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by eshvk 4413 days ago
Good job on being so aggressive. I suggest you go even further like Chris Bucchere [1] who killed someone and then proudly posted about it online. Maybe one day, you will even make CEO. Asshole.

[1] http://abc7news.com/archive/8635496/
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revelation 4413 days ago
This is a wonderful moment to face the beast that is cognitive dissonance.

For your perusal:

http://nypost.com/2013/03/12/deadly-wipeout-van-jumps-curb-a... - "The driver was not charged with a crime"

http://nypost.com/2013/08/20/cabbie-fighting-with-cyclist-ju... - "the cabbie [..] was likely to be slapped with multiple summonses for the crash but not criminally charged"

As it turns out, unless you are hopelessly drunk or leave the scene, you can kill someone with your car (even with blatant recklessness) and you will not face charges of any kind. I think the fines don't even go above $1k. Oh, you'll be driving the day after.

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eshvk 4413 days ago
How in God's name did you leap to the assumption that me pointing out that an aggressive cyclist is a dangerous thing is me assuming that an aggressive car driver is an OK thing? Or are you participating in the classic but oh Car Drivers also kill people so it is OK if a biker kills someone? Let us be clear here. As a pedestrian, I don't want any one fucking killing me.

Oh, Chris Bucchere got 3 years of probation. For killing a human being.

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revelation 4413 days ago
As you surely read, plenty of people get zero years of probation for killing a human being (or multiples).

You seemed to be plenty enraged with Bucchere, when his case is an obvious outlier for the system as a whole.

This is why we discuss, to calibrate expectations and guide our understanding.

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eshvk 4413 days ago
No, I am enraged by the idea of road aggression and pointed out that there are cases where similar things can be dangerous.

It is not obvious to me how you using italics in the term "outlier" makes his case an outlier.

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matkam 4413 days ago
I am not the asshole, buddy. The point is that people don't see cyclists. In my case, people would walk in front of me without looking, barely giving me time to swerve or break. Yes, cyclists should be careful not to hit people and should not blow through stops where there are people crossing. But cyclists don't exactly have it easy amongst aggressive cars and oblivious pedestrians.
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