Another Motorist Can’t Handle His Shit.

Posted on February 28, 2011 by D2

Sorry to bump the Gnome’s post so quickly…you should read it right after you read this.

“A motorist sped his car through a pack of more than 100 cycling activists in southern Brazil, sending bikes and screaming riders flying through the air and landing hard on the asphalt in a scene captured on amateur video and posted online.”

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22 Replies to “Another Motorist Can’t Handle His Shit.”

Gnome on February 28, 2011 at 10:28 pm said:

It was a critical mass.

“He drove behind us for two blocks, and people were trying to stay calm. Then in the third block he … floored it on top of everyone,” Marcelo Guidoux Kalil told Folha. “It was a scene of war, with twisted bicycles and people bleeding on the ground.”

Unreal.
nyhc00 on February 28, 2011 at 10:34 pm said:

Luckily no one was killed
HWY14A on February 28, 2011 at 10:38 pm said:

Not right. Bad, really bad.
gildas on March 1, 2011 at 3:29 am said:

The driver is going spend dome quality time because of his criminal impatience:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1008/S00464/inhumane-ineffective-brazils-prison-system.htm
http://www.economist.com/node/417839

Why would you do something so studid and end up in there? And if anybody you injured/killed has familly inside. You gonna die.
Indysolar on March 1, 2011 at 3:38 am said:

what is it about our gentle sport that makes some motorists snap?
mike on March 1, 2011 at 6:15 am said:

It’s the last line in the story that really gets me, “The man is currently free.”.
AfricanSingle on March 1, 2011 at 6:26 am said:

I’m astounded at the reserve of the cyclists who were there but not injured. If he tried that in South Africa he would probably not have lived to see the inside of a prison cell. Maybe it’s better to let the law take it’s course. Maybe not.
Low Brow on March 1, 2011 at 8:33 am said:

Speechless.
beth h on March 1, 2011 at 9:39 am said:

Today is one of those rare days when I find myself in favor of vigilante justice.
big jonny on March 1, 2011 at 10:00 am said:

More here: http://www.bikerumor.com/2011/02/28/critical-mass-easy-target-for-violence/.
Jim MIller on March 1, 2011 at 12:02 pm said:

Good thing this didn’t happen in the US some one might think he was to valuable to society to go to jail
Gnome on March 1, 2011 at 2:30 pm said:

Eye for an eye. Set him up like a bowling pin.
TripleF on March 1, 2011 at 2:43 pm said:

As much as I hate that whole “critical mass/critical stupid” stuff, this is cut and dry.

Fry the sum-bitch.
littlejar on March 1, 2011 at 2:47 pm said:

Provide me the space and enough materials and a welder and I will produce a giant several dozen human powered MONSTER that can be used to crush cars. Give me 8 months of diligent design-as-you-go engineering, and we can bring this thing out every time something like this happens, to elicit rage and mayhem upon the daily ritual of sacred critical mass that the stinking power-plants that rule the road now have. It ain’t war if you can’t strike back.
littlejar on March 1, 2011 at 2:48 pm said:

And we shall name this machine THE DARK LORD
D2 on March 1, 2011 at 3:14 pm said:

Critical masses are kind of dumb, and they don’t really accomplish much of anything, but really, it’s a bunch of HUMANS on those bicycles. Why the aggression? Just fucking go down another street if you can’t handle it.

I like Gnome’s idea.
joetheelectrician on March 1, 2011 at 5:31 pm said:

Ummm, “DARK LORD”? Lighten nup, Francis.
bikesgonewild on March 1, 2011 at 5:41 pm said:

…as pointless & moronic as i find our local ‘critical morass’ has come to be, it’s like d2 sez, “…it’s a bunch of HUMANS on those bicycles…Just fucking go down another street if you can’t handle it.”…

…there may yet be a certain validity to holding them as regards their original intent in making the driving population aware of the option that riding a bike is a legitimate form of transportation but i’d suggest it’s done once, maybe twice a year with pre-event media coverage, full cooperation & support from local police agencies & none of the ad-hoc behavior shown by the clowns who always feel the need play the fool amongst those with an actual purpose…

…perhaps it could be held in conjunction with a ‘ciclovia’ event…a semiannual critical mass on a friday followed by a ciclovia on sunday, again with lots of media coverage…

…as far as this particular driver, he’s prob’ly gonna have a lotta ‘roommates’ who ride bikes ‘cuz they can’t afford cars…maybe they can help him understand just how dangerous life can be if you’re impulsive & stupid…
leif on March 1, 2011 at 10:05 pm said:

huge douche bag vs several douchebags
PedalLover on March 1, 2011 at 11:48 pm said:

I think I’m developing a huge crush on littlejar
ant1 on March 2, 2011 at 9:04 am said:

feel free to send your thoughts about the situation to ricardo.neis@bcb.com.br
i’m sure he’d love to hear what you think of his driving.
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