r/PublicFreakout Oct 05 '24

🚗Road Rage/Boik Rage 🚴 Guy driving on bike lane rages.

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u/Offspring22 Oct 05 '24

The bicyclists were off duty cops, and the driver was charged with using his phone while driving, offensive language and driving on the path. He also pled guilty.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/driver-guilty-over-confrontation-with-cyclists-who-were-off-duty-policemen-20190605-p51uor.html

But I mean, I get it. lol

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u/SuperSmashBeers Oct 05 '24

....offensive language? What???

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u/Queef-Elizabeth Oct 05 '24

People swear all the time in Australia, you won't get a fine for it. Honestly it's just if you swear at cops or maybe to children or if you're racist maybe but even then, I've seen people get away with everything but swearing at cops. Swearing near cops is usually fine. Still weird it's illegal

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '24

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u/ElkImpossible3535 Oct 05 '24

This is completely true. Insults are illegal all around the world based on when what and who you are insulting. In a lot of places in Europe "state officials" have explicit protection against insults. Only the US has such complete free speech and no criminalization of insults is possible under its law.

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u/JasonH1028 Oct 06 '24

Try insulting a cop to their face and see how that goes. Yeah in theory we should be able to but 9 times out of 10 they're not going to like it and depending on what color you are you might get brutalized.

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u/tearjerkingpornoflic 29d ago

Reminds me of the guy that would give cops the bird. It often doesn't go well but no where else would you get a settlement out of it https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/driver-arrested-giving-trooper-middle-finger-settles-175k-rcna159185

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u/Iamdarb 21d ago

You can beat the charge, but not the ride. They'll take you for looking at them crossways and say it was disorderly. But you're more than welcome to call them what you want, and that won't ever be used against you, unless you call them racist slurs and then do a crime, then it's a hate crime.

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u/JasonH1028 21d ago

You understand my point is specifically referring to how the police officer in the moment will react right? In that instant they might now really care about people's rights because their ego is hurt.

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u/Iamdarb 21d ago

I agree completely, and understand. I was just saying objectively we're free to say whatever. A cop will still beat your ass on the ground and get away with it, that's their freedom.

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u/JasonH1028 21d ago

I would argue the threat of being beaten makes us not free in that regard.

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u/Iamdarb 21d ago

What any of us mean is that you are legally free, you're not free from consequences from any action whether good or bad. You can go up to a black person and call them the nword, and as we've seen on /r/PublicFreakout there is almost a non 0 chance that hands aren't being brought into the equation.

So you're constitutionally free to say "the former president's diaper is filled with shit" and even wish death upon them, you just can't say it directly like you're planning it out, intent is still something that is against you.

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u/ElkImpossible3535 Oct 06 '24

Ofc. Executive and judicial are separate branches. But no judge will ever convict you of such thing like insulting a cop. Even if 1 judge does on appeal its 100% going down even if it has to go up to the SC.

There are clear precedents.

Cops being prideful brutes is an entirely separate issue.

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u/SCP-Agent-Arad Oct 05 '24

In Japan, defamation is illegal even if what you say is 100% true. If you say something bad about someone, you can get sentenced to years in prison.

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u/Bootsix Oct 06 '24

Not saying it's a shit hole or anything but Japan is kinda messed up in a lot of ways. Just like every country.

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u/No_Dentist3999 Oct 06 '24

Damn. America, fuck yeah

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u/After-Quarter7515 Oct 06 '24

Coincidentally also filled with super fragile egos

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u/TheManicac1280 Oct 05 '24

I love when redditors realize other countries aren't this happy utopia and America isn't this evil nazi state

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u/alfalfamail69420 Oct 05 '24

still the best place to get rich quick

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '24

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u/Pavlovsdong89 Oct 05 '24

Plenty of places that aren't the US where its okay to call someone a cunt.

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u/SuperSmashBeers Oct 05 '24

Then why are you assuming I'm from the US?

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '24

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u/SuperSmashBeers Oct 05 '24

You really dug deep into my profile to find out if I'm American, pretty creepy dude. Also, what I said still stands. Even if I am American, it doesn't mean people on here shouldn't assume every Redditor is American. There are only like 4 or 5 countries that have that kind of law against swearing in public. Soooo yeah.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '24

That explains the entitlement

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u/Rubbersoulrevolver Oct 05 '24

The entitlement of… daring to be on a bike?

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u/demagogueffxiv Oct 05 '24

Using the road instead of the bike lane

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u/Rubbersoulrevolver Oct 05 '24

Cyclists have every right to. Sometimes it’s safer to use the road.

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u/Xenoleff Oct 05 '24

buddy are you stupid? did you watch the clip?

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u/deadmanwalknLoL Oct 05 '24

Is that the case in Australia when there's a dedicated bike path? Idk, but either way, did you see that bike path? In no world is that less safe than the road.

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u/Dr_StrangeLovePHD Oct 05 '24

Well... I mean... technically there was a car on it.

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u/Empress_Azula Oct 05 '24

It was in fact not a dedicated bike bath but one shared by pedestrians and cyclists, meaning that according to Australian law, they could use the road without any legal issue, contrary to the motorist.

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u/deadmanwalknLoL Oct 05 '24

Fair enough, still safer than the road though

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u/bagel_union Oct 05 '24

Possibly. The bike lanes are full of dog walkers with AirPods. Can be pretty sketchy and the road is legal.

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u/frozen_toesocks Oct 05 '24

Scared of dogs and airpods, but not a fucking motor vehicle. SMH. Literally any excuse to drive alongside 2-ton death machines.

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u/deadmanwalknLoL 29d ago

How is the odd dog walker even remotely as sketchy as the road? You can just pop into the grass and go around extremely easily if you're that concerned. Just seems very dumb to willingly surround yourself with 2 ton vehicles that also tend to be going significantly faster than you.

It's like choosing to walk across a forumla 1 race track instead of using a pedestrian bridge over it because you might bump into a person.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '24

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u/frozen_toesocks Oct 05 '24

Sure it is; bicyclists are generally required to yield to pedestrians. But that's a law that inconveniences bikers, so they'd rather just slow down car traffic.

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u/zinkhun Oct 05 '24

Just because you have the right to do something, doesn't always mean it's okay to do it

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u/Rubbersoulrevolver Oct 05 '24

And just because it makes car drivers get all up in their fee fees, doesn't mean that you have to cowtow to them.

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u/trillestBill Oct 05 '24

Do you usually act like an asshole then get offended when someone gets annoyed by it?

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u/Rubbersoulrevolver Oct 05 '24

Are you talking about car drivers? Because that’s an every day occurrence.

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u/frozen_toesocks Oct 05 '24

Driving dramatically slower than the other cars around you is a traffic hazard. Bicyclists take that up to 11 by also being squishy and insistent. Drive an e-bike as fast as the cars around you, or get into a lane for the slower traffic that you are.

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u/Hawt_Dawg_II Oct 05 '24

"Just because I'm a nuicance to someone DOES NOT mean i have to stop doing that" is never a good stance to take, buddy. Standing up for yourself is important, choosing when not to even more so.

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u/Rubbersoulrevolver Oct 05 '24

If you consider cyclists a nuisance then you have a terminal case of car brain and you should check yourself in to the nearest hospice for palliative care.

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u/svlagum Oct 05 '24

It’s not going well for you

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u/Hawt_Dawg_II Oct 05 '24

I'm Dutch and ride my bike everywhere

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u/TheBlackestCrow Oct 05 '24

In my country cyclists only have the right to use the road if there is no cycling path. We do have cycling paths almost everywhere though in the Netherlands with the exception of neighborhoods and the countryside.

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u/Aggravating-Host-752 Oct 05 '24

You still have the right to be an asshole in many situation, even if you are allowed, you are still being an asshole. They could and should have used the bike lane, it is literally there for them to use. The car deserve to get punished but the cyclists deserved to be called out for being an ass for slowing the traffic when they had a safe alternative no to...

The same way that some state don't have laws for bright and crossing lights, it doesn't make you a good guy to blind everybody because you can.

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u/D3RF3LL Oct 05 '24

Round my way there are some bike lanes I wouldn't use, but I don't see why you wouldn't use the ones in this video.

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u/ChanGaHoops Oct 05 '24

What traffic? Seems empty to me

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u/Aggravating-Host-752 29d ago

Do you expect a road to just not be used by cars at any point in the futur ? Btw the moron filming it is traffic.

Also the video don't show a perspective that let you know if there is more and it matter very little because traffic on a road is expected.

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u/neighborhoodhoodlum Oct 05 '24

How? How could a road possibly be safer than a bike lane?

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u/FrugalStrudel Oct 05 '24

This is such a dumb sentence 🤦

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u/Ok-Air3126 Oct 05 '24

Sorry you got downvoted. This is law in most places.

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u/Mackheath1 Oct 05 '24

You're being downvoted to oblivion, but you're right at least in the United States - I can't speak for Australia.

As a Transportation Planner in the States, cyclists have every right to share the road with exception of state highways. End of discussion.

I don't know if in Australia this is some kinda highway or something, but being that they're police, I suspect they know where they can and can't be (don't know how well the Aussie police officers are trained).

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u/ljout Oct 05 '24

You have no idea why they were riding where they were.

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u/White_ox_nofilter Oct 05 '24

If he could drive a car on the cycling track I'm sure the cyclists could ride on it without much worry champion

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u/justasapling Oct 05 '24 edited Oct 05 '24

Wait, why the fuck should they have to?

Actually shocked to see the response in this thread. Didn't realize people hate bikes so much.

I think they have the choice of the path or the road while the car has to be on the road. Private cars are lowest priority societally. The sooner they're untenable the better, as uncomfortable as that transition will be for us all.

Apparently they do have to in Australia. It's stupid, but it's also true.

In my neck of the woods, bikes have the choice.

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u/Revolutionary-Price7 Oct 05 '24

Lol there is someone bike path for them to ride on..... why the fuck would they ride on the road???

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u/Gibbs530 Oct 05 '24

Exactly this, no logic. They are lucky he did use the bike lane and didn't just run their ass over. Being that he's obviously already unstable.

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u/justasapling Oct 05 '24

They're bikes; they have a choice. You're car; you don't.

If there were a sidewalk, neither bike nor car would be allowed there.

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u/cannibalcorpuscle Oct 06 '24

Then why have a bike path at all?

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u/Revolutionary-Price7 Oct 06 '24

I'm not a car.... im a person lol. That path in the video is for walking/cycling. I'm not sure what your on about.

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u/frozen_toesocks Oct 05 '24

No, the entitlement of taking up the car road when there's a perfectly good bike path built just for them.

Bicycles are great; bicyclists are the fucking worst.

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u/Magic-Codfish Oct 05 '24

reading these comments is a giggle...

cyclists want their own spaces, but they also want to use car spaces when they dont fieel like their spaces are good enough. they want to be kept separate from both pedestrians and motorists and their associated traffic lights/signs/rules, and be only beholden to their own set of rules, but when they DO decide they want to be in shared spaces, it is everybody around them that is expected to cater and anticipate their needs. pedestrians are to get out of the way and yield to cyclists because they are unpredictable and could be injured....but also cars are to yield to them, give them full space as a car because they could get hurt.

also, no 90 degree angles, traffic lights, pedestrian crossings or driveways on bike lanes..... and they shouldn't end anywhere and should be perfectly maintained...

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u/Rubbersoulrevolver Oct 05 '24

I guess it’s entitlement by definition because they have the right to use the road in almost every jurisdiction in the world. Sometimes it’s safer to use the road instead of the bike lane for a variety of reasons.

Why are you not condemning the driver for his entitlement to have some use of the road?

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u/frozen_toesocks Oct 05 '24

I truly cannot think of any situation in which a bike path would be less safe than biking with car traffic. The fact that bicyclists insist on slowing down traffic for motor vehicles, when their municipalities have gone out of their way to separate the traffic, is a conscious decision on their part. Bicyclists drive like petulant lawyers, not like the squishy bodies vulnerable to two-ton death machines that they are.

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u/Rubbersoulrevolver Oct 05 '24

Then you truly have never ridden your bike. Oftentimes bike lanes aren't swept or raked, so you could be riding over wet leaves, oftentimes bike lanes are right by parking garage exits and you can get killed by an exiting car, oftentimes it's right by a parking lane and you can get doored and killed.

The fact that you can't even imagine a scenario means you might have a terminal case of car brain.

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u/frozen_toesocks Oct 05 '24

Jesus Christ, the horror of driving over wet leaves, and yet a car doesn't phase you. Oh wait, it does, but only if it's parked.

In OP's video, the path is 100% separate from the car lane, and in immaculate condition on a sunny day. These particular shuttlecocks have no excuses.

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u/Rubbersoulrevolver Oct 05 '24

Yes, you can completely wipe out riding over wet leaves.

You're a completely entitled car brained loser. I hope you get over it soon.

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u/frozen_toesocks Oct 05 '24

"Use the fucking bike track, ya dumb cunts."
¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '24

You guys love using the “car brain” insult but as soon as you do everyone knows what kind of person you are. It’s a self own really.

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u/HugoStiglitz55 Oct 05 '24

Dude really just pulled the clibbins card

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u/kynthrus Oct 05 '24

I saw no parked cars on or near this bike lane. Or wet leaves, whatever that does.

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u/Rubbersoulrevolver Oct 05 '24

read what the person above wrote: "I truly cannot think of any situation in which a bike path would be less safe than biking with car traffic"

That's what I was responding to.

And I don't know if you're regarded or you've never left the sanctity of your death machine, but yes, you can slip on wet leaves regardless if you're biking or on foot.

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u/kynthrus Oct 05 '24

Death machine? Come on, man. Let's relax a little.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '24

No because we’re grown ups that can drive

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u/blue_pen_ink Oct 05 '24

Its not every day you see a car in a dedicated bike lane in video or in person however you do see cyclists blocking traffic and being absolute dickheads every day.

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u/CougarWithDowns Oct 05 '24

You don't know what route they were going they very possibly could have had to make a turn coming up which is why they were in the street

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u/frozen_toesocks Oct 05 '24

bruh that road stretched on in an unbroken line as far as the eye could see

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u/CougarWithDowns Oct 05 '24

No with the grass you can't really see if there's any trail turns or something

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u/porsj911 Oct 05 '24

Think before you speak, was it about paths or about bikes? Critical thinking ain't your strong suit.

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u/Shot_Lawfulness4429 Oct 05 '24

Offensive language is a crime? Legitimately asking. Because in the US people scream and swear at law enforcement all the time.

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u/LurksWithGophers Oct 05 '24

They just catch a charge by a different name.

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u/StormcloakWordsmith Oct 05 '24

he's just like me frfr

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u/IIITriadIII Oct 05 '24

That's stupid as hell. Fuck those pigs I'm with the asshole driving on the sidewalk 🤣

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u/Practical_Gain_8574 Oct 06 '24

People shouldn’t get arrested for objectively funny crimes

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u/FlameShadow0 Oct 05 '24

Damn, you can get arrested for offensive language in Aussie land?

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u/SuperSmashBeers Oct 05 '24

Apparently those guys were off-duty cops and the dude got fined $1250 lol

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u/frozen_toesocks Oct 05 '24

Best $1250 he ever spent.

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u/Tholaran97 Oct 05 '24

Yep, over a thousand dollars for a 10 second altercation that did absolutely nothing to help his situation. So worth it.

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u/GetMeOutThisBih Oct 05 '24

It got a bunch of dickheads to cry about bicyclists on the internet again because they dared to ride on an empty road. Apparently the guy driving a multiple thousand pound engine powered machine on a bike path is more in the right in this scenario

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u/sonebai Oct 05 '24

I bet, so fucking smart

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u/_mocha_26 Oct 05 '24

off-duty coppers or not, they’re still cunts for not using the wide ass bike lane.

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u/Bigel_7 Oct 05 '24

ACAB mate

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u/Robots_Never_Die Oct 06 '24

All cops are bicyclists

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u/BitterLeif Oct 05 '24

I'm going to assume that this bike lane, like almost all bike lanes, is poorly conceived. City planners are notorious for designing unsafe bike lanes.

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u/frozen_toesocks Oct 05 '24

You can see, plain as day, that it's in immaculate condition and runs directly parallel to the car road. Stop coming up with excuses for dickheads.

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u/BitterLeif Oct 05 '24

until it leads to an intersection where cars won't yield. If you're occupying the road then cars are forced to deal with you.

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u/frozen_toesocks Oct 05 '24

Or you could just, y'know, wait your goddamn turn to cross a street like every other vehicle that's ever existed.

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u/BitterLeif Oct 05 '24

if the bicyclist isn't turning then they have the right of way, but cars will turn into them because they don't pay attention to the bike lane.

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u/nerforbuff Oct 05 '24

Mate riding a bike on a roadway for cars makes you a cumt

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u/KilljoyShade Oct 05 '24

buy a bike built to ride over the terrain, and stay in your fucking bike lane.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '24

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u/BitterLeif Oct 06 '24

it's not the pavement. It's the lane design. You can get hit at intersections.

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u/SirDork182 27d ago

Bet it much more safe that riding your bike in the fucking road made for cars

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u/BitterLeif 27d ago

I don't ride a bike, but I've asked about this idea. They say it isn't more dangerous. It's often times more dangerous to use the bike lane that isn't planned correctly at intersections. I'm assuming that's what was going to follow when the biker said "pull over and let's chat." He was going to explain the issues with this road design. But drivers don't want to hear a logical explanation.

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u/Ok-Attention-50 Oct 05 '24

Seriously so what’s the point of taking tax money to build those bike lanes if they’re not required to use them when they are available? And why are they not held to being ticketed like everyone else who uses public maintained roads? Honest question

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u/alienbringer Oct 05 '24

I mean, they were cops. So they wernt getting a ticket regardless.

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u/mludd Oct 05 '24

Well, if it's anything like here in Sweden the main issue is that the bike lane is poorly thought out.

E.g:

  • It's shared with pedestrians (because it's cheaper).
  • It keeps getting interrupted by pedestrian crossings (where you have to stop, get off your bike, lead it across the road and then get back on).
  • There are tight 90° turns (that seem to only exist to force cyclists to slow down).
  • It keeps changing sides of the road (so you have to cross the street multiple times just to go in a straight line).
  • It randomly comes to an end in some illogical place.
  • It's littered with traffic lights that are incredibly poorly timed (so that as a cyclist you end up having to stop and wait several minutes at every intersection).
  • It's poorly maintained.
  • There's a bunch of obstacles on it (light poles and such are a favorite).
  • A bunch of driveways and such cross it and cars frequently pop out onto the path because otherwise they can't see if it's safe to enter the street.
  • Motorists and construction workers keep parking vehicles and equipment on it.
  • And so on...

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u/Audioillity Oct 05 '24

Where am no not only are most of these points valid, however they are also not cleaned by road cleaners and have debris on the roads.

Also they also turn into bus laybys, so you all of a sudden have a buss that will pull into the lane without giving way to you.

finally others have bus stops that are not in the lane, but the actual passengers get of into the cycle lane..

I'm sure we both could go on with many more reasons!

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u/Penki- Oct 06 '24

Also at least in my country, there is a speed limit of 20kmh while on the cycling road which on a road bike is just too small

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u/Liberating_theology Oct 06 '24

That's 12 mph, super leisurely, or an uphill speed. Typical speeds for serious road biking is like 40 kmh, and faster downhill.

Also in my experience a lot of bike lanes are just too narrow for safely going more-than-leisurely bike speeds, especially if you add any traffic to the mix like pedestrians. I use bike lanes for long boarding on flats and am constantly passing leisurely bikers. Most just aren't made for the kind of biking these guys are doing.

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u/GrimMilkMan Oct 05 '24

Either way, dude probably went into the bike lane because those two assholes were blocking the main road. Stay in the lane your supposed to be in

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u/gonzaloetjo Oct 06 '24

dude got charged and rightly so.

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u/RLGrind69420 Oct 05 '24 edited Oct 05 '24

Lol I'll probably get downvoted but idc. If I said the roads weren't good enough due to all the above reasons, that shouldn't allow me to drive on the bike path...ahem and vice versa.

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u/PenguinKenny Oct 05 '24

Roads aren't built only for cars. They're for all vehicles. You build bike lanes to encourage bikes to get off the road.

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u/Audioillity Oct 05 '24

If you want cyclists off the road, you need to build cycle paths they actually want to use .. after a recent visit to Norway I can say, at least in the cities I Visited they have them nailed!

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u/DerpWilson Oct 05 '24

I support bike lanes but they’re often inappropriate for anyone riding fast. They’re often crowded with young inexperienced riders and shouldn’t have people goin 18 mph. That’s what the street is for. 

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u/Drak_is_Right Oct 05 '24 edited Oct 05 '24

One of the worst accidents I ever witnessed was on a bike path. Kids skateboard got loose and went under a bikes wheels. Biker was still unconscious when the ambulance got there 10 minutes later. Lot of blood too from a badly braced fall and a clearly snapped arm

(Other really bad one, guy got a death wobble at high speeds on a long downhill, slid under a guard rail but nailed the post)

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u/MerrySkulkofFoxes Oct 05 '24

I saw one of those in Central Park about 15 years ago. Bike going one way, skateboarder didn't look and went flying across the path, they perfectly collided. The sound of collision was like a smack/crack. Lady on the bike went down and was out; skateboarder was fucked up but was at least moving. And it happened in the blink of an eye. I'm sure both of them were significantly injured.

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u/Mackheath1 Oct 05 '24

Transportation Planner here - honest response - but only from a USA standpoint. The point of off-street, separated trails are for cyclists that range from not confident or recreational up to confident. On American roadways (this is not America in the video), this allows the confident cyclists to share the road with vehicles and the not-confident but interested in cycling, to have a separated path.

Separated paths in rural areas like this are also used recreationally and connect to an overpass and go places that the road itself doesn't go for utilitarian use. An example is taking the road to connect from home to office: the separated path might not ever get you there, so you take the road responsibly and share the road.

I mostly drive to work because it's fucking Texas and you never know what the weather is going to be, but at least once a week I take the bicycle; I obey the same rules as motorized vehicles and take the bike lane when available.

These guys are not disrupting anything and have every right and responsibility a motorized vehicle has. Very likely the separated path is not going where they're going, and the likelihood of having to pass less experienced (but equally valid) cyclists is there whether they're doing it recreationally or not.

The real cunt here is the person filming while driving on a path that might have a family cycling on it so that he can be a funny guy for a video. I'll let a transport planner from Australia contradict me, because I don't know their policies (I only have taken transit or Uber when visiting Australia)

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u/richATTK Oct 05 '24

Aussie Transport Planner here, we're all cunts. Have a good one mate.

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u/bremsspuren Oct 05 '24

Seriously so what’s the point of taking tax money to build those bike lanes if they’re not required to use them when they are available?

Cycles are vehicles. They're allowed on the roads. Cycle paths are usually on the footpath, and cyclists often don't have to use them because pedestrians and bikes doing 20+ mph do not belong together. Pedestrians are far worse than motorists for not noticing bikes and bike paths.

Not sure why the guys in the video aren't on the cycle path. Maybe it's a lot bumpier than the road.

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u/firemogle 26d ago

I had all these nice privacy trees that were torn out for a bike lane, which great I use it but then a bunch of cunts still just block the road 3 feet away instead. This guy is my spirit animal.

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u/oficious_intrpedaler Oct 05 '24

What would those cyclists be ticketed for?

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u/campingmatt11 Oct 05 '24

I enjoy this video more than I should.

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u/Silent_Neck9930 Oct 05 '24

I support the car person in the clip

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u/JohnGoodman_69 Oct 05 '24

As a cyclist... same. The amount of times I've been out on rides with other cyclists and they won't use the bike lanes is mind boggling.

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u/frozen_toesocks Oct 05 '24

You're one of the good ones. Thank you. <3

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u/Audioillity Oct 05 '24

There is a time and place to use a cycle lane, if you don't know when that is you might be killed or seriously injured in a traffic accident one day!

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u/JohnGoodman_69 Oct 05 '24

That time and place is every time you can possible. As much as cyclist fight for cycling infrastructure (I'm for it) if the city, county, or state gives us some its in our best interest to use the hell out of it so they will be inclined to give us more. That's why these greenways keep getting made, they're used.

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u/Audioillity 29d ago

So where I am the cycle path is on one side of the road only wide enough for one bike, but used both ways and shared with pedestrians., There is no way to to get off to a exit you need. You end up having to stop and run across 4 lanes of traffic with no official crossing if you need to make a turning on the other side. It's much safer to just ride on the road unless you're going the full length of the cycle path.

Also if you are cycling above 12mph shared cycle paths are not the place to be either, you're putting pedestrians at serious risk.

The main cycle lane where I am has sudden laybys for busses / cars they never give way to bikes, meaning you are at serious risk of being hit by a bus who pulls into your lane.

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u/Iggy_Pops_Lost_Shirt Oct 05 '24

Everyone here sucks. Dude's putting cyclists who actually use that bike lane at risk by driving on it and being distracted by filming

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u/Rubbersoulrevolver Oct 05 '24

You’re a bad person then

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u/Silent_Neck9930 Oct 05 '24

Hmm it's good being bad

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u/nikanj0 29d ago

Imagine supporting someone who’s driving a vehicle down a shared path that could have pedestrians or children on it while filming on their phone and not looking where they’re going.

He could have easily killed somebody.

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u/CeonM Oct 05 '24

This clip never fails hahaha

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u/Ralph--Hinkley Oct 05 '24 edited Oct 05 '24

Good ole Aussie friendliness.

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u/Trajikbpm Satan would never 👹 Oct 05 '24

Cyclists are the worst

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u/AllElitest Oct 05 '24

I agree with the rage.

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u/No_Caregiver8202 Oct 06 '24

I love this man

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u/Snow4u1 Oct 05 '24

I mean he did make a good point

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u/NocimonNomicon Oct 05 '24

He was 100% in the right, I say that as someone who bikes to work

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u/oficious_intrpedaler Oct 05 '24

Well, except for legally. Legally he was 100% wrong.

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u/ComprehensivePin6097 Oct 05 '24

This is beautiful

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u/K-Bman Oct 05 '24

Couldn’t of said it better myself self Australian cyclists are fucken cockroaches fucken road toads

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u/ObiWan-Cannabis Oct 05 '24

I'm no English native speaking but I could understand that 90% of the uttered words are serious swearing.

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u/Pretend-Drop-8039 Oct 06 '24

I love how each comment thred is anti cyclists. It shows no matter our race , gender , creed or nation, we all have a hate for one group of individuals ......cyclists . Good job everyone.

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u/madladolle Oct 05 '24

Yeah fuck those guys

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u/getlowpapoose 29d ago

These are some brain dead comments lmao

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u/heygos Oct 05 '24

lol love all the comments absolutely obliterating the bikes that aren’t using the bike lane. Bikes, are LEGALLY allowed to use all roadways unless otherwise posted. Not sure what you’re all so mad about.

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u/GetMeOutThisBih Oct 05 '24

2 wheel guy made me mad once so all bicyclists are bad. Never mind the idiots on their phones while driving, that guy could be me so I can excuse it

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u/Direct_Town792 Oct 05 '24

Love he recorded evidence for his fine

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u/J_l_l Oct 05 '24

1 was an off duty officer on the bike aha

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u/Decademagenta10 Oct 05 '24

What lead bike users being dicks...

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u/Arthurjim Oct 05 '24

Pull over so we can have a chat 😂 some countries have funny ways of saying things 😂