Yea, this is definitely attempted murder by a road-raging loon but, a terrorist attack, this is not.
If disposing of a CEO counts as terrorism, this should too. Not that I think it is but the bar has been lowered.
Yeah, thats also not terrorism whatever the media says.
I feel like driving a car makes you legit insane. My parents are the sweetest people, but when driving they become crazy and screams at every stopped car.
Ok. I think you need to touch grass. Thats a terrible hot take. Just because you have mentally dificient parents. Doesn’t mean the rest of us are like that.
It’s because driving a car is the most dangerous thing a regular person is doing on a daily basis. Behind the wheel you are just one wrong motion away from killing yourself and others. All while risking your single most valueable mobile possession.
Even if you compartmentalize that away and try to ignore it, it is a still a constant stressor.
That makes people get angry.
That makes people get irrationally angry.
mostly agree otherwise.
Yeah, sure. Anger rarely is rational.
It’s because for many people, driving a car comes with a certain entitlement. And why wouldn’t it? Especially in the US, where drivers are fully accommodated to with infrastructure, crazy roads and all kinds of drive through stuff?
It’s even noticeable here in the Netherlands. Lots of people I know that are very kind, mellow people turn into insane road ragers the moment they get into their car.
Exactly, it’s like a brain disease…
Your logic would imply that bicycle riders would have the same thing happen (in the Netherlands). I didn’t see that when I was there, but I don’t live there. But I guarantee it’s not because car drivers “are fully accommodated with” whatever. It’s because there’s no communication between cars. Everyone is in their own box. That’s not the same with bikes or motorcycles or mopeds etc.
I’d say you see the same thing with bikes, especially in the big cities. They cycle everywhere and go through red lights all the time. However, a bike is a lot less dangerous than a car (unless it’s an electric bike that can go very fast), which makes it slightly less of an issue in my eyes.
That phenomenon is so well-known that Disney was making cartoons about it 75 years ago.
So, anyone with a car is a terrorist now?
Same as anyone on a plane with or without a box cutter. Intent is what matters. A car is a deadly weapon just like a gun. This post depicts someone pulling that trigger.
Even when a person unintentionally discharges a firearm that causes harm, they are still accountable. Culturally this must be how driving is held to account. In court, this is absolutely the case, but ignorant cultural norms lag very far behind.
I was physically disabled by an incompetent driver that broke my neck and back while commuting to work by bicycle. I was a top level amateur racer. I am not dishing out hypothetical nonsense or prejudice. Auto insurance doesn’t even scratch the surface of the liability one will face in court for injuring a pedestrian or pedestrian-cyclist on the road. Any remotely skilled attorney will start the case in the 7-8 figure range regardless of your present net worth. If this driver is caught, the cyclist will own them, like driving their car, living in their house, and inheriting their parent’s fortune. I would absolutely force an auction at my expense to sell the shirt off my assailant’s back after something like this to watch them walk into homelessness naked. Pull that trigger and I am coming with no mercy and taking everything.
It’s always been horrific to me how some people feel a sense of moral entitlement to hurt others either via carelessness or stupidity, like when hearing comments drivers have made about cyclists while I’m a passenger. As if the cyclist is intent on causing problems, so they “get what they deserve.” Truly sickening shit. My uncle was in a coma for 2 months after being hit while biking. Brain hemorrhaging, he was wearing a helmet but wasn’t enough. He’s lucky to be alive. Cultural norms indeed are ages behind.
It is a slight reassurance to hear what you’re saying about the legal system. I really hope that your description of what cyclists can get awarded is similar to your lived experience, I empathize with you.
I like the idea
