Is this where you eat lunch?
The ramifications are sobering
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OLDMAN3
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Ok...
This actually happened to me 20 years ago.
Stopped on a resi street behind a car, a lady was coming out of a house on the right with several kids. She is saying goodbye and loading her infant into the car when I am delivering to the house she came out of. Then I walk to, and deliver to a house across the street and slightly behind. I made the mistake of delivering the house she was coming out of first because her sister was still in the doorway making for an easy D.R. When I got back to the truck she was closing her car door. I was coming from the house slightly behind my truck and across the street. I entered on the driver's side. Thinking that all the kids were loaded in the car, I started my engine and just as I start to let go of the clutch, I noticed a 4 year old girl on the blvd just in front of me. I brake to stop rolling. She runs into the street in front of my truck and pulls her 1 1/2 year old brother from right in front of my right tire to the curb. I had no idea he was there.
It took me the rest of the work day to calm down. I always enter the truck on the passenger side now, and check in front of the truck before starting up.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Give it time. It will be eventually.
oldupsman
Well-Known Member
Hitting a child was always my worst nightmare. Whenever I pulled up to a home and their were children outside, I'd count the number
and when I returned to the car I would still walk around it once and look underneath before I got back in. Standards be damned.
bleedinbrown58
That’s Craptacular
idrivethetruck
Slow & steady wins the race.
A few months ago, I made a delivery in a cluster of town homes and was aware of a small child (about 4 years old) playing with a skateboard. When I started up my truck, I waited until the rear monitor came on and watched as he walked up, sat the skateboard down, grabbed the rear bumper, and stood up on the skateboard.
After shutting the truck off, I walked to the rear of the truck and there he stood, waiting for me to take off. When I asked him what he was doing, he said "I do this all the time on my skateboard game".
After explaining to him why it was dangerous for him to do this, I asked where he lived and went and told his mother, who actually seemed annoyed that I was interrupting what she was doing!
Anyway, I spent quite some time afterwards thinking about what might have happened if I hadn't been quite so vigilant as I left that area.
After shutting the truck off, I walked to the rear of the truck and there he stood, waiting for me to take off. When I asked him what he was doing, he said "I do this all the time on my skateboard game".
After explaining to him why it was dangerous for him to do this, I asked where he lived and went and told his mother, who actually seemed annoyed that I was interrupting what she was doing!
Anyway, I spent quite some time afterwards thinking about what might have happened if I hadn't been quite so vigilant as I left that area.
bleedinbrown58
That’s Craptacular
Of course she got annoyed at the UPS driver pointing out her bad parenting skills. Who the hell lets a 4 year old play outside in the street by himself??A few months ago, I made a delivery in a cluster of town homes and was aware of a small child (about 4 years old) playing with a skateboard. When I started up my truck, I waited until the rear monitor came on and watched as he walked up, sat the skateboard down, grabbed the rear bumper, and stood up on the skateboard.
After shutting the truck off, I walked to the rear of the truck and there he stood, waiting for me to take off. When I asked him what he was doing, he said "I do this all the time on my skateboard game".
After explaining to him why it was dangerous for him to do this, I asked where he lived and went and told his mother, who actually seemed annoyed that I was interrupting what she was doing!
Anyway, I spent quite some time afterwards thinking about what might have happened if I hadn't been quite so vigilant as I left that area.
A crackhead!
bleedinbrown58
That’s Craptacular
Of course...till he gets hit by a car or kidnapped by a child molester....then they want justice and a cash settlement!!
You know It.
oldngray
nowhere special
The street is the playground for hood rats.
soberups
Pees in the brown Koolaid
Whenever I catch kids on skates or skateboards trying to hang on the rear bumper for a ride, I tell them the fictitious story of the kid on skates who was being towed behind a UPS truck that drove over an open manhole cover at 30 MPH, and how the kid fell part way down the hole before being cut in half by the edge of the manhole, with his fingers stuck in the bumper and the upper half of his body being dragged behind the truck as his intestines and guts left a half-mile long bloody smear in the middle of the road. I also tell them that the lower half of the kids body went down the manhole into the sewer and was never recovered and that the crabs and worms probably ate it. Its a highly effective way to make a lasting impression on a 9 year old, and I don't wind up getting any repeat offenders.
rod
Retired 23 years
Years ago the back bumper of the UPS truck (and every delivery truck for that matter) was considered a taxi by the reservation kids and some adults. I guess the drivers got tired of fighting it and just ignored them. I don't recall anyone ever getting hurt or sued. The res. is a different world.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
Sober, I prefer to be more direct----"get off the damn truck" works really well for me.
thessalonian13
Well-Known Member
i had the same problem delivering in the hood 20 years ago. I did the same thing. Kid learned his lesson and didn't try it again.
728ups
All Trash No Trailer
i had that happen not long ago.I was in a ncie suburb making deliveries when i noticed 3 kids sitting on the bumper when i returned to the package car. I asked them nicely to move along,and they did....but when i started the truck i could in the rear view camera they were back on the bumper. i turned the truck off and ran to the back telling them to GET OFF MY BUMPER!!!!
and of course 2 parents came out and yelled at ME for yelling at the kids for being on the truck. i just dont understand people
