Dublin Bike right in the stomach!!

Triangla

I was walking to work this morning at around 8, walking up Camden Street, just outside Coffee Society when a nutcase stabs me in the stomach with a Dublin bike. I mean he went out of his way to step over to me then totally rammed the handlebar into my stomach.

Apparently I committed the crime of trying to "squeeze through". (Between wall and lamp post).

He then threatened to call the cops on me for "squeezing through".
I said go on call them, we'll see which act is illegal, squeezing through or assault.

He then went to walk away so I said ok I'll call them and I held onto the bike

After 5 mins of me trying to get my phone out of my pocket while holding onto the bike he was trying to wrestle from me an unmarked garda 4x4 pulled over.

Detective got out flashed ID and asked what was going on. Crazy Joe we'll call him starts going on a rant about how he's sick of people getting in front of him and trying to squeeze in. Says how he's reported it before and is going to report me when he gets home tonight. I point to the gap he's talking about, 4 people could walk through shoulder to shoulder with ease.

Garda's jaw drops at the rant, says it's a civil issue and would an apology suffice. Joe says it would then walks away down the path with the bike.
Garda turns to me and says "That guy has mental issues" and we both go our separate way.

How was your Friday morning?

Ghandee

I got the ride!















On a Dublin bike! Put that in yer pipe and smoke it!

Biggins

You need a blog it sounds like?

MYSTICA1

But he is Metal

mawk

Assault is a civil issue?

MitchKoobski

Could have gotten it in worse places than the stomach tbh.

Triangla

~Thank God for my rock hard abs protecting me

Edit: and the layer of fat protecting them

Dub Ste

Garda turns to me and says "That guy has metal issues" and we both go our separate way.


Apparently he hates lead,has no time for iron,can't stand steel,and get him started on f*cking gold.....;)

Dyr

Squeezing through what?

Also dublin bike twats should be declared legitimate targets for pedestrians,

Triangla

mawk wrote: »

Assault is a civil issue?

Garda asked did anyone see it and I said no.

Sky King

mawk wrote: »

Assault is a civil issue?

My thoughts exactly.

If no one sees a murder is it a civil issue?

Saila

squeezing through what
wtf

smash

What's the difference between a Dublin bike and a regular bike?

Triangla

Bambi wrote: »

Squeezing through what?

Also dublin bike twats should be declared legitimate targets for pedestrians,

Between the lampost and the wall, there is loads of space between them and about and inch of path between other side of lamp and road.

My first ever encounter with craziness at this hour of the morning. Christ I'd hate to be sitting beside him at work today!

The funny thing is he went to depart and hopped onto the bike on the footpath and cycled away. The Garda just shook his head.

Saila

smash wrote: »

What's the difference between a Dublin bike and a regular bike?

Im waiting for the punchline

hardCopy

Eh?

On the path or on the road?

Saila

you sure there was someone else and a garda OP

stupidusername

so you're saying that you were walking on a footpath, and a guy on a bike hits you in the stomach, for being on the footpath? even though he's on the footpath with his bike?

bluefinger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FmVopEs9yI

BronsonTB

I can see I'm not the only one completely confused by what the OP squeezed through

OP post does not give enough detail that led up to the incident with the handlebar....

jiltloop

smash wrote: »

What's the difference between a Dublin bike and a regular bike?

A dublin bike churns out scumbags every 9 months or so?

fullstop

MYSTICA1 wrote: »

But he is Metal

No, the bike is.

Saila

Triangla wrote: »

I was walking to work this morning at around 8, walking up Camden Street, just outside Coffee Society when a nutcase stabs me in the stomach with a Dublin bike. I mean he went out of his way to step over to me then totally rammed the handlebar into my stomach.

Apparently I committed the crime of trying to "squeeze through". (Between wall and lamp post).

He then threatened to call the cops on me for "squeezing through".
I said go on call them, we'll see which act is illegal, squeezing through or assault.

He then went to walk away so I said ok I'll call them and I held onto the bike

After 5 mins of me trying to get my phone out of my pocket while holding onto the bike he was trying to wrestle from me an unmarked garda 4x4 pulled over.

Detective got out flashed ID and asked what was going on. Crazy Joe we'll call him starts going on a rant about how he's sick of people getting in front of him and trying to squeeze in. Says how he's reported it before and is going to report me when he gets home tonight. I point to the gap he's talking about, 4 people could walk through shoulder to shoulder with ease.

Garda's jaw drops at the rant, says it's a civil issue and would an apology suffice. Joe says it would then walks away down the path with the bike.
Garda turns to me and says "That guy has mental issues" and we both go our separate way.

How was your Friday morning?

but did you not ask him did he prefer pringles or saussages?

seamus

Sounds like you both have mental issues tbh. You held onto the bike and were going to ring the Gardai?

Standard Toaster

Dublin bike....thought for a sec Twink gave you a dig in the stomach!

Is this the gap you were trying to "squeeze through" OP??

Saila

seamus wrote: »

Sounds like you both have mental issues tbh. You held onto the bike and were going to ring the Gardai?

fyp.

Saila

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Is this the gap you were trying to "squeeze through" OP??

ghost! :eek:

Captain Darling

I would have paid good money to see the five minute stand off between two mentalists.

leggo

smash wrote: »

What's the difference between a Dublin bike and a regular bike?

You can fit an All-Ireland Trophy in the Dublin bike's basket.

***Oooh he went there...***

stovelid

Don't argue with cyclist nuts. Just whack them.

lastlaugh

stovelid wrote: »

Don't argue with cyclist nuts. Just whack them.

Watch out, there's a 'hard man' about!

Triangla

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Dublin bike....thought for a sec Twink gave you a dig in the stomach!

Is this the gap you were trying to "squeeze through" OP??

Yeah that was the exact place.

He used the words squeeze through. He was walking the bike at the time but here was still ample room. He had to step into me to get me with the bike.

I was at the lamp side, I had passed the lamp and I had my back pushed against the lamp with the force of the bike.

I only said I'd call the cops after he threatened to call them and report me for "squeezing through a gap". I was just turning it around on him more of a threat to get him to calm down and apologise.

There was no calming him down though, even when the garda arrived he was still going balloobas.

I know, sounds mental, but if I didn't hold onto bike he would have just gone away. In the moment I felt like a dick just letting him walk away with no apology after jamming bike into me and then shouting abuse.

You know yourself, you'll always have people bumping into you by mistake but this guy really shoved it into me. It was just nuts, he was so angry.

Cars were beeping away as they passed, must have looked pretty funny in fairness. Like we were fighting for possesion of worst bike ever.

"You take it"

"No you take it"

rolexeagle1

he shouldnt have been on the footpath with a bike, w***er IMO

seamus

Triangla wrote: »

I know, sounds mental, but if I didn't hold onto bike he would have just gone away.

Oh no, he would have gone away.

Seriously, yes it does sound mental. You should have spotted pretty much immediately that he's just a looper and you were wasting your energy trying to get an apology from him.

Triangla

seamus wrote: »

Oh no, he would have gone away.

Seriously, yes it does sound mental. You should have spotted pretty much immediately that he's just a looper and you were wasting your energy trying to get an apology from him.

Yeah you're right there.

seamus

seamus wrote: »

Sounds like you both have mental issues tbh. You held onto the bike and were going to ring the Gardai?

He was assaulted.

Captain Darling

Deleted User wrote: »

He was assaulted.

Yes he was. I find it slightly unusual that the two of them were involved in a weird tug of war for five minutes however.

I'd let the looper on his merry way. If he was going to that with the handlebars, imagine what he might do with the pump.

seamus

Deleted User wrote: »

He was assaulted.

By a looper. Waste of time trying to reason with loopers.

Sonnenblumen

seamus wrote: »

By a looper. Waste of time trying to reason with loopers.

Try going around the houses?

alphabeat

you should have followed him
and struck him down with great vengeance and furious anger in a quiet spot

StephenHendry

cyclists can do what they like, not just ramming into people on foothpaths but trying to knock down pedestrians as they walk across the zebra crossing after going through yet another set of red lights. oh and btw there aren't enough cycle lanes

Feisar

Basically some guy hit you. Assault. And the guard had no problem with that!?!

And to clarify I'm not the sort of person that starts screaming assault if someone touches my shoulder.

The man had METAL issues

*Metal riff*


\m/

Triangla

Feisar wrote: »

Basically some guy hit you. Assault. And the guard had no problem with that!?!

And to clarify I'm not the sort of person that starts screaming assault if someone touches my shoulder.

I told garda that he did it and the guy said he did it because I was trying "to squeeze through" - so he admitted it in front of garda.

Garda asked did anyone else see it, I said no. He said then it's a civil matter and we'd have to settle this in court and asked could we just sort this out now with apologies.

It think he was trying to diffuse it basically.

We both said fine then he refused to apologise and said it was my fault he did it as I shouldn't have tried to walk through (between lamp and wall) at the same time as him.

The guy just walked away shouting and the garda let him. I was eager to just return to normal morning so was cool about that.

Garda just said the guy had mental issues and introduced himself and told me the department he worked in and asked me where I was from. I think just some casual chat to see that I was ok before going away.

He was blocking traffic because of where he parked up next to us and was getting dogs abuse from passing cars so I'd say he was anxious to get on. He could see I wasn't injured or emotional so I think he handled it well. Very calm and cool but kept giving the bike guy opportunities to relax and move on.

He didn't relax, just moved on.

I got an email an hour ago from a guy I used to work with saying wtf as he saw it on his way to work.

Edit: And I'd be the same about assault. It took a few seconds for me to think to myself - that guy just stabbed me with his bike! I actually turned around and asked him did he just hit me with his bike on purpose, my tone would have been one of incredulity. It was surreal.

wild_cat

He shouldn't have been on the path, especially around that area at rush hour. Full of people.


Not to generalise but I've heard that the blue bike users are a tad less bike confident and even manage to annoy other "bike owning" cyclists a lot during the day.

If he wasn't confident enough to cycle through that junction at rush hour he should be on his feet.

Triangla

wild_cat wrote: »

He shouldn't have been on the path, especially around that area at rush hour. Full of people.


Not to generalise but I've heard that the blue bike users are a tad less bike confident and even manage to annoy other "bike owning" cyclists a lot during the day.

If he wasn't confident enough to cycle through that junction at rush hour he should be on his feet.

He was walking his bike on the path at the time.

wild_cat

Triangla wrote: »

He was walking his bike on the path at the time.

Oh right.

Then this is just ridiculous. I don't call the cops every time I get hit with a pram.


Or the time a woman made my hand bleed walking along with her keys in her hand along dame st. I didn't call the cops but she's lucky I didn't deck her.

o1s1n

wild_cat wrote: »

Oh right.

Then this is just ridiculous. I don't call the cops every time I get hit with a pram.


Or the time a woman made my hand bleed walking along with her keys in her hand along dame st. I didn't call the cops but she's lucky I didn't deck her.

There's a difference between someone accidentally hitting you with a pram/with their keys and doing it on purpose to make a point.

Triangla

Yeah but this guy rammed me with force into a lamp pole with his bike because he felt I was wrong to walk there at the same time.

That's another bag of spiders altogether.

StephenHendry

Triangla wrote: »

Yeah but this guy rammed me with force into a lamp pole with his bike because he felt I was wrong to walk there at the same time.

That's another bag of spiders altogether.

i'd say he was a headcase judging by what he did to you, you were lucky he didnt stab when you stopped him. you were right to do so.some cyclists think they are a law unto themselves. i used to cycle to work but had a few near misses which could have meant serious injury etc. so i decided not to bother with it anymore. cycling in countries like holland etc. is better as all road users including cyclists respect each other

wild_cat

o1s1n wrote: »

There's a difference between someone accidentally hitting you with a pram/with their keys and doing it on purpose to make a point.

I've been hit with a pram before as a way of moving me out of the way which I classify as the same. I take it the OP was injured in some way to?

Can you not just call each other pricks and walk off? How much did the tantrum this morning on both your sides cost the state like?

All this thread is going to do is facilitate cyclist bashing.