1/29/2006: Motorist vs bike courier
 

http://cellar.org/2006/motoristvscourier.jpg

Ubiquitous cameras mean that everyone who thinks quickly can become a journalist on the spot. In this case, via Boing Boing, a bicycle courier in Toronto is accosted by a motorist after an incident involving the guy's littering. But the entire event is shot by an alert photog, who posts it all to an urban photography web site; check it out, in a series of 15 images, the story is told and is more interesting than most news photography.

http://cellar.org/2006/motoristvscourier2.jpg

Look at that jagoff!

Furthermore the incident and photos turn up so much interest that the courier herself appears in the comments at the site, to describe what happened from her point of view. (Look for the comment from "Leah")

Life. Documented. Even the sucky parts.

There are so many unemployed actors in Toronto... That is my first reaction to pic three. The rest looks real though. Who friggin litters? Jerk.

2 counts of assult, littering and property damage, got what he deserved, girl-hitting littering piece of shit.

Who litters? Must be somebody because I see tons of it every damn day.
The link is dead, both from here and from Boing Boing.
Ah, the dangers of taking the law, or the enforcment of it, into your own hands. A lesson in escalation, too. How far will you go to make a point? If she'd have been driving a car, like normal people, this probably wouldn't have happened. :lol:

Any of you smokers out there throw your butts out the window? I often daydream of catching someone doing that at a red light and getting out and tossing it back into their backseat (hope it is leather). But reality is then they would pull a weapon, I would have to pull a weapon (remember this is gun-toting-Florida) and someone would go to the morgue or hospital and the other to prison.... not worth it but still a nice day dream.

Why don't smokers think this is littering??

Every Earth Day we pick up the trash for about a mile and a half of our rural road here. It usually comes to about 4 bags... let's call my question rhetorical.

What is he doing in that first pic? Trying to pull the tire off?

I bet this dude wouldn't have reacted the same way had the cyclist been a 245 lb linebacker. Fockin pussy. He even looks lile a wuss to me.

Man, you Canadians totally broke your country.

Maybe it's an American tourist. ;)

Some girls deserve hitting.....some girls like to be hit. :whip:

not 'hit', xob, 'spanked'. big difference.

You, maybe.....some like to be hit, whipped, cut and all kind of other disgusting things. Not that it has anything to do with the story. :D

Bri... how do you think he controls his 'virtual' harem?

I don't think much of her either. She key'd the guys car.