Commuting - Wasn't using a crosswalk, it cancels out

Interesting logic in this video. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJLrcG64ulU&feature=player_embedded)

Staged?

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_wyr-0yVtOoI/TEeK47NzTYI/AAAAAAAAAL4/A7yAZdT32qg/s800/captain-picard-full-of-win-500x381.jpg

I'm serious, that's awesome.

:twitchy:

I hate wrong way riders so much. I'm not particularly fond of jaywalkers either. They both needed to be hurt more.

Staged? the white pickup that almost julienned him was no prop.

I don't blame the jaywalker for looking in the correct direction of traffic flow. He didn't have any cars in his direction. The salmon rider was at fault.

+1 for post #2

Only thing missing was a texting driver to run over the both of them.

"Cancels out," my ass. The cyclist is a supreme ******bag.

Except for the salmon (I know, kind of a key feature) that vid reminded me of a scene from 30 years ago. I was looking out a third-story window at a road on my college campus (no private cars allowed; often thousands of bikes). A man who looked just like the ped in the vid was jaywalking and was knocked down by a young woman on her bike (she was chatting with a couple of other cyclists and didn't see him). The old guy just got up, helped the young woman up, and they both went along their way like this happens every day. I really enjoyed being in a place where bikes outnumbered cars by hundreds to one.

Staged?

Sure hope so, what an idiot...

Staged? the white pickup that almost julienned him was no prop.

Maybe not all the cars, but the cyclist and the ped.

A guy videos himself going the wrong way down a one-way, creams a pedestrian, and then the video ends up on youTube?

Call me sick, but the ending gets funnier every time I watch it. Cyclist yells to onlookers: "He wasn't using a crosswalk, - cancels out. It's Ok. Keep walking".

You'd think the Ped would have had a little more to say but I suppose their reactions are pretty believable. Neither one is too proud and each of them just wants to get out of there.

Each of them told their wife the other guy was a ****** at dinner that night.

Not staged. Even made the news a couple of days ago.

Just two idiots that both got what they deserved.

Interesting that even in this clear case of mutual fault, many want to place full blame on the cyclist.

If this was a vid of a vehicle going the wrong way and hit a ped or bicyclist, everybody would be up in arms.


Oops! The bicycle is a vehicle.

first time i watched this, i though, wow, this tool has $hit reaction time. second time through i notice he's riding no hands!

counterflow, door zone, no hands.

keep it up, buddy. you're gonna be easy pickings for chuck D.

if you want to lay out blame by percentage, i'll say 99.7% cyclist.

If this was a vid of a vehicle going the wrong way and hit a ped or bicyclist, everybody would be up in arms.


Oops! The bicycle is a vehicle.

noooooooo. we are only vehicles when we want to be, ya silly!

Yeah, 'cause jaywalking is so much more dangerous than riding the wrong way through traffic.

I walk outside of a crosswalk/against a crossing light all the time, because I'm smart enough to figure out when no cars are coming; however, I never ride against traffic (although I dodge a lot of idiot university students who do). So maybe I'm more inclined to side with the pedestrian.

I'm more inclined to side with the pedestrian 'cause dude on the cycle was going the wrong damn way. Those cars whizzing by - screw that. I'm not really fond of how life's going sometimes, but I don't think I'm ready for it to wrap up just yet. :)

Is this common? On my gym commute, I go down a very very unbusy one-way street the wrong way for half of a block before turning, and I'm crazy careful about that. I hate doing it, but crossing the road there/turning off where I do makes the most sense for everyone involved on my route. I defer to anybody for the few seconds I'm on that street, though.

"Two wrong don't make a right"

This will be a great educational video for demonstrating the danger riding the wrong way.

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Interesting that even in this clear case of mutual fault, many want to place full blame on the cyclist.

I suspect that because he was GOING THE WRONG WAY.

Calling that cyclist "dumb as a post" would be an insult to every sapling with dreams of growing up, getting cut down, hauled to a sawmill, and getting hewn into a post.

Calling that cyclist "dumb as a post" would be an insult to every sapling with dreams of growing up, getting cut down, hauled to a sawmill, and getting hewn into a post.

haha, nice.

What a tool!
That jackhole is why people have such a low opinion of cyclist. I don't care that the guy was jay walking he looked the way traffic was coming and had that tool been following the law this wouldn't have happend.

I suspect that because he was GOING THE WRONG WAY.

Calling that cyclist "dumb as a post" would be an insult to every sapling with dreams of growing up, getting cut down, hauled to a sawmill, and getting hewn into a post.

this. in the grand realm of comparative negligence, there would have been a whole lot of it in the salmon's side of things. the walker should have looked both ways, but traffic on that road is not legally allowed to come at him silently from the wrong direction :)

this is clearly a case of two wrongs make an AWESOME. *spams all his friends* *watches again*

Salmon? Cyclist was wrong, but final comments were funny.

Salmon? Cyclist was wrong, but final comments were funny.

the cyclist was being a traffic salmon /going up-river.

this. in the grand realm of comparative negligence, there would have been a whole lot of it in the salmon's side of things. the walker should have looked both ways, but traffic on that road is not legally allowed to come at him silently from the wrong direction :)

this is clearly a case of two wrongs make an AWESOME. *spams all his friends* *watches again*

The more I think about it, the dumber that cyclist becomes.

"Hey, let's not just do something TOTALLY STUPID, let's FILM MYSELF DOING IT!!!"

"Oh, wow, what a DUMB ASS I am! That's SOOO COOL!!! Let's POST IT TO YOUTUBE for the ENTIRE WORLD to see!!!'

That's multiple layers of astronomical levels of JUST PLAIN DUMB.

The pedestrian had a mometary and explainable lapse of judgement. The cyclist? Sustained abject stupidity.

I'm totally astounded by the comments from both parties involved, as a cyclist I would be far better prepared for just an incident, riding in the same direction of traffic, and if I was being a salmon I sure wouldn't be riding with only one hand, especially that far away from the brake lever.

"You were going the wrong way"
"Yeah, but you weren't using a crosswalk"
"You're right"

lol, that exchange is awesome.

Another example of the 'Grand Canyon' gap between right/wrong and 'no blood/no foul'........... For me, it brings up (again) a question I've been asking for over a decade: "When does 'the small stuff' become big enough for you to sweat it?"

Another example of the 'Grand Canyon' gap between right/wrong and 'no blood/no foul'........... For me, it brings up (again) a question I've been asking for over a decade: "When does 'the small stuff' become big enough for you to sweat it?"

Whether or not someone got hurt is irrelevant to the idiocy on display.. The cyclist demonstrated pathological levels of brain fail despite not injuring anyone.

OK, dude, where did I talk about someone getting hurt -- "no blood/no foul" is the point of view that makes this kind of stupidity acceptable to many people. Reading into someone else's post and calling it irrelevant is childish -- especially when we are just saying the same thing two different ways.

Cyclist = major tool.
He was very lucky the old lumper didnt clean his clock when he got up.

OK, dude, where did I talk about someone getting hurt -- "no blood/no foul" is the point of view that makes this kind of stupidity acceptable to many people. Reading into someone else's post and calling it irrelevant is childish -- especially when we are just saying the same thing two different ways.

What would you say if your child told you, "I'm going to ride through city traffic the wrong way and film it."

Still "acceptable"?

There is no "jaywalking law" here that would make anything the pedestrian did illegal.

A lot of people think there is, however, which is why we have cars deliberately speeding up to honk at people crossing the road.

I dunno...the more I watch it, the harder it is to believe. I'm a fairly civil person, but if some moron on a bike riding the wrong direction slammed into me like that, I would not be so quick to accept fault and just walk away. That was simply not a believable exchange of words, not to mention the reactions from both parties. It's just WEIRD.

Interesting logic in this video. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJLrcG64ulU&feature=player_embedded)

Staged?

Don't know if it's staged, but that cyclist has a suicide wish. Riding contraflow in such traffic is not going to end good. Stupid beyond belief.

only thing missing was a texting driver to run over the both of them.

lololol

It was funny, mostly because nobody was hurt. Both were in the wrong, but I usually consider jay-walking to be such a minor issue. Maybe that's because I often do it. I walk across a busy one-way street daily to get to the coffee shop across the street from my office. I'll be sure to look for salmon from now on. :)

Wow!

The more I think about it, the dumber that cyclist becomes.

"Hey, let's not just do something TOTALLY STUPID, let's FILM MYSELF DOING IT!!!"

Even more dumber is he posting it on the Internet. If that pedestrian does suffer injuries later on, that cyclist might find himself in deep doo doo if he is proven to be at fault. I can't really tell from the video, but by the look of it, that cyclist hit that pedestrian and not the other way around.

The more I look at this video, the more it reminds me of "Dumb and Dumber" :lol:

I'm totally astounded by the comments from both parties involved...


..."When does 'the small stuff' become big enough for you to sweat it?"

That's what impressed me. It seemed both thought the incident resulted in ... not much... and maybe appreciative that it wasn't worse.

2 people fell down, got back up, dusted themselves off and went on with their day.

I'd like to think both would have given some thought as to how to avoid something like that again in the future, but as it was, it was just small stuff not worth sweating over.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHhahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaha!

The cyclist was lucky he hit a soft object. Going contraflow along parked cars LEFT SIDE of the road is suicide. The operator of any vehicle in the driver's seat is up against THE CURB! All the operator can see is behind him through the passenger side mirror. So what is most likely to happen in that scenario is for a parked car to ROAR out of the parking space INSTANTLY putting the passenger side quarter panel/headlight assembly into the cyclist's line (just like the Zombie only less forgiving in the hardness and rebound departments).

Two clueless ships passing...er...colliding in the night. Priceless vid.

It's stupid not to look both ways when crossing a one way, because sometimes idiots drive against the flow of traffic.

Now the pedestrian knows that. If it wasn't staged, he was way too nice.

I can think of a few times I've almost gotten creamed by a cabbie, delivery driver, or just some numbskull driving the wrong way or in the wrong lane. I had a driver cross an oncoming traffic lane to get into to a turn lane, i.e. trying to make a left turn where the oncoming traffic would be turning right onto that street. Not only that but he or she was going way too fast around a blind corner to boot. I thought that was cute.

As a kid, I lived along one of the main travel routes from points north to Florida. In the spring and fall we were always getting people going the wrong way on divided highways and one way streets. Learned early to assume that someone was coming the wrong way -- always check for that. There is a one-way street I use a lot that has construction at one end now, for some reason a lot of people have been going the wrong way on it as a result. The people on the cross streets barely check for traffic coming the right way, I have been seeing a lot of close calls with the wrong way traffic.

NYC bicycle delivery guys seem to ride the wrong way more often than not. It's pretty annoying and is never enforced.

Old but WIN! :D