Critical Mass Brazil
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- Miguex0
wow, are there really so many people here supporting the driver running over all these cyclists? Why is there any debate here in the first place?
The guy nearly killed all these people, included women and children, these are human lives man. Period. Unless the guy was having a stroke/ seizure or any other extreme medical emergency, there is NO EXCUSE to do what he did, period.
It's not about traffic laws, bikes, cars or hipsters, is about human innocent human lives.
- Amicus0
It's a miracle there wasn't any fatalities.
- shinpo0
Critical Mass takes the same shitty hand, gets hundreds of riders together, laments on the steel monsters, has a ride during peak hours of traffic in major metropolitan areas, deliberately breaks traffic laws and calls it raising awareness. I think it's more about inciting anger.
I commute on my bike sometimes and I must say that when riding my bike I hate cars and when I am in my car I hate bikers. There is definitely a disconnect between the two.
What the golf driver did was just downright wrong. Just take a different route and problem solved.
I think commuting on a bike is one thing, but bringing hordes of bikers to one city to piss people off is another. They didn't deserve what happened to them and it pisses me off, but Critical Mass could schedule their rides differently and accomplish their mission.
- I am in the same boat. When on my bike I hate cars, when in my car I hate bikes...utopian
- Amicus0
^story here.
- Miguex0
wow
so messed up.I want to believe this was an accident, what kind of a prick would do something like that on purpose...
- cannonball19780
Catch him. Put him on a bike. Have each person who got hit run him over with his car. Done deal.
- imnotaplumber0
- just shows how hard he hit them to damage his car that much.imnotaplumber
- _niko0
stupid motherfucker, there were kids riding as well.
- sigg0
First, this is horrible to see. But, there are only two scenarios here that I can see.
One: The had a mad case of road-rage and for absolutely no reason floored it and ran everyone over.
Two: The car was waiting to pass and some biker(s) started to taunt him/her. In a panic for his/her life they floored it to escape. The typical kill or be killed human nature presented itself. The only way I can see this second scenario panning out is if I were in the car, waiting patiently with my child in the back and some a-holes started talking shit and hitting my car. If the situation escalated I would think I'd have no choice but to floor it.
Fucking horrible either way. Did they catch the driver? Do they know what prompted it? I'm not advocating it, but in an extreme situation who fucking knows. Humans are disgusting.
- Miguex0
@itekisan The website Folha.com says that the driver asked for the bikers to let him pass. He drove for three blocks behind the bikers while honking the horn and touched one of the bikes. Then he slowed down, and when the bikers were a few meters ahead of him, he accelerated. I don't know if a situation like this could trigger a panic attack. Do you think it's consistent with the panic attackhypothesis that he touched one bike, and then slowed down before accelerating? This looks deliberate.
- utopian0
I really can't blame the guy, sometimes I feel like running over the hipsters on their fixed gear bikes as well.
- CanHasQBN0
^ I hope you're joking.
A hipster riding a bike is, first and FOREMOST, a PERSON who is NOT polluting and doesn't need to refill a tank.
They are SECONDLY a douchebag hipster.
So even though they are douchey hipsters, they are still superior to you simply by the fact of their first designation of being non-polluters.
Also I hope a giant tractor runs you over.
- lol @ I hope a giant tractor runs you over.moldero
- < Rage failreinitialize
- LOL. Its not just a person, but a person not polluting LOL You just can't make this stuff upVikingKingEleven
- Hombre_Lobo0
so what happened to the driver?
^ahh charged with attempted murder eh? he also had his 15 year old son in the car? that makes him even more crazy, putting his son in danger (he could have easily swerved into a park car) on top of hitting all those cyclists.
so no one was killed? how many hospitalized?
its horrific.
- monNom0
^ superior or not, the whole idea of intentionally clogging up the roads and forcing all traffic to move at your pace is a pretty jerky thing to do.
...as is running down a cyclist. can't we all just share the road? gosh.
- huh? you're blaming the cycists for cloggin the road? drive your fucking car somewhere else?pizzafire
- like where? a road is for a car, a cycle path is for a cyclist...Akiraprise
- obviously, i meant a different road.pizzafire
- i_monk0
^ That second scenario is bullshit.
- pizzafire0
fuck cars and the people who drive them!
- aldebaran0
http://road.cc/content/news/3148…
claiming self defense
- < this scenario is bullshitProjectile
- He felt threatened by children and old people who would pass his car in a matter of minutes if he turn off the engine and let them? Bullshit.i_monk
- well of course it isaldebaran
- and let them? Bullshit.i_monk
- self defense and "in a hurry"pizzafire
- "they were coming right at me" doesn't count if you're doing 30mphProjectile