Sad news

map · Mr Calendar Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Karma :

Motorcyclist killed - Link here Sad

Past this road (A645) on way to work this morning. Road was closed onto A19.
I don't know who this was, it's just I see a GS rider sometimes. Radio report said bike was in a ditch.

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dainesefreak · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Apr 2003 Karma :

R.I.P.

As you say sad news indeed.

steveh · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Karma :

R.I.P

poor sod, makes you wonder doesnt it :S
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Fallen Angel · Franny the Nanny Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Karma :

Thoughts go out to his or her friends and family!
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Weed · Nitrous Nuisance Joined: 08 Oct 2004 Karma :

Ride In Peace Sad

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carvell · Scuttler Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Karma :

I feel I should break with tradition here and say: "Who cares?".

I didn't know him, you didn't know him, thousands of people die a day, lots on Britains roads, if we had a thread about each person dieing the forum would be massively clogged up - why does one person (who might be a mass murderer or something) deserve a "RIP" thread when maybe someone else doesn't.

Fair enough, respect to family and all that, but I think it's a bit weird to start up threads about people dieing who you don't know and had no contact with.
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Bendy · Mrs Sensible Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Karma :

Well said Carvell.

Josh · Traffic Copper Joined: 20 May 2004 Karma :

I am not speaking for anyone here but say it is a biker I saw every day, a nod now and then, courteous riding around each other, small things like that, although you don't actually know them you have a connection and if that person were to die, maybe it would shake me up a bit and maybe I would post about it, just my thoughts I guess.
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tony532 · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 May 2004 Karma :

fair point carvell

it did happen on a stretch of road he rides on everyday though

so may of nodded to biker in question from time to time.

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Would you feel saddend if the biker had been killed in a deliberate act?

If so, I don't see the difference between the two.

I heard some biker had been killed by someone throwing a brick at them, the biker swerved to avoid it and collided head on with a car. I believe he was a traffic cop or something similar.

Feel sympathetic to that situation?

If not, you're a feckin robot....

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Rob W · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Nov 2004 Karma :

Very sad news indeed

R.I.P

Fallen Angel · Franny the Nanny Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Karma :

Can I just get my tuppence-worth in here - I think the fact that people are bickering over something like this is ridiculous!

Fair enough Map, wanted to comment on, but honestly Carvell, if you didn't care, then why post??? Confused

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carvell · Scuttler Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Karma :

To express my opinion on the matter.

I could have started a new thread about it if you wanted, but then what's the point if there is one here I can add my contribution to.

If the same were to happen to me I wouldn't expect random people to start expressing the fact that they are sorry or whatever, I'd hate that, because they don't know me, never met me, never spoken to me, why should they care, how am I different from the thousands of others that die a day.
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Bendy · Mrs Sensible Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Karma :

I don't think anyone's bickering, I think it's a valid debate on an interesting subject.

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Shaun · Likes 'em bent Joined: 17 May 2003 Karma :

I was going to post the exact same thing that Carvell did but decided not to, mainly because I'm lazy. I read in my local paper over summer about a lot of bikers dying on roads that I have reguarly used, I didn't post about them on here because nobody will care.

Should I start posting about every random biker I hear of thats died, I mean I may have passed them on the road once and nodded, maybe even had a small chat with them at a bike meet or traffic lights once. The point still stands that he never knew the guy and neither did any of us, if you really want to post about every death lets turn the board into the local paper and have a births and deaths section, shall have to post about every birth we hear about though, they might grow up to be bikers.