Newsbot Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 A pensioner is knocked off his bicycle in a row with two walkers over a promenade cycle path. Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/...man/7370586.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyboarder Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Good timing for this incident, lol......... ( is it wrong to hope the pair are eastern Europeans....... )?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcCann Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Right. Which one of you did it then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mission Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 The MF Vigilante posse strikes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Take Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Manx forums in 'affects real world' shocker. A pensioner though! Whoever you were, you're a coward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fubar Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Good timing for this incident, lol......... ( is it wrong to hope the pair are eastern Europeans....... )?? Ah, nothing like a bit of Xenophobia on a monday morning. Eastern European/Comeover = Bad, assaulting an old guy on a bike while he goes about his own business Manx = Good, asserting their rights to walk along the prom without being hassled by old guy on a bike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3v0 Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Good timing for this incident, lol......... ( is it wrong to hope the pair are eastern Europeans....... )?? Ah, nothing like a bit of Xenophobia on a monday morning. Eastern European/Comeover = Bad, assaulting an old guy on a bike while he goes about his own business Manx = Good, asserting their rights to walk along the prom without being hassled by old guy on a bike Not sure that's the point he was going for but you crack on regardless.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babelfish Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 A pensioner is knocked off his bicycle in a row with two walkers over a promenade cycle path. Translating Pensioner runs into two pedestrians. Pedestrians angry, whack pensioner. All hell brakes loose. Makes the News. Newsbot happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ai_Droid Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 A pensioner is knocked off his bicycle in a row with two walkers over a promenade cycle path. Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/...man/7370586.stm Wasn't me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemonday Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 I'd suspect it's not the first time it has happened. Corpy should look at the situation before someone is injured. Then do something........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Ayres Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 The pensioner was on the cycle path, sounded his bell at some pedestrians on the path to warn them of his approach. The peds decide not to get out of the way, old guy tells them off, they push him off his bike. FFS, is this news now? Happens to me regularly, why can't people recognise the lane is there for their safety and maybe they should avoid walking in it. It may be the only place there isn't a pile of dogshit but it is there for your own benefit. The prom is wide enough to cater for all sections of society. No excuse for bullying an older citizen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonan3 Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 If he was wearing lycra he was asking for it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
=^..^= Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 At the moment the walkway where this appears to have happened (from reading the report) has been narrowed to allow people to park when they go to the Guild - I rode through there yesterday (in lycra) but slowed down to about walking pace as it was obviously a place where there would be more people than there would be room for. Having the right to ride somewhere should not overrule common sense. But even then pushing someone off their bike is a complete over reaction. I bet they wouldn't have tried it with me though - two guys picking on a pensioner. Big men... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deejay Denzel Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 is it legally a cycle path or just painted lines? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aimeejulia Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 as a matter or courtesy they should have walked away rather then push him... especially given his age Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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