When It’s ‘Fun’ To Deliberately Hit a Cyclist With Your Car
What’s happened to our shared humanity?
Some things are so shocking when you see them that you wonder if they’re actually real. “It can’t be,” you say to yourself. “No actual living, breathing person would behave like this. It must be Photoshopped, or a deep fake or CGI or something.” Well, here’s the latest example that no matter how low your opinion of human behavior is, it’s not low enough.
Read this article from the great cycling site Road.cc and watch the embedded Twitter video. It made me shake with rage when I saw it. I mean, no one could be that cold, that callous, right?
Wrong.
The attacker laughs about it. He LOLs. He thinks it’s hilarious when the unprotected cyclist goes down. What a hoot! The man could have a fractured skull or have hit a glass bottle in the road and cut himself wide open! Maybe he hit the pavement hard and had a heart attack. Wouldn’t that be awesome!!!
As far as I can tell, the man who laughed about using his car as a weapon to assault an old man on a bike is still at large. (A GoFundMe page has been set up for the victim, to help him defray expenses while he recovers. At the least, it appears he has a broken collarbone and an injured arm. That will keep him off his bike for a minimum of several months. One news report says he’s been released from the hospital).
And lest you think the lunatic driver is unique in his disregard for his fellow man, here’s a Tweet that followed shortly thereafter. Hey, we’ve all wanted to do that to a cyclist, don’tcha know? Head trauma is So. Much. Fun!
Do I even have to explain how wrong this is? Is it necessary to define what basic human decency is? Have we come so far as a species that we laugh about intentionally causing injury to random strangers who happen to be on bicycles?
The Tweeter, by the way, seems like a real prince of a guy. If you look through his Tweet history, you’ll see lots of anger, lots of hate, lots of nastiness. I imagine I won’t be following him on the platform.
The moral of the story is that some people have no morals. In fact, they’re worse than animals. Animals kill for food, for survival. These people maim for chuckles. And others cheer them on.
Lord have mercy.
(Let me know your thoughts on this incident in the comments below. I read ‘em all.)
Wonder how many people thought that was funny? Not many I think. That is what happens when you can’t finish 3rd grade.
That's crazy! I've been cussed at and honked at, had folks roll coal going by, but never had anyone intentionally hit me. WTH?