Strewth.
Mark Geary writes:
Why wasn’t this driver locked up?
Melbourne driver handed $1,000 fine for deliberately hitting cyclist (The Guardian)
Everything. As It Happens.
Strewth.
Mark Geary writes:
Why wasn’t this driver locked up?
Melbourne driver handed $1,000 fine for deliberately hitting cyclist (The Guardian)
He jumped out of his car and acts like he was the injured party.
He received a fine for attempted murder! Bizarre.
Road traffic violence and motor vehicle dominance have been normalised in our society to such an extent that a substantial number of people will probably empathise with the driver, and their first thought will be “I wonder what the cyclist did to provoke that.”
The average driver does not think of their vehicle as a killing machine (unlike international terrorists who have designated it as their weapon of choice).
Spot on.
I went from being a cyclist to a driver, and to this day, I’m still very conscious of the fact that I’m driving an enormous lump of metal that moves at high speeds.
Big claims of what has been normalised in our society! Camomile T is it just your commute were there is a lot of “normal motor vehicle dominance” ?
(is there a website or something similar where one can go and seek out toxic and headline grabbing soundbites such as “motor vehicle dominance”?????)
I suspect the average driver is not an “international terrorist” so one hopes they don’t see their vehicle as a “weapon”……
To understand normal motor vehicle dominance, attempt to cycle or cross a street in Phibsboro.
The average commuter from the tribals may not be a bloodthirsty international terrorist, but for many drivers, once they’re safe in their metal box, a marked reduction of empathy does occur.. especially when passing through a community that isn’t theirs.
try cycling down by east point where it leaves you smack in the middle of the absolute chaos of east wall road and the east link. not for the faint hearted..
What was the story before the video?
Don’t believe all you see or hear!
Yeah because it really matters and could justify someone using a 3 tonne vehicle as a weapon. Idiot
Nice pitt maneuver.
Didn’t take long for that response…
It’s still crazy, if he stabbed the guy for keying his car nobody would be defending him.
Can we play victim-blaming bingo?
Apparently (I read this somewhere online) the cyclist had just, allegedly, keyed the guy’s car moments before.
Apparently. And that doesn’t justify hitting someone with a car.
Seemingly so https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6332011/The-REAL-story-shocking-road-rage-video-went-viral.html
Cyclist got what he deserved then. No injury just a good smack. Typical cyclist.
Typical moronic statement.
He won’t key anybody’s car again. Lesson learned.
Go back to your parents and tell them to finish raising you.
His parents obviously did a great job raising the guy who keyed the car.
ah, the daily mail, how scummy..
and what did the driver do to deserve the car-keying, if we’re going down that route?
I wondered that too when reading the Daily Mail article.
I did learn that the victim is a cyclist, mathematician, linguist and lived in France. There’s even a photo suggesting that the Ponce prefers wine over Castlemaine Four X.
Elsewhere the aggressor is referred to as a Bloke whose car was keyed.
Poor bloke.
and a bloke who already has a criminal record, I believe
Was he a politician or a policemans friend? Both of those usually work.
Hats off to the driver, clean front wheel bashing – cyclist not hurt. Looks like a manoeuvre he has practiced, bit like those cops and how they bring cars to a stop