• blueamigafan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    It’s never been a worse time to be a cyclist in the UK the amount of hard men who shout abuse at me is unreal, and i only go out on a Sunday for leisure. Never happens when I go out with a group though.

    • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      17 days ago

      What’s their problem? Cyclists on intersections don’t allow the manly men to roam free on the road? Or they hurt their small pp big car energy? Or what?

      • blueamigafan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        17 days ago

        I think it’s the big man in car vs a vulnerable road user. Power goes so quickly to some people heads

  • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.socialEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Why were they out of their car anyway? Solid move, potential lethally injuring someone and then shuffle off. Great people, both of them, really.

    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      18 days ago

      Satisfying that he was found guilty.

      That cunt of a woman should also be held accountable for just leaving the scene of a brain injury without helping.

      They both deserve prison.

    • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      18 days ago

      paywall for me, could someone copy paste here, I still have (naives) hopes that some justice has been done

      and how do they break the reader mode: it loop back to the wall? It’s the first time I’ve seen this

      edit: the link in the post description worked, but I take from this that he’s still walking free at the moment

      • 7112@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        18 days ago

        Joseph Hedley became involved in a confrontation with the cyclist before violently attacking him at the city’s Cowgate in September 2024.

        Hedley, 39, left his vehicle and approached the innocent male, before grabbing him by the neck and violently throwing him to the ground.

        The victim smashed his head off the road and suffered serious head injuries, including a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain.

        Hedley then left the 34-year-old cyclist lying unconscious in the middle of the road as he got back into his car and drove off.

        Hedley, from Kirkcaldy, subsequently found out police had put out an appeal to find the motorist involved and handed himself into a local station two days later.

        He pled guilty to assault to severe injury, permanent impairment and danger of life when he appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Tuesday.

        That’s the main jist of things

      • MrSulu@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        16 days ago

        I don’t know the guy who did it, but think he probably originally told it differently to his mates

    • sit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      16 days ago

      This sob deserves death by torture. Look at the raw destruction he is willing without threat to put on another human for the rest of their life.

      • Slashme@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        16 days ago

        Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it.

      • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
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        16 days ago

        I don’t believe in jail. Take away his license, make him pay Iain’s bills for the rest of his life, and give him mandatory counseling.

          • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
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            16 days ago

            Yeah, I’m willing to do that. Although I’d rather provide therapy to queer and neurodiverse people, which I think My life experiences would be better utilised by.

        • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          16 days ago

          So he’s clearly a threat to society and you think he should be loose while he’s being counseled? What if he hurts someone else?

          • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
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            16 days ago

            He should have a full time minder for the next three weeks (6-9 counselling sessions) to follow him around and make sure he doesn’t. The minder should be a big burly government employee tasked with keeping him out of trouble. The minder should have extensive training in de-escalation skills, and a decent grasp of martial arts, just in case.

            I think those three weeks would be quite humiliating and he wouldn’t want to do it again.

            • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              16 days ago

              And who’s paying for that? Ideally it would be great but that sounds like at least 100x the budget of what we have now.

              • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
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                16 days ago

                Scotland should take the money out of the road building and maintenance budget. Scotland doesn’t need cars and Scotland doesn’t need roads for cars. Cheaper to invest in public rail.

                Roads got Scotland into this mess, quit building roads until the mess is fixed!

  • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I wish I hadn’t seen this. Genuinely this needs a content warning.

    I feel so badly for the victim. His life is over even if he technically survived.

    Straight up attempted murder in my eyes.

  • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    18 days ago

    In his defence the car had “L” plates so he is a learner driver… seems he has more to learn than most though.

    • Hiro8811@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      18 days ago

      I think you can have them on even if you’re not a learner driver, it’s less of a hassle ti change them and in some places they are a sticker that can’t be removed without damage

      • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        17 days ago

        L (or Welsh D) - plates should be covered or removed if the driver is licensed according to the UK’s .gov website.

  • underscores@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Why are you clickbaiting us when you won’t even make money off your posts, did you know you can describe the contents of your post within the title ?

  • Avicenna@programming.devEnglish
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    17 days ago

    This guy should be locked up in prison for atleast a decade and the woman for couple years for leaving an injured person on the road. But they will likely anyways plead guilt and go with something like “I did not mean to push him that hard, I just wanted to topple him” bla bla. His shirt explains everything one needs to know; wears a shirt thay says in England, lives in Edinburgh and probably wants immigrants out of UK. What a tool.

  • abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Edinbuger here.

    They reported this in the local paper today, you know it’s bad when the Edinburgh evening news was taking the side of the cyclist.

    But then again Edinburgh drivers think they are above the law and riot when not catered to as God emperors of the city. Every time there’s an improvement to public transport or cycling or pedestrian areas, they throw a hissy fit.

    • Tudsamfa@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      17 days ago

      I’m sure that’s a local phenomenon, it’s not like every city everywhere claims they have the worst drivers (except the person who shares that fact about their city, who either doesn’t drive or isn’t too bad in comparison).

      A braver person would claim something like “(bad) drivers are like that everywhere”, but that would mean we need to overhaul the whole transport system instead of reminding specific cities of the traffic laws.

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      Do you know what are the charges?

      Edit: he plead guilty but awaiting sentencing. Likely 2-4 years range.

  • Slashme@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Top comment on the article, from “mrbmww”:

    The sad thing is,because he laid hands on the cyclist, Even if it was the cyclists fault.The driver will get done.

    The actual fuck? He thinks it’s sad that someone who takes another person, throws him violently onto the ground and leaves him unconscious and bleeding and drives off “gets done”? And that that somehow means that there is discrimination against motorists??

  • answersplease77@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    The fucker belongs to jail. He’s danger to society.

    95% Of sane people wouldn’t have to resolve to violence about some shitty I-passed-before-you you-cut-me-off situation! How late was he going to be 1 minute extra?! Intentional not or not intentional?! Okay sorry calm your tits down have a nice day gtfo… But why take it there!

  • LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Was he riding a bike with no helmet? Why was he stopped right in front of the car, talking to the woman, it looked like he was blocking the car to be a jerk, blocking them and she was trying to talk him into moving. Then asshole makes an appearance. I vote everyone shitty here. Obviously asshole more so.