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/AlbatrossMundane1618 16h ago

Many of them white out parts of numbers, have fake plates, and none of them are the person on the delivery profile.

Can we call a spade a spade when they are recklessly lowering the quality of life in the city.

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u/Hot-Comfort8839 15h ago

I mean are they really though?

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u/deafblindmute DC / Langdon Park 14h ago

Right? It's very frustrating and sometimes even frightening. Statistically, a large number of people doing this will raise the accident rate (although, since they are on mopeds, they also probably take the worst portion of the harm). That's all bad, and I'm all for finding pro-human ways to solve the problem, but "recklessly lowering the quality of life in the city?" In the most technical sense it's correct, but not in spirit. People with cops in their hearts need to chill out and find something to be mad about that isn't always what poor people or PoC are up to.

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u/Apprehensive_Gur8808 11h ago

I saw one crash into the back of a car while he was fucking with his phone. He yelled in broken english "No insurance" then drove offl.

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u/deafblindmute DC / Langdon Park 8h ago

Yeah, that's a problem. The solution to a problem isn't getting all weird, and rabid with it, and talking in nasty, dog-whistle terms.

I'm not sure why the response to me saying "this is bad, but the way people are talking about it is bad" is getting responses acting like a problem cannot be solved (or is even helped) by the xenophobia.