On Fri, 09 May 2008 02:17:51 GMT, TimC
>Except that it has been re****ted that this guy is already known to
>police, which means he is already suspected of having offended in the
>past, and will offend again. As such, I would have guessed he would
>be one of their highest priority cases. Because he knows he is known
>(and a description of him has been plastered all over the newspapers),
>you can bet he's gone "missing". So we just have to wait for him to
>turn up in Kalgoolie...
>
>And for his sake, he better be hoping someone isn't going to rip out
>his gonads through his throat, when he is found.
He's claiming innocence !
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23670161-29277,00.html
I'm no cyclist hater, says driver
May 09, 2008 11:49am
A MAN who claims he was the driver of a car at the centre of a road-rage
attack
says he is no "cyclist hater" and he was having engine trouble when he
stopped
in front of a pack of cyclists, causing a crash.
The man, who identified himself only as Jason, said it was not anger at
being
stuck behind the pack of 50 riders that made him overtake then stop in
front of
them.
The incident occurred near Sydney air****t yesterday morning.
More than 20 riders - including professional cyclists Kate Nichols and
Olympic
hopeful Ben Kersten - were injured when they ran into the back of the car.
"I'm not a cyclist hater, I'm not nothing," Jason said on Macquarie radio
this
morning.
"I was just driving along and I had a car failure and now I'm in trouble -
I
dunno."
Jason said his car stalled, forcing him to pull up partly in the emergency
lane
and partly in the left-hand lane.
"I've pulled over, I had time to put my hazard lights on, put it into
park, go
to start it in petrol, half a dozen maybe 15 cyclists rode past me, and
then all
of a sudden one or two went bang bang into the back of my car," he said.
Jason said he switched the car from gas to petrol and it started. His
girlfriend
was also in the car and they drove off as dozens of cyclists surrounded
his car.
"(They were) all looking at me like I'm an idiot and calling me names," he
said.
"I thought, `I'm not getting out of the car with 50 blokes wanting to hit
me'. I
just drove off."
Jason said he had spoken to police at 9pm yesterday and they had
photographed
some marks on his car.
Kersten rang the station immediately afterwards and accused Jason of
lying.
"Mate, you're a lying dog. You are a liar and you are going to get caught
for
it," he said, while Jason was on the line.
"You were doing 60 kilometres an hour and then stopped to zero ... what
you did
was ridiculous.
"Who takes off after they accidentally cause such damage - who isn't
remorseful?"
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