Cyclist Deliberately Smashes Car Window Over Baby
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Plastic Paddy
Let's hope he does.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
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Plastic Paddy
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
he took something from your tagline while forgetting that cunt was part of his.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
he said the 'wanker' in your tagline was apt. so in your absence i pointed out that the 'cunt' in his tagline equally appropriate.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Go fuck yourself, prick!
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
That did strike me as rather daft, especially near where the incident took place. I first saw this as a post passed on to a Croydon newspaper Facebook page and shared with the woman's friends. Seemed an odd thing to do before calling the police. The story seems to have been republished pretty much from this original Facebook post. The croydon paper did not actually post up the message, ( unless this happened later). The republished story in the press just seems to be the viral Facebook share. Something doesn't quite sit right with me and I'm keen to hear the full story.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
This is like shooting fish in a barrel.
It's not you know, it's more like shooting yourself in the foot every time you post.
Pumping the air and claiming a 'win', after ever post doesn't make it so.
You are certainly not covering yourself in glory here.
In fact I'd go as far as to say that you are making yourself look like a bit of a tit.
maomao
普費斯
Just as a confessional. I once (roughtly 1998) caught up with a car at some lights (High Holborn headed west over Southampton Row/Kingsway) and smashed fuck out of its back passenger window after it had come about 3 inches from seriously injuring or killing me by jumping the lights on High Holborn when I was turning in from Procter St. There could have been a baby on the back seat for all I know, I wasn't looking and it would have been rather hard to see from where I was. Approaching a car from behind it's rather hard to see a baby low down on the back seat.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Yes, but it's you saying it. So of absolutely no consequence.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I apparently forgot to thank a car for stopping at a pedestrian crossing (in croydon) while carrying my (then much younger) daughter across the road. Bloke got out of the car in the middle of the road swearing like a sailor and challenging me to a fight for not giving him a little wave and mouthing a thank you. I made a (probably not wise) amusing comment about him being the perfect ambassador for the polite patrol, and pointed out that firstly both my hands were busy carrying a toddler, and that I was probably more concerned with safely crossing than anything else. It just enraged him further and he really did seem intent on lamping me. It was only that I began to good my exit and that rush hour traffic was honking at the car, that he had now left for at least a minute in the middle of the road, stopped him from doing so (not that I was carrying a toddler). I then noticed his L plates. Yikes.
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
Yep.
Good job Pickers was there to tap in the rebound.
Yup Pickman and Spymaster theres a duo with a surplus of charisma.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Yes and that's you saying that, so . . .
. . . well I would say we are even. . . but I haven't just spent two days filling a thread with blinkered ignorance, bais and jeering.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I'd have a look back at your posts before claiming any kind of highbrow high ground here.8den AND Atomic Suplex on one thread!
The intellectual heavyweights are well and truly out tonight.
So far the story is just the facebook post of the woman directly after the event. There is not a lot to go on.
I'm not saying it is, but basicly the whole thing could be made up, bar the fact we have a photo of a smashed window.
If all true and the cyclist did smash the window then I can see any circumstances under which that can be justified. He has already crossed the nutter line. However he has not crossed it in any way as far as hundreds of of other road rage incidents every day that go unreported in the newspapers. This is just a fact. Why is it newsworthy? Because there was a baby, a baby that the cyclist probably didn't know about (no just because the woman posted on facebook that she told him to take care because they had a baby doesn't make it, A-nessicerily true, B- mean that the cyclist nessicerily heard it ).
What I do find interesting (having just looked for updates on the story) is that the police report says it was looking into something that took place on Sunday 8am, yet I'm pretty sure the original shared post that turned up on my Facebook wall said Monday rush hour. No news items are quoting anything other than the original post. Most seem to be a an almost word for word rehash of the Croydon guardian article. Doesn't look like journalism at its best.
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Plastic Paddy
If it is we'll soon be discussing the weirdos who smashed glass over their baby in a traffic jam and posted pictures on FB.
fredfelt
Mostly unknown member
I think the point is that it wasn't just someone who smashed a window, it was someone who was riding a bike who smashed a window. Therefore his actions are representative, in some way, of anyone who happens to ride a bike.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
I find it much harder to believe that it didn't happen at all and this young couple have faked the whole thing.
