Have you notice how the general opinion is that people getting hit by cars somehow deserved it? My best friend was hit by a text-and-drive kindof woman. He was an athlete and now he can’t walk more than a few hundred meters.

      • @[email protected]
        9•10 months ago

        And you feel like you need a hammer?

        I’m just trying to gauge the roughness of your area, it seems you don’t want to be specific which is fine.

        I live in Manchester in the UK, healthy level of gangs, knife crime etc. yet I’ve never felt the need to walk around with a hammer. Like I’ll walk through moss side with no issue.

        I guess my point is I am wondering if you’re just being worried about nothing or you’re living in hell.

        • @[email protected]OP
          7•10 months ago

          I mean my city is a rust belt and it’s kinda rough crime-wise. But drivers, especially, are fucking crazy. I lived in other places and people were actually quiet on the wheel. Here, I have a friend who had a case for homicide attempt after a truck rammed him “for fun”. He won. Pretty much every cyclist I know got hit by a car.