tomasrojo wrote: » Based on various claims made by people who've been there, I'm under the impression that Australia has a much worse attitude to people on bikes than we do, and New Zealand isn't much better. Not that we don't have ample room for improvement here.
check_six wrote: » Yeah. He's signalled his intention to do harm. He's taken a few runs at it, and finally he's made his assault. He wasn't driving too fast or recklessly beyond his limitations, he took a cold look at the situation and decided that an assault with intent to do damage was his chosen course of action. Seems clear cut to me. However, we all know that you can do whatever you like to someone if you're driving a motor vehicle and have a good chance of getting away with it. If this fellow even approaches getting a ban I would be amazed. He'll plead that he needs to drive for work and that'll be the end of it. My opinion is that if someone needs to drive for work (or drives professionally for a living) and they carry out an attack like the one in the video then they should get as long a ban as is permitted under the law. They spend much longer on the road and are therefore a much higher risk of reoffending and should be held to a higher standard. You're going to lose your job? Probably should have thought about that before committing an assault on a vulnerable person.
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Thelonious Monk wrote: » Yeah so many massive utes and modified jap cars etc down there, it’s boy racer paradise, especially where I lived in NZ. Really noisy rotary engines etc. But yes there’s even more hatred towards cyclists down there than here from my experience. I remember one job I had I used to cycle about 10k a day to with no helmet and I always had concerned motorists shouting at me, or work colleagues who drove past me expressing their concern in the office! It’s bizarre.
Harrybelafonte wrote: » Jesus, how many RX7s and RX8s were you around?
Pandemic restrictions and response Sir, – Riddle me this. As I left Enniskerry this Sunday morning where I live, right on the border between Wicklow and Dublin, to drive to Carrickmines, a journey of all of 10 minutes, I was stopped by gardaí asking if my journey was necessary. I said no, as I wasn’t shopping for food, and compliantly turned back, as hordes of cyclists passed me on their way into Enniskerry. I questioned the guard about this, and he told me he and his colleague had spent the morning asking large groups of cyclists outside the local coffee shop to return home, and some had become quite defensive, apparently. I have passed large groups of cyclists as I walk the roads around Enniskerry as they grunt and breathe heavily beside each other, and sometimes coughing. I work in a school where we wear masks all day, as do the students. When someone in the school tests positive for Covid, we are not considered close contacts as we are all wearing masks. Yet the sweat and vapour coming from cyclists in large groups does not appear to be considered a threat to the health of those they are with, and those whom they pass on the narrow roads around Enniskerry. If I had gone to TK Maxx, as I planned that morning, I would have been wearing a mask and keeping my social distance. Maybe I should have been going to Halfords to buy myself a bike and a nice bit of sweaty lycra. – Yours, etc, JACKIE CRONIN, Enniskerry, Co Wicklow.
magicbastarder wrote: » to be fair, if (s)he's complaining about people violating the county lockdown being asked to return home and them getting huffy about it, i have no issue with that.
mr spuckler wrote: » The language is a dead giveaway of her biases alright, the basic point about the cyclists needing to be subject to the same rules is absolutely fine.
Seth Brundle wrote: » I don't disagree with the rules. It's the usual IT anti-cyclist crap that I don't like.
breezy1985 wrote: » Were to blame for covid now. Does she also feel then that joggers should be banned.
Stark wrote: » You must have missed all the rants about joggers from back in March
tomasrojo wrote: » Very minor point, but her "journey of all of 10 minutes" is 7km and, more importantly, crosses a county boundary, so it's not at all surprising she was told to go back. I'm not sure of the restrictions for groups of people taking exercise, but it's possible some of them weren't breaking the rules, and she definitely was.
Thelonious Monk wrote: » I wish the cyclists on footpaths thread was still goinghttps://twitter.com/DubFireBrigade/status/1318491280607973377
Stark wrote: » Think of how much more "menacing" it would be if a cyclist had collided with the bus stop though!
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