"Oh Shit" moments...

Ha! What do you do s785?

Well, he's not allowed to be a paediatrician, that's for sure.

You're getting your paed- words confused again

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/vigilante-mob-attacks-home-of-paediatrician-710864.html

I had a similar problem on a business trip, still, I guess my feet did feel better.

My Pinarello project frame came off my pannier rack on the way to the painters, making a heart-wrenching KALANG KNGKNG. It happened on the roundabout in the middle of Eastleigh, a hectic low-income neighbourhood of Nairobi. Apparently the road engineers levelled the tarmac using a swimming pool wave machine, and I lost a rack bolt and several cable ties. The frame was seemingly undamaged thanks to some clever chaps 20 years ago in Treviso, and also thanks to the alert braking of a bus driver.

I stood in the centre of the roundabout (near a couple of police officers) and faffed for a full 10 minutes with no success in reattaching the frame. A friendly man turned up and helped me, and also dissuaded a shifty looking teenager from robbing me. So many friendly Kenyans, it makes up for the thugs. The frame got to the painters in the end. See project thread.

You need the https:// in front of it for the link to work - https://www.lfgss.com/thread103556.html

Am still in shock.

Was riding back west from Piccadilly. Going through Knightsbridge I notice that the lights are red ahead and filter through a bus and a black cab that are stopped at the lights. Had just got into the ASL and BAAAAANG! The black cab flies past me through the ASL. There was a Range Rover now sat where the cab had been. Less than a second before I had been behind that cab before I filtered through the gap. Often I would have plonked myself in front of the cab in case other cyclists had wanted to filter through. Thank fuck I hadn't. Or that cab would have been pushed into me. Thank fuck I had filtered through, the back of the cab was completely crushed.

DJ of old kicked into action, shouting at the dumb fuck who had been driving. She was drunk but was denying it. She also claimed the car in front had suddenly slammed on its brakes, that the lights had been green and that she had never even seen me. Part of me was incredulous at her account (though later I realised how much it reminded me of someones account of an accident I witnessed last year). I went ballistic, repeatedly pointing out that she was a dangerous drunk retarded cunt. FFS the cab had been stopped at a red light, and given the ridiculous lights I have on my bike, the hi vis on my back pack etc she had no fucking excuse.

Luckily there was an ambulance on hand to tend the shaken up cabbie. Drunk bitch was frantically drinking bottles of water and coke to presumably defy a brethalyser. Her friends then got out of the car to have a go at me, they could not understand why I might be a little vexed at what had happened. One of them pushed me and I pushed her back. There was more shouting and then the cunts drove off.

Cabbie was shaken up, but will be fine. We have exchanged details and I will give an account to the police.

With hindsight I was clearly in shock at the scene of the accident as I was very nauseous on the rest of my journey home. 1 second difference in the timing and I would have been between the Range Rover and the cab. Things really could have been very different.

I am alive and now need to breathe.

Got a call from the cabbie who got hit today. Turns out the driver was not insured. She claimed she thought she was covered by Direct Line, but they said they cancelled her policy. Reading between the lines it probably means she has either been done for drink driving or some other offence and is possibly disqualified from driving at the moment.

Police will now be prosecuting her for driving uninsured and away from the accident, but sadly she will get away with being drunk.

It could mean an undisclosed conviction, although that needn't automatically mean a cancelled policy. It might be she failed to provide evidence of NCD, or she didn't pay. Whatever, she deserves a proper punishment.

She settled the repair bill for the cab in cash! There is now a claim for whiplash going through as well.

"Got a call from the cabbie who got hit today. Turns out the driver was not insured. She claimed she thought she was covered by Direct Line, but they said they cancelled her policy. Reading between the lines it probably means she has either been done for drink driving or some other offence and is possibly disqualified from driving at the moment.

Police will now be prosecuting her for driving uninsured and away from the accident, but sadly she will get away with being drunk."

Still a win... I'll put aside my Buddhist believes, and pray she gets everything she deserves and then some.

Do they really have to get away with being drunk? Is the breath/blood test the only evidence on this? Would not dj and the cabbie describing how she behaved (i.e. obviously drunk) be reasonable evidence that she was, in fact drunk?

she'll turn up to court slurring her words and telling everyone she loves them claiming this is just how she is all the time. foolproof

I don't want to live in a world where DJ can decide I'm a villain and just have me done for something by saying it was so.

No offense DJ - you're just the example to hand.

And with a witness (possibly witnesses?) corroborating his account?

It's a dangerous game. 'Behaviour' as judged by a flock of slightly up tight Daily Mail types is clearly different than that judged by someone more socially relaxed. People have a tendency to group their responses and to respond to the prevailing mood too. I'm not saying that witnesses can't be useful in determining motive or aggression for example "he was running at the victim shouting and raising his fists, he made no attempt to move away or calm the situation" etc. But being drunk is not so straight forward.

It's bloody obvious though that James' witness statement is of all kinds of other use here though: He backs up the fact that the lights were not green, that the woman made irrational and false claims about the behavior of the taxi .......

It's a dangerous game. 'Behaviour' as judged by a flock of slightly up tight Daily Mail types is clearly different than that judged by someone more socially relaxed. People have a tendency to group their responses and to respond to the prevailing mood too. I'm not saying that witnesses can't be useful in determining motive or aggression for example "he was running at the victim shouting and raising his fists, he made no attempt to move away or calm the situation" etc. But being drunk is not so straight forward.

Sure, but witness accounts are used as part of the process of convicting someone for murder, for example, which involves proving intent. Surely intent is a state of mind even more, er, don't know what the word is, but y'know, even more something than being drunk. Basically, witness statements are used in court, and there are mechanisms in place, such as one witness not being as strong a case as two unrelated witnesses, reliability of witnesses (not being drunk/shortsighted themselves) to prevent or reduce abuse/misuse/mistakes. So why not here?

I imagine it is just custom or accepted practice that they only use breath or blood tests. Or is it the case that this is prescribed in law?

I dig what you're saying but on certain occasions I'd rather it was up to a qualified person with a calibrated medical machine than an angry DJ to decide whether I might be over the limit.

can they check for other things like credit card payment at a bar/restaurant perhaps?

anyway, hope action is taken about the terrible driving

^ this

I dig what you're saying but on certain occasions I'd rather it was up to a qualified person with a calibrated medical machine than an angry DJ to decide whether I might be over the limit.

Thats a fair point, but surely you lose that right by leaving the scene?

Any decent defense barrister would tear down a witness statement regarding drunkenness as being too subjective. The fact that they had also bought drinks in a bar or restaurant would also be dismissed as there is no way to prove that they drank the alcohol (unless there was CCTV and the whole lot was tied together - but lets face it, as horrible and downright reprehensible as the offence is, the detectives are unlikely to go to all that trouble on the off chance - they will weigh up the likelihood of conviction against the amount of work/money it would take to investigate it - within reason). It is much more likely that they will pursue the offences that they have cast iron evidence for - leaving the scene and driving while uninsured.

I hope this all gets sorted out smoothly DJ and that you are not called to give evidence. If you are and you haven't been through it before, there are people on here who have and I'm sure could give you advise or feel free to PM me.

More constructive than I. rep.