It was the link posted by Axa a few posts above. This one to be precise.
Given this happened last week I don’t think any story about last Xmas is relevant.
For some reason I only noticed Axa’s post directly above that one, with the Escher-Wyss reference. Yes, the two are clearly distinct.
New hit-and-run in Egg, AT. Black Audi with (now) damage to the front. He was speeding and smashed into a racing cyclist who is now in Dornbirn hospital with serious spinal injuries. Several motorists blocked the road, jumped out, and helped him. Shouldn’t be hard to find this guy.
I warned the mods , this is the second time he’s done it.
Know the company you keep and all that.
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A hit and run. It’s a mistake to hit someone with the car. A bigger mistake to do nothing about it 
It’s not always a mistake - sometime (probably more often then people would admit), it’s done on purpose.
Even @kingkong says he punishes cyclists who slow him down by intentionally driving close to them.
With a gust of wind, or the low-pressure area created when you pass someone on a cycle close at speed, there’s going to be a time when people like him actually hit and knock down the cyclist.
whoa whoa whoa… I said sometimes I close pass cyclist who deliberately hold up traffic for no reason.
That’s mental illness.
At some point I’ve wanted to hurt a work colleague or family member because there’s a motive. But, a rando on the street, why?
Yes, that’s what Tom said too. It’s a dick move which reduces their safety margin considerably, and in the event of a collision could easily be construed as a deliberate hostile act on your part.
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Who knows?
Drivers who pushed over cyclists ‘for fun’ in France sentenced
The men drove up alongside cyclists and hit them in a bid to unbalance their bikes
The men, aged 20 and 22, drove around roads in the Save valley, targeting cyclists. They would follow cyclists, come up next to them, and attack them - knocking, hitting, or pushing them over - before driving off.
The duo played this ‘game’ for eight months between April and December 2023, before continued reports from cyclists led to their arrest. They pushed over at least 12 cyclists, and some were seriously injured.
Driver filmed trying to push cyclist off bike in Bristol
A motorist has been filmed driving at a cyclist and attempting to push him off his bike in an “unprovoked attack”.
It happened in Wordsworth Road, Bristol, at about 17:20 GMT on Monday and involved a male driver in a white BMW.
This one’s a bit older:
Hunt for the demon BMW driver deliberately mowing down cyclists: Police search for motorist with a grudge against bikes after three attacks
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Happens in Switzerland too (in case you were wondering).
Twice in one day in Zurich last year.
In both cases the cyclists were injured and despite eye witnesses and the arrests of the two drivers:
According to the Zurich public prosecutor’s office, the two drivers have been released because there were no grounds for their arrest. “No vehicles were seized or confiscated,” said the Zurich public prosecutor’s office.
So yes, you can use your car as a weapon, cause injury to cyclists and have no consequences.
That’s the way it’s done here.
TIS
That’s properly crazy. Quite hard to understand how to hate that much a a person never seen before.
The hatred of cyclists is getting more common.
A professor has done a study of it.
When people (in the UK) were asked what the biggest danger to pedestrians were, they said cyclists.
When it was pointed out that cyclists kill two pedestrians a year and motorists kill 500, one woman replied that it was the cyclists are forcing the pedestrians in to the cars.
Totally irrational.
One would like to think that people are rational in most parts of their lives instead of cherry picking the bits that suit them.
This is worth a watch - especially if cyclists trigger you.
Sociopaths…
Well I think it’s a dick move to deliberately hold up traffic for no reason, or to ride in the middle of the road instead of a cycle lane.
(How arrogant, but somehow not surprising, to feel you have the ride to impede other people and not face any repercussions for doing so)
[quote=“kingkong, post:971, topic:1235”]
ride to impede other people and not face any repercussions for doing so)
[/quote] But you are the law…
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I’ve only once used a car as a threat against other people - it was on a mountain pass in a region where I should have had a Police escort. I did not.
The pass was notorious for bandits who would stop the infrequent traffic and then rob them at gun point.
At the top of the pass, some people jumped out from behind a boulder and flagged me down. I drove through them and they jumped out of the way.
You are threatening people on bicycles for holding you up - in Switzerland.
How do you think your parents would feel if they heard that that their adult son was threatening women (and men) with their car?
I’ve never conversed with a eunuch before but your actions, when protected by a 1-2 tonne metal object against vulnerable cyclists suggests you don’t have a pair of balls at all.
You are a total embarrassment. Why is your user name Kingkong? It should be Timid mouse.
Pathetic excuse for a man.
I don’t let people push in front me in a queue either.
Me too. But I use my voice, not my car 
Worst thing can happen is someone complaining about verbal abuse or someone punching me in the face (one more time), not a dead person.
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I bet you don’t, ya wee minx. 