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No outstanding parking tickets. Huh.

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Got it by a drunken hit and run driver once. For a moment, I felt bad about the fact that she'd probably get a lot of jail time and lose her vehicle.

Then I realized, "Wait, no, that drunken bitch just left me for dead!"

Anyway, glad the injuries weren't too bad.

Edited at 2009-10-15 12:51 am (UTC)

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Fuck yeah this. I got hit-and-run while out biking and was left unconscious and bleeding in the street, after which I spent nine days unconscious in the fucking ICU. Got any idea how expensive that was, even with insurance? The hearing in my left ear is permanently fucked up from the injuries, too. (Fortunately not too badly, I don't need a hearing aid. But HI I SURE DO LIKE THIS WHITE NOISE.)

I hope this fucker gets jail time. As much as possible. Fuck him and everybody like him.

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I'm glad you both are OK and that that asshat got what was coming to him.

OOO! and expired registration for the trifecta!!

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OMG! It's really comforting to know that some of these assholes actually get caught. Go you, and I'm glad you're all ok!

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Hope they get him soon. Better still if he actually learns a hard lesson from it, but more likely he'll just blame it all on everyone else.

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Awesome. Please post the results of this event as well. I really hope he gets nailed by the judge.

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Please don't tell the other Portlanders about this...

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I'm glad to hear that netik is OK! Sheesh, some drivers are real assholes.

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good to hear nobody got seriously injured. hope you get a picture of this guy crying after his court date.

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I was a witness to a hit and run a couple of years ago. When I saw the car hit the pedestrian, I pulled over, stopped, and ran to the man crumpled in the street. While I was doing so, I was thinking I had my camera in my pocket, and should shoot the car's plate. But I saw that the car had pulled over, so I focused on the pedestrian instead.

And a second later, the stopped car pulled out and raced away.

I should have gone with my first impulse, and shot his plate.

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I had much the same experience in a vehicular hit and run when I was just a wee bairn... car ran a stop sign and hit me, pulled over, and while I was having a total freakout (16 yrs old and first accident ever ;)), he caught sight of the cop at the end of the block and booked it. The cop witnessed the accident, pursued the guy, pulled over what I'm sure was the right car but thought the damage was on the wrong side of it and let them go. :-/ i had my camera in the car and wish like hell that instead of freaking out I'd known what to do.

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Maybe that's a vanity plate and those 2 middle letters are on purpose?

Glad everyone is ok.

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Oh man, take him down. No mercy for asshat motorists.

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Hope he gets prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law. Running after being informed of what happened makes this a willfull act of an egotistical sociopath, and thus not worthy of any compassion. What an utter POS.

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That's awesome. I mean, not awesome that John was hit and the guy was a complete dick about it. But I'm glad John is ok and it's fantastic that you guys are sticking it to him so thoroughly. He deserve everything he gets.

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Jesus christ, what a month for netik. Glad to hear he's okay.

Post pictures of the perp at the sentencing.

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More than 10 years ago now, I hit a bicyclist with my car. I was making a right hand turn onto a street with a center barrier to divide traffic. I looked to my right to check for pedestrians, saw none, looked to my left, waited for a car, and then pulled out into traffic. Almost immediately, there was a loud bump, and I immediately stopped and got out. My car was old, and shitty, and I thought maybe something had fallen off it.

When I got out and came around the back of the car, I saw the bicyclists for the first time, laying in the street tangled up with his bike. I was in shock, I had never seen the guy. I started to run towards the guy, who was about 15 feet away, to see if he was alright. My mind was awash with all the shit I was in, and I still couldn't figure out where he had come from.

I called out to the dude, "Hey! Hey man!" and as soon as he saw me, he coming towards him, he jumped up, grabbed his bike, and started running away. I chased him for about 50 yards, but even laden with a bicycle he easily out ran my crippled ass. Now I was in shock, and perplexed. My world didn't have room in it for me being the kind of person who would hit a guy on a bicycle while driving, and I had no idea why he was running.

I stood in the street for a few minutes going over the details of the incident with my friend who had been in the passenger seat. He told me that the bicyclist had come barreling towards us on the sidewalk from the right side. Just before I pulled out, the bicyclist had given me the finger, a wasted gesture I did not see, and can't determine the motivation for. Then he cut in front of me as I let off the brake.

As the fellow disappeared around the corner of an apartment building a block away, I reasoned that he was evidently uninjured, and went about my day. I've always felt kinda bad about it though, and I've never been able to figure out what really happened.

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99.99999% probability he was carrying drugs or a weapon (or an outstanding warrant for one of the above) and couldn't risk being talked to by the police.

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The guy kept driving. I chased after the car, pulled up to his window and said, "Hey! You just hit that guy!" He look at me and said, in a calm deadpan, "Really? That's just terrible." And then he drove off.

What the actual fuck?

Props for having the presence of mind to get a picture. I hope he gets nailed as hard as the law allows. I have no sympathy whatsoever for hit-and-run drivers--especially when they're assholes about it like this one was.

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And here I was, thinking folks who'd reply like that didn't exist outside of Neil Gaiman stories.

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I hate to break it to you, but the SFPD won't do a goddamn thing.

I was hit and run by a driver on Market St. in broad daylight last June. I got his plates, and several witnesses were able to describe the car. I went through all the motions of making a police report, and I was told, rather bluntly, that the SFPD was uninterested in doing anything and that I had to sue the driver. They were so kind as to run his plates and inform me that he had no insurance and an expired registration, but didn't seem the slightest bit interested in getting him off the road.

Kamala Harris is a worthless DA, and my hat's off to netik if he gets any sort of justice out of this.

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If a civil suit turns out to be even slightly worthwhile, I may pursue it just for kicks.

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Ed, Mollie, David, Ed again, John...
Fuck, I'm next.
please let it be "shins bruised by a stroller"

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We'll just have to surround you, no matter where you go.

Glad J is okay but someone tell me that days later the bruising is all it's turned out to be. Crossing fingers for that much.

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I swear we need a special test to let people drive in SF...
So many assholes in/on vehicles with wheels who really need a good smacking with the LART.

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I've had several close calls already when biking, to the point that I don't even like to ride on roads with fast traffic anymore. What's worst is when there's no traffic, and the idiots decide to pass you with inches to spare when they have a whole other lane they can pass you in.

Lately I ride several feet from the curb. Enough that I can glance back to see if a car is going to pass me too close, and shift to the right if so. I really hate living in a city that hardly has any bike lanes, no bike trails anywhere near me, and such inconsiderate, rude drivers.

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So glad you got the plate.

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Best wishes to netik in this just fight.

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Awesome.

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Hey,

Saw this on boingboing. That's just ridiculous! Good luck getting it pushed through.

-Anselm/Ribbin

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+1

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I don't ride in The City so I really don't know how bad it is but one thing that mostly works pretty well in the parts of Berkeley where I ride is to Take The Fucking Lane. Especially if there are two of you together just take the lane and move right if an only if you are in a peaceful negotiation with a sane driver. I'll bet this advice is really sketch for The City and that angry asshats will give you shit anyway but it works around here.

The two biggest complaints I've come up with around here are (a) other cyclists doing stupid things (my wife got to watch a cyclist hit a pedestrian recently); (b) at intersections, cars that come screeching to a halt to let you cross in the opposing direction even though they have the right of way and if they kept going you could smoothly travel behind them (to which the proper response is a friendly shrug, wave of thanks, smile, and clear the intersection while cursing under your breath about how other Bad Cyclists conditioned those drivers to be so paranoid).

The one exception to (b) - again, in the far, far tamer streets of Berkeley - are the commercial drivers and city vehicle drivers (the white vans and the cars with city logos on them). Most of them will stop cold for anything and everything in an excess of caution that it is hard to say much against.

Damn, we have it good in Berkeley (mostly) wrt cars and bikes.

-t

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In Berlin that would either get you killed or you'd go deaf by the honking of cars. Non of it sounds very comforting. ;-)

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