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Velonews has this story, http://www.velonews.com/2017/05/news/legally-speaking-brought-justice_437651 which describes an incident of road rage against a bicyclist. Turns out, this was the wrong cyclist to buzz, he was a lawyer and eventually settled with the cager's insurance company for USD $4500 -- setting a price for cyclist harassment in Louisiana.
The road-raging driver had just endangered the life of the cyclist and his toddler, and now he was spoiling for a fight. It began on a calm Sunday morning in New Orleans. Charlie Thomas had gone for a ride with his young daughter Colette, towing her in a Burley trailer, enjoying the ride and time together. But on the edge of the iconic French Quarter, their peaceful Sunday morning was violently interrupted when a speeding car buzzed them, passing within a foot of Charlie and Colette.
[...] "I'm not trying to start anything," Charlie said, "but you passed way too close to my daughter and me."
And that's when the driver, motioning that he was about to get out of his car, responded with his tough-guy threat: "How about I get out and f—k you up in front of your kid?" Charlie's emotions surged, but he knew that any further engagement would be unproductive, and with his daughter there, unsafe. So he broke off the encounter, and the driver sped away.
[...] Although the incident didn't involve a physical impact, Louisiana has both a three-foot passing law and a non-harassment law on the books. Charlie filed suit seeking damages for the driver's harassment. There had never been a case setting the value of damages for a harassed bicyclist under Louisiana's law, so Charlie and the driver's insurance company were in uncharted negotiating territory.
Eventually, Charlie negotiated a settlement that established a value of $4,500 damages in a civil case for cyclist harassment in Louisiana; the proceeds were donated to Bike Easy, the New Orleans-area bike advocacy group. The official case on the books is Thomas v. Arbona, Case No. 16-03127; First City Court for the City of New Orleans. Now, any other cyclist who sues a driver for harassment in Louisiana can use the value for damages established in this case.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 09 2017, @08:17PM (12 children)
Root cause??
* weaned too soon (or never breast fed at all)
* slapped around as a kid
* bullied until they were big enough to become a bully
* ...
* ...
* sorry, I don't see any source of profit here.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday May 09 2017, @08:29PM (11 children)
You forgot micropenis syndrome. I won't mention tiny hands. Or "it's not easy being orange".
Some things just drive people to become hateful and never smile.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 09 2017, @08:58PM (5 children)
They're afraid the southern belle will finally get tired of their little white dicks, fake masculinity, and shitty personalities and hop on the mandingo train straight to mulatto childville. In the meantime, they can only hope to stem the tide of white pussy-flight by wearing backwards baseball caps, sports shades, goatees, sleeveless tee shirts and massive diesel pickups with $20k in mods which is repo'd after a year or two. Bonus points if they fly a rebel flag and/or needlessly buy AR-15's modded with picatinny rails, bipods, scopes,front grips, and painted in military colors.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday May 09 2017, @09:45PM (4 children)
Sounds good, but as someone who's spend plenty of time in the South unfortunately, I can say the women in the South aren't any better. I know there's frequently a base psychological urge among many men to view most women as innocent, "better half" humans as compared to men, but it's really not true. They're not as physically violent, but they're frequently just as mean and nasty, if not more so, just in a more back-stabbing or passive-aggressive manner. They're also much less likely to instigate really horrible (and violent) acts, however they're perfectly happy to aid and abet such acts done by the men they get involved with. Those "Southern belles" these days are a bunch of hyper-religious, obese, cowboy-boot wearing, "redneck-rock"-listening, pickup-truck-driving, AR-15 fans not much different from the men you describe here. Sure, a small portion of them do hook up with African-Americans, but that's not the majority.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday May 09 2017, @11:01PM (1 child)
Seems some women have less inhibitions once they get on the path of bad inclinations. While men is more violence with a purpose.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 09 2017, @11:49PM
> While men is more violence with a purpose.
lolwut?
really?
maybe if that purpose is raging at every perceived insult
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 09 2017, @11:41PM (1 child)
I know there's frequently a base psychological urge among many men to view most women as innocent, "better half" humans as compared to men,
No, there is no such base urge. It is social conditioning. Its called benevolent sexism [bustle.com] and it is the reward that a sexist society gives to women who outwardly conform to the "good girl" stereotype. Sexist men tend to lose their shit about women who transgress that stereotype and quickly flip from thinking "the best" of such women to condemning them as despicable subhumans. You can see that in Trump who has, "tremendous respect for women and the many roles they serve that are vital to the fabric of our society" [washingtonpost.com] but is quick to insult any woman who violates that stereotype be it Kristen Stewart, Rosie O'Donnell, Alicia Machado or the Nasty Woman herself, Hillary Clinton.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 10 2017, @07:20AM
Evolution created differences between the sexes both physical and behavioral. Mens' instinctive feelings about women for instance (which are regularly called upon in emotional appeals to "save the women and children!" such that even the compassion-challenged among us might be swayed) might be explained by phenomena like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neotony [wikipedia.org]
But then again, maybe feelings for the opposite sex are just another cultural meme, like the current practice of blaming everything on sexism which is itself a cultural meme. Maybe it's cultural memes all the way down.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday May 09 2017, @09:38PM (4 children)
Hey, I dislike Trump as much as the next reasonable voter, but Trump is not a product of the South, he's from New York. However, he sure got a lot of support in the South, so they are to blame for that. But New York needs to acknowledge its ultimate culpability in the harm done to our nation by him.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 09 2017, @11:13PM (3 children)
If you want to blame someone for Trump, blame the DNC for fucking up Bernie vs Hillary.
Maybe someone will learn by 2020.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 09 2017, @11:47PM (2 children)
So tired of that shit.
The people who voted for trump had the option of not voting.
They actively chose him.
And frankly, it wouldn't have mattered if it were Sanders instead of Clinton.
Trump campaigned on racism. Survey after survey have now shown that non-racist working-class white voters preferred Clinton. [vox.com] It would have been the same with Sanders, except his poor outreach to minorities would have meant even less non-white support for him.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 10 2017, @07:30AM (1 child)
butthurt clinton supporter says "yer all RACIST!!!!!!!!1!11"
film at eleven
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 10 2017, @06:41PM
Voter sick of being accused of racism decides to prove he's not racist by voting for the only candidate to ever embrace neo-nazis.
file at eleven, and every other hour of the trump show