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Suki 06-28-2007 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by gaijzilla (Post 164145)
Oh man. Cycling in Japan (at least in Gunma) is dangerous. I've seen mild accidents (bicycles clipped by cars) and more serious ones (guy on scooter hit by truck).

Even more dangerous than it is in Vietnam? O.O

Germany's full of bikes as well and I bet they don't have as many problmes.


(Did anybody else see the slight similarity between that man and Clint Eastwood?).

IamKira 06-28-2007 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by SweetSuicide (Post 164174)
wow... that's so sad. I hope the truck driver goes to jail forever. =] sry. i like when the law is taken into matters like this.

um...no offence or anything, but the law is crap....you have to take matters into your own hands if you want anything done!!!!........here in the "good old"..U.S. .....drug dealers and users recieve harsher punnishments than murder/ rapists!!!!.......they can go free within five years if found guilty, but the average time for a convicted drug dealer is like 25 years!!!!......how is that justice???...........oooooh....Clint eastwood is the coolest!!!!!:rheart:

IamKira 06-28-2007 03:43 PM

geez he's such a badass!!!!!

Suki 06-28-2007 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by IamKira (Post 164203)
um...no offence or anything, but the law is crap....you have to take matters into your own hands if you want anything done!!!!........here in the "good old"..U.S. .....drug dealers and users recieve harsher punnishments than murder/ rapists!!!!.......they can go free within five years if found guilty, but the average time for a convicted drug dealer is like 25 years!!!!......how is that justice???...........oooooh....Clint eastwood is the coolest!!!!!:rheart:

Couldn't agree more: justice sucks.

I am the biggest Clint Eastwood fan. :D Don't you think he looks a bit like the bike man?


- I've only been to Fribourg but yeah, there were more bikes than cars in the streets. It's cool cause they have bike roads everywhere.

Samael 06-28-2007 06:36 PM

Ah, well the universe always has had a somewhat malevolent sense of irony.

NanteNa 06-28-2007 06:51 PM

Oh. That's ironic.

gaijzilla 06-29-2007 09:35 AM

It happened about a month ago. Luckily for me the car was not going very fast and so my injuries weren't too bad. It took 2 days off work and then 2 and a half weeks of taking it easy and I healed.

kitski 06-29-2007 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by gaijzilla (Post 164727)
It happened about a month ago. Luckily for me the car was not going very fast and so my injuries weren't too bad. It took 2 days off work and then 2 and a half weeks of taking it easy and I healed.

good.it could have been worse.you're lucky;)

gaijzilla 06-30-2007 02:10 AM

Totally lucky and unlucky
 
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Originally Posted by kitski (Post 164802)
good.it could have been worse.you're lucky;)

Totally. Most people here don't wear a helmet. Helmet wearing was drilled into me as a child the same way seatbelt wearing was, so I was wearing a helmet when I got hit.

Then I went to the store and bought a better helmet and a backlight (I think Japan only requires a front light) even though I was hit during the day.

gaijzilla 06-30-2007 02:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Suki (Post 164223)
Couldn't agree more: justice sucks.

Did you know that in Japan, the police can hold you in jail for 23 days without charging you?

( I originally said 90 but I can't verify this so I changed this message to say 23 which I can verify.)


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