Here were have two separate incidents involving pedestrians and cars, with a fortunate outcome, at least for the former.
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A driver of an old sedan that looks like its from Russia, who had just passed the pedestrian crossing sign, was forced to slam and block his brakes, inadvertently turning the car around to avoid hitting the man.
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A young woman in the city of Astrakhan in the southern European part of Russia, tried to dash across the road at the same time that a bus was coming from the other side.
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But as it turns out, it's not only humans that won't budge sometimes, as certain members of the animal kingdom do the same, as evidenced by this video from a dashboard mounted camera.
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All we can tell you is that a man wearing a safety vest, who looks like he was part of a team of road workers, does a Michael Jackson-esque dance move before lying flat down on the road in front of the car with the recording equipment.
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We say this due to the frozen road conditions and the lack of additional details, as for all we know, the driver may have tried to stop progressively.
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"A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony."
We don't know if there's a similar law for pedestrians in Smolensk Oblast in Russia, but this man sure knows how to 'stand his ground' when drivers disregard the signs and don't slow down to let people cross the road. See what happened in the video that follows the break.
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We can't say for sure who's at fault here since the covered up grandma (according to the poster) from Minsk seems to have a green light, but so do the cars coming from the other side of the road.
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Those who make it across the road alive and well, more often than not, simply go on their way, but there are some pedestrians who let's just say, take punishment in their own hands or feet…
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It's not only cars and other motorists they have to worry about, as pedestrians looking to make a quick buck by pretending that they were the victims of a crash are also quite common, as you have no doubt seen before.
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We are fully aware that this is not the case for all Russian motorists who often get a bad rap because of what many of their fellow drivers do or not do on the road.
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Filmed on November 5, 2012 (the YouTube poster says the date on the video is wrong) in the city of Tashkent, which is the capital of Uzbekistan, we see a group of cars slowing down at a pedestrian crossing to let a man walk through.
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And yes, you guessed it; we are talking about Darth Vader, the evil, black-clad wizard of the Star Wars galaxy who was captured on camera in full suit walking across a road in the Russian city of Belgorod.
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From the first few seconds of this video it becomes instantly clear that the driver is going way too fast for a heavily trafficked and fairly populated area, and that an accident is imminent.
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