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[tonyedgecombe]

Of course, he was pissed at me for clocking him.

So you lashed out at someone because they accidentally bumped into you and they are the douchebag?

[PhantomGremlin → tonyedgecombe]

So you lashed out at someone because they accidentally bumped into you and they are the douchebag?

Yes, definitely the cyclist is the douchebag.

A cyclist is often traveling much faster than a pedestrian and can easily injure someone. The burden of proper behavior, especially in a mixed cyclist/pedestrian environment, must fall mainly to the cyclist.

Usually a "clocking" is because a cyclist is behaving recklessly. People often want to dismiss something as "an accident" when instead it was easily foreseen "negligence".

[hkmurakami → tonyedgecombe]

If a cyclist didn't slow down / change course for a pedestrian on stanford campus, then yes, they are in the wrong, as a bike is a vehicle.

[bsder → tonyedgecombe]

I'm glad you've never had to deal with pickpockets.

I recommend you stay out of cities, though.