Doesn't it seem like the white speeding car intentionally side swiped the red speeding car into the ditch? Looks like an attack to me? Maybe just drunk/drugged...

As a biker, I've had people try and run me off the road for no reason at all. And by no reason, I mean me minding my own business while casually riding to work. At one point, I had a car full of thugs try to side swipe me because I gently honked my horn when they didn't leave from a green light after about 10 seconds. This same group of thugs followed me to the parking lot where I worked and 3 of them proceeded to get out of said care with what looked like tire irons and a baseball bat. If I hadn't been legally concealing a fire arm at the time things likely would not have ended well for me. As it was they decided it was a better idea to return to their car and drive away.

Things like this are why, even though I hate that I have to, I am always armed when riding in unfamiliar areas.

1. Side-swiping the wall on the way up.
2. Panicking and ramming the wall at the top of the ramp (or another car - it's off-camera).
3. Not setting the brake and letting the car roll back down the ramp.
>> ^Mandtis:

Just when you thought she could not do any worse... I am just not sure what is the 3rd accident.

>> ^Reefie:

@A10anis @kevingrr @carneval Interesting to note that none of you had previously commented on this sift but the moment something is said that you can argue against you wade right in. I cycle daily, everywhere, and I can tell you that drivers are dickheads 99% of the time. I've done everything the highway code asks cyclists and yet I've still been run over at roundabouts, every couple of days I get some arsehole winding down their window and telling me to get the fuck off the roads and buy a proper vehicle, I've been knocked off my bike more times than I can count (often while I'm in the cyclist lane), drivers who rarely indicate when required, though often they do it as an afterthought after they've side-swiped me.
Basically if you cycle daily then you are all too aware of just how frustrating it is for cyclists to commute. If you deny the frustration that cyclists endure daily then you're full of it.


I, like Kevin, watched the video and then read your comment as it had already been posted. I think you are making some assumptions about the chronology of events here

You must live in a bad area for cyclists, and I'm sorry to hear that. I went to college in a town that had what you described; many dickheads.

I'm a driver too, I do not commute by bike, and I do understand how drivers can get easily irritated. Unfortunately - and I am not excluded from this - being behind a window/steering wheel tends to disconnect people from the world/results in a lack of empathy. It's sad, and very unfortunate.

I see that you are in the UK. I have never cycled there but my relatives across the pond tell me that the dynamics between cyclists and drivers are really bad- it seems your experience agrees.

However, I think my point still stands - I do not want to be run over because some other cyclist pissed off the operator of a 2-ton killing machine yesterday, last week, or last year.

@A10anis @kevingrr @carneval Interesting to note that none of you had previously commented on this sift but the moment something is said that you can argue against you wade right in. I cycle daily, everywhere, and I can tell you that drivers are dickheads 99% of the time. I've done everything the highway code asks cyclists and yet I've still been run over at roundabouts, every couple of days I get some arsehole winding down their window and telling me to get the fuck off the roads and buy a proper vehicle, I've been knocked off my bike more times than I can count (often while I'm in the cyclist lane), drivers who rarely indicate when required, though often they do it as an afterthought after they've side-swiped me.

Basically if you cycle daily then you are all too aware of just how frustrating it is for cyclists to commute. If you deny the frustration that cyclists endure daily then you're full of it.

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

To the idiots thinking these guys were assholes for laughing: do you think people can read minds? Do you honestly think these guys looked at this and said "LMAO someone is diabetic shock and could potentially die, that's hilarious!"? It's easy to say they should've been more serious because hindsight is 20/20. If I saw this live I'd guess it was a drunk driver or someone on acid rather than someone being disoriented from a life threatening condition. Stop being dumb.
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>> ^RadHazG:
need a little eia up in here. dunno whats so funny, that shit's terrifying, all those people in the oncoming lane. half wish that driver would make a wild right and side swipe these chuckles.

>> ^PoweredBySoy:
"lolol, this is great...." Oh, look, the drunk just took out a family of 5.



Stop being dumb? I declare today opposite day. "Stop being RIGHT" is more like it. Maybe it's just me, but the first thing I thought was, "Holy shit, is this person having a heart attack or something?" And then I wondered if they had called 911.

I'm pretty cynical but COME ON man, that's just bizarrely out of the ordinary, which suggests something is wrong. Even if what's wrong with them is that they're an idiot, they're going to possibly swerve into oncoming traffic and hurt/kill someone else or crash into a wall and kill themselves.

To the idiots thinking these guys were assholes for laughing: do you think people can read minds? Do you honestly think these guys looked at this and said "LMAO someone is diabetic shock and could potentially die, that's hilarious!"? It's easy to say they should've been more serious because hindsight is 20/20. If I saw this live I'd guess it was a drunk driver or someone on acid rather than someone being disoriented from a life threatening condition. Stop being dumb.

lololoololololoool 11 hours ago 74 [likes]


>> ^RadHazG:

need a little eia up in here. dunno whats so funny, that shit's terrifying, all those people in the oncoming lane. half wish that driver would make a wild right and side swipe these chuckles.


>> ^PoweredBySoy:

"lolol, this is great...." Oh, look, the drunk just took out a family of 5.

>> ^RadHazG:

need a little eia up in here. dunno whats so funny, that shit's terrifying, all those people in the oncoming lane. half wish that driver would make a wild right and side swipe these chuckles.


*eia

need a little * eia up in here. dunno whats so funny, that shit's terrifying, all those people in the oncoming lane. half wish that driver would make a wild right and side swipe these chuckles.

I kept expecting David Attenborough to get side swiped by a tiger or something.

>> ^antonye:
To be fair to the marshals, they work under direction of race control so it's not their fault that they weren't told to hang out the slippery surface flag. They were doing their job with the waved yellow when the first rider went down (you can see it in the clip) but they have to be instructed for all other flags.
You've got to feel sorry for backmarker Kraus (#73) who got punted off by Foggy though; he didn't really do too much wrong except to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and get side-swiped by Foggy which was a pretty shitty thing to do. Yes, there should have been a blue flag (aka the "There's a Race Going on but You're Not In It" flag) out so he knew the leaders were coming through.
Oil on the track is a nightmare; you don't know it's there until you're sliding along on your arse, watching the bike tumble and thinking "oh no, not again". Been there, done that. Many times.
Great to see Aaron Slight out there too - one of the reasons I ride as #111.

Thanks I was wondering what he meant by a blue flag. So there's a flag to let you know you're better off packing your bags?

To be fair to the marshals, they work under direction of race control so it's not their fault that they weren't told to hang out the slippery surface flag. They were doing their job with the waved yellow when the first rider went down (you can see it in the clip) but they have to be instructed for all other flags.

You've got to feel sorry for backmarker Kraus (#73) who got punted off by Foggy though; he didn't really do too much wrong except to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and get side-swiped by Foggy which was a pretty shitty thing to do. Yes, there should have been a blue flag (aka the "There's a Race Going on but You're Not In It" flag) out so he knew the leaders were coming through.

Oil on the track is a nightmare; you don't know it's there until you're sliding along on your arse, watching the bike tumble and thinking "oh no, not again". Been there, done that. Many times.

Great to see Aaron Slight out there too - one of the reasons I ride as #111.

lets see..
so spring 2001 i must be 18...
my 2 best lady friends and i are leaving some function in downtown fort worth.. 2 am...
we get side swiped by this ass in a broken hyundai that promptly speeds off that
leaves us with a disabled vehicle on the northside (ooo thats the scary side where all the brown people live) of downtown at 2 am. police are called.
we sit on the curb to wait.

a hideous 1981 lincoln pulls up beside us, it was previously driving the wrong way down a one way street for quite some time.

road wolf steps out. unlaced combat boots, one sock, shredded shorty short cut off jeans, worn, greasy, smell molly hatchet shirt. coarse gray beard, dirty face, insane head of long gray hair. about 5'8" semi-girthy...

he is come to save the day. he cant leave 3 lovely young ladies alone on a dangerous street corner in the middle of the night. he will wait with us until the police arrive.

being the outgoing chatty one of the 3 who thinks everyone is great and should be welcomed warmly into my life without an ounce of foresight or thought. i procede to engage in fascinating conversation with road wolf, while my lady friends see exactly so clearly what will happen next. as they are blessed with foresight and haven taken an accurate account of my personal history.

i learn that road wolf lives in his car with 3 delightfully smelly stray dogs, 5 pots, 2 pans, 10 cans of beans, 4 changes of clothes, 2 canteens, 1 case of dog food, 1 can opener, 1 mug, 1 spoon, 1 fork, 3 blankets, and a quart of oil.

road wolf learns that i live in an old house by the university with some friends and work at a coffee shop near by.

he has apparently just been released from a mexican prison for killing a federali. he left behind his beautiful latin love. his heart is broken. but he is pissed the fuck off at some albanian coke dealers. they have done something terrible. they took off to san antonio and set up their headquarters there. FUCK THOSE ALBANIAN COKE DEALERS. he is waiting for some guns to arrive from his cuban friends, then he is taking off to san antonio to KILL THOSE FUCKING ALBANIANS.

instead of sounding paranoid and bizzarre to me, it sounds LIKE A GRAND ADVENTURE TO HAVE. road wolf wants to take me with him i say FUCK YEAH ROAD WOLF LETS KILL THOSE FUCKING ALBANIANS. i learn that he also hates the fuck out of castro and in his youth was hired by the mexican government to assisinate him. he failed. was humilatiated. and has vowed revenge. WHY THE FUCK NOT HOP ON A TRAIN TO SAN ANTONIO, SHOOT SOME FUCKING ALBANIAN COKE DEALERS IN THE FUCKING FACE THEN TAKE OFF TO CUBA AND ATTEMPT TO ASSISINATE CASTRO??!?!!? WHY THE FUCK NOT?!??! 18 year old bea thinks this an extremely amusing adorable conversation. and sooo excited to have made a fascinating new friend. with an irrestible combination of love and rage. perception and madness.

my friends settle up business with the cops, and drag me away from road wolf relunctantly. but not before he hugs me tight and kisses me passionately.

when we get home my friends have to inform me that road wolf is insane and our idea to run away together is fucking insane. and will never happen. he is a paranoid old bum and i am to forget that ever happened. he will not remember once his crack high wears off. ... ok.....

2 days later road wolf shows up at the coffee shop i work at with a trunk full of guns. apparently his shorts are even shorter this time and his shirt has been cut off at the waist. he informs the kids working the shop that he is here to see me "shes not working today" ..."ohh.. well i got all dressed up and combed my hair for her, were going to san antonio, ill just wait here" so the crazy crackhead bum spends several hours in the upscale yuppie coffee house offending people. and i get angry phone calls from my friends at the shop.

road wolf continues to show up at the coffee house either while im not working or have been forced to hide in the back room by friends who have more sense than i.

this goes on for about 2 weeks until road wolf shows up the shop i get a call at home (btw my home at this point is also where all the baby crusty train hopping punk kids hang out and sleep), so back to the phone call, work dude calls me "whos over there right now?" "ahren, josh, grayson,etc" "does ahren have his shank on him?" (ahren=boyfriendishlikebutnotreeeeaalllydude at the time) "sure..." " get them down here right the fuck and now have them take out road wolf once and for all"

jesus fuck, so me and the boys load into the car and drive to coffee shop upon arrival we see 2 police cars surrounding a naked road wolf.

he had apparently decided it was a grand idea to strip naked and smoke crack on the patio of the coffee shop.

road wolf was hauled off to jail and i never saw him again...

and noone had to get bum shanked in an epic hobo battle for my love.
xoxo
bea

This one's far better then the average side swipe (no pun intended) at the competition. We've all seen the slow-mo bullet through X videos. My first thought was, ok they shot an apple.. then they show the "bullet", that was very clever yet simple.

"The news media went on about what it meant that Spike Jonez was trying to humanize the mandroid for Generation XYZ..."

Would that news media have been Fox News? The same station that many of the Bush Clan works for? Don't be a mandroid yourself and believe everything the "media" hypes.

Such a different world we would have lived in if he hadn't been side-swiped by a Bush brother in Florida.

Thanks for posting this. I never saw it...and I wish more people had. Maybe it would have shown that he was a good person - not a power-hungry liar who has ruined the Country I love.