Cyclist blames toddler for accident

Dunkindiver
Dunkindiver Posts: 143
edited November 2010 in The bottom bracket
Not very clever is it?

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/8 ... _accident/

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  • Tonymufc
    Tonymufc Posts: 1,016
    What an absolute scum bag. :x
  • phearnde
    phearnde Posts: 73
    Let's hope they catch the b4stard
  • Stu T
    Stu T Posts: 127
    but did he have a Wallace in the other ear :twisted:
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Yep he sounds like a bit of a scum bag. MTFU, apologise and buy the little mite some Lego.
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  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    I can't understand why the cyclist rode off having knocked down the child? Surely they would be concerned for the child? No different to a hit and run driver really.
    Life is like a roll of toilet paper; long and useful, but always ends at the wrong moment. Anon.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Not a 'cyclist' but a kn0b on a bike...
  • Buppy (banned)
    Buppy (banned) Posts: 38
    Cue Spen66 coming on and saying that if they're riding a bike then they're a cyclist, end off, blah blah blah,


    yawn.
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Stu T wrote:
    but did he have a Wallace in the other ear :twisted:

    So what is a grommet anyway? And what would it be doing in an ear?

    I think we've all met the bad driver who instantly blames everyone else for their own mistakes or lack of judgement. But it's horrible to hear of cyclists with the same ''it's never my fault'' attitude. On a pavement, as well.
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  • plowmar
    plowmar Posts: 1,032
    Just try this deptfordmarmoset

    www.entuk.org/patient_info/ear/surgery_grommets_html

    and read,learn and inwardly digest - there that's showing my age. :wink:
  • brin
    brin Posts: 1,122
    NapoleonD wrote:
    Not a 'cyclist' but a kn0b on a bike...

    +1 - too often eejits who jump on a bike to go get their fags at shops, or to visit their mates get labelled a 'cyclist'...there are cyclist's and there are bike riders, just like there are footballers and people kicking a ball about.
  • gavintc
    gavintc Posts: 3,009
    Perhaps I am a cynical old bastard, but to me the story does not really add up. I suspect an editor keen to follow an anti-cyclist agenda.
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    plowmar wrote:
    Just try this deptfordmarmoset

    www.entuk.org/patient_info/ear/surgery_grommets_html

    and read,learn and inwardly digest - there that's showing my age. :wink:

    Well I never.. I'm sure if my ears were better I would probably have heard of them before. Cheers plowmar :wink:
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  • plowmar
    plowmar Posts: 1,032
    Pardon? I heard that. :wink:
  • Dunkindiver
    Dunkindiver Posts: 143
    Perhaps I am a cynical old bastard, but to me the story does not really add up. I suspect an editor keen to follow an anti-cyclist agenda

    I'm not so sure, here are a couple of articles from the front page of Todays Echo

    http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/o ... wild_side/

    http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/b ... of_Winter/
  • Clarion
    Clarion Posts: 223
    I'm not convinced we've got the whole story here, so I'm not leaping up with my pitchfork & burning brand.

    Was this a shared use path? Is a bus station a good place to leave a toddler roaming free? I know I held mine tight. Have any of us really not experienced a person stepping in front so close you can't (or can barely) avoid them?

    I agree it's not on to dash off leaving an injured child.
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  • plowmar
    plowmar Posts: 1,032
    But to blame the child? - parent/carer surely?
  • danlikesbikes
    danlikesbikes Posts: 3,898
    NapoleonD wrote:
    Not a 'cyclist' but a kn0b on a bike...

    +1 on that front.

    I've never heard of a gromit in the ear so had to google it http://www.earhelp.co.uk/Grommets.html starting to wish I'd not though as its put me right off my breakfast.

    P.S. lets hope the child wasn't hit by current world champ Thor as the child he hit ran off before he could say sorry. Though on reflection was probably just some jumped up t@@t.
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  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    dilemna wrote:
    I can't understand why the cyclist rode off having knocked down the child? Surely they would be concerned for the child? No different to a hit and run driver really.

    You've made the assumption the get has a decent bone in his body, which he obviously has not, utter b@st@rd. Unfortunately as Nap D posted "not a cyclist but a knob on a bike" the GP will however view him as a cyclist. :twisted:
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  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    If the cyclist "didnt intend" to hit the kid then its perfectly fine;

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-11787126
  • MichaelW
    MichaelW Posts: 2,164
    This nasty little incident has generated over 60 comments in the paper.

    In the same newspaper, a report of the killing of a grandmother by a motorist evading the police, on the wrong side of the road with no lights, generates 2 comments.
  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    Buppy wrote:
    Cue Spen66 coming on and saying that if they're riding a bike then they're a cyclist, end off, blah blah blah,


    yawn.

    Well as the definition of a cyclist is someone who rides a bike he is a cyclist.

    He may well be a kn*b and not the sort of person you want to thinkof as having anything in common with you, but he is still a cyclist.

    What is more important than what you think, is what the public at large think. They will see him as a cyclist and tar us with the same brush

    We need to make it clear, as everyone has on here, that such behaviour is unacceptable and we all condemn it





    What interested me about this was the cyclist fails to see he has done anything wrong at all. Now, I can accept that the child may have moved unexpetedly into the path of the cyclist. however, the cyclist fails to recognise he was illegally riding on the pavement. Even riding slowly and considerately, it is still illegal to ride on the pavement (shared use paths excepted of course), irrespective of the rubbish Paul Boateng spouted in Parliament a few years ago when talking re Fixed penalty notices.

    There is a common , albeit misguided, view that it is lawful to ride on the pavement. I often see it on my commute to work when people are riding on pavement even when there is a perfectly suitable cycle lane running parallel to the footpath they are riding on
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  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    MichaelW wrote:
    This nasty little incident has generated over 60 comments in the paper.

    In the same newspaper, a report of the killing of a grandmother by a motorist evading the police, on the wrong side of the road with no lights, generates 2 comments.

    I can never decide if the number of comments you refer to is
    a) because incidents involving cyclists are shocking because rare- compared to road deaths of which there are too many
    b) as a result of a real prejudice against cyclists
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  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    spen666 wrote:
    MichaelW wrote:
    This nasty little incident has generated over 60 comments in the paper.

    In the same newspaper, a report of the killing of a grandmother by a motorist evading the police, on the wrong side of the road with no lights, generates 2 comments.

    I can never decide if the number of comments you refer to is
    a) because incidents involving cyclists are shocking because rare- compared to road deaths of which there are too many
    b) as a result of a real prejudice against cyclists

    90% a)
    10% b)

    Though if there had been a c) scapegoating cyclists because there are far too many road deaths/injuries, I'd have to adjust my percentages.

    He's still a twát though.
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