Re: Taxi ran down cyclist on purpose

Adrian <toomany2cvs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Squashme <squashme@xxxxxxxxx> gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying:

Steve Firth: "the cyclist was talking drivel. It's obvious that he was
behaving aggressively towards the taxi but trying to dress up striking
the taxi as "natural instinct". Both cyclist and taxi driver were
dressing up their stories."

Your bias is obvious in your "reading" of the account. You see the
cyclist as "talking drivel", "behaving aggressively", "dressing up
striking the taxi". You skate past the evil behaviour of the motorist as
"unacceptable", in order to get to your primary target, which is
slagging off the cyclist who was the victim here of a murder attempt. If
the cyclist had been killed, would you have claimed that he brought it
on himself?

Are you suggesting he DIDN'T slightly embellish the tale?

It's bloody clear what happened.
The taxi driver cut the cyclist up.
The cyclist took exception and thumped the taxi "to teach him a lesson".
The taxi driver went apeshit.
The cyclist was bloody lucky to get away alive.

Indeed. And no one, least of all me, is suggesting that the tadxi driver
is anything other than a loon who who should be severely punished. But
the acceptance of the cyclist's "whiter than white" bullshit sticks in
my throat. It's not as if telling the truth would make the taxi driver
less culpable.

And it's not as if one doesn't see cyclists striking vehicles on a
fairly regular basis.
.

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