Cyclist who headbutted pedestrian after jumping red light hunted by City of London Police +video

peted76 wrote:

That's exactly the kind of cyclist who give us all a bad name.  No care for traffic laws or anyone else, an entitled cycling scumbag.

Does a drink driver who kills his passengers give all drivers a bad name? Of course not. This is stupid. Some people are feckless, they are present in all walks of life. It doesn't matter what they are doing or what "group" they belong to.

peted76 wrote:

That's exactly the kind of cyclist who give us all a bad name.  No care for traffic laws or anyone else, an entitled cycling scumbag.

Oh don't go there with the "give everyone a bad name" bollocks!

Did Harold Shipman give all doctors "a bad name"?
You can find any number of drivers who have killed or injured other road users and faced no jail time, no penalty - do they give other drivers "a bad name"?

No - so please stop with that, it's an awful phrase that needs fighting at every turn. If you used it in many other walks of life (eg a black person, a Jewish person, a gay person does [xxx]) and then said it gives other black people / Jewish people / gay people a bad name, you'd very quickly find yourself on the wrong end of a discrimination claim.

Some twat jumped a light and got arsey when he misjudged the move. Hopefully he'll get done for assault, the same as if a jogger had barged a pedestrian then come back and thumped him. Or a dog walker or a driver or a scooter-ist...

crazy-legs wrote:

peted76 wrote:

That's exactly the kind of cyclist who give us all a bad name.  No care for traffic laws or anyone else, an entitled cycling scumbag.

Oh don't go there with the "give everyone a bad name" bollocks!

Did Harold Shipman give all doctors "a bad name"?
You can find any number of drivers who have killed or injured other road users and faced no jail time, no penalty - do they give other drivers "a bad name"?

No - so please stop with that, it's an awful phrase that needs fighting at every turn. If you used it in many other walks of life (eg a black person, a Jewish person, a gay person does [xxx]) and then said it gives other black people / Jewish people / gay people a bad name, you'd very quickly find yourself on the wrong end of a discrimination claim.

Apologies if you felt like that phrase needed standing up to, I'm clearly not up on the latest current acceptable PC phrasing. 

Also I think you'll find Doctors unlike cyclists are usually held in quite high esteem by the majority of the public, the odd serial killer among their ranks won't slow down that state pension from growing.  You can carry on arguing aginst 'phrases' but while you shout at your thesaurus and curse my lack of PC knowledge, I think you're missing my point..  which has been laboured by many others in this thread.

That cyclist is not one of my tribe.

Wiltsrider wrote:

How come only two comments? Neither sympathetic to the victim, if this was the other way round there would be a dozen comments calling for the pedestrian to be locked up. A thug on a bike is still a thug. I hope the victim makes a full and speedy recovery and this scumbag is caught and locked up.

Thanks for saying that, couldn't agree more.  This thug does need locking up.