Nuxx:Fedc739c-64f2-4135-92d2-b69e3062798d@f19g2000yqh.googlegroups.com

Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!f19g2000yqh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: OT: Impatient driver assists in suicide bid. Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 01:11:37 -0700 (PDT) References:  Lines: 23 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.251.27 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1243152697 22747 127.0.0.1 (24 May 2009 08:11:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 08:11:37 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f19g2000yqh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.251.27; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2419 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:703547

On May 23, 5:54=A0pm, "Simon Mason"  wrote: > Our bunch of cyclists has done the opposite on no fewer than 3 occasions. > Last time, we spotted a female nurse with a load of kids toys waiting to > jump off the Humber Bridge when we came back from winter training. We > managed to talk her down until her husband arrived. > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5372890/Man-shov...

What is your point? That drivers tend to be callous bastards, whereas cyclists tend to be helpful and decent, based on a statistical sample of precisely 4 incidents?

Mind you, I suppose camera supporters (at least those who really believe that they work) were never that great with statistics.

Oh, and it *is* selfish to hold up traffic (or trains) by attempting or committing suicide. If someone wants to top themselves, there are plenty of ways to do it which don't involve holding up huge numbers of people. I'm not excusing the actions of the attempted murderer (the one in the article, not Chapman, who's an actual murderer by proxy) for a second, but those who deliberately and needlessly hold up traffic or trains for whatever reason are fuckwits.