Christ alive! Does she really intend to go out and drive into a cyclist?
I’ve sent this to the House of Commons Transport Committee on Cycling Safety – part of the report they published last week talked about driver attitudes… and asked them if they’re prepared to make a PR story around it. I suspect they’re unlikely to but this really is pretty shocking
i particularly enjoyed her claim, pre-deletion, that she didn’t mean she would run cyclists over in her car but was “merely” suggesting that people on bikes doing something entirely legal deserved to be assaulted, and she would do it.
it’s just another idiot typing before thinking, basically.
The cycling community has to be the best in the world at getting wound up over tweets. The organisation, and relentlessness with which they go about their flaming of people and companies involved with anything like the tweet in the OP is staggering.
EDIT: I should say that I do think that the girl should get the sack for what she did… It was completely idiotic.
DC linked her FB profile. The hilarity is that her job title was something to do with social media, would have thought she’d understand how things like this work.
The cycling community has to be the best in the world at getting wound up over tweets.
Mainly because the attitude expressed in these tweets, if allowed to go unchallenged and become normalized poses a true existential threat to cyclist’s lives.
If you’re a cyclist then she’s basically said “You deserve to die and I’ll enjoy killing you” it’s hardly surprising that people are getting a bit hot under the collar.
The cycling community has to be the best in the world at getting wound up over tweets. The organisation, and relentlessness with which they go about their flaming of people and companies involved with anything like the tweet in the OP is staggering.
Animal Rights groups + Gay And Lesbian rights groups are pretty active when they want to be. As were Racial Equality groups back in the 60’s.
My observation to the House of Commons Transport Committee was that in nearly 40 years of cycling I’ve never received the amount of abuse and harassment that have in the last couple of years – couple this increase with the ability for a dispersed group to make itself heard, and the lack of support we feel we get from the Law – a lot of cyclists are taking matters into their own hands…
The cycling community has to be the best in the world at getting wound up over tweets. The organisation, and relentlessness with which they go about their flaming of people and companies involved with anything like the tweet in the OP is staggering.
Interesting that it seems to be Air-headed Females who become the targets more often… I suppose tweeting/FBing your every vapid thought without any real editorial consideration is more of a Female past time these days (Yep I’m being a big ol’ sexist, but honestly can you tell me I’m wrong?), the three main haterz that spring straight to mind currently are this Kirsty girl, that silly SoCal Volunteer Police woman last week and everyone’s favorite trainee accountant Miss Emma Way…
Yay!
Male Cyclist haterz are no less vehement or offensive, but they tend to stick to parts of the interweb where their views find more acceptance/less challenge, Car forums f’rinstance…
And yeah cyclists even as a “Disparate group” are far better organised online when it comes to stamping on anti cyclist numb-skulls than I think most of them expect, I reckon that’s a good thing TBH, We may be physically vulnerable on the roads but piss us off and we’ll make you look like a twunt in your little online universe and threaten your employment… a few more of these type of stories and it might just give pause to #Bloodycyclists types…
Am I the only one who finds the reaction slightly OTT?
Contacting her employer and saying she deserves the sack for a silly, badly judged comment seems as ill judged as the comment itself.
This, its bad enough that I have to watch what I say at work so folk dont grass me up to my bosses, never mind the whole internet looking down from atop its high horse.
But then I dont put the name of my current employer on public social media, or have twitter, which seems to attract the most holy of holier than thou types…