Wiped out by a pedestrian...

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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    cee wrote:
    So thats why my last legal bill was so high. Can I share someones cake?
    Didn't you read the "paid by the word, or part thereof" clause in the terms of business?
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Wow there really is 7 pages of this... OK to add.

    My Dad had a similar situation with a pram...
    He didn't hit it.

    If it had been a car and the guy stepped out from between two parked vehicles (completely obstructing him visually to road users) in front of the car, which doing 20mph (in a 30 zone - residential and all that), the car braked, couldn't fully stop and hit the guy. I fail to see how its the car's fault.

    Guy stepped out onto the road (sounds like between two parked vehicles - which has never been advised). What is wrong with walking to the end of the road and crossing there or picking two other cars where he would be more visible or simply looking left and right like the hamster on cartoon network sings...?

    Its the PEDS fault and at that speed he has been lucky. Nothing wrong with Fizz's speed as long as you weren't too close to the parked vehicles yourself can't see what he did wrong.

    Hope you're alright Fizz.
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  • STEFANOS4784
    STEFANOS4784 Posts: 4,109
    andy jackson wrote:
    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAArgh!


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    P +1, can't help but notice though that the people who are blaming OP must be implying that they ride every-where at 5mph just in case some-one randomly steps out in front of them/car pulls out without without warning etc etc :
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  • wgwarburton
    wgwarburton Posts: 1,863
    stefanos4784 wrote:

    > P +1, can't help but notice though that the people who are blaming OP must be implying that they ride every-where at 5mph just in case some-one randomly steps out in front of them/car pulls out without without warning etc etc :

    No, you're missing the point, I think.

    In the eyes of the law, you must operate your vehicle in such a way as to be able to avoid hitting anyone.
    If you do hit someone you are, therefore, in the wrong, even if they were being foolish.

    What I think is being asserted is that you have to accept this risk, and acknowledge your responsibility. If you hit someone you don't get away with just saying "it wasn't my fault", you have to take responsibility for your actions.
    Now, if your actions were reasonable, you were riding responsibly etc then you're unlikely to get prosecuted, sued, fined or whatever but in principle you carry some responsibility and it's not cool to deny it.

    The implication is not so much that "they" will never hit someone but that "they" won't claim to be completely blameless if they get caught out by a pillock...

    Of course, I could be completely wrong. In which case I deny it all... I should never have left my pc unlocked, anyway... :-)

    Cheers,
    W.
  • STEFANOS4784
    STEFANOS4784 Posts: 4,109
    Hmmmmm, thanks for clarifying :)
    Makes sense but sort of points to a conclusion that i can walk around jumping out in fromt of vehicles and make a bit o cash in this recession 8)
    Obviously wouldn't do that but would be interesting to get a difinitive correct answer one way or the other :?
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  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    but what if someone teleports directly into the middle of the road with a great big cake......would i be entitled to grab it as i whacked them to the gutter?
    Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I believe in the future of the human race.

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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    cee wrote:
    but what if someone teleports directly into the middle of the road with a great big cake......would i be entitled to grab it as i whacked them to the gutter?

    Well, if no one else will, I'll ask - wtf is with all of the cake comments?
  • STEFANOS4784
    STEFANOS4784 Posts: 4,109
    cee wrote:
    but what if someone teleports directly into the middle of the road with a great big cake......would i be entitled to grab it as i whacked them to the gutter?




    Only if you had the appropriate permission, if not then you'd have to leave said 'cake' for the following cyclist to retrieve or you could be accused of stealing the queens cakes.
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  • prj45
    prj45 Posts: 2,208
    The cake is a lie.
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  • andy jackson
    andy jackson Posts: 34
    STEFANOS4784 wrote:
    cee wrote:
    but what if someone teleports directly into the middle of the road with a great big cake......would i be entitled to grab it as i whacked them to the gutter?




    Only if you had the appropriate permission, if not then you'd have to leave said 'cake' for the following cyclist to retrieve or you could be accused of stealing the queens cakes.

    Providing said cake was adequately lit, or else a ped could easily walk into it and fall over, causing all sorts or long threads.......

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  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    prj45 wrote:
    The cake is a lie.

    a lie? or a liar?

    All the cakes I find tell me they won't make me fat. The weighbridge tells me differently
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  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    Always Tyred wrote:
    cee wrote:
    but what if someone teleports directly into the middle of the road with a great big cake......would i be entitled to grab it as i whacked them to the gutter?

    Well, if no one else will, I'll ask - wtf is with all of the cake comments?

    And I put it to you sir......wtf is with all the lack of cake comments? :D
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  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    spen666 wrote:
    prj45 wrote:
    The cake is a lie.

    a lie? or a liar?

    All the cakes I find tell me they won't make me fat. The weighbridge tells me differently
    I don't find cakes.....they find me.
    Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I believe in the future of the human race.

    H.G. Wells.
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    cee wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    cee wrote:
    but what if someone teleports directly into the middle of the road with a great big cake......would i be entitled to grab it as i whacked them to the gutter?

    Well, if no one else will, I'll ask - wtf is with all of the cake comments?

    And I put it to you sir......wtf is with all the lack of cake comments? :D
    Ouwwww! :x

    I didn't want to play with you guys anyway with your silly secret confection based code. I have my own friends. :cry:
  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    ah go on....have a piece of cake...I am now sampling a very nice Dundee cake...made by my good ladies granma.....with a nice cup of coffee.

    I am currently inundated with cake. I have 3 christmas cakes, 2 dundee cakes, a black bun and a brack cake, all home made by old ladies with too much booze in the house.

    I don't hold with secret cake codes.....just honest (sonsie) cake.
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    H.G. Wells.
  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    Someone I work with has just come back from Aber-ge-veny (Welsh spelling is a mystery to me this may or not be the right way to spell the name of somewhere west of Bristol). She has furnished me with Welsh Cakes which rock.

    Welsh cake and coffe.

    Now that is the LAW.
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  • velorazzi
    velorazzi Posts: 40
    Nice cake swerve there cee.

    I was getting fed up with the battle of the egos anyway.

    Speaking of cake (as we were) my wife's just made Nigella's chocolate Christmas fruit cake - a cake so good it should be classed as contraband...

    ...and I got to lick the bowl out, er if you know what I mean.
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    velorazzi wrote:
    I was getting fed up with the battle of the egos anyway.
    You have to have made at least 1000 posts before you can say that. You've transgressed the the unwritten law.
  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    Always Tyred wrote:
    ..
    Ouwwww! :x

    I didn't want to play with you guys anyway with your silly secret confection based code. I have my own friends. :cry:
    i've told you before- the custard creams are not your friends.

    they talk about you behind your back
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  • velorazzi
    velorazzi Posts: 40
    Nah mate, my boss looks over my shoulder too much. He's gone for a gentleman's excuse me at the moment which is why I'm reading this post...

    ...Hang on, is that a flushing sound? :shock:
  • ansbaradigeidfran
    ansbaradigeidfran Posts: 526
    Greg T wrote:
    Someone I work with has just come back from Aber-ge-veny (Welsh spelling is a mystery to me this may or not be the right way to spell the name of somewhere west of Bristol).

    Darned good shot. It's Abergavenny (or just Y Fenni in Welsh).

    Strangely, the best welshcakes I know of are the ones that my Canadian cousin makes. :)

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