… that’s what hell looks like.
what a shot though
From the flickr comments:
[quote=“RedFoxOne”]
ssssssstriiiike![/quote]
brutal reality of shared roads.
They had cop escort but why didn’t the cop sacrifice his far safer cruiser and run D for them?
It looks like the “escorting” transit official swerved out of the way to let the cyclists take the impact instead of his car. Granted this doesn’t make the driver any less of an asshole it just makes the transit official an asshole too.
HOLY SHIT. That is an insane, infurating, and depressing picture.
I don’t really blame the cop, he probably just reacted instinctively. I really doubt he immediately thought “SAVE THE CRUISER,” or that he’s not at home crying because five bikers died on his watch and he could have done more to protect them.
i just saw that on reddit.
sad.
maybe the car swerved too quick for the police cruiser to do anything about it. it sure enough moved quick enough for the cyclists not to be like “oh shit a car” and dodge it. either way it sucks that it happenned
dunno how bike races like this work but i think the cop was behind them the entire time, to prevent anyone from slamming into the back of them and assuming nobody will be driving on the wrong side of the road.
I wasn’t pointing out the car swerving to say the cop was as dick, just kinda confused.
I think we all know who the real fucking douche-bag is in this situation.
i would say the escort was behind the riders and swerved to avoid the cyclist would had been hit…just a guess
that was my guess too. someone even brought that up in the flickr comments as well.
I saw this right as I got to work this morning. Really not what I needed to start the day.
I started a thread in off topic about it before seeing this, so ignore the “disturbing photo” thread there.
[quote=“TimArchy”]I saw this right as I got to work this morning. Really not what I needed to start the day.
I started a thread in off topic about it before seeing this, so ignore the “disturbing photo” thread there.[/quote]
i saw a lady get run over by a dump truck in harvard square on my way to work one morning…still messes with my head years later
Since the original photo is deleted, I put it up myself here.
I bet that A&S over on bikeforums is having a field day.
That is really messed up.
I still can’t get over this photo. That guy must have been flying look how far up some of the people and bikes are: double the height of the car.
Still haven’t seen this anywhere on the news just on flickr. Any links to a real news article about this yet?
Also, what the shit, dude posts this picture then all of a sudden his account goes bye bye?
Here is a really short article from the “Sun”
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... 239294.eceedit, found this from MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24943229/Disgusting.
holy SHIT that picture is crazy