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someguyfromcanada  ·  3386 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So a Volkswagen just hit my bicycle.

You might be hurting tomorrow. I got hit a while ago on a motorbike at very low speed in a parking lot and the broken ribs pain did not kick in until later.

This also just reminded me of Michael Bryant the former Attorney General of my home province (ie. the guy in charge of appointing judges, prosecutors and the administration of justice in general).

He was out drinking, got into an altercation with a drunken cyclist, hit the bike from behind which put the cyclist up on his hood. He bounced off and grabbed the side of the car and Bryant tried to knock him off the car by veering into the opposite lanes and into trees and mailboxes, eventually ramming him into a fire hydrant, killing him. Near the busiest intersection in Canada. Bryant then drove a few hundred yards/meters away before pulling over.

He was arrested but released without a bail hearing and the charges were dropped as there was "no reasonable prospect of conviction".