| Comment | Hmmm I get your point about one moment of anger not representing a person in the whole. We need to all be careful to understand people react defensively sometimes, and try to understand why that is.
And I say this as a regular cyclist who is also annoyed (frustrated, exasperated?) to use the cycle lanes I'm told to use, only to find them filled with cars, or to have had run ins with door-zone impacts: anyone can react in impulsive anger in the heat of the moment and say something reprehensible. How serious this threat is and was, is a matter for the cyclist, this car-owner and the police. Maybe he's a good guy normally, maybe not.
That aside, whether or not he's a genuinely nice guy most of the time, this incident is just the tip of the iceberg for cyclists. It's (and I'm so sorry to say this) just so extremely common for cyclists to be treated automatically like dirt in Glasgow. The automatic impulse from drivers is almost never to think "oh, woops, sorry I made a mistake here, I'm in the wrong". It's most often a defensive, reactionary response along the lines of: "who does this prick on a bike think they are, hogging my roadspace for themselves".
What I'm meaning is, fine, leaving aside whether this 30 seconds of footage is a fair indictment of this particular guy, it's a window into the daily experience of cyclists in this city unfortunately. |
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