Stoughton - Safer Streets
Channel: Jonathan Bowen
Date: 2019-05-02

A frustrating day navigating the streets of Stoughton, Massachusetts.

Transcript...

Hey folks... It's Jonathan Bowen and, ah, I had quite a day yesterday. This first video is at about, ah, one o'clock yesterday afternoon, then you'll see this guy in this big truck come wheelin' in from the top left of the screen, cuts that real tight, almost most clips the person in front of me, then, the bottom right of the screen, that's the rear-view camera, goes wheelin' down Lincoln Street, ah, real fast. This next one is in, ah, parking lot on Page Street yesterday at about 2 o'clock, ah, the fi-, the action starts in the back, you'll see Kate, my wife, she just walked back behind, ah, my truck, ah, this one takes a long time to set up, and then, th-, you'll see her in that rear-view camera, you'll see her backing up her, ah, Nissan Altima and then that's where the action starts, just, let's give that a second, this one really upset me here and this is basically the reason I decided to do this video, I was gonna shame these people, if I did this, if I narrated this video yesterday, there she goes, she's backing out, ahm, but I'm asking that you don't really, ahm, you know, th-, there's no reason to shame these people, nobody's perfect, I'm not perfect, yea-, so, boom, there he goes, flying down, bottom right-hand side and you can't obviously see him now, now look at the front camera here and look all the way down, see, all the way down there is that driver, and I go chasin' after him, the guy had the music bumpin', now, I timed this, so it took him 12 seconds to get down the length of this, ahm, parking lot and it took me 18 to 19 seconds to do the same so it means he's driving at least 50% faster than I was and, as you can see, on the left-hand side, it's the white ah, car, ah, to the left there and, ah, he's already parked, already backed in, you know, and then this one capped off the day yesterday, this is at about 4:20 yesterday afternoon, you can look at the time on the clock right there, on the top left-hand side, these people, you're not supposed to take a left in Stoughton Center onto, ah, ah, whatever that street's name is, I always forget it, [Wyman Street], ah, a-, between 4 and 6 o'clock, you'll see, that, ah, one car has an out-of-state license plate, you'll see the other one has a Massachusetts license plate, I mean, this is cloggin' up traffic, I'm behind them, I'm trying to go left up to Porter Street and I can't get there, ahm, because there is traffic, ah, you can see the little rear-view camera, there's not much happening, ahm, but a-, I'm stuck here, for like a minute and then the light is green up there, I'm still stuck here, there was a bunch of traffic in front of both of them and, ah, still don't see, that car's on my right-hand side and, ah, I do get lucky enough here to catch this green light, ahm, but my point is here, just, everybody, please be better drivers, ahm, I had my three-year-old daughter in the car with me all day yesterday. Alright... Thanks guys...