- cross-posted to:
- unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
- cross-posted to:
- unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/58736023
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Truly harrowing. Just round the corner from me, and an area I frequently cycle. I hate it here.
Stay safe out there
Holy shit that is horrific
Seems like it’s only fair that he gets transported under the bus to prison for his sentence.
Coming from the US, if he had stopped the car immediately, the bicyclist would likely be alive, and the driver would’ve received a metaphorical slap on the wrist by comparison to the act he performed. Murder is the only outcome he deserves.
This didn’t happen in the US. There is nothing about this story related to the USA. Not every story has to have an American perspective. Capital punishment fixes nothing.
I know it didn’t happen in the US. That’s my only insight that I could offer. I don’t know how favorable UK courts are to drivers. If it had happened in the US, and the driver stopped immediately after impact, it likely wouldn’t have turned out too badly for the driver because of how favored drivers are and how light their punishments are from US judges.
As for capital punishment, I wasn’t even mentioning the punishment for the driver. The incident being classified as “murder” is the only outcome that could work given the driver’s actions. I wasn’t calling for the execution of the driver at all.
I hope that clears up my positions. Correspondence through text isn’t always great at conveying intentions.
If you have nothing to offer then maybe don’t share?
You post to an international community and then say “we don’t need your opinion” - this is a forum! How disrespectful you are.
Aye, exactly, international community. And yet every thread, on every bloody website in the world, has an American chiming in to discuss their country instead of the country at hand.
It’s so prevalent it even has a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_arrogance
It’s not disrespectful to point out that what they’re talking about is so tenuously relevant to the post as to be irrelevant.
They replied in a polite manner and explained their position. I upvoted it. I downvoted their original comment because it’s not relevant.
Aww, did I touch a nerve?
Your attempt at bait is hilarious because I 100% agree with it.
Coming from the UK and complaining about Global Arrogance… Oh boy. How quickly you have forgotten, or try to ignore, your imperial roots.
Just hit the downvote button and move on. Jeez.
Okay. Done.
There you go. Very easy, and you don’t disrupt the discussion that way.
I’m glad I could teach you something new.
You’d think that living in the worst country in the world™ would stop people talking about it so often.
Spoken like someone who has no idea what’s happening in Sudan right now.
I do like hearing that other countries are slightly less car-brained.
In the US, it’s normally OK to hit someone with your car. Unless that person is a cop. The pigs will execute babies over that.
Not every story needs to be ‘America bad’. Give it a rest.
Yeah! Other countries suck too! You wanna fight about it!?
This didn’t happen in the US. There is nothing about this story related to the USA. Not every story has to have an American perspective.
I meant it as a complement, jerk. As in, look how much better the UK is with traffic fatalities. But you’re right, fuck those colonial assholes. Goddamn nation of thieves and drunks, get out of Ireland!
Is that European enough for you?
British people try not to get worked up over nothing challenge (impossible)
Literally anybody mentioning what things are like in the country they’re from:
Everyone: “Yeah cool, that’s totally reasonable input. Thanks for sharing!”
American mentioning what things are like in the US:
Someone: “WHY WOULD YOU EVEN MENTION THAT?!? NO ONE CARES!!!”
Like give it a rest. Yeah things are shit in the US but why do you think that means it’s okay to be a jerk to anyone who’s from there?
I ain’t clicking that bro @grok tell me what it is
I know this unpopular, but I feel this has nothing to do with cars. I get that it’s taking the weapon away, in a sense, but I think this kind of person was gonna pop at some point anyway.
Just sayin, not reportin, or nuthin.
The news is that he was actually charged and convicted.
cause it’s not the us
What other weapon might he have had available in some situation where he might get overcome with random vicious anger?
And in a way where the beginning of the violence is mostly accidental.I don’t think any other weapon than a car would have been able to bring him into this heinous deed.
That’s not just unpopular, that’s ridiculous and factually incorrect. First of all, nothing in the article mentions anything about premeditation or anything suggesting he would’ve murdered the guy by other means instead.
Second, it’s well-established fact that the act of driving causes aggression that otherwise would not exist. Hell, Disney was making cartoons about it 75 years ago! The reason the behavior is specific to driving is that:
Oh I guess I must be wrong and ridiculous because the article absolutely lists all the facts, and premeditation was not explicitly mentioned.
