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a month ago by Ajuy to c/crazyfuckingvideos
Found a gofundme page, not sure of its veracity
"On March 26th, Iain was out doing what he loved most β cycling. But that day took a tragic turn. Iain was thrown from his bike in a devastating accident, resulting in a serious spinal cord injury. He now faces life with severely limited movement in both his arms and legs"
Nothing about that was an accident
Just the one, actually
There is no amount of psychological help that can change a conservative into a normal person. They are just violent by nature.
Their violent nature gives them away as conservatives. A normal person does not violently attack people with no real provocation like that. Only a conservative does that. Notice how naturally it came to him and his wife. Conservatives are violent by nature and attacking people is normal behavior for them. That is an almost exclusively conservative trait.
What a stupid take. Cult deprogramming is a thing.
MAGA is a cult. Conservatism is not. A conservative cannot be changed by any amount of "deprogramming". They are biologically unable to experience empathy.
Yes, they can. There's a reason that college "turns kids liberal." It's because meeting people from various cultures and backgrounds and learning that they're just people too does a lot to combat the indoctrination they experienced.
Many of these people literally don't know any better because they've been lied to their whole lives. Critical thinking and questioning authority is actively punished. The media that they were raised on trained them to think that any other source is lying to them.
It takes work, sometimes a lot of it, but most people can be reached. I've personally helped several people, even converting a "god put dinosaur bones in the ground 6k years ago to test us" believer.
But saying every conservative is a sociopath incapable of change just shows that you lack the ability to be empathetic. If there's absolutely no room for forgiveness, then what reason do they have to change?
Give clearly never met anyone like that cunt. He'll be proud of himself.
Violent idiot doing idiotic violent things to show just how much of a 'big man' he is.
Well there you go, 'big man', you've caused another person a brain injury...and yet I bet you still blame the other person for "getting in the way".
Edinbuger here.
They reported this in the local paper today, you know it's bad when the Edinburgh evening news was taking the side of the cyclist.
But then again Edinburgh drivers think they are above the law and riot when not catered to as God emperors of the city. Every time there's an improvement to public transport or cycling or pedestrian areas, they throw a hissy fit.
I'm sure that's a local phenomenon, it's not like every city everywhere claims they have the worst drivers (except the person who shares that fact about their city, who either doesn't drive or isn't too bad in comparison).
A braver person would claim something like "(bad) drivers are like that everywhere", but that would mean we need to overhaul the whole transport system instead of reminding specific cities of the traffic laws.
People should loose their right to drive for this
That's grievous bodily harm. This fucker belongs in jail.
You should be his counsellor. Good luck.
He should have a full time minder for the next three weeks (6-9 counselling sessions) to follow him around and make sure he doesn't. The minder should be a big burly government employee tasked with keeping him out of trouble. The minder should have extensive training in de-escalation skills, and a decent grasp of martial arts, just in case.
I think those three weeks would be quite humiliating and he wouldn't want to do it again.
why so harsh? not like he shouted "free palestine" or something.
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it.
The fucker belongs to jail. He's danger to society.
99% Of sane people wouldn't have to resort to violence about some shitty I-passed-before-you you-cut-me-off situation! How late was he going to be 1 minute extra?! Whoever was wrong intentional or not! Okay sorry calm down your tits have a nice day gtfo.. But why take it there!
It's never been a worse time to be a cyclist in the UK the amount of hard men who shout abuse at me is unreal, and i only go out on a Sunday for leisure. Never happens when I go out with a group though.
I think it's the big man in car vs a vulnerable road user. Power goes so quickly to some people heads
I hate how much I can relate to this, thanks to having been a bicycling 12 year old girl.
This guy should be locked up in prison for atleast a decade and the woman for couple years for leaving an injured person on the road. But they will likely anyways plead guilt and go with something like "I did not mean to push him that hard, I just wanted to topple him" bla bla. His shirt explains everything one needs to know; wears a shirt thay says England with a lion, lives in Edinburgh and probably wants immigrants out of UK. What a tool.
Why were they out of their car anyway? Solid move, potential lethally injuring someone and then shuffle off. Great people, both of them, really.
Do you feel the guy who did this to the cyclist will be hit with attempted murder charges?
I hope not. π
More info here https://www.thecourier.co.uk/...
paywall for me, could someone copy paste here, I still have (naives) hopes that some justice has been done
and how do they break the reader mode: it loop back to the wall? It's the first time I've seen this
edit: the link in the post description worked, but I take from this that he's still walking free at the moment
Joseph Hedley became involved in a confrontation with the cyclist before violently attacking him at the cityβs Cowgate in September 2024.
Hedley, 39, left his vehicle and approached the innocent male, before grabbing him by the neck and violently throwing him to the ground.
The victim smashed his head off the road and suffered serious head injuries, including a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain.
Hedley then left the 34-year-old cyclist lying unconscious in the middle of the road as he got back into his car and drove off.
Hedley, fromΒ Kirkcaldy, subsequently found out police had put out an appeal to find the motorist involved and handed himself into a local station two days later.
He pled guilty to assault to severe injury, permanent impairment and danger of life when he appeared atΒ Edinburgh Sheriff CourtΒ on Tuesday.
That's the main jist of things
No road-rage context justifies his assault
Top comment on the article, from "mrbmww":
The sad thing is,because he laid hands on the cyclist, Even if it was the cyclists fault.The driver will get done.
The actual fuck? He thinks it's sad that someone who takes another person, throws him violently onto the ground and leaves him unconscious and bleeding and drives off "gets done"? And that that somehow means that there is discrimination against motorists??
Found the exact spot
What, this is even more bizare! What was that about?
It was something else. My wife and I were walking through the Cowgate and we heard a commotion and a guy in a leather jacket and kilt flew past us running. We looked back and saw a crowd gathering. Thankfully, we didn't go back to see what it was.
I mean, if it helps, you can have one of these: /s
I know itβs hard to detect tone in text, honestly I do, but, you know?
Some actions are blatantly indefensible and this so obviously is one such case.
Why are you clickbaiting us when you won't even make money off your posts, did you know you can describe the contents of your post within the title ?
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Okay so, that's a felony. Dude who got out of the car committed a felony.
I can't help but feel the cyclist is being innocent washed though. No story whatsoever about the moments leading up to this incident? Like, why are we stopped in traffic like this long enough for both the passenger and driver to feel the need to get out?
What, could POSSIBLY, warrant that response? "Innocent washed"? My brother in Christ, it doesn't matter how annoying he was being before, unless he's a credible threat to life and limb that level of violence is not warranted.
Well I harken back to my father teaching me to drive, and the little nugget of wisdom that has saved my life in traffic multiple times over the last 25 years on the road and in the air: It's better to be alive than right.
People are going to cut you off, they're gonna break traffic patterns, they're gonna drive the wrong way up the road, they're gonna drive drunk while doing lines of cocaine off the ass of the prostitute they're murdering, and you can list all the crimes you saw them do to the ER staff as they try to stop the bleeding around the steering column sticking out of your chest. You have a duty to yourself to steer around the jackasses.
It looks for all the world to me that Bikey Mikey is pulling some Karen-esque move blocking traffic to assert a cyclist's right of way or some shit. He might have gone on a bike ride tomorrow if he'd just pedaled away. He had a chance to de-escalate the situation, which he didn't take. So he took a street to the dome. That guy's going to prison, that guy's going on a respirator. Was whatever point he was making...worth it?
I get the feeling he chose to incite the incident. He chose to be in the way, he chose to stay in the way. I don't give the first two half-flaccid thrusts of a reluctant pity fuck if he deserved to have his skull caved in, it wouldn't have happened if he hadn't incited the incident.
Even if the cyclist was the most dumb or annoying person in the world... So what? Smashing someone's head in because they are annoying is in no way an appropriate response to anything outside of a life threatening situation. Nobody should ever expect to have their head smashed in over an argument. What's next? Stabbing kids because they were making annoying noises? I mean everybody knows it is common decency to not make annoying noises. They made annoying noises, so they were asking for it.
it wouldnβt have happened if he hadnβt incited the incident.
Your logic applies just as well to the car driver, and he could just as well have ended up on the pavement. Was whatever point he was trying to make worth it? I think it's flawed to see this interaction and think about what the victim could have done differently, but at the very least, don't make it sound like he was the only one that "incited the incident".
So assume he had the right of passage and wanted to exercise this despite seeing the car coming. You call this "inciting an incident" and then not letting the car pass "karenesque"? This is called victim blaming and usually is done by people who already have prejudices against one of the parties (and you strongly seem to have one). Goes along the same lines as "if she didn't want to get sexually assaulted why did she wear a skirt".
In what other circumstance is a man going to be standing on a bike in traffic long enough for a woman to get out of the car to start fussing at him?
I do not give a FUCKSHIT about "victim blaming." Look, two guys in a bar. They bump into each other, some beer is spilled. Guy 1 starts getting up in Guy 2's face yelling "YEAH? WHATCHA GONNA DO? WHATCHA GONNA DO?" Guy 2 slams Guy 1's head into a table so hard he never walks, speaks or sees in color ever again. I can have no fucking sympathy for Guy 1. I don't care if his "punishment" fits his "crime."
Being a victim of a crime does not make one innocent.
"Well, what was she wearing? Had she been drinking that night? Why was she alone?" -Captain Aggravated
Way to blame the victim bub. You want a perfect victim? That doesn't exist. You really need to check you moral compass
My moral compass points to "don't pick fights, you might get beaten up" but go the fuck off.
What were the circumstances that led to the first frame of the video?
I mean, I would really suspect the mental faculties of anyone getting out of their car in the middle of a junction. My best guess is it was the cyclist's right to pass but being a dick the car driver didn't even care about the bike and tried to pass, leading to this scene. Also the guy's shirt explains a ton.
He should have worn a helmet.
He still should have worn a helmet. Itβs unsafe to ride without it.
Not wrong through... I don't get how people can ride without a helmet. Takes seconds to put in and can make a big difference even in normal circumstances. I'm not saying buddonbonbthe bike deserved any of this, but there's a good chance it would have had a far better outcome had he been riding his bike with a helmet on.
Was he riding a bike with no helmet? Why was he stopped right in front of the car, talking to the woman, it looked like he was blocking the car to be a jerk, blocking them and she was trying to talk him into moving. Then asshole makes an appearance. I vote everyone shitty here. Obviously asshole more so.
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Fuck me... that's rough. He should be forced to pay for the rest of his life, get anger management courses, and psychological help.
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