Have you notice how the general opinion is that people getting hit by cars somehow deserved it? My best friend was hit by a text-and-drive kindof woman. He was an athlete and now he can’t walk more than a few hundred meters.

  • @[email protected]English
    54•9 months ago

    No, I haven’t heard this “general opinion”. Any conversation I’ve been a part of or observed (which, to be fair, is less than a few dozen) has always defaulted to the driver being at fault.

    I’m not sure where you live that the general opinion is victim blaming, but it doesn’t sound like a pleasant place.

          • @[email protected]
            9•9 months ago

            And you feel like you need a hammer?

            I’m just trying to gauge the roughness of your area, it seems you don’t want to be specific which is fine.

            I live in Manchester in the UK, healthy level of gangs, knife crime etc. yet I’ve never felt the need to walk around with a hammer. Like I’ll walk through moss side with no issue.

            I guess my point is I am wondering if you’re just being worried about nothing or you’re living in hell.

            • @[email protected]OP
              10•9 months ago

              I mean my city is a rust belt and it’s kinda rough crime-wise. But drivers, especially, are fucking crazy. I lived in other places and people were actually quiet on the wheel. Here, I have a friend who had a case for homicide attempt after a truck rammed him “for fun”. He won. Pretty much every cyclist I know got hit by a car.