Re: Sydney Bicycle accident

"Trevor Wilson" <trevor@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:6912lhF2vq5quU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Apparently there were a bunch of cyclists who had stopped but the
cyclist 
>> who struck the old guy decided not to stop and sail right through the 
>> group to improve his place in the race. Unfortunately for him, and the 
>> old man, when riding through the group of stationary cyclists he
couldn't 
>> see the old man crossing the road and ploughed straight into him.
>>
>> Now, the reason why I mention this story is not because of the poor old

>> bloke getting killed or the ****wit cyclist being a ****wit cyclist who

>> caused his death, but because of some of the comments that came from
the 
>> *other* cyclists who were sitting there waiting for the old guy to
cross. 
>> Almost every one of them to a man defended the guilty cyclist to a
degree 
>> in the media by trying to ****ft the blame onto the crossing, or the sun

>> in his eyes as he approached. I even read the comment of one who said 
>> that the old man should have been aware that it might have been likely 
>> that someone wouldn't stop as it was common practice.
>
> **Clearly, that is an obscenity. Pedestrian crossings are for
pedestrians. 
> There's no excuse for not stopping.

The obcenity was the penalty the cyclist received. $400.00.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22210354-421,00.html

What a ****ing joke :(