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[–] 29 points 4 days ago

I wish I hadn't seen this. Genuinely this needs a content warning.

I feel so badly for the victim. His life is over even if he technically survived.

Straight up attempted murder in my eyes.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 days ago

    Top comment on the article, from "mrbmww":

    The sad thing is,because he laid hands on the cyclist, Even if it was the cyclists fault.The driver will get done.

    The actual fuck? He thinks it's sad that someone who takes another person, throws him violently onto the ground and leaves him unconscious and bleeding and drives off "gets done"? And that that somehow means that there is discrimination against motorists??

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  • [–] 75 points 5 days ago* (2 children)

    Edinbuger here.

    They reported this in the local paper today, you know it's bad when the Edinburgh evening news was taking the side of the cyclist.

    But then again Edinburgh drivers think they are above the law and riot when not catered to as God emperors of the city. Every time there's an improvement to public transport or cycling or pedestrian areas, they throw a hissy fit.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago

    I'm sure that's a local phenomenon, it's not like every city everywhere claims they have the worst drivers (except the person who shares that fact about their city, who either doesn't drive or isn't too bad in comparison).

    A braver person would claim something like "(bad) drivers are like that everywhere", but that would mean we need to overhaul the whole transport system instead of reminding specific cities of the traffic laws.

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  • [–] 154 points 5 days ago (40 children)

    Hedley pleaded guilty to assaulting Mr Brown to his severe injury, ** permanent impairment **

    Fuck me... that's rough. He should be forced to pay for the rest of his life, get anger management courses, and psychological help.

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  • [–] 72 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    Found a gofundme page, not sure of its veracity

    "On March 26th, Iain was out doing what he loved most β€” cycling. But that day took a tragic turn. Iain was thrown from his bike in a devastating accident, resulting in a serious spinal cord injury. He now faces life with severely limited movement in both his arms and legs"

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  • [–] 16 points 5 days ago (32 children)

    There is no amount of psychological help that can change a conservative into a normal person. They are just violent by nature.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 days ago (7 children)

    What a stupid take. Cult deprogramming is a thing.

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    [–] 15 points 4 days ago

    Need NSFW tag

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  • [–] 35 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    This guy should be locked up in prison for atleast a decade and the woman for couple years for leaving an injured person on the road. But they will likely anyways plead guilt and go with something like "I did not mean to push him that hard, I just wanted to topple him" bla bla. His shirt explains everything one needs to know; wears a shirt thay says England with a lion, lives in Edinburgh and probably wants immigrants out of UK. What a tool.

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  • [–] 44 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    The fucker belongs to jail. He's danger to society.

    99% Of sane people wouldn't have to resort to violence about some shitty I-passed-before-you you-cut-me-off situation! How late was he going to be 1 minute extra?! Whoever was wrong intentional or not! Okay sorry calm down your tits have a nice day gtfo.. But why take it there!

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  • [–] 86 points 6 days ago

    Violent idiot doing idiotic violent things to show just how much of a 'big man' he is.

    Well there you go, 'big man', you've caused another person a brain injury...and yet I bet you still blame the other person for "getting in the way".

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  • [–] 73 points 6 days ago (16 children)

    People should loose their right to drive for this

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    [–] 20 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    Do you feel the guy who did this to the cyclist will be hit with attempted murder charges?

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  • [–] 27 points 5 days ago

    this is fucking terrifying😭😭😭

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  • [–] 39 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    It's never been a worse time to be a cyclist in the UK the amount of hard men who shout abuse at me is unreal, and i only go out on a Sunday for leisure. Never happens when I go out with a group though.

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    Why were they out of their car anyway? Solid move, potential lethally injuring someone and then shuffle off. Great people, both of them, really.

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  • [–] 37 points 6 days ago

    WTF! Someone needs locking the fuck up.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    Im normally against the death penalty,

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  • [–] 19 points 6 days ago (8 children)
  • [–] 20 points 6 days ago* (1 child)

    paywall for me, could someone copy paste here, I still have (naives) hopes that some justice has been done

    and how do they break the reader mode: it loop back to the wall? It's the first time I've seen this

    edit: the link in the post description worked, but I take from this that he's still walking free at the moment

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  • [–] 45 points 5 days ago

    Joseph Hedley became involved in a confrontation with the cyclist before violently attacking him at the city’s Cowgate in September 2024.

    Hedley, 39, left his vehicle and approached the innocent male, before grabbing him by the neck and violently throwing him to the ground.

    The victim smashed his head off the road and suffered serious head injuries, including a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain.

    Hedley then left the 34-year-old cyclist lying unconscious in the middle of the road as he got back into his car and drove off.

    Hedley, fromΒ Kirkcaldy, subsequently found out police had put out an appeal to find the motorist involved and handed himself into a local station two days later.

    He pled guilty to assault to severe injury, permanent impairment and danger of life when he appeared atΒ Edinburgh Sheriff CourtΒ on Tuesday.

    That's the main jist of things

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