The Glade 4.0

http://road.cc/content/news/84212-norwi ... on-cyclist

/sigh

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Holy shitsnacks!

What a retard.

I'm sure if the police act on this they're somehow violating someone's rights. After all, if we allow the police to seek people who hit-and-run bike riders based on Tweets, the entire Constitution is at risk. Tyranny!

(Yes, I'm trolling. Suck it down. I'm also drunk)

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

That explains the sudden increase in lucidity.

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YOU **** KNOW IT!!!

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

It is a fun time to post.

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Raell Kromwell

We don't have to go solely on the tweet. We have the cyclist who can hopefully describe the car and/or its driver.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

It's sad that I fault her less for the hit-and-run than I do for tweeting about it afterward. Criminality is far more forgivable than idiocy.

Edit: Perhaps she'd knock fewer cyclists off their bikes if she'd not tweet while driving 95 mph.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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The better course of action would have been to put it in reverse and run over the cyclist again, and then not say anything on twitter.

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I know, right?

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Judging by the actions of the cyclists in the Philadelphia area, they deep down really want to be run over.

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

I'm as big an advocate for cyclist rights and share the road initiatives as most you'll find, but the thing that's really most distrubing about that tweet is that she thinks she has more right to the road because of some "road tax" she thinks he's not paying.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

the article is from England, not sure what their road taxes are

In that case, she probably is paying several automobile-based taxes the cyclist isn't, assuming the cyclist also doesn't own a car.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Let the Bears pay the Bear Tax! I pay the Homer tax. Dad that's the Homeowners tax.

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

Um, is it?

There are several Norwiches in New England, and the article refers to pictures she's taken of her speedometer at 95 mph.

In any event, the article explicitly says there are no road taxes, that roads (wherever this incident occurred, thanks, sloppy reporting) are paid for out of general taxation.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

The Brits still use MPH.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

England uses miles. It is their unit, after all.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Bah, I thought they'd converted to metric by now.

The article actually ends up being pretty geographically confused, by my reading.

The accident describes the cyclist riding on the left and being hit by an oncoming car (implying that the car was driving on the right). Then, the cyclist uses metres, windscreen, and bonnet conversationally, just in case it wasn't confusing enough, yet.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Metre rather than meter should've been your first clue!

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Its England. And there, like here, there's no such thing as "Road Tax".

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Holy shitsnacks!

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Its not a tax for road usage. They're paid for by local VAT and other sales/property taxes.

http://ipayroadtax.com/

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Holy shitsnacks!

but its specifically called 'road tax' and its not paid by bike users.

1. Its based on carbon emissions.
2. Many cyclists also have vehicles and pay Vehicle Excise Duty.
3. Read the article I linked FFS.

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Holy shitsnacks!