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8ball
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No engine. Doesn’t count.
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I’m sure I remember any suggestions that reckless cyclist or pedestrian actions are not always harmless and can sometimes result in serious injury or even death to bikers, being regularly laughed off as made up nonsense in the anti car thread.
I no longer dip my toe in that particular cesspool, but I’m sure some of the regulars there will want to know about this, so they can organise a campaign to reverse the court’s findings. Outrageous that the poor cyclist has been fined at all, frankly. How could the more vulnerable road user in a collision ever possibly be at fault??
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That road has a 40 MPH speed limit. It must have been a freak accident and very unlucky for a motorbike rider to die at that speed, especially given all the protection they normally wear.
Looby
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No it doesn’t, 30 max all around there.
platinumsage
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Lots of easy ways to die at 40mph or even 30mph if you e.g. fly into a lamppost.
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Sorry, yes. I was confusing that one with a similar one on A12 for some reason
_Russ_
Never not Knowingly Misunderstood
Dense fog last 2 days in my area, somewhere around 1 in 8 going around thinking just the daytime driving lights fitted is perfectly ok, even one driving school car with instructor and student onboard I followed for 6 miles with no rear lights visible, the on the last mile home of my cycle ride today with a constant light on my bike and a flashing light on my helmet another learner and instructor pulled out on me after staring straight into my eyes and waiting till i was 2 foot away.
Im surrounded by arseholes
Im surrounded by arseholes
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Someone sprayed 'move' on cars and smashed their windows for parking on pavement
The cars targeted were ones blocking the pavement.
metro.co.uk
Finally some revenge on pavement-blocking filth.
I note the article, not actually quoting anyone, says:
The road is quite a narrow residential street and if people did not use the pavement, people would not be able to park on both sides.
Which should read:
The road is too narrow for people to park on both sides but they do anyway because they're filthy cunts.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Someone sprayed 'move' on cars and smashed their windows for parking on pavement
The cars targeted were ones blocking the pavement.
Finally some revenge on pavement-blocking filth.
I note the article, not actually quoting anyone, says:
The road is quite a narrow residential street and if people did not use the pavement, people would not be able to park on both sides.
Which should read:
The road is too narrow for people to park on both sides but they do anyway because they're filthy cunts.
I hope it was someone in a disability scooter.
dervish
if you flibble when you wibble, don't wobble
Motorists urged to drive with a bowl of water in car this winter to save on fuel
Car owners are being told to travel with a bowl of water on their passenger seat in a bizarre hack that could save you fuel and money in the run-up to Christmas
www.mirror.co.uk
I think this has to be some of the worst fuel saving advice I have ever seen, how the hell are you supposed to drive safely when you have put a huge distraction in the passenger seat of the car?
Holding a phone is a huge distraction and illegal, but putting a bowl of water in the passenger seat is good advice apparently. Utterly bizarre.
Spymaster
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Motorists urged to drive with a bowl of water in car this winter to save on fuel
Car owners are being told to travel with a bowl of water on their passenger seat in a bizarre hack that could save you fuel and money in the run-up to Christmas
I think this has to be some of the worst fuel saving advice I have ever seen, how the hell are you supposed to drive safely when you have put a huge distraction in the passenger seat of the car?
Holding a phone is a huge distraction and illegal, but putting a bowl of water in the passenger seat is good advice apparently. Utterly bizarre.
I don't think that's a serious article.
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The logic behind that being it will encourage the driver to drive very smoothly. Alas, there are no accounting for potholes and speed humps.Motorists urged to drive with a bowl of water in car this winter to save on fuel
Car owners are being told to travel with a bowl of water on their passenger seat in a bizarre hack that could save you fuel and money in the run-up to Christmas
I think this has to be some of the worst fuel saving advice I have ever seen, how the hell are you supposed to drive safely when you have put a huge distraction in the passenger seat of the car?
Holding a phone is a huge distraction and illegal, but putting a bowl of water in the passenger seat is good advice apparently. Utterly bizarre.
Reminds me, I was getting late for the club bus to an away match once. On leaving the house, I grappled a hot mug of tea to drink on the way in the car ( I was not driving). Where do you place the mug when you are checking for match tickets, wallet etc. Yes, the scolding tea emptied out over my groin
sleaterkinney
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I always think when someone indulges in whataboutery that it's hit a bit too close to home.
sleaterkinney
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Deliberately ram a cyclist, fracturing a vertebrae and pelvis and drive off leaving him there? . You might get a curfew!
sleaterkinney
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Like what?
8ball
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Dunno, obv. But deliberately using a car as a weapon to attack someone doesn’t seem like a normal case for “show remorse and pay damages”, regardless of whether it’s a first offence.
Could have been all manner of things, circumstances like a cancer diagnosis of him or someone close to him that morning, something relating to the cyclist, something related to someone else having a campaign of harassment against him that led him to jump to a conclusion about the cyclist, perhaps he’s an essential carer for someone, maybe undergoing some medical stuff that is best not disrupted etc. It’s not hard to think of stuff.
Maybe something involving good reasons for the omission (and not the press being the press) too.
So if you have a serious life event you get a free pass at a cyclist - does this apply to anything else in life ?
8ball
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It’s what you are suggesting
8ball
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Spymaster
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It's a shite piece in a local rag, probably penned by a student reporter, which doesn't detail what was given in defence. As you say it looks like there were xetenuating circumstances, or possibly the cyclist was to blame in some other way.
8ball
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I don't want to jump towards blaming the cyclist, but all sorts of possibilities, sure.
Really not up to the standard of your previous post, but keep at it.
Your post comes up with a huge list of reasons which are potential mitigating factors
“Could have been all manner of things, circumstances like a cancer diagnosis of him or someone close to him that morning, something relating to the cyclist, something related to someone else having a campaign of harassment against him that led him to jump to a conclusion about the cyclist, perhaps he’s an essential carer for someone, maybe undergoing some medical stuff that is best not disrupted etc. It’s not hard to think of stuff.“
I’m only asking if these apply to any other situations in life?
Bahnhof Strasse
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Not sure why deliberately ramming in to a cyclist with a car isn't attempted murder.
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