meat popsicle

chesty said:

<snip

Quoted message said:

There's a little tee intersection coming up, I'm on the straight road
and have the right of way. I see a car approaching the intersection
from the side street, it slows down, rolls a little too far in to the
intersection, but no dramas. When I'm about 2 meters away from the
car, it starts accelerating towards me, I brake and swerve, they hit
the front of my bike with the front of the car, I go up the bonnet and
land on the road on my hands, elbows and knees (and toes, knees and
toes).

<snip>

Quoted message said:

The point is, be very careful about buying bike insurance, you're just
asking for trouble. I was going to get ambulance cover, but I don't
know now... And helmets, if I didn't go back and get my helmet, I
wouldn't have been in that collision. So it's true, helmets kill. 😉

Helmets kill...

Wait a sec, how are you sending this if you're dead?

T ;-P stands for troublemaker

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 at 06:30 GMT, chesty (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

I was a bit in shock, the young lady was a very upset, apologetic,
said she was in a hurry, she didn't see me and the sun was in her
eyes.

Ah, my old favourite.

Precisely why she should be on the road, I guess!

--
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Entropy isn't what it used to be.

"chesty" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

I was a bit in shock, the young lady was a very upset, apologetic,
said she was in a hurry, she didn't see me and the sun was in her
eyes. I didn't come out of it too bad, some grazing and a few aches
and pains. The hospital checked me out.

The real slap in the face is her father gets involved and tries to
blame the collision on me. Anyway, I've giving my statement to the
police, now I wait...

I got hit by a car in similar circumstances. Riding down a local street
protected by give way and stop signs, dressed in bright yellow jacket,
bright head light. I see a car approaching a stop sign on my left. Car slows
down. I start to go past. Car accelerates and broadsides me sending me
flying in a neat arc, head down into the kerb. Helmet and beanie saved me.
Still had sore shoulders for years after.Nice middle aged lady driver, a
teacher in a local school, stopped (should have been given a medal for
stopping). Very apologetic - had to take her mother to the airport, she
said..... I called police, but I think the two young cops who showed up
couldn't give a damn about the whole thing.... I didn't make a big deal, but
my wife took me to a clinic. Many X-rays later, my shoulders seem better,
maybe the aches will not come back like they have a few times over the
years....

Henry.

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:30:04 +1100, chesty <[email hidden]>
wrote:

<snip>

Quoted message said:

I was a bit in shock, the young lady was a very upset, apologetic,
said she was in a hurry, she didn't see me and the sun was in her
eyes.

Oh yeah. Smiled, did she? Nice body? Pretty girl? Good set of [censored]?
Young ladies who don't look where they're going and are too busy to
obey the traffic laws kill people.

Take her and try to make sure she's off the road for a long time.

Quoted message said:

I didn't come out of it too bad, some grazing and a few aches
and pains. The hospital checked me out.

At the moment.

Quoted message said:

The real slap in the face is her father gets involved and tries to
blame the collision on me. Anyway, I've giving my statement to the
police, now I wait...

Do not be a nice guy about this. Demand (and be very insistent) that
she gets the book thrown at her. She must be taken off the road before
she kills someone.

Within a couple of weeks of a young, blonde female being convicted of
killing a cyclist while texting (and being let off to encourage others
to do the same), I was almost killed by another young, blonde female
texting while driving (she ran up my backside at a school crossing and
I only survived by getting off the road pronto). I think she only
stopped when the lollipop lady yelled at her.

--
Regards.
Richard.

Richard Sherratt said:

Oh yeah. Smiled, did she? Nice body? Pretty girl? Good set of [censored]?
Young ladies who don't look where they're going and are too busy to
obey the traffic laws kill people.

No, definitely didn't smile, she was in more shock than me. I think
she'll take a lot longer to recover than me.

Quoted message said:

Take her and try to make sure she's off the road for a long time.

I'd settle for advanced driver training or what ever it's called. I
don't doubt she's learnt from the collision.

Quoted message said:

Do not be a nice guy about this. Demand (and be very insistent) that
she gets the book thrown at her. She must be taken off the road before
she kills someone.

My impression is she is very upset and sorry, and her father is trying
blame me. If that's the case, which I wont ever find out, I guess, the
only person I have a problem with is the father. [censored] happens, but
when [censored] happens and people don't take responsibility for it, I get
angry.

Richard Sherratt said:

Within a couple of weeks of a young, blonde female being convicted of
killing a cyclist while texting (and being let off to encourage others
to do the same), I was almost killed by another young, blonde female
texting while driving (she ran up my backside at a school crossing and
I only survived by getting off the road pronto). I think she only
stopped when the lollipop lady yelled at her.

--
Regards.
Richard.

Agree with your comments Richard, but if I had a near miss from a attractive male driver the very last thing I'd consider would be his physical attributes. Actually, like most, I'd consider him to be a total [censored].

chesty said:

So, I got me some bike insurance 2 days ago. So what, right? It's a
sensible thing to have.

Yesterday, I left the house for a 40k ride after work. I had this
feeling that I'd forgot something, but I couldn't work it out, meh,
can't be important. After 5 minutes of riding I realise I don't have a
helmet on, so I go back and get it.

Nearing the end of my ride, close to home, it was about 730pm. I was
heading east down this quiet back street. Just ticking along, maybe
going 30. It was a little glary, the sun was on my back.

There's a little tee intersection coming up, I'm on the straight road
and have the right of way. I see a car approaching the intersection
from the side street, it slows down, rolls a little too far in to the
intersection, but no dramas. When I'm about 2 meters away from the
car, it starts accelerating towards me, I brake and swerve, they hit
the front of my bike with the front of the car, I go up the bonnet and
land on the road on my hands, elbows and knees (and toes, knees and
toes).

I was a bit in shock, the young lady was a very upset, apologetic,
said she was in a hurry, she didn't see me and the sun was in her
eyes. I didn't come out of it too bad, some grazing and a few aches
and pains. The hospital checked me out.

The real slap in the face is her father gets involved and tries to
blame the collision on me. Anyway, I've giving my statement to the
police, now I wait...

The point is, be very careful about buying bike insurance, you're just
asking for trouble. I was going to get ambulance cover, but I don't
know now... And helmets, if I didn't go back and get my helmet, I
wouldn't have been in that collision. So it's true, helmets kill. 😉

<blind sweeping gerneralisation> maybe daddy should tawt his lil princess how to drive properly in the first place </blind sweeping gerneralisation>
so in fact HE is totally at fault!

"chesty" <[email hidden]

Quoted message said:

The point is, be very careful about buying bike insurance, you're just
asking for trouble. I was going to get ambulance cover, but I don't
know now... And helmets, if I didn't go back and get my helmet, I
wouldn't have been in that collision. So it's true, helmets kill. 😉

hehe I got ambo cover the day before I broke my
collarbone at Lerderderg Gorge.. and I didn't use
an ambo!!
Just got the ambo renewal in the mail actually.. I _will_
be renewing this!

hippy

hippy said:

"chesty" <[email hidden]

Quoted message said:

The point is, be very careful about buying bike insurance, you're just
asking for trouble. I was going to get ambulance cover, but I don't
know now... And helmets, if I didn't go back and get my helmet, I
wouldn't have been in that collision. So it's true, helmets kill. 😉

hehe I got ambo cover the day before I broke my
collarbone at Lerderderg Gorge.. and I didn't use
an ambo!!
Just got the ambo renewal in the mail actually.. I _will_
be renewing this!

Good luck with that, hippy. I'll miss reading your posts.
Today is the 13th, I dare you to renew it today.

"chesty" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

hippy said:

"chesty" <[email hidden]

Quoted message said:

The point is, be very careful about buying bike insurance, you're just
asking for trouble. I was going to get ambulance cover, but I don't
know now... And helmets, if I didn't go back and get my helmet, I
wouldn't have been in that collision. So it's true, helmets kill. 😉

hehe I got ambo cover the day before I broke my
collarbone at Lerderderg Gorge.. and I didn't use
an ambo!!
Just got the ambo renewal in the mail actually.. I _will_
be renewing this!

Good luck with that, hippy. I'll miss reading your posts.
Today is the 13th, I dare you to renew it today.

LOL! :-) Well.. if it's a dare.. you're on!

Oooh.. look at the pretty sparking wires down here...

hippy

flyingdutch said:

chesty said:

So, I got me some bike insurance 2 days ago. So what, right? It's a
sensible thing to have.

Yesterday, I left the house for a 40k ride after work. I had this
feeling that I'd forgot something, but I couldn't work it out, meh,
can't be important. After 5 minutes of riding I realise I don't have a
helmet on, so I go back and get it.

Nearing the end of my ride, close to home, it was about 730pm. I was
heading east down this quiet back street. Just ticking along, maybe
going 30. It was a little glary, the sun was on my back.

There's a little tee intersection coming up, I'm on the straight road
and have the right of way. I see a car approaching the intersection
from the side street, it slows down, rolls a little too far in to the
intersection, but no dramas. When I'm about 2 meters away from the
car, it starts accelerating towards me, I brake and swerve, they hit
the front of my bike with the front of the car, I go up the bonnet and
land on the road on my hands, elbows and knees (and toes, knees and
toes).

I was a bit in shock, the young lady was a very upset, apologetic,
said she was in a hurry, she didn't see me and the sun was in her
eyes. I didn't come out of it too bad, some grazing and a few aches
and pains. The hospital checked me out.

The real slap in the face is her father gets involved and tries to
blame the collision on me. Anyway, I've giving my statement to the
police, now I wait...

The point is, be very careful about buying bike insurance, you're just
asking for trouble. I was going to get ambulance cover, but I don't
know now... And helmets, if I didn't go back and get my helmet, I
wouldn't have been in that collision. So it's true, helmets kill. 😉

<blind sweeping gerneralisation> maybe daddy should tawt his lil
princess how to drive properly in the first place </blind sweeping
gerneralisation>
so in fact HE is totally at fault!

--
flyingdutch

Yes, my father insisted that both his kids do a defensive driving course
within the first month of getting our licences. That was fun. I loved
the skidpan especially, my instructor got really [censored] at me because,
as the only girl there, when he threw me in the first rear wheel slide I
only went 180 whereas all the blokes went 360, and then I nailed every
slide after that. We had a rally car driver in our group which was
funny, his method of steering was to throw the car into a rear wheel
slide. The skills I got on that course have made me a much more aware
driver. Probably not as aware as cycling on the road made me though.

Richard Sherratt said:

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:30:04 +1100, chesty <[email hidden]>
wrote:

<snip>

Quoted message said:

I was a bit in shock, the young lady was a very upset, apologetic,
said she was in a hurry, she didn't see me and the sun was in her
eyes.

Oh yeah. Smiled, did she? Nice body? Pretty girl? Good set of [censored]?
Young ladies who don't look where they're going and are too busy to
obey the traffic laws kill people.

Take her and try to make sure she's off the road for a long time.

Quoted message said:

I didn't come out of it too bad, some grazing and a few aches
and pains. The hospital checked me out.

At the moment.

Quoted message said:

The real slap in the face is her father gets involved and tries to
blame the collision on me. Anyway, I've giving my statement to the
police, now I wait...

Do not be a nice guy about this. Demand (and be very insistent) that
she gets the book thrown at her. She must be taken off the road before
she kills someone.

Within a couple of weeks of a young, blonde female being convicted of
killing a cyclist while texting (and being let off to encourage others
to do the same), I was almost killed by another young, blonde female
texting while driving (she ran up my backside at a school crossing and
I only survived by getting off the road pronto). I think she only
stopped when the lollipop lady yelled at her.

Right on Richard

Dave

Richard Sherratt said:

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:30:04 +1100, chesty <[email hidden]>
wrote:

<snip>

Quoted message said:

I was a bit in shock, the young lady was a very upset, apologetic,
said she was in a hurry, she didn't see me and the sun was in her
eyes.

Oh yeah. Smiled, did she? Nice body? Pretty girl? Good set of [censored]?
Young ladies who don't look where they're going and are too busy to
obey the traffic laws kill people.

Take her and try to make sure she's off the road for a long time.

Quoted message said:

I didn't come out of it too bad, some grazing and a few aches
and pains. The hospital checked me out.

At the moment.

Quoted message said:

The real slap in the face is her father gets involved and tries to
blame the collision on me. Anyway, I've giving my statement to the
police, now I wait...

Do not be a nice guy about this. Demand (and be very insistent) that
she gets the book thrown at her. She must be taken off the road before
she kills someone.

Within a couple of weeks of a young, blonde female being convicted of
killing a cyclist while texting (and being let off to encourage others
to do the same), I was almost killed by another young, blonde female
texting while driving (she ran up my backside at a school crossing and
I only survived by getting off the road pronto). I think she only
stopped when the lollipop lady yelled at her.

Right on Richard

Dave

K.A. Moylan said:

I
Whenever I have the sun at my back I think, 'the drivers behind me
should see me clearly, but the drivers in front of me probably have a
hard time seeing me', and adjust my expectations of being seen
accordingly.

You have expectations of being seen ?

Doomed to disapointment... I fear. I have expectations of NOT being
seen. All too frequently they are met.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

There's a little tee intersection coming up, I'm on the straight road
and have the right of way. I see a car approaching the intersection
from the side street, it slows down, rolls a little too far in to the
intersection, but no dramas. When I'm about 2 meters away from the
car, it starts accelerating towards me, I brake and swerve, they hit
the front of my bike with the front of the car, I go up the bonnet and
land on the road on my hands, elbows and knees (and toes, knees and
toes).

I was a bit in shock, the young lady was a very upset, apologetic,

Its funny but when you are right there in their face and [censored] they
are always apologetic. Fairly often afterwords tho they have a deep
revalation that it must have all been your fault.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

The real slap in the face is her father gets involved and tries to
blame the collision on me. Anyway, I've giving my statement to the
police, now I wait...

Or in this case they are so dumb someone else has to have the revaation
for them. 🙂

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Claim what you can on the insurance (damaged bike, helmet used in a
crash, lost work) and let the insurance company get the money back off
the driver. 'Sorry' doesn't fix bent bicycles or (hemyd's) sore
shoulders.

Yep. Get a quote ONE quote... its all theat you have to get. Tell
em to pay up or you woill have her charged with careless driving and if
they stall follow up on the threat. Its what I did.

Dave

K.A. Moylan said:

I
Whenever I have the sun at my back I think, 'the drivers behind me
should see me clearly, but the drivers in front of me probably have a
hard time seeing me', and adjust my expectations of being seen
accordingly.

You have expectations of being seen ?

Doomed to disapointment... I fear. I have expectations of NOT being
seen. All too frequently they are met.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

There's a little tee intersection coming up, I'm on the straight road
and have the right of way. I see a car approaching the intersection
from the side street, it slows down, rolls a little too far in to the
intersection, but no dramas. When I'm about 2 meters away from the
car, it starts accelerating towards me, I brake and swerve, they hit
the front of my bike with the front of the car, I go up the bonnet and
land on the road on my hands, elbows and knees (and toes, knees and
toes).

I was a bit in shock, the young lady was a very upset, apologetic,

Its funny but when you are right there in their face and [censored] they
are always apologetic. Fairly often afterwords tho they have a deep
revalation that it must have all been your fault.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

The real slap in the face is her father gets involved and tries to
blame the collision on me. Anyway, I've giving my statement to the
police, now I wait...

Or in this case they are so dumb someone else has to have the revaation
for them. 🙂

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Claim what you can on the insurance (damaged bike, helmet used in a
crash, lost work) and let the insurance company get the money back off
the driver. 'Sorry' doesn't fix bent bicycles or (hemyd's) sore
shoulders.

Yep. Get a quote ONE quote... its all theat you have to get. Tell
em to pay up or you woill have her charged with careless driving and if
they stall follow up on the threat. Its what I did.

Dave

quote='dave'K.A. Moylan said:

I
Whenever I have the sun at my back I think, 'the drivers behind me
should see me clearly, but the drivers in front of me probably have a
hard time seeing me', and adjust my expectations of being seen
accordingly.

You have expectations of being seen ?

Doomed to disapointment... I fear. I have expectations of NOT being
seen. All too frequently they are met.
[/QUOTE]

"All that I fear has come upon me . . ." GET OVER IT! PLEASE!

You ain't going to stay upright and hearty by 'mithering' (my nan's old Yorkshire word = anxious, apprehensive, self-defeating 'old-womanliness', I think) around on your treadly - keep your head up, wear apparent colours, ride defensively and assertively, and make eye contact. Nil illegitum carborundum, et c.

Think you're going to prang, don't prepare NOT to, and you usually do. NLP has a lot to say about that. People who have a *lot* of accidents are either just plain stupid, clumsy, careless, reckless, or have a deep-seated unconscious *need* to break bones/scrape skin off themselves/trash bikes.

Everything that (infrequently) happens to you after that is the product of plain bad luck, Sod's Law and the state of public education and responsibility in our right-wing squattocracy. So there. 🙂

M "goes outside to hug a tree, the best form of 'touching wood' he can think of" H

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 at 22:58 GMT, mfhor (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

M "goes outside to hug a tree, the best form of 'touching wood' he can
think of" H

This >-< close to .siggable. Damn.

--
TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/
Yesterday, after years of trying, I finally managed to take a photo of a
subway train that said "INSTRUCTION CAR" just so that someday I can caption
it "...but where's the DATA CDR?" when I'm ready to make a joke that's
nerdy even by the standards of jokes about LISP. -- James "Kibo" Perry

TimC said:

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 at 22:58 GMT, mfhor (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

M "goes outside to hug a tree, the best form of 'touching wood' he can
think of" H

This >-< close to .siggable. Damn.

--
TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/
Yesterday, after years of trying, I finally managed to take a photo of a
subway train that said "INSTRUCTION CAR" just so that someday I can caption
it "...but where's the DATA CDR?" when I'm ready to make a joke that's
nerdy even by the standards of jokes about LISP. -- James "Kibo" Perry

How does it fall short?

I am proud to say that I don't understand your latest line at all...

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 at 04:19 GMT, Tamyka Bell (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

TimC said:

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 at 22:58 GMT, mfhor (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

M "goes outside to hug a tree, the best form of 'touching wood' he can
think of" H

This >-< close to .siggable. Damn.

--
TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/
Yesterday, after years of trying, I finally managed to take a photo of a
subway train that said "INSTRUCTION CAR" just so that someday I can caption
it "...but where's the DATA CDR?" when I'm ready to make a joke that's
nerdy even by the standards of jokes about LISP. -- James "Kibo" Perry

How does it fall short?

It's not quite self contained enough to be a quote in a sigfile.

Quoted message said:

I am proud to say that I don't understand your latest line at all...

One day, you will develop a LISP. And then you won't be able to say
anything other than (list list list (list (list) (list (list)))).

--
TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/
When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.