Agreed. There's a major difference between being sympathetic to cyclists and taking pleasure in the fact that someone who may have been about to do something nasty to a cyclist was seriously injured or killed.<br><br>
-m<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Rachel Elizabeth Dillon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rachel@akrasiac.org">rachel@akrasiac.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:59:14PM +0000, Martin Rodriguez wrote:<br>
> OK, correct me if I'm wrong: the kid in the car was trying to do<br>
> what exactly to a cyclist? Hit him? Knock him off his bike? What was<br>
> his intention? Suppose he had been successful in knocking the cyclist<br>
> off of his bike, and it was the cyclist who was seriously injured?<br>
<br>
</div>It's hard to tell for sure, but it looks like he was trying to injure<br>
the cyclist; or, rather, he was trying to somehow spook or shove the<br>
cyclist in a way likely to cause injury. A brief googling hasn't turned<br>
up anything authoritative.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> I got on this email list because of an incident on my bike where some<br>
> passing motorists threw something out their windows at me as they passed<br>
> in their car. I really don't like people in cars who do stuff like this<br>
> to cyclists. My sympathies are ALWAYS with the cyclists, and I hoped<br>
> that viewpoint would be shared by others in this group.<br>
<br>
</div>I like to think I have enough sympathy for both the cyclist and the kid<br>
who got hit by the car; it's not a zero-sum game. The cyclist didn't<br>
deserve to get injured by some kid pulling what he thought was a prank,<br>
and the kid didn't deserve to die for pulling a dangerous prank at<br>
someone else's expense. I'm not rushing to pay his funeral expenses<br>
and console his family, but if he had injured the cyclist, been caught<br>
on camera, and been brought to trial, I don't think any of us would be<br>
seriously advocating the death penalty. (At least, I would hope that<br>
viewpoint to be shared by others in the group, too.)<br>
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-r.<br>
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