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On Apr 15, 8:26 pm, [email protected] (Bill Z.) wrote:
> > It hurts me to read about incidents like this. I have no idea what
> > caused this altercation, or why the cyclist felt it was necessary to
> > stab the motorist. I was honked at and flipped off by a motorist on
> > Dundas St. this morning, then almost nailed by a left-turning car near
> > my work. But even when bad things happen to me on the road, I never
> > even come close to wanting to stab someone.
>
> I was in one incident (fortunately no injuries or crashes) in which
> an irate driver passed me in very light traffic on a perfectly straight
> road, and then, when the road went from 4 lanes to 2, he tried to
> close the gap between us and would slam on his breaks, repeating this
> behavior 3 times. I managed to avoid an accident, but it was very
> close.
>
> I got his license number and reported it to the police. With the reaction
> I got from the f___tards in the DA's office, coupled with the lies and
> run-arounds, I can see why someone might react the way this Canadian
> cyclist did. If society wants people to do the "right" thing and let
> the criminal justice system handle it, the criminal justice system has
> to uphold its part of the bargain.
>
> BTW, the driver admitted to the braking. His excuse was that I was
> supposedly going 30 in a 25 zone and he couldn't outrun me, but I
> was blocking traffic anyway. And that was on a knobby-tired mountain
> bike on basically level ground.
>
> --
> My real name backwards: nemuaZ lliB
I forgot to get his plate, but for the reasons above, I don't think
there would have been justice --and definitely I'd have gone through a
lot of trouble.
I have another strategy in dealing with the beasts and it's based on a
saying of mine, "My struggle is not against the puppet, but against
the puppeteer"...
Who's the puppeteer who could change things and GIVE RESPECT to the
cyclists? The police, the politicians, the president? Or all of them?
The puppet only takes life in an atmosphere where the cyclists are
equivalent to a stray dog. Even if you screwdrive him, it's not worth
it. Never waste your time with the puppet. Go for the puppeteer. And
that's what I'm doing here.
> > It hurts me to read about incidents like this. I have no idea what
> > caused this altercation, or why the cyclist felt it was necessary to
> > stab the motorist. I was honked at and flipped off by a motorist on
> > Dundas St. this morning, then almost nailed by a left-turning car near
> > my work. But even when bad things happen to me on the road, I never
> > even come close to wanting to stab someone.
>
> I was in one incident (fortunately no injuries or crashes) in which
> an irate driver passed me in very light traffic on a perfectly straight
> road, and then, when the road went from 4 lanes to 2, he tried to
> close the gap between us and would slam on his breaks, repeating this
> behavior 3 times. I managed to avoid an accident, but it was very
> close.
>
> I got his license number and reported it to the police. With the reaction
> I got from the f___tards in the DA's office, coupled with the lies and
> run-arounds, I can see why someone might react the way this Canadian
> cyclist did. If society wants people to do the "right" thing and let
> the criminal justice system handle it, the criminal justice system has
> to uphold its part of the bargain.
>
> BTW, the driver admitted to the braking. His excuse was that I was
> supposedly going 30 in a 25 zone and he couldn't outrun me, but I
> was blocking traffic anyway. And that was on a knobby-tired mountain
> bike on basically level ground.
>
> --
> My real name backwards: nemuaZ lliB
I forgot to get his plate, but for the reasons above, I don't think
there would have been justice --and definitely I'd have gone through a
lot of trouble.
I have another strategy in dealing with the beasts and it's based on a
saying of mine, "My struggle is not against the puppet, but against
the puppeteer"...
Who's the puppeteer who could change things and GIVE RESPECT to the
cyclists? The police, the politicians, the president? Or all of them?
The puppet only takes life in an atmosphere where the cyclists are
equivalent to a stray dog. Even if you screwdrive him, it's not worth
it. Never waste your time with the puppet. Go for the puppeteer. And
that's what I'm doing here.