Close Pass Initiative, The Daily Mail take

The Bristol Post ran a story

The Bristol Post ran a story the other day – a bloke dressed in a hi viz jacket had lain down by a bike at the side of the road, and then when someone stopped to check on him he attacked them with a hammer.  Remember: according to the Post he was a cyclist and therefore was reflecting badly on all other people riding bikes around Bristol.  When I last looked at their front page they had 76 comments, and the first few I read were all about how this proved that cyclists were dangerous, they needed regisdtration, etc etc.  Nothing on how incredibly newsworthy it was that a motorist had stopped to check if a cyclist was alright.

Clearly the Post’s website is overspill from the Mail…

Mungecrundle wrote:

Mungecrundle wrote:

I know I shouldn’t of but I did (in a Victorians visiting the madhouse to be entertained by the gibbering ravings of the wretched inmates sort of way) go and look at the comments section on this DM story. 

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I know I shouldn’t of but I

I know I shouldn’t of but I did (in a Victorians visiting the madhouse to be entertained by the gibbering ravings of the wretched inmates sort of way) go and look at the comments section on this DM story. 

If you want to know where that tiny majority of motorists who seem hell bent on intimidating you with their horns and deliberate close pass stupidity spend their internet minutes, then here they are, quite literally like flies on shit. Absolutely raving bonkers and many of these unpleasant lunatics hold driving licences!