Top Politican Kills Bicyclist

[Berkut]

Dude was a father of four and aspiring comedian, working as a bicycle courier.

I mean, sucks that he is dead and all...

[ulmont]

Dude was a father of four and aspiring comedian, working as a bicycle courier.

I mean, sucks that he is dead and all...

...but we didn't lose a cancer cure here.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nptr3pgEIPA

[The Minsky Moment]

A good rule of the road to follow is not to attempt to scrape bicyclists off your car using mailboxes and street signs in the other lane. It makes it very hard to say it was an accident. 

What exactly is the proper protocol when a violent and deranged drunk grabs onto your moving car, reaches into the open window, and attempts to strangle you?

[Ed Anger]

A good rule of the road to follow is not to attempt to scrape bicyclists off your car using mailboxes and street signs in the other lane. It makes it very hard to say it was an accident. 

What exactly is the proper protocol when a violent and deranged drunk grabs onto your moving car, reaches into the open window, and attempts to strangle you?

Shoot him.

[crazy canuck]

What exactly is the proper protocol when a violent and deranged drunk grabs onto your moving car, reaches into the open window, and attempts to strangle you?

Defend yourself and then immediately call police.

He may have done that.  Its not clear from the facts.  Initial reports were that this was a hit and run and then he called it in anonamously.  If he in fact did not identify himself and say exactly what occured then that was a lapse in judgment.  It may well be a lapsed that is excused given the circumstances but it does put him in a bad light.  I assume Ontario has the same strict requirement as BC to stay at the scene of something like this.

Early reports I heard suggested he was only identified because of a security camera in the area....

[CountDeMoney]

Cyclist Darcy Allan Sheppard, 33, worked for a courier service

One of the most dangerous professions out there.  Four wheels good, two wheels bad.

[Razgovory]

What exactly is the proper protocol when a violent and deranged drunk grabs onto your moving car, reaches into the open window, and attempts to strangle you?

Defend yourself and then immediately call police.

He may have done that.  Its not clear from the facts.  Initial reports were that this was a hit and run and then he called it in anonamously.  If he in fact did not identify himself and say exactly what occured then that was a lapse in judgment.  It may well be a lapsed that is excused given the circumstances but it does put him in a bad light.  I assume Ontario has the same strict requirement as BC to stay at the scene of something like this.

Early reports I heard suggested he was only identified because of a security camera in the area....

Perhaps a lapse of judgment but if a person in another vehicle is attack you in yours I can understand driving away as fast as hell just to get away.

[Jaron]

Lance Armstrong should kill some random city council member so I can make a "Top Bicyclist kills politician" thread.

[HVC]

Anyone make a Vinraith joke yet?

[garbon]

Bicyclists.

[garbon]

Thus, it is the motorist who has the greater responsibility – not just because he is the only party licensed by society to drive, by which I mean granted the privilege of driving – but because on some level, all of us understand the rules, one of which is that behind the wheel, we are driving a potential weapon. The burden of sucking up the insult, the raised finger, even the punch, and acting like a grown up is always and forever with us.

As if. It isn't like it is a motorist's fault that some people choose to put themselves at an immediate disadvantage.

[Jacob]

My bet is that he didnt have much choice in the matter.

Probably not, but these days it's not uncommon to see people go "my duty to the people demands I stay on" for a few days or making other such ridiculous statements.  It's nice to avoid that.

[Neil]

That's shitty.  He gets attacked by a dangerous antisocial lunatic, and loses his job because of it.

Society is fucked up sometimes.

[dps]

That's shitty.  He gets attacked by a dangerous antisocial lunatic, and loses his job because of it.

Society is fucked up sometimes.

Yeah, and then you get people like Jacob who think it's a good thing that he loses his job.

[Jacob]

Yeah, and then you get people like Jacob who think it's a good thing that he loses his job.

I didn't realize you'd joined the retard brigade.  When did that happen?