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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!xlned.com!feeder3.xlned.com!feeder.news-service.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e348918$0$2494$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: No brakes, no lights, drunk and mows down a pedestrian on a crossing and just gets a slap on the wrist. Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 23:43:34 +0100 References: <04%Yp.66410$Sr.38788@newsfe12.ams2> Lines: 31 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <04%Yp.66410$Sr.38788@newsfe12.ams2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 6907f465.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=Ie[Vf4H0N4<>Kh6>W^jal80g@SS;SF6n7R9OH0:RnEN4VWi[N8QK3>:`:ITG5aA:c7]7?2C@E_JG< X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Bytes: 2713 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:848260

On 30/07/2011 22:53, Mrcheerful wrote: > I hope his insurance has paid out compo. to the victim (who also lost her > job as a result of the crash) > > http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/9167783.Warminster_cyclist_cracked_woman___s_skull/

No brakes, no lights, drunk, mows down a pedestrian on a crossing and just gets a slap on the wrist? That's absolutely terrible! The driver should get 25 years in jail, a £1m fine and a lifetime ban on even being in a car.

Hang on, it was a cyclist and not a driver? Oh well, that's completely different then. Even a slap on the wrist is too much; they shouldn't even have been charged. Think of how much the poor guy's life will be turned upside down now just because some idiot pedestrian got in the way on a crossing.

You see, when a driver commits an offence then they have to be very severely, disproportionately punished for it; when a cyclist commits that exact same offence then they have to be very lightly punished, if at all. This is to reflect the fact that drivers shouldn't be selfishly driving a ton of metal around, and so need punishing for that alone, while cyclists are morally superior and saving the planet, and so should be rewarded.

(Just saying what certain people are thinking...you can be sure that there will be a general lack of condemnation of this cyclist from certain quarters, whereas if it had been a driver who had done the exact same thing, then "they" would be all over him.... But who is "they", other than Chapman and Doug (the obvious ones)?  We'll have to see who does condemn the cyclist....)