# Do you stupid kids want to die? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 9, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-stupid-kids-want-to-die/187152 "2003-07-09T02:39:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-stupid-kids-want-to-die/187152/21 "2003-07-10T17:21:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NurseCarmen \* > \*\*I was driving in a construction zone behind a group of teens in a car. The passenger was leaning out the window attempting to touch the chain link fence. I slowed, waiting for the idiot to _give me the finger_, or possibly all five. I decided I wouldn’t want them on the hood of my car, and maybe I’d collect them to put on ice so surgeons could sew them back on. It was then that genious driver boy decided that swerving towards the fence would be an entertaining way to scare his pal. Luckily, the kid had just began to go back into the window, because they swerved close enough that I saw a clump of hair get ripped off the passenger’s head. \*\* There’s a reason teenage drivers’ insurance rates are so much higher than adults’. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-stupid-kids-want-to-die/187152/22 "2003-07-10T18:51:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by fruitbat \* > \*\*In Washington DC this has become an epidemic. I have finally found that if I gun the engine a bit and stare down the pedestrian they will get a move on. And before anyone flames me, these people are walking against the light and at a grandmotherly pace. Drives me nuts. \*\* At least in DC, a pedestrian getting themself hit shares in the responsibility for the accident by putting themself in that situation to begin with. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-stupid-kids-want-to-die/187152.md?page=1)