Sorry to put a stick in your spoke, but screw all you cyclist commuters. You assholes think you can ride around, saving gas money, totally vulnerable to cars, and we upstanding folks with combustion based vehicles(you know, the people who the traffic system was designed for) are obligated to look out for your well being, because it's considered "vehicular manslaughter" to run one of you pricks over, accidental or otherwise.
Why the hell do you think I bought a tank? I bought it so I didn't have to pay attention on to minor potential collision objects such as yourselves. You'll make an easily avoided piece of roadkill with those neon-safety form fitting nylon short shorts.
So you sit there with your smug little faces with your helmet under your armpit, "While you were wasting money and supporting terrorism, I was boosting my health and helping the environment." Well while you were enjoying the ride over, I was already there, fucking your soon to be ex-girlfriend on my passenger seat.
I want to hear the thud of your noggin against my bumper as you're pulled under.
To feel the satisfying squish of flesh under rubber.
To look in my rear-view mirror and see an enflamed bicycle tire bouncing along a blood spattered pavement.
To pry out chunks of twisted metal and bone from under my chassis as I laugh.
I want to give you a real reason to wear that helmet every day.
I'd say that I agree to some degree. However there are the occasional cyclist who seems to think that because the car driver will get prosecuted as standard that this gives them the right to ride like airheads. Similar to the mothers who seem to think they can use a pushchair to stop traffic and then yell at anyone who doesn't immediately slam the anchors on (remembering that here there's none of this jay walking nonsense).I strongly encourage you to do this. When you get out of jail, I'd like to find you and bust your head open with a bat.
the car driver will get prosecuted as standard
After having witnessed what passes for driving your side of the pond, you have my sincere sympathies. I think I'd wear bubble wrap if I cycled over there... oh and neon lighting... with sandpaper on the outside of the bubblewrap just to make sure I did the maximum damage to anyone that ignored the lights.Not true. A friend once got a ticket after being hit by a car, because he was on the sidewalk instead of the road.
I still ride on the sidewalk, though. I figure there's less chance of getting killed, even if it's illegal.
I like to think of my brain as one of my more valuable assets...
Agreed. I rely on my brains for my livelihood. Arms and legs I could do without if push comes to dismemberment, but the brain has got to stay.
Where I live, the justice system seems grossly in favor of car owners vs cyclists, and the settlements for minor injuries caused by car drivers are ridiculous. One low-speed accident entirely at car driver's fault was estimated at what, few hundred euros. He got away with bruises and some abrasions (wounds, don't got a better word), with few days away from work.I'd say that I agree to some degree. However there are the occasional cyclist who seems to think that because the car driver will get prosecuted as standard that this gives them the right to ride like airheads. Similar to the mothers who seem to think they can use a pushchair to stop traffic and then yell at anyone who doesn't immediately slam the anchors on (remembering that here there's none of this jay walking nonsense).
Dude... get with the century. You could get one of those mercury bats... much lighter but with a similar impact. I mean... a hammer...jeez... you want a pickaxe or just an axe. How are you going to get a hammer through a sports cars grill? I mean.. come on... forward planning... hello...Where I live, the justice system seems grossly in favor of car owners vs cyclists, and the settlements for minor injuries caused by car drivers are ridiculous. One low-speed accident entirely at car driver's fault was estimated at what, few hundred euros. He got away with bruises and some abrasions (wounds, don't got a better word), with few days away from work.
This is a reason why I've actually planned to carry a sledge hammer in my oversized backbag - to hold immediatefieldstreet court sessions - and to execute the punishment to the said vehicle after rulings of said court.
My eyes actually gleamed over when I saw that 10-pound hammer with a23-feet shaft in the local hardware store.
However, I am 100% against legislation mandating it. If someone doesn't want to wear one and feels like taking those risks (as I do at times), its fine with me.
Agreed. I rely on my brains for my livelihood. Arms and legs I could do without if push comes to dismemberment, but the brain has got to stay.
I wouldn't mind totaly brain debridement, as long as my consciousness stayed in my brain.
I wouldn't mind being a floating brain.
I'd hover about, issuing orders, smearing brain juice on freshly cleaned windows. Possibly disguise myself in the grocery store meat department and talk to passers-by.
hmm...
Then I would come home, and I'd need a vat of brain fluid.
The government would try to retrain all of their animal control people to be able to catch me with conventional tools.
Where I live, the justice system seems grossly in favor of car owners vs cyclists, and the settlements for minor injuries caused by car drivers are ridiculous. One low-speed accident entirely at car driver's fault was estimated at what, few hundred euros. He got away with bruises and some abrasions (wounds, don't got a better word), with few days away from work.
This is a reason why I've actually planned to carry a sledge hammer in my oversized backbag - to hold immediatefieldstreet court sessions - and to execute the punishment to the said vehicle after rulings of said court.
My eyes actually gleamed over when I saw that 10-pound hammer with a23-feet shaft in the local hardware store.