Sad Reminder of the dangers of cycling

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Originally Posted by creekster

1. You define backlash then. This post is backlash? Tell me how.

2. Did you read the thread? Tex has continued to say one way or the other. That is certainly his right, but it is also my right to find that to be the sort of indecision about cyclists that deserves approbation. Or is this backlash too?

3. It would be remarkable. It would also be wrong, IMO, which is what this is about. I thought I had made that rather clear as well.

4. See number one.

I don't think I confused anything. Tex certainly didn't, and we fully analyzed the difference between the families' input and the state's decision to prosecute. Read the entire thread. You'll see it.

No offense taken or intended, but I think your opinion is based on an incomplete reading of the issues and shows a fialure to grasp what is at stake.

1. Backlash: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/backlash. Pay specific attention to definition #2. Post 9 easily qualifies.

2. I've actually read the entire thread (other than the more recent, uber-long posts rehashing the same BS as before). Granted, post #8 runs contrary to his other posts, which I believe was a typo. Check post #5, and you'll see why I think that. Arguing that SOME leniency at SOME point in the process COULD justifiably be applied is CERTAINLY no worse than Mike's suggestion that the action MIGHT have been deliberate. I see no difference between your ascribing to Tex things he never said and his ascribing to Mike things he never said.
In truth, I think you're both off on this. Tex started accusing Mike of something Mike didn't say, but you're doing the same to Tex. No difference, IMO. You're both being jackasses.

3. Quite clear. And you're free to feel that way. Tex is free to feel mercy applied to this situation wouldn't be out of place. And yet you continue to demonize him for it.
14 pages of this nonsense, and you're both still at the exact same place. Good work.

4. Ditto.



At any rate, I'll be stepping out of this conversation. I really had no place in it to begin with, and probably should have just kept my fingers to myself. I'm very much empathetic towards cyclists - when you've got to share the road with idiots piloting vehicles outweighing you by thousands of pounds, it's natural to feel the way you do. Especially considering the idiocy I see happening from behind the wheel of my own car. Hopefully, more than a few drivers will read this story, and therefore decide to be more considerate towards cyclists. I'll certainly try to be more careful myself.