This dude just flipped!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/h...et/3632417.stm
A cyclist who slashed nearly 2,000 car tyres after being soaked by a motorist has been jailed for 16 months. |
Well that will do wonders for improving cyclist/motorist relations.
Marty |
There are days that I somewhat understand ,but do not condone.
A friend got hit in the back of the helmet with an open beer can..What is your limit.? Alan is a recovering alcoholic to add insult to injury. |
Originally Posted by cyclezealot
There are days that I somewhat understand ,but do not condone.
A friend got hit in the back of the helmet with an open beer can..What is your limit.? Alan is a recovering alcoholic to add insult to injury. but I must say... A recovering Alcoholic getting hit with a beer can does have a humourous side to it :-) jeff |
When I was a kid I was riding my bike over to a girl's house. Some dude in a t-top transam pegged me upside the head with a slurpee. I was pissed then, but thinking back it had to be pretty funny to see.
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Originally Posted by orbilius
When I was a kid I was riding my bike over to a girl's house. Some dude in a t-top transam pegged me upside the head with a slurpee. I was pissed then, but thinking back it had to be pretty funny to see.
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>>>>Unemployed Carpenter -- described by his own defence counsel as a "socially inadequate" loner -- had decided to "send out a message to motorists", the judge said. <<<<<
Poor guy... His own defense called him a socially inadequate loner....What could be worse!. |
Originally Posted by orbilius
When I was a kid I was riding my bike over to a girl's house. Some dude in a t-top transam pegged me upside the head with a slurpee. I was pissed then, but thinking back it had to be pretty funny to see.
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Wasn't this story running a couple of weeks ago?
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Originally Posted by Chris L
Wasn't this story running a couple of weeks ago?
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YOU HAVE GOT TO CHECK THIS OUT. OH GREAT NOW SOME GUY IS GOING TO GET AWAY WITH RUNNING ME OVER. HE'LL USE THE EXCUSE THAT HE THOUGHT I MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE DONE SOME DAMAGE TO HIS CAR. AND HE'LL GET AWAY WITH IT.http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...ustice_cyclist
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OK, so the guy is a bit of a wacko, but 16 months jail for a first offense of damaging property is way out of line. In the last few weeks I can think of 3 drivers in the UK convicted of dangerous driving,which resulting in killing 3 children and a police officer, and they were all fined, not jailed
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Originally Posted by MichaelW
OK, so the guy is a bit of a wacko, but 16 months jail for a first offense of damaging property is way out of line. In the last few weeks I can think of 3 drivers in the UK convicted of dangerous driving,which resulting in killing 3 children and a police officer, and they were all fined, not jailed
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Don't think I could flip out and slash someone's tires..However, often, glad don't have a 'dirt clod,' or something similiar in hand , while biking on the road...Times, I am tempted.
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Originally Posted by bg4533
I would say 16 months is somewhat reasonable for what he did. The people who killed others should have been put away for much, much longer.
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Originally Posted by John E
I agree on both counts. This clown should also be required to make restitution payments; he is no friend of cycling, or anyone else, for that matter.
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Originally Posted by Ohio Trekker
Chris, I think the story a couple of weeks ago was when the guy got caught. Now he has been sentenced, how's that for swift justice. Sure wouldn't happen that fast here in the good ol' U S of A.
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Originally Posted by cyclezealot
Question...Did you show up at the girls house.?
YES I DID! |
Im thinking he got a long sentence for what he ACTUALLY did. I could understand slashing the guys tires... but to slash 2000 of them??!! Im thinking this guy is wrapped just a weeeeee bit too tight. Ive been in a few close calls due to stupid drivers and now I carry 1 ball bearing the size of a marble just in case.
But one situation that I was in, it wouldnt have helped anyway.... it happened when this dink soaked me AT NIGHT, IN WINTER, AFTER A HUGE DOWNPOUR, COVERED WITH MUD AND WATER by some scumbag in a huge 4X4 who switched 2 lanes to do it. The wave of water actually knocked me off the bike. Since I was a ways from home I stopped into a Fred Meyer store to use their restroom. I got a quite a lot of funny looks. I looked in the mirror and couldnt help but to laugh. That POS got me good and Im sure they were laughing like crazy. |
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