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A bicyclist was cruising up NYC's 4th Avenue heading up to Union Square, all the while narrowly missing jay-walking pedestrians and sliding in between cars, when the thing you'd expect to happen because the headline of this article says it is going to happen, happened: he got doored.
The POV experience of getting clotheslined is painful enough, but what follows is the inevitable barrage of do-gooders insisting the cyclist go to the hospital followed by a tidy little blame fight. The cyclist blames the cabby for letting passengers exit into the bike lane (this is where the blame really lies), the cabbie yells at the passenger because he claims he told her to check for bicyclists, the passengers start crying and insist they never heard the warning, and then some rando wiping his greasy chip hands on his t-shirt blames the entirety of society for not paying attention because they are too busy Googling.
It's all strange and wonderful, but for my money (it was free!), the best part is watching the cyclist fly through the streets trying to guess which car is going to be the one to door him.
This is why I don't ride in the bike lane. Good thing he was wearing his helmet. I love helmets.
(by Myka Fox)