Righteous Anger, Recurring Agony
August 17, 2015
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Maybe you've seen the YouTube helmet-cam videos of angry motorcyclists waving fists, screaming, kicking cars or worse, at encephalon dead machine drivers who convey somehow violated their rights on the road. It seems nosotros are a acre of eager victims cook to rage at the slightest criminal offence against us spell recording it all for posterity.
Who tin ship away blame them? Anyone who has ridden a motorbike on the streets for to a greater extent than than xv minutes knows the fearfulness in addition to resultant anger that arises when a Xanax addled soccer mom inward a mini-van makes an illegal left plow into your path. I freely acknowledge that at that topographic point are several taxicabs inward the metropolis of Philadelphia sporting steel-toe sized dents inward their quarter panels from yours genuinely equally a alert for encroaching my space. As it stands forthwith I convey the shortest motorbike commute of my life (<5 miles) in addition to inevitably at to the lowest degree i asshole attempts to kill me on my agency past times doing something stupid in addition to illegal. The exclusively greater failure inward instruction than those who 'teach' our drivers inward this solid put down comes from those who instruct English.
Motorcyclists are a minority oppressed in addition to oftentimes killed past times a senseless, careless bulk of inattentive dolts. We are 26 times to a greater extent than probable to conk inward an accident than our four wheeled counterparts! We convey the correct to live angry, vehement in addition to vicious!!!!!! Right?
Wrong. If you lot didn't know the grade on the streets earlier riding, afterwards your outset 24-hour interval you lot will. When running amongst the bulls, don't outcry when you lot learn gored inward the ass. The plainly truth of the affair is this: Car versus Motorcycle, machine wins every unmarried time. Lucky plenty to hold upwardly your encounter? Please savor an expensive ambulance ride, lingering injuries, fourth dimension off operate in addition to a smashed ride, equally insurance companies jockey to reject payment first. Meanwhile Mrs. Soccer Mom gets a $15 ticket for "failure to yield", a little dent inward her CRV in addition to hence continues on her merry oblivious agency to Starbucks for a latte.
No sum of screaming, yelling, aggressive retaliatory riding or YouTube posting is going to alter that or learn drivers to halt texting, drinking, sleeping in addition to wake upwardly in addition to pay attention. More oftentimes than not, the best defense, is defense. If you lot innovation on taking to the hateful streets, live prepared. Recognize that problem comes from all unopen to in addition to never count on drivers to "do the correct thing", facial expression them to practice the incorrect thing, the dumbest thing, the craziest thing, every damn time. The best route riding advice I e'er got was this: 'Ride similar everyone out at that topographic point is trying to kill you.' Because they are.
Who tin ship away blame them? Anyone who has ridden a motorbike on the streets for to a greater extent than than xv minutes knows the fearfulness in addition to resultant anger that arises when a Xanax addled soccer mom inward a mini-van makes an illegal left plow into your path. I freely acknowledge that at that topographic point are several taxicabs inward the metropolis of Philadelphia sporting steel-toe sized dents inward their quarter panels from yours genuinely equally a alert for encroaching my space. As it stands forthwith I convey the shortest motorbike commute of my life (<5 miles) in addition to inevitably at to the lowest degree i asshole attempts to kill me on my agency past times doing something stupid in addition to illegal. The exclusively greater failure inward instruction than those who 'teach' our drivers inward this solid put down comes from those who instruct English.
Motorcyclists are a minority oppressed in addition to oftentimes killed past times a senseless, careless bulk of inattentive dolts. We are 26 times to a greater extent than probable to conk inward an accident than our four wheeled counterparts! We convey the correct to live angry, vehement in addition to vicious!!!!!! Right?
Wrong. If you lot didn't know the grade on the streets earlier riding, afterwards your outset 24-hour interval you lot will. When running amongst the bulls, don't outcry when you lot learn gored inward the ass. The plainly truth of the affair is this: Car versus Motorcycle, machine wins every unmarried time. Lucky plenty to hold upwardly your encounter? Please savor an expensive ambulance ride, lingering injuries, fourth dimension off operate in addition to a smashed ride, equally insurance companies jockey to reject payment first. Meanwhile Mrs. Soccer Mom gets a $15 ticket for "failure to yield", a little dent inward her CRV in addition to hence continues on her merry oblivious agency to Starbucks for a latte.
No sum of screaming, yelling, aggressive retaliatory riding or YouTube posting is going to alter that or learn drivers to halt texting, drinking, sleeping in addition to wake upwardly in addition to pay attention. More oftentimes than not, the best defense, is defense. If you lot innovation on taking to the hateful streets, live prepared. Recognize that problem comes from all unopen to in addition to never count on drivers to "do the correct thing", facial expression them to practice the incorrect thing, the dumbest thing, the craziest thing, every damn time. The best route riding advice I e'er got was this: 'Ride similar everyone out at that topographic point is trying to kill you.' Because they are.
Watch the dipshit inward the video above, he's lucky to live live to bitch in addition to moan virtually something he could convey prevented.