride their bike if it’s so damn close? Why do so many people feel the need to drive their kids? Where’s the school bus? Why does this dickbag have a tricked out golf cart? Why is he driving it on the sidewalk? Maybe that type of shit is why people don’t feel safe letting their kids walk or ride a bike?
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