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Pretty reasonable comments (as usual) on here. As I stated in the comments a few times, like a few have said here, without seeing the build up it’s impossible to know who is at fault.
Did you actually weigh in on the Facebook comments?
@ JimJam, Yeah I did, trying to balance and educate and all that! Also, stirred up a few of the more "precious car" posters which was also funny!
trying to balance and educate
Hmm, yeah, that'll work.
crazyjenkins
@ JimJam, Yeah I did, trying to balance and educate and all that! Also, stirred up a few of the more “precious car” posters which was also funny!
Well, at least you tried. I skimmed the comments and it was almost like every comment was written by satirical cyclists trying to embody the most stereotypically stupid and hateful driver memes imaginable.
if facebook has taken down 500 million violent or graphic posts so far this year...... how many of them were from this particular thread of car muppets instructing people to 'run the c*** over' or 'smash his face in with his bike', etc. At least two thirds is my guess.
Kinda funny in that it was (mostly) typical 'anti-car meme' cyclists VS all cyclist are tw*ts and should not be on the road/run over/pay road tax etc.
Those threads are never funny, they're just examples of the dregs of humanity being given a soapbox. It's just depressing and sad.
And they're both almighty bell ends.
NJEE20
And they’re both almighty bell ends.
Having lashed out at my fair share of drivers I have to play devils advocate for the cyclist for just a second. When someone does something wrong, say commits a crime and goes to court, we take mitigating factors into consideration. It's not unreasonable to assume that the cyclist regularly cycles that route and gets bullied at that pinch point or another or many others as I have experienced this and I'm sure plenty of others have too.
The driver on the other hand is probably taking liberties and is in no danger. Despite being in a 1.5 ton steel box he/she continues to hold their ground and tries to push the cyclist out of the way at least once iirc.
Neither party is covering themselves in glory here and the optics of it look worse for "cyclists" but there's probably more going on.