I just hit a girl on my bike.

[peasea]

Sorry, like I said, pointless post.. I just had to vent.

No, no, fair post, ped's often don't look where they're going. I am pretty consistent when it comes to dealing with this; a big 'fuck you' finger followed by (or in unison with) a big 'fuck you' verbal. I have no idea how to rate the performance because I can't (so far) identify second offenders. The worst are mums pushing prams, they use their babies as a 'force' shield. (And somewhere to stash their P)

Oh well, V8 day today...........

[JimO]

motorist verses pedestrian......motorist always at fault....and that was what the judge said......i know someone who was convicted of careless driving when a jaywalker stepped on to the road as the car was doing a left turn, the jaywalker got a broken leg as it connected with the left front of the car, driver lost licence for 6 months $500 fine, DONT ever hit someone avoid them at all cost or you will be walking to work

[martypants]

Surprised that when you stopped and got off you didnt get a group bashing, your bike stolen and fat chick stealing your burger.

[ynot slow]

in the big smoke here in hawera we have courtesy crossings,most retards think they are pedestrian crossings.seems the local council in their wisdome thought we'll redesign the main street,out went the ped crossings and in came the courtesy crossings.difference eh?not to some,they walk out as if they own the road.i had near miss one day in car,idiot walked straight out,i just missed him and he abused the crap outa me.i parked nearby and said fuckwit came past prattling on about car drivers to mate with him.i asked what happened?reply was nearly got mowed over on crossing.i said yep you were lucky,it's not ped crossing.it is was reply.nope i replied.we argued for about 5 mins and a cop was walking along(holy shit batman),asked him who is in the wrong.he said pedestrian was.i said to be a ped crossing you must have zebra stripes,diamond on road either side of crossing, and zebra pole sign.i also asked the cop if i hit a ped on crossing can i be done for driving offence as well.not to sure was reply.wtf i said if dickhead people walk out in front of cars etc they are in wrong.just then a car ran into said dickus head on crossing,no injuries just pride,cop went over and all ok.he then went to check with superiours re charge i.e careless use,dangerous driving come to mind.the driver was a lawyer and asked if it was ped crossing cop said no lawyer said see ya .

[MSTRS:Me]

....i know someone who was convicted of carless driving ....

Really? No doubt, some of them should be...
Zeocen, if there is a next time, just extend the appropriate-side leg at kneecap height

[Trudes]

I had some mouth breather throw a Wendy's milkshake at my car one day as I didn't stop for him to drag his carcass across the road, wanker, I'd just cleaned the car too and it came right through the window (still smells like spew when it gets hot sometimes too)

[pritch]

There can be many reasons for a post, not all need a point. Some may be theraputic. Glad you weren't hurt.

When I was overseas in the Army many years ago we were told that if we were involved in an accident we should not stop but drive to the nearest Police Station and report the accident. The risk of attack by angry machete wielding locals was too high.

These days there are parts of this country where I would probably follow that advice.

[cowboyz]

and of course there was some tyre tread lost as you took off right...

once a car pulled a u turn infront of me...spat me off my bike (they were charged for being at fault)

outside a private girls school about 50 of them all sat there laughing at me...so i backed the bike up to them 2nd gear.....revved the snot out of it and just dropped the clutch..... smoked them all out...said something along the lines of whose f***king laughing now. and rode off ....another clutch pop and up onto one wheel down the road.

i was so pissed off it wasn't funny.

twas on my gpx 250 too

I used to have a gpx250 and I know thats not true.

[zeRax]

im one of those monkeys, i got hit by a car last night, more like bumped onto the bonnet and taken down the road then thrown off of it :/ sigh, pain O_o

[scumdog]

Why, oh fucking why, do people not look where vehicles are clearly going? Forget that bint, I almost dropped my fucking bike because of her, fuck that!

Anyway, rant over.. I might get some "you're in the wrong you dick" posts, maybe I worded the story wrong (only just got back and jumped on kb... is that weird?) but I kow 100% I was in the right and that bitch should have been taught how to look left and right before crossing anywhere with vehicles on it by now.

/rant over

Sorry, like I said, pointless post.. I just had to vent.

THink of it this way - in days gone by a drongo like that girl would have walked straight into a lion and been eaten - no passing on the stupidity gene.

Unfortunately todays lions (your bike) ain't allowed to eat drongos.

Maybe she DID learn something from it, who knows???

[Manxman]

This post won't really have a point, I'm just furious at the human race in general right now.

So I was feeling a bit peckish and decided to kill my arteries a bit by getting McD's, so off I go! Happy as larry I pootle down the road to the local mcdonalds, which is in southmall, manurewa.. Going there at night should have been caution enough to turn back, but I really felt like a cheeseburger damnit.

So I go in, get my fatty fill in a bag and head out, I'm in the southmall carpark and head out towards the roundabout and I see this group of kids, maybe 15 - 18, oblivious to traffic on the road and almost get run over by a car ahead of me.. so I think, not the smartest kids out tonight and as I approach them I rev my bike pretty loudly so they get the idea that they are infact on a road and that dordling along isn't the best idea, a couple of the guys look my way but keep dordling, one slightly moves out of my way and I think ok they've got the message.. I'm only going at about 5kmph, if that.

Next thing I know this girl on her cellphone just walks, looking the other direction, right into the front left side of my bike, bam! wobble! "Watch where you're fucking going you stupid fucking idiot!", in anger I turned around, parked and got off and asked if any of them would like to apologise for acting like ducklings following their mother, no response, I say "well?" and get a few "sorry"'s under their breath.

This was a fairly big girl that bumped into me so I check if there's damage and rearrange my mirror back to its position and ride off.

I had to stop just down the road to take a few deep breaths.

Why, oh fucking why, do people not look where vehicles are clearly going? Forget that bint, I almost dropped my fucking bike because of her, fuck that!

Anyway, rant over.. I might get some "you're in the wrong you dick" posts, maybe I worded the story wrong (only just got back and jumped on kb... is that weird?) but I kow 100% I was in the right and that bitch should have been taught how to look left and right before crossing anywhere with vehicles on it by now.

/rant over

Sorry, like I said, pointless post.. I just had to vent.

Good rant...

[_intense_]

mmmm rant....

// buy a pannier and fill it with bricks? or two even, then you won't riide in a cricle? my 5c worth.

[Bnonn]

I've got one. Coming down to Bridge St from Hamilton East in rush hour traffic, there was an Asian girl and her boyfriend trying to cross the road from the left side over to Memorial Park, right on the intersection with River Road. That, in itself, should have been a warning to me. Anyone attempting this at 5 pm on a weekday is not fit to be let out by themselves.

Said girl steps onto the almost nonexistent cycle track and looks up the road toward me as I'm heading toward the bridge at a respectable 45 km/h. I always have my brights on during the day for visibility, and I know for a fact how bright they are, so I'm pretty sure that when she looked directly at me approaching about 70 m away, she did indeed see me. In fact, she stopped with one foot on the roat and stepped back. So naturally I assumed that she was going to wait for me to go past.

Unfortunately, probably because cellphone radiation has rotted this bint's brain, she appeared to have the memory of a goldfish. Her boyfriend said something to her (he was standing on the pavement behind her) and she turned around said something back, and then stepped out into the road directly in front of me (remember, I was only 70 m away a couple of seconds ago). So I emergency brake and swerve around her, and yell something along the lines of "Are you an idiot?!" as my helmet and her head line up about 10 cm from each other. She gives me this look of complete astonishment, like she has never seen a motorcycle of any kind before, and as if she's not standing on a road completely packed with cars. I wonder to this day if what she was seeing in her head actually correlated at all with the reality of what was going on around her. Maybe that's why Asians are such bad drivers? Perhaps their minds have developed a filter which removes obstructions and replaces them with green fields and fluffy lambs, as a defense mechanism to avoid going insane after living like ants for a couple of centuries?

Then there was the time a kid on a bicycle was cycling down the center of a 60 km/h zone directly after a blind roundabout, and I tootled around it and hit him to his enormous surprise. Dorks.

[Patrick]

i also asked the cop if i hit a ped on crossing can i be done for driving offence as well.not to sure was reply.wtf i said if dickhead people walk out in front of cars etc they are in wrong.

If they are on a crossing, yep, you would be charged. You as a driver should be aware of someone approaching a crossing to cross... If they step out suddenly between cars etc, NO WAY would you get charged (Unless you are doing 90 in a 50 or summit...).

[Insanity_rules]

I am truly begining to believe that Darwinian theory of survival of the fittest is coming into play here and this girl may eventually walk out in front of a bus and do us all a favour.
Glad your OK though as shit like that can give anyone a nasty start, enough even to make you crash.