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I have noticed that most suicide pedestrians ignore bicycle bells. Also, my bicycle bell is wooden so doesn't make much noise anyway. So for a while now I have attracted their attention by clearing my throat. A bicycle bell just makes them think "Fucking cyclists, get out of the way", while a throat being cleared from somewhere in the street where they didn't expect it makes them actually look.
It does work, but it got boring. So today I came up with something better. Now, when I see pedestrians who are likely to step into the road without looking, I say "Hello Dave." Which, given the state of my damaged vocal chords, makes me sound just like the creepy blackface guy from League of Gentlemen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkiix0aveRk
It works.