From JNugent@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 16 14:21:21 2024
On the subject of the recent announcement of intention to legislate
against killer-chavs on chav-bikes ("Kim's law"), a post on that
web-site brought back memories of Doug Bollen.
Here it is:
QUOTE:
arckuk | 3 hours ago
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Of course cyclists (and people generally) should be held accountable for
their actions. The threshold for maximum sentencing for receiving the
maximum sentence of death by dangerous driving tends to be of the
unimaginably awful "banned driver, no tax MOT or license, had previously
been prosecuted, was off their face on cocaine and killed 3 people in a
20 mph zone whilst doing 60 mph" variety. Has anything remotely
comparable ever been reported for a cyclist involved in a fatal
collision? Charlie Alliston for example was cycling poorly on a bike
that wasn't street legal - whilst the outcome was tragic, it's *hardly* *comparable*.
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[my emphasis]
Why isn't a pedestrian's death caused by a chav on a chav-bike
comparable to a death caused by a motor vehicle's driver or rider?
Is this anything to do with Doug's legendary assertion that there are
(at least) two different sorts of "dead" (the implication that people
killed by chav-cyclists are somehow less dead than someone run over by a
skip lorry)?