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01 Afternoon traffic in Amsterdam (Photo credit- Copenhagenize Design Co)Cyclist wanted by police for assault on bus driver tells his side of the story
A cyclist who is wanted by the police for assaulting a bus driver has anonymously told his side of the story, contacting a news agency to explain how he was defending his girlfriend who had been driven at.
According to the man, the incident, which happened on October 11 on Rozengracht, Amsterdam, saw a bus brake suddenly behind him and his group of friends before honking. Shortly afterwards on another street the bus passed them again, and swerved towards the man’s girlfriend.
The group had just been out to celebrate the woman’s pregnancy, and the cyclist said that he was not in a “diplomatic mood”, NL Times reported.
He confronted the driver saying that he had almost run over his girlfriend and they ended up in a fight with the man shouting “If you want to kill people with your buss, I’ll kill you”.
The police report stated that the bus driver stopped on Leidseplein around 04:15 a.m. A few people were waiting to buy a ticket. Suddenly a man squeezed between these passengers and into the bus. According to the police, the man shouted “I’ll kill you” and grabbed the driver by his clothes. The bus driver was startled and pulled back, which tore his shirt. The man continued shouting at the driver in English and punched him in the face.
The report states that bystanders eventually pulled the man out of the bus when he then rode away on a bicycle.
The incident is still under investigation and the police say they are aware of the man’s statement.
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Man assaults bus driver, then escapes on bicycle. Man contacts press to give his side of story. Using the term cyclist is merely a way to into r those who consider themselves to be cyclists and those who dislike cyclists to click on the story. The term Cyclist has become some sort of divisive term, you are either one or you are not. I am not but I do ride a bicycle all the time and I drive a car all the time. I really like Road Cc but it is becoming some sort of militant loudspeaker. Cycling is great fun, the bikes are cool, gadgets and kit is cool please try and temper some of these stories with reality.
What, he's not a cyclist?
Definition of a cyclist then?
Hope this explains it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=47cGzu6-q40
calling someone in Amsterdam who leaves on a bicycle a cyclist is about as meaningful as calling someone a clothes-wearer, an oxygen-breather or a food-eater.
He's just a person. The use of the bicycle is irrelevant. In Amsterdam, this is about as true as it can possibly be.
Three sides to every story.
“If you want to kill people with your buss, I’ll kill you”.
Is the misspelling of "bus" based on a mispronunciation or did he say it in written form?
More to the point; punching an errant driver, especially where no actual harm had been done, is indefensible.
And describing the man as a cyclist is correct - he rode off on his bike. A cyclist is simply a person riding a bike. I know some people like to think of a cyclist as something more (or more special) than that but it isn't. The article didn't say an enthusiastic cyclist, a sports cyclist of some other specific type of cyclist so the use of the term was exactly correct.
@forester, that's lesson #1 in journo school.
Seriously?! Just because someone commits a crime and absconds on a bike, doesn't make them a cyclist! You don't see the news pages of Runner's World clogged up with garbage like this, just because people were fleeing the scene on foot!
Can we have some actual cycling-related stories in the new year please?
Don't fall into the Huffington Post habit of doing a headline that makes the story look more interesting than it is!