Cyclist riding on a promenade gets her come-uppance

On 04/07/2019 14:00, TMS320 wrote:
On 04/07/2019 12:36, JNugent wrote:
On 04/07/2019 12:28, TMS320 wrote:

On 03/07/2019 15:58, Modesty wrote:
MrCheerful wrote:

https://metro.co.uk/2019/07/02/cycli...rank-10104973/

What 'come-uppance' did this 63 year old lady deserve? Promenades
often have cycle lanes.

This one actually has a restriction. But it's up to the authorities
to enforce it, not up to vigilantes to attempt murder.

That is a euphemistic way of saying that whilst cycling is indeed not
allowed on that pedestrian way but cyclists disobey that rule (how
unusual!), they have a right to get away with it.

When drivers routinely get away with speeding and bad parking...

What's the connection?

It is ABSOLUTELY clear that the cycling ban in the place in question is
there to protect pedestrians (all of us).

It's quite different when a driver (however wrongly and illegally)
passes a keep left bollard on the wrong side. In such a case it's
apparently perfectly permissible for a vigilante on a bike to obstruct
the road (an offence in itself) in order to "enforce" the rules.

What a completely stupid comparison. Stringing a rope across a path is
like dropping bricks onto a motorway.

They are both vigilantism.

If the vigilante blocks a cyclist with their own body, then you have a
reasonable equivalent.

They are both illegal and I don't support either of them.

Going back to my earlier remarks, though, the cyclist's injuries, as
terrible and frightful as they were, would have been totally avoided had
she not been cycling along a pedestrian path with a "No Cycling" rule,
wouldn't they? It seems reasonable to assume that it was cyclists the
person(s) setting the trap had in mind.

I have seen this sort of "trap" with my own eyes, by the way, including
a steel wire stretched across a suburban road (not a pedestrian path - a
road) just after dusk. A friend drove his vehicle into that
all-but-invisible ligature, causing severe and expensive damage, albeit
of a cosmetic type.

I thoroughly condemn this sort of irresponsible vigilantism - all of it
- and hope you do too.