braamfontein sptuit

[Stevo]

There was a huge sign on the side of it. The wanker probably hit his head on it when he fell off.

[jeremyd]

I hope his lawyer gives him some good advice (oh yeah a I just woke up and my coffee is cold)

[DawieO]

Very much so.

 

Signage

 

(my coffee seems to have developed a bit of a skin on top...)

DawieO2008-08-20 05:26:01

[Dirty Twin]

So now we can start suing the Municipality for putting circles up in our streets if they don't advise us that we have drive around them and not over them.

 

Don't people have common sense anymore. Please remove this person from the gene pool or don't allow him to pro-create or something like that.

 

Are you allowed to be that stupid.

[Dirty Twin]

Is this the guilty object? Dirty Twin2008-08-20 05:32:40

[GIRR]

People like him get their just rewards in life, as we have seen now from the teeter totter.  We may loose the see saw but he has now lost a lot more.

[_Daemon_]

Someone needs to put a sign post up at the river crossing at the spruit where the see saw was...used to be..etc. giving this idiots details and something along the lines of thank him for wadging through squatter water.

 

As I said in previous threads about it, north shore stuff and jumps and so on are just being build now in secret locations....which IMO is a shame cause now less and less people get exposure to it, and the general ZA MTB skills set just get lower from what it already is. (https://www.bikehub.co.za/forum_posts.asp?TID=30410&KW=)

 

So sad how one person can ruin it for everyone...and everyone just stands for it...

 

 

 

[AndreZA]

Is this the guilty object?

 

Same place and idea but this one in the picture were better then then last one. The one to blaim needed more guts to cross as it was steeper and planks were shorter. The one in the pic was peanuts and everybody did it.

 

 

[DawieO]

What we should do is rally around the guys who built this if he sues.

 

It could be quite expensive for him, but the seesaw was a thing of great pleasure for all of us?

[Jules]

This looks like the new one to me, Mampara

[markStockton]

 

So sad how one person can ruin it for everyone...and everyone just stands for it...

 

I think it is obvious that a number of people do not agree and don't want to stand for it. However do you have any solid suggestions on what can be done?

 

[TNT1]

 

So sad how one person can ruin it for everyone...and everyone just stands for it...

 

I think it is obvious that a number of people do not agree and don't want to stand for it. However do you have any solid suggestions on what can be done?

 

Sue everyone, and shoot the survivors?

 

[Jules]

What we should do is rally around the guys who built this if he sues.

 

 

It could be quite expensive for him' date=' but the seesaw was a thing of great pleasure for all of us?

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Perhaps someone who knows the guy who's threatening to sue should show him this thread so he can see what a stupid idea it is.

 

 

 

My money says that the lawyers fees will probably dissuade the idiot long before he ever gets to issuing a summons. Jules2008-08-20 05:50:27

[_Daemon_]

 

So sad how one person can ruin it for everyone...and everyone just stands for it...

 

I think it is obvious that a number of people do not agree and don't want to stand for it. However do you have any solid suggestions on what can be done?

 

Sue everyone' date=' and shoot the survivors?

[/quote']

 

Works for me.

 

[Dirtbreath]

Had a chat to my wife about this this morning after receiving the article from Knievel. After she calmed me down she made a good point. There is a rider who is at the level who will attempt this teeter-totter and will have a 50/50 chance of falling off. The consequences of falling off this thing are quite extreme.

 

If this obstacle was placed somewhere where it was just an obstacle and not a means to crossing the river I don't think it wold get the negative press it is receiving.

[_Daemon_]

The article if anyone missed it.

 

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LUCIA MOPP and THEO NKONKI

HE was cycling leisurely along the

Braamfontein, but moments later he

was on the ground, in severe pain.

Peter Harten fell off a bicycle obstacle

which was constructed by cyclists who

tried their hand at engineering.

The see-saw structure got stuck with

Harten on it and he couldn?t turn back

or put his legs down.

He fell about two metres onto a

boulder, sustaining serious spinal

injuries. He was left with no feeling in

his body from the neck down.

His family and friends are devastated

to see him in this condition, in the

Intensive Care Unit at the Sandton

Medi-clinic.

They blame the poor state of the

obstacles that were put up. Even after

the Chronicle reported in May on the

threat the structures pose, they were

still not dismantled until after Harten?s

accident. The structures were illegal,

as no approval by the council has ever

been obtained.

Harten?s wife Nancy said: ?If

structures like that are put up in a

public place, people tend to trust them.

It is absolute negligence on the part of

the grown-ups who put these up on the

cycling trail.?

But cyclist Richard Beswick begged

to differ. ?I was involved in the

construction of some of the obstacles,

and a disclaimer written in black and

white on these structures does tell you

to use them at your own risk. It also

says that cyclists who want to use them

should first check if they work.?

Beswick admitted the structures

were declared illegal by City Parks,

but believed this should be treated as a

separate matter. ?I really do feel sorry

for the cyclist who injured himself, but

unfortunately this is a risky sport and

that?s why people like me do it. I can

tell you how many times I?ve injured

myself and how many people I?ve seen

fall off this structure. But for me to turn

around and blame someone else for my

injury is really not right, because it was

his choice to ride on the structure and

it is his choice that changed his life.?

On being asked why the structure was

removed after the incident occurred,

he said this was because many cyclists

had been debating its difficulty, not

primarily because someone had been

injured.