Bristol bus driver 'used vehicle as weapon'

[doodab]

A rather over emotional response! Would you like to untwist the knickers so we can all converse? A broken leg is not attempted murder. If the driver was trying to murder him, he did a crap job of it.

If you drive a bus weighing several tons into someone then you are likely to kill them. If you do it on purpose then you are trying to kill them i.e. attempting murder.

The fact that the guy only suffered a broken leg no more reduces the severity of the crime than if someone tries to shoot you and happens to miss.

I am not saying murder or violence is a righteous path

Glad to see a scum sucking cyclist get what they deserve.

Glad to see an arrogant arsewipe cyclist get what was coming to him.

You seem to have contradicted yourself there.

That is a consequence of my behaviour, just as the cyclists broken leg is a consequence of his behaviour. You seem to have been infected by the new labour method of thinking from the past two decades which hold the bizarre notion that one can behave however they like and not have to deal with the repercussions. To those fools I say, grow up!

And you seem to be infected by the idea that if someone commits a minor offence against ones person it's "understandable" to escalate and respond with extreme violence. You also seem to be of the opinion that people should expect this and accommodate it. I can only conclude that you are either a psychopath or so used to suffering at the hands of such people that anything approaching normal moral sense has left you.

[TimberWolf]

It's attempted ******* murder. How the **** you can be glad about that I don't know but I hope someone tries to kill you at some point so you can be made to realise what an utter **** you are.

whs

[wim121]

If you drive a bus weighing several tons into someone then you are likely to kill them. If you do it on purpose then you are trying to kill them i.e. attempting murder.

The fact that the guy only suffered a broken leg no more reduces the severity of the crime than if someone tries to shoot you and happens to miss.

At a certain speed yes, but it was a low speed shunt.

You seem to have contradicted yourself there.

Not at all. There is a difference between my feelings/temper/thoughts/impulses and my actions. While the former cannot ever be said to always be righteous, I try to make sure my actions are.

So in some circumstances, where I feel the impulse to choke the crap out of someone who has aggrieved me, I refrain and would hate myself for resorting to a violent reaction.

IAnd you seem to be infected by the idea that if someone commits a minor offence against ones person it's "understandable" to escalate and respond with extreme violence. You also seem to be of the opinion that people should expect this and accommodate it. I can only conclude that you are either a psychopath or so used to suffering at the hands of such people that anything approaching normal moral sense has left you.

Im not a psychopath as I dont work in management. Im not a sociopath as Im not a dog owner.

I have more morals than most have in their little finger as well.

So the problem seems to be with your comprehension. In this quote you are misunderstanding "understandable" with "righteous". It isnt righteous to escalate an offence at all.

But it is understandable. The offence wasnt minor, it was verbal abuse and intimidation, followed by attempted criminal damage by the cyclist. That was countered by the bus driver with a more extreme reaction by using his vehicle as a weapon.

What you must understand is everyone isnt Jesus. When slapped with a kipper or sworn at, barely anyone says "please slap the other cheek". Most respond with their fists. While that may not be my chosen action, I understand that if you mouth off to someone, probability dictates that person isnt Jesus reincarnated and will punch you when you tell them what a **** their mother is.

People should expect a psychopathic or sociopathic response to a psychopathic or sociopathic action. If you mouth off like a lunatic to someone, dont expect that person to remain calm. Expect the same back or worse.


The simple solution here is not to act like a douchebag towards others, then they wont knock your lights out or run you down.

[doodab]

So the problem seems to be with your comprehension. In this quote you are misunderstanding "understandable" with "righteous". It isnt righteous to escalate an offence at all.

I'm understanding understandable to mean understandable.

Understandable (adjective): To be expected; natural, reasonable, or forgivable: "such fears are understandable".

I would say that attempting to kill someone with a bus is neither natural or reasonable. It would seem that the courts agree with me on this.

[wim121]

So how would you react if i hurled a torrent of abuse at you and then snapped your windscreen wiper off? Honestly?

[OwlHoot]

Come on, we've all wanted to do that to some asshole cyclist from time to time. I bet he was asking for it. Probably riding right in the middle of the road or two abreast.

At the start you can see him ridinng in the middle of the road holding up the bus behind.

Maybe the twat had being deliberately doing that for half a mile.

Anyway, the bus driver wasn't trying to injure him, just wanted to nudge him out of the way a bit.

[pacharan]

A rather over emotional response! Would you like to untwist the knickers so we can all converse? A broken leg is not attempted murder. If the driver was trying to murder him, he did a crap job of it.

Don't worry about it Wim.

He called me a reprehensible piece of crap the other day because he's jealous of my being the heartthrob of all the service station check out girls.

[TiroFijo]

Hahahaha I loved watching this video last night. Glad to see a scum sucking cyclist get what they deserve. There is a website you can go on, to buy your friends a pint. I might send one to the bus driver.







As others said, gave the driver verbal, but in the article I read last night, it said the cyclist came up and hung on the windscreen wiper, spouted his mouth off and tried to rip the wiper off and cycled off.

Glad to see an arrogant arsewipe cyclist get what was coming to him.

WFS!
That'l teach the f ucker to think he can cycle like a tw@t and go around trying to rip windscreen wipers off.
I bet they are a right pain in the ar$se in London and Cambridge.

[TimberWolf]

It's in the Daily Mail now.

The computer programmer, who lives in of St Anne's, Bristol, with wife Samantha, said: 'I think he meant to brush against me and give me a fright.

Er, I don't think so.

Another day in the life of a cyclist in Bristol:
Road rage driver hit and head butted cyclist in Bristol | This is Bristol

Waiting for the day when cyclists hit back...

[Arturo Bassick]

It's in the Daily Mail now.



Er, I don't think so.

Another day in the life of a cyclist in Bristol:
Road rage driver hit and head butted cyclist in Bristol | This is Bristol

Waiting for the day when cyclists hit back...

I do not condone what the driver did in any way, but from the short video clip the cyclist was being a twat and it seems had been for some time. I can understand the bus drivers anger and frustration, but not his reaction.
There are a group of cyclists who seem to think they can get away with anything and completely ignore the rules of the road. I guess as a bus driver he meets more than his fair share.