Bad Drivers of Seattle #72 🥱
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
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Why do we have signs? Lane markings? Traffic lights? Parking spaces?
Apparently, if you're entitled enough, you can ignore all of these things.
Police in Seattle have been pretty much neutered from being able to enforce traffic laws. And boy, do people take advantage of this.
When nobody says or does anything, common courtesy goes out the window. "I do whatever I want! Who cares if I'm in someone's way?"
My mission is to buck that trend. If you're going to be careless and inconsiderate on the road, I want to know WHY you think it's ok.
Maybe I'll teach a few people some things; after all, if nobody told you, how are you supposed to know?
But doubling-down on one's entitled behavior is, sadly, the standard expectation. Which I find to be quite entertaining 😆
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The Jeep compass stopped next to the parked car at 1:25, and turned their car off at 1:49. It took 24 seconds to park their car. But this Altima simply can't be bothered to take out roughly 2 minutes to find a spot, and park? God forbid they walk!
God forbid!! It's the fact that drivers don't even try that gets me salty. I've been doing rideshare and food delivery for years, and I always do my best to find a place to park that's out of the way! And it's really not that difficult 🤔
@@SaltySeattleCyclist bullshit its not haha lived in and around seattle for years, parking is an absolute nightmare most of the time. You're just an annoying know it all!
This channel should be rated more is so under rated but is so good.
It's getting there! Only thanks to fans like you! 🥳
hey at 8:10 i know that sometimes theres emergency calls so for example EMT may get a call for a person who is having trouble breathing and its a priority so as the call comes in through dispatch they may stop to listen where its located so they can make the turn or go straight ect... that would most likely be their case maybe they had a 911 call and was trying to listen for the direction then they went straight hence doing through the red light. just a thought. love your videos
Bryan did some digging and explained what was happening over police radio at the time. Makes sense, it's just confusing and looks hypocritical to the general public when they do things like that.
if you ever want to start putting other content, i have tons of my dashcams i am too busy to edit into fun stuff you can have for free.
I love the way you edit, i end up laughing a lot and it's refreshing.
Oh please do send me your dashcam footage! You're a patron, not only do you get your name put on my special thanks board, but I'll definitely edit and share your videos too! 🥳
14:48 Ohio plate.
So many “Push the I can park anywhere button “ in Seattle 🤣 great upload thanks , like the humor touch of yours 👍 watched a couple of your ancient videos and I note these goddamn scooters are as an annoyance as in major France cities out there, think they can do whatever they want behind that “green label commute” such as the terrible use of a bike where traffic rules end to apply mysteriously to the owner!
Yeaahhh they're literally everywhere, making a mess of our streets!! I don't honestly expect it to work out perfectly every time, because there are definitely times and circumstances that don't allow drivers to heed the rules well. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't try! THAT'S what gets me, is when I see drivers just blatantly not caring because they know they can get away with it 🤦
Yup, everyday, everywhere here In Seattle. It's the Park-Anywhere-Anator button! Lol
Great video! Also I love your new outro 😁
Thank you!!! I love keeping it somewhat fresh every few months or so 😁
Maybe April fools idea change name to SaltySeattleParkers
Plus the cop was partly in your lane.
i sincerely hope you emailed dispatch that cop clip
I made an editing mistake at 15:00 and I'm 1000% more upset about it than you are 😅
It happens to the best of us 🫂
so 8:38 if i got the date correct of July 5th at about 6pm they had a suicidal male on Alaskan way so that is why the cop had his lights on is that he was most likely headed to that area to assist and when he stopped at the green light he was most likely checking call notes on his laptop/CAD and letting dispatch know he was enroute
Thank you for looking that up! I was curious if it was some sort of situation like that...it just looked weird to the rest of us on the road there 🤔
@@SaltySeattleCyclist you're welcome it had struck me as weird that he used his lights to get through one intersection only to almost sit through a green light at the next intersection and then suddenly take off aggressively and use his lights through the next intersection
Exactly! It was the inconsistency that struck me as odd. I thought maybe because Fairview & Denny has red light cameras, they were scared to scoot through? 😂
I rather just go around than wait for the idiot driver to move their car. Too much of a inconvenience and it's way too congested in the city. Who knows what people have on them or in their car. I rather be safe than sorry. People getting hurt over the smallest things and best believe their behavior isn't going to change over night.
I can't blame you one bit! I'm just determined to take that burden upon myself and be the people's messenger: "You can't park there!!" 😅
@@SaltySeattleCyclist They know they can't park there they just don't care lol
@@ChosenGemInEye Exactly!! And they do that especially because they know that nobody is going to do anything about it 😐
@@SaltySeattleCyclist I'm just happy that someone is recording the idiot drivers in the city! Seattle is the worst place to drive...driver or passenger. 🥴
It's really too bad you can't convince the City to offer you a by-law job as you know where the hot spots are and could bring in much more money than your salary would be!
I mean, I would take that job instantly! 😁
6:21 but, but my hazards are on 😂
Nice episode as usual, people still like parking in the middle of travel lanes I see.
2:07 I'd say, some thumbnail material right here. 😄
3:25 I'm being educated here. I might misread something like this in the heat of a moment but this video helps me look ahead to such a scenario. Not that I'm making this out to be an extremely difficult intersection. 😄
8:00 For lack of us being out of the loop on the circumstances, I'll just keep the joking lighthearted. I'd find it funny if they police cruiser pulled up to a barista (coffee time!).
11:20 If it had bike pedals installed, would it be accepted as a bike? I kid of course.
12:45 That van sure looks worse for wear, I'll say that.
15:15 😖Of course, they'll just wave cars over the double yellow.
I made a comment on the day this video was published about SPD and how the public notices things they do.. should be leading by example.. and the big G deleted it. Can’t figure out what triggered it.
Wtf?? I'll go back in my email notifications and see exactly what you posted. Idk 🤷♂
11:41 Amholes unite!
Love the videos and seeing familiar spots. But I'm questioning your statement on 15:25 with when passing the white van on a double yellow on 12:25.
Fair. As much as I do usually stick to the rules of the road, sometimes I will "just go around" if I'm actually trying to get somewhere on time
Yay top 51 and top 64 likes and comments. Idk why it never occurred to me even though i had seen the signs and "knew" the rules about not riding your bike on the sidewalk but a while back I would ride my bike on the sidewalk from my mom's work to the library and nobody ever yelled at me. I should've done better, but where I live is pretty rural so the sidewalks at least weren't, and still aren't, super crowded, or even a tiny bit crowded, so nobody was at risk of being hit by a cyclist. Still, at least now I know I wouldn't do it going forward . . . Once I get into better shape.
Eh, sidewalk biking in rural areas is far less of a big deal. Beyond following your local laws, just use your best judgment with the infrastructure and people around you! In a city though, 100% sidewalks are for pedestrians only.
@@SaltySeattleCyclist exactly! And tbh I see this argument with cyclists everywhere! Them not realizing that one of the. are talking city biking. And the other rural.biking. I've been in rural areas where you can take a sidewalk for miles and not meet anyone. That's hard to do here in Seattle unless your on a true side street.
Passing lane? Learn something new everyday 🤣
As of that means where they parked is a "parking lane" 🤣
11:21 isn’t that building on the right SPD HQ? You would think people would not be able to get away with stuff by their front door.
It 100% is the SPD West Precinct. Yet the block around them is probably one of the most common source of blatantly illegal parking/stopping you'll see anywhere. I've seen a PEO confront somebody for blocking the bike lane there on 8th and Lenora exactly ONCE. Great example they're setting 🙄
...Come to think of it, how do you get the dashcam to pick up your voice so well? I have the exact same model, and recorded a commentary bit for my other channel on it the other day, but I can _barely_ hear my own voice over the road noises (and I was talking loud like I'm talking on speakerphone, too) 🤔
Really??? That's super intriguing, I honestly have no idea what the difference might be. Do you think your car might let in more road noise? I do have quite a boomy voice, it's....gotten me in trouble with roommates and nearby sleeping people many times 😅 The dashboard cover I've been using certainly helps the audio come in more clean and crisp, in addition to cutting down the windshield glare!
@@SaltySeattleCyclist ...To be fair, the phrase "2007 Ford Focus salvage title with 190k miles" should have been my first clue about crappy acoustics 🤔
I'd be willing to bet that my 2018 Honda definitely has better road noise reduction engineering built into it 😅
7:24 / 8:40 Cop abuses power to run the red light.
There was no reason to run the lights, there was no "emergency"
I hate it when cops do it, you're supposed to be an "example" but you're one of the worse.
9:26 "Giant Meteor" I love that bumper sticker lol
He didn't endanger anyone so you should be okay with it judging by your videos intro?
So I went and did some research and listened to the archived broadcast for that day and time and actually they were most likely headed to the suicidal male on Alaskan Way and at the momment on the video it wasn't a call that required a code 3 response and or they hadn't been attached by dispatch yet but were headed to the area to assist if needed and when they stopped at the second set of lights they were most likely attached thus the delayed response to the green light while checking CAD to look at the call details
"When there's no cops around (or you ARE a cop), everything's legal!"
@@DoDo-lf2gw He still should follow the law, you dunce?
3:44 Holy $hit, they can't park alone the curb normally and you expect them to figure out how to do it with a riverraft in tow................Damnit...........................
give Tesla's some slack. they are prob doing the FSD Beta and so the car is learning and being cautious. I've watched several videos on this and drivers think it's the human doing it but its actual the Tesla in FSD Beta mode.
That's totally fair! I admittedly have little idea of how Tesla's work...I'm just an old man 😂
Regardless of the car learning, if your vehicle is impeding traffic, expect people to honk. There's no way for me to know, as an outside driver, what's going on that's causing a car in front of me to drive too slowly. So, I'll usually honk and see if I get a reaction. It probably would be best for a car in learning mode to put the hazard flashers on to indicate to other drivers that the car's driving is disabled to some extent, so to speak.
First :P
Police should never be allowed to run red lights. There are 0 situations that necessitate them to need to do that.
Ambulances at least have valid reasons.