Comments on: Cyclists: Something else you can do when someone yells at you from their car

By: wrybread

wrybread — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:33:26 +0000

Didn’t a car kill a cyclist not too long ago? Today I’m guessing? If not today, then yesterday?

By: wrybread

wrybread — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:31:09 +0000

Yeah but surely don’t think they’d buy this weapon only because this blog told them to?

By: whywait

whywait — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:09:16 +0000

does anyone need to yell?
does anyone need to ride a bike?
why complicate matters with such formalities?

lets just get drunk and smash some car windows!

By: Tico

Tico — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:23:59 +0000

Seriously, if you pull this kind of crap, with your special little hipster windowbreaking hammer, I sincerely hope the first person you try it on stomps on their brakes, jumps out of their car and pummels you into a bloody heap on the pavement like you’re asking for. Because they hurt your tiny little feelings by yelling at you. If you’re going to ride in SF, you’re going to need to man up a bit.

By: Donk

Donk — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:36:05 +0000

Passive aggressive hipster. What is this, Thunderdome? Get a life.

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:55:01 +0000

Thanks: Your reasoning is deeply at odds with the basic laws of physics. When a speeding metal bike frame encounters a soft flesh body, the metal bike frame is guaranteed to win.

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:53:12 +0000

Yup.

By: scum

scum — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:42:29 +0000

I don’t cry, I weep.

By: scum

scum — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:35:44 +0000

Didnt a bike rider kill a woman not to long ago?

By: Bike Advocate

Bike Advocate — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:08:21 +0000

Even in jest, this is the wrong sentiment. The comments of the folks in this thread just goes to show you how many mentally unstable drivers there are on the road around here who have sociopathic fantasies about causing injury or death to anyone who happens to be on a bicycle.

Furthermore we live in a car-centric city in a car-centric country where drivers have free reign to kill and injure pedestrians and cyclists at will without any real consequences. Even Joshua Calder, who was caught red handed drunk and high killing a cyclist with his car and then trying to cover it up, still walks (and drives) the streets with a fair shot at walking away with no jail time.

Drivers can kill you here, don’t give them a reason to.

By: Ben Nash

Ben Nash — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:24:29 +0000

I once threw a cable box at a car that almost ran me over while walking across the street. It bounced off their driver side window and they never got out to face me. He stopped moving though. He was scared and i lived It was awesome.

By: rod

rod — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:17:27 +0000

touchy, touchy. i think your post made these two tear up a bit.

By: thanks

thanks — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:15:39 +0000

if you’ve ever felt intimidated by a cyclist, then you are probably too much of a pussy to do anything about it. if a cyclist is coming at you, you have the right to push them over. you can do much more harm to someone on a bike than they can do to you as a pedestrian. they are balancing on two wheels and in a very vulnerable position. the same logic doesn’t apply to bike-car interactions; but i don’t think logic is really your game . . .

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:24:45 +0000

OH NOES! INTERNET GUNSLINGER!

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:13:38 +0000

Break my window and better be able to outrun a bullet