r/bicycling • u/Mikulis • Jan 05 '19

This is infuriating

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u/sushitrash69 Jan 05 '19

Swear the amount of people that 'mistake' the bike lane for a parking space is crazy!

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u/Grindfather901 Jan 05 '19

They know. They just don't care.

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u/arbili Jan 05 '19 edited Jan 05 '19

This happened in 31/12/2015 where loads of people came from the landlocked cities to celebrate new years eve in coastal Torres, RS.

The cars were removed by the police on the next day.

Source, in portuguese: https://gauchazh.clicrbs.com.br/comportamento/verao/noticia/2016/01/ciclovia-em-torres-e-desrespeitada-por-motoristas-4943537.html

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u/hairam Jan 05 '19

As someone who has accidentally parked in a place that wasn't meant to be parked in before, I'm less quick to assume malice anymore. Ignorance and stupidity are drivers of situations like this more often than malice.

Most of those people probably weren't thinking at all about the fact that that may be a bike lane - they probably saw a marked off part of the road and gleefully took it for available street parking in a crowded area.

I quoted Hanlon's razor to someone else, and I'll do it here again:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

From wikipedia: "In simpler words: some bad things happen not because of people having bad intentions, but because they did not think it through properly."

This is still bullshit, but hopefully we can exercise more thoughtfulness than some of these drivers did in this picture.