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yaigi
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PostPosted: 15:11 - 21 May 2013    Post subject: What chance do you have when... Reply with quote
...there's people like this on the road:

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/21/cyclist-twitter-emma-way-knock-down_n_3311809.html?utm_hp_ref=uk%3Fncid%3DGEP

A Norwich woman, whose name is 'Emma Way' on Twitter, tweeted: "Definitely knocked a cyclist off his bike earlier – I have right of way he doesn’t even pay road tax #bloodycyclists”
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PostPosted: 15:15 - 21 May 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hilarious. Girl makes up BS story and BS guy responds with BS tosh. The fact the popo got sucked in and responded with their inevitably cretinous BS is the cherry on the cake. Laughing
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PostPosted: 15:31 - 21 May 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think this could be genuine, could be, not saying it is, but there are people THAT stupid. Just read another article on it which linked to this Twitter account about cycle hatred (a cyclist retweeting tweets about people hating cyclists):


https://twitter.com/cyclehatred

so there are sure a lot of people out there who really don't give a shit. Witness it around mine all the time.
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PostPosted: 20:01 - 21 May 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hmmmm....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22602141

Either she hit him, or someone else hit him and she's just kindly taken the rap for it. Daft bint.
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PostPosted: 09:38 - 22 May 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Vracktal wrote:
Hmmmm....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22602141

Either she hit him, or someone else hit him and she's just kindly taken the rap for it. Daft bint.


Laughing The cyclist looks like Martin Clunes, poor guy Laughing
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PostPosted: 20:57 - 23 May 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Drew wrote:
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2013-05-22/cycle-tweet-girl-breaks-her-silence/

Interview with the woman, who still doesn't seem sorry about hitting a cyclist, just sorry she posted the tweet got caught.


Just watched that interview, she looks like shes dying to smile or laugh all the time, and yeah, it definitely comes across that shes apologising for the tweet, not the accident. Oh and she can't remember what the tweet said!? Bollocks. Hope shes banned from driving for good and loses her stupid job.
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PostPosted: 07:39 - 24 May 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22639720

Actually feel a bit sorry for her, I mean she's obviously a grade A retard but still. Even the presenters tail off at the end!
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PostPosted: 20:56 - 24 May 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
the interview on bbc breakfast was pretty poor, now she is claiming to have stopped to check on the cyclist which is very different to her initial tweet.
there are other tweets of hers floating around that she posted while driving.

most importantly though i would happily smash her back doors in. Very Happy
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PostPosted: 21:13 - 24 May 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Stupid girl, she's plastered her face all over the news so a quick websearch will let any savvy employer not hire her.

Plus if I remember correctly working in accounts is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. Meaning she will ALWAYS have to declare it and employers are well within their rights to discriminate against her based on this. Plus I reckon the professional bodies won't let her join either.
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PostPosted: 17:26 - 14 Jun 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'd be happy to have the "road tax" argument with any incompetent, blind, 2-wheeled hating cager. I pay road tax for 2 cars and 2 bikes, therefore their argument is irrelevant. There are so many cagers that are irresponsible cunts. I detest so many of them and see so many examples of awful, inconsiderate and selfish driving every day. Evil or Very Mad

Being a biker is bad enough, but you really take risks with your life if you're a cyclist on the roads nowadays...
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PostPosted: 17:31 - 14 Jun 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
carlosthejackal wrote:
I'd be happy to have the "road tax" argument with any incompetent, blind, 2-wheeled hating cager. I pay road tax for 2 cars and 2 bikes, therefore their argument is irrelevant. There are so many cagers that are irresponsible cunts. I detest so many of them and see so many examples of awful, inconsiderate and selfish driving every day. Evil or Very Mad

Being a biker is bad enough, but you really take risks with your life if you're a cyclist on the roads nowadays...


The road tax argument doesn't really stand up at all. What about a super-low emission or leccy car that pays zero road tax? By that logic they don't have any right to be on the road.

Second part, I cycle on the road all the time and have yet to witness any horrendous driving that I feel puts me in danger, if anything I'm riding like a nob weaving in and out of traffic etc. If I ever get hurt chances are it will be my fault and not that of others. Maybe its just easier down in the westcountry?
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PostPosted: 17:44 - 14 Jun 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
smegballs wrote:

Second part, I cycle on the road all the time and have yet to witness any horrendous driving that I feel puts me in danger, if anything I'm riding like a nob weaving in and out of traffic etc. If I ever get hurt chances are it will be my fault and not that of others. Maybe its just easier down in the westcountry?


I'm in a similar boat. Reckon it may well have something to do with the fact we both ride motorbikes, and so I used to riding defensively, whereas plenty of the MAMILs behave as if they're in a car? Thinking
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PostPosted: 16:37 - 15 Jun 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
A lot of it depends on the day you cycle. I find sunday drivers are really bad. Old drivers are crap full stop to be fair.
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PostPosted: 13:26 - 19 Nov 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
She got off, but was found guilty of another

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/cyclist-tweeter-cleared-careless-driving-124704599.html#BFPylqf

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-25000788

Failing to stop after an accident ~ 7 points £300 fine and £370 costs.


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"It is the biggest regret of my life so far."

The court heard Mr Hockley suffered bruises and minor damage to his bike in the incident at Rockland All Saints on 19 May, when he was riding in the 100-mile Boudicca Sportive with his friend Jason [Jay] Sexton.

Describing the trial as a relatively routine case of driving without due care and attention, prosecutor Stephen Poole added: "Why it becomes notorious is because the suspect went home and tweeted.

"It was that tweet which has put this into the public arena.



Yeah right more like you regret getting caught Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 20:37 - 19 Nov 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Way refused to comment as she left court, saying she had signed an exclusive television deal.


Wonder who's going to be paying the fine/court fees Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 22:25 - 19 Nov 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Why is it that some people think that this girl should have received a lifelong driving ban and also be de-barred from future employment? She has already received a harsher sentence than most people in less publicised cases receive.
She was involved in a minor incident, which possibly wasn't even her fault. She then, foolishly, made an ill-judged, silly, public comment on the matter.
Why is she public enemy number 1?
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PostPosted: 09:32 - 20 Nov 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Raffles wrote:
Why is it that some people think that this girl should have received a lifelong driving ban and also be de-barred from future employment? She has already received a harsher sentence than most people in less publicised cases receive.
She was involved in a minor incident, which possibly wasn't even her fault. She then, foolishly, made an ill-judged, silly, public comment on the matter.
Why is she public enemy number 1?


Because we aren't allowed to dislike the cyclistas. Anyone who harms one must be roasted. They are saving our carbons and getting fitter at the same time, they are obviously the next human evolutionary step.
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We are... the cyclists
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PostPosted: 18:28 - 20 Nov 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Raffles wrote:
Why is it that some people think that this girl should have received a lifelong driving ban and also be de-barred from future employment? She has already received a harsher sentence than most people in less publicised cases receive.
She was involved in a minor incident, which possibly wasn't even her fault. She then, foolishly, made an ill-judged, silly, public comment on the matter.
Why is she public enemy number 1?


Well in the cycling section views are going to be biased, much like the one sided views in 'biker banter' if somebody was to knock a biker off.
Like you say it was a fairly minor accident that would have probably been resolved verbally at the road side, that's if she's bothered to stop. Even after that she could have kept quite and blamed it on panicking and taking off. But in the end she couldn't even do that because she was too busy gloating about it on twitter.

She got a few points and a fine which seems fair enough for the offence but because of her 'exclusive television deal' it will more then likely be paid for her anyway.

Maybe I've seen more coverage of the incident then others as it happened locally and was all over the local news as well as the national. But I kinda got the feeling that deep down she was quite enjoying the attention, even if much of it was negative. In the phone ins it was surprising how many people were phoning in to defend her, cyclists really are that unpopular. Laughing
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PostPosted: 18:39 - 20 Nov 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
When will drivers get it into their heads it's NOT 'road tax' it's vehicle tax (Vehicle Excise Duty to be precise), meaning one is charged depending on their choice of vehicle, not for being on the road. That's not to mention that many cyclists already pay VED on other vehicles they own Rolling Eyes
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Deerhound wrote:
When will drivers get it into their heads it's NOT 'road tax' it's vehicle tax (Vehicle Excise Duty to be precise), meaning one is charged depending on their choice of vehicle, not for being on the road. That's not to mention that many cyclists already pay VED on other vehicles they own Rolling Eyes


Conversely, when will cyclists get it through their heads that most people couldn't give a shit what it's called, the fact is, there is someone on the road in front of them who is slower, more erratic and completely unpredictable with regard to the rules of the road.

Rather than being pedantic about VED or road tax, how about responding to the real argument? I don't have the slightest issue with cyclists using the road, but if they are going to use it, then obey the same rules as everyone else.

Obey red lights.
Don't undertake.
Be mindful of your vulnerability - physics doesn't care whether you have right of way, but it does make you harder to see.

The big one for me is basic road courtesy. I'm not saying you have to be constantly looking for something to give way to, but nothing irritates more than someone determined to exercise a 'right', regardless of how much it inconveniences everyone else. Don't be a twat on the road, that goes for everyone, not just cyclists.
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PostPosted: 20:08 - 20 Nov 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
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