Well, I'm sorry to have disappointed, and apparently shocked, so many people with my "illogical posts" but i guess i just have too much feeling for dogs.

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"Anyone can be who they want to be IF they have the HUNGER and the DRIVE."

I would have done the same.......so there are two of us!

But then again I still believe this whole story is BS.

Have you ever been bitten by a dog?
I have, it fucking hurts!

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Don't turn this into a noble flaw about your affection for dogs. It must have taken you at least a minute to form an opinion on the post, type a reply, and hit send. Nowhere during that time did you think, hmm maybe this isn't appropriate. Especially since you doubled down with your replies after that. You're giving people who truly care about dogs a bad name.

What's most telling, you're apologising in a similar vein to that radio guy who rode the bike path with his car (was it in San Diego?). You're not apologising, you're just sorry it shocked people, you just can't figure out why, because you are just fucked in the head. It really scares me that people can just fly off the handle like that. I always enjoyed your posts on swimming but shit man, you're a psycho nutcase and I hope I never have the misfortune of running into you at the off chance I might trigger your dark side.

Classic self-important triathlete. Training ride "spoiled" by killing a dog. Shitty situation. Yeah, the dog shouldn't have been in the road. That's the owner's fault, not the dog's. Unfortunately, the dog is the victim here, and not you for being inconvenienced out of setting a PR on your local training loop.

And I would add that after reading Eric's post that now I will NEVER go and apologize to the owner of a dog I had just hit, on the off chance of being met with psychotic murderous rage.

It's called sarcasm, through understatement. And as someone pointed out earlier, may have been a play on the phrase "Golf: a good walk spoiled"

So you can dial back your outrageometer.

Classic uncomprehending laptop warrior. It has little to do with the dogs. Unusual and regrettable situation, but I wouldn't have posted about that in itself. It's about attempted vehicular assault. Twice. That was the thing I found shocking, frightening and ultimately remarkable.

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Brian

Gonna buy a fast car, put on my lead boots, take a long, long drive
I may end up spending all my money, but I'll still be alive

Seriously. I wonder if Eric's crazy cousin "Derek" is staying at his house and using his ST account.....

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Jason
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Haven't read thru this train wreck of a thread since page 1 so maybe you covered it, did you report it? In California buzzing a cyclist qualifies as assault with a deadly weapon and folks here have taken to reporting it all the time (to establish a record and to force local depts to take it seriously, they don't like increased crime stats)

Yes, talked to a State Trooper, but in PA it seems if no outside witnesses and no injuries, the police will not get involved. Even if there's property damage, unless it's clear cut like one car was going the wrong way down a one-way street, they just leave it to the insurers to sort out.

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Brian

Gonna buy a fast car, put on my lead boots, take a long, long drive
I may end up spending all my money, but I'll still be alive

That used to happen here but really was the result of cops not wanting to do the paperwork. Seriously. Now people go to the station and demand to file a report (asking for the watch commander if the desk clerk balls), and not leaving until they take it (they have to, just don't want to)

Thanks very much, at least a few others see this situation as I do. :)

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"Anyone can be who they want to be IF they have the HUNGER and the DRIVE."

The one that should apologize in a case like that is the dog owner. First to the dead dog, because the owner is the only one that is responsible for its death, and then to the cyclist who risked serious injury due to the dog owner dumbness.

On the other hand, you show serious adaption issues to living in society. Maybe you should go get checked by a professional.

Further, in some states it's assault by the owner. The owner is responsible for his dog. It's like owning a gun and firing it towards some trees towards a road. You would be 100% liable if you shot someone you couldn't see.

What if the dog is friendly, but a car swerves to miss the dog and kills a bicyclist? Should the family of the dead cyclist apologize to the dog owner? It's a tragic situation that a dog gets loose, but you can't expect the person that almost got seriously injured or potentially killed to have a tremendous amount of remorse.... especially not when dog #2 is coming at you and then the owner is trying to run you over.

Good grief, seriously.

I've had plenty of dog chase me on a bicycle and a motorcycle. Some are clearly friendly some do not seem so friendly. Both present a risk if they collide with me.

Some dog owners sometimes remind me of some smokers. Completely oblivious to how their choices impact others.

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