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   Ned Yeung (ned@mstdn.ca)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 23:59:14 JST Ned Yeung

   I admit to having an unconscious bias on the road. When I see a pick-up truck I immediately think, "Oh no, they're about to do something insanely stupid!" This is an unfair stereotype, as it's not always the pick-up drivers. Sometimes it's car drivers too, but they catch you by surprise because you don't immediately notice the Audi decals. #yegbike

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 23:59:05 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @ned @harold
     What a miserable experience. And you know nothing is going to register for that driver.

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     Ned Yeung (ned@mstdn.ca)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 23:59:06 JST Ned Yeung

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     @harold I was riding on the EXACT same road in the EXACT same direction, and I could see just fine. Funny how that works, huh?

     Entitled, privileged people love using police as their own personal army, and the police are so corrupt that they love it too. /4

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     Ned Yeung (ned@mstdn.ca)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 23:59:07 JST Ned Yeung

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     @harold all around the surrounding neighborhoods. Eventually I got sick of it and pulled off when he was stopped in traffic, and went up to his window to confront him. He tried to tell me that I was "intimidating" her (no need to mention who, we all knew), even though I was the one who was receiving death threats and being stalked and harassed by an off-duty cop, when all I did was take a picture and ask her to be careful. Then he told me that "she was driving into the sun and couldn't see." /3

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     Ned Yeung (ned@mstdn.ca)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 23:59:08 JST Ned Yeung

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     @harold Then she started threatening me, and told me that she has a neighbor friend in the basement who is a police officer. I got off my bike and pulled out my phone so I could take a picture of her license plate, and she called a neighbor over who then pushed his chest up into me (keeping hands at the side so he can't be charged with "asssault") and started whispering death threats in my ear. I got my picture and left, then her cop friend came up behind me in a pickup truck and followed me /2

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     Ned Yeung (ned@mstdn.ca)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 23:59:09 JST Ned Yeung

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     @harold Yeah, I once had a soccer mom drive me off the road like that, screaming into a traffic circle at full speed speed, tearing around the corner at a tilt, and didn't stop or slow down for one second as she threw me off the curb into the center median. I followed her to get her license plate number and when she stopped I stopped behind her and told her, "Please be careful, you just ran me off the road". She got upset and said, "How dare you call me a careless driver in front of my kids!!"/1

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     Harold Jarche (harold@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 23:59:12 JST Harold Jarche

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     @ned The ones that scare me are the soccer moms in SUVs driving too fast and usually distracted.

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     Ned Yeung (ned@mstdn.ca)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 00:17:22 JST Ned Yeung

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     @inthehands @harold (Then proceeded to tell me to "go back to where you came from" when I asked her why she couldn't just wait for a little child. Because bigotry and entitlement go hand-in-hand.)

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 00:17:22 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @ned @harold
     Yup. Entitlement like that requires a lack of empathy, which both needs and creates mindsets that see others as less than equally human.

     If that same soccer mom experienced 15 seconds of mildly humiliating disapproval from somebody she viewed as a peer or a superior, her habits would actually change.

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     Ned Yeung (ned@mstdn.ca)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 00:17:23 JST Ned Yeung

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     @inthehands @harold

     Yup, that's the worst part. They just go right back to doing it over and over again to new people every time. No accountability, no lessons learned. Maybe next time it might not be the people they drive into, but the children in their own vehicle.

     As a parent, the most horrific part of being threatened on the road is not what happened to me, but what could happen next time to my kids. I had one lady recently hit the gas in front of my child because she was taking too long.