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bicycle lane in Melbourne
On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 20:04:26 -0700 (PDT), jbeattie
wrote: On Thursday, November 1, 2018 at 7:54:46 PM UTC-7, John B. slocomb wrote: On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 22:01:30 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 11/1/2018 5:44 PM, James wrote: On 30/10/18 9:27 am, AMuzi wrote: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ke-bushes.html It has emerged that the bike rider had keyed the vehicle before this incident. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ent-viral.html What hasn't emerged is why he keyed the vehicle.* I have been in contact with the person who broke the story, and apparently the cyclist is no longer willing to talk.* Hmm. Yes, we don't know why he keyed the vehicle; and I don't think that act is usually unprovoked. In any case, it doesn't justify an attack with a deadly weapon. Damaging a person's car is not the same as damaging his body. But one weird psychological side effect of motoring is that many people react the same way. I've seen guys get enraged when someone leaned on their car, as they would if someone grabbed their neck. I certainly understand what you are saying but we just bought a new car - some $27,000 in U.S. money - and if some nitwit on a bicycle were to carve a groove down the side of the new car I might not run his bike off the road with the car but I'd be tempted, probably beyond my ability to resist, to hit him with a stick. Just to test the effectiveness of his helmet, so to speak. Depending on the severely of the "keying" it can cost several thousand dollars (here, in a decent shop) to return the car to its like new condition. What justifies a cyclist doing that sort of damage to my new car? There is no justification, but that does not excuse assault. It is questionable whether you could even effect a citizen's arrest for minor property damage. The most reasonable approach would be to photograph or maybe follow to an address. I really don't know, but running the guy down is clearly not acceptable. -- Jay Beattie. I suppose that my attitude is largely influenced by living in a foreign country for so many years, but the several thousand dollars I mentioned - say two thousand - is not "minor property damage" here. Using the legal minimum salary here, that is about 7 month's wages for a working man. (In Australia, where the event took place, US$2,000 amounts to about a month's pay for a working man.) cheers, John B. |
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