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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!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!bolzen.all.de!news.qsc.de!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e2ee12b$0$2497$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Bexley driver "'severely embarrassed' after attack. Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:45:44 +0100 References:  <1QvXp.69124$J65.39913@newsfe14.ams2> Lines: 58 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1QvXp.69124$J65.39913@newsfe14.ams2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 6f8ef5a4.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=3eXWn On 26/07/2011 10:17, Simon Mason wrote: >> QUOTE: > >> "He is understandably remorseful and ashamed by his actions. His >> state of mind was such that he lost his temper. He is a family man >> and offered to pay compensation to the victim. "He was severely >> embarrassed when the footage was posted on to YouTube where it has >> been viewed over 100,000 times." > >> Mr Harris added that since the incident Nicholls had been harassed >> and people had left 'vicious messages' on his company website. > >> District judge Roger Ede summed up the case: "Cyclists are very >> vulnerable and they feel exposed and feel threatened when a car >> comes too close to them. "Car drivers need to respect cyclists and >> understand that." > >> http://www.kentonline.co.uk/dartford_messenger/news/2011/july/25/attacker_on_youtube.aspx > > Sense > > all round, by the looks of it.

You think that random psycholists harassing Nicholls and leaving vicious messages on his company website is "sense"? Well you would, wouldn't you?

Especially since they're harassing him not particularly because of this incident, but just because he's a driver who dares not to worship cyclists, and this incident is just an excuse for them to focus their sadistic hate on one person, as they have many times before.

These utter psychos just love to spew their self-righteous, screeching, dishonest, thoroughly unpleasant, anti-motorist venom at anyone who they decide is "the enemy" (e.g. this person, or those who publicise the "wrong" road safety findings), and they're constantly chomping at the bit for new people to victimise. Their eagerness to do this, even to those who haven't yet been convicted of anything, is sickening, twisted and alarming.

Still, Chapman, this does show your real attitude towards the "harassment" and "vicious personal attacks" which you claim to so despise when it suits you. As usual when you claim to be so terribly shocked by something that an opponent has supposedly done to you or one of your brethren, it seems that you're not half so bothered when you or one of your psycholist buddies engages in the exact same behaviour. Par for the course for a sociopath, I suppose.

> The problem is that traffic > tantrums can result in real harm; I wish there were a way of getting > people like this who are clearly embarrassed by what they have done, to > present their experiences for the edification of others.

It might be better to get reformed nutter cyclists to speak about not provoking drivers or riding dangerously. But that doesn't quite fit your agenda of "minimise restrictions on cyclists while maximising restriction on drivers for ideological reasons, and safety can go hang", does it?