A brief update on the incident involving reports of a car driving through a group of bicycling carolers Thursday night on Pike in which witnesses say the driver hit a biker and drove with the cyclist on his hood for blocks. Seattle Police this morning confirm that the driver in the incident was not arrested and that the situation is currently being investigated as an automobile accident. Nobody else was taken into custody related to the Thursday night fracas. We reported that the driver had continued to the East Precinct headquarters at 12th and Pine after the incident. The car in the collision is registered to an east Capitol Hill address.
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thanks SPD, injuring people is fine if you do it with a car.
Oh please, Derrickito. I saw your shenanigans in the comment section of the slog. Don’t you have some alcohol you could be focusing on?
If you are doing something illegal and then something bad happens to you, you don’t really have any recourse with the law.
Deliberately blocking all lanes of traffic, kicking someone’s car and then opening their door to scream and threaten them doesn’t exactly give you recourse with the law. It doesn’t matter who did what first. If I get ripped off trying to buy some weed, I’m not trying to get the police to do something about it. Lesson learned. The guy in the car(who has been a reputable member of the community for a LONG time- can you say the same thing about yourself?)went straight to the precinct after the incident. You guys are all a bunch of douche bags waiting for a fight and then when you get your ass kicked you want the police to step in.
It has nothing to do with cars and bikes and everything to do with respect and behavior. You all are trying to mitigate your behavior in this situation to make it the other guy’s fault but everybody (with the exception of a few) acted an ass that night. It’s not the first time and I’m sure it won’t be the last.
agreed
winner
It’s called trolling, or goading; Derrick likes to do that on the internet. He does it for something referred to as “LOLz” which translates to something like “moments of laughing out loud.”
It’s actually fairly common tactic on internet posting boards.
That was in reference to the alcohol comments.
I think he’s genuinely upset about this instance of driver vs. cyclist violence. Though, from my understanding, the police have yet to fully review the event, so we should wait on any judgement about the police’s response to the incident.
First, a disclaimer: I know nothing of this incident beyond what has been described on this site.
When you’re behaving dangerously, you might get yourself hurt. But this isn’t getting yourself hurt, this is someone hurting you.
When a person takes action with the intent to harm, I don’t care if they had good reason to be angry. I don’t see that this can be positioned as an act of self-preservation (sorry folks, your car does not qualify as “self”) so this driver’s status as “a reputable member of the community” is over.
“…drove with the cyclist on his hood for blocks”
This is antisocial behavior and exactly what law enforcement is employed to defend us from. I would like to know what the SPD is doing to reduce the now-known risk that this individual poses a threat to non-automotive road users.
For clarity: I do understand that arrest is not the only appropriate response, and that it is too early to be passing judgment on SPD. My beef is not with Seattle’s finest, but with the wingnuts that have recently commented here supporting our reputable community member’s right to armed retaliation.
“I know nothing of this incident beyond what has been described on this site”
Well that was a pretty detailed analysis for someone who knows nothing of the incident besides from the slog. Say no more!
@Rojo… LOLZ!
I asserted that attacking someone with a car is only appropriate when they have threatened your life. Which part of that is invalid because I read about it at CHS?
Also, as a matter of public education:
• CHS is not Slog.
• The phrase you’re looking for is “I did it for the lulz.” I suspect, though, that derrickito is motivated by genuine outrage at modern social norms that tolerate vehicular assault. If he were simply goading you, it would be more appropriate to refer to him as a troll.
• You fail at human. (See what I did, there? That is trolling.)
Wish T-Bird had gotten more of those fiends. I was at the scene where Critical Mass bashed that guy’s head with a lock, slashed his tires and terrorized a pregnant woman. The actions of the carolers sound no different. SPD should crush these freakish outlaws.
that is all.
In every one of these too-frequent bicycle/vehicle confrontations, the cyclists are the initial provocateurs by their illegal actions of blocking streets in-mass and arrogantly running through red lights. They are deliberately pissing off motorists…why?
There is a very simple way to prevent these incidents: Bicyclists should just stop doing these “events,” and there will be no problem.