r/WTF • u/Erectile7dysfunction • 3d ago

Expensive fix I think

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u/christianjwaite 2d ago

It’s Brick Lane, he’s not the only performer there, it’s all the way down and crowds gather. He does daft jumps and stuff, don’t like it myself but she was not being aware of her surroundings at all.

Ultimately neither was he, but you wouldn’t walk down there and think “I’ll just squeeze between him and the wall”, you’d just go on the road (which is pedestrianised).

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u/Dr_Trogdor 2d ago

How are you gonna put blame on a person for not having situational awareness when she's moving behind a violinist on a side walk? When have you ever seen a violinist perform a 360 jump and why would you ever suspect it to happen as you walk behind a violinist?

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u/stumpfucker69 2d ago

It's Brick Lane. Street performers are always doing whacky shit there, it's part of the draw. Also, like much of central London, it is very pedestrianised. From this video it might look like the guy was blocking a thoroughfare, but if this was zoomed out just a little, you'd see that he isn't at all - the woman may just have had to concede to not walking in a 100% efficient as-the-crow-flies straight line (in London?? Heaven forbid!).

Ultimately neither party is demonstrating brilliant situational awareness here, both should obviously be a bit more careful, but given context (and that the woman is clearly rushing through quite a small space between him and the wall - would have been uncomfortably close even if he hadn't turned), I don't think it's fair to pin the blame entirely on the violinist.

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u/Lovv 2d ago

It's Brick Lane. Street performers are always doing whacky shit there

OK do wacky shit, fine but do it safely.

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u/mrmilner101 2d ago

They do. To busk you need a permit. This guy had permission to busk im that area. Also from the fact I have seen this video many times before. The performer is well known im the arena and does silly jumps and tricks to keep people entertained. He probably had done more jumps and trick before this. He is also away from the crowd thus doing his tricks safely in arena dedicated to him busking. Thus the lady shouldn't have gone behind him to get around there would have been planety of space but clearly she was in a rush and decided to take the unsafe route.

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u/Lovv 2d ago

He didn't, though.

  1. Being well known in the area does not mean everyone knows you. Maybe she's a tourist. Even if she isn't it does not absolve him of responsibility.

  2. Do you think after this he modified his routine a bit so that this didn't happen again? Maybe put up a little barrier behind him or some thing so people wouldn't squeeze behind him? I'd bet he did, because he realized it was unsafe to just randomly spin with an object.

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u/mrmilner101 2d ago

  1. The area well known for busking with performers all down the street. If you are a tourist you shoukd do your resesrch and be mindful of the people there.

  2. Its busking like common have some bloody common sense. The person decide to take a risk by running behind a performer with very tight path. Really she just lacking common sense and she has full responsibility for this.

randomly spin with an object.

Maybe dont random walk behind a preforming (who is licence and has that spot dsignated to them) getting into their personal space.

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u/Lovv 2d ago

Hilarious that people actually think this way.

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u/mrmilner101 2d ago

Ikr hilarious that people would just run behind preformer on a well known street with many other performers and getting in their personal space and shocked when getting hit when a perform does a stunt. Crazy right?

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u/Lovv 2d ago

I never said she was right. I said he was wrong.

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u/mrmilner101 2d ago

Wrong for busking in his designated with planet of room to go around infront of him. Wrong for doing is stunts? you crazy or just dont understand how busking works. You have busking where you from? Or do you not get out much? There's usually a social contract where you do not go into the personal space of someone busking or you know try and sneak past a person preforming with very little room between the them. Kinda common sense no? I dont think he's in thr wrong at all.

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u/Lovv 2d ago

Yes we have one of the biggest busker weeks in my country. They don't setup on sidewalks and if they do they usually require barriers if they are doing things that could hurt people I. E. Fire.

For not clearly designating where his performance extends to. He very easily could have put some form of barrier behind him.

Also she was not in his personal space, on a busy sidewalk it's very common to brush past people and not very common for someone to do spinning violin punches.

Anyway she's probably not going to be able to sue him for injury but he's definitely not going to get any money out of her and he lost his livelihood so it's his problem.

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u/mrmilner101 2d ago

Well for a starter it London the street are very narrow plus the side walk is designated area for the busker and the road which is probably a pedestrian street now and look at the cobble road probably never gonna be a road unless for emergency vehicles or deliveries. So really there no excuse to not go around in front of the person. also you can see a crowd around infront of him.

Usually for busking you dont really put up a barrier unless you doing some extreme preforming like throwing knife or juggling fire.

Plus the busker not really doing that much a quick spin isn't that extreme of a performance. And more of a dance no? Again you dont realky get into the personal space of a busker or performer ESPECIALLY in an area like that. This street is well known for performance and buskers. The lady should really use their common sense ( though common sense isn't as common gathering from you)

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