Good thing he wasn't in China...

Beam me to that!

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“Bloom wherever you are planted"

I'm guessing a missed a thread you are both referencing... Link?

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Long Chile was a silly place.

http://news.nationalpost.com/...pedestrians-they-hit

>>>> Broken shoulder, cracked ribs and road rash

Sounds about right. Had he been a movie action hero he would have swung into the cab, hit the brakes himself, and walked away with just a small scrape on his face. (Punching the driver is optional.)

From the local TV coverage of this event:

- Cyclist moving fast downhill,
- semi truck passes him, but before fulling passing veers right onto a sidestreet, cyclist caught under the tractor trailer
- dragged 1/2km before a car that witnessed the incident waves and honks at truck driver, convinces him to stop
- no charges (or even ticket?) for the truck driver


"And there is something undeniably screwy about a justice system that makes it de facto legal to kill people, even when it is clearly your fault, as long you’re driving a car and the victim is on a bike and you’re not obviously drunk and don’t flee the scene."
http://www.nytimes.com/...o-kill-cyclists.html