Idiot Biker Runs Over Negligent Pedestrian, Both Carry on
By Rocky Thompson on August 25th, 2010
A cyclist riding the wrong way down a one-way street clobbers an old guy trying to cross the street. Instead of punching the hell out of each other, going to jail, and then making a couple lawyers rich by settling it in litigation, they simply agree that they’re both kind of jerks and move on. I hope this signals a new direction for America.
He wasn’t in the crosswalk, cancels out. lol love it.
Jaywalking is much less stupid and reckless than biking the wrong way down the street.
Biker clown is lucky it was just a old guy j-walking he hit. Next time might be a garbage truck, then it won’t “cancel out”. He might want to consider using some sense.
Wow, The cyclist is a dumbass, not simply b/c he’s riding the wrong way, but b/c he is using 3 fingers to control his bike in city traffic. If his hands were in a position to grab his brakes; collision avoided. The pedestrian is a dumbass for crossing sans crosswalk and not being fully aware of his surroundings. It’s the city and you never know what is coming around the corner. Pedestrians should all go back to the rules taught to us in grade 1. Stop, look and listen, before you cross the street.
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Bikers like this are what I call assholes. The jaywalker probably looked for oncoming traffic and didn’t see any. Then there was a jerk biker who nailed him. Whoever has the more dangerous vehicle is more responsible. A car driver has more responsibility than a biker and a biker has more responsibility than a pedestrian. Bikers commonly break traffic laws. The reason a smart, reasonable biker follows laws is so that everyone, cars and pedestrians, knows what they will do. But instead they do whatever they want. It must be nice. And who keeps a camera on them filming themselves biking around?
guy probably looked right to see if there was any oncoming traffic. who expects a bike going to wrong direction?
So the pedestrian gets whacked by silent, wrong-way traffic that isn’t looking out for him at all. Cyclists not infrequently choose to create risks other road users haven’t agreed to. When they (or pedestrians) expect others to look out for them more than they are willing to look out for themselves it can really create a bad reaction in others. It is not unheard of for me to find a cyclist going the wrong way around a local traffic circle. The cyclist in the vid seems very presumptuous and not too concerned with the cooperative effort not getting run over amounts to.
I think that bikers like to complain that they aren’t treated like a vehicle on the road, and yet they break a lot of rules that they need to follow to be considered a vehicle in traffic. Pedestrians complain when they get a ticket for jaywalking yet they blatantly walk in the middle of the street. Plain and simple if people would follow the basic rules there would be a lot fewer accidents and a lot less bitching.