Advocacy & Safety - Hit by a vehicle

There I was minding my own business, walking down the High Street to grab a roll and a kid on a bike weaves up the road at speed bumping into my shoulder with his elbow almost knocking me over.

The brainless idiot either can't read the large cyclists dismount signs or is too lazy to take the marked route round the back streets.

Give him a year or two and he'll be driving.

Bruised but not bowed.

Richard

Sigh. I, too, was once part of the stupid crowd. The trouble is that most people don't know that what they are doing is wrong, and sometimes it takes a catastophic even to make them see the light. For me, it was getting hit by a truck. Hopefully, this kid learns his leason in a less painful way and goes on to become one of the good guys.

andy

Originally posted by aturley
Sigh. I, too, was once part of the stupid crowd. The trouble is that most people don't know that what they are doing is wrong, and sometimes it takes a catastophic even to make them see the light. For me, it was getting hit by a truck. Hopefully, this kid learns his leason in a less painful way and goes on to become one of the good guys.

andy

I know it wasn't intentional, and just the result of a selfish laziness - (anyone who knows Canterbury knows that the High Street is far too crowded to cycle down during the day, let alone at speed). Hopefully he'll grow up soon, although to be fair I've seen middle-aged men on Brompton's trying to use it as a shortcut rather than take the clearly marked cycle routes.

Richard

This is why I remain vehemently opposed to cycling on the footpath.

Originally posted by Chris L
This is why I remain vehemently opposed to cycling on the footpath.

This is a road (mixture of cobbles and tarmac), where cycling is permitted before 9.30 and after 4.30 (although having tried it the once at around 8 in the morning its cyclable at walking pace only.

Richard

This is an example that would be well placed in the BF.C thread "There Are Dildos Among Us".

How shameful.

Originally posted by mike
This is an example that would be well placed in the BF.C thread "There Are Dildos Among Us".

How shameful.

I'd forgotten about that thread...

I must stop myself thinking it was because he was a teenager, it's stereotyping them as badly as those that witnessed it probably stereotyped cyclists...

We're all individuals...

Richard

Originally posted by Richard D
There I was minding my own business, walking down the High Street to grab a roll and a kid on a bike weaves up the road at speed bumping into my shoulder with his elbow almost knocking me over.

This almost happened to me, too. I say "almost," as this cyclist/kid/non-stereotype ;) just barely nicked my elbow.

He was barrelling down the sidewalk, downhill, pedalling like crazy, "chicken" style (head-on.) Moral: don't challenge a kid on a bike if you are a pedestrian unless your life insurance is paid up.

This reminds me vaguely of an environmental/horror movie:

A nearby factory poisons the river. The fish mutate into people-sucking land-beasts and attack the villiage.

Do you suppose too many irresponsible drivers forced this kid to mutate into this frighteningly aggressive form and subsequently caused him to migrate from the road to the sidewalk, where he
became....

"The Brainlessidiotkidonabike!"

:eek: :eek: