Now that guy is really going to love cyclists. If cyclists wonder why people don’t like them, this kind of thing is a part of it.
You mean the guy who was openly calling for cyclists to be run over and calling them ****s? I’ve now done something to colour his views on cyclists 🙄
I view it like racism, people need to be told stuff like this isnt right, otherwise they carry on thinking everyone agrees with them.
Yep. I’m starting to think this way too. Substitute cyclist for jew/black/queer/etc and it suddenly becomes ok for people to threaten violence on a minority group.
I had another guy on a similar group make repeated threats and boasts that he would happily run over and kill cyclists. I screen grabbed his comments and posted them back to him and told him I was sending them to the police. It was a bluff, I didn’t but I wanted to make him think. And of course he deleted all of his comments instantly.
I’m still on the fence, maybe I should have involved the police. Eventually some of these people threatening to kill cyclists will do just that,say they were distracted and will probably get a slap on the wrists. It might be a different story if there was a paper trail illustrating their feelings towards cyclists.