I've had 3 near incidents.
1) Last summer I felt a vibration as I was starting the truck after a stop and looked at my rear view monitor. Two young boys were on the rear bumper jumping up and down.
2) A month ago a boy maybe 10 was riding his bmx bike out in the middle of the street going the opposite direction past me. I slowed to around 15mph as I passed him and watched him in the mirror as I passed him. He reached out and tried to grab the rear bumper frame that makes contact with docks and just missed it. If he actually grabbed it going the opposite direction he would have gotten all jacked up, especially if I hadn't slowed from 25 to 15.
3) Last week I was delivering to some apartments and had backed into parking space in a small parking lot. The parking space was maybe 15 feet from the front doors to the various apartments (like a strip motel with exterior doors to the roooms). Being the ghetto, everyone was outside their homes sitting in chairs or on the ground. As I was starting to drive away I glanced at the monitor and there was a fat ghetto mother who thought that she was going to be funny and get a little ride sitting on my rear bumper. I got about 2 inches and hit the brakes. She jumped off like "Oh
he saw me" as her household laughed. What pissed me off about this one is she did it in front of her 5 kids. Great example set by mother of the year. Incidentally this one happened about 50 yards from where a toddler was found in the street crying and hungry a few weeks ago. That mother of the year had left her toddler home alone overnight and had gone out of town to a casino. The toddler was found around noon the next day. Can we just take their children away and then napalm the whole street?
