2025-04-25 07:28 UTC
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@vroom@brvt.telent.net 2025-04-25 07:48
@Steveb@mastodon.ie we could insert the word "Both" at the beginning of the headline "Cyclists who kill pedestrians could be jailed for life [...]" without materially changing its meaning
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@RejoinEU@mastodon.online 2025-04-25 08:42
@Steveb@mastodon.ie Barking. The perpetrators are most often teens. The most vulnerable, the elderly. We will be committing teens to life imprisonment for the negligent and accidental 'killing' of (in the main) elderly pedestrians. Shitty performative crowd-pleasing legislation aimed at a few positive headlines from the car-lobby oligarch-owned press (that is, virtually all of it). Same mistake as made by our forebears, applying draconian penalties in the hope it will deter 'bad stuff'. Very poor #Labour
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@UkeleleEric@mstdn.social 2025-04-25 08:56
@Steveb@mastodon.ie it's not an either/or situation - we need to deal with the arrogance of many people who use the roads.
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@peterbrown@mastodon.scot 2025-04-25 10:27
@Steveb@mastodon.ie I saw a Tesla the other day with three stickers beside the wheel arch each depicting a cyclist with a cross through it, just as fighter pilots record their kills on the fuselage
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@peterbrown@mastodon.scot 2025-04-25 10:28
@Steveb@mastodon.ie and what about drivers who kill pedestrians? They very rarely get a jail sentence
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@keraba@mastodon.social 2025-04-25 13:46
@Steveb@mastodon.ie I'm surprised that they had to enact a law at all. Manslaughter is manslaughter, whether you use a car or Silly String. And yes, I wish the husband had put his energy into stopping /all/ road deaths.
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@goo@mastodon.scot 2025-04-25 14:07
@Steveb@mastodon.ie Just what I was thinking when I saw that story. Even when driving whilst high on drugs, without a license or insurance and speeding, they usually get nothing more than a stern talking-to and - if they're really unlucky - a bit of community service.