• L3ft_F13ld!@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    I’m not a cyclist. I grew up in a country where drivers hate them for taking up too much space (no bike lanes, of course).

    My question here is fucking why? Why would anyone do something as dangerous and fucked up as this?

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      3 days ago

      Presumably a hunter or nearby property owner that assumes they’re the only ones that get a say in how the forest is used.

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      We had someone like this in my city a few years back. He was mentally disabled and genuinely thought he was helping enforce safety issues on the trail. Doesn’t make it right, but he needed a good talking to.

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        3 days ago

        I mean, in that case, at least it was a mentally disabled person. There’s an understandable explanation for it. Other than that there’s very little explanation for something like this.

        • BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world
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          It’s less about the vehicle, I would imagine, and more about the speed.

          Yeah, just peddling your bike along a plateau or uphill, you probably wouldn’t be going fast enough to be killed by it. Thrown off your bike and hurt, potentially seriously/fatally, sure, but I don’t think it’d be likely.

          Going downhill though, approaching speeds a dirt bike could do? I could see that decapitating/killing someone, particularly if they use wire. If someone were looking to do harm, they’d put the wires at the bottom of a hill or grade.

          But, I’ve mostly only seen this kind of stuff done on trails frequented by motorcyclists, presumably because the local residents/homeowners don’t like the noise of the engines or how they may tear up the trails. Which, to me, is like moving next to a farm and then shooting at the cows because they moo…