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The Burton Mail tells us
A CYCLIST who travels around South Derbyshire on a high-tech bike will ‘kill himself or someone else’
Really?
*The man criss-crosses the roads around Repton on a recumbent cycle, *
Criss-crosses? This must be a pretty fucking high-tech bike to go sideways.
Or do you just mean 'The man rides a recumbent cycle in the Repton area'
where the rider pedals in a lying position, a configuration which is supposedly more comfortable and more aerodynamic than traditional bikes.
Supposedly? I don't think there's any supposedly about it.
The meeting heard the cyclist was routinely followed in a van by his wife, who filmed him ‘for his own protection’ because of the abuse he received from other road users.
So this man is being abused by other people and the Burton Mail apparently condones it? Where are the police to arrest these people?
Michael Stanton, who represents Repton on South Derbyshire District Council, said he had a close encounter with the cyclist when emerging from the driveway of his home in Ticknall in his pick-up truck.
So Cllr. Stanton drives a TRUCK.
In case anybody was confused, here's a normal car that normal, non-psychopathic people drive, pictured next to a pick-up truck:
In other words Cllr. Stanton has made an anti-social car choice that blocks people's view from behind and the side, and which evidently also makes him a fucking menace, since he admits, in public, that he cannot see other road users, something which is clearly influenced by the height of his giant truck.
Cllr. Stanton said:
“I was about to pull out when I noticed this wire going past the bonnet with a pennant on it, then I saw this fellow go past lying on his back in a cylindrical type object."
So you saw him ok.
“If it had been one second later I would have killed him. If he gets killed it probably serves him right, but the problem is, he may end up killing or injuring someone else."
It would serve him right? He deserves to die because you don't like his choice of transport?
He deserves to die because you choose to drive in a vehicle that you've admitted in public you can't see out of properly?
Councillor Stanton added after the meeting that the cyclist "risked killing himself or others and suggested he would be ‘better off going to Dignitas’ — the Swiss clinic which carries out assisted suicide."
Councillor Stanton, you are an utter, utter cunt.
Anyone in the Derbyshire should watch out for this man:
http://cmis.south-derbys.gov.uk/CmisWebPublic/Member.aspx?personID=46