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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!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder.news-service.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e2ee4d2$0$2540$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Saved by her helmet Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:01:18 +0100 References:    Lines: 35 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:  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: d25c6ad3.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=<0L[7ZC2iaeG On 24/07/2011 22:41, Ron Lowe wrote: >> On 24/07/2011 20:30, Mrcheerful wrote: >>> http://www.northantset.co.uk/news/local/corby/triathlete_is_saved_by_bicycle_helmet_1_2890246 >>> >>> >>> > >>> >> So? > > It's an exercise in proving that data is not the plural of anecdote.

So why is it that whenever a cyclist reports being "cut up" by a motorist, and has no evidence, you automatically believe their side of the story?

Talking of which, I wonder what really happened with your latest injury? Something tells me you were at least partly responsible, but bullied the driver into admitting full liability by making unpleasant threats, at least some of which probably involved claims that your psycholist mates would start viciously harassing him and "appearing" as your witnesses, and you'd start suing him for thousands of pounds for your (multiple, including whiplash of course) injuries through the civil courts. Am I warm?

No doubt there's some kind of psycholist "guide to what threats to make to get the driver to admit fault, even when it was actually your fault" going round. And no doubt many of the psycholists think that's "justifiable" because "the driver is always 'morally' at fault in a driver/cyclist collision, simply because he's in a ton of metal". (You know, the kind of people who replied to my "Whose Fault?" thread saying it was the driver's fault.)

Psycholists. Warped as.