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Old 08-21-10, 09:36 AM
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Originally Posted by jsmonet
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.
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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.
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Old 08-21-10, 09:52 AM
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"You were going the wrong way"
"Yeah, but you weren't using a crosswalk"
"You're right"

lol, that exchange is awesome.
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Old 08-21-10, 10:23 AM
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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?"
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Originally Posted by DX-MAN
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.
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Old 08-21-10, 02:23 PM
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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.
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Cyclist = major tool.
He was very lucky the old lumper didnt clean his clock when he got up.
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Old 08-21-10, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by DX-MAN
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"?
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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.
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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.
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Old 08-21-10, 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by tjspiel
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.
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Originally Posted by rex_kramer
only thing missing was a texting driver to run over the both of them.
lololol
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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.
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Old 08-21-10, 05:19 PM
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Wow!
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Originally Posted by achoo
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"
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Old 08-22-10, 06:43 AM
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Originally Posted by dynodonn
I'm totally astounded by the comments from both parties involved...
Originally Posted by DX-MAN
..."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.
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Old 08-22-10, 12:42 PM
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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.
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Old 08-22-10, 01:34 PM
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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.
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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.
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NYC bicycle delivery guys seem to ride the wrong way more often than not. It's pretty annoying and is never enforced.
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