Slow news week?

Dermot Illogical

Frank Robinson, the latest youtube sensation has found an outlet for his extremely important campaign in today's Sunday Times (Page 4, news section). This is indeed great news!
Surely now we are a step closer to protecting lampposts in Dublin's fair city?
The article states that on April 7, Frank took a full 2 hours out of his busy schedule to document cyclists crossing a bridge. On April 11 he documented some more over a one-hour period.
Sir, I salute you! If we had more civic-minded heavyweights like your good self, the World would indeed be a better place.
If you weren't a boardsie, I could of course be more fulsome in my praise without fear of infraction.

P.S. I do hope you enjoyed the article next to yours. The one where Dublin bike scheme is to be increased tenfold...

coolbeans

RT66 wrote: »

Frank Robinson, the latest youtube sensation has found an outlet for his extremely important campaign in today's Sunday Times (Page 4, news section). This is indeed great news!
Surely now we are a step closer to protecting lampposts in Dublin's fair city?
The article states that on April 7, Frank took a full 2 hours out of his busy schedule to document cyclists crossing a bridge. On April 11 he documented some more over a one-hour period.
Sir, I salute you! If we had more civic-minded heavyweights like your good self, the World would indeed be a better place.
If you weren't a boardsie, I could of course be more fulsome in my praise without fear of infraction.

P.S. I do hope you enjoyed the article next to yours. The one where Dublin bike scheme is to be increased tenfold...

Link? Who's Frank Robinson?

Dermot Illogical

Sunday Times is subscription-only so can't link to the articles online.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=72579884 is a previous thread which links to the videos.

Beasty

coolbeans wrote: »

Link? Who's Frank Robinson?

Also here

We'll leave this thread open for a while if anyone wants to summarise the article, but I don't see the point of giving Arcus Arrow any more publicity for his videos though, and if this thread goes the way of the last one it will be quickly closed

Thanks

Beasty

BostonB

Its just cherry picking the lack of enforcement of cyclists. That nothing else is hardly enforced either isn't mentioned. So why focus on cyclists. Is there an explosion of accident stats for cyclists no. Hes just picking on cyclists only, for some reason.

tomasrojo

Won't somebody please think of the children lampposts!

velopeloton

Rory Gallagher = Fantastic!

Video of photos = ****e!

He could at least have used a video camera.

Dermot Illogical

What I find interesting is that the ST saw fit to give prominence to someone who obviously has quite a chip on his shoulder. His YT vids getting 7,000 views puts him in the newsworthy category? It's bizarre! Rubberbandits should be front page.
No mention of the fact that only 3 of the 7,000 liked the video. And no looking at his views to see if they actually make sense. Shoddy "journalism" and a paper which obviously was short on news.

tomasrojo

I presume a large part of those 7000 hits were from readers of bikesnobnyc, where one of the clips was used ironically.

-Chris-

One of those views was unfortunately me, when I clicked it to see "ah, what's happening in Dublin?" and ended up thinking "this is a bloody joke, why did I watch this rubbish?".

Unfortunately they can't differentiate between a "good" watch and a "bad" watch

Beasty

... and the more we talk about him and his videos here the more hits (and publicity) he gets ... :rolleyes:

DirkVoodoo

It's no wonder these cyclists are all cycling like that, I would find it pretty hard to see where I am going if my vision was obscured by a large coloured blob!

dubmess

If anyone would like to actually engage this guy, and a few other likeminded individuals they are having a nice chat on archiseek:
http://www.archiseek.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=8550&sid=629987a82dc5733a48212c5b3cb20c3b

tomasrojo

dubmess wrote: »

If anyone would like to actually engage this guy, and a few other likeminded individuals they are having a nice chat on archiseek:
http://www.archiseek.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=8550&sid=629987a82dc5733a48212c5b3cb20c3b

In other countries I often cycled as much as 50 miles. I wouldn't get on a bike in Dublin city if you paid me. I know how dangerous it is. Over the last few years I've been present on the streets on 4 separate occasions when people were killed outright. I think anyone who cycles in Dublin city is taking their life in their hands.

Either he's a paramedic of some kind, or a complete fantasist.

EDIT: just to clarify, a handful of people are killed in Dublin each year. For this individual to have seen four in the "last few years" beggars belief.

blorg

He gives a gruesome account of a cyclists head being squashed by a truck on page 2, says he was a witness at the inquest, not a paramedic.

ThisRegard

I'm convinced his wife ran off with a man with a bike, it's the only explanation for such a blinkered view of cyclists. His claim that it is indeed a fact that all cyclists break the law every day is particularly idiotic.

tomasrojo

blorg wrote: »

He gives a gruesome account of a cyclists head being squashed by a truck on page 2, says he was a witness at the inquest, not a paramedic.

Fair play to you for getting past the first page.

Wouldn't surprise me if he made it up. Even if not, still leaves three other occasions when he witnessed a cycle fatality in the last few years.