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Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Tourists hit Iceland man riding his bicycle and flee the scene

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Tourists hit Iceland man riding his bicycle and flee the scene

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Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Tourists hit cyclist and fled the scene
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An American couple hit a cyclist with their SUV in Reykjavík just over a week ago and fled the scene after falsely claiming they were going to look for a parking space. The victim, Búi Aðalsteinsson, described the incident to mbl.is as something out of a movie.
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  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    14 hours ago

    “Tourists hit cyclist and fled the scene”

    … Probably Americans.

    reads the very next line

    Wow, I’m soooooo surprised. Shocked, even.

    Can American tourists not be shit for FIVE MINUTES???

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      shitty entitled people exist in the world.

      they aren’t just all Americans.

      but you never hear anyone complain about Chinese tourists or French tourists or Indian tourists…wait a minute…

    • BassTurd@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      Most of us can, yea.

      • reactionality@lemmy.sdf.org
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        Nah you can’t. Fuck off back to your shithole country.

        • waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world
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          Lmao he’s from Brazil

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    These people fucking suck. I hope they get into a single-vehicle accident.

  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
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    I was on his side until I saw the picture of him in the polka-dot with the stupid fucking hat. Chill out, bro.

    But yeah, doesn’t that bring criminal charges in Iceland? The whole hit-and-run?

    • Null User Object@lemmy.world
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      until I saw the picture of him in the polka-dot with the stupid fucking hat

      Who hurt you?

      • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
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        9 hours ago

        Lance. I haven’t been the same since

  • tate@lemmy.sdf.org
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    16 hours ago

    This is world news? Because… ?

    • reactionality@lemmy.sdf.org
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      15 hours ago

      Because the world needs to know what Americans are like. So we unite in fucking exterminating you vermin.

      • tate@lemmy.sdf.org
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        You seem to be unable to perceive that you are the thing you hate .

      • BassTurd@lemmy.world
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        Okay, Hitler.

        • reactionality@lemmy.sdf.org
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          So you defend genocide, huh? Doesn’t surprise me, you’re American.

      • Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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        “genocide is okay as long as it’s the right people”

        -someone insane

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          “Killing people is okay as long as the people doing the killing are Americans”

          -Americans

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    While I can emphasize with people being panicked and scared of consequences for doing a major fuckup, I believe that its in those moments its most important to stay on course of what is moraly correct.

    As most people, I have had moments where I did not live up to the words above, and those are the usually moments that bother me the most on sleepless nights. The moments when my actions did not live up to my morals.

    • Brandonazz@lemmy.world
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      Plenty of people suffer sleepless nights because of a run-in with the law. I’m not sure there’s a winning strategy after hitting someone if your goal is to avoid trauma.

    • Saleh@feddit.org
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      If you cant do the right thing in such a situation you are simply unfit to drive and should have your license revoked.

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    and as the US has over 800x the population of Iceland, it could be seen as if that couple hit over 800 American cyclists.

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      • Vopyr@lemmy.world
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        15 hours ago

        🤣

      • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world
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        17 hours ago

        I like! 😁😁😁

    • Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      “1 death is a tragedy, 1 million deaths is a statistic”

    • Snowclone@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      What?

      • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world
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        18 hours ago

        What would Fox News say if someone hit 800 American cyclists?

        • enkers@sh.itjust.works
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          Pretty sure they’d give them a standing ovation and a medal. The American right seems to loathe cyclists.

          • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world
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            They hate cyclists for their Freedom.

        • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world
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          Probably something about an illegal gathering of bicyclists and how every driver should strive to protect themselves from the roving gangs as this one did

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            gathering of bicyclists

            That might be a good thing in the anti-ICE protests. 😁🙂

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