Angry Geezer ! !

[Fat Cat]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/angry-cyc...133302504.html

[kppolich]

Rim Brakes no less.

[Nomadmax]

Old b*stard is lucky he didn't get the grand prize for jerking open someone's car door. Kid didn't even close pass him to boot.

[Mr. Pink]

They have a lot of guns in Utah.

[nonprophet]

Stuff like this just makes me sad. Clearly the cyclist is in the wrong here but I can't help but roll my eyes at the treatment of this as newsworthy. Just another opportunity to get people riled up and fill a comment section (~600 replies at the time of this post) with hatred and justifications for unsafe driving. America's car culture is deeply unhealthy.

[Nomadmax]

My take on it is that young man conducted himself very well. EDITED to add: That guy on the bike is part of the reason why they hate us.

[Blown Reek]

Search for the Part 2 which shows where the cops show up and the bike rider was 100% in the wrong. Goofs like that make us all look bad, and in the end he was cited and not the driver of the car.

https://www.kpcw.org/park-city/2024-...st-altercation

[holliscx]

BREAKING: Gary changes his surname from Peacock to Snowflake.

[fignon's barber]

Yes, the cyclist acted like an idiot. But the news person smiling and saying "yes, the driver was issued a citation for passing too close to a cyclist, but that was dropped" (probably because there were no 3rd party witnesses) I find the most disturbing bit.

[Nomadmax]

Originally Posted by fignon's barber

Yes, the cyclist acted like an idiot. But the news person smiling and saying "yes, the driver was issued a citation for passing too close to a cyclist, but that was dropped" (probably because there were no 3rd party witnesses) I find the most disturbing bit.

It was dropped because the kid had dash cam video that showed he DIDN'T close pass the cyclist.

[benb]

These stories can be so dumb, I agree why cover it. It's just the anti-cyclist agenda since there were probably hundreds of driver on driver road rage incidents yesterday. Too many to be news.

I've noticed some of these low quality news sources are just mining reddit threads for stories.

They go in and look at "Am I the A**hole" and stuff like that and then write an article. Not realizing those reddit threads are sometimes fictional. Actually the stories could be AI summaries of the reddit thread.

[gdw]

Originally Posted by fignon's barber

Yes, the cyclist acted like an idiot. But the news person smiling and saying "yes, the driver was issued a citation for passing too close to a cyclist, but that was dropped" (probably because there were no 3rd party witnesses) I find the most disturbing bit.

The charges against the driver were dropped because his dashcam showed he swerved to give the cyclist room. You can also find bodycam clips of the police officer's interaction with the cyclist. Mr Peacock handled the incident poorly and unfortunately the story has received a great deal of attention because the vast majority of our population drives motor vehicles and considers cyclists an annoyance.