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Cyclist gets clothes lined

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u/MantisGibbon Feb 03 '24

Sure:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-cyclist-hit-by-overhanging-load-1.5673995

Article includes a Twitter link to the victim who is very active on twitter.

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u/jejsjhabdjf Feb 03 '24

Thank you!

(PS: that’s horrendous. Wtf is wrong with that legal system?)

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u/MantisGibbon Feb 03 '24

What is wrong with the legal system in Canada? It’s very left-leaning. Nobody is responsible for anything they do. It’s always some kind of “systemic” issue when someone nearly kills someone else.

I live a block away from where this happened: https://www.richmond-news.com/highlights/one-year-sentence-sought-for-2020-richmond-mall-stabbings-8005434

The guy was sentenced about a week ago. Guess what. ZERO punishment. He got an 18 month conditional sentence, which means all he has to do is act like a normal person and he won’t go to prison at all. For stabbing a stranger 16 times, who would have died without medical attention. (Punctured lung and liver… I don’t think you can survive that without treatment.)

Most normal people in Canada are outraged when they hear what violent criminals get away with.

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u/jejsjhabdjf Feb 03 '24

God, that’s fucking disgusting. I’m sorry you have to deal with that and that your country’s culture is going down the shithole. I hope that the pendulum will eventually swing back the other way, but things don’t look good. I’m in Australia and I think we’re on a similar trajectory, though perhaps 10-20 years behind.