Driver fury over Euro cycle laws (Eurofacists Declare Cyclists Are NEVER at Fault in Accidents)

The Observer ^ | August 4, 2002 | Joanna Walters, transport editor

[Timesink]

Though the EUnuchs' actions here are reprehensible, I'm very happy to see it happen, because the more they force their ultrasocialism down the throats of people that are used to at least a modicum of freedom, the faster they will rise up and demand their governments withdraw from the EU entirely.

[Jonathon Spectre]

So if you are sitting at a stoplight and a cyclist runs into you from behind, it's your fault.

The Old World rots.

[Jorge]

What a bunch of idiots.

[chance33_98]

Looks like in the end Hitler won - he was just not around to see it. One europe, under facism, indivisible, and insane laws for all.

[j271]

The EuroGov war on the automobile continues.

[gcruse]

Sssst!! Hey, kid. C'mere minute. Wanna new bike? Shh. See that car over there?

[gaelwolf]

Hey...Europeans wanted to saddle themselves with this monstrosity, let 'em live with it.

As far as teh rest of us are concerned, always remember to be careful what you wish for...you might just get it!

[gcruse]

Come to think of it, that would apply also to parked cars. You wouldn't even have to be in your car!!!

[blackbart.223]

"European officials believe the move will make the roads safer and encourage more people to get on their bikes."

That's the real agenda here.

I say screw the Europeans. I'll take my Dodge Ram pickup over a bicycle any time. I don't have to wear fag costume to operate it.

[blackbart.223]

"I don't have to wear fag costume to operate it."

I don't have to wear a fag costume to operate it.

[Post Toasties]

They might as well modify the EC document to read:

'Buildings, lamp posts, pets, curbs, motor vehicles, walls and pavement cause most accidents. Whoever is responsible, pedestrians and cyclists usually suffer more.'

Just as braindead and leftist stoopid either way.

[fire_eye]

"...the more they force their ultrasocialism down the throats of people that are used to at least a modicum of freedom, the faster they will rise up and demand their governments withdraw from the EU entirely.

Oh, you think so?

Europe is the living incarnation of "go along to get along". They even went along with the Germans and Naziism, surrendering en masse - and then helping round up the Jews among them - so they could "get along" with Hitler.

You think they're going to revolt over a little thing like Socialist tyranny that rules their entire lives?

Once again, I am impelled to wonder if we wouldn't have been better off in the long run to have left them to be ground into dust under the heel of Hitler's boot, until such time as we had prepared the necessary holocaust to turn Hitler, and his Europe (and I include England as well, considering their lack of concern for individual freedom) into a radioactive wasteland.

Maybe *that* would have changed their attitudes. Maybe *then* the survivors would have learned to appreciate their freedom...

[droberts]

Perhaps we should review our own vanishing freedoms before we come down too harshly on them (feel free to substitute 'radically protected wetland' for 'radioactive wasteland' to see what I mean). Face it, our population is just as dormant as theirs.

[j271]

Since the Eurocrats love public transportation so much,
what happens if a bike is involved in an accident with a
bus?

What a dilemma! The pro-bike social engineering conflicts
with the pro- public-transit social engineering. What's a
EuroFacist to do?

May there'll be a special exemption for the bus driver
because he's carrying more EuroSerfs.

[Still Thinking]

Sounds like it's time to go on offense and start running them down whenever you see them. Might as well make the crime fit the punishment.

[razorback-bert]

Does this apply to motor-cycles too?

[Imal]

This reminds me of a Mexican border town I visited about 20 years ago. There were kids on bicycles darting around all over the streets -- I would see them zig-zagging across the traffic, not going anywhere in particular, seeming to be trying to build up their courage to try to get hit. I'd never seen anything like it.

I asked my Dad about this, and he said this was a way they could get some quick money, because of the way Mexican traffic and insurance laws worked (and the local police). It was then that I realized the kids were probably sizing up who to run into as they caromed across the streets. We were driving an old junker at the time, so I guess we didn't qualify for an "incident".

Looks like Europe is trying to become more like Mexico.

Imal

[lavaroise]

Hmmm, I just can see it. Palestinian suicide bomber on bicycle kills Jewish school bus in Paris. Synagogue billed for damages.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

In my 35+ years of driving I've had several close calls with bicyclist and in every case it was the fault of the cyclist. Sudden lane changes, running stop signs, driving the wrong way. BTW, the hazard from driving the wrong way is that when you are making a right turn at a stop sign you look left - clear - and begin to enter the intersection, only to have some dufus almost huff and puff right into you from the right.

[dighton]

A_Turk, does your country *really* want to join this pack of freaks?