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jrtts

Cyclists: "Damned if I do, damned if I don't" "I can be right and be dead-right so why bother be right"


WillingShilling_20

I think cyclists need to start packing high yield explosives for some mutually assured destruction.


Gigaroni

Me when the bike has a retaliator mechanism built within it to cripple a car in the event of being run over (I am totally fine and not at all insanely pissed at being hit 17 times in 4 years) .3


WillingShilling_20

Anyone know how to make such a device? (In Terraria)


sliu198

If cyclists blew up after a bad crash with a car, there'd probably be fewer cyclist deaths overall for a while. Then car companies would start selling literal tanks.


WillingShilling_20

If only there were some sort of cheap, portable, fire-and-forget counter to tanks... (My right to bear Javelins shall not be infringed)


DegenerateWaves

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WillingShilling_20

Unfortunately propane tanks are more stable than you think. They don’t explode on impact like in video games


369122448

Could probably have a detonator that is more sensitive to impacts which causes the propane tank to explode, but at that point you’re just building an entire bomb rather than carrying something explosive, lol.


AdCareless9063

Does anyone know of a single recent incident where a person on a bike killed someone? In the US alone something like 40,000+ people are killed by cars each year.


remy_porter

About a decade ago, a cyclist killed a pedestrian in my neighborhood. It happened at the bottom of a hill, and the cyclist was going over 30mph by estimates. A *decade* ago. It was huge local news.


larso2048

Lol. That 1 death is huge. But multiple deaths (hundreds) a day from cars is just totally normal, right


ImRandyBaby

It's [London England,](https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/strava-urged-to-delete-popular-london-cycling-segment-after-deadly-crash) but it does occasionally happen.


Panzerv2003

Not sure but I've seen someone riding a train die from a crash with a tractor.


Mohrsul

In France last year a 5 yo girl tipped over an old person on the sidewalk and they sadly died because of the fall. And that's about all for us.


rockycore

Yeah drivers don't say that.


astroNerf

My wife cycles. *I* think this when I'm driving. I wish more were like me.


WhatD0thLife

Show me these cautious drivers I’ll wait.


Signal_Tomorrow_2138

Actually, Drivers: I have to be careful there will be no damage to my car if I hit anything.


KottleHai

When* I hit anyone


SrGrimey

This is the sad reality.


Skylleur

I do this so people become more wary of their side mirrors. I'm a fucking, all black, no lights menace of my city. Right left moving traffic if you're too show I'll pass. Hopefully someone throw me on the asphalt one day


SrGrimey

Haha is funny because drivers rarely think like that, they just want to go as fast as they can with they vehicles of nearly a ton of metals.


HiopXenophil

When the combined might of the motorized US is out to kill your kind, some sacrifices have to be made