From my point of view we're leading the world in getting these damned idiots off of the roads and back onto the footpaths where they belong. Or onto a bus or something.
And form my point of view you would have to be a psycho to ride a bicycle in the three-foot-wide gap between the curb and a semi-trailer doing 70 kilometers per hour past you with only a cocoon of smug, self satisfaction and a thin white line painted on the ground to protect you.
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... which makes ramming through a mass of people, potentially severly injuring or even killing some, an entirely justified, normal, and perfectly acceptable response?!?
Really? I know how fond most people on this forum are about ranting how cyclists are the scum of the earth, but really? Purposely endangering people's lives because they're being douchy and inconveniencing you on your way? I think a reevaluation of your priorities is in order.
So apparently for a lot of people in here, obstructing the road - which inconveniences those who want to use it - is a vile, despicable and hateful crime...
... which makes ramming through a mass of people, potentially severly injuring or even killing some, an entirely justified, normal, and perfectly acceptable response?!?
Stop making stupid hypotheticals about women being raped and I wont have to sink down to that same level of stupidity.
I'm not trolling, I just disagree with you. There's a difference. Also, note that the text you quoted and emboldend was actually me quoting shad_68. He overstated my position for the purposes of creating a slight straw man and I re-used it unaltered for dramatic effect. I don't suggest that it's justifiable, only that it's entirely understandable. These people deliberately infuriate motorists and I understand why someone finally snapped. Which is very different from me saying that it's justifiable. But none of you seem able to make that distinction.
I really don't care at all about the guy who did it or what motivated him. All I ever said was that the cyclists had it coming. Which they did. As I said, their whole protest involves annoying motorists and delaying them for really no good reason. They essentially entice motorists to run them over out of sheer frustration. And I have absolutely no sympathy whatsoever for someone who willingly puts themselves in that situation and then actually does get run over. They should have considered that this was an obvious possilbe outcome to their stupid protest.
Here is what you need to realize. Personal safety is YOUR (not you specifically) responsibility, if you are more vulnerable (as a cyclist or a motorcyclists) is you need to take steps to ensure that safety. Riding out in the middle of the street an blocking the road is not the way to do it. That was one guy with rage problems in a Golf, imagine if it were a different guy in an H1 with more rage problems who would just run through the crowd at 50+ likely killing and seriously injuring a bunch of people.
This would go back to evolution. You have a bunch of people doing something that they KNOW will piss people off, they are doing it DELIBERATELY and pissing people off. Now 90% of the people will get annoyed, go on a forum or call a friend and bitch about fagcyclists getting in their way and making them late. Something like 5% will be like "meh I ain't got nowhere to go", maybe 4% will through something at them or honk their horns till the battery goes flat. Then you will have the 1% that will put the pedal all the way down and go "QUAD DAMAGE MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!" and do what you saw in the video***. Does it make it right? Not at all, is it something that you should see coming? Absofuckinglutely! Does it make those cyclists eligible for Darwin award? You betcha.
See? He gets it. It's fuckin' simple. It's basically about these cyclists acting like adults instead of spoilt children and sucking it up and taking responsibility for their actions.
