Bikers Beware on Mandeville Canyon Road
This is absolutely frightening: a motorist got annoyed by some cyclists on Mandeville Canyon Road this 4th of July and decided to teach them a little lesson by slamming on his brakes and letting them crash into the back of his car. One of the cyclists went through the rear window. Then this exquisite example of humanity got out of his car, still on a cell phone, and announced to the cyclists that he was a doctor but didn’t actually offer to help them. In light of the fact that he caused their injuries, this announcement seems to me as his way of saying, “I am a doctor, and you aren’t hurt that badly, so I am going to continue my call and not help you like I swore in my Hippocratic oath to do. Oh wait, I actually swore to “DO NO HARM” as well, so I guess we can just forget this Hippocratic oath thing all together. I’m mostly in it for the ego trip anyway, although the money isn’t too bad. Anyway, can you move your freaking bike? I’m already running late for the pool party.”
Thank god this jerk is being charged with felony criminal assault, but frankly, I was a little disturbed by the interviews with his Mandeville Canyon neighbors on KCAL. One man said that it’s such a narrow road and there are so many cyclists, it was only a matter of time before there was an accident. ACCIDENT?????????
I hope that this neighbor is simply intimidated by the psychopathic doctor on his street and and is trying to avoid saying anything to further enrage that man. If that’s not the case, then someone needs to buy this poor neighbor a dictionary so that he can familiarize himself with the meaning of the word “Accident.” That was not an accident, nor was it an inevitability. It was a deliberate act by someone who feels entitled to hurt people who annoy or slightly inconvenience him.
This emergency room doctor should lose his license immediately. He’s obviously not capable of caring for living things.
I also hope the cyclists make a swift and full recovery and can get back to riding again soon. From all reports that I have seen, though, that’s unlikely to happen for months.
Source: laist
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