1 September 2006

A Warning to Cyclists

| Mr_Shab
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All you cyclists out there had best be advised that you might want to keep an eye out around neck level.

I received a forwarded email through a work cycling network advising that a rider was knocked off his pushie by a wire strung across a cycle path in the Fadden Pines area in the evening of 30th August. In the ensuing fall, the rider suffered a broken collar bone and three cracked ribs, in addition to the inevitable skin loss.

It was about 5-10 minutes before anyone found the rider and called an ambulance. Apparently, he was released from hospital the following morning.

I’m sure I needn’t mention how dangerous this kind of thing could be. If anyone out there sees someone doing something like this, call the cops. If someone hits a tight wire at a fair clip they could be killed.

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Under the circumstances, as long as it was just his little flag bobbing away…

while i think garotting cyclists is cowardly, a magpie swooping a recumbent cyclist is gods will.

i saw one of these bastards in garema place last week, a three wheeler recumbent! his stupid little flag bobbing away as he rode at groin height through the crowds, looking up womens dresses.

sick.

I saw a recumbent cyclist at the intersection of federal hwy and barton hwy getting swooped by a rather agressive maggie this morning. I think they heard my maniacal laughter from inside my warm gas guzzling falcodore

I’ve encountered logs dragged across riding trails in Deeks forest, just behind the jumps so you can’t see them before its too late.
Luckily I always slow ride the jump sections first to look for hazards, particulaly new deep crevices caused by rain/wind erosion.

Fishing line (with hooks) strung across tracks @ eye height used to be a favourite trick for dope growers protecting their crap.

This really pisses me off – I’d heard about it happening in the US but I’d hoped that people here weren’t quite so stupid/horrible.

Guess I was wrong.

This is right up there with the spastics that were throwing bricks off bridges into cars. :-/

This would probably be a bad time to mention that I’ve always wanted to eat a penguin, so I won’t.

Anyone reminded of the Japanese (fish stock raping retards) arguing that whales destroy our fish stocks by eating too much fish? (most eat krill, but facts suck) in thisd argument?
“We killed them because they ate the stuff we want to eat” Your lips, my arse, repeat

Absent Diane3:30 pm 01 Sep 06

well as soon as I can destroy my humanitarian side it will start…

Actually, the aforementioned cycling network was, in fact, PedalPower.

AD that plan of yours got a start date?

Back to Topic: A similar thing was reported a few years ago over Commonwealth Ave Bridge not long after they put the wider path for cyclists.

PedalPower could probably determine the truth or urban mythness of such an item.

Absent Diane1:32 pm 01 Sep 06

didn’t hear about the seals.. but they are the kind of people that should probably be culled in my reduce the population of earth plan.

I got to know a bunch of fur seals on a job I did a couple of years ago – the little ones are like kelpies – bloody smart with a sense of humour.

I hope that these shitbags get a custodial sentence – so someone can spread a rumour on the inside that the seal thing was only a sham and that they’re actually rock-spiders.

Re: Shooting seals. That’s just gutless hey. A real man would have clubbed them from up close.

That would be a gorget. A bit heavy/sweaty/smelly for riding around in tho.
Don’t tell me there are SCAdians on here… actually, judging by the amount of whinging there probably are.

Looks like the SCA faithful could make a nice sideline in crash padded neck guards.

To the forge Mr Blamies!!

I’ve seen the track back to the initial email. No one was anonymous, and they were all from government departments.

Also – what would be gained by anyone making this up? It’s not even a good apocryphal story.

I too would like proof positive, but on balance of probabilities, I’d say it’s credible. I wouldn’t have posted something with obvious problems in identifying the source.

The original source for this item is a forwarded email … so it would be good to get confirmation the incident actually happened.

time to order a mcstabby with a side order of bum-kicking

My money is on some fucked-up kid with no capacity to consider the consequences of their actions.

The same kind that likes to light fires on tinder-dry nature reserves…

Shitty thing to do to someone. But I’ve got a dollar that says the people who did it never get caught.

Absent Diane11:21 am 01 Sep 06

Man what is wrong with the world. that is really fucked up

Fucked

Up

James-T-Kirk10:54 am 01 Sep 06

I suspect that it simply is attempted murder.

I’ve heard of people doing this across the underpass under Parkes Way at Glenloch too. Scumbags.

The irony is not lost on me either, BT.

barking toad9:47 am 01 Sep 06

maybe those gay recumbent cyclists
have a point after all

That’s really bloody awful

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