Death Threats For Online Vigilante Cyclist

[frank9755]

If I kill a pedestrian, god forbid, it won't happen on the pavement it will happen on the road. Even on the road it is highly unlikely, more likely that I will be killed by a lorry or dragged 9 minutes kicking and screaming under the wheels of a london bendy bus etc - you get the picture?

Hal,
Its highly unlikely you, or any other cyclist, will kill pedestrians. There was some data (that I posted on here a couple of months ago but can't now find) that shows that, even on pavements, pedestrians are more likely to be killed by motorists than by bikes!
Frank

 

[HarryB]

Ah-ha, I can answer that. Me and my other half got free tickets to go and see Top Gear last year. The audience is genuine - however, the floor engineers re-shuffle the audience in shot before filming a scene because the target audience of Top Gear is men - and men don't want to watch middle-aged men picking their noses in the background. If you wathc closely, you'll also notice that most of the audience is looking upwards - they're watching what's happening on LCD screen dotted around the studio because you can't see much from in the audience.

... the fact that the audience is huge as well doesn't help. Yes, only the pretty ones get to face the camera. It is quite an interesting days filming and both Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond hang around to chat the audience, they seem very down to earth. Not sure what happens to James May, I expect he is shy. The hamster is normally surrounded by the aforementioned pretty women.

 

[nin26]

... the fact that the audience is huge as well doesn't help. Yes, only the pretty ones get to face the camera. It is quite an interesting days filming and both Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond hang around to chat the audience, they seem very down to earth. Not sure what happens to James May, I expect he is shy. The hamster is normally surrounded by the aforementioned pretty women.

Yeah, I wasn't one of the ones dragged into shot .... my friend got that pleasure. James May did hang around during lunch to chat, but he did seem a bit like a fish out of water - not what I would've thought of as a "telly type".

Jeremy Clarkson was easy to spot in the crowd, but I never saw Hamster at all - either because he was swallowed by the crowd or because of the same reason I never got pulled into shot .....

It was a very interesting day out - and was quite eye-opening into how clever the illusion of TV actually is.