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Spoked Wheels
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Somebody did it for me ...... thank you
Is this guy a fellow CC member?
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The yelling and screaming was about the bike and nothing else. If he was nearly the fatality, I think it would have been different.
Andrew_P
In between here and there
at the very start it looks like the Cab driver is completely unaware he has even taken the bike down, and later on appears to be moaning about a mark on his passenger door. There is also a hint that he is denying it as the Courier says I have got witnesses'. OTT language but when I got taken out in a car my first reaction was could my limbs move enough to climb out of the car the next was to go and f and blind at the driver of the other car asking what the fark was he doing whilst he too was hanging upside down! Not for two minutes though in my defence.
jefmcg
Guru
Or maybe - and I am going out on a limb here - he's not one of those millionaire bicycle couriers you hear about so often, who just do it for a hobby. Maybe it's how he makes his living, and he only gets paid when he's working and he doesn't know how he is going to pay the rent or replace the bike and if he doesn't get a new bike quickly he's going to be stacking shelves in Poundland by the end of the week. That might make him a teensy bit enraged.
Let's not take the Daily Mail's slant that because he got all shouty, he is somehow in the wrong.
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My flippant comment about the roids was prompted by seeing his build, aggressive posturing and his threatening language. Clearly he has just had a focusing experience, whoever's fault it was, and we don't know. However, his reaction was driven by adrenalin and testosterone, and his lack of reference to his own peril seems outside the usual.
One for the Insurance company to sort out.
snorri
Legendary Member
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- East coast, up a bit.
Some confusion perhaps but I hear lard can ease the discomfort of haemorrhoids
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slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
His behaviour isn't ideal but we don't know the circumstances. I would be a bit miffed if my bike ended up under a taxi, even if it was entirely my own fault.
Blame the red mist. I'm sure the cabbie isn't exactly a stranger to that type of language.
Blame the red mist. I'm sure the cabbie isn't exactly a stranger to that type of language.
OP
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Spoked Wheels
Legendary Member
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- Bournemouth
Far from it I think.
I have no issues with him screaming all he wants but getting on the old man's face, with such an aggressive language is very wrong I think.
I understand that his way of earning a living was dented but I'm sure he has access to one or more spare bikes. These people allow for such eventualities so when something happens to their vehicle, they get another one while they fix the damage one. I know that taxi drivers rent / borrow another taxi for however long is needed so in this case, we can't hardly expect the guy to loose his job, house, etc..... as somebody suggested. We aren't talking many hundreds of £s, are we? Granted, in this case the bike is a write off but still I'm convinced that his behaviour would have been measured if the taxi driver was built like Mike Tyson.
Flying_Monkey
Recyclist
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- Odawa
Sometimes I wonder if people here are really cyclists. This guy will have come pretty close to being killed and has had his bike destroyed. And yet there are some who, in common with the cyclist-hating Evening Standard and Daily Mail and their clickbaiting headlines, seem to think that the big issue is the fact that he is extremely angry with the driver who did it. No, the big issue is the safety of cyclists on our streets. Of us, in other words.
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User482
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At best, the cyclist has just had his transport destroyed. At worst, he was put in mortal danger by 1.5 tonnes of moving metal. If you think the major issue is bad language then you are seriously lacking perspective.
Jody
Stubborn git
I was just having one of those days, and after seeing an episode of that big brother thing I thought the use of the word c**t was acceptable now ????
You live in the north. It's always been acceptable!
Tin Pot
Guru
"A bit narked"? He should have pasted the taxi drivers face all over the road!
That "old man" just tried to kill him, and probably through luck alone failed. If that "old man" doesn't want to go around trying to kill people, then he should hand the keys over and never drive again.
The cyclist shows amazing restraint, I can only hope that calling the attempted murderer "An old daffodil" is the limit of my outrage when it happens to me.
That "old man" just tried to kill him, and probably through luck alone failed. If that "old man" doesn't want to go around trying to kill people, then he should hand the keys over and never drive again.
The cyclist shows amazing restraint, I can only hope that calling the attempted murderer "An old daffodil" is the limit of my outrage when it happens to me.
bonsaibilly
Guest
That ain't passive voice.BB
hopless500
Trundling along
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- not-as-flat-as-you-think Norfolk
That old man has got to be proud of himself for at best flattening a bike and being unaware, and at worst (allegedly if what is said by the courier and witness is correct) driving over him deliberately.
Neither is a flattering reflection on his driving.
The courier may be over-sweary, but I imagine I'd have a few choice words to say if that was my bike.
