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Oops! How will he live that down!
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maggiewinchester | Report | 17 Sep 2017 23:12 |
Walking along Stockbridge High Street today - quite a busy road with parking by the road, we saw about 12 'professional' cyclists (by that I mean probably a club - high calibre bikes, matching lycra, helmets etc) coming down the road. |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 17 Sep 2017 23:17 |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 17 Sep 2017 23:42 |
.....we noticed the ambulance parked outside the pub on our way home :-S |
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Dermot | Report | 18 Sep 2017 07:58 |
Too many huge sturdy 4x4s parked in the way these days. Clamp them all! |
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Guinevere | Report | 18 Sep 2017 08:06 |
I hope he had personal liability insurance to pay for the damage to the car. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 18 Sep 2017 08:20 |
Let us hope that the cyclist is alive. Over the last year or two there have been several fatal accidents in Hants & Dorset where cyclists have collided with the rear of stationary vehicles. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 18 Sep 2017 08:39 |
Quite worrying when you overtake them and they have heads down not appearing to be looking where they are going. Hope he is ok anyway, bet he takes more notice next time. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 18 Sep 2017 18:03 |
No reports of 'Cyclist killed by stationary car' :-D :-D |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 18 Sep 2017 19:43 |
so I take it that MaggieWinchester considers that if somebody has taken a risk, come a cropper, done something silly and needs the emergency services she would be ok to laugh and walk on by. |
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Denburybob | Report | 18 Sep 2017 19:50 |
Of course we should laugh, we are English after all. So long as the injury is not serious we love laughing at other's stupidity. I fully expect others to laugh at me in that situation. Shame we don't have an English translation for "schadenfreude". |
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Denburybob | Report | 18 Sep 2017 19:54 |
Perhaps we should all tell the most embarrassing thing we have ever done, or seen anyone else do. I was very rude to a traffic warden in Devon once, ranting about him ticketing me for being two minutes over. Very politely, he pointed out that, actually, I was one hour and two minutes over. He magnanimously accepted my grovelling apology. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 18 Sep 2017 20:34 |
Rolo - |
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LaGooner | Report | 18 Sep 2017 20:45 |
I agree with your last statement. The Lycra brigade around here are a pain in the A**e they ride right out across the road on our country lanes which are full of sharp bends. :-|, They gaze at the tarmac and not at the road stupid fools. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 19 Sep 2017 01:18 |
My physiotherapist had to cancel appointments back in July ......... .he was out on a training run with his club when he "fell and broke some ribs". |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 19 Sep 2017 23:40 |
The noise this bloke made when he 'went down' did indicate he'd hurt his 'pride' quite a bit :-S |
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