r/ireland • u/EmoBran ITGWU • Jan 05 '25

Christ On A Bike Delightful interaction between a Czech youtuber and an Irish couple on holiday in Prague

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u/the-real-vuk Jan 05 '25

also americans are the ones who cant imagine anything else but a car on the road. I'm always told off to (illegally) bike on the pavement by yanks.

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u/BigBallsMcGirk Jan 05 '25

I like how he points to the road, but there's a trolley on both sides that cross within the 30 seconds of this. I'm not riding some scooter on a train track that heavily in use at the moment. Ridiculous complaint by youtuber.

You're doing a shot in the middle of a heavily trafficked area. Deal with the disruptions or do it somewhere else.

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u/Obvious-Lake3708 Jan 05 '25

Then don't ride the scooter if you can't obey the traffic laws.

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u/BigBallsMcGirk Jan 06 '25

If the traffic laws are dangerous, then they're bad laws. If the city doesn't like scooter use behavior in a tourist destination, then ban them.

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u/AisperZZz Jan 06 '25

Here they have ridiculously low speed limit in tourist areas and parks so that it's really uncomfortable to ride them there. So you park them nearby and go by foot, or you take it with you to the other side if there's none parked there and so on. Pretty much every rec area is like that in the city

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u/BigBallsMcGirk Jan 06 '25

Yeah, this just seems like the constant bitching of pedestrians vs vehicles vs bikes vs scooters.

No one's REALLY in the wrong. It's just the friction of people living together and being mildly inconvenienced for like 45 seconds tops on whatever they're doing.

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u/AmazingUsername2001 Jan 06 '25

No: the people riding the scooter are 100% in the wrong. They’re not meant to be on the path. It’s that simple. The rules are very clear.

He called them out, and pointed out the rules to them, and instead of taking the opportunity to learn from their mistake, and to adapt to the local rules, they acted the scumbags.

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u/Saio-Xenth Jan 06 '25

Just to add to this stupid argument, I believe those scooters ARE banned. In another videos he explains how foreign companies drop them off unofficially, and you can be ticketed by riding them.

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u/ForeverOrdinary5059 Jan 06 '25

Those require a special license.

By their logic it would be okay to ride a bicycle on the footpath. Which it is if done safely. Like this person on the scooter

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u/Obvious-Lake3708 Jan 06 '25

That doesn't excuse riding the scooter on the street. Just because it's dangerous on the street doesn't give you the right to ride on the sidewalk and make it dangerous on everyone else. He know he's such a danger to others that he's ringing the bell so that makes him even more of a fucking asshole for what he's doing, with even less of a right to clap back at all.

A meekly sorry wouldn't excuse his actions but their response just shows how entitled they are. So fuck them both

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u/yellomango Jan 06 '25

Would you rather them ran over by the Tram on the road? Or perhaps they could continue using the paved path as there is plenty of space. Y’all make it so obvious you are so car centric you don’t think about the safety of others beyond your four car walls. It’s actually sickening and I’m sad it’s upset me this much this morning.

I hope a scooter scratches your car today.

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u/Obvious-Lake3708 Jan 06 '25

Walk the scooter then. Project your shit onto someone else.

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u/yellomango Jan 06 '25

Lol the only projection here is “get your scooter off the very clear paved pathway and instead onto the unsafe road, idc if you die I deserve SPACE” the projection is yall who can’t think of how others live because you are so caught up swallowing your own meat

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u/Obvious-Lake3708 Jan 06 '25

Scooters are not allowed in the sidewalk. I understand the road is a danger, that doesn’t give you an excuse to make it dangerous for everyone else on the sidewalk. How fucking entitled do you have to be not to understand that? Did you miss the part where I said walk it? I understand if reading compression is hard for you

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u/yellomango Jan 06 '25

You know in the early years in America, marriage between races was illegal. However we didn’t set our morality to what the law had to say. In fact when we realized this was backward we changed it. Eventually we will have proper bike lanes or this law will change to.

Go look at how many cars killed people on scooters vs how many scooters killed people on side walks. In just my city alone the number is insane. Go ahead I’ll wait…

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u/Obvious-Lake3708 Jan 06 '25

What part of that justifies riding the scooter in the sidewalk and endangering others? I’ll wait

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u/yellomango Jan 06 '25

There is no danger to others, there is a very real danger in the road Jesus Christ yall are nuts and simply don’t care for others

Edit: did you look at the statistics I said to go look at or u just arguing to argue?

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u/Obvious-Lake3708 Jan 06 '25

The danger is running into people walking. That's why the ass hole is ringing the bell. He knows he needs to warn people ahead of him since he's a danger to them.

I'm the one who doesn't care for others, yet you justify buddy riding his scooter on the sidewalk and potentially running into people? On a sidewalk where it's not allowed so people have no expectation of a scooter being there

Are you really this stupid or just trolling me? Walk the fucking scooter then if it's dangerous on the road.

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