• wpb@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    I was being inconsiderate and dangerous in traffic, and it’s the other guy’s fault

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        6 hours ago

        Was it a cycle path or a foot path?

        If it was a cycle path, then you are allowed to cross it on foot, but you aren’t allowed to walk on it.

        If you blindly wandered onto a road and a driver got angry because he almost hit you because of that, would you also believe you had the right to throw his car off a bridge?

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          Neither (or both?), it was an overcrowded walkable canal bank in the height of summer with faint paint marks to delimit the path of the bike “lane”. I was in the wrong in any case, what I’m complaining about is the dude’s reaction. My point is you have to be able to share the space and safely navigate what is inevitably going to be a crowded area at that time of year, especially when riding a bicycle which can be dangerous in its own right.

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            2 hours ago

            So it was a bike lane that you were on. Being to dumb to understand what a bike lane is and that a bike lane is for, you know, bikes is not an excuse.

            You complain about that dude’s reaction but wanted to commit theft/vandalism and think you are justified in that?

            You are the idiot who actively made riding a bike dangerous in that situation and still believe you are justified?

            Let me guess, you are American?

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        11 hours ago

        If you walk onto a freeway, on foot, you are being reckless. It’s the same for bike lanes. Look where you walk.

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        11 hours ago

        You’re still part of traffic when you’re on foot. And yes, it was 100% your fault and the cyclist was right to be pissed.