Originally Posted by
Juan Foote
This is just about the stupidest illustration of a point I have ever seen. How many sharks have a drivers license? How many sharks take a test to swim and sign an agreement to stay out of swimming area? Zero. You know why? They are a ******g animal. They don't have higher intelligence like human beings should. They don't know a bicycle from a shark cage.
"I accept the risks" dur dah dur.
A human actually CAN see lines on the road. A human CAN interpret obstacles in their path and have a couple of innovative inventions called a steering wheel and a brake. In conjunction with their brain and reflexes, human beings have an ability to miss cyclists. They have an ability to understand that you are supposed to share the road, give room to pass safely...when they choose to.
Riding on the highway you get passed by hundreds of "sharks" within just a few feet. Drunk, loaded, distracted, sleepy, stupid sharks in giant steel armored vehicles. People make mistakes all the time. Not one minute goes by without a motorist mistake. The shark reference is to a dangerous creature for whom a swimmer has no control over. A cyclist has ZERO control over the next 100 cars zooming past. If the cyclist gets tagged, or the swimmer get bitten, are we SURPRISED? Seems like it up in here.
REALIZE the danger. ACCEPT the danger (or not). Why freak out every time the shark bites someone else while we are swimming in the gall-dang "shark-filled ocean"?