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Today is friday topic: Who has right of way?

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    #32
    shaka
    Registered Users Posts: 1,085 ✭✭✭shaka


    He is clearly in the right ...she moved from her left to her right at about 6 seconds and there is clearly no room for him to go around . Only place he could go is onto wrong side of road in to possible oncoming traffic, clearly no space on his left.think he was prob right to stop.

    His language is not on , thats just acting the knob. throwing FS around the place doesn't help but that's not to say I wouldn't let one or two out of me..

    Then she pulls out the low blow," I'm a woman on my own " , Hate that bs.
    thats main reason this is gone viral.
    Had to laugh at passat driver:)

    Don't commute and glad I don't watching that,


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    #33
    chakattack
    Registered Users Posts: 1,315 ✭✭✭chakattack


    He needs to chill out....

    He met his match with her though...isolated and defenceless :confused:


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    #34
    Kav0777
    Registered Users Posts: 549 ✭✭✭Kav0777


    At least she was wearing hi-viz....


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    #35
    ford2600
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭ford2600


    She's highly strung and he, as per his other videos, is on a crusade to change motorist behaviour.

    Life is too short for that nonsense. Both could easily have diffused a a non event really


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    #36
    Korvanica
    Registered Users Posts: 3,992 ✭✭✭Korvanica


    She was being retarded, he overreacted.

    Anyone going on watching all his other videos and calling him out on them needs to cop themselves on and discuss what the op posted.


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    #37
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users Posts: 9,162 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    Kav0777 wrote: »
    At least she was wearing hi-viz....
    I believe you have to if you're a woman on your own.


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    #38
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    ted1 wrote: »
    Nonsense the dude was being a dick. Pure performance for the camera, bet you he is a left wing socialists just out to cause trouble.

    Nah, nah, he's clearly a right-wing socialist, they're the worst.


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    #39
    galwaycyclist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭galwaycyclist


    ror_74 wrote: »
    The driver was wrong, but its a mistake easily made - a narrow street with the driver misjudging the speed of an approaching cyclist and thinking they can get through first. Some folks in right turning cars have a habit of doing the same. There is no problem when you expect this to happen. The cyclist should have realised the driver had likely misjudged the narrow gap and acted accordingly by riding around the car. A disdainful glance as he passed and a dismissive wave would have been more than enough.

    OK and leaving aside the more confrontational nature of this cyclist.

    What would you say if the cyclist was a child going to school? What if it was a parent with a child trailer or a child in a child seat?

    What if it was Granny Murphy coming back from the shops on her Triumph 20 with her messages in the basket?

    Would you expect all these people to go around on the wrong side of the road?

    Because a driver wouldn't drive on the left?


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    #40
    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Captain Havoc wrote: »
    I'm glad the two met each other.


    I think they should marry - imagine the rows :eek:


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    #41
    Ole Rodrigo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,013 ✭✭✭Ole Rodrigo


    DrChristianTroy wrote: »
    But if she just made a honest mistake why not pull over 3 feet and let him pass. To be fair I dont think he did too much to antagonise her prior to approaching her window. How was he to know that she has serious issues....all she was short of doing was shouting rape!

    It looks like she didn't judge the gap properly, and with the cyclist stationary in the middle of the road waving and cursing she wasn't sure what to do. Clearly not the right approach but she wasn't being reckless either and wasn't deserving of some stranger with a video camera chastising her.

    Maybe its just me, I see it as a lack of common courtesy. Those crusading commuters make life harder for the rest of us, creating problems where there aren't any.


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    #42
    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    The woman driver was in the wrong, fact. She should have apologised and got over it.

    The cyclist was overly obnoxious.

    A pair of them in it.


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    #43
    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    ror_74 wrote: »
    It looks like she didn't judge the gap properly, and with the cyclist stationary in the middle of the road waving and cursing she wasn't sure what to do. Clearly not the right approach but she wasn't being reckless either and wasn't deserving of some stranger with a video camera chastising her.

    Maybe its just me, I see it as a lack of common courtesy. Those crusading commuters make life harder for the rest of us, creating problems where there aren't any.


    Maybe she should learn the rules of the road?


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    #44
    beeno67
    Registered Users Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭beeno67


    Zyzz wrote: »
    But he wasn't in the wrong? lol

    Well he did cycle on the footpath or do those laws not count?Maybe we should report him to the guards.


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    #45
    listermint
    Registered Users Posts: 33,860 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    07Lapierre wrote: »
    Cyclists like that give the rest of us a bad name!...Lifes too short for these type of confrontations.

    Nah, some drivers need educating and shes one of them. Id imagine its not her first journey around the block thinking she is right.

    Fair play for him for tackling her on it.


    Cyclists that cycle up on the kerb or around the other side of her give cyclists a bad name. Road rules are there to be followed.

    She basically treated him as if he wasnt a legitimate road user. So based on that you are completely and utterly wrong.


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    #46
    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    beeno67 wrote: »
    Well he did cycle on the footpath or do those laws not count?Maybe we should report him to the guards.

    Only because the car was blocking his way, had he went around the right of her he'd have been driving up the street the wrong way.


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    #47
    Ole Rodrigo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,013 ✭✭✭Ole Rodrigo


    galwaycyclist wrote: »
    OK and leaving aside the more confrontational nature of this cyclist.

    What would you say if the cyclist was a child going to school? What if it was a parent with a child trailer or a child in a child seat?

    What if it was Granny Murphy coming back from the shops on her Triumph 20 with her messages in the basket?

    Would expect all these people to go around on the wrong side of the road?

    Because a driver wouldn't drive on the left?

    With respect, I don't think those you mention would have appeared as intimidating, and I suspect thats what happened here. She made a a mistake, didn't know what to do, and then possibly got a bit scared. It no excuse, but poor judgement of the cyclist to have a go at her.
    Maybe she should learn the rules of the road?

    The broader point here, I think, is what the right thing to do is when people break the rules, which happens all the time in city traffic. Not being antagonistic and not escalating a situation is almost always the best option.


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    #48
    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    The broader point here, I think, is what the right thing to do is when people break the rules, which happens all the time in city traffic. Not being antagonistic and not escalating a situation is almost always the best option.

    Which is exactly what she did by shouting and screeching about here being threatened and alone.

    The right thing to do was to put your hands up, apologise and move on


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    #49
    beeno67
    Registered Users Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭beeno67


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Only because the car was blocking his way, had he went around the right of her he'd have been driving up the street the wrong way.

    He should have remaied off the bike and either waited for her to pass or else push the bike on the footpath. He was still breaking the law cycling on pavement. Also he took the left turn at high speed (for a bike) without being able to see around the corner. I am being pedantic but he is the one showing a video where he complains about a driver not obeying the rules of the road.


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    #50
    derealbadger
    Registered Users Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭derealbadger


    they knew what they were talking about

    United States » Tennessee » Memphis
    Illegal for a woman to drive a car unless there is a man either running or walking in front of it waving a red flag to warn approaching motorists and pedestrians.


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    #51
    galwaycyclist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭galwaycyclist


    ror_74 wrote: »
    With respect, I don't think those you mention would have appeared as intimidating, and I suspect thats what happened here. She made a a mistake, didn't know what to do, and then possibly got a bit scared. It no excuse, but poor judgement of the cyclist to have a go at her.

    Ok I was going to agree with you. But I went back and looked at the video again. The cyclist came fully to a stop first and she continued to roll her vehicle towards him.

    That is not the behaviour of someone who is intimidated. That is the behaviour of someone who is trying to intimidate.


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    #52
    droidus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭droidus


    galwaycyclist wrote: »
    Ok I was going to agree with you. But I went back and looked at the video again. The cyclist came fully to a stop first and she continued to roll her vehicle towards him.

    That is not the behaviour of someone who is intimidated. That is the behaviour of someone who is trying to intimidate.

    She also took her keys out of the ignition and waved them through the windscreen at him.

    If he had been a car, she would have moved - simple as.


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    #53
    AstraMonti
    Registered Users Posts: 5,718 ✭✭✭AstraMonti


    How can you intimidate a 3tons vehicle with a bike?! She couldn't even hear what he was saying from that far, that was just a show for the camera recording.


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    #54
    buffalo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,069 ✭✭✭buffalo


    What road is that btw?


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    #55
    marketty
    Registered Users Posts: 1,085 ✭✭✭marketty


    When an unstoppable ass meets an immovable wagon...


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    #56
    buffalo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,069 ✭✭✭buffalo


    ror_74 wrote: »
    With respect, I don't think those you mention would have appeared as intimidating, and I suspect thats what happened here. She made a a mistake, didn't know what to do, and then possibly got a bit scared. It no excuse, but poor judgement of the cyclist to have a go at her.

    A bit scared does not open the door and start shouting. A bit scared locks the door, maybe opens the window a crack, and drives off at the first opportunity.


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    #57
    brasshead
    Registered Users Posts: 140 ✭✭brasshead


    Apart from give us all some talking points on a Friday afternoon, I have no idea why some cyclists feel the need to record everything on head-mounted cameras.

    She should've put her hand up and moved over, or the guy should've put his hand up in frustration and moved on.


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    #58
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,980 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    buffalo wrote: »
    What road is that btw?
    East Hanover Street (Between Macken Street and Townsend Street)


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    #59
    Serbian
    Registered Users Posts: 2,156 ✭✭✭Serbian


    buffalo wrote: »
    What road is that btw?

    It looks like he took the left turn off Macken Street, onto Hanover Street East.


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    #60
    buffalo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,069 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    East Hanover Street (Between Macken Street and Townsend Street)

    I return to my point earlier in the week that on-street parking is so often a stupid idea, this street seems as good an example as any.


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    #61
    droidus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭droidus


    brasshead wrote: »
    Apart from give us all some talking points on a Friday afternoon, I have no idea why some cyclists feel the need to record everything on head-mounted cameras.

    Well, in this case it may well have protected him against a claim that he had assaulted or threatened 'a woman on her own', which it seems to me the driver deliberately and calculatedly manufactured.


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