80-year old man cycles cross country, gets killed by truck on last home stretch

[Suki]

Originally Posted by gaijzilla

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]

Originally Posted by SweetSuicide

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!!!!!

[IamKira]

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

[Suki]

Originally Posted by IamKira

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!!!!!

Couldn't agree more: justice sucks.

I am the biggest Clint Eastwood fan. 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]

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

[NanteNa]

Oh. That's ironic.

[gaijzilla]

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]

Originally Posted by gaijzilla

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]

Originally Posted by kitski

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]

Originally Posted by Suki

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.)