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    #92
    Stark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,943 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Don’t break red lights. Sorted.

    (6 pages in, hopefully I’m not the first to educate them with this nugget).



    You could do everything perfectly legally and still be threatened with vehicular assault by ***** like the Mercedes driver. They'll find an excuse. "No helmet? Not illegal but in my head it is". "No hi-vis? not illegal but in my head it is". I was on a receiving end of threats the other morning because I left a cycle lane in order to turn right into our office car park. Suppose it's "never turn right and you're sorted". Vigilantism should not be tolerated, full stop.

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    #93
    Hurrache
    Registered Users Posts: 10,167 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    AulWan wrote: »
    This whole chain of events was "instigated" by the cyclist's behaviour at the red light in the first place.

    How pathetic does a person's life have to be, and for anyone that agrees with that person, to think their dumbfounding action of driving someone on a bike off the road was "instigated" by that person going through a red light. How unfulfilled are those people's lives that they feel they need to intimate people over something that has no bearing on their otherwise sad lives?


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    #94
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Eamonnator wrote: »
    Yes, my mistake.
    Now reported.

    Why exactly?


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    #95
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Stark wrote: »
    You could do everything perfectly legally and still be threatened with vehicular assault by ***** like the Mercedes driver. They'll find an excuse. "No helmet? Not illegal but in my head it is". "No hi-vis? not illegal but in my head it is". I was on a receiving end of threats the other morning because I left a cycle lane in order to turn right into our office car park. Suppose it's "never turn right and you're sorted". Vigilantism should not be tolerated, full stop.

    Yeah but it was none of those hypothetical things. It was breaking a red light, which the OP said in the first post. Of course vigilantism shouldn’t be tolerated but condemning it shouldn’t also be a way of telling the OP they were right.


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    #96
    Shai
    Registered Users Posts: 226 ✭✭Shai


    AulWan wrote: »
    This whole chain of events was "instigated" by the cyclist's behaviour at the red light in the first place.

    Nope. It was not. It would be correct to state as such if a) the merc driver was a Gard and b) Gards dealt with traffic infractions by swerving toward cyclists. Since neither is true, we'll just go with the alternative approach where a driver got annoyed and felt within his right to use his car as a weapon for no reason other than he could.


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    #97
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,297 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    While obvious dickhead is obvious, I wonder what the roads would be like if everyone else just decided to pick and choose road laws based on our own feelings as to what's safe or not?

    Don't break red lights OP.


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    #98
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,562 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


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