Range Rover vs Bikers

Lyons in the Sea of Red. said:
NUance said:
and Lien plowed into rider Edwin Mieses, who's been left paralyzed, his mother says.

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Even though the bikers were clearly in the wrong, this is a tragedy. The bike rider Mieses is going to live with this for every minute of the rest of his life. Just sad.
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Maybe I'm just an a-hole, but I really can't sympathize with him a bit. You put a man in a position where his family may be threatened, it should be expected.
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The dude that got paralyzed, deserves what he gets, and is moronic on multiple levels...

 
I'm not sure about that. The claim is the dude who got paralyzed was stepping in to defuse the situation and wave some of the more confrontational riders off. It's tragic what happened but the driver was still being cornered and threatened and likely had no way of figuring out anybody's intentions -- or focusing on any one guy.

 
walksalone said:
Lyons in the Sea of Red. said:
NUance said:
and Lien plowed into rider Edwin Mieses, who's been left paralyzed, his mother says.

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Even though the bikers were clearly in the wrong, this is a tragedy. The bike rider Mieses is going to live with this for every minute of the rest of his life. Just sad.
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Maybe I'm just an a-hole, but I really can't sympathize with him a bit. You put a man in a position where his family may be threatened, it should be expected.
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The dude that got paralyzed, deserves what he gets, and is moronic on multiple levels...
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I dunno. Was the Ranger Rover guy ever in serious danger? Sure, there were a bunch of a-hole bikers swarming around. But this thing was happening in broad daylight on a busy highway. Worst case scenario is his car gets vandalized, or maybe he gets roughed up a bit. It's not like the bikers were going to kill him right there on a busy highway, and then rape his wife. Then again, I can see how someone would panic with all those guys swarming around, and think the worst.

I just think it's a tragedy that the one biker got paralyzed. But I guess he put himself in that situation. It's just a sh**ty deal all the way around.

 
You might have also questioned whether they would chase him down, beat in his windows (one of them being a cop), drag him from the SUV and beat him... Oh wait, that did happen.

f#*k yes, he had every right to feel threatened and run over those fu#*$.

 
NUance said:
I dunno. Was the Ranger Rover guy ever in serious danger? Sure, there were a bunch of a-hole bikers swarming around. But this thing was happening in broad daylight on a busy highway. Worst case scenario is his car gets vandalized, or maybe he gets roughed up a bit. It's not like the bikers were going to kill him right there on a busy highway, and then rape his wife. Then again, I can see how someone would panic with all those guys swarming around, and think the worst.

I just think it's a tragedy that the one biker got paralyzed. But I guess he put himself in that situation. It's just a sh**ty deal all the way around.
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Thing is, there's no point for the a-hole bikers to be swarming around him anyways. If it's not for them and their wannabe thug attitudes, this could have been avoided. Do they think harassing this guy, if he cut them off, is going to improve the situation, then they're stupid. You're driving in NY city, if you don't expect to have some non driving douchenozzle to cut you off at some point, you're naive.

Somebody gets cut off, flips the guy off, and keeps moving on. I was just on that highway Friday night and saw about half a dozen people get cutoff, and nothing that crazy happened...

 
NUance said:
I dunno. Was the Ranger Rover guy ever in serious danger? Sure, there were a bunch of a-hole bikers swarming around. But this thing was happening in broad daylight on a busy highway. Worst case scenario is his car gets vandalized, or maybe he gets roughed up a bit. It's not like the bikers were going to kill him right there on a busy highway, and then rape his wife. Then again, I can see how someone would panic with all those guys swarming around, and think the worst.

I just think it's a tragedy that the one biker got paralyzed. But I guess he put himself in that situation. It's just a sh**ty deal all the way around.
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It's kind of hard to predict the actions of a angry mob of people who are acting pretty belligerent in the first place.

I think we have a different definition of tragedy. No sympathy from me.

 
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