America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning

Re:America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning by CalRobert on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @06:11PM (#15658047)

My single greatest fear for letting my kid walk free when she's old enough to is that she'll be killed by a driver. This is compounded by the fact that as long as you say "Sorry mate didn't see you" it's OK to kill people with your car

(weird really - can you do that for killing people by any other means?)

My wife and I have semi-seriously considered moving to northern Scandinavia for both this reason and its comparative likelihood of remaining a decent (well, bearable, if only just) place to live in a clathrate-gun scenario.

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Re:America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning by gorbachev on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @10:10PM (#15659511)

That's what really gets me.

There was a case not far from where I live where a driver turning right mowed down a 4-year-old child walking with his grandmother on a CROSSWALK. He wasn't running or anything like that, just crossing the street. The child died. They didn't even charge the driver. Fucking ridiculous. It was 100% the driver's fault. New York Times published an article written by the child's mother who questioned the logic of first of all call it an accident and second of all how the driver wasn't charged with anything, not even reckless driving.

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Re:America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning by CalRobert on Thursday November 09, 2017 @01:24AM (#15660302)

I don't know how to change the mindset. A kid in san diego was killed in a bike lane while I lived there and everyone poured sympathy on the DRIVER, ffs, and blamed the kid for being there. It makes one weep, especially because people (Americans, at least) accept it.

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