Submitted: “If I would have pulled into the shoulder for any reason, I would not have seen them on time to stop.”
Dashcam Video: Attention Bachurim/Parents
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Yes, I don’t understand their thought process. Many times they stand half in the road at night all dressed in black. Do they think their invincible to getting hit by a car?
If more people would stop for these boys they would probably spend less time on the road waiting… but yes, these boys should wait in places where drivers can easily see them and drivers 5are able to pull over if they want without compromising the safety of other cars in the road. A lot of times these bochurim are hitching in the middle of busy roads and they expect us drivers to stop for them on these busy roads…
i bdafka don’t pick up those shoitim, no seichel mamish, the ones that wear reflectors i pick up
If more people stopped for them? You realize that every kid you pick up is a liability. If something were to happen, such as an accident, or if the parents want to make accusations your in the hot seat. In the end of the day you don’t know who your picking up, if their parents are okay with it etc…
Furthermore, for the kids they don’t know who’s car their entering and what that person has in mind.
Parents it’s time to take responsibility for the kids you decided to have.
Klal yisroel is built on chesed and has been doing chesed for thousands of years. This liability mindset has been around for less than fifty years!
Thousands of years from now Klal yisroel will continue to do chesed while nobody will ever remember what some shoitah posted on the lakewood scoop.
( having said that, there is a chiyuv to teach your kids basic saftey awareness. How to cross a street safely, understanding what drivers can and cannot see etc.)
Hitchhiking is actually illegal.
REFLECTORS ARE THE ANSWER!
1000%
I could never figure out why they don’t wear the reflectors. ALSO, why don’t the Parents arrange car pools ?? I had carpool when my boys were younger.
Hitch hiking is illegal in NJ. Besides the law states that every school child, private or public, within a certain distance from their school is supposed to be provided transportation or the parents will get payment in lieu of transportation. So either the student transportation system is failing or the parents are pocketing the in lieu of payment without providing for their kids transportation needs. And here comes all the thumbs down from the people that don’t like the truth….
If everyone would wear refletcors, they would too.
Parents have to tell their children to wear the reflectors. Probably some parents don’t wear the reflectors when they go for walks either.
Lakewood PD handed out reflective vests a short time ago. That was certainly a waste of money.
Young Bochurim do not have a driver’s perspective of the road. They don’t ‘chap’ what we see or don’t see when driving, whether it be by day or by night.
They have no clue what it takes to make a right turn, a left turn, or even just to pull over on the side of the road.
We give them a ברכה that they should continue to שטייג!
What does it take to educate them???