An Australian driver frustrated with a pack of about 60 bicyclists — including six Olympians — took his car into the thick of the pack, causing tens of thousands of dollars of damage and several injuries in a road rage hit-and-run.
Witnesses to the crash [said] up to 60 professional cyclists were riding south on Southern Cross Drive, just south of Dacey Avenue, Mascot about 6.30am when a driver, agitated with being held up, accelerated in front of the pack and then slammed on his brakes, giving the riders no time to stop…
The resulting smash forced a semitrailer to lock up, jackknife and screech to a halt behind the cyclists while cars had to swerve to avoid them.
Among those affected were a rider training for the last spot on the Olympic team who was injured, a cyclist who had just returned to her bike after she was involved in a road crash that killed a teammate, and the three women at the front of the pack who were sent flying into the back of the car. Asked for comment, I said, "Dude, not cool."
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"Dude, not cool."
You have never been behind a biker on the road then. Who doesn't want to get in front and then brake check their bitch asses? GET ON THE FUCKING SIDEWALK YOU DOUCHES!
Isn't this exactly how Lance lost his testicle?
@Shan: I prefer to get 'em from behind – they have no idea what's coming, and you can watch them fly over the hood.
Slowly but surely, we are going to kill off all of Red Sox Nation.
when apprehended by police, the driver blamed the jews and asked the female officer "what are you looking at, sugartits"
@Enrico
Please, help us come up with ideas to turn that “slowly but surely”, into “tomorrow”.
"[A] policemen informed us that the back of the group was nearly cleaned up by a semitrailer locking the brakes to avoid the suddenly halting group,"
I couldn't have worded that better myself.
Did he have a bottle in his hand?
- Tony La Russa
Poor little driver – those mean cyclists were probably making him late for a date with his boyfriend.
Olivia Newton John is not to be trifled with!
Austria: because Americans aren't the only assholes in the world.
including six Olympians
As long as they weren't Attractive Olympians (TM) then it's all good.
@the flashy cock: I'm pretty sure there are assholes in Austria (see Hitler, Adolf, and that dude Matt wrote about yesterday), but this was Austrailia.
In related news: I have a new hero. Biking shorts are enough to warrant a death sentence.
Josh Hancock???
I bet it was Frank Costanza. Stopping short was always his best move.
I did this to a pack of cows walking across the road once. It was UDDER-Destruction!!
Get it? Udders, like the things Cows got.
Bicyclists riding for a charity are even worse. They are insufferable, on bikes and off. I am so glad to see the WL sentiment going along the lines of "kill them all."
Shan and Terp –
Cyclists like me will pull cupcakes like you two out of your Geo Metros (with the Fear This stickers) and beat the crap out out of you. So stay on your side.
Have a nice day.
Not this guy's fault. They were in the "High Occupancy /Cellar of Horrors Owners" lane.
Carson: like most American motorists they're probably morbidly obese and will die before age 45 anyway so why bother? BTW, if this guy was such a bad-a$$, why didn't he get out of his car and fight? Pu$$y.
Ooh, big bad bikers making threats. Good luck pulling someone out of their car after they run over your ass.
Besides, the only rule in fighting is to win. So if you got a car and the other twerp is on a bike, use the car to end the fight in two seconds. All that matters is victory. And clearing the road of the vehicles not paying fuel taxes to maintain said road.
Roads aren’t maintained by fuel taxes, princess. And since cyclists (like me) have higher average incomes than average losers (like you), I’m actually paying more for that road than you are.
And I don’t hold it against you when you swerve too close. It must be tough to keep it between the lines with your boyfriend’s face in your lap.
Harden the fuck up.
cyclists… bigger assholes than politicians
Bacon, you are allowed to f@#$$ng curse on this f@^!ing site, no need for the g#y a$$ substitutions.
Let's ponder the irony of an RV owner dissing cyclists for holding up traffic and taking up too much road.
Aussie motorists are bad ass, aren't they?
@Carson
It's been my experience that those who make the biggest threats online are also the biggest wimps.
"Let's ponder" the irony of bicyclists who think they are helping the environment, when in reality they are hurting it by holding up traffic and causing more pollution to be released in the air.