• AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      I’m always ambivalent. Yeah he’s right, and those drivers need to be called out, and traffic enforcement clearly isn’t doing anything … but he’s being stubborn, risking his life, when the guy is only getting a small ticket. You know he’s just going to be ragier next time. Here in the US I can’t see it going that well

  • Em-Squared@feddit.ukEnglish
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    9 days ago

    This wasn’t even a one off. This guys video channel was just him waiting for this to happen and it happened very frequently. I do remember seeing several where the police weren’t really that supportive (probably as, though it made a point it was basically planned confrontation for video views).

    • HexesofVexes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      See, that’s the point where my sympathy evaporates. As soon as you set out to trap the desperate, you’re nothing more than a predator.

      Edit: Ooh, kicked the nest! Sorry folks, but if this were a pedestrian stopping cyclists from illegally mounting the pavement I suspect there’d be a different tune (I am a pedestrian who routinely has to deal with shitty cyclists mounting the pavement to skip traffic, or lights, when I’m on my way to work).

      • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        9 days ago

        Oh cut the bullshit. He took his car on a non-car pathway.

        There’s no “trapping” here, all people have to do to not show up on his chan is follow basic fuckin’ road laws. This is the same sort of whinge that claims speed cameras are traps.

      • newaccountwhodis@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        9 days ago

        the desperate

        A yes the poor desperate Mercedes drivers trying to vehicular manslaughter someone for being stubborn (but right)

      • Droggelbecher@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 days ago

        Disagree with the first bit. They have a chance to make a little bit of positive change, and they do. Good on them.

        Super feel you on the last bit though. Happens at least once a day to me. I even have some low level chronic pain from a cyclist hitting me a few years back. I really wish the anti car community was ready to address this problem.

        Conclusion: like, both are bad. Just because the latter is bad and there’s many apologists for the latter doesn’t mean it’s not right to call out car drivers for this egoistical behavior. Even those who don’t realise that both are bad (there’s many of them, I know) are your allies in this. How’d you feel if a pedestrian managed to get a cyclist prosecuted for this behavior? Would you see them as a predator?

        • grue@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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          8 days ago

          I really wish the anti car community was ready to address this problem.

          What do you think pushing for separate infrastructure for cyclists is, if not that? Nobody wants to ride on a sidewalk trying to dodge pedestrians; it happens when cyclists are forced off the street by drivers and have nowhere else to go.

  • Geodad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Oh that windshield would be toast. I carry a buck knife with a window punch on the end.