Have you notice how the general opinion is that people getting hit by cars somehow deserved it? My best friend was hit by a text-and-drive kindof woman. He was an athlete and now he can’t walk more than a few hundred meters.

  • wildcherry@slrpnk.netOP
    1116·
    10 months ago

    It’s not. I used to take a hammer in my backpack while cycling for self-defense.

        • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
          9·
          10 months ago

          And you feel like you need a hammer?

          I’m just trying to gauge the roughness of your area, it seems you don’t want to be specific which is fine.

          I live in Manchester in the UK, healthy level of gangs, knife crime etc. yet I’ve never felt the need to walk around with a hammer. Like I’ll walk through moss side with no issue.

          I guess my point is I am wondering if you’re just being worried about nothing or you’re living in hell.

          • wildcherry@slrpnk.netOP
            103·
            10 months ago

            I mean my city is a rust belt and it’s kinda rough crime-wise. But drivers, especially, are fucking crazy. I lived in other places and people were actually quiet on the wheel. Here, I have a friend who had a case for homicide attempt after a truck rammed him “for fun”. He won. Pretty much every cyclist I know got hit by a car.