I expect you've all seen this. Driver tweets about a collision.

[hopless500]

Definitely lying there

 

[EltonFrog]

Please keep on topic or walk away from the thread, this thread is about someone who drove away from an accident, without reporting it and boasting about hitting a cyclist on the Internet.

 

[Mugshot]

Sorry , no i think you have mistook my post completely, i have clearly explained my post yet you continue to harass me .If you have a problem with my post and my reasoning behind it your are welcome to report to the mods and let them decide .
If not please explain yourself fully as your posts so far have only come across as abusive rather than reasoned and so i fail to see how you can validate your obvious spite.

My goodness..."harass"...."mods"...."abusive"...."spite"
If you truly believe what you've written above is true and that what I've typed has been abusive and spiteful may I suggest you don't leave the house, I think you may be a little over sensitive for what's outside your front door. However I don't think you really believe that so I will humour you and play along with your game.

There can be a occasions on this forum where posters wish to demonise car drivers further than they have managed to do so themselves, the all car drivers bad scenario. The M.O. for this is to ensure that all readers know that car drivers consider themselves the elite, that they look down on us cyclists and view us as an underclass, the way in which this is achieved is of course by using particular language. Therefore, any parent that collects their children from school by car (preferably 4x4) will have named said children Jocasta or Tarquin. No young driver will have bought or be funding their own vehicle, it will be provided by their parents, or more precisely (and as demonstrated in your post by your carefully chosen choice of words) by daddy. The aim being that we view them as particuarly horrid Veruca Salts. Look at these people that think they're better than us with their privileged lifestyles etc etc. But it's not just Daddy that buys cars for their offspring, it's Dad and Mum and Nan. Now it may well be that Miss Way is horrendously spoilt, she certainly has an inflated sense of entitlement, but why don't you just say that rather than using tired stereotypes?

So there we are, you can now deny that you meant anything of the sort when you said "daddy" and tell me how completely wrong I am. Then you can tell me that you think I'm a dreadful bully and utterly beastly for saying such nasty things and call for me to be banned from the internet or whatever

 

[glenn forger]

There can be a occasions on this forum where posters wish to demonise car drivers further than they have managed to do so themselves, the all car drivers bad scenario.

Who did that?

 

[Mugshot]

Who did that?

Oh Mr forger, you're a very naughty boy

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Would you believe this incident only just made it to the pages of The Age, one of Melbourne's newspapers? Talk about being slow on the uptake!
The comments (so far) on this article are surprisingly lucid, too, mostly pro-cyclists arguing that cyclists fund the roads just as much as motorists. No doubt I'll wake up from this strange dream soon, and crash back to reality . Or perhaps it's just that it's still only 6:45pm here, and the motorists are still stuck in traffic, desperately trying to get home .

 

[glenn forger]

The comments beneath the Mail story are very encouraging, I was amazed to see.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Emma Way is a turdbugler!

 

[dondare]

The definition of 'road tax' seems to matter a great deal to a few on here.

So it's worth remembering there has been some historical revisioning.

Road tax, or the 'tax disc' used to be officially called Road Fund Licence until officialdom accepted only a tiny proportion of the money raised was ever used to fund roads.

Thus it became Vehicle Excise Duty, handily pinned to the emissions flag which at the time was gaining popularity with the chattering classes.

It's never been any more or less than a tax on motoring.

VED was originally introduced to regulate the use of motor vehicles on public roads. It was standardised in 1888 but the Road Fund was not set up until 1909.

 

[vernon]

Are you sure that's CO2?

I produce carbon pie-oxide emissions and as such they are exempt from the pasty tax.

 

[swee'pea99]

The bit I love is the 'friend' reported as saying 'She's a nice lass...ok, she made a silly tweet, but it's been blown out of all proportion', thereby rather missing the point - that her friend's indiscretion was not so much the tweet as the assault with a deadly weapon and leaving the scene without a qualm (quite the opposite), while having no idea whether her victim was alive, dead or seriously injured. Birds of a feather, eh?

 

[vernon]

Please keep on topic or walk away from the thread, this thread is about someone who drove away from an accident, without reporting it and boasting about hitting a cyclist on the Internet.

This thread is in the cafe and is fair game for thread drift. The really serious discussions take place in CAD and Commuting.

 

[pplpilot]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/...ists-united-against-pedestrians-2013052269600

 

[hopless500]

No danger of being accused of premature popcornation there.

 

[EltonFrog]

This thread is in the cafe and is fair game for thread drift. The really serious discussions take place in CAD and Commuting.

Of course you are right and I am wrong, please except my sincerest apologies.