The cyclist as Superman
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gaz
Cycle Camera TV
- Location
- South Croydon
I can't begin to fathom as to how a cyclist could cause that much damage to a parking meter!
snorri
Legendary Member
- Location
- East coast, up a bit.
This incident occurred in Taunton USA, not the real Taunton in the UK. 
Headgardener
Armchair Cyclist
Didn't think it sounded like the Taunton I know. Also didn't recognize the bike manufacturer.
It's obvious. Ask Officer deRosa.
The cyclist, possibly drunk, rode at speed into the first meter, bending the post at an angle of about 60[sup]0[/sup], then, in the next 25 ft or so, unsatisfied by the effect of the first collision, accelerated and not only managed to almost knock the meter post flat, but also to remove the meter head (possibly to rob it). Then, unfazed, he rode into the road and hit a poor, innocent, passing driver. Simples.
The idea that, possibly, the driver, perhaps losing control of his veehickle, first hit the cyclist, then mounted the pavement (sorry, sidewalk) clobbered the first meter and bent the guardrail, then bounced off it, continued along the sidewalk and flattened the second meter, is clearly preposterous and could only come from the fevered imagination of a cyclist.
Fortunately, we have the calm, measured, experienced, intelligent, reassuring, investigating Officer deRosa to set us right with the ineffable genius of his collision analysis.
He is, of course, known to his friends as Officer Braindeath. There are several officers with his surname on the force, so when he is referred to as Officer Braindeath, people are able to say, "Oh, that Officer deRosa".
- Location
- the post-brexit wasteland
doesn't look like a de rosa does it?
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