Feeling a little deprived of media attention, a well known reborn cricket player has got everyone all worked up over one of his Twitter posts last week.
His tweet complained about the behaviour of a bicycle rider that hit his car twice whilst on the way home from a training session, though the rider and an unnamed witness seem to have a different version of events, with his rant calling for cyclists to be registered.
First things first though, to the best of my knowledge, no matter how many times a person hits a car, they cannot hurt it. Even if it is a Mercedes Coupe, as the precious dear was driving at the time. Whereas even a gentle tap from the said vehicle has the potential to cause serious injury to any bike rider.
As a bike rider myself, and not knowing who was to blame for the altercation, I’d like to suggest that this particular individual get out from behind the steering wheel of his car and spend a week ride around town himself, and see what even law abiding cyclists have to put up with. Who knows, he may even change his tune and his driving behaviour…
What is amusing about the whole media circus surrounding the tweet is that there are some groups that are talking his calls for the registration of cyclists seriously. Every motorised vehicle on the road is registered, yet what has that done to stop bad behaviour of other drivers?
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