She was at a stop sign at a difficult intersection a mile from our house, on one of our local country roads that is also a popular riding spot for Urban Spandex Bicycle Clubs. My wife returned home last year very shaken. Assclowns, I’m GLAD email but them mostly out of business. I’ve seen the riding the wrong way on a one-way avenue, running a red light and yelling at people in the crossing legally in the cross walk to get out of their way. It’s a problem that’s thankfully rare where I currently live, a combination of long distances between everything, hills, and narrow roads.ĭon’t get me started on the NYC bike messengers. It’s possible, but for some reason cyclists now seem to think they should have some special consideration, like they’re saving the planet or something (hint, the planet will be here long after you and your bike have turned back into component elements). In short, I didn’t believe, or act like, I owned the road. I avoided busy roads when possible because I understood that I couldn’t get up that hill as fast as a car and I didn’t want people getting backed up behind me (or worse, clipping me we with their mirror as they passed). I obeyed the rules of the road, yielded right-of-way, stopped at stop signs and red lights, stayed off the sidewalk, etc. Just pointing out, it’s difficult to ride a bike when you lack functioning knees….įor a couple years when I was a poor student a bicycle was my usual method of transport in good weather (and I had to use the bus in winter). And for the legal action? Dismissed with costs, if there’s any justice left in the world.Ĭyclists act like they own the fucking road, anyway. Now, almost a year after the incident, the cyclist is heading back to court to sue the girl’s father for defamation on the grounds that the backlash the video received resulted in him feeling so threatened by the public he was scared to leave his own house.Īct like an asshole, get treated like one. The cyclist was taken to court in Verviers, only to be given a suspended sentence on the grounds that he had been criticised enough on social media and was ordered to pay the girl’s family a symbolic and pitiful €1 in compensation. Just as he rides alongside the girl, he seemingly extends his knee out, hitting the little girl and knocking her to the ground before continuing on his way unbothered.
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