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Marz wrote:
On Apr 14, 5:21 pm, thaksin wrote: Marz wrote: On Apr 14, 4:13 pm, Adrian wrote: Marz gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: I'm a cyclist, but am more than willing to shoulder charge any cyclist who cycles across a crossing while I have the green man. Risky, I'm 16 stone and I average 20-21mph on the road. You don't want to shoulder charge me mate! And you'd cycle through a red light and across a pedestrian crossing being used by pedestrians without even slowing? No, prat. sigh A sig separator should be dash dash space, not a comma. You really are a completely and utterly antisocial ****, aren't you? Actually yes Thought so. but that has nothing to do with how I ride my bike, ****! Once again, that's dash dash space. Let's hope that the person who does get in your way is not a little old lady, but a large healtyh fit bloke who's doing so deliberately - because you're going to hit the ground VERY hard indeed. See answer to your first stupid question, arsehole! See? You've really not got the hang of this sig sep lark, have you? Would that be the answer where you either showed your previous comment to be a complete non-sequitur or tried desperately to back-track when you realised what a tit you'd made yourself look? No back-tracking here. pk suggested attacking a cyclist breaking the law, I pointed out that if he tried that with me it's not going to good for him. You jumped to the conclusion that I do jump lights at busy crossings and I'm pointing out you're wrong. Why is it ok to attack someone breaking a law that doesn't involve your own person? Well I dont want to put words in pk's mouth and I'm sure he's perfectly capable of answering for himself, but I think his comment about 'attacking' cyclists who break the law is a response to the widely-held and oft-spoken view in URC that cyclists should be permitted to vandalise cars the drivers of which have allegedly put them at risk. So: cyclist feels at risk from car = justified in attacking car (apparently). ped feels at risk from cyclist = justified in attacking cyclist. See? All makes sense now ![]() Sort of makes sense. Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. But there's a double standard going on, it seems if a car jumps a red light, there's a general gnashing of teeth, but no bugger makes a note of the number plate. Whereas if a cyclist jumps a light a lynch mob is formed in seconds. Ummmm, ********. Sorry, but it is. The _car_ performing this illegal man-nooo-ver is suitably equipped with a method of tracing and penalising the responsible person. Any person can, and many in URC allegedly _do_, report said vehicle with the precision necessary to identify later. Conversely, I've _never_ seen, and dont ever remember even _hearing of_, a "lynch mob" exacting retribution from an errant cyclist, AND lets remember that said cyclist has no identifying mark so that any random member of the public can report him (or plod, for that matter). "Umm, he had a red jersey on a mountain bike" isn't exactly going to find him later, is it? Is it because most folks are drivers and not cyclists and therefore able to empathise with one road user than the other? Its not possible to come up with a reason for it, since we've just shown that it doesn't exist. |
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thaksin gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying: Conversely, I've _never_ seen, and dont ever remember even _hearing of_, a "lynch mob" exacting retribution from an errant cyclist waves I have. Kinda. Baker St, London - some arrogant ****bubble tried to go tonking at undiminished speed through red lights and across a pedestrian crossing. Except it was a bit full of pedestrians. One of whom, a largish chap - straight-armed the ****wit. Once Marz untangled himself from his bicycle and got up, he came charging into the crowd swinging at anybody and everybody whilst hurling abuse. As the plastic plods came running, I had the great and personal pleasure of telling one of them exactly what had precipitated the incident. He was last seen on the pavement being sat on by one of them whilst the other handcuffed him. Much chuckling was heard. |
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Adrian wrote:
thaksin gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: Conversely, I've _never_ seen, and dont ever remember even _hearing of_, a "lynch mob" exacting retribution from an errant cyclist waves I have. Kinda. Baker St, London - some arrogant ****bubble tried to go tonking at undiminished speed through red lights and across a pedestrian crossing. Except it was a bit full of pedestrians. One of whom, a largish chap - straight-armed the ****wit. Once Marz untangled himself from his bicycle and got up, he came charging into the crowd swinging at anybody and everybody whilst hurling abuse. As the plastic plods came running, I had the great and personal pleasure of telling one of them exactly what had precipitated the incident. He was last seen on the pavement being sat on by one of them whilst the other handcuffed him. Much chuckling was heard. Well, okay, there's an exception to every rule. But I still think there's a hell of a lot more 'report of RLJing car reg no. ABC123' over 'knobhead on bike beaten by passers-by'. On the other hand, I appear to have got away with having a complete mindfreeze and not remembering how to spell a word in my original post, simply by deliberately mangling it, so things can't be all bad ![]() |
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