http://bikingtoronto.com/forum/ BikingToronto Forum Topic: North Carolina Firefighter Shoots Bicyclist en Sun, 26 May 2013 03:30:09 +0000 http://bikingtoronto.com/forum/topic.php?id=154#post-318 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:25:39 +0000 joe 318@http://bikingtoronto.com/forum/ <p>ooh, I had forgotten about that stoplight incident... but I found <a href="http://www.bikingtoronto.com/2007/05/cyclist-assault-update-driver-is-cop.html">the blog post about it</a>:</p> <p><ul><li><em><img src="http://www.citynews.ca/images/2007-05/may0807-cyclist2.jpg" alt="" /><br /> Yes, the driver in the <a href="http://www.bikingtoronto.com/2007/05/students-accidentally-catch-cyclist.html">road rage incident yesterday</a> (the one in which a driver lost his bananas on a cyclist who didn't bike through a yellow light) <a href="http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_10838.aspx">is a policeman. A suspended policeman</a>.</p> <p>I'm tempted to give some "props" to the cop for turning himself in... but wonder if he would've if a video camera didn't catch the whole thing? Let's be positive and assume he would have.</em></li></ul></p> <p><a href="http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_10838.aspx">Here's the CityNews story about it</a>. </p> http://bikingtoronto.com/forum/topic.php?id=154#post-317 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:40:49 +0000 toddtyrtle 317@http://bikingtoronto.com/forum/ <p>I'm reminded of the off-duty police officer who beat that guy in Toronto for stopping at a yellow light downtown. What *is* it with these guys? Or the cop in <a HREF="http://www.phillipslawfirm.com/blog/TASEREDCyclistsTheirCrimeRidingABicycleOnTheRoadway.aspx">this</a> case, for that matter? Seems like there's a need for education here. Education and perhaps a bit of anger management. </p> http://bikingtoronto.com/forum/topic.php?id=154#post-316 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:57:05 +0000 joe 316@http://bikingtoronto.com/forum/ <p>This is a <a href="http://www.wyff4.com/news/20187786/detail.html">crazy story</a>... an Asheville N.C. firefighter shoots a cyclist in the head because he is biking with a child on a busy roadway. Thankfully the cyclists helmet <a href="http://www.wyff4.com/news/20187786/detail.html">stops the bullet</a>.</p> <p><ul><li><em>Officers said the victim was riding with his wife and had his 3-year-old son in a child seat attached to his bicycle when a driver approached him.</p> <p>Police said the driver, Charles Diez, claimed he was upset that the victim was bike riding with his child on the heavily traveled Tunnel Road.</p> <p>Diez pulled a gun and opened fire, hitting the victim in his bicycle helmet, according to police.</p> <p>They said the bullet penetrated the outer lining of the helmet but did not actually hit the victim's head.</em></li></ul> </p>