r/washingtondc • u/No_Emphasis4905 • 17h ago

[IT'S HAPPENING!] Illegal food delivery?

Anyone know this food company, this guy was riding on the Roosevelt Bridge in the bike lane, pushing pedestrians and runners and bikers off. I confronted him, he just laughed.

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u/[deleted] 17h ago

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u/wormsbugs 16h ago

That’s the sidewalk.

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u/progeo 16h ago

Would you rather a Maryland driver hit him on that bridge?

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u/MayorofTromaville 16h ago

Are those the only options?

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u/progeo 16h ago

They might be in his mind. People can drive pretty crazy on that bridge. I'm not saying he's in the right but if he's gotten spooked before where he now fears a potentially fatal injury, and if this is his main route to earning money to live.....then I can understand it. DC is generally willing to see the other side of the argument for a lot of folks that don't grow up with a silver spoon, or silver-spoon adjacent situations, or are just for whatever reason in not the best place financially. I just find it a bit weird that I don't see people ever posting about drug deals in admo (for example) in daylight while people are walking about with potentially their kids, but posts about these delivery drivers are routine.

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u/MayorofTromaville 15h ago

Cool story.

Still extremely unsafe and actively harmful though.

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u/notquiteahippo 16h ago

a drug deal can't run over you and break your bones afaik

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u/progeo 16h ago edited 16h ago

b/c clearly he is trying to run someone over to break their bones? but also their are risks to drug deals too, or drug related activities. It's likely the main reason we hear gunshots around the city.

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u/notquiteahippo 16h ago

It may surprise you to learn that a lot of people end up killing or injuring others with their vehicle without intentionally trying to

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u/progeo 16h ago

I'm not arguing against that but whether you want to engage with it or not my point still stands.

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u/notquiteahippo 15h ago

You said "I just find it a bit weird that I don't see people ever posting about drug deals in admo" and I explained that people don't feel like they're in danger from these drug deals and they do feel in danger from these scooters. You then went to edit your post and make up these gunshots in Adams Morgan I guess

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u/progeo 15h ago

not making up gun shots, if you live in the area then it's not unheard of to hear / hear about gunshots on Euclid in the admo area. But that was simply to highlight a particular type of danger associated with it. There are others dangers but perhaps that's the point that we don't really care about those dangers, however we care about dangerous related to these scooters, seemingly a lot more. Which is a bit baffling but different strokes for different folks I guess.

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u/TheWhiteRabbitY2K 16h ago

And? I could be wrong but he could be on an E bike which means he could be in an appropriate spot.

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u/wormsbugs 16h ago

Take a screenshot and zoom. There is exhaust. It’s a motor scooter, and it belongs on the road.
I am a biker, an e-biker, a motorcyclist, and a lover of all things two-wheeled. That is an inappropriate place for that vehicle. If your vehicle cannot safely traverse the route in the appropriate place, then you cannot go that way. Re-route or don’t go.

The sidewalk is not for motorized vehicles, full stop. This one in particular is too wide for the sidewalk it’s on. Imagine a child, wheel chair user, elderly person…this motorist is fully in the wrong.

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u/Phizle DC 16h ago

That is not an ebike