I’ve had people in cars shout at me as they pass by and I’ve had a cop drive up to me and ask me where I’m headed, dependes from location to location, but walking is just seen as an odd activity in this country for some reason lol
People in cars do sometimes shout nonsense as they pass pedestrians, but that’s just noise. Never respond to it, never think about it, never let it bother you. It’s the same as leaf-litter. You walk through it, you don’t let it even impact your stride. Purge from your memory as it happens like so much ballast.
Now for police, that can vary a LOT depending on where you live and what your skin color is, but there aren’t many places where people just can’t walk around for fear of police intervention, because at least in America, despite all the media horror and fear, there are millions and millions of people walking their dogs, walking to the store, picking up their kids at the bus stop, carrying groceries, exercising, and so on. The chances of having a serious encounter with law-enforcement isn’t zero, but it’s probably significantly lower than the chances of developing type-2 diabetes from not going out and exercising.
I have darker skin color so I avoid cops like the plague. I was walking home at 1 am in the rain and a single cop drove up to me and asked me where I was going and I wanted a lift, I picked a random apartment complex and said that’s my home and just pretended to go in there till he drove away
I’ve had people in cars shout at me as they pass by and I’ve had a cop drive up to me and ask me where I’m headed, dependes from location to location, but walking is just seen as an odd activity in this country for some reason lol
People in cars do sometimes shout nonsense as they pass pedestrians, but that’s just noise. Never respond to it, never think about it, never let it bother you. It’s the same as leaf-litter. You walk through it, you don’t let it even impact your stride. Purge from your memory as it happens like so much ballast.
Now for police, that can vary a LOT depending on where you live and what your skin color is, but there aren’t many places where people just can’t walk around for fear of police intervention, because at least in America, despite all the media horror and fear, there are millions and millions of people walking their dogs, walking to the store, picking up their kids at the bus stop, carrying groceries, exercising, and so on. The chances of having a serious encounter with law-enforcement isn’t zero, but it’s probably significantly lower than the chances of developing type-2 diabetes from not going out and exercising.
I have darker skin color so I avoid cops like the plague. I was walking home at 1 am in the rain and a single cop drove up to me and asked me where I was going and I wanted a lift, I picked a random apartment complex and said that’s my home and just pretended to go in there till he drove away
This kind of “societal pressure” for lack of a better term is probably discouraging people. At least for me it would be.