What would happen if you knocked over all the unattended bikes on “accident”
People are sitting on the bike lane or parking on it. Saint Denis, France
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Amine_Jouahri@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/4d8772219daa.mp4
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techpb@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Leviathan@fedinsfw.app 3 weeks ago
Probably the same thing that would happen if you did it by accident.
D_C@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You’ve been downvoted, but you are correct. Saying ‘on accident’ is jarring.
The people who say it like that are like the idiots who say they ‘could care less’.
And they can, FUCK. OFF.
SourDragon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
An friendship ended over something this petty
A friend and I were sitting on the curb, legs stretched out over the bike lane. I saw a bike coming and I picked up our bag and got up. He didn’t move and got mad at me for doing that without warning, right before the cyclist rode between us (that was the only path they had). Ex-friend then turned their ire towards the cyclist calling them rude and whatnot. Fortunately the cyclist kept riding. I was finally able to tell them the bike is why I moved. And dude just tried to justify they could sit there if we had just curled our legs. Bro. The entire lane is for the bike. We were just taking advantage of the fact there were no bikes around when we sat down. I had thought he would have the same response I had when the cyclist came. Apparently not and he ranted about it the whole way home. I blocked him when he drove off.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Good riddance.
Leviathan@fedinsfw.app 3 weeks ago
I think I would light the dude sitting in a chair in the bike lane on fire. What kind of scumbag does that?
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’d love to get a group together, and go along just throwing scooters out of the path and into the road.
And the guy in the chair too.
taiyang@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I can kind of understand the sitters, but the parked motorcycles are just wrong. (Also they really should have better dedicated places for people to sit, but c’est la vie as they say)
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Complete opposite here. I understand the parking, that’s just standard asshole Behavior. That I get. I’m used to it. The sitting is just fucking bizarre. Why? Just why? They brought a chair for fucks sake. Out into the street. They passed the wide open sidewalk while carrying their chair. It makes no sense.
axx@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
It does if you consider they are clearly doing it on purpose: the message is that they own the place and will sit wherever they want.
dingus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Hell…sitting just on the ground I’d even understand. It sounds spontaneous enough. But bringing out a fucking chair is just deliberate and fucking bizarre behavior.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
om ok with the sitters if they GTF up and step back when a cyclist comes along i. e pay attention.
fuck the parked scoots.
NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Wow, this is awful.
I’ve ridden bikes in many cities (London, Paris, Toronto, Montreal, Seville), never saw anything close to this bad.
How standard is this in Saint Denis?
freebee@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s not so black and white. Yes asshole behaviour. But also: the sidewalk is very narrow, there are many shops, people living in the neighborhood are likely to not have any garden or tiny balconies etc. The (other) real culprit is the street designer / city planner. You can see on the other side of the street that despite it being a very narrow, multimodal busy place… they did NOT sacrifice all (free?) streetside parking in favour of more “living space” for pedestrians. Likely recorded during heat wave, with unlivably overheated Appartments and not enough trees/parks in the area…
gdog05@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I expected more horses in Saint Denis.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
This must be quite a more tolerant region of friends because the the 2 French people I know would have immediately resorted to violence. Totally valid as well.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Bike obviously means motorbike duh
grillgamesh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I found your problem.
you’re in the land of the fr*nch.
to resolve your issue, please proceed to the nearest border and leave the accursed snail eaters to their pretentious bubbly wine, and their overpriced long bread.
kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 3 weeks ago
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
French ain’t a race, it’s a personality disorder.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s poorly designed infrastructure. Don’t blame the people (at least not entirely). The true fault lies with the city planners.
Gonzako@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I can defo see it. It has barely no space for walking, no place for people to sit and no trees for shade
DrunkenDuckling@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
Sheesh, should take a slice from the Dutch and start ramming people tbh
bonesawmcl@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Or from Indian police men and start slapping them with sticks.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes, ramming people with a bicycle. Sounds brilliant.
utopiah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
FWIW saw a scooter parked this way, not on a bike lane but in front of a bike garage. I put a paper on it saying “This is not a parking spot, next I’m moving it myself” and since then they never parked there anymore. Sometimes people don’t even realize.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
France is a tad crazy about driving and parking, or at least it was when I was there last. It’s kinda like NYC but no rules. I saw a bakery delivery truck back up to corner and back into the lead car, ramming over and over until the next 5 cars where pushed into eachother and he could park in the corner spot.
Cars all over the sidewalks and in the median toward the tower. Noone giving right of way, you had to just take it or you’d never get in.
nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
TIL hell exists, and it’s called France.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Beautiful country, good food, strong on protests. The car situation is a bit strange. The service industry was a bit off-putting, but I was a tourist and well, most US tourists are awful. Maybe half the people there were nice and helpful.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Its called living in a city. People sit where they want to sit. You are not better than them. You are a monkey on a bike. They are a monkey who needs to rest. Complaining about people sitting down when you are on a bike is literally inventing a problem. Welcome to living among other humans. You arent in a car, you are going slow enough to move out of the way of a person. If it were a pregnant woman or woman with infant child or elderly person you would be the asshole here.
tl:dr Fuck you, asshole, adapt or die.
multifariace@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
did you watch the clip? People put chairs in the bike lane, not just sitting on the curb. Those particular people are assholes. The curb-sitters were not actually in the way.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
They lack benches. Like I said, blame city managers, not the monkeys that need rest
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You must be popular at parties.
dickalan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
train horn time
nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
Where I live, they wouldn’t be there long after the first 30 kg e-bike plowes into them at 40 mi/hr.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Couldn’t they hang out in the street or something?
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If anyone in that area has seen my good friend, Gavin, please let me know, I’m worried sick about him.
nullspace@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
OP should devote a day off to doing hourly sweeps while getting belligerent about it.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Where’s your dring-dring?
Lydon_Feen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This isn’t mildly infuriating. It’s just regular infuriating